This is the way. You get familiar with everything and get better across the board and can pick up anything new that releases. If something really clicks you can tryhard it, but coasting through fighting games is super fun.
Yeah I’ll never make it to high ranks in any fighting game but it’s super fun to just fuck around in the newest game.
Not good for the wallet, though. I refunded GBFVS because I figured the free version would just have to be good enough lol
I didnt buy it because i already finished P3 like 3 times and bought it just as many. I may be a fem mc fan. But look other games were coming out and i had to choose between FF7, dragons dogma2, helldivers 2, or buying P3 for the 4th time.
yeah its moreso the fact that it exists than actually playing them lol. Like im watching every street fighter dlc religiously but im not playing any of them if they arent sakura
Is it really that strange? Sakura has a huge fanbase and won multiple character polls, especially in Japan. I got a couple friends who weren't even interested in SFV until Sakura was in. She's pretty much the face of the Alpha games too.
What about the original boss characters? With the way SF6 is designing everyone, I think any of those 4 would be at the top of most lists. Balrog, Vega, Bison and Sagat.
I was a 90s kid, so it might just be my nostalgia talking. I thought Balrog was out with Ed’s announcement, but since he is mid/long range focused, there is still hope.
Out of all of these, we can definitely expect Sagat. Sagat is the most popular out of those four. I remember people have been asking for him in SFV for a long time until they finally released him.
People begged for Sagat to come out in 5, and then he ended up being one of the least played characters lmao. I get it was kinda late in the games life cycle, but man, the FGC is a finnicky hoe sometimes.
I played Sagat in SFV and the experience of trying to learn Sagat in SFV was to hop into top Sagat player’s streams and see them be miserable about the state of Sagat
Sagat is pretty awesome. I didn’t play much of SF4 or really any between SF2 and SF6, but when I did try SF4, I played Sagat.
If they are going for characters who all play wildly different which seems to be the trend so far, I could also see them bringing back M Bison (even if he is supposed to be dead in the lore.) The conveniently placed hat in the new stage is kind of a giveaway.
From unreleased fighters for sure, but I'd assume that Juri is the second from the non OG SF characters. Order would be Akuma, Juri, Sakura/C. Viper, Ibuki/Poison if I had to guess.
frfr, SAKURA SHOULD'VE BEEN THE FACE OF SF6, not mf-n Popeye The Sailor headass Luke!
period.
she was robbed, and I'm not gonna let this go\~
the worst part is that luke ain't even a terrible character.
it was just a bs decision, imo.
(honestly i am going to play akuma but my agenda needs to be maintained)
https://preview.redd.it/6t0hx3kq1npc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c66544f740247c8f8b5105267f02aca02c9d641
Good, because I'm not for the moment. Diehard Honda main, I like Akuma because he's my 3d strike main but in not getting him. I would rather pay the price of another character to rebalance my sumo Boi.
No idea why I don't play them more I went from arena shooters (pretty much only quake champions lol) to this, I love multi-player games that have huge depth but there's not a lot of those anymore especially not any that are fast paced and have a somewhat arcade feel (no sprint or semi realistic movement) kinda tired of single player games, obsessed with tekken for a while but other than that I stopped for a while mabye it's work that's draining me
To be fair with a big following as Max, you can't stick to one game or one character for that long. You basically have to follow the newest hotness of that week/month.
I mean he does have alot of games he wants to play thos year in his defense this time.
With how hyped he is about Takeda in mk1 he is probably going to play him for like 5 hrs and never again.
I personally don't agree.
Mk1 has been the funnest mk has been for me personally since mkx Jason. Just the fact that content updates happen so infrequently the game just has gotten stale. The lack of no good single player content isn't surprising since the last good mk game with singlepkayer content was probably a 3d game.
I don't remember any single player content from mkx.
Towers of time was just stupid and I personally think mk11 has the worst combat in any mk game ever.
If it didn't have all the mtx then it would probably be my favorite mk game.
Some people just like a character from the way they look. It's annoying when it causes devs to add a character nobody ends up playing but I don't think it's gonna happen here. Even if people say Bridget players don't play the game she's still an actually pretty popular character that you see decently frequently in tower and there are people who play her on a high level. I think there's enough aba fans who play the game for her to have a healthy playerbase.
