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I burned my fire until there was nothing left... All that’s left is pure white ash.

as someone new to fighting games, i understand why you want to play a complete set with someone but like you said nobody is entitled to their opponents time similarly if ur playing a character that is ridiculously broken, i dont think ppl are willing to play a set with you and will likely leave/dodge your games, they might even do it if they dont understand the matchup and want to actually learn it offline first

Waot, i just realized, i think i fought you in tower before. funny how that happens, i watched you awhile before i played ggst competitivly. Its funny how that happens

Street fighter 6 has a great training mode and good tutorials for each character. It looks like devs are learning. Especially the frame meter is great

I like learning fighting games but once I become competent and start grinding out ranked I always feel I reach my skill ceiling witch is around the "Platinum/Diamond" tier and I quickly lose interest. Granted, this process may take 100+ hours but I usually get frustrated with the mechanics and/or match-ups because as someone who is extremely competitive but gets tilted very easily, this is not a good combination to have if you want to play a single fighting game long term.

awesome video! i didn't know you were at vsf, that's sick

Im invested in culture of fighting games but don't invesnt myself in them but I can't help but find myself hoplessly attracted to but avoid subjecting myself to learn it well enough. So I feel like a fake fgc fan. I love to look and draw the charaters, Watch and talk about gameplay/torments, listen to alot of fighting game soundtracks love the poeple ive met though fighting games. When I get beat by poeple who know what their doing or at least made the time to learn the game I cant feel but feel happy for them but a but a bit bummed myself. Big respects to fighting game comunity and the poeple who strive to learn them. i wish you the best of luck.

Great watch

Videos like these are stupid. i bet most of you guys are not even playing fighting games but instead are lecturing and propagating nonsense. The only real advice ever is to play the game. Play and you will get better on your own terms after some time. And it doesn't matter when or how it happens. You determine the pace. The rest in online bullshit no actual video game player needs.

I started getting into fighting games in the pandemic so my first offline event was revo last year, and going there made me realise how much I'd been missing out on. Been trying to go to a lot more events since and damn its so much more motivating to have that offline competition (one day I *will* beat minion's sieg dammit). Still feel a little awkward trying to ask for games at bigger events though..

No cut-away to the handsome face in this vid? :( I am le sad.

Absolutely great video man! It was awesome meeting you and getting interviewed! Keep it up!!! (Blabbo btw😂)

Yeah, i agree with this video (going to tournaments and trying to do casuals and stuff) but I also agree with asking your opponents on what you do wrong, i shouldve at the tournament where i fought against you Mougli (i was the heihachi on tekken). Good video though.

My thoughts about/what I learned from this: Learning to take the L is a skill (learning about our own ego). Acknowledge that sometimes we have a bad day/prevent irl burnout with the games we like; take a break.

Thanks i will post this in every single one of my FGC discords

at the freeplay setups, if you're wanting a set, dont be afraid to ask for next ; we paid waay to much good money to not ask.

Yo you really got the vibe of what going to a big event like that is actually like. Arcade/freeplay is really one of the best parts. Go talk to the artists and buy something if you like it. Seeing top 8 of your favorite game is cool, but getting to know folks is cooler imo

God DAMN that's a sexy man right there. Liked and subscribed.

You don't like to do talking head shots but you have such a pretty room set-up for it! Love the green light, very tasteful

I love social events and I consider myself very social but I hate traveling to places almost more than anything... I will do my best, Moug^^ there has to be an fg event somewhere close to me perhaps maybe

This is such a nice video, shoutout to Guilewinquote for linking to it. I have a lot of anxiety abiut a large scale event like EVO, in fact, Im old enough to have been to a mall arcade, except I never did because I was just too nervous to head in. It remains a regret of mine, and I think attending a local would help remedy that feeling.

As someone who really wants to be able to share fighting games with someone else and start building connections (and who has attended a monthly local a few times), finding that FIRST friend to play with is so much bigger of a wall than anything else. As you say, having someone to go with would be incredible and I make friends so slowly and only really effectively in a 1-on-1 context. Separately, there's this very particular anxiety I get at locals? Where I can't feel comfortable striking up a personal conversation out of anxiety over the... arbitrariness of it? The idea that it's forced, that I should need a reason to interact with THIS person (vs everyone else also in the room), or else it'll feel fake or shallow like talking with someone at a bus stop.

Grat video, Mougli. I'm not shy at all, but I certainly are not good with big crowds, so whenever I go to a convention, is more like a solo experience. I also still don't know personaly anyone that will play fighting games with me. A couple of friends are vaguely interested, but retreat whenever I put the controllers in the table. However, I'm going to EVO Nice with my wife next year anyway. I've never been in the old continent, and Las Vegas is too dry and hot for my survival. I'll try winning just a couple games at least. Nothing wrong with being a pot moster. Wish me luck!

Amazing video man, I'm also very introverted and want to make friends in the fgc

The most awkward moment of walking behind 2 people boxing at a setup and you don't want to ask to get in but also hope they notice you but also have a Xbox controller and the setup is Playstation and you don't want to bother the TOs for an adapter and then you finally get in and get wrecked by a guy who to seeks like an EVO champion and you start missing losing in floor 7 of Strive

I think I've been in the weeds too long before the online rollback era that have realized just how different the landscape is nowadays and how you don't have to really engage with the FGC irl to really be part of the FGC, so I think this will hit home for a lot of people. If you're able, go out and play some games with people, I promise you'll appreciate the genre even more!

This is great, thank you. I am considering going to Evo but, quite frankly, I feel intimidated 😅 I am imagining only going for a day to buy an arcade stick and maybe say hi rooflemonger lol 😀 P.S: If I see you, I promise to say hi.

