It's in Japanese, so you will need to enable your browser's translator if need be. Pretty interesting announcement, more ArcSys fighting games will always have my interest. lol

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

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.

Testing Arkadyzja PS2 netplay, seems pretty good so far, lots of cool fighting games on the PS2 including Tekken Tag, Tekken 5, Soulcalibur 2 and 3

https://www.patreon.com/rencoding/posts/arkadyzja-public-171268176

Yesterday I said on day two of playing guilty gear strive it felt like i was losing hope and couldn't combo for the life of me. but with your suggestions i'm taking things slower, and learning one thing at a time, like today i learned a simple and easy but blockable six hit combo with a short bit of setup as well as the setup itself. this post it more so to say thanks for helping me get on track lmao this community is great (also im now able to consistently beat cpu's on hard as bridget and while im not using crazy ass combos yet id say im able to keep good distance and play well so im rlly prouda myself for that)

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!

Made a little progress today on ex moved for ascension x

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?

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.

I just do not get it at all. It feels like it does not take any skill at all besides just putting in an input and just backing away all the time. An example of this (kind of not really since he is good in a lot of other ways) is superman from injustice 1. He can just spam his laser vision in the air and on the ground for a decent amount of damage without trait. With trait it gets buffed and is more ridiculous and then spending bar on it pushes the character very far. Another example is deadshot from injustice 2. I haven't really looked into it much, but the gameplay i see is all just spamming his guns. Which yes, it's deadshot, but when you make a character with zoning in mind so effective to the point where they are highly sought after for tournaments, it's bad. I just want to be able to talk about this topic as I never really knew why people are allowed to zone when it feels like it does not really take that much effort.

P.s: List other games/characters so I can look into them and we can discuss that as well.

I stopped playing them both around a year ago and want to get back into a fighting game, but I don't have the space or interest in focusing on two at the same time.

Which one is currently doing better overall, including player count? (I'm not sure if there's crossplay in which case SF6 is a bit ahead there)

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'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?

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?