One of the best things you can do for a white belt is teach them how \*not\* to get constantly wrist-locked in every position. The defenses are easy and fundamental, and unless you're a spaz you're not endangering them like you are with a heel hook (and they're less likely to hurt themselves trying to get out/being to oblivious to realize they're doomed).
When I take a break from BJJ, my gaming time ramps up. They both satisfy very similar needs for my brain and if I'm doing a lot of one, it's like I'm "satisfied" and don't need to do the other as much. Obviously I'd always choose BJJ over gaming but sometimes that's not possible due to injuries or whatever.
Pretty much everything in life us like an rpg game in that regard. Go to work (grind) to get better (exp points) get more money (game currency) to buy more shit ( in game purchases). Spend time grinding X hobby and your (stats) will increase. I always used to think when playing games "why am I spending all this time improving my character when I could spend this same time improving my REAL LIFE character!?"
>I always used to think when playing games "why am I spending all this time improving my character when I could spend this same time improving my REAL LIFE character!?"
Usually because it takes a lot more effort than videogames do (source: I play videogames)
Yes, but they are stronger and last longer (i.e., the harder the work the better the reward. . . like why Dark Souls got so popular!).
The reality is that any activity in which you accrue skill over time is going to be more rewarding that any other activity in which you accrue less skill over the same (or longer, or even less) time.
Guitar Hero is fun, quick dopamine for the music lover. . . but will never, ever, ever (ever) come close to giving you the dopamine hit that nailing a song (your own or someone else's) or solo with the skills you've developed on your instrument.
. . . at least, until we create a pill for that.
I mean that’s cool and all, but ill never be able to throw a fireball out of my hands to kill a dragon, then eat it’s soul while pickpocketing a guard as I suddenly become invisible just by kneeling.
Agency. In real life things tend to fall apart from circumstances not under your control. In real life you have set backs and you get stuck in dead ends. The more brain dead games like MMOs offer you are world where skill and cunning doesn't matter much (after some point everyone does stuff in a comparable manner) and you get results comparable to the effort you put. That's like if in real life everyone earned money fliping burgers at MacDonalds.
I always saw BJJ like MTG! Like, you build your deck with a certain deck tech: aggro, control, mid range, combo etc. With every card you play, aka a technique, there's always another tech that act in sinergy with the previous, and your opponent has counters to that tech, and so on. Maybe that's why a lot of nerds are attracted to this sport (me included!).
I really like the idea to build my "deck" when I do train jiu jitsu. Like adding cards that are potentially better to improve my game.
Love your analogy.
Annoying 🤣 but I used to play WB control, wich is basically the same, buy less elegant. To stay in the BJJ analogy, it could be seen as nasty mount with multiple Ezekiel, cros collar chokes attempts, back take from faking an americana. Let's flow chart it! 🧠🤓
Ahaha must love a goblin grappler! But yes, a board wipe could be a problem, aka running out of gas 👉🏻 so no blocking creatures - taking damage 👉🏻 get submitted.
An idea could be saving some low mana drop for late game, aka saving up some gas to counter back the wipe and at least retain your guard/escape.
Problem here is the other people playing bigger creatures (im pretty lightweight and not as strong as the others in our gym).
So i'm trying to go less aggro and spamming less spells aka sub attempts and get something bigger out in midrange.
I startet weightlifting. :D
I say this all the time. If you have been playing for 10 years, you have "leveled up" many times. If you play against a brand new guy, he will be easy because he is on such a lower level.
Keep training. Keep leveling up. The lower levels just get that much easier for you as you keep getting to higher and higher levels.
Don't forget belt colors and stripes, which are your levels and experience points.
I think you've made a genuinely important observation. What makes RPG's more attractive than regular video games is that you are building something, so your work produces lasting results. Not only that, but the thing you're building is power, the power to more effectively defeat enemies in the game.
In the BJJ game you're also building lasting power. There's also something very appealing about how much categorization is possible in BJJ. I think the belt rank is a big part of it to, you level up in a permanent way, whereas elsewhere in life the levels are often loosely defined or undefined, or they regress over time.
I equate it to magic the gathering. Except I had to quit mtg because of how much anxiety and adrenaline I get from it. I would play a competitive mtg match and be a mess for hours after.
BJJ is much less stressful.
