Don't play to be "good" - Play to be BETTER! 

I wish they would give more fighters with ps plus here. It's usually a big title and some lame indie game.

The unique fighting games are why i plan on getting a ps5 once the prices go down.

A lot of people here in the comment section are trying to berate the guy, but I appreciate his honesty and self-awareness. "I was ashamed because of my lack of study. I was unable to win because of my lack of effort." Most people won't even acknowledge that they're not putting enough effort, thinking that wins will come easier with time. I also liked that he embarked on a 30-day challenge and made a journal for it. This is a good idea for acquiring any skill. Introspection and metacognition are critical for improvement. If anyone's reading this, I suggest reading the book "The First 20 Hours" by Josh Kaufman, where he talks about skill acquisition.

@@CGoody564 I feel that way towards Xbox 😭 you guys get good older games and can still pay them like KOF13, Soul Caliber 2, SF3, Street Fighter 4, etc..

@@CGoody564 damn that sucks, best of luck to you buddy

lmao

You should play For Honor.

@@cerebralsmash5707 I don't wanna admit it but it's true...

Ever played smash ultimate online?

This is the way

facts. learning +r Potemkin,4 wins and 100 loses

@@LimboTheory those 4 wins were godlike

Incorrect I'm a Sol player and all I know is Bandit Revolver

@@Sorrelhas Grand Viper is how I say "I'm tired of neutral". Real DBFZ vibes

@@chasecomfort3940 How about that raw, mid-screen, non-FRC Gunflame to assert dominance

Sajam gatekeeping the new players.

@@jaksida300 Jiyuna saved Guilty Gear and now Sajam must destroy it to preserve balance.

Day 30: DP RRC

LOL. I loved reading those.

Itchy, tasty.

Day 30: I'm still sure I teched that throw

​@@rsotuyo15 Day 31: I'm gonna block that wack ass mix-up.

Fighting games, sports They just showed off frame perfect stuff in sf6 and you would be surprised how many smoothbrain takes you saw on twitter. "Now the gap between pros and average player will be huge!" ...yeah bro whats wrong with that lol

Feedback is nice and all but I prefer observation of focus as my motivator

common pitfall for newcomers imo

Ryu from street fighter is the same I think and this mindset goes so well with the philosophy behind fighting games and just a good mantra for life as a whole I feel

yes! having a friend jump in with you is so healthy for early phase imo

>You gotta be able to look at your play and go "YO I landed my BnB this is hype" I think this is one reason a fighting game a) has to look cool and b) players should choose to play their favourite character early on. This keeps me playing, when I go 0-10 against a better player. (after succesful baiken bnb): "Look mom, I slapped them, threw a Tatami, bonked them with a mace and than fire a canon into their face!" That is the hidden advantage of "long combos": You can train and get better on your own. You don't need to lose to get better at your own combos and when you finally get to do it 1 out of 5 times....you look stylish 1/5 times, which can be a reward on its own.

I’ve played some games at fairly high lvl and still get happy with bnbs 💀

@@PapstJL4U Yes, this! This is the reason why I think more fighting game devs nowadays need to take a look at Blazblue and how they handled stuff back then. BB had this nice feature called stylish mode. This got my button mashing ass back then through the story mode and it looked amazing as well. In fact, it looked so hype and was so much fun that it gave me the motivation to go technical mode to try and do those combos myself. And boy is it a great feeling actually pulling it off especially in a real match. I still think having stylish/technical mode options is a much more elegant solution to getting new players/casuals to enjoy a fighting game, especially if the single player content is as great as it was in BB, than adding auto combos to one button.

