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disgusting
Hey bro, sorry for my english (i'm dumb), i was watching your video and then i decided to play a bit of the game, but my game is BROKEN
I don't know why, but these things are going on:
- I can't finish Bedman? arcade because when another match is going do start (any match after Baiken match) it ocurrs an error saying that my console don't have enough memory (?), something like that. And then the game closes suddendly.
- I have Bridget and Sin unlocked, BUT I DID NOT BOUGHT THE DLC. It's insane bro, i can play with the characters normally, wtf.
- I have colors that i did not bought too (from 7 up to 12) for Bridget, Sin and Asuka (i have asuka unlocked, but i never did paid any color for him or the other characters).
- I also have two more stages that i did not paid too (Fairy's Forest Factory, Tír na nÓg). Bro...
I'm just saying this to you to ask if you know how i can enter in contact with the staff or something like that, or if there is an way to fix this problem. This shit is insane, man.
I'm scared of deleting the game to install again and new problems showing up.
GekkoSquirrel May voice pack when?
character loyalty is real because if you play your main enough they'll become real and have lunch with you
As a Faust Main... I god hope that happens, would love to have lunch with the 9'3 doctor soon
can confirm had lunch with ky kiske at the Illyria castle yesterday
Can confirm, I gabled all my money with jhonny yesterday, and now I live in a box
Maybe I'll be able to convince Leo to go to therapy
@@dolphee As another Faust main... I didnt know this wasnt real :(
My criteria for a main character:
First name must be Sol
Last name must be Badguy
No
Wrdd
Yes
1. Must be Sol’s girlfriend
2.Must be named after a Jack-o-lantern
Must be on the game's cover, thumbnail, library icon, and storepage
"sometimes people will buy a game entirely for one character" started evil music in my head. Long cold side eye to bridget
Honestly thats why I have it so 😭
I bought UN:inBirth on a whim when I saw Wagner and thought "Is that an egotistical rich girl with the royal curls hair style?... sold"
Lol i just brought GGST because of Asuka
gad damnit lol
Only reason I'm not in this comment is because Elphelt also exists. Bridget was the big draw, but I suck at fighting games, so held off. But then I watched all of El's arcade mode and was like, yep, gotta get this game now. Completely surprised by how much I like her. (Helps that Nago as the straight man to her goofball is such a fantastic pairing.)
Strive's mission mode is great when trying to learn the game mechanics and learning the cast's quirks and features
(I saw that happy chaos chair spin gif and THAT'S why i main him. I wanted to be kidding about this.)
Same but also his theme
I main him because he's got a gun, how am I gonna pass that up?
I main him because of his interesting archetype. on character select, they have archetypes listed for each character (zoner, power, rushdown, balanced, unique). happy chaos goes in close sometimes with good combos, but doesn't lack range options either. he doesn't have particularly high damage, and he certainly isn't a jack of all traits. so you would think they would put him in the unique category. no. he gets his own category to himself.
Happy chaos's archetype is shooting.
i mean he is cool but also banned in a lot of tournaments due to his strength i heard
Here's my advice: Don't stress yourself out about finding a main when first starting out. If you're just playing casually there's no stress trying to pick that character immediately, having a main is necesary to improve once you want to do that, but if you just want to get the grip of things and dunno who to pick just pick whoever you want and eventually somebody will click naturally. Several times I've found a main in a game that I didn't even decide "Aight, imma main them", I just enjoyed them at first and they naturally clicked in that position.
Yep,you’re going on the touching list
@@bloodredrain the What list?
With how steep (the sometimes imagined) learning curve is with fighting games, the character crisis tends to be a form of procrastination and ego-defense. It's easier to loop around trying to find the right fit for you in a main, than to face the looming threat of defeat and the inevitable hours in the lab afterwards. From what I've seen, the crisis is a predominantly beginner issue and tends to occur at the level where they do not have a grasp on the system mechanics. It's like trying to learn how to ride a bike, before ever trying to hop onto a saddle. Or I guess postponing the process of learning until they have found the perfect bike to ride on.
I main Nagoriyuki for one simple reason: We share the same birthday and I like sword characters.