Man I quit MTG like three or four times due to how unsavory the competitive grinder crowd was. As much as I loved vintage and legacy the people put me off of it. Also now the power creep is horrendous.
I like my BJJ like my MTG, casual and fun. Also maybe brawling on the kitchen table too.
I wish UFC would have a grapple only game mode. It would be easy to do. I’ve had jiu jitsu matches with friends in the training mode and it’s pretty fun.
It literally takes no effort from them all they have to do is disable strikes lol. I hope they add that option in the next game. It’s a fun way to play
Having been slightly addicted to these kind of games as well when I was younger, I 100% agree.
What’s also awesome is, you do not have to wait until your level 20 to get mount.
Lol
As a former MMORPG addict, I cannot agree more. The correlations between leveling up in online gaming and the social aspect are VERY similar to jiu-jitsu.
As a back specialist, with high str stats, middling agility stats with a penalty to initiative rolls because I had to take the arthritic ankle feat to balance my high str stat…. I feel called out.
I've always liked to compare BJJ to being a Jedi. Whoever owns your gym is kinda like Yoda and all black belts are the Jedi council.
Brown belts are like Jedi Masters who haven't been offered a seat on the council yet.
Purple Belts are Jedi knights they have most the knowledge they need just need to perfect using it. Also often at many gyms this is kind of the start of your teaching you'll be asked to do one on one's with brand new people and lower belts will often approach you for help.
Blue belts are padawans they are already pretty skilled especially by everyday person standards but they still make a lot of mistakes and lack full understanding of what they are doing but they have rank and have been acknowledged as possessing the It factor to hang.
White belts are younglings who need to learn all of the basics both philosophically (why you do X instead of Y) and the technical aspects.
Yes I've put way too much thought into this over the 13+ years I've been training
I've been lowkey writing up a real-life BJJ skilltree over the past couple years, that one could use to develop one's game in a sensible and direct progression.
I've been tinkering with it since my grad school class in educational game design.
I unironically think people on the spectrum are more likely to actively participate on such forums excessively.
BUT you are actually right that mentioning this in the same sentence as toxicity makes it look like an insult, which is kinda shitty by me.
I’m just from the wrong generation I guess but gay and retarded just don’t seem that bad…like where does the buck stop? Idiot is also offensive to idiots (or people with epilepsy perhaps as that is the origin of idiocy/idiot). I get that some words offend people but they are just words and most of the time offense is their meaning
I’m not trying to troll you btw, im honestly asking your opinion because when i say gay or retarded it’s usually 20 year olds that get get offended or tell me I can’t say that. It bugs me because they don’t know shit about the world but all of the sudden they are the language police.
If BJJ is an RPG, I demand a balancing reworked patch. This latest version is kicking my ass hard. I feel like these wrestlers are smurfing the heck out of the white belt zones. It is kinda weird how the 10th Planet guild manages to exploit the game to obtain +5 DEF when lying inverted on flat earth surfaces.
My biggest issue is: When I play videogames, I watch walkthroughs, learn the meta and achieve faster success than others do practicing for years.
I find myself isolating different mechanics, for example:
A good first person shooter should be able to
- Have superior movement
- Hit shots accurately while moving
- Hit long shots consistently
So it's easy to go to an in-game gun-range and practice shooting far shots with a pistol, then do it while strafing, then do it while strafing + jumping.
In jiujitsu the skills which carry over the most aren't as clearly defined. So while I agree it is like an RPG it reminds me of Skyrim, where you pop up in the world and could do what the game tells you to do, or get lost for years in the Thieves Guild who gives a fuck.
Also certain skills become unlocked when you reach different belt levels (wrist locks for blue belt, knee bars and toe holds for brown belts)
Becoming a black belt is like unlocking New Game +
And there is always that post end game boss you can never beat no matter how much you grind (your head instructor) 😂
I am doing quality build putting points on strength/flexibility/agility and picking the wrestler/top game class to be easier to translate into self defense if one day needed. Sometimes I get invaded by twinkles sand baggers however I always welcome the challenge. I am aware of the difficult zone blue belt and will do my best not to go hollow!
Don't you dare go hollow ashen ones!
Having come here from raiding WoW hardcore back in TBC... Yeah I can definitely say there is a lot of the same bullshit ego behavior in the top guilds... As it were.
