Smash came out a few weeks ago. But I never really did smash.
All of these snk joints are on the switch store
And there are some street fighters also

But what if really like is a killer instinct or an injustice for my switch

So I just spend time window shopping games in the moment.

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Marvel vs Capcom full screen animation ... sure
But this other stuff takes away from the fluid nature that I want in a fighter
I hit one ultra in my entire time playing and just never knew that you gonna get there and then it starts picking up pace before the last hit.

That's just overkill

One ultra combo is enough because it's the end of the match, the second one is screaming "Hey, look what I can do!".

The third one is just plain disrespectful.

i'm trying to learn dragon ball fighterz but it's not clicking. also i have zero connection to and only the most basic knowledge of the dragon ball universe so the impetus isn't really there. i might dip back in to guilty gear because i really liked playing a character that could juggle someone from one corner to another. i was planning on learning KOF 14 this year with the intention continuing my streak of learning one new fighting game every year (guilty gear in '17, street fighter v in '18) and improving my execution but i'm grinding my way up to diamond rank in SFV instead

There aren’t enough characters for me to justify that.

>There aren’t enough characters for me to justify that.

the most recent iteration of SFV ("arcade edition") is $40 new and includes all characters released in the base game and seasons 1 & 2. you can earn an in-game currency to buy whichever season 3 characters you wish. that's 28 characters ready to go when you first load up the game and 7 more you can buy with real or in-game money if you want to. you *might* spend $70 total for the game and all the DLC characters

But I can’t justify the cost.

House and with the switch I can take it with me on the road, up to bed, free up a tv, etc

I need to get back into V, but the initial roll out killed it for me. I've done the updates, got AE, but no real desire to make time to get back to it and get good. I can still find a match in IV pretty quickly though.

Started playing FighterZ with my son, but it's a bit too much for me. It is what MvCI should have been, but I never got too far with the whole vs. games to begin with (more a diversion than anything else). It is extremely pretty and OTT, like the anime come to life

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I force my kids to watch for the arcade experience. Without an audience, it feels hollow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FKoZb1sv64

May not be safe to play in front of the kids, since it's bloody, but it's coming.

They're used to the blood by now
Fake violence is the best kind

and by "play" i mean i pop that disc in every now and then, get waxed cause i dont know the moves and then turn off my PS4 and apologize to my saiyan predecessors.

All these crazy explosions going on in my face and I have no idea what's going on.
I think that's the only way to play

smash was probably the one ive enjoyed the most. i did get it for switch and have been playing the story mode here and there.

i have great memories of killer instinct. probably my fav after smash.

I know enough to beat the shit out of a fellow clueless, only-know-fireball faceass.

You got the 1 percent who play in tournaments.

You got the 10 percent who stuck around to play them competently.

And then you got the 89 percent who cop the game, fuck around with it for a few days to see all the different stuff, and then don't touch it again until the homies come through.

my hands just move too slow

if we had the plethora of online capabilities and game variety that we do now, maybe 10 years ago? back when i had the time, eyes and reflexes to get all that shit down pat? wheeeeeeeeew

the games don’t really require crazy hand speed. if you can play video games, you can play fighting games. they do have a steep learning curve, but once you’ve learned one you’ve learned them all.

i had a few summers as a teen but i was playing platformers and bullet-hell games instead.

the time has passed for me, i think. i just don't have the hours. :(

A half hour of play a few times a week will make you decent after a couple months.

will you be getting sponsored by Red Bull or some shit? prolly not, but it def ain't too late to learn.

i play a lot. i spend like an hour after work playing. i still ain't very good, but i've gotten to a place where i can hang with high level players and that's all i want from it. but you don't even need to play that much to get to a level where you're enjoying the games.

i picked up one of the more technically demanding characters in guilty gear xrd (ramlethal) at the tender age of 39, after not having played any fighting games for maybe a decade and having never played guilty gear before. i was slow af when i started playing again. i felt like i couldn't do any moves and my reflexes were trash. but as i played more i became acclimated with the speed of the game and learning combo and link timings. the game "slowed down" which effectively sped up my inputs

you can get good at those games but it takes time and practice, and it takes more time the older you are, depending on your history with fighting games. i had a good base of thousands of hours logged in arcades on xmen vs street fighter, marvel vs capcom 1 & 2, and various others but that was literally 20 years prior. i really felt like i had hit the reset button since i hadn't engaged with fighting games since the early days of street fighter iv. but i kept at it and i got good at fighting games again. it took forever but it did happen

i got deep into Skullgirls, but thats probably because Skullgirl's single player mode actually covert tutorializes you. After i played it for a while i saw an improvement in my skill in other fighters, but not enough for it to be satisfying.

but you do have to commit to it. i tend to play about 1 hr/night and went from 0 to platinum (top 20k in the world, top 4k in north america) in about 6 months

the best piece of advice i can give you is to play to learn and not to win. winning should be a byproduct of learning how to play. take those L's in stride. the only bad match is the one you didn't learn anything from (they do happen). give it a month or so of 30-60 minutes a night or a few hours a week and see if your play improves

nearly every other fighting game feels clunky to me, or just not right. SFV is the first time I actually reached a competent level at a fighting game and it's been a time-sink for three years.

I really stopped playing games like...19, so years ago though. I pulled my PS2 out a couple of months ago and realized I only have the 3-D MK games left. Not a big fan of those.



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Hadn’t finished the story when I bought it a couple years back so I binged through that, been chopping away at each characters’ arcade mode towers every couple days since.

The new one looks like it might be a little overwhelming but as a guy that doesn’t really go online with fighters MK I feel is the most reliable single player fighter so I’ll probably cop at some point.

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i'm waiting for characters i want to play to be released before i jump in, namely setsuka and cassandra

also i love that this post is in gd and not ht 😂

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If so I've been playing the hell out of this since they had the Early Access release on PC

I don't have a lot of time to play them, but I'm waiting for the Dragonball DLC to get cheaper.

I only play maybe once a month or so, but jumped at buying season 3 character pass for SFV.

I'm pretty bad. I love playing it, but I don't have the time to invest in getting better.

Soul Calibur too maybe

but i think shooters are my worst area

to me...competition is much tighter on that

fighting games are a cakewalk in comparison

you can legit learn one character's moves in a week with only like 30-60 minutes a day and hold your own

shooters on the other hand...way too many skills needed and if you're missing any of the major ones...bullet sponge

aim
map memory
composure
controls

ANY weakness on those...you auto-suck

>Soul Calibur too maybe
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>but i think shooters are my worst area
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>to me...competition is much tighter on that
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>fighting games are a cakewalk in comparison
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>you can legit learn one character's moves in a week with only
>like 30-60 minutes a day and hold your own
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>shooters on the other hand...way too many skills needed and if
>you're missing any of the major ones...bullet sponge
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>aim
>map memory
>composure
>controls
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>ANY weakness on those...you auto-suck

^^ been trying to learn the Destiny 2 maps and there aren't ANY places to hide.