The Accessible Brilliance Of Street Fighter 6 (The Jimquisition) 

Ryu may believe in the importance of communicating with one's fists, but I'm glad he's empathetic enough to realize that's not a philosophy that can be carried into a romantic relationship.

Idk if anyone else has mentioned it but Marisa doesnt just step over her opponent, she uses her Left Leg to hook her opponents leg and sweep them flatter onto their stomach for better control. Might be a nice detail to add in the irl version if you havent already ! Love the show thank goodness for you

"The right trainer knew how to guide instead of push, encourage instead of punish, work with a trainee's limitations instead of ignoring them and trying to make a unique case follow an established pattern." These might just be some of the most profound words you've ever spoken.

Ah yes, street fighter 6, the monster creator that comes with a free fighting game.

This video genuinely brought a tear to my eye. As a developer who's constantly pushing for better accessibility, _this_ is exactly why. This is what makes it all worth it. The sheer joyous enthusiasm and _empowerment_ of being able to do something you were previously unable to do is what every accessibility-minded person in tech should strive for. I know no one involved in making SF6, but I'm proud of them for opening the gates to a whole new demographic of players. Thank god for them. I do wish they'd get rid of the bloody microtransactions though. One step at a time, eh?

the Ryu and Steph romance off-script made me giggle for 5 minutes straight. It's so silly and lighthearted. Brillant !

The Ryu monologue was incredibly heartwarming (as was hearing your genuine enthusiasm, of course). Thank God for you Steph and also for your amazing baps! I mean, the jiggling at the end there especially was insane, damn!

This video honestly made me smile and feel joy for you. I am actually happy that you got to enjoy playing a fighting game. The parallel between the game and your journey into wrestling was beautiful and poetic. I wish you a wonderful and uplifting day. Thank God for you! X3

I haven't watched the main video yet but that was the best intro sequence in years.

I can’t express how happy this video made me! I’ve been an avid fighting game player for 8 years now and the complex controls always stop my friends from getting into it, yet with SF6 at least 6 of my friends who always fell off are now super into sf6 and use modern controls. It’s so good to see more people getting into fighting games. Thank you for the video Steph!

I definitely get this, as a disabled myself(not ashamed) there are many games that I either can’t play anymore or never could play and “Deadliest warrior” the fighting game is my hidden love. I’m garbage, can’t actually do much on it, but watch as I play it anyways. More accessibility options=more convenience for everyone. It’s such a good thing to see whenever it pops up and people can be genuinely happy playing a game. Great video, thanks for the efforts! I’m happy for you Steph, I hope you can keep playing.

"Filthy casual" is the best thing to be. It means you have a life outside video games. Or at least more than one hobby.

Fantastic to hear about the control options, as I too lack the physical dexterity to do all the fancy stuff in fighting games, and yet I love fighting games.

I really liked the line "It's about how best to use the moves, rather than pulling the moves off themselves." That resonated for me. I never had the same degree of issues with fighting games that you have, but I was never great at them myself. But if you're not the player, and we know that fighting games are as much a spectator's sport as a player's one, watching the moves occur and seeing the "strategy" is all you actually get. You're not, on the outside, conscious of the effort it takes to make the moves happen. You are TOLD that its difficult to do what they are doing, but that's all. On screen however all you end up getting is what you said, the moves themselves being shown in an optimal way. To that degree, if the splash screens don't tell the opponent youre using simple controls(idk if they do I dont plan on buying this) there's no way for them to know if they lost "because" of that or not. Meanwhile, now a whole other group of people now gets to jump in on the fun. If hardcore fighting gamers want to continue to exist the guilty gears, tekkens, blazblues, and older SF titles aren't going anywhere. Evo isn't going to die because of this.

The joy in this episode is so infectious, as someone who also suffers with chronic pain and has had to stop doing the sport i love as a result, hearing about your wrestling journey gives me so much hope

It's always nice when you find something genuinely good that you'd make a video out of it on how good it is.

I am glad you found a way to experience and express your love of fighting games. I have CP, so I struggle with manual dexterity. I have loved video games from childhood, and was a huge fan of mobas like league of legends and smite. Unfortunately the dexterity required for those means that I am definitely the worst player on my teams lol. I'm ok with that though. It's just a fact, like being left-handed. I will have to give SF6 a try.

It’s so rare for a game to come out that makes everyone who plays it happy, and I couldn’t be happier that so many people are enjoying a FIGHTING game of all things.

