General fighting games thread

you in for DBZ or UNIST, RAG?

I don't think I've touched a videogame for 3 years, I just like watching videos about them occasionally. I'd like a go of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild but I probably don't have the patience for playing it anymore.

sad!

that is a good video btw, i think i watched it earlier in the year before MvC:I came out

i kinda liked MvC:I btw. less visually busy compared to MvC2/3, but still pretty crazy and broke when it came down to it. didn't spend much time on it though

sad!

― Nhex, Saturday, January 13, 2018 4:39 AM

It is a little sad but games are just so expensive, time consuming, I've lost interest in gaming challenges, I don't own any consoles and it's difficult justifying a console for a few games I might never play much. I utterly loathe all the DLC and patches stuff. I'm very jaded so hardly anything looks exciting or fun as it used to.
Bloodborne and Dark Souls look right up my street but again, I'm just not up for the challenge. If I could play them with infinite health cheats I'd be very happy.
But I'm always interested in watching videos of whatever cool thing comes out. One of the things I miss most about being a teenager was the absolute certainty I was going to have a great 5 to 40 hours with most things I'd buy.

here's another video I liked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGSkWVXE2mo

Fantasy Strike does look interesting.

I tried SFV and thought it was fun until I increased the difficulty and realized I would never have a chance against online players. (I couldn’t play online with my pirated copy anyways but I unistalled the game and don’t plan on purchasing it). I also discovered my favorite SFV character is in the lowest tier :(

My all-time favorite fighting game character is Chizuru from the King of Fighters franchise. I like how she creates illusions of herself and is a dance fighter; however, she is one of the hardest characters to control so I mostly just like her from a distance. They haven’t made her a playable character in over a decade. When they do bring ger back, hopefully they will make her moveset more accesible and practical.

Why couldn't you enjoy SFV on a lower difficulty?

Years ago I tried buying some dirt cheap SNK fighting games for kindle and it somehow didn't work. I just bought Garou minutes ago and although it works I can't stand the touchscreen pad and don't particularly want to learn. It's as awkward as I imagined when you can't actually feel the buttons but have to keep your eye on your fingers being in the right place.

Oh god, no, touch screen fightin' just ain't right, especially on ports

I know I'm not gonna have the time to get competitively "good" at it (as if I ever do) but I said to myself "screw it" and pre-ordered Dragonball FighterZ which comes out Friday. Tried the beta, feels great, looks amazing, and tons of fan service for DBZ fans.

is the latest SFV "arcade edition" good? all these editions I can't keep my head straight
I would love a marvel v capcom w/ xmen but I guess the dumb fox/sony thing is at play here? I will wait
kinda tempted by Injustice 2 even though I don't like the DC universe as much

SFV AE is what the game should've been at launch. Has the 12 extra characters from Seasons 1 and 2 (a third one just started), arcade mode, story mode. Feel safe in getting that.

MvC:I is fun but pretty barebones. Also kind of a failure commercially because of many reasons, seems to be dying. Hoping to pick up a complete edition with all the characters/skins if it ever comes out, but there's a chance this could play out like SFxT and never get it

I love the hell out of the Injustice games, but to each his own

Get DBZ, and took a look at UNIST which is about to finally get over here

Thanks!

I watched a lot of the EVO Japan SFV tournament. It was pretty entertaining, especially the pools. Abigail and Menat have added some needed diversity to the game.

any ILXORs playing SFV? I'd like some friends to battle!

i don't play that much now, but if you're on PS4 hit me up: n-hex

I'm RumTum in PS4 SFV. Playstation name is greendat but I don't often play other fighting games.

thanks guys, will give you a shout later...

https://i.imgur.com/O3quT0d.jpgI 100% approve of this

auction tournament for SF 30th Anniversary Collection

https://youtu.be/SxvGhTsB7iY?t=1h36m38s

SonicFox: still gay https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/02/12/im-gay-esports-player-years-swagger-inspires-draws-ire/

wow, SonicFox is only 20? damn these kids are young, feels like he's been around forever. good for him though

I think 2d fighting games could learn a thing or two from Smash. What I had in mind was stage design. A gradual slope here and there. A stage on top a train that makes moving one direction a little slower and the other a little faster. Maybe a wooden raft stage that tilts up and down. All of this effecting hitboxes etc. Non-tourney levels could be more far out. I imagine an alley scene with climbable props like a dumpster and those metal fire ecscape platforms which you can use new hanging attacks.

have you watched smash tournaments? they ban virtually everything. https://www.ssbwiki.com/Stage_legality

the one stage in SFV that has a bit of water on one side is banned, not because it changes the physics at all, but because it's harder to see low projectiles on that side.

