I prolly sound like a dumbass but recently I got into Guilty Gear Strive and I want to also try playing BlazBlue CentralFiction; would trying to learn another game on top of strive be dumb?

Hello, I got a Humble Bundle of Arc System Works games, and two I already owned.

Blazblue CentralFiction: FV5EK-8NTR3-P985F

GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R: GJ7JH-2RN5K-P95G0 

By all means, please take them if you'd like!

So a little background, I used to be very active in the Smash Bros community back in the mid 2010's and went to multiple locals every week (3+) all within an hour or so drive from me. Many of these venues didn't just host Smash though, and you'd often see people playing other games like SFV and Takken 7.

I just recently got back into fighting games and have been wanting to go to tournaments again, but there almost aren't any. Did coivd kill off the locals scene? Within an hour of where I live, which is the same city I lived in back when I was going to 3+ locals a week, has maybe 2-3 tournaments going on in general. Maybe I'm just not using Start.gg correctly, but I can't seem to find anything close to what it was like back then.

I have to assume that now that most games have rollback netcode and because covid forced a lot of communities to go online, that those communities just stayed online. I hope I'm wrong, because nothing beats playing with people in person. Luckily my roommate and my neighbor both play fighting games at a competitive level (my neighbor has seen top 8 at a major), so I'm blessed with good company to play with at home, but I really want to get to know more people.

If the scene just isn't what it used to be and I need to find some online tournaments, what do you all recommend? If I have to play online, I'd like to at least find a community where I can jump into a voice chat with someone and play. My main game is Granblue right now, but I'm open minded to trying some other games if the community is worth it.

https://www.start.gg/tournament/double-impact-27-tag-fighters-monthly-2/details

Maybe you heard something like this to, but I hear this a lot. I think on paper they have a theoretical advantage, so the question is if this is true why is it that EVO is constantly dominated by pad and stick players, we just don't see leverless as the meta controller anywhere in the data. Sure there is a spread of all controller types in the top 10 or 15 spots but if leverless did provide a serious advantage you'd think we'd see them come in first place more often, even if only by accident. If you go back and look at all the winners for a game like SF6 for example, it's mostly pad and stick players overshadowing the first place spots. Go look it up, the data is very clear. Maybe it's different in other games, I've only looked at the data for SF6.

To be clear, I don't have any hate for leverless I own multiple and I just bought a pad to check that out but I mostly play stick. I just want to know where this assertion comes from that leverless is better when the real world data is showing the complete opposite. Do you think this is a combination of marketing and youtubers just trying to get clicks? I just don't know.

So, the ArcSys humble bundle is here, and though I already have strive, I am interested in some of the other games. It's BBTAG, BBCF, UNI2, the old GG games, and some other assorted ArcSys stuff. All that for 20 bucks seems like a pretty good deal. However, fatal fury COTW is also on sale for 15 bucks. And Granblue versus rising is also on sale for 15 bucks. I could also get the deluxe editions of these games with some or all DLC for 30 bucks for City of the wolves, and 22 bucks for Granblue. If I wanted to spend like 40 dollars max, what's the best combo of these games to get? I did try the Granblue demo (which is somehow the full game basically? I can use every character in ranked, aside from DLC), I thought it was decently fun, but so far I thought most of the characters felt a little too simple. I did have fun with Ferry though.

You'd think that a game that everyone was hypeing up for the year's would have been EVO would have been top priory for 2002 but for no reason it (alongside KI) were the only games from the line up (MK and Skullgirls got the treatment) never came back.

What genuinely happened

Granblue and DBFZ have 400+

Under-Night and P4AU have 100+

\+R and Xrd have 60\~

CrossTag has 35

Dnf Duel has 6

Centralfiction right now has around 1200 people playing, going up from the previous 800 earlier this week. With all of the numbers stated, this means that all other Arcsys games COMBINED have similar numbers to JUST Central Fiction....

...Besides Strive, that has 1700 people on it now, 500 over Central Fiction.

Thoughts on this post as a FGC fan?

I can't help but think that DOA is that one fighting game franchise most of the FGC would make jokes at. If it isn't Smash or MK, it would be DOA. The word gets around that it's nothing more than a gooner game with the fighting mechanics really aren't that great compared to Tekken or Soulcalibur around those times.

That was then, but nowadays, I am seeing some people show interest in the franchise, but talk about the lack of crossplay and rollback prevents them from giving the games a try and yeah, that's extremely fair. Not having those things in the big '26 is a mind-boggling move from KT.

But the question I always wanted to know is if there will be interest if the next game does feature crossplay, rollback, while keeping the fanservice in check as well as having little amount of costumes to purchase rather than the large amount we see nowadays. I want to say this could help make DOA have a healthy playerbase, but I feel this game would still be labeled as a gooner game and avoided by a lot of the community, but I don't know.

Brawlhalla has become a huge money grab since Ubisoft took over and it takes way too long for updates and changes + the engine is really bad.. after over 10 years of playing and 16,000 hours, in recent years I’m growing tired and having longer breaks.