I've played fighting games all my life and I am so happy you and many others will be able to join in such a fun genre 💜

I usually only occasionally leave comments on here to talk about what I'm eating while I'm drunk. But I wanted to just say that this was a REALLY good episode! One of my favorites you've ever done!

Haven't cared about streetfighter in a long, long time, but I think this is a fantastic demonstration of game design. Take something iconic that most people would love to love, and give them a way to enjoy it regardless of their skill level or skill set. From what I'm hearing it takes nothing away from the geniuses who have mastered all the nuances of the 'classic' moveset, but gives those who aren't able to grok it an alternate path to enjoy the game. Everyone gets to have their fun. Perfection!

Also on a side note, it was a genuine delight hearing you be so enthused and in love with a game. Despite taking a moment to rail against the prevalence of MTX, as a late comer to this channel I don't believe I've ever heard you so genuinely hyped for a game. I like seeing people happy, so this was a real treat. May this hobby we all love so much continue to give you something to smile about. I'm glad you could take a break from holding the feet of scum to the fire and enjoy a good video game.

JSS, your improvised backstory with Ryu is pure comedy gold. Don't ever change. Also, as someone who similarly suffers from chronic pain, I'm imagining that all thoughts of that malevolent suffering go right out the window the minute that you step into the ring. At least, that is what I wish for you. Enjoy Fist Club! (And enjoy your match in London with whoever is sponsoring that event....)

It's super heartwarming to hear you being able to play SF. I've been playing since Super Turbo. Always glad to see people enjoying the stuff I do. I use the modern controls in Would Tour. I miss a few of the options from the 6 buttons, but it's still good fun.

I have always been intimidated by and overwhelmed by the fighting game genre, because of all the insanely tricky combos and arcane mechanics. And when SF6 came out I thought, "looks neat, but it's not for me". And watching this video has actually changed my mind about it. I'm very interested in this game now.

Sidenote before I watch the rest, i absolutely LOVE your wrestling clips. I need to find your shows after i finish binging all your vids

It may be just me But I personally would like more of your wrestling career incorporated into the videos

I‘m reminded of the handling of maths in school. A friend of mine has dyscalculia, and she knows she‘s good at maths, her brain is just built against processing numbers in her head, but as the jokes complain about, past 9th grade, maths is less and less about just numbers and the numbers were only ever there to teach the actual principles of math more comprehensively to begin with. My friend was always told that she‘s bad at maths, and that she shouldn‘t complain because she‘s ~a girl anyway~. She asked to be allowed to use a calculator but got denied because accessibility gets seen as unfairness not just in gaming culture but also in school. But once calculators were allowed for everyone, she jumped from Ds to straight As. She‘s a professional programmer now. Just by using a calculator. If you can code, you know a calculator isn‘t what makes you able to do that.

As a long time viewer and ardent fighting game fan, it fills me with no small amount of joy to see you be able to get into fighting games Steph. Welcome to the club

You know you did something good when a title is so positive from Stephanie. Glad to see it :)

its a great modern control scheme. I love how they even still let you input the classic buttons for moves too if you manage to get it down. I never liked SF because it hurt my thumbs and i'm too poor for a fight stick, but now it plays like something halfway between soul calibur and smash bros and that's great fun.

Might have to actually give this game a chance. I've tried to get into fighting games multiple times and while I don't share the same memory issues I do struggle to keep track of all the various moves and input them correctly.

Accessibility is so important. The fact that people still rally against it and want to gatekeep gaming is wild to me.

Do love the positivity in this video. Awesome that you're enjoying the game.

Its awesome to hear the joy in your voice

This made my day ❤ I’m a long time fighting game fan that has struggled to get friends into the genre and your accessibility story warmed my heart. Fight on Steph!

I wasn't too interested in SF6, but now I am! Thank you, Stephanie! ❤

As someone heavily invested into fighting games of all sorts there is nothing wrong at all about more people being involved with them. Gatekeepers wanna keep it niche so as not to expose their inability to grow and adapt, so they can be the best of 20 players as opposed to being 20th amongst 1000 players

Glad you mentioned Divekick, it's not exactly a favourite game of mine but it does a great job of stripping the complex inputs out of a fighting game and leaving timing and prediction as central principles. I've never cared about fighting games to try to understand frame data and all of that stuff but I've got a lot of enjoyment out of Virtual Fighter and Soul Calibur and I do find I spend more time trying to pull off the moves than I do trying to work out which moves are safe to use in what situations. Simplifying a fighting game's controls to concentrate on tactics and positioning is like playing RTS games that throw out having to balance five different resources in favour of emphasising unit counters and army composition in my opinion.

