benstylus wrote:> 3hitcombo wrote:
>> Referencing the mahjong discussion the Nintendo thread.
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>> I actually learned how to play competitive mahjong from Yakuza games
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> I remember it being in the first game, but the explanation was really more of an
> info dump (seemed like a copy/paste of a Wikipedia article). Furiten is probably
> the hardest concept for people to grasp (judging by the various "Why can't I win?"
> images posted in certain mahjong forums)
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> It wasn't until years later when I was sick one day and stayed home from work, this
> YouTube video popped up in my stream:
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> Once I understood the basics of classical mahjong from that video, I found the rules
> for Japanese Mahjong to be a nice step up, but the game is 10x better than the increase
> in learning load.
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> Now I own three sets of tiles (Chinese with letterd and numbers in the corners, Japanese
> with no notations, and American style which is almost an entirely different game),
> and maybe a dozen or so mahjong video games.
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When the big emulation boom hit in the early 2000s, i got a SNES emulator and a TON of ROMS and got addicted to a Japanese only Mahjong game, but it had pretty easy to follow English instructions with a nice tutorial.
Tutorial's are in EVERY game now, but can you imagine a game from the early 90s having a built in English tutorial?
One of those ROMS taught me Chinese Chess as well, and i've become obsessed with that. I own a few Chinese Chess sets, its so different than anything else we have.