I mean... your technically not wrong for 1 reason
good reason
"For one simple reason"
*proceeds to give two*
@jayblack5942 You saying my math ain't mathing bro?
@@Nine-Ball
No way man
Your maths is based AF.
WTF, I DID have chicken dinner.
WTF, I’m ABOUT TO have a chicken dinner
I Just finished a chicken sandwich
I’m going to touch you
same!
Proof that gekko cares about his audience so much that he lives inside your walls
Every fighting game gives me an immediate character crisis cause I'm one of those weirdos that likes most archetypes, Zoner, Rushdown, Grappler I've played them all. Picking a character is usually one of the hardest parts for me.
I feel this so much. In so many games, my top two end up being characters that are completely different, like grapplers and zoners.
I have the same issue, I'm just praying that slayer can be "the one"
@@theskelebro8013 are you still enjoying slayer?
"you're not gonna die because you switched off your main for 1 or 2 matches." Tell that to the Potemkin that rocked my shit 3 games in a row when I tried to pick up May.
GekkoSquirrel: take a SIMPLE character.
Me: Systematically picking some of the hardest character.
3:30 this is why I’m so thankful Bridget is possibly one of the best characters for new players, and still holds together at high level. I went from loving her character, to loving both her gameplay and character.
"Still holds up at high level"
Apparently you don't know Bridget is the literal worst character with the worst win/loss ratio across the top 100 players.
@@horizonbumpy2828 I missed the part where the top 100 is an accurate representation for the entire playerbase.
@@Ch4pp13it doesn’t. It represents high level, like the quote the commenter was responding to.
I literally bought Guilty Gear because i just loved playing Bridget. Thankfully I like the whole game too! Now that I've gotten better I'vev been experimenting with Axl and I-no
@@coolkiddo3110Same!!
How I picked my main:
1. YT recommended Strive
2. YT recommended potemkin funny clips
3. Buy Strive for potemkin
4. Main potemkin
What i did for picking up Potemkin as my main: first got strive, which is my first real fighting game, and then messed around for 1 to 2 days in training mode and with my friend. After playing half the cast and playing one match with pot, i knew he was the one. Then i looked up an in depth guide for him (1 hour and 16 minutes, thanks roofelmonger) and played around in training mode for about 3 to 4 hours while following the guide and trying out new things. Here i am 9 months later doing kara cancels and watching top level players to find new combos for different situations. Man fighting games are fun.
Hot take
I understand not wanting to feel carried
But a good character doesn't stop a bad player being bad
You still have to put in a lot of work no matter who you play, and if anything higher end characters tend to get matched against other high end characters, especially mirrors
this is a cold take
@@Chesse291 I mean this was also meant to be somewhat sarcastic
It's usually immediately obvious to me who I am going to like. Big? Armored? Vaguely comedic? Winner. Potemkin, Tager, Big Band, Goldlewis, it helps to have a type of character you connect with. In my opinion, whoever you think looks the coolest is the best place to start. Your enthusiasm will carry you until you figure out if it isn't for you.
My method for picking my main in GBVR was looking at the roster, seeing that Zooey has dustloops and picking her. It is quite simple, but effecive
I picked anre because they looked funny. That's it, doesn't get any deeper.
I picked narmaya solely because she's cool, first stance character I've played but we'll get their, eventually
when i started 6 months ago (this is my first fighting game) i mained djeeta, then BOOM im mainly using avatar belial now, still learning but hey they're pretty similar but more masochistic.
-has a fireball/projectile
-rekka
-DP
😂🎉
I picked up fighting games with Strive because I liked Anji's theme and ended up getting an even cooler character in the process. His combos were pretty easy to get down, but that spin threw me through a loop. I loved the challenge of it!
Now I'm taking some downtime and playing some simpler characters, like Elphelt and Sin. Maybe I'll pick up Ram so that I can make the Birthday Train trio when 3v3 comes out
Good Point, However...
Potemkin does indeed need a buff
The solution is to pick Giovanna because she's adorable and never switch!
