This game is damn good and its lack of numbers proves that no one plays fighting games for good gameplay...

It's thoroughly mediocre which means it's leagues better than Dix and Kekken 8.

blame the retarded owner for putting these faggots in
the devs put effort to make them work and they actually play great but people already turned off by their existence to even try the game

Do things right

be rewarded with failure

Fuck this gay earth! Tsunaldo in was great and that DJ guy exposed fgcfags as retards by winning his place. I really hope SNK takes another shot in this same vein; some things need time to translate in commercial success

I’m going to say it.
I don’t like normalfags, and it might have been an improper gesture, but the inclusion of some kind of surprise roster picks with unique and fully fleshed-out playstyles is not something I’m willing to talk shit about any more with how homogenized and conformist the world is now.

fighting games are ridiculously overpriced for what they are

They’re only like $15 for the good ones. Cheaper than most games.

The Ronaldo thing was a huge mistake. I liked the first game a lot but seeing the Ronaldo trailer soured me on this game.

it's just the nature of the genre. this genre will be deader than rts soon enough

every new one is 50 at its cheapest while costing developers nowhere near the same amount of resources other genres do

Already is. E-sport appealing killed it, only sustains on the brands kept around like Street Fighter and that' might be saying much already.

Pretty much yeah thats been the case for gaming , thats has been in the rising since youtubers started lets playing, and thats were the idea of casual gamer or gamergirls, playing for the idea of being a cool gamer , streamers etc, has damaged the recognizition of what is actually good and even you can same the same about movies with marvel, etc.

Thats why people play valorant, league of legends, and buy the gaming chair, etc

I want to know how does it compare to world tour

it means some people actually have standards and won't buy a game that has cringey celebrities in it.

Ive never seen a game lose so much hype as I did when ronaldo was announced.

the fact that tekken fans are migrating to street fighter 6 of all things says a lot about the genre

Frionel's squad meltdown

calm down it's a game

They couldnt even bother to get ronaldo to pretend he gave a shit. They asked him what his favorite move was and he said "the super move"

JUST SAY BUSTER WOLF YOU DUMB FAGGOT HOW DID NO ONE BOTHER TO PREP HIM ON THIS

Aesthetically it looks cheap and ugly, gameplay wise it's just a straight downgrade from the first Garou from 124 years ago.

I get the feeling even the players on SF6 aren't playing it completely because they're enjoying it but more like because it's pretty much the only one left. At leat T8 brought fun in comparison, before the patch that triggered everyone for some reason. I assume the patch was competitivefag kriptonite, right?

BUSTER WOLF

Putting in real life retards instead of maybe actual fighting game, fictional series or general video game characters as guests in the base cast, only having 4 out of 17 characters be girls when there were more FF girl options to put in, having what might possibly be the worst advertising of any fighting game in years and not putting advertising money towards making the game higher quality is not doing everything right. Anyone thinking Ronaldo would get Ronaldo fans to buy is retarded.

I've never liked guest characters but I have never had my interest in a game die this hard because of them. Street Fighters I could have lived with. Snk Vs Capcom was always a thing and some SNK dudes were in SF so it's a bit of a playful rivalry. Soccer guy and DJ though were just flat out bizarre and I don't like it and seeing them makes me a little angry and I don't want the game anymore. And I was really excited in those early days of build up.

It could be Messi, Pele or any other sport star. It was a bad move that made me not want to play this game.
The only thing that would work would be if they got a high tier MMA fighter.

Anyone thinking Ronaldo would get Ronaldo fans to buy is retarded

Not even a Tsunaldo fan but that actually made interested in the game; the game looking fine and seemingly good gameplay sealed the deal.

Putting in real life retards instead of maybe actual fighting game, fictional series or general video game characters

Like Tizoc?

Saudi's are hugely invested in MMA and boxing too so it's especially retarded they went with a washed up soccer guy instead

Pele

not after the incident at an Xbox show where he went to Sweden and the girls started touching his hair

The only thing that would work would be if they got a high tier MMA fighter.

Boring bald fighter is better than known person that can be played in a different way

no wonder fgc is a laughing stock now; fags lost the sight of what made fighting games great.

fighting games cannibalize themselves instead of growing together

just goes to show no one plays fighting games at all dead genre

"Boring bald fighter" is a professional and skilled martial artist who has a fighting style.
It is one thing to have Terry Bogard being shown losing in a preview video to Fedor Emelianenko or Georges St Pierre. It is another to have him being beaten up by a football player that doesn't know how to fight.

