Fighting Games Are For Everyone* 

I really like Skullgirls but its really hard to convince people that it's not porn

I love how he makes a joke about how no one plays Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R Now Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series and not three months later it gets rollback and is super popular.

_shows Jack-o_ Ah yes, Guilty Gear is my favorite tower defense game

Dead online? Living in a country with virtually no fighting game community? Cries in Central Fiction

My favourite fighting game is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

You're right, honestly I could play any fighting game if there's a character I like and if I can find a sparring partner. Problem is, now I have TOO MANY GAMES AND I CAN'T PLAY ALL OF THEM

"there's only like 300 of you" *2 months later* OH

"... or youre a smasher" lmfao ok you got me

Once upon a time I just thought Tekken was a cool game so I started to play it. Now I have a vast figthing game collection, talk about rollback netcode every day of my life and my dreams mostly consist of frame data.

I spit out my drink at "variety of animals" and now there are bleach stains all over this gas station bathroom, thanks.

i really feel the first point about it being hard to really get into FGs if you dont win. everyone around me is saying "oh just learn to take the L" as if that somehow makes me feel good abt the fact that my overall record is probably in the range of like 20-200 or some shit. I loved the high that I got the first time I actually got someone to defensively burst at locals, and I felt great when I took my first and only game at one of the local venues I used to go to. but really, I just want to be able to compete with people in a way that feels meaningful, and not just being stuck blocking against someone with years of experience. the whole learn to get bodied sort of mentality makes sense, but its hard to play online against people you know when all it does is result in nothing but losses, and act as a reminder of why most of your 100-something hours in Xrd were spent labbing Answer setups. i love fighting games, but everyone talks like all the things i don't know are somehow the most intuitive things in the world, and it makes me feel like i'm just not cut out for it. also it doesn't help that i really love king of fighters and guilty gear, and haven't played a "beginner friendly" fighter in years.

The best part about the entire bit of "Fighting Herds" is that it apparently was originally an MLP fighting fan game, but they had to change it for legal reasons... aaaand now we have this. (It's also why the first six were super obvious references to the main characters of MLP)

That analogue with snk heroines is the exact scenario that happened to my local GG scene but instead of waifus. It was gbvs

Tbh the "it looks good as fuck" can do a lot for you to like a game. Under night in-birth literally hooked me because the music and the graphics look cool, and doing combos feel like you're shredding someone

This is the only person who does this sort of content that actually factors in real life, like how much free time you have to learn a game.

"hentai fighting games" *takes notes furiously*

"You're either a person who's decently well invested in fighting games, or a smasher." YOU DON'T HAVE TO CALL ME OUT LIKE THAT

I loved the art style and attempted learning skullgirls in 2019 when everyone had a 3+ year advantage on me. I went 0-32 and tried Mobile then got laughed at for playing mobile. Thank you for this video

For me, I find that Mortal Kombat, even with all its violence, is rather easy to get into. The in-depth tutorials really help new players learn some of the ropes. And plus, I find that it isn't too complicated in terms of mechanics.

That point about needing a hook to get into a game really spoke to me lol. I remember when i picked up skullgirls for the first time with my friends and immediately gravitated towards cerebella. I knew that she was a grappler from a few things i'd seen, and i love grapplers, so she was an obvious pick. She also had an alt color that represents the flag of my country so, another reason to play her, i thought. I spent 5 minutes learning her moves, went into a match with my friends and got folded. We were all new to the game, but something wasn't clicking for me the way that it was for my friends. "Well, what if i try the other grappler?" I thought, while switching over to beowulf. I tried his moves and his combos for some reason felt really awkward to me. I got folded again and was once again knocked back to the characrer select screen. I spent a few seconds browsing the characters, and one of them just happened to catch my eye... "Hey, what's this character's gimmick?" I asked. And my friend responded with: "well, he's kinda like a one man band but also a robot made entirely out of instruments." I was caught by surprise and said "huh, that sounds weird..." wasn't planning on picking him up, but decided to look at his color pallets. "Oh look, he has a third strike Q color. I think i'm gonna play him for a bit." With only 4 minutes of learning his moves and normals, they ALL clicked for me. Everything i tried to do with Big band just worked, and that's because every single one of his moves was made for me. After that day, i have put a thousand hours into this game, and i only play band. Oorah brother

6:58 I mean Faust is the only character I like and I'm staying on this ride 'till the bitter end baby! Though I also probably would play a guilty gear where everyone is May, so maybe I'm just deranged in in multiple ways.