Main criteria
1 Must have a big sword.
2. Must be a vampire
8:17 this part hit me hard. I’ve been playing granblue recently and absolutely love Seox but felt bad playing him because he’s so strong and have been going back and forth in the roster ever since trying to figure out who to play when I should’ve just played who I wanted to play (‘:
Play seox then, hes cool who cares if hes strong
Sometimes, first impressions matters. When I started playing GGST (my first FG) I started with Gio, because she looks cool and easy, but as I began to play regularly, I told myself "she'll quickly be redundant", so I picked I-no, absolutely hated her hoverdash, and swapped to Anji. I learned a lot playing Anji, I like his gameplay, but I didn't get the same feeling as some other characters, like I wasn't that comfortable in calling myself an Anji main despite loving the gameplay, because I wasn't that fond of the character itself. So after a long break, I picked Jack-O because I love her design, personnality, and near limitless possibilities. But I'm not great with hard characters, and even while loving her gameplay, having the best step up of overall knowledge of the game, etc... I still had this hunch that it wasn't right. And guess what, I came back to Giovanna. And God do I love her.
And even after all that, I still had fun with Anji and Jack-O, and I learned a lot of things with them I probably wouldn't have if I never dropped Gio, so don't be afraid if you struggle to find a main quickly, it's never lost if you're learning/having fun !
After a while, you kinda get a sense of what you like. Typically, I like grinding setups and combos so most of my characters tend to be gimmicky setplay characters or zoners. Like in strive I use Jack o and Bridget, sf6 I use Kimberly, idol showdown I use sora.
Which is why in gbvr I use Nier. Its's almost like I'm playing Jack o in another game 😂
I recently picked up Strive, with my only other fighting game adjacent experiences being an unhealthy amount of smash ultimate and goofing around in Skullgirls Mobile. I immediately gravitated towards Ram because she looked cool and when I saw the puppy on the win screen I knew she was who I was gojng to main. I've had a lot of fun over this first week and have began experimenting with Baiken aswell and thats been a lot of fun too, so I'm probably gonna stick with those two. Great video btw
This is a great video. I've recently gotten quite into Guilty Gear XX Accent Core and I really want to play A.B.A. I love her design, her voice, and her personality a lot. The problem is she doesn't really play how I really like and I find her too complicated. Although I'd love to try her later when I can actually do a GG input, for now I'm sticking with Sol, May, and Jam and I keep experimenting until I find a character I like. Although I'd like to find a main, I'm just gonna keep trying things out until I find something.
I have this problem with baiken, i love her and is kinda easy to learn some of her moves, but I just can't manage to do her force breaks even on training mode, I tried changing to anji who I find similar to her and I can actually manage to do his force breaks most of the time, but is just not her, and then I tried slayer, really easy character to learn for me even tho i'm barely starting to learn fighting games, so for now i'm sticking with him until I feel confident enough to return to Baiken and become good enough or at least try to be as good as whooocash is when using her
@@straydude7681 Cool. Baiken does sound pretty interesting, I just didn't want to try her since I hate how she screams.
@@gogocrazycocoa Funny because that's the main reason I like her so much 😅😂
Well you must be happy
@@Jake-xj1snIs this refering to the A.B.A announcement? 'Cause if so then yes. Although I still really want Jam and Dizzy in.
Anji's whole style is what made me main him. The guy is a big muscular traditional dancer that just spins around his opponents. I fucking love that
Gotta say, I started playing Strive as my first real fighting game, I KNEW the moment I saw him, Axl looked and felt for me. I am one of those rare cases of I find main and more I play them I just keep liking them more and more. All from lore to character type to voice acting (Octo is fucking awesome) to what they actually stand for (you know, war crimes, I am doing war crimes and loving it).
i went from axl (i was new to fighting and i had problem with charged moves) then to baiken then to my beloved bedman (explosion, surprises and unlimited oki)
my issue is i end up liking most of the casts as i like all archetypes so sticking to one is the hardest thing for me
I think this is missing a very important aspect of the "top tier" debate, during the happy chaos wars there was a very real issue, he was very strong, but also very toxic and lame (thats subjective i know, but not really) I have a friend who loves chaos's vibe (and winning) so he picked him up, if you've ever mained an overpowered character or know someone who does then you know people will go out of their way to let you know how awful a person you are for playing that character, how none of your wins are your own and you would suck without your toxic character. what im trying to say is, if you dont think you can handle the social lashes then you probably shouldn't play a character people consider "unfair" some people could realistically quit due to backlash
This was me with Guile when I started SF2. The dumb hair, me liking charge motions and footsies, didn't have a absurd number of different moves to remember, everything pretty much just connected then and there. My nephew decided to pick Zangief which was a bit odd to me since he was new, but then he game 1 figured out how to consistently do the full circle motion grapples so I didn't say anything after that lmao.
