Thanks for watching our chat with Woolie! Be sure to subscribe to their channel and tune into Getting Into Fighting Games every week over at www.twitch.tv/woolieversus Who would you like to see us interview next?
Honestly I would love to see a interview with Maximillan Dood. Him and Woolie were the biggest reasons why I enjoy watching and playing fighting games (even if I'm not good at playing them lol)
Too many people stuck on RIP to the SBFP. Flash in the pan, lightning in a bottle, so many ways to say amazing things don't always last forever. Pick up, move forward. The boys are doing amazing things in their own right and this doc of Woolie standing on his own is proof. Paying respects at a grave one a year is sentimental. Setting up a campsite in the graveyard to stare at it is just mental.
I agree on everything but the flash in the pan stuff. They've been at it for so long that me and alot of other people who watched them graduated, had a kid, got a house etc. The joke about them being like our divorced parents got made for a reason.
I love hearing Woolie talk about fighting games. Seriously, he is the one that got me into fighting games and I could never thank him enough for introducing me to a genre of game that I love, to the point where in my group of friends I'm the fighting game guy.
This was great. I always forget how much I miss the Best Friends until I see something like this pop up. It's crazy to think that it's been a year and a half since they stopped making content together. Feels like it happened yesterday and five years ago all at the same time.
Woolie honestly got me back into fighting games. I used to play them a lot as a kid, but I was never terribly good at them. Then when I got older I was like 'Oh I just can't play them. I'll never be able to.' But seeing them all just fuck around with games they hadn't played before and seeing, especially, Woolie's Scrub Guides videos made me go...You know what. No. I can play them and I'm going to play them. Even if it takes me ages to crawl my way out of the pit. Especially if it does, honestly! The journey's great! And like that's helping me with anxiety issues I've got in general. In addition to getting me back to playing games I've honestly always really adored. So for that I'll always be grateful. He got me going back to something I loved and helped me figure out how to learn and how to keep motivated. Means a lot.
I feel the same way man, I sucked at them when I was younger. My dad and I used to always play Mortal Kombat and he’d bully me with Raiden.. after his death I made it a point to learn to master Sub. MK9 was the re-start I needed, then MKX and now with MK11 I’m the best Sub in my local area and even in KL ranked sets I consider myself pretty badass 😌 Fighting games really do force you to level up
Woolie's always been a real one and has been my favorite out of all the Best Friends back when he first popped up in their original Marvel 3 video for Machinima and just wiped both Matt and Pat's asses on the floor. Can't believe it's already been past a decade. Keep it tight, Woolz.
I only had an older brother and sister when I got into video games. When we used to play fighting games I was the only one who did anything beyond button mashing, so eventually everyone stopped playing. I wasn't any good, I just knew what the buttons did. I then ignored fighting games for years until I started watching people like Max and SBFP. Now I'm actually starting to get back into the genre slowly. It's amazing how seeing someone I like play a game can actually induce me to buy a game way more than the flashiest trailer or high review scores.
Us fans of you salute you Woolie. We all felt at a loss when sbfp ended but you’re keeping that dream alive and Reggie couldn’t be a better co pilot! LET’S GET IT ON NOW SELECT AND MAKE YA FIRST PICK!!!
Maddentown's golden boy getting a much deserved spotlight for his years of work. Love Woolz's content and his genuine personality, awesome to see him in something like this. Much respect to HBTB for interviewing him.
This is all great, but Zubaz being MADE OF MEMES is amazing every time I think about it. Found in utter obscurity, long-rejected, he was given his very nature from a meme. He survived through the power of a meme. He ASCENDED to become a meme. Monsoon would shed a tear.
People love fighting games by seeing them for the first time, but when they actually pick up the game, they realize how much of learning and practicing has to go into them. I think thats why I mainly only play Tekken. I am lazy, so most of my skill carries over into the next entry. No need to learn from scratch with each entry, despite there being much to learn.
