So, I have recently gotten to God of Destruction in Tekken 8, and I tend to hover around Tekken God Supreme and GoD. However, I feel absolutely miserable most of the time when I play Tekken, I have around 450 hours in it.

However, then I get to Street Fighter 6, where I have less than 30 hours, and it is somehow absolutely much more fun for me.

I particularly love playing Manon and Marisa, and I think the thing that makes it much more fun for me is two things;

1. Matches tend to be much, much faster than Tekken

2. Everybody is significantly more diverse in SF than Tekken.

When I fight someone in Tekken 8, everybody roughly has the same tool and is roughly equally as absurdly strong. That and the general balancing in Tekken right now is horrible, and in Tekken 7 everybody was a lot more well-defined outside of DLC characters.

However in Street Fighter, it is a fresh and different thing each time. I am not going to fight a Zangief the same way I would fight Dhalsim or Ed.

The problem with the Tekken 8 equivalent of that, Armor King and King, is the fact that King has absolutely zero of the weaknesses that Zangief does in their equivalent games; King is ALSO great at poking, ALSO has great striking, ALSO has fantastic movement, ALSO has great damage outside of throws.

Zangief basically only has throws, and so it is a lot more "well-differentiated" in my head, which makes it feel less frustrating,

Just looking for thoughts on this.

Like genuinely asking. I think we can agree that Mortal Kombat 9 is like the gold standard for what a fighting game story could be but even then it's filled with plot holes and inconsistencies, and with the the SF movie bombing, I'm beginning to think making a good fighting game story is impossible, what do y'all think?

i got guilty gear strive and a season pass yesterday cuz it looked cool and fun and shit but like, two days in and ive lost all hope. same thing happened with MK11 and Ki ultamate. theres just so much stuff and its all so daunting and the fun characters seem so hard to play and ranked seems so impossible. what the hell do i do :(

Just bought my first hitbox on Evo okay :(

Im working on a personal essay about the deeper differences between older fighting games and modern fighting on a nitty gritty level. I don’t mean broad stuff like patch notes and battle passes or the strive for balance, things like weird inputs, unlockable characters, combos working differently depending on who is getting combod/character specific combos, these aren’t things that are wholesale gone across the board but have drastically decreased in quantity.

I’m obsessed with the cracks and flaws of older fighting games, the changes made to accommodate busier people, the change from arcade to console. I want to analyze it as best I can without having lived through the era

I want to do a challenge in Street Fighter 6, where I try to get every character in to master rank without using any kick moves or punch moves. My question here is, which one of the two options would be more difficult?

Firstly, what do I mean by no punch/kick moves? Basically, I would not be allowed to use any normals, command normals, specials, and supers, which require a punch/kick button in order to be performed. I'm doing it this way to avoid any trouble with characters like Elena, who has exclusively kick moves, even when using the punch button. Universal options like grab or DI, even if they require a kick button, would not be banned.

Now obviously there are some characters that suffer more from one option as opposed to the other. If all punch moves were banned, then Luke for example would lose all of his specials except for his Avenger. On the other hand, if all kick moves were banned, then Juri would lose all of her specials except for her DP, as well as lose her Lv1 and Lv3.

But on a larger scale, which option of the two would be more difficult to get the entire cast into master rank with?

I Wanna make fighting games and I wanna see other peoples POV to understand the things I didn't notice such as technical aspects or other elements like art and combat systems As for my POV I think games like DBFZ are the ones I like the most in this genre

I've always been a stream monster when it came to fighting games, never a player. But after getting completely burnt out on team games and dealing with teammates who refuse to take accountability ("where's my heals??"), I needed a change. I saw a video talking about how in the FGC, every loss is strictly on you to adapt and overcome, and that mindset hooked me.

I bounced off 2XKO (good, just not for me) and Granblue (looks sick, but I suck at anime fighters lol) before landing on SF6. That was the hit I needed. I grinded Kimberly all the way to Plat 5 and recently started messing around with Tekken 8. Between upgrading my controllers and meeting awesome people, I'm loving the community so far. Only bummer is having no locals around me—looks like I might have to be the one to start a meetup if I want offline sets!