I always enjoy rushdowns the most. Then I saw BIG CHUNGUS POTEMKIN and was just forced to main him
"I know player who started playing games because of 1 character".
Me, who sees 2B in granblue rising.
U don't know me, gekko😐
My introduction to fighting games was learning how to play Voldo in SC6 despite being told he's among the most complex characters to pick up for a beginner. His animations and movements were just so rad. Turns out I dig a trial by fire if the character jives with me, because every single game I end up gravitating to whoever has some cryptic ass mechanics or weird execution.
Strange gameplans are what screw me up when I'm starting out. Voldo may have 4 or 5 stances with various moves putting you in or out of them, but his basic idea of FS = pokes and whiff punishes, BS = better, stubby buttons, and MC = mixups was easy to grasp despite the surrounding complexity. Compare that to Yuzu in UNI, and I had a lot more trouble figuring out *how* to play until I figured out how to boil her down a bit, despite happily getting used to her mechanical side.
Same but for lee in tekken and narmaya in granblue. I also like jamie a lot as well
The only time I had a true "Im fully committed to this character" moment was Neo in BBTAG not only is she my favorite character from RWBY (at least villain character) her fast paced playstyle kept wanting more, only reason I dont play the game is well....I got it on switch. No one plays on there so I just kinda moved on.
I remember falling in love with Dizzy from Guilty Gear, but being completely unable to handle her. I played Ky because he was easy. Then, I played Jam and got really familiar with how the game worked (even though every character is a world apart) and was not intimidated by speed eventually. Then it was Millia, for a bit, and then back to Jam (I was able to do brutal combos now!) Once I got confident enough, I got back to Dizzy and, slowly, learned how to handle her. I was destroying everyone with her in a matter of days. It was her mojo that kept me trying and the experience I gained that let me try again. Sometimes you like a character's design so much you want to make them do cool stuff. So, yeah. ❤ Every character has a specialty and sometimes there are transitory characters that show you the way...
Reasons I Chose Happy Chaos as My Main in GGS:
1: He's my favorite character, and he's a GOATED character
2: Despite his HUGE learning curve, he's HELLA fun to play, and learning him is S A T I S F Y I N G
3: He allows me to be the most annoying mfer in the game (Trust me when I say that I have, in fact, gotten more than one opponent to rage quit XD)
4: He's a "Think or DIE" character, much like Spy from TF2, if you're playing him with your brain off, it doesn't matter WHAT you're doing, you gonna lose. So keep your brain on, and think fast, yet smart
my mains:
GGST: Bedman? (baiken or testament)
Tekken7: josie (or steve or dragonov or fahkumram)
DNF duel: launcher
street fighter 5: juri (or birdie)
skullgirls: fukua, parasoul
tekken tag 2; asuka and jun kazama
DBFZ: Z brolly , android 16 and base goku
Super smash ultamite: king k rool (or ganondorf or donkey kong)
if i get the game
tekken 8: reina or asuka
street fighter 6: juri or marisa or manon
GBVR: vira or charlotta or ferry or soriz or calgaliostro or nier
blazblue: bullet
tell me yours its ok if u dont play much fighting game ,i dipped my toes on most of them but the top 3 i played the most
Never played a proper fighting game before. Got Strive after being bugged into it by a friend, and the moment I saw Faust I knew that I must use him until the day I die. I have not, and will not regret this decision.
I jumped around for so long, buying dlc characters and whatnot and never quite settling in.