It's crazy that I've been casually playing tekken since 2 but knowledge from t2 has almost all carried into t7, I Dunno if theres any other series that does that
@@Wazzen563 i thought air dashers would be a whole new world for me but honestly, fundamentals are fundamentals. they even carried over into tekken a tad bit for me, but that element of a third dimension as well as a crushing system took some time for me to get used to.
@@funakiexpressV2 Yeah tekken is definitly a loyalist/legacy game. I put some time into tekken 3 and that knowledge is what i mostly used in later installments. its only with 6 and Tag 2 that i tried to get a bit better and then with Tekken 7 I actually started getting decent enough to even make some tutorial/ guide videos. One thing is for sure, at least 90% of our skills will carry over to Tekken 8.
woolie is honestly so charismatic. he doesn't feel fake, or like he's exaggerating any of his opinions to sound interesting. he's just an honest fanboy and it warms my heart. And also I will steal that sweater.
I think the most important thing when trying to bring people in to fighting games is ease, don’t get flashy and discourage them, take it easy let them learn the controls and take a few rounds to build that I can do attitude. Or that’s my approach with getting my nieces and nephews into fighting games.
SBF got me into fighting games. It showed the wide world of the different games and the most important part: it's all about having fun and discovering new things.
i first found out about Woolie in 2014 when he was on Co-Optional. i've been a loyal follower ever since. i actually got a chance to fight him finally in Tekken 7 earlier this year and i saw a clip of it here and had a "look mom! i'm on tv!" moment to myself just now lol.
YOOO! Woolie is the absolute best. He is THE reason I got into fighting games and sharing his content got friends into fighting games. I could never get into them and didn't understand how they worked, but his enthusiasm and knowledge got me in. I could have never imagined that games like Tekken 7 and Skullgirls would be a necessary part of my weekly routine, but Woolie got me in and kept me in.
Not gonna lie, I didn't think Woolie would be the best friend I'd become so invested in since he was a 'side character' for such a long time. There's just something about him though. He's like a stable, yet fun older brother.
I never really knew about woolie/SBFP before meeting him at dreamhack montreal, he asked to play me in tekken and we just had a fun set and some good banter. Woolie is the nicest dude ever and after my friend was freaking out like "yooo thats woolie" I had to check all his stuff out.
The whole "try hard" concept is really interesting to me. I had the whole fighting game hangout experience with my cousins and later on in college with my friends and in both situations, everybody in the group were at an extremely high level where my goal would just be to stay on the sticks as long as possible. It was still super casual and jokey, but the thing that would always keep me coming back was the idea of finally beating my cousin's unstoppable Scorpion. I think going from that to a legitimately casual setting can be why people like me show up and unintentionally suck the fun out of the room with the "MUST WIN" attitude.
The genre is pretty intimate since it can only be played with 2 guys, so I think newer/casual players just feel uncomfortable with that kind of attitude even though it is almost a requirement to make any progress.
He got me back into fighting games along with Max and jmcrofts and some others. Learning that a stick made it possible for my old hands to play games again was wonderful, but it's the passion of the community that really pulled me back in.
I love the memory this video gave me of being a kid watching two best friends and watching the latest friday night fisticuffs and it was Garou: Mark of the Wolves. And watching the video just falling love with the game and getting a emulator that day.
I guess I'm one of few odd fans who got in the old channel via Fighterpida and was happy that FNF became a thing and having SMS to show to the public garbage old fighting games out in open to watch was the best content from Woolie the hardest working fighting game peddler next to Max.
Woolie does his job so well that he already got me into a new fighting game. Watching this doc I noticed a clip with a character wearing the shinsengumi uniform, found out about Last Blade and just downloaded it to play on fightcade. A fighting game about the Bakumatsu is something I didn't know I needed until I saw it
FGC heads always gave me that old school big brother vibe that i could be myself around. I never got that in other communities, where everyone gave me the annoying little cousin vibe. Its great how the FGC friends I’ve made were all OG’s who played for the love of the game and didn’t move onto whatever was hype like kids nowadays.
