Hard Reads: Why Fighting Games Are Worth It 

Stop suckin

Core A actually took the time to create and post this video...thats worth it !

I agree. The things I've learned from watching this channel really opened my eyes to the fgc and human nature. Fighting games are only the medium.

Facts

Aww~

Jokes on all the girls who punished me, I’m into that shit

Ah you got hit by that unblockable restraining order too?

try blocking her after you get close

Make sure you use a your meter next time, take down your opponent *before* they can attack. You are a rushdown character right? Edit: Sidenote: Make sure you aren't a grappler. Women don't like being suddenly grabbed, getting Pot Buster'd, & low tiers. Edit Edit: If you ever need to practice your combos, you can call us fam. We're here to help you out in any way we can.

just pick a top tier -sanford kelly

There's no read that's just the true.

true

Feels accurate

7:58 for anyone wondering. Heard it as I was reading this comment lol

Put that on a shirt (:

Not always, sometimes you just suck and don't improve.

@@machina4200 How long have you been training ? Not just playing. Trying to improve on your mistakes.

Man I love that show

@@machina4200 if you are not seeking improvement you will never improve. Practice does not make perfect, but rather the perfect practice makes perfect

@@mranvil4422 and if perfect practice isn’t working? Friendly reminder that we’re all human, and most humans kinda suck at waiting for payoff. A good portion of us want our instant gratuity from playing games. We want things to feel good _now._ So we could practice perfectly, or… contrarily, we could find something that’s fun to practice instead, and do that. Fighting games suck to practice at, and they suck at making you feel like you’re accomplishing something until you achieve some mixture of zen and absolute *godliness.*

holy shit guys it’s a puppet character

@@kingkrispy5289 LMAO pretty much

Yeah this guy's dumb. Gerald's the only one I'll watch, and for good reason

@@NSLM yikes

I see, the floor is made out of floor

I totally agree with you on that

That’s what she said!

But pain is the best part 😈

@@hpdam6650 your profile pic fits perfectly with your comment XD

I love playing Alex, Urien and Twelve in 3rd strike even if I get mixed up to hell and back, and couldn't parry if my life depended on it

Well I mean bro mid is 0/13 running it down mid and calling everyone the N word I don't think that's my fault. Is it?

@@garretwoeller7669 decoy strats

One of the reason I quit Moba hahahaha I mean we still can carry them, but really? I have to deal with that kind of person in my 20-40ish minute games. Nahhh I'm good.

this is why fighting games are objectively better

That's the reason I quit every single team game, now I play only starcraft, tekken and single player stuff. Nobody to blame and nobody else to babysit

Nah. fighting games are cool and all, but it will always be FPS games for life.

@@pkthegod2685 I just can't understand fps games personally. What makes them better than fighters in your opinion? Maybe there's something I don't understand.

Fighting games are life? Nah, smash bros is life

@@ptato3010 Smash is a fighter... a platform fighter. But yeah, Smash is awesome.

@@ptato3010 my main game is smash lol, ive got like 700 hours in it rn

Damn this sounds like an anime plot

@@IWantToStayAtYourHouse he learnt to fadc last month… help

@@josesoto1219 Did you end up beating him

​​@@IWantToStayAtYourHouse sounds like the kind of guy you throw you into a volcano

I think fighting games share this with sports, art and many other things. Ultimately to excel at something you have to grow as a human, and by mastering that pursuit you in turn grow as a person!

Well, fg have some of the most important things of life: is 1v1, and you need patience and knowledge to make progress.

@@monkakonga4305 FGs have made me miss martial arts a lot, the one on one dance of pressure is great fun ahah

This is also how I feel about learning chess.

@@riffz6065 love your pfp

Your take on the nature of Fighting Games is part of why they are so great! A good chunk of the Psychology of Fighting Games is finding flaws in how your opponent internalizes the game. I mean to say, someone who conceptualizes the game as Geometry vs Dance vs Songwriting would all play differently. This diversity means that we have to learn how to fight these other styles by re-defining and wrapping them in our own conceptualization (understanding geometry as a type of dance.) Isn't that great?

well, rythm is also math

Smash is more speed geometry than most games. Applying directional influence alone is geometrical brain exercise every time you get hit.

that’s exactly what real fighters say about fighting. it’s all just a dance.

@@logandunlap9156 well, fighting being like dance and fighting being like math aren't contradictory

It was Patrick Miller, not Core A (Gerald) himself

this, but not in SFV sadly whatever that mess is.

May I suggest ..? ANJI MITO

Hey Asuri

That's what I do to my textbook when I can't solve a math problem

JUMPING MEDIUM KICK

wake up DP baby! if only worked IRL ..... not in that sense but I mean to all life things

@@M4TTYN ex dp it then!