Another thing is plus R is a very old game that plays nothing like strive so it's entirely possible who like parts od ABAs mechanics etc but aren't willing to learn a super old game for her.
For instance i like Jam but I'm not gonna try to learn Xrd just for her.
Yeah to be honest I played about 40 hours of it but it taking forever to load the game (is this still a problem? It felt like it took forever every time I played it but I haven’t touched it since season 3 or maybe a bit before) really turned me off of it. Got irritated every time I wanted to play it
That’s how it be for a lot of things. The people who yell the loudest are likely not going to even participate when it finally happens (Exhibit A: “I’d play x if it got rollback fs”)
I saw her +R gameplay for the first time after the reveal. i only saw images of her before that.
5 hrs before the reveal i was telling my friend (who only saw me playing Strive and knows nothing about it) about all the great reveals like Bridget and Elphelt, and that ABA bros are gonna win today. I have given him honorary ABA bro status.
Yes. That would make you part of the two-thirds majority. Honestly I think it's closer to 2/3rds of people who want her started with Strive, but I foolishly believed that by downplaying how many people who wanted her never played her, I could avoid comments such as these.
Can confirm for myself. I retroactively saw old Strive gameplay and thought "who is THAT character holy I want her in the new game" and I learned all about her.
Just like any fan in any series, they'll vote for the girl who hasn't been in something for a while. Do they know who the character is? Maybe. Do they play the game? 9 out of 10 times they don't.
GG already suffered a lot
ASW lost most of GG characters rights for a while
They made GG2 a dota-style game with only 2 GG (Ky and Sol) characters because they could not use their other characters
BB was created because they still could not use GG characters
Strive
True! But consider the following, BlazBlue is in the grave, and I am very bitter that GG fans are absolutely eating with Strive (It’s not a bad game, people just like shitting on it), plus, Strive is more than likely gonna get a 4th season.
Meanwhile, BlazBlue has gotten a rouge-like which no one cares about, except for like, maybe five people (I’m one of those five). The worse part being that we haven’t gotten any news of a new BB game other than ArcSys saying, “We are still going to use BlazBlue,” after the creator of the BlazBlue series, Mori P, left ArcSys. It does not look good for BlazBlue’s future my guy.
I can only hope that they can breathe new life into the game with either a new BlazBlue game, or GGxBB game.
(Also I’m just being melodramatic for comedy’s sake, I don’t actually want GG fans to suffer lol. No one deserves to deal with Arakune lol.)
Bro is acting like getting your favorite character kit redesigned is a cataclysmic event lol. Real talk, that’s the most fun part of a new game. It’s super exciting to see a fresh take with a characters move set. Doing the exact same thing for multiple games in a row while other are getting cool and new mechanics is rather boring. Although maybe I’m not adverse to chance since BB experiments with adding and removing new moves to change up how a character plays.
Oh I’m just fucking around haha. Strive was my first fighting game that I took seriously so I was basically thrown into the “old game good, new game bad” discourse right off the bat. I think what people tend to forget is that a full on sequel will inevitably change how characters play just from a system mechanic perspective. Look at Chun-Li throughout her different iterations. Her kit has remained relatively the same, but she still has to play differently based on the game. In third strike she’s a neutral monster that wins primarily through pokes. However in SF6 her heavy pokes aren’t as strong because drive impact exists so she relies a lot on resets and utilizing her stance to exert insane corner pressure. Same kit outside of the stance, but she plays a pretty different game
>It does not look good for BlazBlue’s future my guy
With the extreme casualization of the genre no fighting game future looks good, tbh and if we add devs trying their games to be "memeable" rather than let memes happen spontaneously it looks even worse
[https://www.siliconera.com/arc-system-works-now-owns-the-rights-to-guilty-gear/](https://www.siliconera.com/arc-system-works-now-owns-the-rights-to-guilty-gear/)
[https://www.dualshockers.com/arc-system-works-finally-secures-rights-to-guilty-gear/](https://www.dualshockers.com/arc-system-works-finally-secures-rights-to-guilty-gear/)
They literally weren't allowed to develop Guilty Gear games without being sued (until they recovered the rights)
I haven’t played a GG that felt as good as X2 and I’ve tried a few of them. Plus they changed Baikens look from just a bum samurai to some eyepatch accessory wearing pirate looking samurai.
