How good are you at Fighting Games

How good are you at Fighting Games

Bad. Thinking of investing in a hitbox

>snes alpha 2

Too good for casuals that they don't want to play me
Too bad for pros that I can't land a single hit playing them

Terrible.

With a stick I'm the equivalent of a younger sibling skill wise.

With a gamepad I'm mediocre at worst and competent at best.

Irredeemably abysmal.

pretty decent at melee and project m

Shit at fightans, but boy am I a sucker for them.

Pretty mediocre, but I have fun playing them.

I'm at that place where I understand the fundamentals enough to poop on someone who doesn't really get fighting games, but against someone who does know what they're doing, my foundation is pretty shaky, at best. It doesn't help that I generally don't play online and only get a chance to play people at weeklies that have been on hiatus for a good while in my area, so I tend to fall out of practice playing against actual people.

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Really bad. I just play them for breathers between other games, set the difficulty to low and just mash away.

I abysmal execution, doesn't matter if it's on a pad, stick or even a keyboard.

This right here.

How do I get better at fightan?

this, it as this point you have to find opponents locally to help you train. but sadly the fgc in my area play shitty games.

I don't really know how this is possible. If you buy a game on release there are people online who don't even know how to block.

I mean yeah if you're playing 3S then you're going to get fucking wrecked but if you buy Tekken 7 on release and can't beat some people online then you might be disabled.

sfv is shit
i hate anime
i hate NRS
dont have ps4 for kof14
dont know how to play 3d games

maybe fightan isnt for me anymore

Try KI
Its neat

At least you have a scene.
I will be stuck in this limbo until I move out.

I used to play MvC3 with a bunch of black people, I was the only white guy there.
When someone new would show up they would make fun of my Phoenix wright/Arthur/Akuma team, but would get insanely frustrated at a "joke" team winning.
Sometimes I'd switch out Arthur for Hsien-ko, firebrand, or tron though.

I'm okay. probably below average.
except on games with block buttons. those are too difficult to get used to at this point in my life.

It's hard to judge how good you are? I win some and I lose some. If you are asking do I know the fundamentals, understand frame data, can do combos and know how to set up/ punish with my character, then yes but that doesn't mean I can beat high level tournament players or get bodied by some scrub from time to time.

Too good to go against my friends anymore, completely free to anyone with an inkling of knowledge.
>friend bragged about how good he was at DOA
>Saw this as my chance to finally play a game with one of them since I'd never played it before
>start winning near consistently after 3 fights
>get a little training in with the goth loli looking one after finding somewhat of a groove with her
>completely shut him down afterwards
>he stops talking about it as much
>just wanted someone to play on fair ground with but my autistic overenthusiasm surpassed him in 2 days

There's nobody in my area either. Closest to any scene is 3 hours away in Dallas. I just want more people to play with consistently so I can learn.

Fucking terrible

I was good at fight night round 3
Couldn't get really good at guilty gear or anything.

I did this for soul calibur 5 at my locals and started winning the tourneys even though I don't own the game.

Good enough my RL friends won't play me bad enough to get bodied online.

I'm Ok. Ok as in, I know how to do QCF, QCB, charges and shit. Real basic shit like that and when I use those on my friends, I completely demolish them cause all I they do is button mash and they act all amazed like I'm a master at the game or something. Kinda funny.

soul calibur 5 is so difficult
i got bodied by some button masher

Theres a group of lower tourney level players in Killeen/Cove. Try the bit bar and ask questions.

That diddly-o feeleroni.
No one who hasn't invested a serious amount of time in the genre could ever hope of beating me and I could probably win some local tournaments pretty easy but the high level stuff is forever beyond me because I can't practice with high level players.

That would be an extra hour away. I'm in the other direction in Atlanta, thanks for the info though.

terrible, do love watching it though

I really game fightans though.

Tekken mainly

no I'm okay with Tekken and SF, because those dont have block buttons.

Very good

I've learned everything from HD combo's, target combo's and how to pull them off consistently even in the heat of a fight. What I need to learn though is how to read opponents fast and how to read them good. I really suck at reading others and it is usually the cause of me losing because of either missed opportunities or doing a reversal at the wrong time.

Also I need to reign in my temper and focus. There is something in me that let the blood run on my head when I smell blood thus becoming sloppy

>all these tutorials
>community and forums to talk and train with others
>netplay

Theoretically, everyone should be able to play at a competent level where the only problems should be reading your opponent and some slight execution errors.

I see people asking how to get better, and it should be obvious they should just keep training and finding little answers that shave you the win. After the tutorial phase, progress should be tough because now you're getting into the meta of the game.

Extremely bad, my two friends I grew up with, constantly beat me in Melee and then Brawl when it came out, and I played with them about a year ago on Sm4sh and said fuck it. I moved away since then and haven't played a fighting game since.

