@Pendergast891 this is just a pessimistic view of the genre as a whole, if you're paying attention to the game and you want to learn you will improve bit by bit, it's about the mindset that you play with. a lot of people go into fighting games with a negative mindset and that's their problem.
The only way to respond to this type of discourse is to just tell niggas to quit. They’ve already been accommodating y’all like crazy and you still want to whine so hang up the gloves this ain’t for you.
This is the experience for all games when you go online for the first time.
Fighting games: Juggled or mauled in the corner.
Shooting games: Headshot, respawn, headshot.
Racing games: Back of the grid or in a barricade.
MMOs: Numbers appearing all over my screen at an alarming rate with someone shouting Winguardian Leviosa.
You cannot escape this. The answer is to get good and come back later. The only concession I can give to this post is that fighting games are a lonely experience online. On a shooting game, you can blame your team mates on your short comings but on a fighting game, it is entirely your fault for not practicing enough.
If 3 Black people took a White man on a boat expedition and didn’t return with him the president would be making a speech right now.
Rest in power Nolan Wells
We throw around TODs like they’re common when they aren’t in any modern fighting game. They really only exist in Tag games these days and they require specific conditions for them to happen.
99% of you guys are not getting hit by these nor do you need to learn them. The biggest issue you guys have is that you don’t know where the skill floor actually lies and place these false expectations on yourself and the genre when you don’t need to.
Everyone that has gotten into fighting games started by mashing buttons man. We didn’t learn a TOD or even super long combos first because those don’t matter when actually learning how these games work. What matters is:
- Learning what neutral is and what tools to utilize in it.
- Learning 1 to 2 SIMPLE combos & safe block strings to get started.
- Learning how to anti air & whiff punish.
These are far simpler and more important things to learn. You also don’t need to learn this in 1 day or even be extremely good at it in few weeks. Give yourself freaking time pls.
@zDamascus I fucking hate all of these comments in here like
“Oh they prolly played previous fighting games”
STOP MOVING THE FUCKING GOALPOST
JUST SAY YOU DONT WANNA PLAY FIGHTING GAMES THEN,CAUSE CLEARLY YA DONT WANNA GET BETTER,YA WANNA BITCH N MOAN OTHERS ARE BETTER,AND JUSTIFY IT
@Tensa50@antoniontwt Learning the most basic oki set up will carry you through the low ranks of whatever game you play harder than a high execution TOD combo you’ll never actually land, but people don’t want to hear that.
@marcelywelly these people don't want to have an actual discussion about why they feel the way they do, they want to argue and make excuses and if they can't do that you're a loser and they hate u, i had a nigga come into my replies and say "why do i HAVE to practice"? these ppl are not real
the amount of niggas i had come into my replies or quote tweets saying "you're just elitist" or "you hate casuals" is actually insane because my entire point could be boiled down to "stop complaining about losing if you don't want to practice" which applies to everybody 😭😭
last bit on most likely any sort of fgc discourse is that I also think people gotta stop this "erm, you guys just hate casuals" bit when it's always constantly shown to be a specific type of casual that HATES the genre and feels the need to share their piece on why "it sucks" lol
Too many people open up video games with the mindset of "I do not have the self esteem to lose and continue so if I don't win it's the game's fault that I quit." and it PISSES ME OFF
Recent discourse abt fighting games has lowk been tilting me cuz so many ppl act like fgs have some exclusive thing with difficulty when there isn’t any of that i literally just saw someone complaining abt having to learn a quarter circle u ppl are not real
im not gonna talk about fg approachability discourse much but i think calling mobas easier to learn is so crazy because you do not fucking learn wave control by "just playing the game"
what is it about fighting games that makes people so delusional about the genre. no matter how much time you spend in "the lab" you wont ever see progress if you can't handle a real opponent and real scenarios that exist outside of your cultivated training setup.
The past day has shown me this about alleged casuals/newbies and fighting games:
- They don’t want to improve or learn they want to win.
- They don’t want accessibility they want to win
- They don’t want to play, they want to win.
All it boils down to.