@@darthbaluuduh6598 I think auto-combo systems can be done well, but the only game that comes to mind that pulled it off was Persona 4 Arena. Otherwise I totally agree about Stylish mode.

its a game changer for pushing through the early phases

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@@doogies no printer

I have, like 200 matches and 33 hours in +R I've probably spent, like, 2-3 hours in training mode total And that's because +R is the first fighting game I started to take "seriously"

@@Sorrelhas I have spent way more time in training mode in +R than in matches. But that's just because I think it's fun to learn cool stuff, I am under no impression that knowing crazy stuff will make me "good"

@@steeplewiththesnakes Honestly if you have a goal, training mode is as fun as actual matches It's just that my approach is more "what beats Johnny's 5H lmao" and things like that

@@Sorrelhas yea i gotta agree, and i wish this was more apparent to new players.

@@Sorrelhas oh for sure. The take control replay thing has been a life saver for that sorta stuff.

its true lol

Well said!

thats whats up! thanks for coming through

Jesus loves you

the irony is faust is one of the better chars but he requires a low level base knowledge

That last line is perfect holy shit

And it is a big deal that you accomplished all that. You came out after your Xrd Faust experience learning more about yourself and attaining victory over yourself. You look at things that once seemed complicated with a fresh perspective and a changed attitude.

@@doogies Yeah it's funny as hell. If he just stuck to it he'd would be losing a whole lot less in the long run lol

@@t4d0W Indeed, I'm glad I did. Now I just need to apply what I learned IRL; that's a game I really want to get good at one day lmao

Glad it resonated

pretty important piece to the puzzle imo

@@doogies from my and others', who i talked to about this, experience, the most of the growth happens when you are in a mindset for learning, you find someone or a bunch of people with the same mindset and roughly the same skill, and you play together and constantly improve, share info, figure stuff out, just straight up try to outplay each other, and then take it out in the wild, in ranked or tournaments, and apply what you learned there. It's hard to improve on your own. Fighting games are secretly team games lmao it's also way more fun playing like this, since winning isn't the point at all, and there's an active social element involved.

Gonna try to teach my friend FighterZ, just picked up Guilty Gear +R a few weeks ago and want to leaen with him. Wish me luck!

appreciate ya. no bars, im not a rapper. just reality n truth

Ay my gf is from down there. Love the weather.

@@yano4473 it's raining like Ritcher Belmont out here right now! But even that feels nice.

@@melonrats I'm from NV, so I'd kill to have any moisture over here lol.

thanks for showing love

@@yano4473 I'll see if I can get some of this rain to head your way!

take it a step at a time. no reason to put all that pressure on yourself

thats anything in life that is competitive tho. And when it happened it felt good right? That moment is like, sports in a nutshell lol

The amazing thing about fighting games is that the fundamental knowledge you gain as you improve is applicable to other fighting games. It took me a year of solid play to be able to be proficient at tekken but that fundamental knowledge about fighting games I gained as a result has made me able to pick up new fighting games and learn their systems within weeks.

@@doogies For sure , snatching my first game against a better player after anti-airing him 4 times was great but I there were definitely times where I got hella discouraged before I learned to stop looking for wins.

When ranked is not the thing that matters to you but tournaments are, it's a lot easier to just see ranked as another avenue of improvement rather than the ultimate determination of your skill that gets blighted with every loss.

Glad it resonated!

Feels like anything you get into competitively but one approaches that discovery phase the wrong way. in my experience of combat sports, pickup basketball, card games, FGs or anything competitive part of the charm is finding that fun unique interaction and growing off that. I tryharded in a couple of those and in the end situations always exposed my fraudulence. So the only way to get 'better' is to develop a better attitude towards my hobby and put in some effort.

high praise from the god. appreciate ya

sure, but one reason why is because it solves the matchmaking issue. not necessarily the other issues...

@@doogies that's right, but at least the barrier to entry won't be so daunting

I already feel very confident in all of the mechanics of Strive. It’s very easy on the surface. Every characters combo trees are pretty similar too

@@doogies He probably kill it in Strive but realize his bad habits will work in Strive and he’ll question his efforts at all.

thanks for your thoughts! interesting seeing where you are coming from.