T8 brought fun

competitive kryptonite

Fucking retard. T8 was people complaining about heat, how terrible being on defense felt, constant 50/50s into death overall combo length, overall damage and chip damage pre season 2 and the patch just made everything 3 times worse for everyone at all levels with zero defense improvements.

Any time now! It was supposed to happen last year and the year before, surely it must be this year!

I was actually initially hyped for CoTW back when it first got revealed but I just can’t bring myself to care anymore. I actually really like SF6 so I don’t really feel like I’m missing out on something great. That’s probably how most people feel. SF6 is a good product. People can meme about le green slime and throw loops but the reality is that good feels great to play.

T8 was kinda shit from the start but S2 patch was everything kryptonite, no one at any level of skill likes it.

in terms of pure honest fighting game play yes it is, it's actually one of the best traditional fighting games with pure and honest footies.

I was just about to start playing it tonight, anything I should know about it?

H-hahaha le 2 more weeks guys, totally!

All the fighting game ips dying off except for street fighter (which is on life support) does not matter... i said IT DOES NOT MATTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're coping poorly with not being able to deal with different forms of fighting styles. Unconvential forms are nothing bad and the very core of fighting game characters, if you think so then you should be complaining about Spiderman, cyclops and wolverine

and the patch just made everything 3 times worse for everyone at all levels with zero defense improvements.

Confirmed fgc kriptonite. They got filtered by a fighting game telling them to attack?!

Your idea of “dying off” relies on continued consumerism and sales. Weak.

yes because fighting games feed off of the hopes and dreams of discord servers

Very few games of note require a discord server. Old Melty is the only one that comes to mind, and that’s for lack of official rollback. Someone who has risen above culturally absent thoughts does not need to take part only in what’s most popular. A man goes where he finds enjoyment.

that's retarded, you can pretend that the 150 people that still play whatever fighting game you enjoy will stay there forever but that doesn't change reality. Also sadly to say it but if normies aren't paying for fighting games then there's no incentive to make them. The time where normies consume the latest fighting game because it's le video game culture is over. Normies are buying souls slop and other shit like that now

It's unfortunate that CotW came out for me when it did, because it's everything I'd want out of a modern SNK fighter, but it's out at the same time my current game I enjoy is still getting updates. By the time I get to it proper, it might be completely dead.

Secondary retard.

After rollback there’s never been a lack of players, and it’s been played for over a decade, so it sure is taking the genre a long time to die, if it’s in such a spiral as you say. No need for a new game either. As I said, you lack culture and proper spirit, and cannot be called a man.

Why can't fighting games fans just accept the genre is dead

fgcope

The genre lives as long as +R and Blazblue do. I give it about 80 years, but there's bigger problems by that time.

yet the genre hasn't been growing. If you're not growing, you're dying. netcode isn't the savior for fighting games And your groups are only going to get smaller.
You can keep saying muh culture all you want, it's not gonna change reality.

grandchaseGAWDS

If you're not growing, you're dying.

That's retarded suit logic, it's wrong by definition. FG aren't "dying" per se, the problem is they're not consistent after release; you release the game, 2 weeks with players, rest of the time is cope struggling to retain and attract players. There's no problem if their numbers aren't massive as long as the player numbers are consistent... but they can't even get that so their numbers keep shrinking

fighting games are more popular than ever tho?

You consider a SF with a daily peak twice as big as the last one's all time peak and a fucking guilty gear game managing to be a top 3 fighting game on steam with 2k and higher peaks not growing? Do you have any fucking clue what that means for a series know for having a discord tranny, poser filled fanbase like GG?

I'm fine with standing still and enjoying something great. Your stench is that of those who cannot understand why artists still draw despite ai existing, why we listen to music from years ago, and why nobody wants to eat lab grown meat. Your mind is trapped by a strange obsession with popularity and profit, with no soul to be found.

no one plays fighting games for good gameplay, aesthetics

They play it for the fucking characters.
This game needed 20 new original characters that fucking pop. Fighting games have been having a hard time creating original popular characters. How is it that Gacha games can create new characters that 'pop' all the time but fighting games cant? Whatever their formula is SNK fatal fury team needs to steal it.

is that a fact

that post is proof that fgc fags deny reality

You don't need two good new characters just 2 or 3. For example, strive had only 2 newcomers with Nagoriyuki and Giovanna but both newcomers ended up being in the top 6 of the most popular to play on release after Sol, Ky, Potemkin, and May. What does fatal fury have? Fucking preecha and vox. Snk just can't make good or long standing newcomers anymore.