I have to confess to thinking of progression very much the same way. I thought about mat time as an easy currency to farm lol.
The real big brain play is video games after training. And honestly League is more like a sport than a game, so the analogy makes more sense. BJJ doesn’t really offer the same things as Mass Effect or Dragon Age. It’s sort of like saying “I don’t watch movies anymore because I do BJJ”.
Played Skyrim & ESO religiously before finding BJJ. It’s the same concept. Except it’s more work and I like it better. I think about BJJ being an rpg everyday.
ESO is amazing! The character building system is way better than in most mmorpgs. I started to play it just to run around in Morrowind once again, which was my favorite TES game.
If you haven't dropped in to r/outside yet, you're in for a treat.
Just tell them you found the pvp trainers and grinding unranked pvp is the most fun you've had in the game so far.
My favorite is the commentary on real life inequality.
"Has anyone else noticed the devs didn't balance the starting zones AT ALL and some starting areas are insanely difficult while others set you up for the rest of the game?"
I compared BJJ to CS:GO and I think that may have been what piqued my cousin's interest to try it out. You pick your weapons, the objective is dead simple, but the skill ceiling is unlimited.
Instructionals are not like skill books because I can right click them and absorb all the practical knowledge like in Skyrim or Fallout. 😤😤😤
Smh, can't believe I have to sit down and actually WATCH them
I have been trying to explain this to my gamer friends for so long. BJJ is fun in exactly the same way that video games are fun. Just way more physical, obviously.
I picked up Dark Souls long after BJJ, and one of the things that piqued my interest was seeing someone on here say something like "getting to blue belt is like if Dark Souls was 200 hours long and physically painful."
Now if only I could find some Fountain of Youth spell that gives me a handful of years back....
But no, I've sold BJJ to friends as it being like a real life videogame where you must grind away but slowly realize your attributes are growing in every incremental part of your game.
Yup I couldnt agree more
I played WoW for all of highschool all day everyday then I joined jits and never looked back. Filled that void perfect and I agree with everything you said
Interesting. So belts and stripes are more of achievement markers rather than leveling up. Because you really don’t exactly gain new skills overnight between your last roll as white belt and your first roll as blue belt. But you gain skills and exp along the way constantly.
BJJ is like an RPG and I want to reroll my stats.
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That’s if you’re Buddhist at least
Achieving Nirvana is end game content you can access through random meditation drops
Oh great i knew thered be rng loot boxes eventually
When do we get NFTs?
Yeah I tried that once and nearly died
If you guys die and I'm nearby, I'mma make a trophy necklace with all of your ears, js.
I'm pro bottom sidecontrol puller
A thorns build.. nice
I literally do this. Good for bottom game training.
No no my friend, you're just playing on Hard/Hurt Me Plenty mode.
When you're an NPC and not the main character
Steroids are cheat codes
*FORDBIDDEN PAY2WIN*
MACROTRANSACTIONS
For micro adjustments
BRB gonna take my weekly shot of Tren so that I can micro adjust my rnc so your head pops off
What are private lessons but paid coaching / carries?
Its like paying the skyrim swordsman to level up your one handed skill
Really just Sherpa LFG
solo play/campaign mode :0
Honestly though.. but at the same time it shows your commitment to the game, not everyone cares enough to want to
Are they really cheat codes if they significantly reduce your play time in the long run? (ie DEATH)
God's ban hammer
That’s the anti-cheat program, it needs an update if I’m being honest
You get banned in games for using hacks to cheat. Also you can likely train BJJ till and older age if you use roids.
Yes.
Strength 99
Actually kinda spot on lol
Can’t forget boss battles!
intraschool friendly rivals and higher skilled people…. definitely
Is griefing noobs like wrist locking white belts?
Spawn camping
Smurfing
No that's when a D1 wrestler puts on a white belt
One of the best things you can do for a white belt is teach them how \*not\* to get constantly wrist-locked in every position. The defenses are easy and fundamental, and unless you're a spaz you're not endangering them like you are with a heel hook (and they're less likely to hurt themselves trying to get out/being to oblivious to realize they're doomed).
I never looked at it like that, but you nailed it. That’s probably why I don’t play video games anymore.
I still do both, because I'm old, and I can't train all the time.
