will fighting games ever be popular again?

As long as they have cute hapas

make a new heavy weight division and its popularity will skyrocket

>lust-provoking image
>pointless, time-wasting question
Just say you want a fightan girl cumthread. It's not like cumthreads get removed.

>>716085854 (OP)
Nope, I could write out a whole post about why but the point of the thread is actually Mai booba sexo

>>716085854 (OP)
>will fighting games ever be popular again?
no people cant stand accountability, when you lose in a fighting game its entirely your fault theres no team mates to save you or for you to scape goat. people cant handle that

>>716086523
this but fill the division with bara anthros

>>716085854 (OP)
there's multiple porn boards on this website anon. You don't need to crop shitty fetish art and then pretend to care about video games.

>>716087961

Lets post a REAL WOMAN

>>716088872
i hope hell is filled with muscly, sexy, goat-horned incubi

>>716085854 (OP)
Not when they are full price with paid battlepasses, $100 costume bundles, $40 season passes, and various other MTX bs.

>>716086789
This. Why even bother trying to be sneaky about it when they're janny-protected?
>>716089724
Let's not forget that even the ones that don't do this have no players because there's still personal tastes involved.

>>716085854 (OP)
soulcalibur will return to save fightan

habeeb it

>>716090605
Harada pretty much confirmed this is not going to happen, but who knows, after the massive failure of the T8 season 2 update, maybe we'll see the team splinter off and work on SC again.

>>716085854 (OP)
Hunt down and destroy all fighting Games, and kill all Devs, and their Fans. Erase all conception of fighting games from the human mind.
Then allow people to create to the genre from first principles unburdened by any sacred cows caused by 90s gaming limitations.

>>716085854 (OP)
No because the FGC itself has been compromised thanks to Strive

>>716090884
>intentionally work to kill off your rival in resource allocation
>Succeed
>Become kinda morose about losing your internal rival
>But move on and embrace the bounty that comes with being the one project without needing to compete
Why would he ever want SC to come back?

>>716085854 (OP)
no one wants to play a gay 2d chinese game that requires you to grind 100+ hours in "the lab" to be good at it

there's a million games you can git gud by actually playing it and having fun instead of sitting in training

also the fighting game community is one of the gayest communities who think they're hard niggas for being unemployed and spending 10+ hours a week grinding a chinese cartoon rock paper scissors simulator

>>716087871
gay FGC cuck quote. there's thousands of 1v1 games that take more skill and aren't just glorified rock paper scissors simulators. games that actually take skill to win instead of guessing high or low correctly.

play a real skill game like chess, starcraft, or really anything that doesn't involve rock paper scissors

>>716092520
ironically chess is extremely similar to fighting games, you spend hundreds of hours labbing and also requires you to predict your opponent
>starcraft
lmao

>>716092520
How does Starcraft NOT involve RPS you fucking retard?

>>716088981
gap moe cutie

>>716092810
>predict
chess scrub confirmed.

you don't need to predict shit. you should be eliminating all possibilities, not guessing

that's why you probably had to settle for fighting games lol. you can't think very far ahead so you have to guess i mean "predict"

>>716093926
You don't play chess OR fighting games, please shut the fuck up.

>>716092816
i dont play shartcraft. just used it as an example cause it's an RTS. point still stands

>>716094189
so you dont play anything, why are you here?

>>716094189
>point still stands
No it doesn't you stupid faggot, you don't play any of the things you mentioned so your opinion about them is completely irrelevant.

>>716094054
lmao this coming from the retard that thinks you need to PREDICT in chess LOL. stop predicting in chess and learn to calculate, maybe you won't be such a 600 elo shitter lmao. what the fuck are you predicting you dumb faggot? you are one of the stupidest posters here, just admit you don't know shit.

and i would cock slap you in the fighting games that i've played. i just stopped because i'd rather play a game that doesn't require low IQ grinding in "the lab" and autistically browsing discord channels for forbidden tech some homo posted 2 months ago

>>716085854 (OP)
Nah, fundamental problem with how its gameplay is set up. Generally speaking your ideal for getting a healthy influx of new players to a competitive scene for any given thing is the classic "easy to learn, difficult to master." But fighting games have a more "difficult to learn, even more difficult to master" thing going for them, which means that it is just always going to be a hard sell for new players.
There really isn't any way to fix that, because the difficulty of fighting games is the point, some devs think shit like the modern control scheme will help, but that is only one barrier out of many to even start playing fighting games well, and most people grasp that even if they still tend to blame shit like motion inputs.