Man I miss being able to play X2 regularly
Lets be honest, a lot of people never played Guilty Gear, they just happen to know the "waifus" they want to see in upgraded graphics- cof cof Baiken fans cof cof
Pretty much was my reaction on Testament in Strive. I'd seen the announcement and then returned to Testament in AC+R. It's a more fun game, than Strive.
I"m actually coming _back_ to Strive because of the announcement. Though I'm not the typical Strive hater... I played it a ton until the most recent patch... I really don't like how Wild Assault took my only major complaint about Strive (average damage is too high) and leaned into it.
to be fair, Strive's online experience is sorta bad compared to other current fighting games (except MK1 lmaooooo) so I get not wanting to play it much
A.B.A. is super cool and another neat, complicated character who Strive aint gonna do justice. I feel it
Still trying to decide if I'd ever pick back up the game if they bring back my man Zappa or just avoid it cause of how much the comparison is gonna hurt
Here in Brasil, the price went as low as 80 reais (our currency), and if you dropped 120 reais you got the main game + the first season pass
Each season pass cost I believe 50 reais, and I may be wrong, but each character cost 15 reais
These are all great prices, specially considering the game had been out for a while
But with Season 3 and the announcement of Daredevil Edition, some items like characters and season passes doubled in price, and the game itself now costs 120 reais, the price at release
I may be off by a couple of values, but there definitely was a price hike in a lot of regions
I bought the third season because I already had everything anyway, so I didn't mind. But I can understand the game becoming less attractive if you have to buy everything
Thank you for this information! That’s certainly a much steeper price to get into this game compared to other countries, insane when you really hear it.
tldr price is VERY big cuz of dickheads
basically loser ass scumbags ruined steam for people in countries with shitty economies by getting steam to more or less force people to convert their currency to USD before buying a game. so like, to get a $60 USD game, a Brazilian person would pay $300 because 1 BRL is 0.2 USD. scumbags abused the lack of this (good thing) before it was added (or removed, depends on how you see it) by getting bots to gift them games while having the bots pretend to be from countries like this to get insanely low prices. miniscule dong energy. the worst thing is, is that these changes were probably a net negative for steam. I highly doubt the amount of people using these 3rd party sites to buy games like this were a high enough percentage of their userbase to warrant basically deleting steam's store for people from South America, Africa, a good bit of Asia, and a lot of Eastern Europe.
edit: I'm Canadian, so i don't know any exact prices, but I know they've skyrocketed and are low key absurd
They refuse to modernize and put frame data in game. The ranked system is complete Garbage. You can legit avoid matchups to climb. They fumbled. Strive heads will defend this shit btw. Definitely wait xD
the funniest part is that i was given the base game as a gift but looking how lacking it is and how absurdly high the dlc prices have become id rather not lol its almost double
As someone who actually likes Strive, once I ran some sets in +R and Xrd I understood immediately. I got into Xrd last year and 300 hours later it's probably my new favorite. The game is just packed and so much more fun.
You serious? Strive’s the most mainstream entry in a very niche IP (outside Japan), and even then it’s numbers peaked at what Street Fighter, Tekken, MK, or Dragonball could do with one hand tied, due partly to the reliance on meter, footsies, and inputs that genuinely require minutes-hours of practice, the game’s not a casual “plug and play” with friends.
My gripe isn’t even a knock on the game itself, but the fact that it’s such an unknown IP to casual gamers, forget your average nerd, that it never sees playtime with friends (offline) because they just write it off as “typical edgy anime game with super hard inputs” and they aren’t entirely off-base. Of course I speak on my experience, evidently your mileage varies.
That’s the only response GG “fans” have, you guys sound like the old men at the bar “you think G inputs are tough? Back in my day….”