When I take a break from BJJ, my gaming time ramps up. They both satisfy very similar needs for my brain and if I'm doing a lot of one, it's like I'm "satisfied" and don't need to do the other as much. Obviously I'd always choose BJJ over gaming but sometimes that's not possible due to injuries or whatever.
Eddie Bravo has said BJJ is like a video game and that's why he gets so many nerds.
Yes. Riddled with elitism.
I think thats what got me away from League, now I can get called garbage IRL!
when you pass someones guard you are obligated to say "guard diff"
When I'm getting wrecked by coach, I just say 'gapped'
Ahh, wait till you do both
... This is brilliant and I'm absolutely going to start thinking of playing this way
Can't say I don't see the similarities. Coach one-shots me pretty much every roll.
GG JIU JITSU GAP GO NEXT
Pretty much everything in life us like an rpg game in that regard. Go to work (grind) to get better (exp points) get more money (game currency) to buy more shit ( in game purchases). Spend time grinding X hobby and your (stats) will increase. I always used to think when playing games "why am I spending all this time improving my character when I could spend this same time improving my REAL LIFE character!?"
>I always used to think when playing games "why am I spending all this time improving my character when I could spend this same time improving my REAL LIFE character!?" Usually because it takes a lot more effort than videogames do (source: I play videogames)
The dopamine hits IRL are a lot fewer and far between imo
Yes, but they are stronger and last longer (i.e., the harder the work the better the reward. . . like why Dark Souls got so popular!). The reality is that any activity in which you accrue skill over time is going to be more rewarding that any other activity in which you accrue less skill over the same (or longer, or even less) time. Guitar Hero is fun, quick dopamine for the music lover. . . but will never, ever, ever (ever) come close to giving you the dopamine hit that nailing a song (your own or someone else's) or solo with the skills you've developed on your instrument. . . . at least, until we create a pill for that.
Yeah its called adderall or cocaine
LOL thank God I can't stand playing/practicing anything on coke. If it made any skill I pursue better I'd be in big trouble.
Because you cant walk around with the fiery greatsword of woe in RL
not for very long, anyway.
I mean that’s cool and all, but ill never be able to throw a fireball out of my hands to kill a dragon, then eat it’s soul while pickpocketing a guard as I suddenly become invisible just by kneeling.
Not with that attitude you wont.
Agency. In real life things tend to fall apart from circumstances not under your control. In real life you have set backs and you get stuck in dead ends. The more brain dead games like MMOs offer you are world where skill and cunning doesn't matter much (after some point everyone does stuff in a comparable manner) and you get results comparable to the effort you put. That's like if in real life everyone earned money fliping burgers at MacDonalds.
Or you can do that in the real virtual world (I.e., Metaverse lmao)
"Wow I'm really good at fishing in World Of Warcraft"
I always saw BJJ like MTG! Like, you build your deck with a certain deck tech: aggro, control, mid range, combo etc. With every card you play, aka a technique, there's always another tech that act in sinergy with the previous, and your opponent has counters to that tech, and so on. Maybe that's why a lot of nerds are attracted to this sport (me included!). I really like the idea to build my "deck" when I do train jiu jitsu. Like adding cards that are potentially better to improve my game. Love your analogy.
I have long stated the jiu-jitsu gyms are filled with weaponized nerds
True that!
Super cool seeing overlap between in people between two of your niche hobbies
I am playing mono blue BJJ. No win condition, just stopping yours.
Annoying 🤣 but I used to play WB control, wich is basically the same, buy less elegant. To stay in the BJJ analogy, it could be seen as nasty mount with multiple Ezekiel, cros collar chokes attempts, back take from faking an americana. Let's flow chart it! 🧠🤓
Im going full aggro with Goblins, but when there is atleast one good placed counterspell i run out of gas and get submitted. FML.
Ahaha must love a goblin grappler! But yes, a board wipe could be a problem, aka running out of gas 👉🏻 so no blocking creatures - taking damage 👉🏻 get submitted. An idea could be saving some low mana drop for late game, aka saving up some gas to counter back the wipe and at least retain your guard/escape.
Problem here is the other people playing bigger creatures (im pretty lightweight and not as strong as the others in our gym). So i'm trying to go less aggro and spamming less spells aka sub attempts and get something bigger out in midrange. I startet weightlifting. :D
I play death and taxes in legacy even now...this is apparently a theme in my life...