​@@doogies I just got out of a play session with a chipp player from poland. i went in solely trying to apply this mentality, just trying for small improvements, noticing my movement patterns and trying to anti air, even if i was getting crushed overall. after a few games i asked him how to deal with something, and he actually explained it, as well as 2 other chipp moves over the course of this play session. as we played more and i was able to handle some of his stuff, i got this feeling of "knowing whats going on". just that feeling like im "in the game", is the highlight of this session by far. playing against one character constantly, played by a guy willing to explain is the best. once i got to this point i was building a bit of an offense, punishing things, taking rounds, and even a few games. again, the focus isnt wins/losses, its just this feeling of being able to play, knowing some of what the enemy does, i coulda lost 50 games in a row and still had WAY more fun than any other type of game, even if im dominating. look at what the REV 2 kid said, it may be that he isnt focused on w/l as much as we think. all scrubs go into a new competitive game KNOWING we are gonna lose. but its just the learning process is so much more automatic, and its fun playing regardless of w/l, wheras in +r i had to be lucky enough to find this chipp player that was 1) close to beginner level 2) willing to play and explain stuff for a couple hours and 3) +r has good netcode. 4) i was only playing cuz i had an ulterior motive, to practice for june 11 i really think a big part of the chasm the beginners go through is just, not knowing what enemies do or how to respond. in a shooting game, everyone's main attack is shooting, and its intuitive that you gotta take cover. MOBAs are good to learn cuz of the high population, but that could just be that teamgames are more enticing to new players in general. fighting games, on the surface, lack social experience cuz its 1v1. those shooters, mobas and racing games are ALSO social experiences that you can fall back on. fighting games require community like everything else, and yet are 1v1. most people dont have friends "willing to play a fighting game casually, but im confident this will change moving forward. i already want to get all my gamer friends into strive from a beta lol Back on the topic of MOBAs learning 4 spells per hero felt much easier and more fun than "drowning" while trying to learn a fighting game. maybe its just once you memorize a spell, knowing what to do against it is an automatic process for me. I am totally theorizing and guessing in this paragraph, and i know people will say "just look stuff up" there are 2 problems with that for the most people 1) it takes time away from playing and isnt practical in a game like +r. i meet a testament player and i wont play another one for another week, by then i forgot everything. 2) who wants to study/memorize stuff to play a game, when there are other games that you can memorize while playing (thats how it was for me in MOBAs, you get a feel for what's going on and just build on that) i dont play mobas much anymore, just too slow for me, i only play them occasionally with friends. Im willing to commit cuz as i said, fighting games are definitely a higher level of fun compared to other games, but i only believe this cuz of strive. It definitely takes a stronger than average mindset/commitment level to even realize this for most people. you fighting game enthusiasts/adept players are special af, and in the minority (not saying thats a bad thing, its what makes you valuable) PS. (i dropped mk11 cuz it was boring to play and movement feels stiff, despite it having the most brutal animations in the genre) All thanks to that guy from poland who was up at 3 am his time

EXACTLY 100%

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Glad you enjoyed it!

appreciate you

Honestly, I agree Not just fighting games, competitive gaming in general People don't have fun anymore, it's always just ranked, the optimal strat, "'its just a game' is such a weak mindset", etc Honestly, it's sad

@@Sorrelhas yeah this really hit home when someone was complaining about tryhards in fall guys like its just fall guys...

Thanks for sharing!

not sure why you say that. seems like you didnt understand the message

glad it resonated! be easy and thanks for watchin

it matters a lot for long term growth

no way man! thanks for watching and sharing! appreciate it. And yes, I agree a lot of the mindsets carry over to other games/sports/academia etc. Thats the point! fighting games arent any different...

thanks for watching!

thanks for watching!

appreciate ya!

this is good advice

That's what I do in order to get better with a character. Playing against the CPU is indeed a great way of learning.

Glad you enjoyed it!

appreciate you man!