Dude has always had too much in his hands to fully commit into the FGC. Never got good enough in any paticular fighting game to be a full fledged pro (tho he did got *really* close that one time with Samsho). He got bodied all the time in his streams. Nevertheless, he has a big mark in the FGC purely out of his love for the genre.
225 episodes of fighting game goodness are there waiting for you in a nice playlist. That's one of the best things about the Best Friends, all of them -- even now on their own channels -- arrange all their videos into neat, easy to find playlists. PS: Watch the Super Best Friends Brawl videos too, in particular, The Smash Bros. 64 episode is legendary!
Something about fighting games brings me a simple joy. I don't play online or even casually with friends, but there's a wonderful feeling when I can just turn on Central Fiction, go into training mode, and re-confirm that I still remember the exact way to break my fingers so I can do semi-proper Naoto combos. Good on Woolz for pushing FGs as much as he does for a dedicated audience, it honestly feels like he's smartened the formula up enough that it doesn't feel like a general blanket cover anymore. Also did "Get Out of Fighting Games" become a thing yet, where he just showcases some of the...shall we say less put together FGs?
I gave Mortal Kombat X a try after seeing Woolie play Kotal Kahn on fisticuffs. He looked fun and easy enough to play; and I got surprisingly far by abusing uppercut + airthrow. Unfortunately I hit a wall and this was before the netcode fix.
After I got MUGEN on my PC and started adding custom made edits, I felt like that was everything I could do in a fighting game. I feel like Smash Bros is still the only fighter that doesn't rely on pure health meters but I could be wrong.
I've tired getting into SFV idk how many times now but my brain just can't comprehend putting in so many commands on time. I'm used to simpler games like Chivalry and Mordhau, where whiff punishes and combos are a single button
I never heard of this dude and wasnt going to watch the whole video.. but damn it was a good documentary... I mostly game RPGs/MMOs/Horror games but I recently picked up MK11 aftermath, I havent played a MK since MK3... I love and missed fighting games... the matches are quick but yet I spend HOURS gaming. Fighting games will always have a place in my heart
The problem with fighting games is the skill floor is so high in most of them that discourages people from playing, unfortunately I don’t think there’s a way around that. Plus there’s like a whole new language to learn to really understand a fighting game. It’s all just too much.
From my point of view it's less about skill-floors/caps and all that, and more about lack of incentive to actually keep playing. Take a game like Dark Souls for example. I know the genres aren't exactly the same, but there are actually a couple of similarities you can draw between the fighting in Dark Souls and say, a Street Fighter game. Understanding your chosen weapon's moveset, the spacing between you and the opponent, the timings & reach and power on each of your attacks so you can inflict damage without putting yourself at risk are pretty valuable skills that help you to avoid dying in a Souls game, or at least helps you conserve resources. In other words you could argue that there is also a 'skill-cap' in the Souls games. The thing is that on top of these fighting mechanics, the Souls series also have a bunch of things that distract you from just the fighting and encourage you to keep playing. Exploring atmospheric areas and seeing what lurks around the next corner, finding new armors and weapons and spells to try, thinking about what stats you want to invest points in to either enable new weapons/abilities or empower the ones you already have, not to mention lore if you're into that - all of it ends up serving the purpose of keeping you interested in the game. Maybe it's just me having only played SF games, but fighting games seem to lack that in general. They seem to revolve around nothing but the fight itself, which is fine except it's difficult to maintain interest and motivation in that which is the problem: you can't learn if you stop playing. Take any of the famous street fighter players - if they'd grown up playing some other genre and you threw them into a fighting game, they'd probably struggle as much as anyone else. There's a reason for why most of the big guys in fighters happen to have have played fighting games for a very long time. Ironically, the genre that arguably requires the most dedication to get good is also the one that struggles the most with keeping newcomers interested. That and of course the fact that SF games have much stricter controls & timings than most other games, probably due to its origin as an '80s Arcade game.