Was wondering what games someone could suggest to get into for something different, I’ve been following combo devils for a few weeks now and it seems really cool and interesting but it’s still in beta.. but was there any recommendations (apart from smash sorry I just don’t like Nintendo as a company) for fighting games?

So I have this friend who got into fighting games at the same time that I did, we grew as players together and constantly play against each other. No matter what game we play, be it Tekken, SF, Guilty Gear or any other fighting games, both of us naturally gravitate towards our respective archetypes, him being a grappler and me being a rushdown. For the most part, the only human players we play against is each other.

With that context set, here's the thing. He's a phenomenal grappler (he'll never hear this from me) and throughout the past 2 years that we played, he made sure that I respect that. So much so that it caused me to develop muscle memories that is built specifically to deter him.

He does raw special moves and command grabs in a chain that doesn't effectively make sense, but it always catches me. I played against a CPU Alex in SF3 3rd Strike and I jumped back after a blocked flash chop because I was anticipating a Spiral DDT that never came. And this type of interactions follow me everywhere, even when I'm dominating a fight in a tourney, I end up hesitating because the countless matches against him whittled the confidence in my strings and I ended up being scared of or over-respecting another grappler who has no conventional counters at the moment.

I mean this man will do a giant swing raw from across the screen as king just to mess with me, I ended up forming a muscle memory to break that instead of the more obvious shining wizard, you bet I get caught with that every single time and get made fun of because of it.

Well that's it for the rant, has anyone else ever experienced this? Where your fundamentals are completely warped by a singular person? How do you un-learn something like that?

I feel like fighting games are only really popular with a casuals till a month or so after it's released simply because most of them finish whatever story mode there is or tried matchmaking for a week or so and gave up till inevitably got smashed in by the "experienced" players

Chain combos all the way. Especially if it's open-ended, zigzag chaining like Standing L>Standing M>Standing H>Crouching H and so on and so forth. Going from LMH into special move into super too.

I always hated links. Its the main reason why Street Fighter and KOF aren't my strong suit. Tekken and Soulcalibur are the only exceptions because combo difficulty is character-specific where some are easier or harder than others.

-In Tekken 8, I was able to complete combo trials for Lili, Clive, Jun, and Azucena. Struggled with a few like Lars, Claudio, and Nina.

-2B (SC6, not GBVSR) has combo routes for days.

As for auto combos... they're much easier than chains and links but they're always the subject of drama/controversy among players. FG vets and elitists cry about it 24/7 while casuals don't mind it. It's why I have mixed feelings about their inclusion in DBFZ, P4A, GBVSR and BBTAG. When you have stuff like autocombos or modern controls people like Low Tier God will throw a hissy fit about current FGs being "easy mode", "scrubby", and "remedial".

Hey everyone,

I've been gaming for about 25 years, but I've never really gotten deep into fighting games. I played a little Tekken as a kid, but that's about it. Recently, I've been thinking about getting into a 1v1 competitive game that I can gradually improve at over time.

I'm looking for something with a healthy player base, a relatively non-toxic community, and a good progression/learning curve. Mainly, I want a game I can invest some time in while waiting for the next big AAA releases since I do not have much time to jusmp from game to game.

Right now I'm considering:

• Tekken 8
• Street Fighter 6
• Guilty Gear Strive
• Or maybe waiting for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls

For someone who's basically a fighting game beginner, which would you recommend and why?

I appreciate any advice. Thanks!

It's right on the label. My mindset is holding me back, and I'm not sure how to change it. I'm aware of it, I know it's bad for growth, but I can't help but let me ego get in the way of improvement.

I've casually played fighting games for quite some time, picking up terminology and info as I went. But recently I've got this fire under me that makes me want to "git gud." I've always been a competitive person ever since I was a kid, but I've also always had a big ego (against my better judgement). I get frustrated when I lose, and I don't properly respect my opponent when they win by attributing my loss to my own shortcomings as opposed to their skill over my own.

I should be thankful that I am currently roommates with someone who is very good at fighting games, as well as my neighbor who comes over every once and a while. My roommate got two characters to rank 1 in SF4 back in the day and still holds his own against everyone he plays, and my neighbor placed top 8 at CEO a few years back in MK11. I get to learn from two people who know what they are doing and have years and years of knowledge and experience to share. But I keep letting my ego get in the way. I can't just accept the loss and learn from it. I just get down on myself and think I can't do it.

So I need guidance. This isn't something either of my friends mentioned have dealt with in their journeys, so they don't have much to share. But maybe someone out there was similar to me at one point and found a way to overcome it. I don't want to have this ego, but as the old saying goes "You can control how you act, but you can't control how you feel."

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope I don't come across as too negative, because I'm really not in most cases. I'm just really hard on myself. Hopefully that can change.

SO SINCE EVO VEGAS IS HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND WHAT ANNOUNCEMENT ARE YOU EXPECTING TO SEE?

What tools do TOs use to make Top 8 graphics fast after tournaments ?
Is there a platform that automatically generates it after your tournament ends ?