Yeah, I've watched them. I've seen some tournaments allow Castle Siege and that slope is much steeper than anything I had in mind.
https://www.ssbwiki.com/File:SSBU-Castle_Siege.png.

Smash is very different though. Most stages have floating platforms and that doesn't really work with a Street Fighter 2 style fighter.

Other stage obstacles could be an ice floor with a little bit of a sliding effect and vice versa for a sand floor.

Here is the official lineup for #Evo2019 ! pic.twitter.com/wgZrwXTGF3

— EVO (@EVO) February 27, 2019

really good lineup, excited to see UNIST get a spotlight as it's a great game to watch. also happy that samsho is apparently coming out soon

didn't even realize a new SamSho was coming out. cool to see BBxtag and UNIST for sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0hbe8HZj0

everything you need to know to understand fighting games in 15 minutes

don't normally care for this guy's vids much but this one is really well done

Button mashing was a frequent complaint about Soul Calibur and Tekken characters like Eddy Gordo. Beginners often beat good experienced players (but not the best players).

Surprised to see no mention of Virtua Fighter, which is hopeless for beginners to win and has very little satisfaction for button mashing players (probably why it isn't as popular). Experience is always rewarded in Virtua Fighter.

VF is criminally neglected in the west, probably because its original home release was on the saturn

Possibly, but if there's something I've known people to criticize about Virtua Fighter, it's that it's never had particularly compelling character designs. The character movements were also somewhat robotic, maybe that's why it was such a precise game.

Even though I used to be quite a fighting game enthusiast, I never got the record straight on how deep the gameplay was in Dead Or Alive, which was quite button-mash friendly but some people said it could be taken to deeper levels, but I don't recall there being many expert players/tournament popularity.
Reviewers often contrasted Itagaki's Ninja Gaiden games with his supposedly much simpler Dead Or Alive games.

I certainly found Soul Calibur and Dead Or Alive less engaging because I felt I didn't need to put in as much attention to my inputs. But eventually Virtua Fighter got more demanding than I could deal with. It was annoying that the character Akira required such incredible precision.

played a bit of the granblue fantasy versus beta - it's alright, weird to play an arcsys game that's got a slower street fighter like pace to it

Seen trailer of new Samurai Shodown. Looks so much like a modern Capcom game, they certainly put more into the graphics than the recent King Of Fighters. The "ghost" practice gimmick is a good idea, don't know if fighting games have done that before?

the killer instinct reboot had it i think

SFV was supposed to have this sort of data-driven stuff, never came to pass

Badly presented video but there's some funny ones in here. Only one I hadn't heard of is the vehicle one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TWkmjgb6Vo
Surprised the Power Instinct series isn't in there.

It's not wacky but I think Dark Edge is one of the most unique looking fighting games.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dark-edge/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qpp_7mqNU

that DOES look crazy!

So George Clinton is coming to Tekken: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-05-tekken-7-gets-a-brand-new-character-called-leroy-smith

I was hoping that you were being literal

https://i.imgur.com/E7SyqBY.jpg

excited for new guilty gear, have wanted to learn it for a while but waiting for the next full version up

ehh. i don't really see a huge difference in the trailer from the current GG. but i'm sure it'll be good, Arc has been consistent

visually it's just a gen-up of the same artstyle yeah but they've talked about planning to streamline the mechanics and such

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/08/13/multiple-sexual-misconduct-allegations-rock-the-fighting-game-community-following-evo-2019

i didn't even really watch evo this year other than UNIST because i was mad that they let Infiltration back in

I watched the EVO Japan SFV tournament (on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/evo2kvids/videos ). The new balance patch has made a lot of characters viable. A character I had written off ended up winning. It's made the game the most interesting it's been since Menat and Abigail came out.

A shame that the (real life) tournament players sometimes have a ton of arrogance and all this trash talking and screwing with each others heads is expected. Probably a lot of players who could thrive if it wasn't like this.