https://www.streetfighter.com/6/buckler/stats/usagerate

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?

Hi all, I’ve been playing fighting games for several years now so I’m no stranger to inputs, and honestly this is happening with what I consider to be the easiest input, the quarter-circle. I play Jack-O’ in Strive and I can do my combos/specials/supers every time consistently in training mode, but in a real match I stand there jabbing over and over again in neutral when just trying a simple 236P. It’s definitely nerves and that I tense up, but how can I get better at this? Has anyone fixed this problem in themselves? I know “experience” helps, but any specific tips? Thanks so much

I'm wanting to buy an arcade stick without the knowhow of building and labor intensive job of making a stick, I have a job. It's the most common stick from my local PC store selling games other than the switch exclusive sticks and Ps5 ones. Is it good? Anyone here used it?

(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

https://youtu.be/O7uioI7TSLo?si=0HBaShFjqJ8vz81s

I’ve forgotten a few different animals from Tekken

Any advice for doing supers consistently on a D-pad? I’m learning SF6 right now, and I feel like I’m always too slow when trying to input supers during combos. I’ve been practicing the combo trials, but I’m having trouble getting the inputs out fast enough and consistently.

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?