That's how you get block punished like a scrub.

I came faster than DSP*

@@lorenzobarchiesi2058 OH THE CAMERA'S ON? I can't beat it. I can't.

@@Freefork Yet he did it anyways

@@lorenzobarchiesi2058 You know he can beat it. Just ask his controllers.

@@Freefork those poor little things

The wet mouth noises at 1:00 made me quit, no video on this planet is worth listening to that

The truth is if you do try and fail, it feels terrible but in FACT you are getting better. You just need someone from the outside to tell you that fact cuz we often lose sight of objectivity when immersing ourselves in something. So find friends who support you. you see very few shonen heroes can become successful all by themselves. Naruto has his allies, Luffy has the straw hats, etc.

@@johnnyjustice Finding friends to play with is even harder than improving lol

Interesting approach

easier said than done. you try telling a new player a "simple" thing of x FG .... and not all clinge to x genre and not all ready to get bodied (it's good for you btw)

yo whats up dont ever

Finished it. Good stuff.

We've gotta feel pride in what we enjoy. It's been so long since the last IRL tournament, it's like a light in my life has been off. If a video like this can make me remember that feeling for a moment, it's worth it.

@@calvino6949 ngl it does come off as a bit pretentious with the whole "fighting games are math and chess" thing, but I don't think the video is meant to be that serious anyway

@@Snow1482 Glad someone called it out

How is Punk so good though?

@@Snow1482 There are certainly similarities to speed chess, or dance. But it makes me consider more why we put math and chess on such a high pedestal in the first place. All skill can be commendable after all.

only 2 likes damn

PS: That also means the Validation point never happened for me, but i get that point because i know it from other things than fighting games.

Haha so true I was playing dbz fighterz for less than a week before I got my first salty personal message. Less than a day for the first rage quit and man the toxic behavior u run into in other fighting games is just ridiculous. Wish they'd make a video about that.

There's literally a video on this channel about the mentality of teabagging and taunting

@@leeadirn thats more directed at professional players not casual online matches. A video on this subject would be more focused on the general toxicity you encounter online. This would have to entail the insane amounts of racism you find on places like fightcade, the countless toxic threads on reddit that are just echo chambers for assholes, the messages you will receive from both gloating or salty players, the fact that if you play fighting games you probably have a list of people you've had to block. And just the general archetypes of toxic people you run into online.

For me, it was my Smash 4 PAC-man at my college. I played every chance I got. I enjoyed using tricks and beating people in silly ways. One day, a newcomer starts playing as often as I do. This Andy guy, he was really good and often beat the pants off of me. I hated fighting him, but whenever I told him I wasn’t in the mood to play, he begged me to fight him because I was the best Pac-man he ever fought. He said I was...unique. I’m told I’m fun to play against and people are shocked how good I am at perfect parries [I thank 3rd strike for that.] It’s really nice to know a player who was more skilled than I was thought I was good. It’s nice to be validated just by being really fun and interesting, and I had the pleasure of playing against some interesting people. Growing up with little friends to compete with, it meant a lot to me.

@@Aflay1 haha I respect that. my boy iFox in Texas told me I'm impossible to tag with Snake C4, and I'm like, "I've only been playing Daisy for like 2 days now," and he was like "YOOOOO THIS IS YOUR MAIN." Felt good because he was miles ahead of me, and I tricked him into thinking I was playing her longer lol. But that's the beauty if you have a strong scene. Even the "weakest link" can manage to hold it together at times. Same with SF4 when I started playing here and just hearing other more veteran players saying I had good reads and mix-ups with my Makoto. I almost teared up lol

I'd say pretty much any game teaches you skills that translate to real life :) I've been a gamer pretty much all my life and I have learned a lot of things from games, even socially ^^

IT'S SO DISTRACTING

😂😂😂

Now we all hear it.

Lmao I was just gonna comment the same

I hate you, I can't stop hearing it now

Well familiarity is another reason, everyone knows chess, but few pepole know the ruleset of go. If I am explaining which games I play there is no value in explaing that with games others are unfamiliar with. This is the reason why I tell other Gamers I play games like Street Fighter and Tekken, even though the airdashers I play are quite different.

At chess even though a bishop is always a bishop, a bishop's strength also depends on its position and the position of other pieces. Fighting games are comparable to chess. At fighting games, there are defensive or aggressive style characters. Same case with chess. At fighting games, it has counter attack, chess also has counter attack.

Leon needs so much more love. He's criminally unknown.

You're the only one that can answer that

If it's anything more than occupied free time that could have been better spent elsewhere, then you need to take a long hard look at your life.