Why You Should Play Fighting Games 

My girlfriend was always scared to try fighting games because he first experience was getting zoned to death on MK11 by a Joker while she was playing Kotal Khan Testament came out in strive recently and she absolutely loves their character design and aesthetic, making her install the game to give it a try She hasn’t played it online yet but she messes around in training mode and asks me questions and that stuff makes me happy because it’s nice seeing someone enjoy the same things you do

It’s crazy to me how many and how often these videos have to be made. People just don’t even give fighting games a chance it’s sad.

Really glad with how well this came out, especially for a first project. 💖

I have spent so much of my time just practicing happy chaos in strive, I'm so uncoordinated with him but his style and flow is so compelling I find my selection gravitating to him.

Beautiful video! Can’t agree more with your point on fighting games being a universal language and showing you that it is still possible to improve no matter how bad things may seem. I first really got into fighting games when i was in a really dark place in my life but thanks to them i gained a lot of motivation, perspective and a lot of friends from locals that were just around the corner where i was hanging out. Subbed ❤️

Just started playing street fighters 3rd strike 4 days ago, i was having a match with a dude multiple times more skilled than me that would just put coins in the game to make a bell sound every time i did a punish with a combo to alert me that was a good move. Felt pretty good

DBFZ has been my first deep dive into the FGC as a whole, and I remember having a mixture of satisfying highs and depressingly bad lows on that game. There were plenty of times where I wanted to quit it for a multitude of reasons, but my friends gave me even better reasons to get back up and “enjoy” the game instead of “getting good”. It took me 3 and a half years to take that lesson to heart, and I’m genuinely happy that this video reminded me of that fact. Seriously, this means a lot. Thank you! ✌🏽

I think I've shared this type of videos more times than I can count, and in spite of these videos just sparking the flames of motivation in me, they are but a fart in the wind for most of my friends. None of them give even this type of videos a chance, they may play them on the background, not really listening and then be like "yeah but I don't like losing" or the too common "I'd rather grind in X game" (were player progression can be measured by the numbers on their gear) and I just die a little bit inside. The funny thing is most if not all of them really like dark souls, so "failure" is not a thing they have a big issue with, imo it's competing and potentially losing to another human that keeps them from getting into the genre.

I have seen alot of videos tackling this topic but something I liked a lot that you talked about is when you "broke" that barrier and started to view the games differently. Like what happened to you in melty where you started to see openings, when to punish/go in, etc. I know I had the same moment with dbfz and like you said in the video, it just does something too you. You start to see the games differently and I think it is at that point that a person really gets hooked into fighting games. Overall great vid and can't wait to see more.

Great video!! :) I really liked what you talked about, I think giving examples of proplayers, casual players and even your own experience helped a lot with understanding the points you were making. This is a very cool and encouraging video, thank you for your work and expressing your love for the genre!! I particularly loved whenever you talked about the fact that anyone could get into it and get better if they try their best, that the games allow us to express ourselves and become better players, or even better persons sometimes :)

I saw so many videos like this and I think all of them bring something interesting to the table. Yours was specially pocket and concise but never the less, really true. Honestly, as someone who’s starting to rank up years since the launch of Smash Ultimate and also ever expanding my list of tastes, I really appreciate the video. I recently been feeling more frustrated than usual, something I had to deal my whole career of FGs but was starting to learn how to deal with it; because my IRL problems started bleeding out into my performance. Your video helped get me more in balance with myself and to keep moving forward. Thank you!

10:03 never before have I agreed so much with someone about fighting games, great video!

for this being a first video on a channel im really excited to see more content

Really great! I've been getting into fighting games since roughly when the quarantine started. It's a lot of fun, you did a wonderful job capturing so much!

Nice work on this video! Your passion really shines through it 10:20 I'm glad we can all agree NTM is a fighting game but it does need more cute girls in it

This is your first video? This looks and sounds in pacing, audio/video quality, editing, etc. like you've been at this for a while! That's really awesome!