In a world of covering oppressive politics, sinister capitalist regimes, and overall human indecency in current event, it's great to hear you say a video game was authentically fun and made you happy...if only for a moment, that's great to hear.

Maybe you won’t see this, but I’m so happy for you!! :) I’m so glad you get enjoy this fantastic genre finally, and I wholeheartedly believe you could destroy people in ranked with a bit more time. Would love to see you continue and thanks for making this important video. You still got it Stephy

Love hearing this. FGC has had a tall wall to climb for a lot of new comers, so stuff like this is a great change.

Yessssssss The satisfying feeling of seeing someone enjoy the thing that you like~ Glad you're having fun

While I'm really happy for Steph to finally find an entry into fighting games with sf6, having an easier control scheme isn't anything new. ArcSys' games have had them for a while now, at least guilty gear has it and BlazBlue cross tag team's entire control scheme is pretty easy to pick up. They should definitely try them out if they want to try more fighting games. But I have to say, the world tour is a very cool version of a tutorial

I love the Ryu romance you have. Ryu was always my favorite and I think it's due to his classic skill set. It's not much to have to think over and he seems to be the most "got his shit together" character in the series.

I remember getting really into Fighterz. Absolutely loved it. Got into online fighting and rising the ranks. It was great. The thing that got me to stop playing? The long winded combos. Whether I was the one doing them or the one getting hit by them, they were just so tedious. No tactics (once you were in one), no real skill. It was like the game suddenly became a boring version of a rhythm game, and you just had to wait it out. Nothing worse than a Gohan midscreen regular combo that took forever to knock you in the air and bounce you around the screen, completely stunlocked for a good ten seconds. I tried to make the game about the initial blows. The normals. Keeping combos short so it could be more about the tactics, but on the higher rankings people would just need one or two successful startups, and that would be the game, just watching me bounce around the arena for ten seconds. And they would do so without hesitation. A 100 hit combo used to sound so cool, but secretly they were the most deary part of any fighting game.

God I love Final Fantasy VIII. Also 10/10 intro I can't believe I have something to contribute to a video game discussion: SF6 isn't the first game to do this!! That I know of. There's a beat'em up X-Men game for the SNES that if you put easy difficulty, all the special moves are done with a single button press. It was so much fun to play on easy.

For some reason it reminded me of people whining because cancelling student debt upset them because they'd had to pay off their debt so why should anyone else get off without the same pain. Then I realized its the lack of empathy in both cases. More than that, its like, why help someone else when you can hinder them for no reason than to be a jerk? PS. Phoenix is awesome, would love them to have more screen time!

Thank you so much for this video Steph, as a cronicly pained person with a laundry list of things affecting my memory and reaction time, this video not only reminded me of the fact that i and others deserve better and more accessible controls, but also gave me hope that more games will follow street fighter 6's example. Im so used to playing games that are at best apathetic to accessibility, or at worst are fighting me every step of the way. Once again you remind me that i deserve games that give a shit about me and my enjoyment of the game. I dont have a ps5, but as somone who has never even won a game of super smash bros, i will definitely consider picking up games that follow this modern control system. After all, ive fought through games hostile to me, im sure i can learn a game that actually cares. Thank you again for your amazing work.

I can almost guarantee that there are children and teens playing SF6 with modern controls today that will be top tier competitors in the FGC in the next ten to fifteen years who never would have touched a fighting game if it hadn't been made so accessible to them

There's one thing you all need to understand about fighting games, and Capcom fighting games in particular: Progress always goes forward, never back. Remember the very first Street Fighter? If you knew the baww-fiyah "secret technique" and your opponent didn't, you could laugh your way to victory. That fireball was so broken it was sand. It got to the point where players *limited the number of fireballs per round completely of their own volition* just to keep things remotely interesting. Never happened again. Remember the first Street Fighter 2? Where if you learned all of Guile's combos, chains, and dirty tricks (and selected him before someone else beat you to the punch), you completely owned, oh, conservative estimate, 97% of the planet? (I heard that a really good Dhalsim player could best Guile, but in my experience "really good Dhalsim player" was almost an oxymoron.) Never happened again. Remember Alpha Counter-fests in Street Fighter Alpha 2? No longer. Every time Capcom sees an unfair advantage, they either blunt or remove it. So to everyone who has a problem with modern controls, here are your options: deal or walk. Your precious victory-by-muscle-memory just got sent to the dustbin of history along with the baww-fiyahs and blockstun throws and never-miss pile drivers, never to return. The party is well and truly *over.* There are going to be a lot more players who can learn the game and kick _your_ butt, and no about of screaming and bellyaching is going to change that. It's Capcom, baby.

