6 Males and 6 Females in Base Game

and 2 Males and 2 Females in DLC

Now the final DLC character will screw up this ratio but I guess the next pass will make it 50/50 again.

Rip Parbhoo (senior combat designer) posted that he had been affected by layoffs as well as other staff at the studio.

Prayers to those affected

Devin, my OC which you can download and play as right here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/658854

So, long story short, I've always liked fighting games, or thought I did, but the only fighting game that I could actually play with other human beings growing up was Mortal Kombat, as it is of course, the most mainstream fighting game.

I played a lot of MK9 and MKX, all the way to MK11 and MK1 until recently, but I always wanted to actually try other games, so last week I bought SF6, and holy fuck.

I had some very basic knowledge about timing, punishes, mix-ups (only lows, throws and overheads tho,) I actually think my footsies is not half bad and I could read my opponents well enough to have a "game plan" whenever I played.

But now I'm realizing my lifetime of muscle memory on MK might be useless because of the dial-in combo system that NRS implemented in all MK's, which is something I literally just learned was a thing, so now that I'm trying combos in SF6 and other fighting games, I feel like I'm learning an entirely new language.

This is obviously frustrating, as I can't actually translate the habits I had on previous games to these new ones, so far I've only tried Strive and SF6 and was aiming to buy Tekken8 in the future to also try it out, since It honestly looks fun, now I'm realizing that I might need to take this a lot slower than I would've liked.

What should I do? I would like to be more prepared and most importantly, know if there's any other things that might've gone over my head just like the dial-in combo system, which is something I did so naturally I didn't even realize it was a thing until recently.

I'm asking this because I haven't really seen anyone talk about this (atleast in the context of fighting games), but does anyone else feel like they actually get worse during really long sessions? I doesnt really feel like its tilt it feels more like my brain is overloaded or mentally fatigued. Does anyone else experience this?

I'm a sucker for animation, and boy, Arcsys delivers in spades. I'm not even a huge Marvel fan, but the animation quality is out of this world, and the gameplay looks good.

I used to be semi competitive (and by that I mean. I would qualify for tournaments but then get trounced) and I think the main problem was that I was great on theory but lacked PvP. I thought too much.

I I thought I'd just play solely for fun this weekend and not let my minmaxing brain get too ahead of me. The game looks solid but also a bit too mechanically dense (bars! systems!)

Is there anything I should know about tag fighters? People basically say learn mechanics, use assists?

I think mindset wise I should just mess around more - I don't think I'm cut out to be a Daigo, Wong or Duvalle lol.

Looking forwards to meeting some of you online this weekend!

Plus a small look at Ozai, Nightmare Korra and Avatar Aang

I’m thinking about Mortal Kombat X writing this, as I thought the idea of variants was super cool in that game. I think the issue comes when most of the time a character has a variant that is clearly better than the rest, and as a result the others are kind of ignored. Is there a game where this isn’t the case? In Melty Blood Actress Again, each character has a choice between 3 kinds of variants, but again often times one mode is clearly better than the rest for each character.

I got into fighting games at the worst time possible, the steam summer sale. I bought EVERYTHING. SF6, Tekken 8, DBFZ, the Arc sys humble bundle including 16 games, I'm "only" interested in Blazblue Centralfiction, GG Strive and GG Accent core +r from those tho, and I also bought MvC3 and Fatal Fury Cotw. On top of all that there's also Fightcade with all the cool old games too like SF third strike and CvS2 and also 2xko which is free. And a million mugen games like OS-Farram's Ikemen fighting collection or Hyper Dragon Ball Z.

And than there's Avatar and Tokon coming out now which both seems fun. But I'll probably skip them until a sale, it feels like throwing money out of the window if I buy them on top of all this.

I'm equally interested in all this, well maybe if I have to say one, than MvC 3 wins by a tiny bit, the community edition mod characters are way too much fun. But that game is kinda dead, especially with mods and cpu is pretty limited.

In the last month I tried learning them at the same time, but it's so taxing to try to hunt down combos online for all of them, especially the not so popular ones like 2xko or modded MvC characters (of course it's no problem for SF and Tekken), figuring out which ones work or not than having to practice all of them. It's fun for a bit, but I never get to the point of actually playing matches or even against the cpu, as soon as I kinda learn 1 harder combo most of my day is gone and it's time to switch to the next game.

I know the common sense answer is just to focus on 1-2 games, but I'm so interested in all of them and can't really choose...

Is there anyone who figured out a solution to this?

Yeah, they got the memo.

Happens to me so many times, I boot up a fighting game looking to play this one cool character who has all these sick combos and I end up being dog water at them.

Personally, I mainly experienced it when playing Meg in GBVSR. I really liked her character design and she was a waifu so I decided to pick her up but I ended up struggling quite a bit. I still play her now but just not nearly as much as my other mains. Not saying I don't absolutely love her, she's probably one of my favourite characters in the whole of GBVSR and I'm still working on improving my skills with her

Does this kind of thing happen to you guys and how do you guys like motivate yourselves to keep on playing that character

Thought this was an interesting enough topic to warrant sharing this here.