I really like the inklings of advice about adaptability and resilience through the video. Especially your outro.

As a newcomer to fighting games myself, this was a great watch!

seen you on the recommended & subbed to watch this video this morning. good video!

You described exactly what motivates me to pick characters in fighting games and then showed the team I used in KOFXV in the background. Truly relatable content

great video! i'd like to show it to all if my friends who feel reluctant to start playing fighting games due to 'not knowing' or 'being bad'

Stellar work for the first posted video.

great video, thank you. i think i'm in same boat of having been playing fighting games for a year too, starting with tekken last year when it was on sale and now playing that alongside guilty gear strive and very little bit of sf5, with looking out for sales on melty blood, kof15, and even waiting for dnfduel etc. though it feels like right now tekken and guilty gear will be my main ones to be playing around with. starting out tekken definitely was frustrating with rage inducing losses and then googling and thinking to myself on what i was supposed to do, improving on that, picking up my mistakes, and improving. it's definitely very rewarding when what you have lost to before, you can respond to and win next time.

I've been writing a video like this for a while, but its totally different than what I wrote while maintaining the same general message and I think that encapsulates whats so sick about fighting games, endless expression and personality great vid

i have only recently been getting into fighting games its honestly really fun i always thought they where to complicated for me but now that i have given them a shot i want to play more of the genre

Really good video, looking forward to the next uploads

Amazing video, I hope to see more from you in the future!

Although that "learning" part haven't resonated with me yet because of too many stuff going on with my life now, I'm glad someone else got a happy ending out of it.

Good content, I appreciate that you used virtual on theme in here

Abso-effen-lutely amazing! 10/10

nice video! i have a very similar journey with fightans where my friend would bully me in smash until i learned to not get hit and then would pull out actual combos. from there i goofed around with a bunch of different ones until i read fsn and started playing mbaacc. im pretty bad but i have a lot of fun with it : )

Excellent video!!! Also shouts out for including Into The Blue Sky from the Virutal-On OST (and for showing Xrd)

Amazing video! Thank you so much for this content :) (Greetings from Brazil!)

Great first video. I was planning on making something very similar. XD I think you really nailed a lot of the appeal of fighting games. Very few genres let me feel this level of achievement.

i just came here for satsuki thumbnail but this looks like a good vid

Ladies and gentlemen at 4:28 he starts saying the things!! ,oh I'ma cry this is beautiful, the hunger every true fighting game fan knows, you just know it. thank you for this.

The internet is the great equalizer with fighting games. Panda put out a video today w smashers trying sf4 trials...watching them struggle hardvto figure out how to do a super was magical and shows how much the internet fixes the learning curb, there is no curb any more, just look it up and then it's muscle memory. They didn't look it up and the struggle was nails hard for them lolll

Great video! I hope you plan to do more in the future!

I really hope this video blows up and more people see it

First, thank you for talking about AACC. Second, thank you for making everyone not play that game by showcasing both a C-Satsuki mix and a C-Arc combo.

Great video. Idk how I feel about the message and I can’t explain why but for other people yes it makes tons of sense and they should try them.

This is an incredible video: You are one of the very few fighting game educators who shows the complete competitive validity of using heart. We can never escape from the fact that every time someone plays a video game in front of others or competitively, they are engaging in performance art.

Nice work

Great video, I enjoyed it a lot. This does not seem like your first project because of how well this was made. I tend to watch a lot of fighting game content because the videos are always so interesting and in depth. Even though I am eternally a spectator for the genre, since learning a fighting game just doesn't click for me and is incredibly frustrating. I lack the mental fortitude necessary to fight through that.

its genuinely absurd that this is the first video on your channel, the quality on this is so good

Good video!!

What I like about fighting games is that you will hone your Intrapersonal Skills, which means you're the one leveling up not just your characters.

