Taunting = Bullying

Due to the current state of gaming, how likely would taunting in fighting games be considered "bullying" for certain groups of people and an outcry for their removal from fighting games?

When taunts are used to harass a single player or group of players. Hell, to me taunts serve no purpose anyway.

Its a mind game

I'd give anything to be bullied by her

Not enough casual bitches play fighting games for long enough that that will ever happen.

>play as Gief
>opponent keeps away entire game
>get tired of this bullshit
>end up taunting until opponent moves in
It works sometimes

>play as Gief

>/out/

This.

What a comedy is your defiance

>opponent taunts
>start to go in for the punish
>stop because I'm not sure if taunts are cancelable or not

Silly user. You can’t keep Gief out. He eventually finds a way in. That’s our specialty.

>opponent taunts
>go into patience mode
>they eventually crack
>if its SFV they'll probaby rage quit too

I love fighting games.

Why are her feet so big

Taunts are fun though. They fuck with the weakminded.

>play as Gief
>get tired of the opponent's bullshit
>suddenly become self-aware of Gief's 50/50 bullshit rock/paper/scissors playstyle (shared by other grapplers)
>end up not taunting after all because you realize you are hundred times worse and just cheesing victories from honest players

Mixups ain't cheese dude.

Non-reactable mixups are you little gremlin. You are forced to guess whether grapplers poke or command throw while you can always defend against honest mixups.

More fighting games should have Respect alongside Taunts

How do you guys feel about taunting enemies in single player games? That's harassing NPCs and making them feel bad! I'm glad based Tameem made the brave decision of not having taunts in DmC!

If I don't taunt you then I respect you.

What does that hand gesture even mean?
I've seen Juri doing that more than once

Cock stroking

>play a character w/o fireballs
>gief just sits there the entire match
>uses nothing but both lp
>still manages to somehow fill up both vtrigger and super

Honestly, what a shitty character. Whenever I play Boxer giefs and bigas just sit there waiting the while fucking match.

Because after Street Fighter 2 Capcom made a fighter about monsters called Darkstalkers that basically established the Capcom fighting game art style from then on. Lots of characters in that game had big hands and feet because they were monsters.

This

More like
>play Gief against someone without fireballs
>all they do is run away
>still always have enough bars to do an invincible reversal when I get close
>uses bars like crazy
>still have enough bar to hit confirm into super off of a poke
If you’re losing to Gief, you need to re-evaluate your playstyle

Unironically Morrigan's sprites doesn't have big hands/feet, lels

The only correct way to fight Gief is to stay away or he'll pull you into dice-rolling bullshittery. If he gets close, you are fucked, if you keep the distance, you win.

I want Juri to do that to my dick.

It's there for mind games. Considering you're instead focusing on defending/attacking you're leaving yourself clearly wide open.

It's bait or to deliberately disrespect and throw the opponent into a rage. It's going nowhere.

>invencible reversal
>Boxer

There is a difference between keeping your distance amd running away, the same way there is a difference between playing defensively and just sitting tere spammin lp on everything. Also if you are scared of invencible reversals which cost a bar you're the one that need to re-evaluate your gameplay.

I'm pretty sure you are baiting the guy or just incredibly stupid. SF2 sprites had big hands and feet.

It is a fighting game, their size makes hits feel more impactful, cover more of the attacking boxes and in general make the action on screen easier to follow. One of the many reasons why Tekken feels like shit to watch and play and why it will never be considered a serious fighting game.

I got hatemail in SF4 once for playing as Dan and doing Dan taunts at every opportunity.

When I first got back into fighting games as an adult, I thought everyone was taunting for fun and fooling around. Only later I learned about the highly salty community.

Nah fuck that and anyone who thinks that.
If you're such a pansy that someone taunting tilts you, then you need to get over it because it's a fucking video game and people are gonna keep doing it if it works.

And even if you did remove taunting people will just FIND ways to taunt (IK mode at match end in GG, shuffling in Gundam Versus, teabagging.)

Who says I’m scared? They’re just always there to prolong the inevitable. When you play Gief, you’re not playing the other guy so much as testing your own patience.