... Oh wow. I might actually be able to play street fighter now. Thank god for Steph Sterling!

The two PSP Dissidia games are *very* easy to input moves and attacks with, and even has a few characters that players can graduate to when they feel more confident with their inputs.

I'm glad you found a game that gave you the tools to enjoy it, Steph. I have similar issues with inputting commands and so the only games that I was any semi-decent at were Tekken (because it's slower and more deliberate in its combos) and FighterZ (which uses the shoulder buttons in a similar way to how you describe the modern control scheme in SF6). Also, I will always love any Count Duckula reference.

As a street fighter player who's been into the series since the first game (no, really!), I just have to say, welcome to the club! I'm always down to have new players to go up against. Hopefully I'll find you online sometime: my old bloke Ryu is still ready for a challenge. :P

I think what you have happen with fighting games is people who are intermediate-level hear really high level people discuss things like tier lists and execution and combos and confuse that for something that applies to them, so when someone says you're not really playing a fighting game, what they really mean is that you're just playing at a very rudimentary level compared to people with literally tens of thousands of hours of experience over many decades, but they phrase it in such a way that sounds off. Like, I get someone saying you're not really playing the game if you can't even remember how to do a move input because actually playing the game involves way more memorization than that, in a whole lot of different ways, ones besides inputs, but that doesn't really apply just to people who play with the easy controls. It applies to like 95% of the playerbase. To properly play at a competitive level you have to memorize the properties (speed, recovery, range, whether it's a hit or a grab, whether it hits low or mid or overhead) of every single move of every single char, and each char has like 30-40 of them, so that's around 500~ moves give or take. Some are more relevant than others so you will obviously prioritize things like that one grab gief does that takes off half your life bar, but eventually you wanna be at a place where you're never surprised or caught off guard because you didn't know what a move did. And as you do all that, you then start to innovate specific move interactions that are unique to your character, so you can adapt against the other chars. All this stuff obviously is a lot more memorization-heavy than just remembering that you have to hit down then diagonal down, then forward, instead of just hitting forward.

Great video. Happy to see the game was more accessible absolutely hated it when GamerTM didn't use Square or Triangle in explaining combos but some jargon.

A lot of the indie fighting games have been drifting in this direction over the years but it's wonderful to have the absolute market leader do it too

Hey Stephanie! Speaking of wrestling-based stories, I vaguely recall from one of your older videos you said that one day you would do one on the adage “when everything’s right, nothing can go wrong. When everything’s wrong, nothing can go right” (it was something like that, but probably not exactly that). I was always curious what that video was going to be about. Maybe you did and I missed it, but I thiiink you haven’t yet. The videos you do are great regardless, see you next Monday!

Hardcore gamers seem to completely miss the point of games, fun. Accessibility should be celebrated.

See, she only does negative videos? Like in this video where she geeks out over how great Street Fighter 6's accesibility is.

I wanna' point out Fantasy Strike as a fighting game that was designed from the ground up to be easy to do the moves you want to. But after it changed its monetisation to be confusing and bad, it lost a lot of goodwill, so I dunno if anyone's even playing it any more. But the game itself is very good and very accessible.

This was really important to me as a fighting game fan with ADD. I’m having the same experience with sf6 (I even managed to beat my friend once whos way better 1W 7L but still) I’ve spent hundreds on fighting games and just as many hours in only to plateau and never be able to beat the medium to high difficulty cpus. SF6 let’s me do anti airs when I want to do anti airs and armored attacks when I want to. Thank god for Sterling for putting into words why I’m having a great time with this!

The moment they said in pre release stuff, that they would introduce a modern, simpler control scheme, I was really thinking about getting a classic 1v1 fighting game. I tried some before, some old Street Fighters, some Tatsunoku vs Capcom but they always had a 12m high difficulty wall. I couldn't get into them, no matter what and I don't have ADHD or other conditions as you Steph. The controls were just unnatural for me, compared to movement in other games. Heck even compared to Smash (which is easier to pick up and besided the strong IPs, that is maybe the reason why it sells so much better than most other fighting games). I don't wanna invest a games lenght into learning basic controls, before having fun. And as someone who watches FGC tournament (mostly Smash), it is sadly common how elitist so many act there. The stuff I read around the time EVO came up and how these classic fgc no-names tried to dunk on Smash, for their control scheme, for having different stage layouts, for having the OPTION to have items was and still is disgusting. So yeah, kudos to Capcom for focusing not on bringing out a rushed game for eSports, like SF5 but thinking about the genre from ground up and how to attract newcomers. Every other game should take notice, like they did with their netcode over the last few years.