*proceeds to give long winded rant about how the Gatling system was somehow objectively “better” in Xrd*. it just sounds like coping to me, you either suck at Strive or else you’re a hater on the sidelines, because any true fan of the franchise would stand by their niche ass IP, regardless of how edgy or stereotypically anime it is.
The whole post is just how, from an offline perspective with friends that haven’t spent 30 minutes learning QCB’s or reverse DP’s, this game, which is GREAT, suffers.
I play blazblue and Uni, so I'm not short of anime "edge"
And if being a "true fan" means mindlessly consooming whatever mediocre slop they try to feed me, I'm good. I'd rather play things I think are fun.
Typical striver though, the idea that learning quarter-circles is adjacent to suffering is emblematic of the crowd that game appeals to.
This post is from the perspective of someone who likes fighting games and not just the idea of them.
Calling me a “striver” like it’s an insult on CNN is genuinely sad, I could care less about your little FGC shanty town, it’s filled with unhygienic creeps that haven’t seen the sun or kissed a girl in years,
I made this post to lament that, in spite of this game being great, it’s just not something I can play with friends that aren’t FGC sweats, whatever you and all the other neckbeards want to think is fine, but the FACT is that Strive dumbed down everything and still failed to pull in a casual crowd past the first 1.5 years.
Your haughty opinion aside, how you feel about the entry is irrelevant, the only point worth contending is “how appealing is it to casuals” the audience that keeps games alive when hardcore wannabe “fans” abandon the game for lacking some imaginary level of “depth”.
Keep gatekeeping though, I’m sure the 200 people playing GG before Strive gave it life really appreciate you fighting for them from the cheap seats.
This post was made by a gamer that appreciates art, and not by some FGC NPC.
Literally the opposite of gatekeeping, I jumped ship and gave all the room in the world to strive fans that don't even play.
Rich, calling me an npc, when you don't even play.
It's the people who play games that keep them alive, once the posers are gone the players are still there playing.
If you think that tournament numbers or sales are the only things that matter to determine somethings quality, then nice self report, you don't know anything about art.
You want to tell me about fighting games? Learn how to play them.
What makes you assume I don’t play them? I’ve got over 100 hours in Strive alone, reread the post, I was just talking about it not being something my friends want to touch, or even look at, nothing to do with my personal ability.
I’ll take real, solid, quantifiable data like sales and tournament numbers+views as validity over the opinion of some random on Reddit, thank you.
And to be honest with you, Strive’s my least touched FG, probably in 4th or 5th place, but again, it’s because until Strive the only real exposure Westerners had to GG were the legacy games they’d put out every so many years with barely any hype, hell, you can thank COVID for giving Strive the numbers it got.
> because any true fan of the franchise would stand by their niche ass IP, regardless of how edgy or stereotypically anime it is.
Do these people really exist? Guilty Gear fans LOVE anime and especially edgy anime. They don't like Strive because it is a much slower and more streamlined game. I think Strive is pretty cool but I'd be a fool to argue it wasn't made significantly easier to play than other GG games.
Marvel casual friendly? Wh...what dude even with 4 arms i couldn't ever play marvel or know what im doing at all. And dont get me started on dragonball(TOD simulator) fighterz. Both are way harder than guilty gear strive imo from personal experience.
I mean I get it lol.
I got into Rev 2 last year and loved it after playing with some friends. Mained Elphelt during that and a bit of Jack-O
Figured fuck it lets try Strive out after that.....and ngl I hated it lol. Rev 2 was so much fun but Strive feels watered down, across the board even. From game mechanics to even character designs. I mean Ky went from looking like a priest straight out of a fantasy JRPG to looking like a guy I would see at a bank, but with a sword.
And then Elphelt's DLC released and it all was even worst lol. Completely removed everything unique about her in that new design lol.
So yeah I get it. I wouldnt want to play Strive either.
This is basically me watching videos on every fighting game I'll never play before I go back to Street Fighter 6
I played sf6 for a couple weeks, then went to mk1, then back to ggst after a year, then tekken.
This is the way. You get familiar with everything and get better across the board and can pick up anything new that releases. If something really clicks you can tryhard it, but coasting through fighting games is super fun.
