r/FGC

Hello all!

Im looking for a fighting game that's not combo heavy. I used to play Tekken, Samurai Showdown, Guilty Gear, and Mortal Kombat back in the day.

My issue is im tired of sitting in the corner watching the other guy play. I get hit ONE TIME and I have to sit through a 24 hit combo. Then if I guess wrong...another 24 hit combo, then death. Im DONE with that.

I just recently quit Guilty Gear Strive for that exact reason and as I play Tekken...same thing. Combo, combo, combo. Its never my turn.

Im old now and I dont have time to learn frame data and every counter to every move for every character just to get a chance to play the game.

I promise im not complaining. Its the times now and im just out of the loop. That is fine, but there has to be a slow paced fighting game out there. Right? Every game cant be Killer Instinct now...

Again...im not sour...just old and slow.

Thank you!

Hello.

I've not played fighting games properly for a hot minute. The casual match here and there but I am craving sinking my teeth into a game and learning something!

For context I was big into Tekken 8 on launch and SF6 around the first DLC wave but since then I've kinda fallen off the horse.

What games would you guys recommend? Is it worth revisiting those games? What are some new ones to check out? Any old gems still active that would be worth a shout?

Thanks for your time! <3

I kinda wanna know a LOT more about the sub archetype, it’s part of hit and run and it’s called dynamic if I’m correct (please correct me if you want I’m not really sure what the actual name is right now) but I’ve been REALLY interested since I’ve always thought I liked hit and run characters turns out I like the sub division where you switch between modes, stances, installs, etc. and I’ve been doing a LOT of research more than I should kinda wanted to share my thoughts about it. If anyone wants to make a list of characters that fit it I’d be so down for it, I think aki fits PERFECTLY in that regard. I feel as oro is the same way but that’s how I feel personally!

I prolly sound like a dumbass but recently I got into Guilty Gear Strive and I want to also try playing BlazBlue CentralFiction; would trying to learn another game on top of strive be dumb?

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All platforms are eligible to join, however, the prizes will be STEAM ONLY. Prizes are as follows

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Hope to see you there! 🙂

Maybe you heard something like this to, but I hear this a lot. I think on paper they have a theoretical advantage, so the question is if this is true why is it that EVO is constantly dominated by pad and stick players, we just don't see leverless as the meta controller anywhere in the data. Sure there is a spread of all controller types in the top 10 or 15 spots but if leverless did provide a serious advantage you'd think we'd see them come in first place more often, even if only by accident. If you go back and look at all the winners for a game like SF6 for example, it's mostly pad and stick players overshadowing the first place spots. Go look it up, the data is very clear. Maybe it's different in other games, I've only looked at the data for SF6.

To be clear, I don't have any hate for leverless I own multiple and I just bought a pad to check that out but I mostly play stick. I just want to know where this assertion comes from that leverless is better when the real world data is showing the complete opposite. Do you think this is a combination of marketing and youtubers just trying to get clicks? I just don't know.

You'd think that a game that everyone was hypeing up for the year's would have been EVO would have been top priory for 2002 but for no reason it (alongside KI) were the only games from the line up (MK and Skullgirls got the treatment) never came back.

What genuinely happened

I can't help but think thay DOA is that one fight game franchise most of the FGC works make jokes at. If it isn't Smash or MK, it would be DOA. The word gets around that it's nothing more than a gooner game with the fighting mechanics really aren't that great compared to Tekken or Soulcalibur around those times.

That was then, but nowadays, I am seeing some people show interest in the franchise, but talk about the lack of crossplay and rollback prevents them from giving the games a try and yeah, that's extremely fair. Not having those things in the big '26 is a mind-boggling move from KT.

But the question I always wanted to know is if there will be interest if the next game does feature crossplay, rollback, while keeping the fanservice in check as well as having little amount of costumes to purchase rather than the large amount we see nowadays. I want to say this could help make DOA have a healthy playerbase, but I feel this game would still be labeled as a gooner game and avoided by a lot of the community, but I don't know.

Hello, I got a Humble Bundle of Arc System Works games, and two I already owned.

Blazblue CentralFiction: FV5EK-8NTR3-P985F

GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R: GJ7JH-2RN5K-P95G0 

By all means, please take them if you'd like!