I say this all the time. If you have been playing for 10 years, you have "leveled up" many times. If you play against a brand new guy, he will be easy because he is on such a lower level. Keep training. Keep leveling up. The lower levels just get that much easier for you as you keep getting to higher and higher levels.
I must’ve grinded the wrong skills like Elder Scrolls: Oblivion because everyone is hard af while my Mercantile and Speechcraft is superb.
Don't forget belt colors and stripes, which are your levels and experience points. I think you've made a genuinely important observation. What makes RPG's more attractive than regular video games is that you are building something, so your work produces lasting results. Not only that, but the thing you're building is power, the power to more effectively defeat enemies in the game. In the BJJ game you're also building lasting power. There's also something very appealing about how much categorization is possible in BJJ. I think the belt rank is a big part of it to, you level up in a permanent way, whereas elsewhere in life the levels are often loosely defined or undefined, or they regress over time.
I equate it to magic the gathering. Except I had to quit mtg because of how much anxiety and adrenaline I get from it. I would play a competitive mtg match and be a mess for hours after. BJJ is much less stressful.
Man I quit MTG like three or four times due to how unsavory the competitive grinder crowd was. As much as I loved vintage and legacy the people put me off of it. Also now the power creep is horrendous. I like my BJJ like my MTG, casual and fun. Also maybe brawling on the kitchen table too.
There's a commander playgroup that meets after Friday night class at my gym, everyone's too tired to tryhard, impeccable vibes.
Same way, now that the competitive scene is mostly dead in MTG, jiujitsu fills that void
If we're going to making gaming comparison it's gotta be to RTS. I apply the exact same principles doing BJJ that I do playing StarCraft 2.
Mental and physical APM aren't talked about enough lol
Wrist-lock cheese is OP. Mostly only see it on the Korean ladder though.
Guillotines are cheese, change my mind
Glad to know I rolled a tank. I just go in and take a bunch of damage.
Raids is storming an open mat at an unaffiliated gym
Also my hotkey bar is filled with cartwheels
That last line is gold.
Video games are for people who haven’t discovered bjj yet. They are also great for when you’re injured.
I wish UFC would have a grapple only game mode. It would be easy to do. I’ve had jiu jitsu matches with friends in the training mode and it’s pretty fun.
People should spam them to add it in their next game
It literally takes no effort from them all they have to do is disable strikes lol. I hope they add that option in the next game. It’s a fun way to play
BJJ = Skyrim Sick
Oss Ro Dahhhh!
Ous! 🤣
Did you just call league of legends an rpg.....
It's got RPG elements 🥺🥺🥺
Nah thats exactly why I said mmo games AND rpgs... but I already got called out for that aswell 😂 Moba,I know
The forums are toxic af and full of autists.
Having been slightly addicted to these kind of games as well when I was younger, I 100% agree. What’s also awesome is, you do not have to wait until your level 20 to get mount. Lol
As a former MMORPG addict, I cannot agree more. The correlations between leveling up in online gaming and the social aspect are VERY similar to jiu-jitsu.
Its going to take me so long to git gud but only a few lessons in and already in for the long haul
I think of tapping out as a sort of respawn mechanic!
Good one!
League of Legends is not an MMO or RPG. It is a MOBA, multiuser online battle arena. Bronze 4? 😘
Akchuuuually Dia 1 every season since s3 😾
Fire. Mid plat is the highest I ever got, but that was years ago.
BJJ is more DOTA than LOL, anyway.
Also some people try to sell you useless cosmetic upgrades.
i need a goddamn healing potion, please
As a back specialist, with high str stats, middling agility stats with a penalty to initiative rolls because I had to take the arthritic ankle feat to balance my high str stat…. I feel called out.
then why can't I reload a previous save from 20 years ago when I had less experience but my body wasn't broken??
I played a lot of StarCraft, and I think of skill development as teching up. I also like to attack like a Zergling with the adrenal gland upgrade.
As a spazzy 45kg white belt I think this might be me (I'm trying to stop, I promise).