^ Sorry for that wall of text lol, I didn't mean to write that much. The TLDR is that I find fighting games to be lacking things that keep you interested and motivated to keep playing which is the only way to improve, compared to what other games have to offer. AFAIK most of the people who are good at fighting games are people that happen to have played the genre for a very long time, like since childhood. I've no idea what could be done to improve the situation though, it's just how I see it.
Thanks for watching our chat with Woolie! Be sure to subscribe to their channel and tune into Getting Into Fighting Games every week over at www.twitch.tv/woolieversus
Who would you like to see us interview next?
Honestly I would love to see a interview with Maximillan Dood. Him and Woolie were the biggest reasons why I enjoy watching and playing fighting games (even if I'm not good at playing them lol)
Max is def on my list of people I'd like to do a big feature on. Perhaps when it's safe to travel again, I'll see if he's interested!
Bro, you always rock! I love fighting games’. Woolie rocks! I love Super Best Friends!❤️😊🤘🏾🎸
What’s the song at 16:31 ?
@Eric Sledge kfoo Shrek 4D vs Capcom
I cannot believe our boy has got himself a documentary
The Liar is moving up in the world!
Watch out for that Woolie, he'll steal your pies...
Wel deserved. Woolie is the man.
God bless this man, he's trying so hard
He could take it a bit easier if he just went back to picking the boss character.
IKR? What a try hard.
He does lets plays and a podcast. He picked easy mode for work.
Woolie's the kinda the guy who feels like he's everybody's best friend.
He was OUR super best friend
I would shank babies for a chance to be even regular friends with Woolie ngl
And he's always right
@@flmalegre The Japanese army would have loved you during the world war.
Too many people stuck on RIP to the SBFP. Flash in the pan, lightning in a bottle, so many ways to say amazing things don't always last forever. Pick up, move forward. The boys are doing amazing things in their own right and this doc of Woolie standing on his own is proof. Paying respects at a grave one a year is sentimental. Setting up a campsite in the graveyard to stare at it is just mental.
🙏🏾
@@WoolieVersus Hey Woolz, I'm gonna use my weekend to do 2 things. 1: Play more Ghost of Tsushima 2: Binge that TTYD LP. Thanks for the entertainment!
I agree on everything but the flash in the pan stuff. They've been at it for so long that me and alot of other people who watched them graduated, had a kid, got a house etc.
The joke about them being like our divorced parents got made for a reason.
Dont be one guy
@@warzone822 get over it and move on
I love hearing Woolie talk about fighting games. Seriously, he is the one that got me into fighting games and I could never thank him enough for introducing me to a genre of game that I love, to the point where in my group of friends I'm the fighting game guy.
I hear that piano from "This Is True Love Makin" and that knock and suddenly its Friday again. Its a melancholy feeling, isn't it?
Yes.
Tis indeed
I miss Friday Night Fisticuffs. I miss it so much.
I teared up, no joke
it was the highlight of my weekend. That intro is just... ahhh.... looks like it's beginning to rain...
I hear Groose and it's Saturday and I feel sad because there's no one to yell at over forgetting cookies anymore. :(
This was great. I always forget how much I miss the Best Friends until I see something like this pop up. It's crazy to think that it's been a year and a half since they stopped making content together. Feels like it happened yesterday and five years ago all at the same time.
Wool's carrying the torch pretty well with the new crew.
Woolie repping that Mista jacket looking fly, he really is the role model we need
@Dale Macarena Mista is the name of a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure character.
He’s wearing an Arms T shirt he knows what’s good
AND a JoJo jacket
Kinchit Kumar even better
Yes a man of culture.
anyone know where to get that shirt?
@@RonCorwin I'd also like to know.