I dived into SFV late last year after struggling to get into it and consigning myself to just enjoying tournaments it was though but set me up to enjoy SF6 a lot more. I wish Steph had said more about battle hub, It's the kooky sometimes wholesome social space that fighting games have been screaming out for with its crazy character creator and community that's embracing the meme potential. The characters getting separate ranks online allows me to try characters at their own pace where I felt punished if I tried anything new in SFV. I'm sitting in the gold ranks with Lily and Juri (Lily is an adorable little munchkin and main motivation to keep grinding the game) on the other hand I'm kinda crap with Cammy and Ken. I haven't put the time in but I can hop on at lower ranks and play them in a more relaxed setting when I want a change of pace. I love fighting games but this one feels like it's trying to give me the kind of experience I truly want. All I need now is Sakura and Akira in the game plz Capcom.

Honestly this isn’t even the first traditional fighter in implement this control scheme fantasy strike has it as well and is pretty alright I’m not amazing at it but it’s certainly interesting Hell there’s 3 defensive options with very simple reactions, a opposite direction block, a do nothing grab counter and a jump super grab counter all while the attacks are based off single directional inputs and a 1,2 button press requiring very little memorisation (so much so I think ghost if Tsushima had a harder test with the Bamboo)

@7:20 DUCKULA REFERENCE!

I’m a classic controls guy but when my old man knuckles start to get stiff and sore I’m not against switching to modern for a bit The limitations to modern mean classic controls are still viable for those of us that prefer them so I really don’t see the problem with them being useable online…it’s not like they’re Dynamic controls lol

You know, it's kind of ironic in a way, there's this stereotype within fighting games of the jerkass player who gives you a shitty controller to make things harder because he JUST CAN'T play against someone without a handicap. A lot of this talk against modern controls sounds EXACTLY like shit that player would say.

As an "old-head" of the fighting/shooting game community, I have no issues with the accessibility gameplay options. They've been implemented in other games before(like P4 Arena). So this has been a gripe amongst the hardcore for a bit. Plus that's always been an issue with fighting games survival as a whole. If only hardcore fans/gamers can play it, then sometimes there isn't enough money to keep releasing. Diversifying the player base helps solve that. (Dead or Alive had that issue...but for uhh...some additional reasons) Even though I'm no where close to my prime anymore👴🏿. I can still handle any casual player, just off game sense/experience/aptitude. Easy inputs doesn't teach that. It comes with time. But having a shallow end of the pool to start off in, eventually makes the deep side feel less daunting. My stance now is the same as back then. If you consider yourself competitive and/or pro gamer. And you get bodied by someone with assist mode. You just ain't good enough, get back to the lab.

Glad you're enjoying yourself Steph 🙏 Running around in a plague doctor mask beating up people in cartoonish ways is truly one of the best ways to have fun in a video game

I really appreciate JSS shining a light on all the Atrocities but it's honestly just such a delight to also hear about something that went really *right* in the gaming industry.

It was crazy how infectious the sheer joy was as you gushed about the modern controls letting you be able to play. I couldn't help but smile and think "Fuck yeah, Commander. Play that fighting game."

Can I just note how euphoric it feels to hear such an outpouring of genuine praise from Steph? We REALLY don't see this often. It's like coming up for air after being held underwater for as long as you can take. There are caveats on the back end, to be sure (gatekeepers🖕 and microtransactions🤮), but overall it's just so refreshing to see.🤩

As someone who plays Street Fighter for the best part of 30 years, all I have to say is: Welcome to fighting games Steph! I hope you have a world of fun with Street Fighter going forward.

Hi Steph! I’ve been in the competitive fighting game community since the release of Street Fighter IV in 2009, and it brings me endless joy to see that Street Fighter 6’s Modern control scheme has given you the opportunity to enjoy fighting games the way so many of us have been able to for so long. More people getting to properly engage with these games will forever trump any puritanism about Shoryuken inputs, and any community member worth a damn will welcome you with open arms just for loving the games we love. And those who don’t probably need to reckon with Tokido - one of the best fighting game players in the world - playing Luke with Modern controls as his main character. I hope to see you stick around, too! The secret is that none of us ever really get “good” -- we only get better. :)

nice to hear JSS talk about something positive every so often. Happy they are enjoying and sharing that positivity.