Also remember that certain types of fighting game will not click with you, and that's fine. Don't force yourself into getting good at a game because you feel you "have to". I cannot into six button fighting games without loads of effort and dedication. Sure, I got into Skullgirls a while ago, but at that time I had to really dedicate myself to learning one specific character (and even then, not that well), and that time was filled with frustration, resentment, and pain. I've tried a few other six button fighters, and saw the same result. The process of improving wasn't fun and engaging. Don't think of it as "giving up" or looking for an easy win, just as focusing on what you have fun doing. Remember when video games were supposed to be fun?

I will fully enjoy a fighting game and never fight another CPU or human once. I just sit in training and go through all the combo challenges and lab around. To me, fighting games are actually realtime competitive puzzle games

"Youre either a person who's decently well invested in fighting games or youre a smasher" that hit a little too close to home

Love to find fgc content creators and this video was pretty good, but it sort of seemed to lose focus as it went on. I think if you remade this, but made sure to tie each bit back to your central point, it would hit a lot harder.

Hey, Leon? This is a really good video. I love how you just tear down the elitist gate keeping from the get go and say “yeah you need accomplishments and players on a similar skill level to make this work,” it feels like most other fighting game youtubers just say “uhhhhh get good.”

0:53 "They need to feel a sense of accomplishment" and you proceed to show Akuma. Not sure if intentionally subtle or just random, but damn fine choice!

So, one of the problems that I didn't notice you mention (even though your example game is GG), is that in games that involve lots of involved combos, a beginner, when encountering the small band of pros that still play (say GG), will spend most of their time in a combo, which reduces learning time much more. If you're only able to move twice in a match, because every time you get hit you get stuck in a 20 hit combo, when in turn, since you're a beginner or are not good at advance combos, every time you hit them, it's at most a 10 hitter. Since they *will* be better in neutral than you, that means that you get to watch most of the entire match without really needing to touch your stick. Didn't block that overhead? 20 hit combo. Pushed into the corner with no meter? 30 hit combo, Dust loops, dead. So...where is the 'learning' part? A lot of this could be addressed by good A.I., (which GG Rev 2 does not have...Wanna see Ky do 5 dps in a row? Turn up the difficulty in training mode and play him. Wanna see Sin just eat constantly? Do the same), but this also develops bad habits. Like you mentioned, in Anime games, being part of the 'community' seems to be some sort of requirement, otherwise you'll never hear the strange little quirks, option selects and whatever that people act like you *should* know. To have to go digging for arcane knowledge just to be able to play neutral, without getting destroyed in the corner every time...because *you have to instablock this specific hit in this string* or whatever the fuck, is so cheap. I appreciate the depth of these games but they made them in a way to where one has to study them and spend so much time on them, that the only way to avoid being destroyed utterly, is to make it your life. And that's exactly what companies want you to do, replay value? Taken fucking care of. Is it worth joining a damn cult just to not feel like shit when you play a game? No. No it isn't. Anyway, I'm gonna go play GG and hate myself and everyone else, because that's what it does to you. But, I invested so much time in it, that it feels dumb to stop playing now. And that means I lost. Good video.

I only started liking fighting game because I learned how to do a combo with Batman

You need more SNK in your life my friend.

People will refuse to play a certian fighting game due to the aesthetics is always true. I understand those people can't get past the aesthetic. I personally like anime fighting games but recently most of my friends play Tekken and I hated Tekken until Akuma was revealed. And now I can play with my friend because there's Akuma in the game. I only play Akuma in Tekken.

"It's a game you learn in 8 hours... Turned Sideways..." Hahahaha!

I would love continue playing Xrd, but there is so few players and they won't support legacy of GG with the Strive.

I made the mistake of picking up killer instinct two years after it came out on the Xbone. I got my ass handed to me 10 matches in a row, but that one match I did win was the best thing that has ever happened to me. The amount of satisfaction you get for beating someone online in a fighting game is unreal.

