Yo, how should I learn to play fighting games if I've barely ever touched one in my life? SFV's on sale for 8 bucks right now; is that a good entry point?
Yo, how should I learn to play fighting games if I've barely ever touched one in my life...
Justin Stewart
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Colton Morgan
Just play Tekken it’s the best one
Michael Myers
Any fighting game you pick up is gonna beat your ass hard. Pick whichever one looks the most appealing to you. Tekken is definitely the way to go if you want a 3D fighting game though. These days there's all kinds of videos on youtube for learning each specific fighting game. No matter what, if you keep playing you'll get better at it.
Justin Flores
>Pick whichever one looks the most appealing to you.
That's the thing though, I don't know what I'd like because I don't have experience with the genre.
Matthew Bailey
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Everything else is extremely boring at high level: you just copy the meta and follow the optimal strategy with no creativity whatsoever.
Tekken on the other hand is fun as fuck at high level because that's when movement and poking turns into pure mindgames
Alexander Carter
cringe
Blake Evans
SFV is on its way out, plus there’s a shit ton of DLC. T7 or UNIST is your best bet, you could try your luck with Sam Sho but that’s not out for a few months.
Julian White
play tekken and get ready to get raped online for a long time
Benjamin Reyes
Play UNIST, solid tutorial and hit up the beginner channel in the UNIST discord for matches if you are us east I can be your partner, just got into it a month ago
Liam Williams
Tekken is the best one, but not for the scrubby reasons you mentioned.
Nolan Mitchell
SFV is widely considered a trash game. If you want to enter 2D fighting, I'd pick up UNIST or 3rd strike via the anniversary edition, or wait for Samurai Shodown.
If you want to pick up 3D fighting games, Tekken is the best one, but Soul Calibur 6 might be an easier point of entry.
Dominic Thomas
Don’t listen to these fuckers
SFV is by far the best entry into fighting game because it teaches everything and in a more important manner than Tekken. Tekken’s non reliance on jump means you will never have to worry about cross ups and dp’s and other important stuff. It’s easier to go from SFV to Tekken than the other way around.
Landon Scott
Fighting games are not fun to play. Don't waste your time
Thomas Martinez
Cool, I'll pick up UNIST soon, then
I'm US East too. Do you want to drop your Steam or Discord or whatever?
Charles Foster
SFV is a good place to start. Yes, it had the worst launch of any fighter possibly ever, but its much better now, theyve actually worked on it a lot. Im betting most of these people havent played it since around release. its easier to pick up than a lot of other fighters too. I got back into it over the last year, and i quit a couple weeks after release. I was a die hard fan of 4 too. it even has characters like Ed and Falke to start with if you find inputs hard.
Honestly though, fighters arent fun unless you genuinely enjoy 1on1 fair competitive situations. its not gonna be fun unless youre alright with getting your ass kicked all the time and having to learn constantly.
If you pick it up, watch youtube character guides and theyll give you an overview of what buttons to press on your character and what situations they like to be in.
Elijah Martinez
SFV's netcode makes me hate online fighting games. Sometimes it just shits the bed even if you know your opponent has a good connection. For that fact alone I can't recommend it, unless you're playing offline.
Samuel Foster
Different user, but I'm a Guilty Gear player. Is there anyone who has the same sort of aggressive zoning gameplan that Venom does?
Adam Miller
How alive is UNIST on ps4? its v dead on steam
Tyler King
byakuya similar rushdown playstyle but his zoning is not as good as venom. Could check out Vatista but she’s a charge character.
Gavin Butler
Julian Ward
There were a bunch of lobbies a couple hours ago and a ton of people on ranked. NA though
Asher Moore
(not OP, obviously)
I bought the game on Steam 3 days ago, have 270 ranked matches, I suck a lot (55% wins so far), and the only lag I had was against certain PS4 players or PC fags from Brazil. Am European.
Some anons say it depends from person to person.
Liam Jones
I guess Hilda since it's hard to escape her effective range but you better be good at blocking if someone gets close enough to fight back.
Michael Sanchez
user Venom is a charge character
Anthony Morris
Reminder, it's not about the results. You'll just get demotivated if you focus on that.
Juan Collins
It's actually for those reasons. It's the only fighting game that is still fun at a very high level.
>but it's really fun to mash brainlessly!
That goes for every fighting game
Chase Baker
Just get USFIV instead
Hunter Stewart
Counter-bait: the other guy is only doing highs and lows, not mids.
Isaac Richardson
ANY fighting game takes hundreds of hours to stop being absolute garbage, they are the most rewarding and satisfactory genre though, its a journey that doesn't stop once you really get into, imo you'll eventually play all of them even if its just in a superficial way as well as learn things throughout the way, the best advice is to try SF2 and Third Strike offline on some arcade emulator and learn the genre fundamentals, but of course the good thing about fighting games is fighting people, you should pick the game that LOOKS appealing to your eyes and try that, if its really active, better, among the active ones i'd say they are:
>SFV
>MK11
>Tekken 7
>DBFZ
>SoulCal 6
>UNIST
but there's others that are really really really good where you just need to find people in forums, /vg/ generals, discord, reddit, etc such as Killer Instinct, MvC Infinite, KoF games, Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, etc. Also watch this guy's videos youtube.com
Noah Long
The problem with fighting games is that they don't have good single player content.
If you don't have friends who like these types of games, or if you don't play online, you're wasting your money.
And if you wanna play against other players, you have to spent hundreds of hours to get good. Not even great... just good.
I love fighting games, but unfortunately I dont have enough time to play them. The only one I play today is SFV, and I consider myself a decent player (I have 140 hours in SFV and 300hours in SFIV).
I wish they had better AI, more single player modes, a better story etc.
Jace Edwards
Go play Blazblue then