All for my friend to tell me to try Ramlethal randomly and I realized I’d somehow constantly overlooked her and become a Ram main almost immediately
I absolutely fell in love with Zangief in SF4. He is such a lovable teddy bear. I was disappointed when SF5 seemed to take that away. But SF4 was an amazing time for me because of him.
Luffy started playing Rose specifically because she had the biggest tits. He went on to be one of the strongest competitors in SF4. Whatever gets you in there, go for it.
I felt guilty when starting Dragon Ball FighterZ (arguably, I'm still "starting" over a year later, because I don't give it much time). I love grapplers, but grapplers tend not to be great in games like this. I also love parries, because it lets me turn my opponent's strength against them. So, I started with UI Goku. At the time, he was considered to be absolutely busted. I only learned that after I started playing him. So, I felt guilty for picking a top tier, but it's the character I enjoyed. I just took some comfort in that there's no way I was going to actually play at that level, so nobody had to worry about me power-gaming for the sake of it. (Don't get me wrong, I absolutely will play competitively if I like a game enough.) And now, I'm getting hate from some because I also want to play Z Broly. I won't play them both at the same time, because of lore reasons, but Broly gives me the experience I want. I literally do not care what anyone thinks about me for that.
Earlier this year, I had a character crisis in Strive. When the game just came out, my first main was Ky. I liked his design and his gameplay. He's extremely easy to play, his combos are simple and intuitive, his damage is high, and he has options for every situation. I was a beginner in Guilty Gear, since Strive is my first serious dive into the series (I played a bit of the previous games when I was a kid, but it was never hardcore), so he was perfect for me. Plus, I don't like very technical and execution-heavy characters in general. However, playing a lot of him ended up being very boring for me, just as it was with SF6 Ken for Gekko here. I still like to play him, but now I only occasionally do that in casual sets against my friend.
My second main was Bridget. I liked her for... the wrong reasons, but her gameplay was interesting and fun too. However, she ended up being not for me. Too much risk and execution for not enough reward. Even though I got into Celestial with her many times, at some point I just stopped having fun with the character. It was just pure sweat, and when I play like that, I get tilted easily when I lose. So, I was kinda stuck.
Then, just as I was about to almost drop the game, Johnny came out and dragged me back into it. I'll never have a character crisis again. This character is just too good. Ever since the game came out, he was my most expected DLC character because I really like his looks and personality. I like characters who are like that in any fighting game and, if there are any, I tend to pick them as my mains. Johnny Cage is my favorite MK character, for example. I mained him in MK11, and would've mained him in MK1, if I had bought the game. So, when ArcSys announced Johnny at EVO this year, I was ecstatic. After hearing about what he was like in Xrd, I was a bit afraid he'd be too execution-heavy and complicated in Strive, but I was determined to overcome that. I didn't have to. He ended up being just perfect for me. I've been playing him non-stop for almost four months already, and I'm still having so much fun.
7:03 Just letting you know there's no thumbnail for the archetypes video you're referring to here.
How I found my main:
Played Jack o
gooning ensues
Mains Jack o
"Some people buy entire games because of one character" _cough_ Bridget _cough_
my first fg was strive, i legit just tried ky at first for reasons I don't remember, ever since that day i main nothing but shotos
Or, choose the hottest character. Potemkin is a pretty good pick if you ask me.
My strategy that I've used since SF:3S is just: Looking at the roster, then picking whoever looks the coolest to me. It's worked out great so far, playing Twelve in my first fighter, to Noob Saibot, Nagoriyuki and now Avatar/Belial.
It's always such a blast seeing someone decide on their main, it says a lot about them and in reality is usually a very deep rooted choice :)
The Chicken dinner joke caught me off guard cause I was actively eating fried chicken during my work lunch break.
I used to main Jack O for a while but then switched to Bridget because Bridget was easier for me to master while mastering Jack O is more complex and more difficult for me (The only fighting game I currently play is Guilty gear strive, I wanna get into Grandblue fantasy versus rising and maybe Blazblue)
6:02 yea, I definitely didn't do that...