Arcana heart was a lot of fun when I played it. Y'see, you can cancel special attacks based on how many bars of meter you got... But it doesn't actually drain the meter. It gets temporarily drained. Unfortunately for who I played it with, I picked the character that had super armour on their special, that I could repeatedly cancel into itself. Great fun

I like fighting games on a surface level. I love the characters, music, visuals and how combos look when good players do them. I just can't get into em much because it takes too much devotion, and I play too many games to focus on getting good at 1 of them.

That getting in late feeling hits me hard when I try to play an MMO, often people have these cool event items Ill never unlock or have cause I came to late so I just get bored and move on, no reason to stick around if the best days are behind it.

I can't believe people would avoid skullgirls based on visuals. That game is a hand-drawn beauty.

2:45 ouch. i can relate to this hella hard back when i was in high school. Not having any friends who are in the FGC really sucked ngl. had to teach myself how to fully understand the basics fundamentals of fighting games. But when i was introduced to a Fighting Game club in my first year of college, my life has change. I have finally found a group of friends who has the same interests as me. It really made me happy.

I think the big thing for me is, like the video stated, I have to find that "hook". That character or that moveset that really do it for me. I'll usually know the character just by seeing them once, if not their still image than their actual gameplay. It's just a connection that lets me know "Yeah, THAT'S the one that's going to keep me playing this game."

Ah yes funny story about the ggxrd rev 2 I kind of got a couple of people, with extremely limited knowledge on ANY fighting game, into it cause it was the fighting that REALLY got me into fighting games. The reasons on how I made that possible was that stylish mode exists and allowed them to kind of understand what they were doing. Also losing is actually fun in that game. Also I banned myself from using my main. But those games were always a blast.

Thank you for this video. It's nice to hear someone actually understand what I'm going through when i'm trying to get into these games rather than just calling me bad and telling me to quit.

The game that got me into fighting games was undernight in birth. It hooked me with seth cause of how cool he was. Now I have central fiction and meltyblood and still am not good but I'm slowly getting better

August: "No one plays GGXXACR+" Developers: "Heard you like fighting games, how 'bout some rollback" [Literal 1364%+ jump in player base in October 2020 later...]

Beowulf on his own is what hooked me on fighting games. I love that himbo and i was willing to make learning Skullgirls in 2016 work just to play more of my good wrestler boy. For my spouse who i tried bullying into fighting games a lot, it only started clicking for them with Granblue (i agree with you on its mechanical points tbh but i love the characters) and now we've on my spouse is kicking my ass in Tekken 7.

Got it, so it has to be "Well populated" "new" -Buys Skullgirls

7:45 Good to see TFH getting some love. Those Tian combo's were awesome to watch. For anyone outside of the loop, yes, it did start development as an MLP fighting game, originally called "Fighting is Magic", it eventually got C&D'd by Hasbro because, and the story gets a bit muddied here, somehow when it was still in beta, it was shown off to Evo as a potential game... some sources say fans submitted it without dev approval, other sources say it was a pair of the dev team, who were removed from the project immediately afterward, did so. Either way, word got to Hasbro, and they canned it. Then Lauren Faust stepped in and designed the current roster of characters for them and development resumed. So the 6 characters currently available are expies of the "Mane 6" of MLP:FiM, hence the dev team's name. There was a 7th character recently announced, Shanty the goat. Anyway, alot of the dev team are fans of Arc Sys fighters, so the gameplay leans heavily towards being similar to that.

i wonder if leon would like Faust in Strive considering they took about most of the stuff he didn't like about him in Accent Core

I think a big thing about fighting games or stuff in general is that when people are passionate about something, they feel the need to share it with someone, so they often go saying stuff like "why don't you like 'X'? It is amazing!". Then if you ask the same people to play 'Y' instead, they give you the same response that you gave them without even noticing. In the end, we all have different opinions and we have to deal with our relatively small communities in these niche genres, but the level of dedication within them is what keeps them alive. And who knows, as Leon stated in the video, sometimes we just stumble upon a game at the right time with the right people and get to find the fun in an otherwise ignored game.

Tekken 7 S3 was a disappointing mess but S4 with the new online enhancements (apparently the "rollback" netcode now should actually act like one and Pro playee Anakin was very happy because it apparently feels like offline even on long distances like rollback should) and the new focus on balancing (buff low tiers, lower damage, more health) seems like exactly what the community asked for. I really hope this turns out as good as it sounds.