Love hearing fg awakenings. Great vid man!

I got this mindset: "the only players that don't get good at fighting games are the ones that stop playing." The rank system in fighting games can be a double edged sword. Losing over and over can discourage some people from playing, and watching your rank not move up can add to the disappointment, and even worse when you get ranked down. But when you play ranks, you're playing the long game, you just gotta keep trying and learning, the rank up will come later.

Great Video quality 👌

This is awesome!

Fighting game content for a first video, I wake and sub

I loved this!

nothing beats some cold ones and KOF 98 with the hombres on a weekend

I’m glad I got recommended this

Tips: play on pc if you can. Have irl friends to play with you. Do not give or feed into the toxicity. Stay hydrated cause fellas get mad salty

yay, a fellow melty blood enjoyer 💜

This is your first video? You have a bright future man

I love this video

I envy your love for Melty Blood. I've tried to get into the game, but unfortunately no character really stuck out to me that I enjoyed playing as. I wish I enjoyed the game as much as you did.

so glad i found your video off random

The fighting game that really hooked me in the genre is Blazblue Centralfiction. Its also weird that my other reason why I play fighting game is because of rpg.

ITS OOMFIE!

I just started playing Guilty Gear Strive. I'm really bad at it. I don't even know what all the buttons do yet, and I'm not used to my layout because I don't play fighting games, but, as someone who lives in South America, I 100% agree that this is the best time ever to start playing fighting games online, thanks to rollback. In case you didn't know: if a fighting game has a small active community, it is almost always dead in SA. Sure, some people will see "180 ping" and reject a match, because they ignore that it basically feels like playing locally, or they straight up think that your connection is bad, but when someone wants to fight with you, it does it fact feel like playing againts someone who is in SA. I'm getting destroyed each time I try to battle againts someone who actually knows who to play the game, but at least I can finally start training with a goal in mind. I'm having a blast, and I don't think I had this much fun learning how to play a game since CS:GO (now CS 2) came out. Thanks for the video, and lets hope that the fighting community can keep growing from now on.

Wonderful video! Shout out to playing tsukihime in 2020 shout out to loving mbaacc

good job homie :]

Awesome

I tried for months to get into fighting games but I just can’t react fast enough in these games. It also just requires too much time that could be better spent on something else.

The language analogy is so true. I feel like I'm having a conversation with my opponent when I fight them. They can disrespect me through things like t-bags or multiple DP's which I can rebut by either t-bagging back or just taking the "humble" approach. I honestly feel like I've had more in depth conversations with people in a fighting game than I have in some real life scenarios, especially since you can't really be fake.

yo dis a good vid

Yumiduka in the thumbnail is why I like d this video b4 I watched

I picked up sf3 3rd strike last year, and im not lying when i said it changed everything. I used to play sf5, but was too lazy to learn anything below surface level. After i tried playing 3rd strike, I hated it at first, but I kept pushing. Over time, i grew to love it, and still do.

The art of not giving a damn

I love playing Fighting Games. I have like a 3-53 record in KOF 15 but gosh I love the game anyway.

no matter how manny of these are made i will always see to relive my nooblet days of mvc3. welcome fellow nooblet homie. ps glad you bring up how bads dickscord an twitter learning may not be best

Well i playing fighting games much especially guilty gear strive and xrd , that helped me a lot now i can stay calm in every situation. Cuz panic ruins everything.