Yeah I’ll never make it to high ranks in any fighting game but it’s super fun to just fuck around in the newest game. Not good for the wallet, though. I refunded GBFVS because I figured the free version would just have to be good enough lol
Every so often on a lazy weekend i will just go through combo trials on all the games i have, until i get bored lol
Me cycling between 12 different fighting games before returning to blazblue
Me with MK1 lol
My literal reaction: Whoa she looks cool. (Goes back to playing UNI2 and bbcf)
>UNI2 and bbcf So real for this
Based CF enjoyer
Gadgeto finger moment
genesic EMERALD **TAGER** #**B U S T A H**
Ong
The P3 FEMC icon really sells this conversation lol
Same kind of folks who won't buy P3 Reload even if they include FEMC lmao. Profile picture checks out.
I have 80 hours in p3r lol
add her and i'll swipe atlus >:c
I didnt buy it because i already finished P3 like 3 times and bought it just as many. I may be a fem mc fan. But look other games were coming out and i had to choose between FF7, dragons dogma2, helldivers 2, or buying P3 for the 4th time.
I mean this is the average person that talks about fighting games on the internet tbh
yeah its moreso the fact that it exists than actually playing them lol. Like im watching every street fighter dlc religiously but im not playing any of them if they arent sakura
Sakura’s a strange hill to die on, but I respect it
Is it really that strange? Sakura has a huge fanbase and won multiple character polls, especially in Japan. I got a couple friends who weren't even interested in SFV until Sakura was in. She's pretty much the face of the Alpha games too.
Tbh she’s actually got a huge fanbase. Probably second to Akuma.
I'm pretty sure an SFV era character poll had her at number 1, not sure if it was Japan only or international though.
What about the original boss characters? With the way SF6 is designing everyone, I think any of those 4 would be at the top of most lists. Balrog, Vega, Bison and Sagat. I was a 90s kid, so it might just be my nostalgia talking. I thought Balrog was out with Ed’s announcement, but since he is mid/long range focused, there is still hope.
Out of all of these, we can definitely expect Sagat. Sagat is the most popular out of those four. I remember people have been asking for him in SFV for a long time until they finally released him.
People begged for Sagat to come out in 5, and then he ended up being one of the least played characters lmao. I get it was kinda late in the games life cycle, but man, the FGC is a finnicky hoe sometimes.
I played Sagat in SFV and the experience of trying to learn Sagat in SFV was to hop into top Sagat player’s streams and see them be miserable about the state of Sagat
Sagat is pretty awesome. I didn’t play much of SF4 or really any between SF2 and SF6, but when I did try SF4, I played Sagat. If they are going for characters who all play wildly different which seems to be the trend so far, I could also see them bringing back M Bison (even if he is supposed to be dead in the lore.) The conveniently placed hat in the new stage is kind of a giveaway.
From unreleased fighters for sure, but I'd assume that Juri is the second from the non OG SF characters. Order would be Akuma, Juri, Sakura/C. Viper, Ibuki/Poison if I had to guess.
Fair, fair. I'd say Sakura has more FG fans, Juri has more casual fans, if that makes any sense?
She looks like Tekken's Asuka. Wonder how much they'll have to change her design to fit in SF6
shes already quit being a schoolgirl in sfv so they wouldnt have to do much. probably just give her a new job or something
From school clothes to a pantsuit, or like, a fast food uniform
she can be a mcdonalds cashier
I need an art work of this. ARTIST, DO YOUR THING
frfr, SAKURA SHOULD'VE BEEN THE FACE OF SF6, not mf-n Popeye The Sailor headass Luke! period. she was robbed, and I'm not gonna let this go\~ the worst part is that luke ain't even a terrible character. it was just a bs decision, imo.
Not even Akuma?
(honestly i am going to play akuma but my agenda needs to be maintained) https://preview.redd.it/6t0hx3kq1npc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c66544f740247c8f8b5105267f02aca02c9d641
Good, because I'm not for the moment. Diehard Honda main, I like Akuma because he's my 3d strike main but in not getting him. I would rather pay the price of another character to rebalance my sumo Boi.