Jack-O. Tbh, it's working out alright
Idek what my archetype is for fighting games. I play puff in all smash games but only compete in melee, i play baiken in strive and +r, kohaku in melty, and akuma in third strike. I just shit around til i find something i like
0:05 Does anyone know the name of the song in the start of the video? I cant find it
Character loyalty is real as fuck lmao. I recently realized I have a lot more fun with Sin than Gio in Strive, and I feel really sad leaving Gio in second place. You really grow attached to a character when you play them for almost 90 hours, it's so hard to let go.
I mean I got Guilty Gear Strive on launch bc I was absolutely ENAMORED with Ramlethal, and now I play Baiken and Elphelt. I had to learn to love a character's design, but play someone else bc their moveset vibes with me more
I just pick the cutest girl... But sometimes, when I'm familiar with the series, I tend to go for a comfort character I already know... And sometimes those two are the same~
I have 2 mains character actually
1 is faust because, he is goofy af
2 is johnny, like come on who doesn't like samurai cowboy pirate?
guilty gear: faust
smash bros: pirahna plant
skullgirls: peacock
i just play who is silly, i make my stupid character everyone elses problem while i have fun.
The first non-smash fighting game i played was bbtag because id just played persona 4 and wanted to try out narukami.
I am now stuck with the white bread character archetype and am very very happy with it. I main Ky, Katalina, Jin and Marth. I definitely have a type: pretty sword character
not gonna lie 2 types of characters that i specialize the most are:
safety-abandon berserker type characters
and counter heavy characters
both of those being ones i have a hard time finding-
what i mean by those two exactly? well with safety-abandon berserkers i am taking about aggressive characters with a lot of super-armor moves that just constantly keep attacking even when they get hurt; for most moves there is no stun lock from being hit, they'll get hit but they'll just keep hitting
and with counter heavy... those are a lot more rare, to the point i can't really find any clear example-counter-heavy characters are characters that well.. rely on counter-attacking the enemy; whenever the enemy attacks you have the chance to punish them, basically. their moveset relies almost entirely on counter-attacks, deflection and parries, no pressure, no defense; just counter-attack, the game. and i can't really find that in a proper fighting game sadly-2-3 rpg's but that's about all the luck i had; if you have any suggestions feel free to tell me; the only good example i found is Raiden from Metal Gear Rising, but that is a single player game-
Hakumen from Blazblue fits the second type. I should point out that parry type characters still need to do footsies and pressure etc and the fear of the parry is as important, if not more, than the parry itself similar to grapplers with command grabs.
@@sahkovalo the idea is more so an entire moveset designed for parrying rather than a certain move; or if not that then a whole mechanic attached to various moves
@@sahkovalo i also tend to prefer the moves being able to flow into each other, giving one the ability to turn a light combo into a light-heavy one or a light-special one at any time, or mixing in light, heavy and special, or a special into a heavy, you get the point; essentially a majority of the moves being able to combo into each other
I have never played a fighting game before except for a bit of smash. Yet asuka and HC call to me....
For me personally:
When it comes to picking stronger characters vs weaker characters, I’m not too concerned. If I really like the character, I’ll get good enough to win just as much.
Legit just find someone that looks cool.
When you learn them, if they feel weird when controlling them, or are literally uncomfortable, pick the 2nd coolest character.
i agree w/ everything buuut personally i play weaker characters because i like it when me and the boys ALL have fun instead of me just mowing them down with happy chaos
My problem is that whenever I switch off my main character it feels like I cant do anything. I dont know the neutral tools or combos so it just ends up feeling unplayable. So I end up never trying out different characters
"Person who plays baiken and giovanna" Invites anyone to one of two obvious stereotypes "I'm horny" or "Gender goals fr fr"
maaaan i just picked nagoriyuki cus hes a heckin VAMPIRE SAMURAI and his gimmick is cool. but yeah it wasnt a very personal "journey" if i saw him in the character select menu and thought, "huh, hes cool"
The way me and my friends find out is just get into a lobby and play randoms. It’s the classic way you used to do as a kid just play the game.
This game is soooooooooooooooo fucking good and I'm sad that this game kinda got over looked but they should make another one PLEAASSEEEE GUYS MAKE ANOTHER GUILTY GEAR GAME PLISSSSSSSSSS❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢
AAAAAARRGGHH!! I like May's voice! MAY ONE LOVE!!! Аpologize to May now!!!