Woolie honestly got me back into fighting games. I used to play them a lot as a kid, but I was never terribly good at them. Then when I got older I was like 'Oh I just can't play them. I'll never be able to.' But seeing them all just fuck around with games they hadn't played before and seeing, especially, Woolie's Scrub Guides videos made me go...You know what. No. I can play them and I'm going to play them. Even if it takes me ages to crawl my way out of the pit. Especially if it does, honestly! The journey's great! And like that's helping me with anxiety issues I've got in general. In addition to getting me back to playing games I've honestly always really adored.
So for that I'll always be grateful. He got me going back to something I loved and helped me figure out how to learn and how to keep motivated. Means a lot.
I feel the same way man, I sucked at them when I was younger. My dad and I used to always play Mortal Kombat and he’d bully me with Raiden.. after his death I made it a point to learn to master Sub. MK9 was the re-start I needed, then MKX and now with MK11 I’m the best Sub in my local area and even in KL ranked sets I consider myself pretty badass 😌 Fighting games really do force you to level up
"Trying to play legit ended up being a problem"
*cut to UMVC3*
Arms t shirt, Guido Mista Jacket, ahh yes, this is our woolie indeed
I appreciate Woolie’s efforts to keep fighting games alive and relevant! His “selfish” actions are needed now more than ever!
Woolie's always been a real one and has been my favorite out of all the Best Friends back when he first popped up in their original Marvel 3 video for Machinima and just wiped both Matt and Pat's asses on the floor. Can't believe it's already been past a decade. Keep it tight, Woolz.
I only had an older brother and sister when I got into video games. When we used to play fighting games I was the only one who did anything beyond button mashing, so eventually everyone stopped playing. I wasn't any good, I just knew what the buttons did. I then ignored fighting games for years until I started watching people like Max and SBFP. Now I'm actually starting to get back into the genre slowly. It's amazing how seeing someone I like play a game can actually induce me to buy a game way more than the flashiest trailer or high review scores.
I've been waiting for this. Woolie always doing good for Fighting Games.
The Fisticuffs videos are what got me into fighting games and now fighting games are my favourite genre of games.
Us fans of you salute you Woolie. We all felt at a loss when sbfp ended but you’re keeping that dream alive and Reggie couldn’t be a better co pilot!
LET’S GET IT ON NOW
SELECT AND MAKE YA FIRST PICK!!!
10 9 8 7 6
@@malikoniousjoe CHOOSE AND PICK THE BEST ONE
LET'S GET IT ON NOW
7 Sweet Orgasmic Pages of MUDA! ITS TIME FOR YOU TO GET INTO THE CHARACTER
YEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYE
Maddentown's golden boy getting a much deserved spotlight for his years of work.
Love Woolz's content and his genuine personality, awesome to see him in something like this.
Much respect to HBTB for interviewing him.
This is all great, but Zubaz being MADE OF MEMES is amazing every time I think about it. Found in utter obscurity, long-rejected, he was given his very nature from a meme. He survived through the power of a meme. He ASCENDED to become a meme. Monsoon would shed a tear.
People love fighting games by seeing them for the first time, but when they actually pick up the game, they realize how much of learning and practicing has to go into them. I think thats why I mainly only play Tekken. I am lazy, so most of my skill carries over into the next entry. No need to learn from scratch with each entry, despite there being much to learn.
It's crazy that I've been casually playing tekken since 2 but knowledge from t2 has almost all carried into t7, I Dunno if theres any other series that does that
@@funakiexpressV2 for me all 2D games feel the same for the same reasons. I started with third strike and sf alpha 2 and 3
@@Mugen123456789 Really? Guilty Gear & Samurai Shodown are as different as night & day.
@@Wazzen563 i thought air dashers would be a whole new world for me but honestly, fundamentals are fundamentals. they even carried over into tekken a tad bit for me, but that element of a third dimension as well as a crushing system took some time for me to get used to.