This video is AWESOME!!! I’mma need the ost tho’ please… :)

nice video

The FGC is such a welcoming place and so many don't realize it due to online play and use videos like that Justin Wong "You Gonna Learn Today" as examples. They obviously didn't watch the full clip and realize Justin had no mic and couldn't talk to the kid. Everything is always taken out of context. If you're on the fence about going to an in-person FGC event, do it. I promise you'll be hooked. Everyone is always trying to win so that first round might be rough. Once you're revealed to be a noob, I guarantee the person you're playing will switch gears and jump into teacher mode. Show you the basics, go through some BnB's for your character, teach you some terminology, etc. We want everyone to get better. Literally everyone in the FGC is Goku. We know we can only improve by fighting stronger opponents and if none exist, we'll give you a damn senzu bean to create our own worst enemy 😂😂

3:37 In the case of Dragon Ball FighterZ, the auto combos in that game work in its favor, because some characters have auto combos that contain moves you can't perform otherwise. The combo potential there is almost limitless, because you can work auto combos into your manual combos making for some incredible strings

not to get weird or elitist but i feel like the whole "learning" part is what separates smash players from the fgc so often. Not that smash isn't a game where you have to learn or that smash players don't like learning, it is just due to the series' success that you get people who aren't playing it for that reason who lump themselves in with the people who do play more "seriously" if you'd want to call it that who kind of muddy the water. It is like Overwatch in a way where everyone swears they take it seriously but don't actually dedicate themselves to it, not that there is anything with just picking up and playing any game. This could be me seeing patterns where there aren't though, the concept of casual-competitive games has had a stranglehold on my head for like years now

What game is at 0:28? I love the style, but don’t know the name… 😞

Bro you need Skullgirls in your life !!!

my game was unist and i'll never be able to remove it from my heart

lmaoooooo what you felt about Melty Blood is exactly how I feel with GGXX. There's something special about our first (serious) fighting game that will make it immortal in our minds

last week i decided to play some fighting game and the game i pick is Guilty Gear Strive, i was nervous the first time i fight a REAL people online, i was shaking and he doing alot of combo in my face and i just standing and cant hitting anything but after i learn how to dogde, anti-air and stuff like that, i was able to win couple match with some guy that higher level than me , and i feel so good after that, im not shaking anymore and i completely enjoy it, lov fighting game!

I think you should try out skull girls also 100th comment.

insane

Is the original Melty Blood still popular today? I feel like a rarely see stuff about it online

This is a really well articulated video essay, like damn I enjoyed just the confirmation of hearing how great FGs are at creating a learning structure that’s even better than what most schools instill in kids. Fr, they really do just give you the doomer mentality rather than telling you, “there’s still another way”.

10:03 I’ve done this since i first started fighting games as a teenager and now im on estrogen

jwong zoning a kid video always gets me 😂

I feel like I recognise your username from somewhere but I can't put my finger on it

"I want to do cool stuff with cute girls in fighting games" Oh man do I relate to this hahahaha! Great video!

I haven't still found the game that completely clicks with me and I've tried a lot of stuff (Tekken, Soul Calibur, MK, Strive, UNI, MBTL are a few examples). Maybe it's my mindset that doesn't work with the genre. I can't put myself every single day to play a FG in order to understand something. Still to this day I still don't understand why I managed to do a thing, I miss a lot of motions and don't understand some of the mechanics of the games (Guilty Gear being the main example of game I really don't understand what I'm doing). The only time I managed to put a lot of hours in online stuff was with the Crash Team Racing remake but even then a lot of days I was dragging myself to play one hour to get points to unlock stuff more than actually having fun with the game and whenever I had the chance I switched to a different genre like a platformer/JRPG/metroidvania. As far as fighting games themsevles, the few that I liked a bit more (outside of single player content) were UNI and MBTL for me finding a character in both games that felt interesting for me to play. Even then I still lacked the effort to continue playing them due to me being a constant punching bag for 90% of the matches I did.

I wish I could properly get into a fighting game because I love watching the genre but every single game I've tried picking up, I just plateau very quickly and hit a wall in skill I can never overcome so I get curb stomped and that's not fun for me so I just don't care to play them anymore, I'd rather play through a new game I can actually have fun with.

im very good at fighting games but mid vid. looking forward to more

i want to break the barrier

love the video, just wish you didnt make me cry at the end w/ the OST

good job man, collab sometime maybe?