What game was this troon playing on Fightcade? I would have guessed something shitty like that My Little Pony game but it's not on Fightcade (and you don't seem like type to play it, @SSF2T Old User)
Hyper Street Fighter 2 Anniversary Edition
Nah, niche games will always exist. The FGC reached a point where even death sounds like a good deal, I think if this game does bring a new era of fighting games it will be more interesting than what we have today.
I have noticed that since more trans people have gotten tired of doing speed runs, there’s more of them in the FGC than compared to years ago.
That's actually a true fact. FPSes are harder because their point of view fails to take in consideration the fact that human sight is not accurately represented in their games. Human sight requires a joint working of two separate but idealistically similar/identical working points of stimuli (ie eyeballs) that can shift around alone by the user's whim. An FPS is literally like looking through a turret sight and maneuvering around to get a good point of view.
While I suck major ass at playing fighting games PvP despite all of its fun, this makes me glad I mainly play Arcade Mode and are a story and character lore sperg more than a competitive gameplay autist. At least I can recite why and how awesome and glorious or feared and awed which characters are, how they fight, what their signature moves are like, and why they are important to their series's world and story. That at least helps my social skills by webbing together what the hell is going on with the world than trying to articulate how important it is a move gets into a hitbox at nth frame in motion and looking like an uninterested overcompetitive surface level dumbass as my first thing to talk about with fighting games.
Fucking tell me about it. Online communities got the shaft just as bad. I remember back in the early 2000s, there were fucking tons of fan sites dedicated to series with fan art galleries, translations on overseas materials, and speculating in game secrets that were only hinted to in series. Nowadays the FGC is all fucking cliquey, obssessed with getting money by playing fightan' all fucking day and night, distanced themselves from 2000s anime nerd community spirit (commit sudoku, much of your precious fighting games illustrate in anime styled art before rendering), and I fucking bet that no one can name other characters from Darkstalkers other than fucking Morrigan or Felicia or know who comes from what games from King of Fighters or know some obscure Neo Geo or otherwise fighter that isn't "pop culture". How the fuck hard is it to just fucking read something these days?
Motion inputs are one thing. It's the core dynamics like Focus Cancelling or Fighting Vipers styled Countering or T.O.P. or Parrying or Bursting or Styles/Slash/Bust, or even gameplay engine feels that are the real spice and flavor that carry the meat of gameplay of Glorified Rock Paper Scissors. I think everyone has stuff like that go over their heads when it comes to fighting games.
I actually can't fucking stand League of Legends. I've never played it, I've never been interested in Tower Defense MOBAs, I've never been interested in its characters, and it all looks so fucking catered for consuum, even when it started. It's literally a game that I admittedly in my bias categorize as what normal people think are video games: brainless garbage. Is there some sort of ultra important backstory I should know about? Are these characters all fleshed out with actual shared narrative and backstories that motivate them? If there are, well too late, I in my fatheaded nerd bias don't care. At least for Smash it's a fun crossover party game with no context.
The thing is though, as someone who grew up playing fighting games with nearly 0 internet access, is that the fun part of it is playing with other people you can physically be around. Being in an arcade with your friends cheering is amazing. It's a rush. Going in alone and bodying some fool with a SF4 arcade card and purchased skins with nothing but your own two hands and some practice on Ken is fun.
I agree. King of the hill competition that cost money to play bred the best proving grounds and a real community of rivals and respect. But then came Covid. It killed the FGC more than anything, but since Covid is gunna last longer than simps thirst for pokimane the arcade culture is probably never coming back, sad to say.
To be honest, if people don't push back against the gay coof bullshit the FGC will be the least of our worries.
And I thought Low Tier God was the best reason to hate the FGC.....Good news everyone. EVO is saved and the future of fighting games has never looked better.
The art style looks almost exactly like Rumble Fish.
To be fair, yesterday I saw a SuperTurbo match against a B-rank Claw player and an A-Rank Honda player on Fightcade, and it was one of the most boring shit I've ever seen in my life. The Claw player was continuously hopping in the corner while the Honda player was in the other corner just crouching and hitting buttons.
I completely get it. Fireball zoning can be very annoying. And ya' know? I agree to an extent that it's easy for the guy chucking fireballs because all he's doing is backing away, chucking fireballs, and waiting for that jump in to AA. But there's ways to handle that that also reward skill rather than just giving everyone a free anti-fireball move that also lets them in for free. A good example would be parries or Just Defend from Garou. Shit like that where you still have to respect the fireball but changes up the meta rather than a guy just running away chucking plasma.
Claw players should be castrated, but even then these older games highlight a lot of these extreme examples of character that control the flow of the match like that and I agree that its boring as shit. I'll throw rounds with absurd shit trying to get a read rather than get timed out multiple times a set.
Zoning can be very annoying in KOF. For an example of that just look at 98UM or how Heidern plays in 14. One roll in KOF means they get out and you really can't do anything to counter that and then they get to zone for free again.