@@funakiexpressV2 Yeah tekken is definitly a loyalist/legacy game. I put some time into tekken 3 and that knowledge is what i mostly used in later installments. its only with 6 and Tag 2 that i tried to get a bit better and then with Tekken 7 I actually started getting decent enough to even make some tutorial/ guide videos. One thing is for sure, at least 90% of our skills will carry over to Tekken 8.
woolie is honestly so charismatic. he doesn't feel fake, or like he's exaggerating any of his opinions to sound interesting. he's just an honest fanboy and it warms my heart.
And also I will steal that sweater.
I don’t know how, but I forgot that Woolie’s head used to be 43% hat.
I think the most important thing when trying to bring people in to fighting games is ease, don’t get flashy and discourage them, take it easy let them learn the controls and take a few rounds to build that I can do attitude. Or that’s my approach with getting my nieces and nephews into fighting games.
Well, I was gonna ask if I could put him in my game but... guess that clears it up.
As a Cambodian, I'm eternally amused by his racial grudge against the Canadian FGC Cambodians
Woolie want's more people playing fighting game's because it fills the woolie hole in his heart 💓
Protect this man at all cost!
Woolie has really became the big homie of the fighting game community, man has got me into so many different types of fighters
SBF got me into fighting games. It showed the wide world of the different games and the most important part: it's all about having fun and discovering new things.
You can definitely see that Canadian kindness in Woolie
He's wearing the Mista jacket I love Woolie
i first found out about Woolie in 2014 when he was on Co-Optional. i've been a loyal follower ever since. i actually got a chance to fight him finally in Tekken 7 earlier this year and i saw a clip of it here and had a "look mom! i'm on tv!" moment to myself just now lol.
YOOO! Woolie is the absolute best. He is THE reason I got into fighting games and sharing his content got friends into fighting games. I could never get into them and didn't understand how they worked, but his enthusiasm and knowledge got me in. I could have never imagined that games like Tekken 7 and Skullgirls would be a necessary part of my weekly routine, but Woolie got me in and kept me in.
Hopefully he worked on his footsies plan and 3-0's Daigo next time.
Friday Night Fisticuffs kickstarted my love for fighting games.
I'm very happy to see this interview. I feel the same way about never letting fighters die.
Makes me sad that the FGC created esports, yet fortnite gets all the money
Never forget he got the one round on Diago in SFIV. Woolie the GOAT
Not gonna lie, I didn't think Woolie would be the best friend I'd become so invested in since he was a 'side character' for such a long time. There's just something about him though. He's like a stable, yet fun older brother.
I never really knew about woolie/SBFP before meeting him at dreamhack montreal, he asked to play me in tekken and we just had a fun set and some good banter. Woolie is the nicest dude ever and after my friend was freaking out like "yooo thats woolie" I had to check all his stuff out.
Woolie!!!! Let’s get hype.
Woolie has such a fun, peaceful, and pure soul
Mista Woolie
I'm curious to know how exactly Woolie communicated with his non-english speaking friends.
Hadokens speak louder than words.
He said that they we're mainly french speakers, not JUST french. English class are mendatory in Québec territory's
I TOLD YOU FIGHTERPEDIA WAS REAL
The whole "try hard" concept is really interesting to me. I had the whole fighting game hangout experience with my cousins and later on in college with my friends and in both situations, everybody in the group were at an extremely high level where my goal would just be to stay on the sticks as long as possible. It was still super casual and jokey, but the thing that would always keep me coming back was the idea of finally beating my cousin's unstoppable Scorpion. I think going from that to a legitimately casual setting can be why people like me show up and unintentionally suck the fun out of the room with the "MUST WIN" attitude.
The genre is pretty intimate since it can only be played with 2 guys, so I think newer/casual players just feel uncomfortable with that kind of attitude even though it is almost a requirement to make any progress.
I want The Baz in Cyberpunk 2077...
I can listen to this man talk for hours. Fuck wait I actually do.
I love Wollie and the Super Best Friends! Thanks for the awesome video and stay safe my man!
