I have tried so many times to get into fighting games

Every time I've talked to someone who was into MMA shit, it was some retard who thought Jake Paul was cool or something equally pathetic
It's basically for retarded failed normies who want to be popular and cool

Wow, i-is that common sense? In my government-ran imageboard? How much do they pay you?

Nothing. The truth is that the genre is based entirely on reaction time and muscle memory and that "getting better" is grinding correct reactions and combos in training mode. It's not fun.

These games are not for 99.99% of human population, hence why no one plays them, FG series keep dying left and right and there hasn't been a single new IP in 30 years.

They’re probably not actually into MMA then. They just like watching it. BJJ guys I know are chill normies but hyper autismo about MMA stuff. If you’re an adult, it cost money to do classes so you got normies with jobs flooding the place naturally. And because these classes are something you have to do in your free time. It becomes their personality sort of

You’re such a dipshit.

There's nothing wrong with you it's just that fighting games were an arcade thing and the Street Fighter Zero series was the last good set of fighting games released so unless you have a time machine then there's no way you'll understand why people liked fighting games.

They weren't good back then, either. People just didn't notice because no one knew how to play them. Fighting games also had better graphics than other genres because hardware was weak and only having to render two characters on the screen at the same time saved resources.

Have you tried ceasing to take showers? None of the best fg competitors seem to have any concept of hygiene.

How much do they pay you?

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You do you, but please, don't spread misinformation like that. Sure, fightans are a pretty niche genre, but It's fairly easy to find people for gaming in Fightcade or guilty gear/BlazBlue, which are not as popular as Street fighter or Tekken. And don't forget the fact, that these games require only 2 people for proper play and not 5+5 or 6+6 or even 100 people like in more popular videogames.

I give fuck all about how easy or difficult it is for you to find matches. There are probably "communities" dedicated to eating feces on the internet too. Fighting game gameplay is not enjoyable, fighting game IPs consistently getting higher player counts after changing genres is the proof of that. More developers should realize it and abandon this genre, because so many nice character designs being locked to games with shitty gameplay is a big shame.

Do a quarter circle forward

What do you mean that no one knew how to play them? Fighting games are supposed to be casual fun games. There is no right way to play.

There is no right way to play.

Except a player who knows what they're doing can consistently win over a player who doesn't.

a simple roguelike vs hard-as-fuck-to-get-into fighting game

Also, just because you personally don't like those games doesn't mean that everyone should abandon and forget them. RTSs are hard too, but there are some being still made today. Sure, a few select people play those too, but they usually play in 1v1 duels, so as long as you have a friend, you'd be fine

Except a player who knows what they're doing can consistently win over a player who doesn't.

The same can be said about literally any videogame

just because you personally

It's not "me personally," it's the only genre that I can think of where more people watch and discuss these games than play them. It's telling when the gameplay is so bad that even someone who's clearly interested doesn't find it worthwhile. It is time to admit that the basic premise is flawed.

RTSs are hard too, but there are some being still made today.

Yet overall that genre is deader than fighting games.

The same can be said about literally any videogame

Except the games that are meant to be enjoyed as "party games," will have many elements of random chance to make the gameplay more unpredictable. It keeps people engaged and to discourages them from taking it too seriously at the same time. The same cannot be said about fighting games. Competitive play is all about labbing block strings and combos ad nauseum and conditioning yourself into correct reactions. They reward grind, not actually playing the game. They also fail as casual games because all randomness is superficial and stems from the lack of knowledge. Someone who spends time grinding away alone is rewarded more than people who spend more time playing the game against other people. This makes the genre antisocial by design.

Fighting games were only fun when it was just about button-mashing with your bros IRL and going through the single-player campaign. The online play is pure autism.

i've been interested in fighting games since 2016, but only started playing them recently after exhausting my passion for speedrunning, mobas, and fps games
it seems like fighting games are the final stop for competitive gamers
go play games that interest you, you'll eventually get bored of them and will be left with fighting games, nothing else

this but every fgc fag will seethe and reject the truth anyway and then get mad at other gamers for not playing fighting games they themselves don't even like.

go play games that interest you, you'll eventually get bored of them and will be left with fighting games, nothing else

funny how the opposite usually happens. Besides fighting games are online only while there's the whole singleplayer game market that you can play at anytime

that's only true for the lower levels, the good players are equally skilled mechanically, and the winner tends to be the player with a deeper memory of frame data, and a stronger intuition for mind games and footwork
the genre becomes extremely fun once you reach this level, no other games come close
reaching this point is miserable, however
if you're willing to spend a few years as a shitter, the genre will open up for you and become peak gaming
i understand why so many people drop these games, and why so many new fighting games try to casualize the mechanics to appeal to new players

I like fighting games but my hands hurt and crack constantly now

fighting games are easy you just press buttons

What the hell is wrong with me?

You're normal.

Fighting game gameplay is not enjoyable, fighting game IPs consistently getting higher player counts after changing genres is the proof of that.

Oi Oi nigga, you literally posted a spin-off helping the main game gettin new players , you sound silly rn

spent countless hour learning a character

the devs nerfed him to do pathetic chip damage while forcing you to have multiple move sets and intricate combos

some faggot shoto bitch comes along and does a fireball for half your health

and thus i stopped giving A FUCK about fighting games

You go straight to finding, expecting to win, and refuse to learn

the good players are equally skilled mechanically, and the winner tends to be the player with a deeper memory of frame data, and a stronger intuition for mind games and footwork

"Intuition for mind games" just means being better at guessing. The thing that bothers me is that "mind games" are touted as the supposed peak of FG gameplay, but when someone makes a game based more on pure guessing, then it's suddenly "bad" because someone can guess better without putting in as much work into the other aspects of the game and the pros cease to feel accomplished because of it.

the genre becomes extremely fun once you reach this level, no other games come close

Except people reach high ranks and still get mad or upset when they can't beat someone else close to their skill level. I watched some Korean cry on stream once after losing again and again, and he was in the penultimate rank group in the game he was playing. RQs are also extremely prevalent at every skill level. Disappointment is the inevitable consequence of playing these games because the greater the results, the greater the expectations.

if you're willing to spend a few years as a shitter, the genre will open up for you and become peak gaming

Except there are people who've spent years playing these games and they're still "shitters." People don't suck at fighting games because they don't play enough, they stop playing them because they become hard stuck at some point, notice it, and stop wasting their time. No one will magically become better over time just because they keep playing.

spin-off helping the main game gettin new players

It looks like it didn't help much. That's like saying that Venus Vacation helped DOA 6.

finding

meant to say fighting

It looks like it didn't help much.

Because Fightans, by default, filter out retards out hence why they dont keep an high retention of players, instead, you get the same "average" in your graph with newish players who are willingly to learn the game itself long term, easy or hard.
And before you say, again, "FGs need more party game elements!" , SF6, Granblue and Tekken8 did what you said with universal neutral skips, cooldowns, throw loops and bazillion of 50/50s, yet, they're miserable and boring to play compared to the older games. And you still negative winrate spergs like Tyler1 blaming the game all the times while playing on Modern..

DOA6

Shit game that is also 70$ when not on discount thats why
btw you deserve a ban for posting steamchart