Fighting Games

[Helikaon]

So, a few years ago, I became interested in fighting games.I blame the Two Best Friends Play YouTube channel for that, especially Woolie. I dabbled a bit with fighting games in my early teen years, with Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, but it was never really a genre I got all that into. 

That all changed in the run into Street Fighter 6's release, during which time I returned to Mortal Kombat and tried out a few other fighting games. Street Fighter 6 (and somewhat connected, MvC) is probably the game I've enjoyed the most over the last decade. I love playing it and recently bought it for my PS5 as well. I did have it on Xbox Series X, but I donated that console to my little brother when his PS4 broke, and I knew I was getting a PS5 to replace it (I'm a SONY guy at heart, haha).

I love everything about fighting games. The competitive nature (which is nuts, because I'm not a competitive person at all), the art design and graphics, the music (ESPECIALLY THE MUSIC!), how much dedication it takes to 'get gud', how you don't even need to get good to have fun, sometimes and depending on the game. And definitely the community aspect. There's a barcade in my local town that runs SF6 and TEKKEN 8 nights every fortnight, and I've started going to a couple and made some new friends, even if I do have to eat a little shit about my skills (or complete lack thereof, 3 or so years into this journey, and I've only won maybe a handful of matches, either online or in person.)

I'm a Cammy and Akuma main in SF6!

I'm addicted, basically. Anyone else a fan of fighting games? Maybe we could set up some bouts?

[Dirty Duck]

Love fighting games with a passion and they're definitely the game I get the itch to play the most if it's been a while. Have so many I'd love to dedicate so much time to and then I barely even manage to play one sometimes.

On Christmas Eve me and Jassassino unlocked every Tekken 4 character with his brother and then played some Soul Calibur II. Was the highlight of Christmas for me and I thought SCII seemed like a game I wanted to learn properly. Do you have the NSO+ on Switch 2? It's part of the GameCube Classics selection. Either way I'd definitely be down for some SF6 one day soon-hotel wifi permitting 😱

What's everyone's thoughts on Miary Zo in Tekken 8? I've seen some real vitriol about her calling her a gooner character lmao. I don't think anything about her seems that low brow. I like that Ogre is being acknowledged on some level again. If I had a nickel for every time a former Tekken boss character was now a powerset for a female character etc etc

[Helikaon]

Love fighting games with a passion and they're definitely the game I get the itch to play the most if it's been a while. Have so many I'd love to dedicate so much time to and then I barely even manage to play one sometimes.

On Christmas Eve me and Jassassino unlocked every Tekken 4 character with his brother and then played some Soul Calibur II. Was the highlight of Christmas for me and I thought SCII seemed like a game I wanted to learn properly. Do you have the NSO+ on Switch 2? It's part of the GameCube Classics selection. Either way I'd definitely be down for some SF6 one day soon-hotel wifi permitting 😱

What's everyone's thoughts on Miary Zo in Tekken 8? I've seen some real vitriol about her calling her a gooner character lmao. I don't think anything about her seems that low brow. I like that Ogre is being acknowledged on some level again. If I had a nickel for every time a former Tekken boss character was now a powerset for a female character etc etc

I do have NSO Expansion! Didn't know SC2 was on there though, that's dope! I don't think I've checked out the GameCube bit yet, though. I played a bit of that back in the day!

Miary just seems like a typical female fighting game character to me. They're (generally) all hyper-attractive, lmao.

[Null]

Historically I’m a huge fighting game fan. In practice I play way less these days than I use to, which saddens me a great deal.

Third Strike is probably my favourite of all time, but I have a lot of affection for IV as well. I played Third Strike in arcades as well as on console. Yang was my main, and sometimes Sean. On IV, it was Cody/Guy.

I also have extremely fond memories of Tekken, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve become less interested in it. Still love its art style, lore and characters though. Tekken was the first ever fighting game I owned for my PlayStation back in 96’ so I think it’ll always be special to me.

[Helikaon]

Historically I’m a huge fighting game fan. In practice I play way less these days than I use to, which saddens me a great deal.

Third Strike is probably my favourite of all time, but I have a lot of affection for IV as well. I played Third Strike in arcades as well as on console. Yang was my main, and sometimes Sean. On IV, it was Cody/Guy.

I also have extremely fond memories of Tekken, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve become less interested in it. Still love its art style, lore and characters though. Tekken was the first ever fighting game I owned for my PlayStation back in 96’ so I think it’ll always be special to me.

I think part of why I love Street Fighter 6 so much is that Super Street Fighter II was one of the first games I ever played, way back in the day on MegaDrive! I also have huge affection for elements of Tekken, and I played a shit tonne of Tekken 3 and Tag!