He got me back into fighting games along with Max and jmcrofts and some others. Learning that a stick made it possible for my old hands to play games again was wonderful, but it's the passion of the community that really pulled me back in.
I remember he was pretty good at Streetfighter. I still recall Woolie vs Daigo match, that was fun lol
I love the memory this video gave me of being a kid watching two best friends and watching the latest friday night fisticuffs and it was Garou: Mark of the Wolves. And watching the video just falling love with the game and getting a emulator that day.
I guess I'm one of few odd fans who got in the old channel via Fighterpida and was happy that FNF became a thing and having SMS to show to the public garbage old fighting games out in open to watch was the best content from Woolie the hardest working fighting game peddler next to Max.
Woolie does his job so well that he already got me into a new fighting game. Watching this doc I noticed a clip with a character wearing the shinsengumi uniform, found out about Last Blade and just downloaded it to play on fightcade. A fighting game about the Bakumatsu is something I didn't know I needed until I saw it
FGC heads always gave me that old school big brother vibe that i could be myself around. I never got that in other communities, where everyone gave me the annoying little cousin vibe.
Its great how the FGC friends I’ve made were all OG’s who played for the love of the game and didn’t move onto whatever was hype like kids nowadays.
Hold tf up, is that a Mista jacket😭Woolie a man of culture Ong
If woolie does not talk about blazblue at all in this video, than this will be the perfect woolie video
Please help grow FGC community in India!
Dude has always had too much in his hands to fully commit into the FGC. Never got good enough in any paticular fighting game to be a full fledged pro (tho he did got *really* close that one time with Samsho). He got bodied all the time in his streams. Nevertheless, he has a big mark in the FGC purely out of his love for the genre.
ngl i feel like woolie unknowingly gets more people into fighting games than Max
7:30 little do they know that's actually Poison
Man. Never got watch Fridaynight Fisticuffs. I feel like now I missed a huge part of the FGC as a whole.
Its still there man, never too late to watch it. Just wait till Friday
Don't forget Saturday Morning Scrublords as well!
225 episodes of fighting game goodness are there waiting for you in a nice playlist. That's one of the best things about the Best Friends, all of them -- even now on their own channels -- arrange all their videos into neat, easy to find playlists.
PS: Watch the Super Best Friends Brawl videos too, in particular, The Smash Bros. 64 episode is legendary!
It was amazing. I still watch them to this day
I know now what I must do. I'm sure it will server as inspiration for my content.
Zubaz for Smash
Woolie 13:02: you can play Magic the Gathering on a Friday night with your friends
I see what you did there
Love Woolie, loved this interview and vid. Got my sub man keep it up
I don't know if I'm seeing things, but if I'm not, that's one sick Mista hoodie
Woolie will make such a good Dad.
Just noticed the Jojo merch. Fucking nice.
Something about fighting games brings me a simple joy. I don't play online or even casually with friends, but there's a wonderful feeling when I can just turn on Central Fiction, go into training mode, and re-confirm that I still remember the exact way to break my fingers so I can do semi-proper Naoto combos.
Good on Woolz for pushing FGs as much as he does for a dedicated audience, it honestly feels like he's smartened the formula up enough that it doesn't feel like a general blanket cover anymore.
Also did "Get Out of Fighting Games" become a thing yet, where he just showcases some of the...shall we say less put together FGs?
Wasn't there a time when you guys made RAGE they just completely threw Zubaz in the trash for a couple months.
Hey, man, they HAD to push Rage. The Baz needs a rival.
With everything going on with the fgc right now, woolie is definitely what we need
Fighting games ruled the arcade back in the day
I gave Mortal Kombat X a try after seeing Woolie play Kotal Kahn on fisticuffs. He looked fun and easy enough to play; and I got surprisingly far by abusing uppercut + airthrow.
Unfortunately I hit a wall and this was before the netcode fix.