>>716094276
yes i do, you are an absolutely retarded faggot if you think chess requires prediction LOL. you exposed yourself as an absolute dumbass and anyone who plays chess above 1000 knows that you have to calculate. post that shit on any chess forum and they would laugh in your face.

nigga you're trying to predict moves like there's fog of war in chess lmao you're so retarded

you exposed yourself as not knowing shit already

>>716094373
>learn to calculate
in other words predict, I don't know why you're sperging out about it

>>716085854 (OP)
The more popular they become, the more devs water them down.
Current gen fighting games are already lame compared to even things made last decade, I'd much rather they stay nice, just big enough to survive.
But you don't care about any of this, you just wanted to post Mai tits and I'm on board with that too.

>>716094581
*stay niche

>>716094554
calculation is not predicting you stupid faggot.

predicting is guessing. calculation is pure mental processing power.

learn the difference you retarded faggot

in a fighting game, you guess high or low. you can "mindgame" the player but none of that is intellectual. it boils down to a guessing game at the end of the day.

nothing about chess is guessing.

anyone who plays chess would laugh at you for thinking chess requires prediction.

why would you need to predict anything in perfect information game? low IQ FGC scrubs trying to act like they're playing chess lol.

how about you play a real game instead of RPS simulator or "I browsed 3 month old discord posts for some forbidden tech you don't know about: the game"

>>716094554
Just some retard LARPing as a 300IQ chess master to shitpost in a fighting game thread, there is literally nothing else to it.

>>716092816
nta but i'm not sure i'd call sc rock paper scissors because it's more about timing, resource management, information, and unit/army control
wouldn't call fighting games rps either, though

>>716085854 (OP)
>metalowl
fuck you, i'm trying not to fap here.

>>716090605
I hate tekken's movement but I also dislike guard buttons
I wish there was a SC with hold back to block

>>716094831
>calculation is pure mental processing power.
that's just a fancy way to say you're making educated guesses

>>716094962
Fair.
Calling fighting games or RTS rock-paper-scissors is reductionist and retarded.

SF6 is the most popular a fighting game has been in ages and Tokon will probably add to that if they manage a working netcode and ranked mode.
You faggots just hate to look at reality.

>>716094448
this is what i've always said. the genre is shit because other games, you "git gud" by playing the game and you naturally gain the skills to dominate. in fighting games, everything is just a grind and it's not even about skill so much as it is about rote memorization of countless setups, combos, and tech. you will take forever to figure out advanced combos just by grinding out PvP matches.

in fighting games you can't even play the game without going into practice mode to learn your BNB and a couple basic blockstrings. probably some setups too.

i dont know any other game where i literally have to go into practice mode to play the game at a basic level.

i have no problem playing other 1v1 games like Smash Bros, Chess, Master Duel, Poker, Dark Souls etc. I play loads of PvP games. I just dont want to sit in practice mode to get good. I want to play the game to get good. It doesn't matter if it's LoL or Smash Bros, I just dont want to grind practice mode like it's homework

>>716094938
Another retard who's never touched chess in his life lol.

You know you don't need to be a 300 IQ chess master to calculate right? It's not that I'm "300IQ", it's that you're a 60 IQ retard who can't think one move ahead

Do you even know what calculation is?

This just confirms FGC is full of high school dropouts who need to rely on 50-50s because they can't calculate lmaoo.

>>716095545
Why are people so eager to parrot this shitty "UUHM... you can't get good at fighting games just by playing them" meme?
You can.
The people who will be matched with you if you go online the instant you buy the game are NOT playing at a level where you need to lab anything, please fuck off with this.
I don't know why you wouldn't want to at least look at your move list and see your normals before actually playing the game but if you choose to do so you can absolutely pull it off.

>>716095194
pure mental processing power is "educated guesses"? Bro, I don't think you're allowed to post on 4chan if your age (or in your case IQ) is below 13

>>716095837
Because they lack the ego fortitude to eat the losses while they learn.

>>716095545
>in fighting games you can't even play the game
my 7 year old niece plays fighting games just fine, that isnt true at all lol

>>716095837
so please explain to me how I'm supposed to learn

BNBs
Setups
Oki
Blockstrings
Option selects

without going into practice?

>The people who will be matched with you if you go online the instant you buy the game are NOT playing at a level where you need to lab anything, please fuck off with this.