We should just have character selection spots that don't actually work. So they're technically in the roster even if you can't play as them.
No idea why I don't play them more I went from arena shooters (pretty much only quake champions lol) to this, I love multi-player games that have huge depth but there's not a lot of those anymore especially not any that are fast paced and have a somewhat arcade feel (no sprint or semi realistic movement) kinda tired of single player games, obsessed with tekken for a while but other than that I stopped for a while mabye it's work that's draining me
If Juni is added to Street Fighter 6, I will (not) buy it.
I have very strong opinions about Mortal Kombat despite never playing a single game in the series.
Reminds me of Maximilian when a new character gets announced https://i.redd.it/i8jib7oeilpc1.gif (He'll play them once and never again)
To be fair with a big following as Max, you can't stick to one game or one character for that long. You basically have to follow the newest hotness of that week/month.
I mean he does have alot of games he wants to play thos year in his defense this time. With how hyped he is about Takeda in mk1 he is probably going to play him for like 5 hrs and never again.
He should probably do the same with mk1 as a whole.
Creative and witty comment
I personally don't agree. Mk1 has been the funnest mk has been for me personally since mkx Jason. Just the fact that content updates happen so infrequently the game just has gotten stale. The lack of no good single player content isn't surprising since the last good mk game with singlepkayer content was probably a 3d game. I don't remember any single player content from mkx. Towers of time was just stupid and I personally think mk11 has the worst combat in any mk game ever. If it didn't have all the mtx then it would probably be my favorite mk game.
Hey man honestly I can’t disagree. The game is solid. But the dev team let it die. Is what it is
Mk1's a fun game when ya ain't got a bitch in ya ear telling you it's not.
I wish I had a bitch in my ear 😔
https://preview.redd.it/i9s7vtvrplpc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cc0be07c53afb620b7a878c1388178d487ea33f Same brother. It'll get better.
He's been pretty clear that he wants to just dabble in all the fighting games rather than focus on one. He's getting hype for you not for himself
That’s just the average guilty gear fan
Avg strive fan
Actually that’s right lol
I’m here for the music. The music is the actual DLC. The characters and stages are bonus.
Same. Im just waiting for the spotify release now lmao
I read this more as a +R player clowning on Strive and not a serial poster who never plays the game they rep. Important distinction
My friend in the photo has never played +R and has only played strive a handful of times with me before deleting it.
Thats disappointing. And they can't call her their stunna girl if they never even played her in the $2 game she's playable in thats actually insane
Some people just like a character from the way they look. It's annoying when it causes devs to add a character nobody ends up playing but I don't think it's gonna happen here. Even if people say Bridget players don't play the game she's still an actually pretty popular character that you see decently frequently in tower and there are people who play her on a high level. I think there's enough aba fans who play the game for her to have a healthy playerbase. Another thing is plus R is a very old game that plays nothing like strive so it's entirely possible who like parts od ABAs mechanics etc but aren't willing to learn a super old game for her. For instance i like Jam but I'm not gonna try to learn Xrd just for her.
A.B.A. fans finally actually playing her
I HAVE PLAYED +R
I mean strive is my most played gg but I do generally like +r more
Same here. You can't beat the experience of having a LOT of opponents to choose from even if it's a worse (imo anyway) fighting game
You can't beat the experience of playing +r with your friend and both of you screaming your head off when an instakill lands
New strive track and from what I've heard, it's gonna be great!
If it does not have a breakdown into the whispery techno sounds of old themes an gonna cry
That lobby system prevents me from getting into the game more tbh.
just do quick match. Instant matches with your tower and you get to do training mode in between
Yeah to be honest I played about 40 hours of it but it taking forever to load the game (is this still a problem? It felt like it took forever every time I played it but I haven’t touched it since season 3 or maybe a bit before) really turned me off of it. Got irritated every time I wanted to play it
That’s how it be for a lot of things. The people who yell the loudest are likely not going to even participate when it finally happens (Exhibit A: “I’d play x if it got rollback fs”)
To be fair after waiting for like a decade for her...
