hahaae wrote on 01/29/19 at 18:16:50:I remember several people saying Retty was Nova.S back many years ago (both western and Japanese). I'm like 90% sure he was the same person.
In regards to "aggressive time trial lines;" this kinda pre-dates soft drifting. Back in the older days, there were different approaches to lines and MTs on tracks. It had more to do with people's individual methods to approach MTs and the subsequent lines. Other examples of "aggressive" TT lines would be with Chaos, Bubbles, Wyvern, Blake, Brendan, Nobuo, etc. (also seemed to correspond a bit, though not entirely, with using the GCN controller), whereas examples of less/non-aggressive TT lines would be people such as myself, Sro, Totom, Chelsea, Sword, Flame, ZRoyal, NMeade, etc. One of the main things with aggro/non-aggro, was that the non-aggro seemed to have cleaner / more-polished lines, whereas the others had much rougher lines and were more bent on getting fast MT's and making the best out of micro-situations with quick adaptions. On some tracks (prior to soft drifting), playing aggressively was paramount to getting a good time; an example of this is rMC3 (go watch any 2008-2011 WR here).
I personally remember being dumbfounded at the abuse Blake's controller went through just from how tightly he held the controller and how aggressive literally every input he did was. When playing Wiichuck, I always held the controller relatively lightly and made light inputs, and here was this crazy motherfucker with half the rubber on the analog stick gone, slamming out even the most minute adjustments lol.
An easy example of this, would be my DKS 1:49.947 vs. Wyvern's 1:49.944, from 2009. You can pretty clearly see the difference between "aggro" and "non-aggro" lines here (apart from stroking my own... ego).
Thanks for explaining it well.
This is pretty much what I meant, the meta of softdrifting has made new players to adapt a smoother playstyle, I'm not really surprised some don't know what I mean as there's very few players if any at all that still stay true to this playstyle. Many have full on adapted and some have become hybrids, which makes it far less likely for individuals to notice it.
When I watch Infi, he reminds me of a hybrid of both, as he is very proficient at softdrifting but still gives off an aggressive feel, which I feel is very rare for "new gen" players (or people who didn't play before softdrifting started to become meta). Of course, he also started playing in 2012 (when he first appeared), so it's possible that that's why it seems like this is the case, but of course, what I posted was a theory I was told and pretty much all speculation, besides Retty alting previously on DDR.
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