So... According to you, you can get good by beating a bunch of day 1 scrubs going into ranked blind? Beating up retards doesn't make you good at the game. And by week 2, you will need to learn blockstrings and combos so it doesnt even matter

>>716096070
essentially yes, because even if you account for everything you don't literally chose your opponents move

>gets blown up by some basic high/low mixup in some shitty modern fighting game or whatever
>gets so asshurt about this he spergs out about the whole genre in a thread not even truly dedicated to it
kek

>>716096352
...by playing the fucking game?
By trying out things mid match like people did for literal fucking decades in the arcades or in home versions of games without training mode?
What -exactly- do you fucking want here?

>>716096173
FGC faggots need to stop coping with this. I see this NPC quote come out of every other FGC retard's mouth when discussing fighting games. You niggas aren't hard. Most of you are 110 lb asian virgins and the other half are hood niggas using it as an alternative to gang violence in your primitive honor based society.

There are hundreds of games that people play which are 1v1 including games like Smash Bros and chess which are a million times more popular than fighting games and involve more accountability since you can't just blame a 50-50 in chess like you can in a fighting game

>>716096697
You already posted this you faggot, no need to repeat yourself.

>>716096352
how am I supposed to know en passant without opening a chess book?
fucktard

Mai has a great sense of humor!

>>716096697
smash is a fighting game whether people wanna admit it or not but its popular because its also a cross over party game, and does not market itself as a 1v1 hardcore game. and smash from what ive seen smash is less intuitive then the average fighter because it has platforming elements

>>716096902
yeah how the fuck are you supposed to know how any of the pieces move either?

>>716097036
>is less intuitive then the average fighter
because the goal is not to reduce your opponent's life to 0 (like a fighting game) but to push your opponent off the platform?
just a thought

>>716097004
She does!

>>716097164
i've played it with a lot of people who dont really play games, the concept of jumping back to the stage after getting knocked off seems really hard to grasp at first

>>716096335
you can't play the game at a basic level*

sure you can go into a fighting game and mash autocombo or you can go into chess and randomly move pieces but you aren't really playing the game at a basic level

>>716096418
nope. tell me you don't know shit about chess without telling me you don't know shit about chess.

just because you don't know what move your opponent will make doesn't mean you aren't calculating all the possible moves your opponent might make and evaluating how good they are and then calculating several moves deep for the ones that are sharper

it's obvious you are completely dog shit at chess and are a complete retard, why even post?

>>716097443
>doesn't mean you aren't calculating all the possible moves
Ok DEEP BLUE, you win, you're better, now go BIPBIP elsewhere
humans are talking

>>716085854 (OP)
No. Fighting games only got popular because there weren't many other options for other competitive multiplayer games back then. The second multiplayer in shooters became standard and got local and online infrastructure, it was over.

>>716097443
>but you aren't really playing the game at a basic level
actually that would be the basic level
>you aren't calculating all the possible moves your opponent might make and evaluating how good they are and then calculating several moves deep for the ones that are sharper
you can use as many words as you want, you're still just describing educated guessing.

>>716085854 (OP)
Mei anal

>>716096683
>By trying out things mid match like people did for literal fucking decades in the arcades or in home versions of games without training mode?

lmao just admit you don't play fighting games competitively then and you're a total scrub. you're not learning modern combos and blockstrings and tech just by hopping into random matches and never practicing shit.

you sound like a total FGC scrub. if you're just playing casually, then you aren't getting good and you probably don't know shit about the most basic blockstrings, combos, or mixups.

okay, you're a monkey who can press buttons randomly and mash out an autocombo lol. how is that even a good argument?

anyway, everyone else has access to practice mode. if you're just playing like some jap paying 25 yen to play street fighter, you're going to get clapped

>>716097706
Ah, I see you are done LARPing as a professional chess player because people already pointed out how retarded your posts were, so now we're moving on to pretending you know about fighting games.

>>716096902
yeah cause en passant is the same as oki, blockstrings, BNBs that you have to read up on some sweaty discord or some gaylords youtube channel.

this is probably the same faggot that thinks you need to PREDICT in chess lmaoo. FGC NPCs need to stop the cap. you're all retarded faggots lol

>>716097036
Yeah I enjoy smash a lot actually. FGC npcs disavow it but I always saw it as a fighting game.

Smash is way more intuitive to be honest. Yeah HP bar -> 0 is intuitive but the basic game mechanics are not like how comboing works (i.e. hitstun decay, combo routing), how blockstrings work, how mixups work, and various setups.

