I really want to like fighting games but I feel like they're antithetical to the kind of person I am
>short temper in non serious situations, get easily frustrated which leads to stubborness
>like to experience many things without dedicating time to any single pleasure task
>have a stressful and high focus career that takes up most of my free time
>have the dilligency to continually throw myself at a challenge, but the stubborness to not quit despite being crushed effortlessly
>hate losing, but can't be assed to put effort in during a pleasure activity
>all of this on top of being the most physically and mentally demanding genre
This happen to anyone else? Pretty much the only fighting game I can play without raging is Strive and I dislike that game. I want to like fighting games but so many elements of my being make it difficult to play for any length of time to improve. I get 100 hours in and drop them every time
I really want to like fighting games but I feel like they're antithetical to the kind of person I am
Other urls found in this thread:
For me the separation between fgs being fun and fgs being infuriating is the magic of friendship.
If I'm hanging out with friends IRL it's very fun, if I try to play them alone I start boiling within minutes.
It's always been a very social genre, you're not supposed to just treat them like a solitary activity I don't think.
It's as physically and mentally demanding as your opposition makes it too, the only thing you need to have fun with fgs is people who are around the same level as you.
Wait did they really announce Kliff for S2?
Sure, but I enjoy playing them on a serious level. I enjoy winning and learning, I just find them intensely frustrating and at-odds with my personality. I don't get this way with any other competitive game.
>can't be assed to put effort in during a pleasure activity
Then play casually with friends, you can like and enjoy a game despite being bad at it.
>have a stressful and high focus career that takes up most of my free time
What is it?
If you enjoy playing them play them. Don't have to make it some identity crisis overthinking if it's correct for your personality to enjoy
None of my friends like fighting games. At least not the ones I play and certainly not enough to actually try and learn them.
Teaching secondary school. I love my job but it can be very time consuming and engrossing.
>I enjoy playing them on a serious level
>can't be assed to put effort in during a pleasure activity
How do these two parts align?
Even then it's the same approach, get into an fg community and find people who play around your level. You might be mediocre, but there's plenty of mediocre people out there, even the ones who'll become great in the future will likely have to pass by you on the way there.
Every community has a gatekeeper of sorts that plays decent, is very experienced, but never had enough drive to push to greatness.
It's all about the community, the games are merely a tool for interacting with them.
How do you feel about discords and such anyway? You got a local scene where you live?
im basically the same as you, its took a lot of effort to start playing to improve and not caring about the losses, i still struggle to this day, I've found I do better by either playing in bursts or switching between a few games, my combos and execution have also been getting better gradually as i usually bash the dummy for a lil while to warm my hands up and get a feel fore the game movement etc
You're probably right. I'm goin' through it right now so maybe that bled into this a bit. I think I need to learn better self-control and know when to step away to do something else.
Basically I enjoy playing fighting games to win and can enjoy them as such, but if my brain says its a pleasure activity I just want an immediate reward or enjoyment. I find I tend to "just one more" when I lose and want to close out a game on a win against a strong opponent even though I'm not good enough to consistently beat them.
I think my big thing is that I always get close. I'm never swept, I'm always doing well but struggle with closing out rounds. I always put up a good fight even against super strong opponents, but my inability to consistently win upsets me.
Oh also Discords are good if they're social places. The +R Discord for example tends to be okay, but I want to get to know people when I play against them and already have so many other hobbies.
I live in Toronto so there probably is one. Maybe i'll check it out some time.
you have the wrong perspective. your goal in fightan should not be to win the match but becoming a better player.
if you can internalize this idea, then you'll start to value losses, if not even prefer them over wins because a loss always signifies that there's something you can do better.
tl;dr picture yourself as a martial arts protag during the training arc
Yep
It's not meant for everyone
youre so stupid
This is a good image.
I've always wanted to play Hazama. I put 70 hours into BBCF as Jin and wanted to branch out. I tried Naoto but he's rather tough mechanically. How is Haz?
Kiss me then...!!
Do I need to use a restrictor on my gate?
>How is Haz
A lot of fucking microdashes to get any consistent damage midscreen
You said you enjoy teaching, but do you enjoy learning yourself much? If you're able to consistently play stronger players without getting destroyed you're in a great place to do so. Try setting smaller goals for yourself than a win, punishing X move when you don't consistently, implementing a new mixup you learned into your gameplay, etc. Something you can still feel accomplished about performing even if you end up losing the match overall. For me personally noticing my own improvement in some small area is far more rewarding than any random netplay win could ever be. Over time those little improvements will naturally lead to more wins, but try to enjoy the road to them as well. Playing fighting games for the sole purpose of wanting to jump online and rack up wins is very difficult to do consistently and if that's all you're after it sounds like it'll just continue to be frustrating
I could consistently do Jin l's j.214C > microdash 2B pickup. Are they comparable?
Gimme a general route notation on that Jin combo, I'll see if it compares.
I love to teach, and do enjoy learning quite a bit. I thinks its more that my brain is wired to think that learning is work instead of enjoyment when it doesn't have to be. Part of it may also be that i'm accomplished in life and assume mastery due to frequent success when I really should be working harder and harder to succeed. Success is iterative after all. I should look at things in tbe bigger picture and expect success to come after consistent improvement, not bursts of jt.
Looking at it like smaller goals should be good for improvement and retaining positive attitude. I should also learn better self-reflection for fighting games in general. Thanks for the advice.
youtu.be
This combo at 38 seconds.
Okay, I did it a few times and I'd say Jin's microdash 2B feels a bit easier than Hazama's 214D~B > 5A/B microdash conversions.
Jin having it as 2B makes things way simpler than trying to fight inputs in trying to not get Hazama's 6B in trying to get the microdash 5B out imo. Even more annoying when you want to try and microdash 5C and also have to stop yourself from getting an accidental 6C
So its easier, but not by too much? I'd be able to do Hazama's stuff?