Glad you enjoyed it

agreed. hope its part of the package in a big way

Glad to hear it! thanks for watchin

most shit that is worth it in life wont come in 30 days

I appreciate that! I think the volume of games might have an effect, but I dont think we are even close to that point right now. The games simply have to do a better job of appealing to new players, retaining them, and matching them better

def an idea worth considering

Are newcomers to fighting games supposed to figure out what they're doing wrong on their own though? Newcomers aren't going to know even what they're supposed to do differently without being told by someone else

@@rkraccoons FGs as they exist now? yeah it's going to be community learning more than anything else (like the Faust player in the example asking better players to help him review matches), but TBH the games themselves could integrate this kind of teaching if the devs were so inclined. Most FGs already have stat tracking in them. In SFV you can even look up in game how many times you've landed individual moves with a character. Providing things like "AA successes" and "successful meaties" (even incentivizing them with in game rewards like COD does with camo challenges for example) could go a long way towards pointing new players in the right direction. Hell, there could even be official community hubs that provide links to things like character discords/forums/beginner tournaments in game if they wanted to work with the communities like that.

this is why good tutorial and training legs resources/modes in the games are important...

exactly

IMO the important part I point out to new players learning and grinding rank is to have a structure for their gameplay. Make an effort to take something out of the sets you played, learn to take incremental breaks in between and re-adjust goals. As well as taking a mental note of how their mood as they keep playing. Emotions are going to be new players' biggest enemies because it will cloud their judgement and ability to perceive the logic in front of them. They may be salty over a loss and claim that their ranked opponent they drew was a smurf because they won 3 games straight and ran away. But if they can't even remember how they lost or the patterns their opponent had, then it also plays purely the the inexperience of a new player.

micro achievements? i didnt really think about them in 3soe but maybe not a bad idea for new heads

you have to have the depth perception to know that there is more to that win or loss than the end result

@@doogies for sure, but I think the natural environment you enter in fighting games doesn't intuitively lead you there due to the 1v1 nature of it and that's something the fgc eco system could maybe compensate for (newbie tournaments etc). If you think of playing fighting games like learning an instrument it makes the whole self improvement aspect more obvious. you're probably not playing that kick ass song for a long time. but if you managed to hit that chord you've been struggling with then that's a big achievement. same thing with fighting games, might not have won but you landed that combo you've practicing over and over again and that's an achievement.

kill that mentality man. just focus on having fun and improving in the process. the wins will come as a result

yeah its hard to do but very important also, thanks for commenting! take care of yourself man! how ya been?

@@doogies oh I’m doing fine. Ramadan just started so there’s that. Really appreciate the videos you’ve been doing. It’s all great stuff.

Don't work yourself into a shoot brother.

Well, pro wrestling is all staged anyway. So the wins and losses literally don't matter.

yeah. honestly i feel like a lot of them dont really try **shrug**

And you were bang on with that tennis analogy. Some of the high-level people I practiced against hit ground strokes and serves that actually made me fear for my life.

for real. tennis is just one of those games where the levels are reflected in huge ways lmao

@@doogies The difference between someone who just returns and someone who hits with intent is pretty palpable. And this is on top of how well good players can move around the court due to their conditioning/training regime.

take that little W and move onto the next one !

thanks for watching! I think the matchmaking issues prevent new players from hanging around and developing

@@doogies of course! I really hope that Strive helps to bring awareness to fgc developers that taking time to ensure that your matchmaking and online experiences are consistent, fair, and fun make a huge difference in terms of active playerbase/community. I honestly only started really digging into fighting games more since Covid but you best believe I'm ready to shoot my shot at some offline events and really get that fun fighting game experience! Anyways, I'm subbed now so I'm looking forward to more content like this!

tennis is a savage ass game bruh lol

@@doogies It is lol, but it's also very rewarding, as fighting games. Also (OMG) I love you and your videos are awesome, thanks for uploading them.