Smash is a bit unintuitive in that percents are weird but the actual fighting mechanics make a lot of sense with tech chasing and a low emphasis on comboing or breaking people's guard

>>716097650
>actually that would be the basic level
go be a retarded semantics fag somewhere else

>you can use as many words as you want, you're still just describing educated guessing.
just admit you don't play chess and you can stop pretending you aren't a retard. you are the most retarded poster here and even "educated guessing" is more impressive than guessing a 50-50.

>>716097991
i never claimed to be a world class fighting game player or a professional chess player.

i just know these games at a decent level.

it only seems foreign to you because you don't play fighting games or chess so you think me talking about mixups, 50-50s, combos, blockstrings or calculation is some sort of wizardry but the fact is that you're just a retard talking about shit you don't know anything about

>>716085854 (OP)
they were never fun, so no.

>>716098405
>i just know these games at a decent level.
lol

>>716085854 (OP)
Maybe if people who liked playing fighting games encouraged their friends to also play fighting games that would happen, I've been asked to play Fortnite, Splatoon, Mario Kart, hell even Crusader Kings 3 together with friends but no one ever asked to play a fighting game with me.

i like strive

For me? It's Poison.

And you?

>>716098612
fighting games have too high of a skill cieling, its not that fun to play a fighting with someone who doesn't know how to play and has no intention of getting better, like i have no issue with trying to teach someone but I get that most people arent trying to learn when they are playing a game

>>716085854 (OP)
I don't really think so. I don't really think hard 1v1 competitive games will ever really hit it huge again. People can't deal with the pressure and have a meltdown if they lose a match and don't have a team to blame it on.

>>716085854 (OP)
only if we kill feminists and people who don't like hot women

>>716098837
Seems like a problem in the genre where you can't just dedicate time to get better because you're fucked without 3rd party guides explaining mechanics that are never even mentioned in the game.
Also yeah it's not fun when you're playing chess with all the pieces and your casual friend only knows how to move pawns but it's not really the casual's fault when the pieces are being hidden from him.

>>716099159
why are you such a faggot, I can tell someone how to do a dragon punch but if they literally dont have the dexterity to do it theres only so much I can do with out just letting them practice if they want, it has nothing to do with hidden mechanics especially nowadays basically everything is told to you now and theres tutorials for everything I dont get why you guys try to pretend we're still in the 90s or something

>>716085854 (OP)
I'm tired of this subject. Can't we just go back to regular ass fighting game threads without the bait?

>>716099790
there is one
>>716054852
this one's just for mai porn
and a retard >>716098228

>>716099653
Because the tutorials are bad and sometimes they even teach you the wrong things, if you grab a completely new player, put him in any modern fighting game, make him go through the tutorial and then go online you know what's going to happen, he's going to get mollywhopped, perfected, taunted, teabagged and the game is going to tell him he sucks, how is that a good gaming experience exactly?

I just got SF6. How long until I regret it

>>716099997
either instantly (uninstall), instantly (keep playing), never (uninstall), never (keep playing)

>>716099910

>>716099926
>Because the tutorials are bad
not really most modern fighting games have good tutorials now
> he's going to get mollywhopped, perfected, taunted, teabagged and the game is going to tell him he sucks, how is that a good gaming experience exactly?
and that just circles back to my main point most people cant handle losing when its solely their fault.

>>716100292
That makes no sense, people lose all the time in multiplayer games but people can't stand losing in fighting games because of some esoteric reason? it's clearly not a ">muh teammates" case because fighting games aren't the only genre where you 1v1 people.
>modern fighting games have good tutorials now
that's insane, if that was the case people wouldn't make hours and hours of video guides on youtube trying to explain new players the very basics of fighting games over the years and theres still new ones coming out nowadays.

>>716095516
>This shitty Fighting Game made for retards and only sucked off so much because it's called Street Fighter, and this other upcoming Fighting Game that will be even more shitty and made even dumber retards means Fighting games are in a good place.

Shut the fuck up, idiot.

>>716100665
>because fighting games aren't the only genre where you 1v1 people.
okay so whats another high skill genre thats 1v1? thats popular

>>716100904
TGC games like Hearthstone and Yugioh come to mind.

>>716098930

>>716085854 (OP)
Don't care, I just want rimzuri from Shiranui Mai

>>716092520
>>716092520
>starcraft
Yes RTS the thriving genre. Also even IRL, team sports are way more popular to the general population than 1v1 sports. It's no big surprise that 1v1 pvp video games are less popular than team pvp video games.