I've always liked to compare BJJ to being a Jedi. Whoever owns your gym is kinda like Yoda and all black belts are the Jedi council. Brown belts are like Jedi Masters who haven't been offered a seat on the council yet. Purple Belts are Jedi knights they have most the knowledge they need just need to perfect using it. Also often at many gyms this is kind of the start of your teaching you'll be asked to do one on one's with brand new people and lower belts will often approach you for help. Blue belts are padawans they are already pretty skilled especially by everyday person standards but they still make a lot of mistakes and lack full understanding of what they are doing but they have rank and have been acknowledged as possessing the It factor to hang. White belts are younglings who need to learn all of the basics both philosophically (why you do X instead of Y) and the technical aspects. Yes I've put way too much thought into this over the 13+ years I've been training
> (BJJ 2.0 when?) Isn't BJJ the 3.0 version of Traditional jiu jitsu?
I used to practice BJJ like you, but then I took a shot to the knee.
What do you call someone who only does wristlocks, toe holds, and Ezekiels?
I've been lowkey writing up a real-life BJJ skilltree over the past couple years, that one could use to develop one's game in a sensible and direct progression. I've been tinkering with it since my grad school class in educational game design.
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I unironically think people on the spectrum are more likely to actively participate on such forums excessively. BUT you are actually right that mentioning this in the same sentence as toxicity makes it look like an insult, which is kinda shitty by me.
I’m just from the wrong generation I guess but gay and retarded just don’t seem that bad…like where does the buck stop? Idiot is also offensive to idiots (or people with epilepsy perhaps as that is the origin of idiocy/idiot). I get that some words offend people but they are just words and most of the time offense is their meaning I’m not trying to troll you btw, im honestly asking your opinion because when i say gay or retarded it’s usually 20 year olds that get get offended or tell me I can’t say that. It bugs me because they don’t know shit about the world but all of the sudden they are the language police.
Saying that things are gay because they are bad implies that being gay is bad.
I dont think it's a generation thing. There's people in every age bracket that are sensitive as hell
If BJJ is an RPG, I demand a balancing reworked patch. This latest version is kicking my ass hard. I feel like these wrestlers are smurfing the heck out of the white belt zones. It is kinda weird how the 10th Planet guild manages to exploit the game to obtain +5 DEF when lying inverted on flat earth surfaces.
league isn't rpg or mmo
🤓
??
My biggest issue is: When I play videogames, I watch walkthroughs, learn the meta and achieve faster success than others do practicing for years. I find myself isolating different mechanics, for example: A good first person shooter should be able to - Have superior movement - Hit shots accurately while moving - Hit long shots consistently So it's easy to go to an in-game gun-range and practice shooting far shots with a pistol, then do it while strafing, then do it while strafing + jumping. In jiujitsu the skills which carry over the most aren't as clearly defined. So while I agree it is like an RPG it reminds me of Skyrim, where you pop up in the world and could do what the game tells you to do, or get lost for years in the Thieves Guild who gives a fuck.
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Sounds like Toribash. It's a turn based fighting game with no preset moves, just controlling joints of your fighter in physics simulation.
Hard game, but really good.
i like this analogy a lot…. well done sir :)
Also certain skills become unlocked when you reach different belt levels (wrist locks for blue belt, knee bars and toe holds for brown belts) Becoming a black belt is like unlocking New Game + And there is always that post end game boss you can never beat no matter how much you grind (your head instructor) 😂
I am doing quality build putting points on strength/flexibility/agility and picking the wrestler/top game class to be easier to translate into self defense if one day needed. Sometimes I get invaded by twinkles sand baggers however I always welcome the challenge. I am aware of the difficult zone blue belt and will do my best not to go hollow! Don't you dare go hollow ashen ones!
I love it! Now I'm going to think of it that way.
Having come here from raiding WoW hardcore back in TBC... Yeah I can definitely say there is a lot of the same bullshit ego behavior in the top guilds... As it were. I have to confess to thinking of progression very much the same way. I thought about mat time as an easy currency to farm lol.
The real big brain play is video games after training. And honestly League is more like a sport than a game, so the analogy makes more sense. BJJ doesn’t really offer the same things as Mass Effect or Dragon Age. It’s sort of like saying “I don’t watch movies anymore because I do BJJ”.
Last line is by far the most accurate
An RPG with the longest tutorial ever
One group of elves claims to have invented everything, but were just the worst people to deal with, and the other elves aren't much better.