Love the very down to earth nature of this video a lot! Hope to be able to hang out with you sometime again soon 🙏🙏

At 9:43 mark I can confirm something like that happened. I ended up playing on the free set ups in UNI 2 at VSF and after messing on the training mode for a bit some people came up saying how they were interested in the game but weren't sure if it was for them, spent the next half hour just playing with them and explaining the game with it ending them becoming new fans of the game genuinly one of the many highlights I had at this event.

fighting games are terrible. I've already given up and this video didn't help

Fighting games sucks

8:12 Even if you're being sarcastic, I agree with that. If you need those seconds back, do something else asap.

one thing of fighting games is like, when learning you can get caught in only actually knowing the special attacks. since they show up and have names and have clear purposes on what they do and what are they for but then you get 100 moves that vaguely exist that you're not told anything about and... honestly? I think fighting games tend to have too many normals.

Fighting games bsically need good single player modes that actually teach you. Soul Calibur with its Mission Mode did it pretty well I think. Having certain matchups and rules to encourage and show different techniques at first. It also gives you an incentive. In one stage you get attacked by a horde of enemies with very low HP so you learn about keeping your distance. In another your health automaticaly goes down but your opponents are slow so you learn about rushdown. It has you pick locked choices of chracters to see the various gameplay implications. Honestly, even the Subspace Emissary was good. It had you use your movement and attacks in a whole variety of contexts so you learn about how to control the game

I don't dislike fighting games I just believe in that whole character loyalty thing. Pick up the character(Dizzy in Strive) Learn one character not learn 3 to 5 and not treat like a damn day job, people like Ushimo Gobou and Leffen LK take fgs way too serious and make money off it. It's quite discouraging. As cool to look at from a outsider role, sucks to watch high-level gameplay of the character that you were playing or that you want to play and then feel like you got to have a 100,000 hours be lvl 40,000 like Fab to feel like I actually have a chance when I jump into a match with an opponent but I guess that's all part of the learning process. No matter how much you know about a character you got to experience it through an actual match with an actual player. That is how you can how you improve because fighting AI can only help u improve so much. Still it hurts my ego to lose or feel helpless, that is still my issue in terms of fg(ggst) want to overcome it before Dizzy drops

There's no such thing as a low damage fighting game. Since fighting games have this aspect called the "Timer" it means that you can be in a position where there's 15-20 seconds on the Timer but with only 10% health vs your opponents 90% health. The only way to balance this scenario is high damage. You'll have to come up with better examples of "Low Damage" because in my opinion that's just a made up game that doesn't exist. If it is "Low Damage" then it's not even about the game anymore but instead the individual character just being bad in his environment. Twelve is "Low Damage" because he's just a straight up objectively poorly designed character. "Low Damage" is straight up bad for fighting games. That's why Zoners keep getting nerfed every single game. If you look at fighting games without the chronological history in mind you'll quickly lose sight at what devs are trying to accomplish. One of the first hurdles they wanted to discourage was "Stalling the game" which was usually by Zoning them with a low damage fireball. Nowadays a zoner can combo from anywhere on screen but has to be a lot more committal then older generations of fighters. So they did two things. They buffed Zoners damage overall to speed up matches and they made their zoning patterns a little more intuitive to understand like more unique animations to showcase where he's attacking like a teleporting fireball or a groundwave. Devs quickly discovered low damage is just unhealthy for fighting games as a whole.

What video recording settings are you using for your videos in OBS?

I haven't touched Granblue since I've finished the Pass, I am too focused on playing other completely different games and genres right now. That game scratches my brain more. I can't see self improvement a reason to continue or trying to play every time I can. I need goals like in game unlocks or smth like that. I may still try Ranked as much as I can but right now fighting games aren't my priority.............. I don't feel like I'm improving even with effort. When they tell me "watch replays" I still don't get what I did wrong anyway............

May you add the list of tracks used in your video please? What a great selection!

Great video, though I must admit as someone who is also knee-deep but maybe not that "impressive" or "cracked" of a player, I really like your points here. I especially like the point of finding the right game for you, as I think that's a really big key for "getting" a genre *if* that's your goal. I haven't gotten into Strive b/c the cel-shaded look isn't my vibe and none of the characters really jump out to me. I tried to play Granblue, but imo it felt like it's sitting between too much of a middle ground between a more grounded, footsies fighter and an anime fighter, and despite me liking games that are more firmly in both camps (SF6 and Under Night respectively), I'd rather just play those games instead. To me, that's fine, b/c I've found games I truly love and I can respect those games that just aren't for me but are well-beloved by others (both FG and non FG). At the end of the day, people won't like certain things and we can't force them to like it, but I like that you took the time to dig a bit deeper into those common reasoning some level-headed explanations. I'd also add that some people like fighting games to different levels. I personally have friends I play FGs with, but they're not into the competitive grind as much as I am, and that's fine. Overall, really liked your video. Keep up the great work.

Fighting games are great! Just almost all of them suck. Most aren't even fighting games anymore either but more like puzzle and rhythm games. They lost the spirit of fighting years ago when they went the way of why chess is bad. In where it's all about opening theory, frame data, tods, and memorizing as many combo extenders as possible. It ceases to be a game and just rote. I think the only fighting game still keeping the right spirit is smash bros but I haven't played since brawl. Players are dumb and lazy yes, and most of their gaming options suck. Tekken, SF, anime fighters, all are going the way of a the MvC singularity.

I have no issue acknowledging I'm bad so it really irks me getting hit with " your upset cause you have no one else to blame " no the issue is I do blame myself progress is minimal and it's super disheartening getting wrecked by someone with 167,392 prowess and then getting wrecked by someone with 100 prowess, also this community is toxic and unhelpful.

Fighting games would be way better if you could play WITH your friends instead of being forced to play AGAINST them