A few months back I got invincible vs, and now it is uninstalled and probably won’t ever be reinstalled. If I could get a refund I would but that’s not the point this thing is about. recently as you all know, Tokon just came out and I am a huge marvel guy. I am new to this genre but I want to learn because games like Tokon look so fun. My question is if I couldnt stand invincible, will Tokon be a waste of money.

i want to know this because invincible was actually bought by a relative of mine as a gift and I feel so bad about them spending 50 bucks in a game I barely played and won’t touch again, so I don’t want that to happen again.

Their are fundamental stuff in invincible that make the game feel clunky like the restrictions they put on all your moves, you know how you can only go to a higher move in a combo usually (medium attack can’t be followed by light). That with that stupid mechanic where someone can just hold the assist button and get a TOD, that’s so stupid. But I know that’s not in Tokon, my real concern is with really any fighting game, testing.

I watch streamers like Maxamillion and he streams his testing before he hops into matches and that part can take an hour plus. And I know with invincible I couldn’t stay in that testing range for 5 minutes because I got so bored. In my head I feel it has to do with the characters since half the roster have the exact same abilities so they have like 10 characters who’s specials are just punching in slightly different ways so I feel like that is a part of it but I don’t know. Tokon looks so fun and unlike invincible everyone looks cool and unique but I know if I can’t get in the practice range and stay to actually learn how to play, I’m going to get made and turn off the game forever. I just want to know if testing in Tokon may be able to hold my attention better and when taking into acount what I’ve said if it would be a dumb thing to buy Tokon or would it be fine? I thank you in advance and have a good day.

Just an idea brewing in my head but what sort of fighting game content are people looking for or feel there’s a serious lack thereof?

An idea I had was pretty basic and bare bones. I wish there was a place that wasn’t YouTube to give me a list of combos donated by people and checked for accuracy. Like a combo hub. Some more exotic combos with infinites would need some fine tuning but I think the standard low forward into fireball into super would be welcome enough. Click a normal for a game and see how far it goes sort of thing ya know? We must have computers tools to brute force and find stuff for us nowadays. Thoughts?

Inspired by this Lingo Show fanart and Yogabagaba comic strip

OH NOEZ, Amingo lost his sombrero and he's BALD! One of his cactus babies is making fun of him for his bald head. Others were confused, and so was Tumblina—She's my OC who's simply a tumbleweed girl, and my self-insert for Amingo.

I added Ruby Heart and SonSon III from the same video game where Amingo was from, also I'm too lazy to draw them in my style, instead, I added artworks of them. Poor Ruby Heart, she's freaking out that the shiny baldness of Amingo burns her eyes. On the other hand, SonSon III was laughing so hard that the monkey burst to tears. Also, I don't play MvC2 that much because it has lots of violence in it and fighting games aren't my thing and I suck at playing fighting or combat games, I'm so sorry, it's, it's just my opinion. Please don't be mad and don't ever say that I played MvC2, okay?

I've been picking up Sys:Celes around Christmas time and I just wanna know how active the online is. Could I find matches fairly consistently online that'd match my skill level or am I gonna have to go on Discord to find players?

How he works differently as the Regular Ragna is insane

Instead, he has Belial Edge INSTEAD of Nightmare Edge

And he has a Dead Spike follow-up.

I see why he’s a secret boss.

But with some of my Terumi skills, I managed to get through the first round.

Found this interesting, especially in the light of 2XKO that a lot of professionals who play anime fighters go industry. Also seems specific that anime players go industry, wonder if there are any from the SF side of things that go industry as well.

Side note: I need to watch more LK, he's an interesting man with a lotta history attached to him.

This moment at the EVO France. Punk vs Kachikawa , losers final, 2-2. The tension is at its peak, and they smile together like two friends. And the ending of their match is just beautiful.

I love the FGC

I was thinking KI is gonna be pretty huge and MS is gonna go all in with marketing lol. It was also during the time Capcom fumbled big time with SF5 people doubted SF6 will even be a thing.

And here we are today almost a decade after and KI as an IP is pretty much dead, it’s pretty sad how much they failed to capitalize on this.

Now that I got your attention, I just received a steel ball for my RAP V and it's giving me a HUGE increment in inputs precision, I feel like the game difficulty dropped thanks to the added weight to the stick.