General fighting games thread

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.

It's always there to some extent, but in my experience I've felt far more positivity and kinship in the FGC than in most gaming cultures. There will always be a few who take competition to the Kobe psychopath level though...

Been playing some Fantasy Strike lately, as it went Free-to-Play recently. Gives you all the characters, practice and online modes; you pay $20 if you want Arcade Mode and the ability to match with friends. It's pretty solid, I like that it's very distilled and simplified. (Maybe too simplified for an old head like me) Definitely fun to see their interpretations of existing FG characters, like Geiger/Guile, Rook/Zangief, Setsuki/Ibuki, etc.

It also does a lot of things right I wish all fighting games these days would incorporate: cross-platform play (PC/PS4/Switch), rollback netcode, and great tutorial videos explaining exactly how each character is basically supposed to work. Worth a peek for anyone who likes the genre, especially if you find modern games to be overwhelming with the inputs.

Ryan "gootecks" Gutierrez (fgc commentator; pogchamp icon) is now a hydroxychloroquine conspiracy theorist.

yeah, makes sense.... he was always a bit of a huckster

Buckley landed literal tekken shit last night pic.twitter.com/4fECvGQ2YS

— creepy slowed down version of an upbeat song (@high_light) October 11, 2020

haha nice

In this little twitter thread here, I'm going to show some appreciation to Virtua Fighter's amazing throw animations. Starting with Masato Tanaka's Diamond Dust. I especially love the way the opponent animates standing back up and staggers around a bit before falling down. pic.twitter.com/YXgxLHmp0g

— Manny Biggz (@Mannyfcknking) December 7, 2020

The dream SNK and CAPCOM collaboration title that can fit in your hands is coming to the Nintendo Switch!

SNK VS CAPCOM: MATCH OF THE MILLENIUM launched on the NEOGEO POCKET COLOR back in 1999, and now it will be available to download on the Nintendo eShop Feb, 17th PST! #SVC pic.twitter.com/QzIWTghzy6

— SNK GLOBAL (@SNKPofficial) February 5, 2021

The revival of these old NGPC games is not something I expected in recent times, but welcome all the same

I forgot about that trend of drawing massive hands.

I've heard that SNK hated Capcom because Capcom's CvS games were hits and SNK's SvC games bombed, and the agreement between the companies was that they only profited off their own games. SNK was bought by a Chinese mobile game company in 2015 so I don't know if that still applies.

free guilty gear strive beta now open for everyone on ps4/5

bundle of all steam ports of older gg titles including the oddball action/rts hybrid sequel available for less than $20 total:
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18200/Guilty_Gear_Franchise/

Didn't realize the PS1 original had been ported to modern systems, cool

Downloaded the Strive beta on PS4, but it looks like the servers are still down

they've been down all day afaik but some people have managed to get the offline modes to work by using a secondary account and refusing to register with the servers

this worked for me to get training mode going btw pic.twitter.com/KkifAKsV9Y

— cams (@camsteh) February 19, 2021

didn't work for me though

i don't know how i did it exactly, but after online connections weren't working i just mashed buttons and eventually got to the menu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qg8nWyHAB0

Capcom finally made Ryu good in SFV. Probably too good to stay that way, but it'll be fun while it lasts. They also nerfed Guile to the ground. They must really want Daigo Umehara to go back to being a Ryu main.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0pJDa-ljM

guilty gear xrd on sale on european psn store for less than €2

💥 Fighting fans!

Guilty Gear & Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 are both currently massively discounted on the PSN store (literally, we're talking £1 a game here!)

Guilty Gear (90% off) 👉 https://t.co/Ao9Q0dkRYq

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 (97% off) 👉 https://t.co/JhMdrylzRI pic.twitter.com/HDvRChqpqG

— PQube Games (@PQubeGames) March 17, 2021

Thank you - been vaguely wanting to try GG and that is the right price.

I am a middle aged man with sluggish reactions whose last fighting game love was SNES SFII in the mid-90s & I'd sort of resigned myself to playing Civ, Xcom, a bit of low-intensity Kojima and failing at the Souls series. So I am frankly surprised that I have developed a sudden intense passion for SFV - training, training, then going online, getting the shit kicked out of me repeatedly (& haha watching replays and thinking 'What can I learn from this loss?', like I am some warrior philosopher) but getting immensely high from any win I can scrape off an incompetent, naive leaper.

love to hear it!

sony own evo now?

https://www.sie.com/en/blog/welcoming-evo-into-the-playstation-family/

https://www.evo.gg/press-release

Real shame Death Cargo didn't live up to hype and gameplay is always deleted because it looked great in motion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9diPC0zpQ
https://multiplayer.net-cdn.it/thumbs/images/2014/06/05/asb7mv7hyqbcgnpgrnsc_jpg_1400x0_q85.jpg

This beat-em-up is replacing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c698MR8uE7E

What happened with Death Cargo? Kickstarter vaporware?

I think it's just really poorly managed business and an unplayably buggy game that very few people got to play. Maybe they switched to a beat-em-up because it seemed simpler?

Guilty Gear open beta again: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0036-CUSA24910_00-GGSTOBTUS0000100

VF5 for PS4 is out on tuesday, free for PS+ subscribers

saw EVO moment 37 for the first time, wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESR3cvErqCg

have to wonder if there any children who know who Powdered Toast Man is

from the developers of Slap City:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q430dWj9sG4

as if this is aimed at children

ah! impressed that they got a real gig off that. so this might be better than all the other crappy Smash clones.

yeah this is definitely aimed at people who were born in the 90s, the character choices are mostly from the same era as melee

New trailer, doesn't reveal much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITxAvjG0Zfs

Voice actors haven't been contacted, and games can't reuse their voices without permission.

Some box art with silhouetted characters was leaked by Target. It reveals more characters:
Aang
Korra
Ren
Stimpy
CatDog

I wonder if Nick has the rights to Rocco’s Modern Life. I’m guessing no, seeing how people never mention wishlist characters from that show in comments sections.

CatDog and yellow jumpsuit April O'Neil trailers released. Definitely being aimed at 90s kids.

Funny that she got announced as a playable character in two games this week, which I suppose is probably intentional

basic gameplay guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXiOWSKPDG8

The Clutch button from Slap City is replaced by a Strafe button that keeps you faced the same way. I like how the attacks have a rock-paper-scissors system where each pair has a different effect on the loser.

I wonder what will end up being the dominant platform for this game, if it succeeds. Switch, out of Smash loyalty? The previous or current generation of Xbox or PS5? PC due to current FGC trends?

Also if we'll just get used to the lack of voice acting