I guarantee you at least a third of the A.B.A. fans started with Strive
I think we can confidently bump that up to 2/3
I saw her +R gameplay for the first time after the reveal. i only saw images of her before that. 5 hrs before the reveal i was telling my friend (who only saw me playing Strive and knows nothing about it) about all the great reveals like Bridget and Elphelt, and that ABA bros are gonna win today. I have given him honorary ABA bro status.
Can confirm, I am A.B.A fans
sobbing crying etc etc i cant believe her reputation has fallen so (started with +r and picked up aba in that game a long time ago)
more like 9/10
I'm confident in that number being a lot higher LMAO
I'll have you know I modded my PS2 to play a burned ggxxslash
Ive been playing her since 2007 though
Yes. That would make you part of the two-thirds majority. Honestly I think it's closer to 2/3rds of people who want her started with Strive, but I foolishly believed that by downplaying how many people who wanted her never played her, I could avoid comments such as these.
Oh im sorry i missread your comment. By bad seriously.
It's cool
Can confirm for myself. I retroactively saw old Strive gameplay and thought "who is THAT character holy I want her in the new game" and I learned all about her.
"old Strive"
Same mfs out here waiting for "skyrim 2"
Oops, lol
We've been through a few seasons, some Strive gameplay is definitely older than the rest. Hell, we've had 1½ new ArcSys games in that time.
Bridget syndrome
Just like any fan in any series, they'll vote for the girl who hasn't been in something for a while. Do they know who the character is? Maybe. Do they play the game? 9 out of 10 times they don't.
Aba fan plays strive for the first time challenge (impossible)
I just hope that one girl from the GGXXAC middle school tournaments that Sajam was covering for a while saw the reveal\~
i only care about this game because it gets daisuke to make more music lol i hope the DLC characters never end
I need Ragna as the next character. Then I’ll actually play strive more
Monkey's paw: it's Arakune
Good, GG need to suffer, they’ve had it good for too long
GG already suffered a lot ASW lost most of GG characters rights for a while They made GG2 a dota-style game with only 2 GG (Ky and Sol) characters because they could not use their other characters BB was created because they still could not use GG characters Strive
True! But consider the following, BlazBlue is in the grave, and I am very bitter that GG fans are absolutely eating with Strive (It’s not a bad game, people just like shitting on it), plus, Strive is more than likely gonna get a 4th season. Meanwhile, BlazBlue has gotten a rouge-like which no one cares about, except for like, maybe five people (I’m one of those five). The worse part being that we haven’t gotten any news of a new BB game other than ArcSys saying, “We are still going to use BlazBlue,” after the creator of the BlazBlue series, Mori P, left ArcSys. It does not look good for BlazBlue’s future my guy. I can only hope that they can breathe new life into the game with either a new BlazBlue game, or GGxBB game. (Also I’m just being melodramatic for comedy’s sake, I don’t actually want GG fans to suffer lol. No one deserves to deal with Arakune lol.)
Yah but look at the bright side, if you never get a new BB, you’ll never live to see your favorite character’s get pretty big redesigns to their kit.
Bro is acting like getting your favorite character kit redesigned is a cataclysmic event lol. Real talk, that’s the most fun part of a new game. It’s super exciting to see a fresh take with a characters move set. Doing the exact same thing for multiple games in a row while other are getting cool and new mechanics is rather boring. Although maybe I’m not adverse to chance since BB experiments with adding and removing new moves to change up how a character plays.
