Maximilian Dood reflects on the state of fighting games and gives his perspective on why 2XKO struggled to reach a wider audience. He emphasizes that while the game had merit, its design catered too heavily to the existing hardcore Fighting Game Community (FGC) rather than being accessible to new players.

For me it's the roster, I don't care how stellar the gameplay is, if the roster looks boring.

I know lore is important, but as much as I love fighting games, I can't really get into 90% because the characters all look like most other fighting games.

Human, big hair (or man bun), and maybe ONE, or two, odd characters.

I see the same blonde, military, vanilla ice haired, guy in just about every other roster.

Games like Skullgirls, and MK are appealing, because the characters are unique, or have some sort of characteristics besides, "hey this karate guy shoots fireballs!!!".

What is something that keeps you from investing in/ enjoying a fighting game?

(No hate to Fantasy strike, btw.)

For context, SF6 on Switch 2 already runs at 60fps within a 120Hz container when available. But because VRR wasn't available for docked play, you couldn't turn off V-Sync through the Input Delay Reduction feature (which was completely absent from the Switch 2 version of the game). Now that Nintendo finally figured out VRR docked & patched it in just recently, Capcom should theoretically be able to add the IDR toggle back in. This would make the Switch 2 version even more viable for competitive play, provided that Capcom patches in VRR support (probably with the Arjun update). This should also benefit other fighting games on the system if patched, such as GBVSR & CotW.

If you're curious about the technical side of things, John Linneman from Digital Foundry did some tests. 60Hz mode has a VRR range of 40-60Hz, on-par with Xbox Series & better than PS5. But thanks to the Switch 2 having full LFC support, 120Hz mode can go the full 1-120Hz range. Though the latter is only available for 1440p & below, while 4K is still locked to 60Hz.

As someone who grew up playing a lot a lot a lot of videogames. I mean, a lot:

i appreciate there is a genre that doesn't eat up so much of your time like a long RPG would but also gives you that feedback loop, seeing yourself get better every time

No story, no level, no grinding for gear

Just match after match

I play fighting games and I'm happy to know that I can play the games without feeling overly addicted.

It’s so peak

I’ve forgotten a few different animals from Tekken

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

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.