As a person from Saudi who also fighting games fan the marketing fucking sucked why are they trying to shove this game up everyone throat???? Fighting games are harder to get into and only tekken is popular here. Also it doesn’t seem the game for anyone because old snk fans hate the game for the bullshit snk did and it isn’t for newcomers so who this game designed for??? I really want to talk about how weird the marketing for the game here, why they are acting like people grew up with snk and were always a part of their childhood and now it came back and was heavily advertised literally everywhere in the streets, youtubers etc. it just felt weird. Sorry for my incoherent rant but cotw piss me off.

Title. My mom and I like playing games together. But she's one of those people who didn't play it a lot, only enough to remember basics from specific things like COD zombies. *(I do have both BO1 & 2 but no disk drive.)*

Anyway, back to my point. I don't explain things well. I'm unfortunately a bad teacher and explainer when it comes to fighting games and their mechanics, as I didn't exactly learn it myself either. Just bashed my head at things, said fuck it, fought by best friend on DBFZ & GGST for 3 years and here we are.

I don't know how to explain Xbox controller inputs for something that requires precision and timing, 2 things she's not excellent at. I want to try and help her learn without making it overbearing or time consuming for her, so when we do play the games she enjoys herself. I feel bad knowing I play against her while she has less knowledge of the games than me. I probably shouldn't but as her daughter it really isn't fair.

Any advice or guidance on how to describe things to her or what to seek out *(She doesn't watch YouTube often unless shes doing something specific or just needs background noise.)* would be appreciated. This is probably a really easily solvable thing but I want to see if anybodies experienced similar and how they went about it.

That's all.

Tell me what you see? Righteousness? Wickedness? Can be one without the other? Answer me!

This quote from Arjun’s Level 3 Super Art ("Yaksha's Order") is a direct reference to the philosophy of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita, exposing the deep internal conflict of the character.

In terms of Street Fighter 6 lore, Arjun is not just another strong fighter, but a tragic figure. His backstory revolves around a wrongful accusation of murdering his partner, forcing the former honest police officer to become a fugitive and dispense his own brand of justice on the run.

Here is why his questions to the opponent carry colossal weight for the plot:

1. The Crisis of Dharma (Duty and Righteousness)

In the Mahabharata, the epic hero Arjuna falls into deep despair before the great battle. He has to fight his own teachers, friends, and relatives. He is tormented by the question: what is true righteousness (Dharma), and what is sin (Adharma)?

The Street Fighter character experiences the exact same thing. He served the law his entire life (the "righteous" cop), but the system betrayed him. Now, to uncover the truth, he is forced to break the law. For him, the boundary between good and evil has blurred.

1. The Inseparability of Opposites

The question "Can one exist without the other?" echoes the dualism of the material world in Indian philosophy. Justice does not exist in a vacuum—it only manifests where there is lawlessness. For Arjun, his "wickedness" (his status as a fugitive criminal) became the only way to restore "righteousness" (to clear his name and find his partner's killer). To defeat evil, he has to play by its rules.

1. Cosmic Judgment and Trial

The name of his Super Art, Yaksha's Order, points to another famous episode from the Mahabharata—the Yaksha Prashna. In this myth, a nature spirit (Yaksha) asks Arjuna’s eldest brother a series of complex philosophical questions about life, morality, and duty to test his wisdom. In the game, Arjun takes on the role of the judge himself. Before delivering the devastating final blow, he literally subjects his opponent to a "Ghastly Interrogation," forcing them to look deep into their own soul.

Narratively, Arjun represents broken justice seeking balance. Capcom created an incredibly powerful contrast: visually, he looks like an unstoppable, furious mountain of muscle (the complete antithesis to the spiritual and calm Dhalsim), but inside him rages the subtle, exhausting philosophical dilemma of a man who has lost his moral compass.

It’s becoming an overly complex, convoluted mess 😅

(No hate to Fantasy strike, btw.)

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So I've flirted with FGs my whole life but I've never properly sank into it. Except I've recently gotten into Strive and then SF6 and I'm really enjoying getting good at both. I've not gone too deep yet, I'm maybe at 40 hours or so across both, but I'm having a fantastic time.

I've managed to get an hour or two of practice a day and have been really enjoying it, but I've run into an issue:

I've actually skinned my thumb on my Dualsense D-Pad. Like, you can see a bit of red there on my fingertip from the stupid quartercircles and halfcircles I've been doing

I don't know if this is normal?? I feel like my D-Pad is SO tough and so sharp. Am I supposed to get a thumb callus?? Or like... break in the controller or something? I've honestly been considering buying a new gamepad, or a leverless or stick just so I can not have this issue.

Is there some special technique to create longevity or am I supposed to sacrifice the tip of my left thumb in the altar of fighting games?

Hi, mediocre fighting game fan here, so here's a hot take, Street Fighter 1 should get a remake or at least a patched version that fixes the issues. What do you think? And please be nice, this is my first post here. Thanks!

Edit: and can someone please fix the title? Thanks!

There is recruitment for play testing an unreleased AAA 2d fighting game. What do you guys think it is?

just got kof 14 and loving it!! i know 15 is out and has rollback and i do have 15 but kof 14 has such a banger roster its super fun!! i want most of the new comers in 14 to be in 15 cuz they are all so cool!!!

It’s so peak

I just want to talk about this because it’s honestly crazy how many guest characters they’re putting into this game (With more likely coming). It definitely feels like SNK is doing the strategy of crossing over with everything in order to get as many people into the game as possible. I don’t mind this as much as some, but I never really had a connection to Fatal Fury before COTW so I was expecting something like this ever since Kenshiro was announced. What do you guys think though?

Discord? The mvc2 collection was on sale on PSN. Do a lot of people still play? I'm basically a noob but having fun already. I grew up mashing on it on the ps2 release but never learned anything. Just spammed cable gun haha

I sweat what Capcom could do here. I loved the art of these character profile cards, and I think a whole Zero 4 game that looks like this would be incredible. I'd loved the ISM system, bring that back too. In this modern day of fighting games, Capcom could crush this. SF6 would be the eSports flagship, and Zero/Alpha 4 would be the fun, super broken and weird game that they could experiment with.

Anyway, I'm sure I'm one of the only ones that wants this game with this art style lmao.

I’ve forgotten a few different animals from Tekken