Ok... absolutly out of topic: YOU PLAYED KEN IN SF6? Don't get me wrong, I can absolutly understand that decision based on your reasoning. But tbh I would have literally see you as a Juri, Cammy, Rashid or even Luke player.
But that is also something absolutly beautiful about fighting games as a whole, sometimes we choose wrong first character's or fall in love with a new type of playstyle we just picked up in that game specificly.
Started playing Tekken for the first time since Tekken 3 ...scrolled through a few characters "...this guy looks pretty alright", still haven't even tried anyone other than Dragunov (outside the story). Same thing in SSB4/Ultimate, tried peach, barely played anything else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'll... Probably never play GGST (i don't have a ps and i don't know how the HELL to get controllers to work on my pc), to someone coming in from another game, I'll just say this:
I mained little mac in ssb4 and ultimate and when i eventually went to BBCT and BBCF, i main hakumen. Having a character archetype you like in one game will have VERY LITTLE impact on who you will main on a different game.
My main guide step by step:
1- Are you playing Skullgirls? If yes, continue! You're on the right path. If no, buy it.
2- Play Big Band.
3- Pick two other fuckass characters to build bar so you can play Big Band at his fullest. Or even better! Play solo Band.
There you go! Now can destroy them all.
I would like to point out that it's completely okay if the character you wanted to main just doesn't work out for you. In Smash Bros (I know i'm a heathen, shut up) I REALLY wanted to main Joker when he came out. Persona 5 is my favorite game of all time... but I just couldn't do it. He just didn't vibe with me. I don't really like pure rushdown characters so that's why. My main K Rool, becuase I liked the idea of a heavyweight woth projectiles. Also when Sora came out, I immediately picked him up becuase KH is my favorite franchise of all time.
Also, for Rivals of Aether it's Kragg and Absa.
SLAYER IS A ZOANER????? I was SO FUCKING HYPED FOR HIM BEING THE NEXT DLC FOR FUCKS SAKE (I’d rather die than play zoaners)
On the topic of picking a character that's strong, it's not always fun to play them, I mained C-Roa in MBAACC as my first character due to this playstyle, but ultimately found him extremely boring to play the more I got better with him because he has almost has no weaknesses, It's so boring when you're not even playing him properly in a match and you still win either way due to how insanely strong he is.
Take for example Kazuya from Tekken, he's a highly-commital mixup character that requires reads in order to effectively punish players, or ABA from GGAC+R that has players try to manage their meter in Moroha mode, or F-Kouma from MBAACC that has the hardest bnb's I've ever seen. All of these characters I've managed to have found fun by working around what they suck at.
A character is not defined just by their strengths but also their weaknesses. Which is why I tend to play 'harder' characters because they can provide so much fun just by learning and playing them exclusively.
6:04 yikes this might be me with testament!!!! Testament they could never make me let u go.... ❤❤❤
Tbh i'm going to Main either Leo whitefang or Jhonny because their desings and combos are cool af meanwhile My brother Is going to Main either potemkin or Slayer because he likes characters that are 100% close range (i'm going to start playing next year when the Game arrives to switch)
My way of choosing a main is simple, find someone who looks appealing, try their moveset and lab with it, if the character doesn't feel like you can manage it as a non-competitive fighting game character then try another one. I myself thought i could use Nagoriyuki as a competitive character only to get folded multiple times, now as baiken i am a 10F player that understands how every matchup works with her
Step 1 pick a character you think looks cool.
Step 2 realize that character has a high, technical difficulty and give up.
Step 3 pick a character with an easy technical difficulty that you could learn the fundamentals with that you still think looks cool.
Step 4 get your ass kicked alot online
Step 5 learn how to actually beat than 10% of the people who you fight.
Step 6 Repeat, step 5 dumbass!
Step 6.5 what did I just say!
Step 7 after actually learning good fundamentals with a character, go back to the character that you originally wanted to play as.
Step 8 go back to getting your ass kicked a bunch.
Step 9 go play a different fighting game because you’re depressed that you can’t play the character that you want on the level that you want.