My issue with getting into fighting games is that I constantly get stomped and whenever I talk to people in the communities they just tell me that I should be having fun getting stomped. IDK man, if I can’t even win a single match in 3 hours of trying to get into a game and I don’t feel like I’m improving at all I just can’t enjoy it. It takes so much damn time to get into any of these games and so much frustration that I never understood how people can get into them.

The funniest part of this video is that I’ve been trying a lot of fighting games, but the one I’ve actually liked was Granblue.

I feel the same about granblue but my reaction is the opposite. Is a game that mechanically is very simple but the emphasis on the hits, counter hit combos, meaties, mix-ups and spacing makes it a very interesting thing on it's own. Of course it has its problems but man, I have a lot of fun with all the things that you can do and all the play styles that you need to beat. As you say not everything is for everyone but we can always enjoy a lot lf different games because of their differences. 3rd strike, granblue are my diet recently

Thank you for reminding me of the seethe king known as Arcana Heart.

I gotta thank Touhou 12.3 and 15.5 for really getting me into fighting games, but starting off with games with such abnormal mechanics has made it pretty difficult to adapt to others. I highly recommend both of them! [Hisotensoku and Antimony of Common Flowers are the English names.]

Where do I find the videos of people sanding balls?

Fantastic breaking down of fighting games I really love content like this keep it up!

XQC is playing Tekken? Time to body some scrubs lol.

Fighting games become harder to learn the longer you wait with trying one

I was never into fighting games until I played Skullgirls, that game really had a good learning curve where it was easy to pick up but quite deep and technical for advance players. But I cant stress this enough I had a very good friend who was also interested into learning the game and our rivalry and us playing matches over and over fighting eachother was the best way to learn since I always had an adversary that was the same level as me and that gradually became better as I was. Besides nothing was more satisfying then beating his ass in the last round.

Hell, I recently started playing Injustice 2 after like 2 years over MK11 months ago and I had only JUST started playing online. I know enough about what my favorite characters are and proper zoning/combos, but I still lose only a little bit against better players. I know I don't 100 percent suck at the game, but now I love to really learn against certain playstyles and expand my knowledge of the game more. Alos because I like seeing DC characters in a fighting game context lol

I really vibe with this style of video, and agree with a lot of your points! This is a really well made keep up the good work! Being so deep into fighting games really makes it hard to be able to relate with the newer players that I’m trying to get into fighting games. I really want them to get into my favourite fighting game ( Meltyblood) but I know it’s not for everyone. So getting them into something more new and mainstream definitely helps, however i find that the hook really is the looks of the game and characters that they can get attached too is a big deal.

Every time I rewatch this I notice another little detail I didn’t before, like the “YEET” in 2:29. The effort you put into your stuff is insane.

Speaking of Guilty Gear, bought Rev 2 recently My head spins trying to do the simplest thing in this game, I haven't played a single match online as I know I will get smeared across the wall, and Potemkin not having a forward dash bothers me on a spiritual level and I can't stop trying to do it as him despite him not having one Pretty game though, music is neat too

i almost never play fighting games on my own time and this video really summarizes a lot of what i feel really well. i picked up guilty gear xrd recently because i really liked the animation and art style and then i fell in love with the characters. Then i realized i was hot garbage at the game and i have no one to play with so im stuck being the crazy person in my friend group trying to get everyone to play it by showing them which character they would think is hot 🤦🏾 . Hopefully i can get strive near release so i can actually start learning how the games work instead of giving myself carpal tunnel trying to practice combos on ai dummies

Saw you playing against my friend creamsplitter (the Ramlethal) at 12:34. He got me into the game even though he wasn't into fighting games at the time before we played it together.

I just discovered this channel and have been watching through several of the videos and wanted to comment how freaking high the quality of the essays are but the fact that mans went from 331 subscribers to almost 90k in a year says more than I ever could