You finally cracked it Steph, every RU-vid video should begin with the presenter delivering a pump handle slam. This truly is the pinnacle of video content.

Speaking as a Classic Control player, modern control is something that SF has so desperately needed. More opponents, more organic growth, more people inhabiting online. See y'all online!

7:59 "I can, like, DO stuff now" may seem like a simple line, but something about Steph's genuine delivery made me happily tear up

"Microtransactions and other forms of manipulative monetization are a ableist." Is definitely something that needs to be said more.

The Ryu and Steph romantic comedy is the cinematic experience the world needs.

This video is beautiful. I’ve been playing fighting games for damn near 25 years now and Steph is right on the goddam money. I’ve heard a dozen times at this point people complaining about controls being dumbed down and “now anyone can play.” I saw it on some wii version of MK9 where you could do special moves with a waggle. I saw complaints when MvC3 was coming out and the buttons were light, medium, heavy, launcher instead of 1 and 2’s layout. The bottom line is if the only thing separating you from a newbie was your button execution, then that’s on you. If the only reason you’re better than a toddler at driving a car is because they can’t reach the pedals and see over the steering wheel, then you’re a shitty driver. It was really nice to see a mostly positive video. It’s good to see some happiness in the Jimquisition.

I like that I've seen a good number of professional players say they believe modern controls is a good thing. It's almost as if good players don't think of accessibility to others as a hindrance to their ability to win

As a long-time fighting game player, this makes me really happy. I want more people to love fighting games. I want more people to feel like they have an avenue to enter the community at large. I'm so glad SF6 did what they did to make the game more accessible.

My 6 year old and 8 year old can play on my level thanks to Modern controls. We are having Family Fight Nights and the kids usually come out on top. I love it!

Marisa is such a baller character design that I can't believe that 'Brick Shithouse Lady' isn't a more common archetype.

Lmao imagining your entire life with Ryu is peak content, thank god for you Steph

I’m genuinely really excited for you that you’re finally able to enjoy fighting games thanks to Modern Controls. Even as someone who’s been playing since I was a little kid, all I want is for more people to enjoy fighting games. So to see you have that moment of triumph in the genre legitimately made my day. It’s honestly a better birthday gift than I could’ve expected. With that said, while I am glad that you can unlock costumes through World Tour, I’m definitely not a fan of the battle pass system. Season passes I can live with, namely because they sure as hell beat the alternative (Super versions that split the player base).

Props to Laura for the excellent subtitles. The autogenerated crap tends to be unreadable at best and hilarious at worst. I can't appreciate enough the care and dedication required to create the best subtitles in all of RU-vid.❤

So just to be clear: The game made itself more accessible to everyone The accessibility stuff is optional and can easily be turned off People are angry about it That's depressingly familiar. Hey, at least you're happy, Steph, and I thank God for that, and for you.

Steph adding the Marisa pankration statue punch to her movelist is an unexpected and delightful benefit of sf6

Modern controls getting people in to sf6 is such a wonderful thing. So excited to have more people playing my favorite game genre

Love the positive episodes.

Honestly I keep dreaming of the day when the FF-themed episode will start off with The Commander suplexing a train

I have been a fighting game fan for almost 30 years now and I am so insanely hyped that SF6 is opening up the genre to new kinds of players. Modern controls are such a good thing for the genre. I don't know if you have the time, but try out Granblue Fantasy Vs sometime if you want to try another fighting game. There's a character named Ladiva I think you'll really appreciate. I hope I see you online sometime! I'm glad you and Ryu are happy. People go their entire lives without ever knowing that kind of love.

These tangents are wild, crazy and insane and I am here for literally every single one of them.

Never really care for fighting games, but I love seeing how much fun people are having with SF6. It isn't just about accessibility, but how people are having fun in the colorful the world, how people gush over different characters interacting with other characters, people showing off how they dressed up their fighter. The game doesn't take itself too seriously and people loves it! It's so much fun seeing how people show their love for the game!

I gotta say, nothing has been tougher than getting my friend group into fighting games, something ive always loved but never been able to get them passed that intimidating barrier

From one disabled gamer to another, thanks for making this video Sterling. Fairly certain you already knew you aren't alone, but the fact that I had a moment where I felt "this person gets it" was real important to me. Thanks again.