*don't need 20
Also seriously vox is like a plank of wood in terms of interesting and preecha just seems all over the place considering the concept arts they had for her

Well you can't accuse me of that because I play a "deader" game than CotW

and yet singleplayer games and other multiplayer games blow them out of the fucking water on the top of the charts, and even many that's not on the top. plus you're being a faggot and not taking the player gain count. keep in mind this is the biggest fighting game.
The difference is that fighting game is multiplayer exclusive while you can draw with pencil and paper anytime you want and improve.

How is it that Gacha games can create new characters that 'pop' all the time but fighting games cant?

Because adding a fighting game character takes months while the modern fighting game trap is selling you older characters as DLC. People tend to want to stay with what they know so legacy characters have to be retained which destroys a lot of opportunities for new characters to be added to the cast.
Gacha games in comparison basically add a new female fotm waifubait character every 2 weeks and in groups of 2 to 6.

You vastly overestimate how many players you need to play a match in a fighting game. You sound like you can't understand doing something just because you enjoy it, even if it's not easy or profitable. Blazblue has about 200 players on average, +R has around 100, I've never been unable to play them.

I like Preecha, girl who is a nerd for martial arts is a good gimmick character trait. Vox being Grant's disciple doesn't mean that much to me because I don't know anything about Grant aside he was a fucked up boss character, so that means all Vox is to me is edgy.

I'm convinced it's either /fgg/ or just the dedicated group of shitposters who want to shit on every fighting game thread on Anon Babble when they keep bringing up steam charts but don't realize that a 200 count game like Blazblue is still incredibly populated and you don't need discord to get games for it.

Your genre isn't growing

There is definite proof in the image you posted that it is

uhhh but these completely different genres are still bigger

Nice goalpost moving retard. Also why are you posting that old ass image when you can easily look up steamcharts and see the daily peak being almost 32k for sf6?

I always assumed it was angry zoomers who failed to get into fighting games and wanted an excuse for why. But you might be right.

That was taken today nigger, go check faggot.

I played the game with a friend and it's much better than Street Fighter VI imo. Just ignore Ronaldo ffs

you can't improve in a game if everyone has 10,000+ hours into it and you're just getting started in fighting games. you get steam rolled and the fighting fags get bored and leave or start mocking you. your only other option is labbing in training mode for 5,000+ hours

I don't think it's e-sports specifically but the shift towards being lab games which revolve around unga gameplay, big combos and having to know every piece of frame data so you know when it's "your turn." Some of that had always existed but I feel like pre-SF4 it used to be a lot more intuitive since training modes were basic which means you had to play and work shit out. Now games are built around the idea that every player is going to be an autist who spends a weak labbing every scenario before going online which then turns the games into autism simulators. It's like how the NBA has turned into everyone doing only the most optimal thing ever; unga shit is the equivalent of memechucking threes.

Part of this is because devs think this makes the games more exciting to watch which means more people will buy the game. But what happens is that most people don't have the time or 'tism needed to, again, learn all the data, lab out scenarios and frame traps and generally play like a perfect execution bot so they go online, get stomped by some giga autists who do and eventually quit because they realize they're not getting anywhere and not having fun. This is an issue of companies hiring tournament autists to develop the games now, especially people like Woshige who come from the Guilty Gear/anime scene where they like all of this shit with big combos, mechanic and system bloat, characters all being gimmicky, etc.

What if I told you even in games like Blazblue and UNI2 that there are a ton of white/blue square and D-rank player rooms?

yea the two that meme'd into trying by their fighting fag friends and are desperately trying to get in but will stop after getting rolled for 20 hours

There's usually new players around, more than you're suggesting, and a lot of intermediate players with only a few thousand games.

I wonder what goes on in the minds of retards that get so upset by fighting games that they make it a goal to post about them like this while spreading completely false information about them. I couldn't imagine doing that for the games I do hate let alone somethings as simple and inoffensive as fighters.

every other fgc thread is fighting fags complaining about literally any other fighting game other than the one that they specifically play. fgc fags don't even enjoy their own genre 99.9% of the time

Those newcomers are sure showing up in droves to replace the ones leaving then!