Your video was very insightful to me. Especially when you talked about the hook of a game, which your way of describing it explains a lot. Specifically, with the last game I picked up recently. My friend introduced me to Blazblue Cross Tag Battle. A game I knew nothing about but I was very interested to give it a shot. We played it for a few hours. My friend once again kicking my ass because he, for some reason, not only learns most video games quicker than me, but I also never really beat him in anything, and having many friends who can just kick your ass at any time no matter how much you practice can really suck. Unfortunately, that friend and I don't talk anymore (it's not because of the game by the way!) We just got into too many fights about different things and ended it and BBtag was the last game we played together. The reason why I wanted to bring this up is because your explanation of the hook in fighting games really sat well with me. After my friend and I broke up, I consistently thought about a couple of the characters that I played in BBtag to the point where just thinking about their design and gameplay persuaded me to buy it on my own switch. It was specifically Gordeau and Carmine and "the cat and squirrel" (Makoto and Jubai") which is what my ex-friend used to call them. I was afraid that I would buy the game, pick it up for a day, then put it down which was something that was happening a lot recently, but to my surprise. When you said in your video that a character can hook you into playing and devoting time to it. That's what happened to me with Gordeau. I played smash brothers hundreds of times before, but it felt like I was doing research the past couple of months trying to learn the mechanics of the game online. What combos you can do with Gordeau and what other characters work well with him. I guess what I'm trying to say is sometimes something will happen in your life that will draw you or push you away from a game and my ex-friend made me feel this way in both aspects. I never wanted to play smash brothers with him because losing every time no matter how much I practiced isn't fun. In contrast, our breakup was the main reason why I devoted my time to BBtag at all. It just felt more satisfying for me to see myself grow on my own than to have my ex-friend continue to be this super genius. Yes, I know an argument can be made that the one victory you get after all that hard word will be sweet, but not all people are like that. Not all people can indicate at what frame to press a certain button to continue a combo which is how he was like. I think there are just different groups of gamers that play fighting games differently. BBTag is the first game I ever played where I am putting in the effort to figure out combos and memorize them which is something I have never done before. I'll just end this by saying your doing great work and your perspective on fighting games as a whole is relatable, but it's also talked about in a way where it feels different and new. A lot of people play fighting games just to play them and then drop them, but finding a true reason to continue playing is another conversation altogether.

I like this video quite a lot. Also that Arcana Heart bit was gold. I play that game and I can't even ATTEMPT to blame you for being put off.

oh ufck yeah its time to binge your channel. I can tell i'll love it from this vid. I played GG in middle school and high school as well, but that was before I was super big into the FGC. Semi recently I bought rev 2 and tried to really get into it, but I was having trouble, you know, every character I tried had things I liked, and things I didnt. I was honestly pretty discouraged because I love the story and design(I mean the game design and the general art and vibe). Also I have listened to the music for years unironically. so I really wanted to be good at it. Then I thought "fuck it, lets try sol" and man do I love rev 2 now. I also got to play strive and got to judge the came as a "vet".

I started playing fighting games because they have killer music. I still suck at them, but I'm always jamming.

It began with SSF2 for me, unsure why I chose Cammy but felt comfortable playing characters with quick snappy strikes, this influenced my play style and now be it any fighting game I end up choosing a character with similar traits. I think if anyone really wants to get into fighting games ssf2 or tekken 3 if you can get your hands on it is a great place to start as those games were heavy on the basics, neutrals and fundamentals. These days there are a lot of FG games to try, just stick with it and learn the FUNDAMENTALS. Great Video bro.

I just found this channel. Pretty cool content.

