Why aren't you playing fighting games?

Why aren't you playing fighting games?

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Because they're dead at this point.
Scenes are drying up, disappearing, and the online numbers are a fucking joke.
The players are also getting older. As I watched two local scenes die, all that were left were mostly dudes close to or in their 30s, and plenty of them had already left due to other commitments in their lives.
The games themselves are trying to adjust to the times, but it's pointless because they're just falling out of favor. It's like Pong trying to stay relevant. They'll continue to stick around as they sell, but the player bases will get smaller and smaller, and the games simpler and simpler.

It's over now.

On top of not being good at them, I've found fighting games to be very shallow in content and their longevity rests on repetition of slightly various scenarios for entertainment

Online sucks. Not much of a point if you got no one to play with

shit patch killed granblues for me

Because I'm busy COOMING on these sluts backs

I'm not playing fighting games because nobody else is.

Unfortunately very much this, the games getting simpler is the worst part.
I jumped on Xrd after playing Granblue Versus for a while and it's fucking crazy, in Xrd you can actually move, have air mobility and combos are crazy fun.
In Granblue you can't do shit, you do autocombo or single button into ex into button into ex or super and that's your combo, it's fucking crazy.

Fighting games?

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Online still sucks
Offline scenes are drying up when they don't succumb to esports
Anime FGC is being taken over by actual trannies and their defense force
Sick of season passes
Most modern fighting games just aren't very fun

>In Granblue you can't do shit, you do autocombo or single button into ex into button into ex or super and that's your combo, it's fucking crazy.
I'm glad other people have noticed this. Granblue is dull enough to play for longer than ten minutes. I can't imagine suffering through watching a whole tournament of it. It deserves to be as dead as it is.

too hard to learn with no good tutorials = dead competitive scene.

god damn i hate my life

I hate to say this, but I really hope Riot game does well and makes people interested in FGs again.

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because I'm not going to spend all my game time in a fucking training room finding out counters to all retarded setups fuck you

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My local scene was so great from like 2009 up to a few years ago. A LOT of people dropped SFV fairly early on and never came back, and MvCI killed it for a lot of the Marvelheads. I always mailed anime games but man it was depressing to see Street Fighter guys resort to round robins because so few people would come out.

If it was up to me I'd just keep playing Xrd and SF4 for the rest of my life but they're totally dead offline and nearly unplayable online.

all the eSports shit sucks too. I don't even have a stick anymore.

Because I fucking suck at them and while I'm not above losing occasionally, losing constantly is kinda of a downer.

I will play casually amongst friends though.

I sucked too, then I decided to practice.

>fighting games dead
>smash dead
Best timeline

Me too man. Western fighting games are getting stale in general. Granblue proved that cool down specials create their own kind of resource management when they're implemented properly. If it ends up fairly balanced, I'll play it

Because I already played 15 minutes of fighting games online today and that was almost enough to get me mad so I stopped. Maybe I'll play more tomorrow.

Me on the left

Tell me your secrets. How do I get good at guilty gear?

I don't like not being able to do anything.
In other games at least when you're getting fucked you can still act to try and solve the problem, in fighting games being hit = loss of control, getting stunned or knocked down or knocked into the air. Not fun.

Yeah it saddens me to see Strive try to emulate aspects of it

I actually want to get into fighting games once my quarter is over, I just don't know what to play. I've ruled out a bunch of games that had a low amount of online players [spoilers]on PC[/spoiler], so now it's a toss-up between Street Fighter and Tekken. Which one should I get, bros?

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The problem with fighting games is that it is by far the genre that rewards longevity and investment the most out of all others and punishes those without. This creates a genre where the fans are all one long running group that excels ahead, with newcomers being left in the dirt more and more depending on the lateness of when they decide to get into it. The fans realize this completely and will not relent in their mocking of people worse at the games than they are which deters people even more.
I've never bothered getting into them because what's the point when I'll simply never be better than the person who's been playing them since the 80s.

i am playing TFH
started playing on a stick and trying to get used to it because pad wasn't comfortable for long term usage but trying to consistently do short hops on stick is a challenge right now. i don't really know how i should be holding the stick either

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Tekken, SFV is boring

>SFV season 5
>just started playing again after a whole year off
>Birdie nerfed so started playing Ed about 3 days ago
Nah man I'm having fucking fun holy shit. Ed is easily my new fav character, I am so happy sfv is trending again since talk of new V characters. I want T Hawk so bad but if not I got a new main and a new love for this game

This is so dumb if all the oldheads just play each other like you said then theres a while community of new players who can play against each other obviously

I'm playing TFH too. Sticks take a few months to get used to, keep at it.

1v1 PvP doesn't take long to become more stress than fun.