What I Wish I Knew Before I Started Playing Fighting Games | Fighting Games Beginner Guide

If you got big hands like me i reccomend hitbox or stick. You are gonna get fuckin upset doing half cricles with your big ass fingers.

Good Mindset/Mentality by good quality sleep (which matters the most,which less people do,sadly )

The ps5 controller mutilates my thumb

Awesome and wholesome, appreciate ya

Best thing to do before getting into fighting games? Spchincter loosening excercises. Because you're going to get to have your ass turned into a World War 1 no man's land. You're gonna get the experience a maximum security inmate has in the bathroom at 3AM when the guy he just stiffed on a bag of Doritos on commissary day catches up with you and decides to play plumber with your insides.

And join a community. After years of watching Darksydephil and Low Tier God, yea, I want nothing to do with the "community".

Long needed bro

I'm an 09er so this isn't really a video for me, but I'd definitely send it to a friend interested in FGs! Thanks for uploading.

Sf6 world tour is incredibly good at teaching you how to play.

numpad notation gets me sometimes the bigger the combo is makes me wish ppl would use emojis

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I'm upstairs and my internet is downstairs so I cant use ethernet unfortunately

"Hard Games are hard for everyone"

Probably the best advice for a lot of games. Getting really good at Dark Souls, Shin Megami, Gran Turismo doesn't happen overnight.

Before these games came out, nobody was good at them. Even the best players had to start from the beginning.

Most important thing is to find a game you're passionate about, and in fighting games, a character you vibe with.

I thought you were Brian_f for a second

but can you enter with a keyboard?

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Doing link combos hurts my brain, how do i make them not hurt my brain?

Emiru being a great Honda player is nice

I feel when people say "just pick someone fun" is a really lousy way to learn. You can always choose someone later but when you're starting out in fighting games it's more important to learn how the game flows with a simpler character and through that you can transition later. Granted this charecter should still be fun to play but learn the game then the main

Yo love your vids help me alot

One of the best intro video guides for fighting games of the many I’ve seen. Thanks Diaphone.

Some might laugh at me but I don't mind. After all these years, I got burnt out on one game and slowly started getting back into my roots such as single player games and developed a burning desire to get back into fighting games. I first started at the age of around 5 and now at 37 I'm back at it again.

I'm glad you said to use what's comfortable. I've been trying to use a controller but my hands hurt, I don't suffer this problem playing MnK though so I've been ordering parts to build and all button fightstick. I know I'm going to take a beating but practice makes better and I want to be able to get good, not just a 30 hit combo good in some games but more importantly knowing when to cut a combo short, really play the neutral game, not jump randomly, play mind games to bait my opponent to hit a button etc

Anyways, thanks for a great video that help to boost my desires. Keep safe out there.

For me right now, the most important aspect of getting into new fighting game is the game still feels fun even when i lost. It really motivate me to replaying the game eventhough i lost all of my online matches.

Was learning my first "fighting game" earlier this week (i put quotes because i technically have played other games like brawlhalla,) but this time its a typical classic fighting game. Learning it has been a blast and losing doenst really bother me that much.

I technically have an advantage over the actual newcomers because a tiny bit of the skills from brawlhalla cross over into other fighting games, but it doesnt really mean much because its not the same genre.

Anyways, heres to my journey to playing fighting games!

no, combos matter, and they are frustrating because half of the time all of these game just refuse to recognize your inputs, also fighting games should actually use the English language and not whatever incomprehensible jargon they use for explaining things, all of these things make fighting games very unapproachable and downright disgusting for most people, and before someone comments stuff like go back to playing fortnite or something, no i don't play things that need actual human beings i need to compete with.

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This will be very helpful for me once i start with Street Fighter 6.

I spent all my life thinking that fighting games weren't my thing, too hard, I could never do them. Today, I spent a few hours on a livestream playing Guilty Gear seriously for the first time ever and it suddenly clicked, I could see through the matrix into the strategic, turn-based side. I was able to land a couple (super sloppy) combos in mission mode and now I'm hooked. This genre is absolutely incredible and, while I'm gonna need to practice a LOT before I even understand why I keep losing, I'm excited for every bit of it.

Looking for a local FGC - its so violent where i live that all the came up for multiple pages was stabbings and street fights, recently from football riots too omfg 😅

Been playing fighting games for 4 years PLAY THE GAME YOU LIKE THE MOST even if it's considered a very difficult game. If you dont stick with a game you like you'll drop it. You might need to pick a basic character to learn in the begining but then you should stick with the character you like.

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"WiFi is okay if you're next to the router"- Nanaya Shiki

"Trust yourself"

HAHAHAHAHA. Funny that you say that.

If i play online vs randoms guys, i can get rly salty as well.
But if i play someone from discord for example and maybe with voice chat, and they do the same like the "randoms" i don't get salty at all. I also say they should keep doing what they do, so I can learn about it.
So playing fighting game with a person i have a little bit connection to him, is way different for me than just playing online with random.

There is a thing why I'm not in a local community
I live in Germany I'm probably the only one in a 20 kilometer radius that knows what a fighting game is

Yeah I would love to play dbfighterz but 1 I very much dislike how complex the controls are working the sticks like that I can just never get down and 2 most people's answer too hey I will help you get better then just beat over and over again and talk trash or will not even tell you want your doing wrong or do what you said be cheap and then say your trash bc your new and dont know what your doing but no I'm not supposed to get upset

I think what keeps me away from fighting games is that they sorta look like a second job.
You get home from work, finish your chores, and then when you are free. You go to your second job and practice, spend rest of the day in practice mode. I know it's an integral part, i guess that for me, fighting games are boring to learn. Since you can't learn much by playing.

If music and sports had children that would be fighting games.

I just started ggst. I can imagine how rewarding it would be once you're somewhat competent, but so far my experience is roleplaying a punching bag that I can't even begin to learn from.
my guess is that this is largely a function of the small population where you can't find players at your skill level as a beginner.

That said, I've come across some players who realize that I'm new and they would go easy so I can actually play, those people have their seats booked in heaven im pretty sure.

This made me realize I'm not a beginner anymore
I'm just bad

FINALLY A GUIDE THAT IS ACTUALLY FOR BEGINNERS. Everyone out here talking like I’m just a bit rusty or something

In terms of combos it should never be a priority BUT learning the very basics of your characters combos is very helpful to know what moves flow into what other moves but when your learning at the start it's really not important beyond quick 3 hit strings and knowing whether you should block or not after

I have fibromyalgia. I have fibro fingers. I can't do many combos. But I've been playing fighting games since I was a kid so the psychology is down pat. I can out psychology anyone. I can't take advantage of it but I've made an actual pro surprised at how good I am with my psychology. I mean I still lost but, eventually, I did win a round.

Fuckin' goddamn combos. They're not necessary as such but they sure do turn your pinto into a ferrari.

Thinking of frame data like turn based games was very helpful !

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Good video for those hesitant to learn fighting games.

THE ULTIMATE FIGHTING GAME GUIDE, EVER: 8 mins.

The one thing I would also mention that stops most newcomers is that execution isn't as scary as it seems! Most things are totally doable with a bit of practice. it can even be fun to learn and its super rewarding when you can consistently execute what you've been practicing. Also, mistakes will happen and its not the end of the world. The best players in the world drop combos in the biggest tournaments in the world.