I'm easily the best Smash 4 player on Sup Forums right now

I'm trying to get better at sm4sh, can I face you?

That feel
My friends got me into Project M after they'd been obsessed with it for a few weeks.
We had all played Smash 4 a bit but Project M just seemed too clunky to me.
I eventually caved and gave it a shot.

Within days I was their equal, within weeks I would beat one of them absolutely guaranteed and the other one about 80% of the time.

I now have to convince them to play with me.

Good in party gamed.

Depends, do have a 3DS?

You practice, go to your local scene and play people at your level and slightly above, ask for advice.

Focus on practicing fundamentals and techniques specific to your game, then start getting out there. Online practice doesnt count for shit, only grinding tech and fundamentals will get you nowhere, you need to strike a balance

Yes.

>Tr4sh
>Proud of yourself

OK sport get at us when you're good at game people take even remotely seriously

Go to bed spooky

What should I play then.

>$100k pot isn't serious
lmao

We need a 'body your friends, free online' lobby.
With our powers combined, we could probably get a couple of us into proper online warrior status.

I just need this. I have no practice buddy. No "rival." Best I can do is rewatch my losses and see where I went wrong.

I hate living in a shit place with no local scene. I surpassed all my friends and family and now have to play online only and online sucks in comparison.

Awful but I love playing them
All I got to play with his 5 of my friends but we are all bad
Going to evo was a fucking blast

don't do it, it has a learning curve steeper than actually learning the game. I suppose once you learn it you're set, but it's not like you'll become amazing thanks to it.

Whenever I play with my friends I'm the worst one there, and we rarely play fighting games. So pretty fuggin bad.

Anything else besides that or MK
Off the top of my head
>Melee
>Sf3/4/5, in order of quality
>Skullgirls
>GgxrdRev(2 when it's out)
>UMVC3
>Yatagarasu
Shit even project M is more acceptable.
Basically just don't prolong the life of a game thats just brawl except no tripping

The refusal to accept Sm4sh as being objectively bad is one of the key indicators of an underdeveloped mind, my guy

Who cares? Be good at whatever you want to be good at.

>Basically just don't prolong the life of a game thats just brawl except no tripping

Nice bait.

>moving goalposts
lmao

Not moving goalposts, just not acknowledging money=quality

By that logic Pokken, SFV 1.0, and even MKX are good and we all know that's all bullshit

I have a good understanding of the fundamentals but I have yet to put in the time to be able to pull off the combos with enough consistency that I'm a threat to people who do.

I also like to dip my toes in a lot of differnat fighters so the only one I really mastered wasDoA4 because it was the only fighting game with online for a long time.

How is sm4sh objectively bad?

My time has come and gone.

There was time where I was playing with literally everyone who goes to tournaments and even currently one of the people I spent alot of time with on Xbox is one of the best players in the world.

Then life hit me. I haven't been at fighting game since. Try to get back into them but I can't beat random. Fuck it all.

Less bluntly, It doesn't count if you don't have VC or discord or something going, like matchmaking grinding is BS, unless you're reviewing replays and shit.

To rephrase, online isn't worthless, grinding matchmaking is.

More specifically, you should be able to talk to opponents somehow, it's not that playing online is bad inherently, just that playing randos only with no back and forth conversation is less valuable

In my circle of friends I've been the best at 3D fighters since high school. There was only ever 2 people in my friends group who would be a good match-up and I ended up getting a flat with one and we'd have constant late night Tekken 5 rounds and would always come out 50-50 and call it a draw. I'm better than him at other 3D fighters and he's better than me at 2D fighters. I'm getting better at 2D fighters as I recently got into Guilty Gear and that Under Night In-Birth: Late EXE thing. I prefer animated 2D fighters like MvC to 3D models on a 2D plane shit like Street Fighter IV and the new KoF. More of a visual thing I can't get over.

I'm complete shit online though. Can win a few matches here and there but I mostly enjoy playing in the same room as people or single player.

That's actually what I mean by what I need. I watch my matches, and when I get utterly destroyed, I try to send a quick message to ask for a couple improvement tips and, understandably, rarely get anything back. Random people online don't want to waste their game time going back and forth in messages with some scrub.

Above casual, below pro. Somewhere in the middle. About like that chart.

Well for starters the DLC characters all vame out staggeringly better than the main cast, which is poor design verging on pay-to-win.

The lack of either generic or character-specific advanced techniques means homogenous play styles for nearly all of the cast, with variance only being in spacing and select move properties.

Players who main the same character barely get to forge a personality through gameplay because they all play the goddamn same.

Also defensive games are slow games, slow games are unentertaining. As soon as smash 5 comes out smash 4 is gonna get dropped and all the cries of "but much prize pots" are gonna be killed because papa ninty won't give a shit anymore.