After I got MUGEN on my PC and started adding custom made edits, I felt like that was everything I could do in a fighting game. I feel like Smash Bros is still the only fighter that doesn't rely on pure health meters but I could be wrong.
Now I do admire woolie for doing all this, but where did he get that shirt? I think it's also important to know where to buy something like that.
Let’s not forget... Dong Dong Never Dies
Always nice to see Woolie. Gotta love his genuine enthusiasm for fighting games. 😀
THE BESTFRIEND ZAIBATSU IS FOREVERRR
I've tired getting into SFV idk how many times now but my brain just can't comprehend putting in so many commands on time. I'm used to simpler games like Chivalry and Mordhau, where whiff punishes and combos are a single button
SF5 is one of the easier ones, only other I can think of that might be more your speed is Fantasy Strike. Unsure how many people play that though.
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Is there a Maxmillian interview?! I nominate him next
Good shit Esteban, loved you on the VSav ep of Get Into Fighting Games.
Woolie with the ARMS shirt and Mista jacket, what a badass
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Nice Women of ARMS shirt, Woolie.
Shoutouts to the hypest intro in anything in Woolie's Get into fighting games
That Mista jacket for a full Jojo experience.
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I never heard of this dude and wasnt going to watch the whole video.. but damn it was a good documentary... I mostly game RPGs/MMOs/Horror games but I recently picked up MK11 aftermath, I havent played a MK since MK3... I love and missed fighting games... the matches are quick but yet I spend HOURS gaming. Fighting games will always have a place in my heart
Great interview!! Love Woolie and LOVE fighting games!!
No clip put me onto this channel. I dont really play fighting games seriously anymore but still love the FGC. This scratches my itch!
You know what. I will support cause I trust woolie judgment
The problem with fighting games is the skill floor is so high in most of them that discourages people from playing, unfortunately I don’t think there’s a way around that. Plus there’s like a whole new language to learn to really understand a fighting game. It’s all just too much.
From my point of view it's less about skill-floors/caps and all that, and more about lack of incentive to actually keep playing.
Take a game like Dark Souls for example. I know the genres aren't exactly the same, but there are actually a couple of similarities you can draw between the fighting in Dark Souls and say, a Street Fighter game. Understanding your chosen weapon's moveset, the spacing between you and the opponent, the timings & reach and power on each of your attacks so you can inflict damage without putting yourself at risk are pretty valuable skills that help you to avoid dying in a Souls game, or at least helps you conserve resources. In other words you could argue that there is also a 'skill-cap' in the Souls games.
The thing is that on top of these fighting mechanics, the Souls series also have a bunch of things that distract you from just the fighting and encourage you to keep playing. Exploring atmospheric areas and seeing what lurks around the next corner, finding new armors and weapons and spells to try, thinking about what stats you want to invest points in to either enable new weapons/abilities or empower the ones you already have, not to mention lore if you're into that - all of it ends up serving the purpose of keeping you interested in the game.
Maybe it's just me having only played SF games, but fighting games seem to lack that in general. They seem to revolve around nothing but the fight itself, which is fine except it's difficult to maintain interest and motivation in that which is the problem: you can't learn if you stop playing. Take any of the famous street fighter players - if they'd grown up playing some other genre and you threw them into a fighting game, they'd probably struggle as much as anyone else. There's a reason for why most of the big guys in fighters happen to have have played fighting games for a very long time. Ironically, the genre that arguably requires the most dedication to get good is also the one that struggles the most with keeping newcomers interested.
That and of course the fact that SF games have much stricter controls & timings than most other games, probably due to its origin as an '80s Arcade game.
^ Sorry for that wall of text lol, I didn't mean to write that much. The TLDR is that I find fighting games to be lacking things that keep you interested and motivated to keep playing which is the only way to improve, compared to what other games have to offer. AFAIK most of the people who are good at fighting games are people that happen to have played the genre for a very long time, like since childhood.
I've no idea what could be done to improve the situation though, it's just how I see it.
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