People insulting and shit talking other games in a genre they dislike is normal, especially here. Going on some ecrusade while nonstop talking about "da fgc" being this or that, how the genre is "dead" even though they aren't despite dumbasses calling them dead for about 3 decades, and how you need thousands of hours is beyond retarded.

sour grapes posting about fighting games on Anon Babble by seething fags will never not be funny.

you can always find a dozens of people to play with in 3S on fightcade, which is now 26 years old.
you really don't need high numbers to get consistent matches and have fun.
your faggot zoomer brain can't fathom playing things for fun that haven't been shilled to you and millions of others, full of fomo mechanics and other gay shit

People that play fighting games as their 'main game' are no life losers. Here I am just labbing shit in Injustice 1 and playing SFV from time to time and having a blast

300 brazilian bananas

No thanks, SNK literally sabotaged their game by making it hella expensive in the third world (their main audience)

you just think everyone is as dumb as you and need thousands of hours to be decent.
and seeing as you willingly play injustice and SFV you must be very dumb

You aren't wrong, but for a game as new to the market as CotW is it's worrying that multiple times over the past few days I've played a set in ranked with 4+ bar connection strength and crossplay on, and in the next immediate match I'm playing against the same guy. I'm only B-V which means I'm squarely in the slightly-better-than-shitter ranks where a lot of people should be, and the fact that this game will match with people 5+ ranks apart from each other is extremely lenient. Running into the same people in these conditions isn't a sign of a healthy player pool.

You're stupid for playing [literally any fighting game]

fgc fags hate fighting games

It's not even zoomers at this point those guys go into the newer and older games and learn since they have the free time and brain capacity to, I'd post that image of one japanese guy talking about a bunch of 20 year olds playing sf2 at his arcade. It's mostly people in their mid to late 30s who never played fighters here beyond button mashing picking up the games in said 30s, don't immediately get results and start lashing out like this board does.

Injustice and SFV are more technical and execution heavy than any modern fighting game sans KOFXV. I also play Alpha 3. Keep seething Striver

the cope you guys come up with is actually insane

what's better about it?

You're literally doing what you claim to hate, just more aimlessly. Labbing Injustice 1 in 2025 is some Reddit-tier lost media sidequest behavior. “No life losers” probably sleep better than dudes booting up SFV for some one-bar Ken mirrors on Wi-Fi after a long day of posting about how they don’t even care.

what's the difference between injustice than playing literally any other fighting game that isn't new. It's all just elitism shit with fighting fags you can't even just play fighting you gotta play the correcting fighting game and not literally any other fighting game because they don't like them.

Play VF5REVO

whhaaaaat you don't like every game in [genre]?

retarded attempt

i don't play strive or any guilty gear

Playing fighting games, just as with all multiplayer games, for the competitive aspect is literally pointless. You will never be good, you will never be the best. Understand how fucking pathetic it is that 'pros' like Nephew, Broski and BrianF dedicate their entire lives to streaming and grinding SF6 but will never win a tournament

Labbing and enjoying combo design is the only reason to play fighting games

except fighting fags are actually like that, even in this thread but keep coping i guess

getting floated in vf5 is the funniest shit i have ever seen
you cannot convince me that looks anything other than retarded no matter how hard you try and gaslight me

What do you play?

you can't improve in a game if everyone has 10,000+ hours

i went to japan and got my ass beat in the arcades for 3 months with zero training mode or lab time and guess what? i improved.
fighting stronger players is one of the best things you can do because theyll sniff out your bad habits instantly and kill you for them

some people just like to compete in some fashion.
thinking it isn't worth doing something because you'll "never be the best" is the most retarded and defeatist mindset and I see it all to often.

and the pros do what they do, it's not any worse than what other people do for a living

SFIV (i hope a more mainstream rollback mod comes out soon), T7, 3S and have gotten into CotW recently.
It's pretty fun

trying to play this after tekken makes me feel like i have down syndrome

Labbing and enjoying combo design is the only reason to play fighting games

You are genuinely an idiot with a delusion of being smart. And why is it so hard to comprehend that being competitive can be fun in this or any other multiplayer games?

And why is it so hard to comprehend that being competitive can be fun in this or any other multiplayer games?

not everyone has a humiliation kink anon...

I went from dying to asian no lifes from 20 secs to 30 secs