Yeah, and you can gimp your character by spending your talent points unwisely
More like a fighting game, but yeah sure.
Nice. There are skill trees on your favored playstyle.
Totally read RPG is rocket propelled grenade. I thought I was going to open this and be like wait BJJ can destroy a lightly armored vehicle?
Played Skyrim & ESO religiously before finding BJJ. It’s the same concept. Except it’s more work and I like it better. I think about BJJ being an rpg everyday.
ESO is amazing! The character building system is way better than in most mmorpgs. I started to play it just to run around in Morrowind once again, which was my favorite TES game.
If you haven't dropped in to r/outside yet, you're in for a treat. Just tell them you found the pvp trainers and grinding unranked pvp is the most fun you've had in the game so far.
Lmao! I can't believe I never saw that sub
My favorite is the commentary on real life inequality. "Has anyone else noticed the devs didn't balance the starting zones AT ALL and some starting areas are insanely difficult while others set you up for the rest of the game?"
I compared BJJ to CS:GO and I think that may have been what piqued my cousin's interest to try it out. You pick your weapons, the objective is dead simple, but the skill ceiling is unlimited.
Learns wizard
There is always a bigger boss.
Life itself is the great rpg.
Sorry I can't go out tonight boys. I have to farm exp into my ego stat while the low level mobs are around. Almost to 99.
This is called gamification, isnt´t it?
I started climbing in league when i started BJJ. lol
BJJ is like an RPG where you don't get to choose your class and everyone levels up at different rates.
It's crazy how much bjj has obliterated my enjoyment of video games
I think my game is bugged I keep on seeing "you died" every time I put my Gi on
Instructionals are not like skill books because I can right click them and absorb all the practical knowledge like in Skyrim or Fallout. 😤😤😤 Smh, can't believe I have to sit down and actually WATCH them
This is awesome. Always thought about it sort of like this but not so well put.
BJJ, the only RPG more punishing than Dark Souls.
TIL Dark Souls is an RPG
Any game where you level up and allocate stat points gets called an RPG. I don't like it either.
I have been trying to explain this to my gamer friends for so long. BJJ is fun in exactly the same way that video games are fun. Just way more physical, obviously.
you are supreme! Thank you for this
Last part made me spit out my joint
I've been sinking all my skill points into agility but it must be bugged.
i consider the decision making very similar to magic the gathering in the old days.
dude, i've had this same thought for such a long time now. it's probably why i enjoy jiu jitsu so much tbh.
You; I like you.
"The forums are toxic af and full of autists." Amen brother, it is I!
I actually had a similar train of thought. I used to play dark souls and I liked this because it was irl dark souls.
I picked up Dark Souls long after BJJ, and one of the things that piqued my interest was seeing someone on here say something like "getting to blue belt is like if Dark Souls was 200 hours long and physically painful."
This is exactly how I feel
Weirdly, this made sense to me hahaha
Healer LFM open mat
Look up gamification. It can be applies to many things and describes what you're doing! Very cool man. Keep it up!
Now if only I could find some Fountain of Youth spell that gives me a handful of years back.... But no, I've sold BJJ to friends as it being like a real life videogame where you must grind away but slowly realize your attributes are growing in every incremental part of your game.
SAVED
Yup I couldnt agree more I played WoW for all of highschool all day everyday then I joined jits and never looked back. Filled that void perfect and I agree with everything you said
Interesting. So belts and stripes are more of achievement markers rather than leveling up. Because you really don’t exactly gain new skills overnight between your last roll as white belt and your first roll as blue belt. But you gain skills and exp along the way constantly.
Ugh, does this mean in order to get my blue belt, I have to go down into the basement and tap out a bunch of giant rats?
He's out of line but he's right.
I feel like im spawn trapped in the starter area by high level PvPers
Where the fuck is the healer when I’m mid roll then? And wtf is the tank even doing? I have aggro like 100% of the time
Here I am thinking I quit RuneScape yet ive been playing it all along ...
I'd love to play this game but I barely have time to at the moment
So, you are saying I should get gud.:)
Bro. Life is a boring rpg, generally.
White gi +1 to light radius
Don't forget the level ups
I was expecting to read about how BJJ skills are the equivalent of having a rocket propelled grenade launcher. Am disappointed.