Invalid. What game are you even playing to come up with such a wrong graph? There is no way in hell this is from SFV or any current Capcom game.

Yeah sorry for being so nondescript, my.mindset is just so rooted in "in-person" gameplay that online comms tend to get rolled over for me.

As long as you can talk to people you can improve, fightgames are very much a social endeavor.

Also if you want specific communities with guaranteed VC, it's probably obvious but Discord for whatever game is usually what you need. I can vouch for the r/skullgirls discord and the melee fox discord, both have people with mics and internet that are more than willing to train.

The only point you made was about the DLC.

>Players who main the same character barely get to forge a personality through gameplay because they all play the goddamn same.

That's not the games problem.

>Also defensive games are slow games, slow games are unentertaining.

You realize you don't just have to play defensive?

This probably applies to new 3s players on fightcade, i started playing 3s on fightcade from may 2015 really sticked to it got really good was able to beat the shit out of average players but after spending to much time on the chatroom, really good players started noticing me and accepted my challenge, and damn they were good, there was one guy who taught me urien, after like one year i really came close and became almost equal to them, its because he was an online only player like me.
If you only play online after a certain point getting better will be really really hard. All the people who were beating the shit out of me were all offline players or had good time spent in offline, like number1gouki

From the thumbnail i thought Guy had a feather boa or a straight up Doflamingo cape.

>really good players started noticing me and accepted my challenge

>Tfw you destroy everyone and think you're hot shit until your future Senpai enters the room and gives you a reality check I hate this feeling so much, and I'm always placed in it. Then I have to pretend I'm amazed at Senpai's skill all while plotting from behind the scenes. But I never ever manage to defeat my Senpai(s).

Truly suffering.

Yeah its fucking depressing, offline players have like a very different play style in 3s they put extra effort on being unpredictable, so that they don't get parried, instead of just relying on your opponent's, lack of parry skill

I'm thinking about getting back into SFV but the gameplay turns me off every time.

play 3S and ST on Fightcade

This.

I sometimes gives matches away to my friends by droping combos. It's fun to have them salty, but it's not fun to sit there with 10-win streak and them more or less giving up on the match.

I don't even play strong characters in any of the SF or tekken games.

Last time we played i won 22-2 with Alex vs Urien in 3s

Pretty good, but I'm not going to do bullshit infinites or combos that take 20% of your health, that's not fun for anyone; is that really the appeal of fighting games?

Depends. I'm only good at Soul Calibur because inputs don't have ridiculous complexity and it's not about infinite combos like almost any fighting game now. How normal person is supposed to make 20-30 hit combos in GG or BB is beyond me. I have GGXrd but dropped quickly.

It's exact the reason why can't into fighting games anymore. My friends are too shitty and casual, online people are too core and playing alone with CPU is boring.

I'm decent enough. Sometimes I think about buttoning down and try to see if I can win a tourney or 2, but then I realized that I'm too old and will mostly never outplay the younger people at that level.

Used to be decent. Not top tier. Now, I'm garbage. With adulthood and a growing backlog of games, I just don't have as much time to invest in fighting games anymore. These days I'm shit. I can probably beat the average dude at a street fighter or something, but I can't compete with people that play it every day.

smash is not a fighting game

nope. I get my ass kicked in single player modes ever since I was a kid playing Mortal Kombat. I just don't have that competitive part in me.

>get in to fightan when KoFXIV is announced
>pick up 02UM
>friend claims he's a life long fan of fighting games
>we used to play often, he usually won
>eventually get better, begin to see that he's a total novice and win consistently
>"It's just that I'm really a Street Fighter player at heart"
>pick up 3rd Strike
>still beating him every match
>"I'm in to Guilty Gear now"
>destroying him harder than ever before
>always comes up with an excuse whenever I invite him now
Well fuck you dude. Now I'm mediocre at 3 games with no one to play with.

I can beat this guy

It is, however, a competitive fighting oriented game with more similarities to a fighting game than differences.

Sure it is. Just because it doesn't emulate Street Fighter II doesn't mean anything.

how good would you describe a 2800 lp street fighter 5 player?

Fighting games are one of those genres that I can't get good at. The other one is real time strategy.

>i hate anime
>maybe fightan isnt for me anymore

neither is this website, normalfag

So you only play team games, so that you can always blame it on your team?

>I can't get good at games that pit me up against someone else in a raw skill test where I have nothing to blame but myself.

You're the cancer killing video games.

Wow talk about someone who think videogames are serious business.

Uh, money is the cancer killing video games. because developers can push a shit out and people will still pay for it is the problem.

Nope, people who feel like they should enjoy 100% of what a game has to offer just because they paid for it are killing the industry.