Step 10 come back to The first fighting game after 3 weeks, and suddenly be better than you ever were
Step 11 realize that your love for fighting games is based off of masochism
Welcome to the FGC
As someone who is new to playing strive, clearly I should start with Bedman? What could possibly go wrong?
Joking aside I'm probably going to stick with Leo. That or maybe move to your favorite type of character, a Zoner.
I'm not sure about that one though, none of the zoners in strive seem all that interesting to me and/or seem a bit too complicated to start with.
How I choose a main: this looks cool I’ll play it:
Guilty Gear: Faust only
League (only 4 months): Fiddlesticks only
TF2: stim and scorch
TF2: demoman
When I played My Hero Ones Justice 2, being able to play as Stain really hooked me because he was my favorite character in the series. Being able to play as him and my other favorite characters made the game a lot more fun. It made learning feel a lot more rewarding.
8:15 (rant about people not playing characters because too strong) - Okay, but I mained Raven in Xrd, then I saw a whole-ass documentary about how he was an obnoxious character to play against who had fans up in arms, and then I saw a similar thing about Happy Chaos and I thought... damn he looks fun to play though
The thing is that when I play games, I like to win, but I don't want that to be at the cost of my opponent's good time. I'm willing to reduce my winrate a bit if the net quantity of _fun_ is increased across both players.
This helps me differentiate myself from my younger brother, who mains Ice Climbers in Melee
Remember back in the day (pre MTX bullshit) my drive to collect every single outfit and skin made narrowing my main down REAL easy xD...
The pride thing is SO true. I dropped Luke for this and i know that's stupid buuuuut... fake pride. Luckily i fell in love with how fun and goofy Limberly is, a mixup heavy character i thought couldn't be for me. Life is weird!
For me char has to have high execution and either terrifying pressure or setplay.
When playing guilty gear strive (i just started) I picked Giovanni because dog then I started playing Johnny because of the Toji fushiguro mod
What if you know which character(s) you want to play, but aren’t sure of the best way to go about “getting to the fun part” of fighting games? As someone coming from Smash, I really want to learn Strive and I know I want to play Bridget. I want to improve but I also want to have fun and not get destroyed every single round. Pls send help @.@
I usually tend to ignore tier lists when choosing the character I play, because I feel its very superficial.
That said, lately in Tekken 8. I played a lot of Asuka because I loved her arsthetic, her voice and her moveset. But i felt she was lacking hard. Then I found out she's like at the bottom of everyone's early tierlist. So i decided trying someone else.
So I went for Xiaoyu, who is appearently top tier. And now I feel like she is the one carrying me. 😅
I have a little under 200 hours on Tekken 7
I have 150+ hours on Dragunov alone. Rush down grapplers, my beloved.
I usually just makes a list of thing my character must have
1. Blonde Hair
2. Primary Color = Green
3. Goofball
I learnt my characters key moves, general neutral, game plan, pressure, VERY noob combos.
None of it mattered, everyone just knowledge checks me and cheeses out rounds the moment I start getting momentum...
I jumped around for so long, buying dlc characters and whatnot and never quite settling in.
All for my friend to tell me to try Ramlethal randomly and I realized I’d somehow constantly overlooked her and become a Ram main almost immediately
I was already interested in guilty gear strive knowing its beginner friendly fighting game and there came Baiken. So you're telling me i could play half blind, on armed , nihilistic pessimistic unhinged beast of a women that have this serene madness all in her character of a Ronin made me fall in love in her.
So my goals for picking a main are: Are they a good and fun as a person, they’re simple enough for newcomers for fighting games and they’re relatively strong… well I got Mai for BlazBlue so it’s time to spread my wings and fly
I got into fighting games specifically because of Terry Bogard. If there is game with him in it, I will buy it and play only him. Even if he’s bottom tier, I will never drop him.
Idk why but i never had a character crisis on fighting games. I choose them even before i start playing (idk how that works, i am very lucky multiple times i guess with a perfect character for me) Straight from the heights of tier lists, so if I'll loose I'll blame myself. This is literally how i got interested in ggst- i was just looking at the tier list
Described the exact reason I play Ramlethal,I saw big sword, I liked big sword, bought guilty gear