I think one of the biggest issues imo with fighting games that hold themselves back from actually being for everyone, is that I don't think I've ever tried any fighting game as a certified fighting game scrub, that teaches scrubs like me how to start learning and I don't think any fighting games give any sort of "warning" for new players on which characters they might want to avoid sinking into first due to difficulty. I've tried a lot of fighting games, I have a friend who loves playing them and has TONS of time put into many different fighting games. I bought Dragonball FighterZ on release because it's Dragonball, everyone was just doing auto combos and that was enough to make me dump like 10 hours into it just going oonga boonga me press light because my friends made it funny. It was only when UI Goku released when I first felt I had a team of 3 characters that I actually had interest in playing that would do well on a team, that being UI Goku, Yamcha and Teen Gohan mainly for awhile. My friend was the one who taught me what a BNB even was, taught me what the BNB for UI Goku was, explained to me how to learn more stuff, etc. From there I bit by bit changed up my team to other characters I had fun playing with some friends and would actually take a bit of time to at least learn BNBs and maybe some specific combos for corners and such. Now the issue is when we at some point decided to try Tekken 7, the first character I had interest in was Steve Fox, so I spent my entire time of some hours playing him. The wiki page describes his gameplay as, "With a unique fighting style based on bobs, sways and punches, and almost no kicks, Steve is one of the most unorthodox characters in the series." Meaning he's played very uniquely and he's probably one of the worst characters to start with. What about XRD2? Well I happened to think Johnny of all characters was going to be my go to first character and my friend said he's one of the harder characters to learn then I went into Leo who has stances involved and as a result ALSO pretty bad to start with. You can obviously start with any character, but when you're playing a more technical fighting game due to either unique to game mechanics or just the overall difficulty of the game, having a more "standard" character is by far the way to go, it lets you learn the basics that can be transferred more from character to character and then you can pick and choose when and who you want to invest more time into. I really think fighting games need to start implementing like some sort of very basic new player introduction. What characters are recommended for learning the basic game? What are the core mechanics of the game and their purpose? Things like that. I don't think I've played any other game or genre that almost requires you to use third party resources to learn. Shooting games? Shoot the guy. Racing games? Race the guy. Puzzle games? Solve the guy? RPG games? Be the guy. Fighting games? Learn the handful of mechanics at least at a basic level, find a character you enjoy, devote possibly hours to learning to play them, start learning what other characters do, start learning how things interact with each other, etc. For proof on that being an issue btw, think of smash bros. I'd argue it's the most widely played fighting game and the reason for that is it's COMPLETELY friendly to casuals. All characters for the most part share the same core mechanics, their specials are relatively all simple and often share a similar purpose, the overall concept is so universal within itself that there's no real wrong first choice of a character and there's so little to learn to be able to win that the game can and has QUITE LITERALLY explained the basic button inputs and and sent first time players in to play. You don't need to know more than moving and how to attack as well as that up B is a recovery move to be caught up, it's learning to play better and the random nuances that are hard to notice like SDI that the players who want to invest time will take the time to learn but at no point is it needed. I've never felt the need to learn frame data, different techs, BNBs, etc. In smash to be able to have fun because it's so basic that you can just actually pick it up and play, yet still perform.

If you haven't yet pls give melty blood a try, game is super deep and accommodates players from lots of different backgrounds with its moon types (stances which completely change the character and the way they play). It also helps the visuals hold up even after the newest version came out nearly 10 years ago. Oh and if do a bit of detective work you can get rollback

Great first introduction to the channel, I found myself actually laughing out loud at some points. Keep up the good work!

Yeah this is why I loved Tekken 7. Never played many fighting games and Tekken 7 had a nice story to practice in, the online playerbase was wide so I could fight people of similar skill levels. I never got GREAT but I played it for a hell of a lot longer than I would have otherwise.

When trying to pickup a fighting game to get really into the genre, I tried SF, Blazblue, DBFZ, Tekken and GG. I ended up with Tekken 7 and got...kinda decent at it, with a relatively positive winrate, because it was the only game where I didn't got smashed 20 games in a row. Don't expect your playerbase to expand in a long term way if that happens, period.

from 300 subs to almost 7k in just a few months. cant wait to see how you continue to progress and create fighting game content

Thanks for making this video my dude. I feel like I need that hook that you mentioned to stick with a game. You summed up mostly how I feel about fighting games. Think I might go with MK11 when ultimate comes out or Tekken 7 when they more than likely confirmed Kiryu from Yakuza.

Bro you did a great job with this video. Its so true. I was a doorway for my friends to get into fighting games. They all Hate MVC because its Nutty as hail But love DBFZ because its got goku in it Even though its tecnically the same Game. The roster plays a big part in selecting a fighting game

I don't think you're being fair to Granblue here, but aside from that a fine video. Gives me an idea for something that I should make a video about myself.

You hit sooooo many solid points in this video. Great work!

Tekken 7 is growing on me as the years grow by. When I first got into it I hated how sluggish, stiff, and heavy all the characters felt and it felt like I didn't have any freedom to move around. (Att the only fighting games I frequented have been Soul Calibur and Smash) It wasn't until a point in time where I had friends who who were balls deep into MvC3 and MKX that I started to understand how movement worked in a more traditional format. I don't think Tekken will ever be my favorite fighting game, but I feel like it's so much fun and so many of my friends play that it makes that feeling better.