I feel like fighting games are only really popular with a casuals till a month or so after it's released simply because most of them finish whatever story mode there is or tried matchmaking for a week or so and gave up till inevitably got smashed in by the "experienced" players

So, the ArcSys humble bundle is here, and though I already have strive, I am interested in some of the other games. It's BBTAG, BBCF, UNI2, the old GG games, and some other assorted ArcSys stuff. All that for 20 bucks seems like a pretty good deal. However, fatal fury COTW is also on sale for 15 bucks. And Granblue versus rising is also on sale for 15 bucks. I could also get the deluxe editions of these games with some or all DLC for 30 bucks for City of the wolves, and 22 bucks for Granblue. If I wanted to spend like 40 dollars max, what's the best combo of these games to get? I did try the Granblue demo (which is somehow the full game basically? I can use every character in ranked, aside from DLC), I thought it was decently fun, but so far I thought most of the characters felt a little too simple. I did have fun with Ferry though.

So I have this friend who got into fighting games at the same time that I did, we grew as players together and constantly play against each other. No matter what game we play, be it Tekken, SF, Guilty Gear or any other fighting games, both of us naturally gravitate towards our respective archetypes, him being a grappler and me being a rushdown. For the most part, the only human players we play against is each other.

With that context set, here's the thing. He's a phenomenal grappler (he'll never hear this from me) and throughout the past 2 years that we played, he made sure that I respect that. So much so that it caused me to develop muscle memories that is built specifically to deter him.

He does raw special moves and command grabs in a chain that doesn't effectively make sense, but it always catches me. I played against a CPU Alex in SF3 3rd Strike and I jumped back after a blocked flash chop because I was anticipating a Spiral DDT that never came. And this type of interactions follow me everywhere, even when I'm dominating a fight in a tourney, I end up hesitating because the countless matches against him whittled the confidence in my strings and I ended up being scared of or over-respecting another grappler who has no conventional counters at the moment.

I mean this man will do a giant swing raw from across the screen as king just to mess with me, I ended up forming a muscle memory to break that instead of the more obvious shining wizard, you bet I get caught with that every single time and get made fun of because of it.

Well that's it for the rant, has anyone else ever experienced this? Where your fundamentals are completely warped by a singular person? How do you un-learn something like that?

Brawlhalla has become a huge money grab since Ubisoft took over and it takes way too long for updates and changes + the engine is really bad.. after over 10 years of playing and 16,000 hours, in recent years I’m growing tired and having longer breaks.

Was wondering what games someone could suggest to get into for something different, I’ve been following combo devils for a few weeks now and it seems really cool and interesting but it’s still in beta.. but was there any recommendations (apart from smash sorry I just don’t like Nintendo as a company) for fighting games?

Hello all,

I am some what new to playing fighting games & my platform of choice is PC (Steam). What is your favourite sub-genre of fighting games/why?

I mainly enjoy anime fighting games & VS games like Street Fighter etc. My reason for this is because I was born in the 90s & anime was becoming popular in Australia especially Dragon Ball Z as well as arcade fighting games by Neo Geo such as KOF.

Do you enjoy ArcSys games? I have recently been looking at getting into playing the Guilty Gear franchise.

Hi guys, i've been a very casual FG player ( except for smash ultimate, i've put 2k jours online ).

I never really dived into a fighting game lately, and i have the itch coming back.

I need some advice to choose a game to invest time, and i've never really statisfied from what i tried.

What i want: a clean ranked mode. I click ranked match, wait an opponent, and fight. Tbh, i cant deal with a character i need to sit in front of a tv and wait for an opponent to sit by m'y side. A small detail, but that piss me off.

I'd like to avoid 50 dlc character at 5 euro each ( looking at you SF 6 ), but i can accept a few dlc ( and maybe profit from the summer sale rn on steam )

No tag fighting, i waited years for 2xko but ended hating it for having to control 2 char at the same time.

I'd like to avoid small player base game, i'm not asking for millions players, but a relatively big active community.

I dont like Tekken and MK

So is there any FG i can dive into with this ? Thx for your help !

( Sorry for mistakes i can make, not a native english )