How do you get into fighting games as an older person? I never played them as a kid and now I suddenly want to. I have Strive and DBFZ. What resources should I use? I know nothing about them I only know how to do certain inputs and have a general comfortableness just from playing platformers so long.
How do you get into fighting games as an older person? I never played them as a kid and now I suddenly want to...
Wyatt Barnes
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Nolan James
>Push button
>Character punches
>Push different button
>Character kicks
Here you go.
Daniel White
What game? If you don't want to join a (((Discord))) then the following would be good places to start
>dustloop
for GG and BB
>dream cancel
KOF
>mizuumi
FB games in general and everything else
Know that combos aren't everything and that they only help you deal more damage. Also train with the character you find the most fun
Gabriel Jackson
you dont.
you either play with your friends of similar skill level or you dont play at all.
if you play now, youll just get filtered by the top 10% who play all the time or sit for minutes on end finding a match (thatll last for three minutes).
Brayden Rodriguez
You have to treat a fighting game like a job if you want to compete at even the most basic level, otherwise just get drunk and mash buttons with your friends.
Samuel Watson
if you play enough you’ll want to get better or else you just get bored.
Isaac Carter
dustloop for framedata
fighting game glossary for terms
at first set ai at most difficult, when you got comfortable with beating it then go online and get washed by real people for weeks
but don't give up just keep playing and you'll get better eventually
strive's combo maker allows to just download any combos for you to practice so just get most basic ones and start grinding
Elijah Diaz
if you're not a sweaty nerd with no job and no life just forget about it
Ethan Sanchez
I'm old and got into Strive as basically a first fighting game. The important thing before setting out is that the way you learn the game is by playing the game. Everything else is extremely useful reference material that you should check when you find problems through playing the game that you need answers to. Don't try to sit through all of the external resources or stay in training mode until you think you "know" how to play the game because it's not fun and you'll get bored. It's like studying a dictionary to learn a language.
The in-game tutorials are a good resource to start. Whenever you feel like you're comfortable with the very basics, hop online. Stick to ranked and don't worry about your performance, ranking is another resource to use to find even matches you can learn from. When you find things that you don't know how to deal with, watch your own replay and bring it into training mode to replicate situations and figure it out, or check the dustloop wiki for general tips and hard numbers.
Basically this.
Chase Miller
Accept that it will take 2 years of casual practice to get decent
Owen Hughes
Do not be afraid to go online and get your ass beat. I was for the longest and didn't learn shit compared to when I started grinding it out against people.
Colton Foster
The fun's more in getting good than being good anyway.
Elijah Cook
This person is a huge bitch, this is the very definition of FILTERED. For fuck sakes you can matchmake, have a fun match and rematch for christ sakes. It's easier going into the game and finding people than it is dragging new ones into it. You're going to be behind everyone else sure, but there are disabled people with more heart than you looking for fighters they have a chance to outsmart over outmaneuver. And getting outsmarted is tons of fun.
As for you, Strive just released the best in game combo sharing system in the entire genre, fuck one of the only ones. You can now search the player bases ideas. Most newbies goof around with the moves in training, get the inputs but no comprehension on how things really work out. You can search and watch all the crazy shit your character can pull off, then download the combo, train it, and boom it's in your arsenal. Make sure to put input history on. If Fighterz had it you'd just need to learn how to reflect and you're ready to face the world. As for the actual wizardry going on behind the scenes, getting your ass kicked when you're trying your very hardest usually highlights matchup/meta, but if you want to "git gud" quick try and make your way up the survival high score board in strive. By the time you make it to 30-40 you'll probably obliterate floors 5 and down. The first 10 pretty much let you get a free combo at the start, and you get burst back every match.
William Perez
The problem with this is that most matchmaking systems are just absolute garbage. You will either get put against someone you can beat by pressing one button, or someone that stops you from even pushing one button, with either scenario having you learn nothing.
Nathan Miller
Imagine simping this hard for an entire genre
Jaxson Long
I play Street Fighter, Guilty Gear and Blazblue with my dad every once in a while, if he can enjoy them you have no excuse as any real man enjoys beating shit up.
>mfw going all out on him as Platinum and Sakura
Logan Cox
Do you play casuals? In fighting games its the absolute opposite than in most of games with matchmaking, you will end with people around your level if you go for ranked and probably will have a far more chill time than in casual or unranked
In casuals in fighting games you will always find people with an insane amount of hours and it won't be a "casual" experience at all
Jeremiah Green
True. My best experiences were with SFV, Strive, and playing games like GBFV and MBTL on launch. I got absolutely raped in games like KI or BBCF before it got rollback.at that point I'd say make friends with fellow beginners in a game you'd like.
Isaiah Long
That's been my complete opposite experience with most games in general, the ranked bracket is always all over the place, either by design or flaw.
Carson Mitchell
I'm a 30 year old boomer who has been playing fighting games for nearly 20 years. They're at the absolute best when it's you and some friends playing together in person. Most places (even smaller cities and towns) have locals now, so if you're decently social you can meet some people and get a lot of advice and experience and have fun. You're never too old to learn something new (i bought a skateboard a few months ago and have been doing that). I don't play as many fighting games nowadays because I find the "big" games fatally boring, shit like strive, sfv, and dbz are just so tedious to watch and to play, especially after growing up in my teens and early 20s with sf4, mvc2, and mvc3. That's personal taste though and your mileage will vary.
Luis Ross
Sorry man but that's just factually untrue, the only game where that does apply is MK11 where casuals is pretty chill, but for any other fighting game in casuals you get impossible matches and in ranked you can chill with people around your skill
Carter Kelly
you're lucky man. i was too young to get into marvel proper. but i got melee so its ok.
John Rogers
Hi. This is the most important resource to start with. Watch all 3 parts, they're short. I'm serious. Don't worry that it's about street fighter 4, virtually every fighting game is essentially street fighter 4 when you first start playing. These explain the basics of 2d fighting games perfectly
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Good luck, user
Liam Ross
I'm gonna need some more data from other people before I determine if you're full of shit.
Camden Perez
also there's tutorials on youtube for practically everything. strive has a character guide for every character.
Kayden Fisher
>buy this for 3 usd
>pick a character you like the most
>go to the Dustloop page about them
>read moves and gameplan
>practice gattlings
Congratulations, you learned how to play ggacr at a basic level, after a while you'll get cleaner execution, and an understanding of the character specifics in fights. Now you can learn some harder combos that require RC's and frame traps.
Oliver Rogers
If theres one genre where your age really shows and is a handicap, its got to be fighting games. I used to be so good at Street Fighter, right up to 4, but I just can’t keep up any more. I’d love to still play them, but my hands and eyes just can’t keep up these days and the young guys kick my ass so bad its no fun.
Kevin Robinson
It's called loving video games you joyless fuck. Things that take skill and practice are very rewarding to do, even if its just a dumb game, which is why fighting game fans are so enthusiastic and why youre a dishwater, slack jawed fuck
Grayson Fisher
>enjoying myself on the strive yesterday, even when losing
>play again today, get my ass beat non-stop and fucking hate that i'm a ky and anji main
What are some other characters that are fun (and easy) to play?
Aaron Watson
I don't know if you're not American, but in modern America if you go to a meetup you will be met with a melting pot of degenerate diversity and obnoxious outbursts of "hype"
Also you will probably be mugged.