I'll have you know Arcana Heart 3 LOVEMAX SIXSTARS!!!!!! is actually pretty good. It doesn't do anything too crazy but it's so solid overall it's very enjoyable. A good diverse roster and then you put each different arcana on them and they can go from getting new mixups to almost turning into new characters. And Minori's bnbs are sick

4:24 man that pin pointed right at me except the counter strike part

I have bought so many fighting games but I just touched every one of them for a maximum total of 24 hours and I just couldn't really get into fighting games really. UNTIL I have found a video about Melty Blood and convinced my friend to try it out with me. And boii we are playing it 24/7 and if we aren't we go to training mode to find a new way to body each other :D

I have tried multiple fighting games games in the past such as tekken 7, blazblue, guilty gear, street fighter, etc. The only one i have ever gotten half decent at was persona 4 arena and that was only because i had a friend who regularely played it. To me fighting games are more stress than fun and i always panic from preassure or button mash. Nowadays the only "fighting games" i can play is smash. Lately I've been trying out arms and it is quiet fun so far if it is even classified as a fighting game.

I almost bought rev a month ago but didn't cause I remembered what happened when I got into accent core. But I think I'm interested in GG enough to get strive, I mean it's a beautiful game

Damn that sol be shmoovin. Great video btw. Getting people into fighting games is hard. I usually show them cool stuff like supers or insta kills/astrals

A buddy of mine who plays exclusively fighting games recommendeded this video. I don't play fighting games, I primarily do FPS and RPGs so I'll give an opinion based on what I believe is your targeted audience for this video. The main reason I dont play fighting games is not simply "you must be bad, you suck, or git gud," it's the opening to this video you made and understanding how to play the game. I play games that look cool, have interesting characters, and something that I can play with friends offline. Everything that you said was spot on until the 4:45 mark, after that is where I think the divide starts. A game that is simplistic even with minor options is a great fit for me and would probably get more play from me. The simplicity of a game is good for non fighting game players, but your reasoning for hating the game is from a fighting game exclusive mindset. Lack of advanced options means this game sucks and alot of variety of moves and effects make it great. The point I am making is this video, whether intended or not, is attempting to explain why people who dont like something are the way that they are. This is something that is not easy to do, but is a common topic I hear all the time when it comes to fgc and the "new player experience." Also keep in mind, fighting games just might be something people don't like. Basketball is just throwing a ball into a hoop, anyone can play it, but not everyone will like it. If you dont like Basketball, there's more to it than "git gud or you just suck" so why is this the only thing I hear when I tell and even forum posts to those who vocally say I dont like fighting games? There's alot of reasons but this is the broad answer. I think the video by Extra Credit explains this very well. EDIT: 9:35 ish mark also is a great point that you make about street fighter and the other game (X-art I think). Your semi frustration for learning a game is because you have no prior knowledge of the concept of the game and are only assisted by prior game genre knowledge. Most fighting games now rely on players having previous experience and my biggest issue with the genre is "3RD PARTY RESOURCES" I should not rely on the internet, other 'professionals' to understand how your game or product works. Your game should explain what the hell is going on, and that is why I would hold Skullgirls very high as a game that would get me interested in playing.

i love seeing this in my feed because i get to see danny devito heihachi

I play fighting games for the thrill like Shonen Protagonist who fight strong dudes just cuz.

Scrub: i don't know how to do ryu's super move it's so hard. Kof:humph, phatetic.

stumbled on ur channel. instant love. grape job!

just saw you in my recommended and really liked the vid and was glad to know im not the only one that ended up feeling the same way about granblue and mk lol

I don't know man, I started fighting the A.I and I got into fighting games. Then I later got to learn that I can actually play actual real human beings, I literally was shaking and crying back then.

0:40 now 600 people play it every day and there is rollback, jokes on you

I tried learning Xrd in high school, and... it didn't go well. I think the combination of it being 4~ years old, it being my first FG, and having too much anxiety to learn from my mistakes kinda did it in for me. I loved playing Venom, but it never felt like I knew what I was doing or like any of my effort amounted to anything. ... I still don't play any fighting games, but I picked up SG for 2 days and has a blast just labbing a Squigly BNB (and her Charged Sing -> SBO/Daisy Pusher punish) and sparring with my friend. That moment where the tools I practiced paid off was kinda the hook for me. Maybe I'll return to Guilty Gear sometime?

Hmmm Just hearing that the reason I have a good amount of fighting games is because I want a sense of victory and I have pretty much no friends to play it with, shot right through my heart. It just feels so true.