Oh I’m just fucking around haha. Strive was my first fighting game that I took seriously so I was basically thrown into the “old game good, new game bad” discourse right off the bat. I think what people tend to forget is that a full on sequel will inevitably change how characters play just from a system mechanic perspective. Look at Chun-Li throughout her different iterations. Her kit has remained relatively the same, but she still has to play differently based on the game. In third strike she’s a neutral monster that wins primarily through pokes. However in SF6 her heavy pokes aren’t as strong because drive impact exists so she relies a lot on resets and utilizing her stance to exert insane corner pressure. Same kit outside of the stance, but she plays a pretty different game
>It does not look good for BlazBlue’s future my guy With the extreme casualization of the genre no fighting game future looks good, tbh and if we add devs trying their games to be "memeable" rather than let memes happen spontaneously it looks even worse
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[https://www.siliconera.com/arc-system-works-now-owns-the-rights-to-guilty-gear/](https://www.siliconera.com/arc-system-works-now-owns-the-rights-to-guilty-gear/) [https://www.dualshockers.com/arc-system-works-finally-secures-rights-to-guilty-gear/](https://www.dualshockers.com/arc-system-works-finally-secures-rights-to-guilty-gear/) They literally weren't allowed to develop Guilty Gear games without being sued (until they recovered the rights)
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Obviously that's PR to sell the brand new IP nobody knows
finally a reason to play strive
I too voted for Ragna, I’ll come back if they put my boy in it
The streak continues
Yoo A.B.A got added? Hell yeah.
Give us proper matchmaking instead of that garbage lobby system and I'll play the fuck out of strive
Based
But her story was over...
I haven’t played a GG that felt as good as X2 and I’ve tried a few of them. Plus they changed Baikens look from just a bum samurai to some eyepatch accessory wearing pirate looking samurai. Man I miss being able to play X2 regularly
Lets be honest, a lot of people never played Guilty Gear, they just happen to know the "waifus" they want to see in upgraded graphics- cof cof Baiken fans cof cof
The real Kotone Shiomi experience
Pretty much was my reaction on Testament in Strive. I'd seen the announcement and then returned to Testament in AC+R. It's a more fun game, than Strive.
I mean, he's got a point, why would you want to WILLINGLY play Strive?
That's just every reveal now getting hype for the character and leaving it at that because nobody wants to play strive anymore
Oof
BRO YOU GOTTA CHILL
FEMC SPOTTED!
That was me with Elphelt, but I ended up actually playing strive. Dropped it like 3 hours later lol
Love ABA. Very happy she’s coming back
I"m actually coming _back_ to Strive because of the announcement. Though I'm not the typical Strive hater... I played it a ton until the most recent patch... I really don't like how Wild Assault took my only major complaint about Strive (average damage is too high) and leaned into it.
He's so real for that
They should have released her season 1 and also made the game better.
I feel the same way lmao
Not Slayer 😕
…guilty.
Fair enough.
Judging by the Persona pfp, I’m guessing he hasn’t played that either 💀
Shit I’m excited to play A.B.A. And it looks like slayer is probably next, this has been a good season pass for Strive!
Strive is never beating the Theater Kids’ Fighting Game allegations.
to be fair, Strive's online experience is sorta bad compared to other current fighting games (except MK1 lmaooooo) so I get not wanting to play it much
Once you are in a match it's absolutely fine, great even. The problem is getting to that point tho.
I didn't vote for ABA but currently booting up my ps5 for the first time this year to get ready.
A.B.A. is super cool and another neat, complicated character who Strive aint gonna do justice. I feel it Still trying to decide if I'd ever pick back up the game if they bring back my man Zappa or just avoid it cause of how much the comparison is gonna hurt
im not buying strive till its done for and gets an upgrade pack like sfv, games NOT worth current price
Games been worth buying since season 1.
Maybe they're from one of those regions that saw a price hike in season 3, like here in Brasil
the game price got like 50% more expensive and the season pass doubled
thats crazy fucked up wow. im shocked i havent heard about that till now
yeah i am. not like hes aware of any of that though, since it doesnt affect him.
I’ve never heard of that. What’s the price past season 3 outside of North America?
Here in Brasil, the price went as low as 80 reais (our currency), and if you dropped 120 reais you got the main game + the first season pass Each season pass cost I believe 50 reais, and I may be wrong, but each character cost 15 reais These are all great prices, specially considering the game had been out for a while But with Season 3 and the announcement of Daredevil Edition, some items like characters and season passes doubled in price, and the game itself now costs 120 reais, the price at release I may be off by a couple of values, but there definitely was a price hike in a lot of regions I bought the third season because I already had everything anyway, so I didn't mind. But I can understand the game becoming less attractive if you have to buy everything
Thank you for this information! That’s certainly a much steeper price to get into this game compared to other countries, insane when you really hear it.
120 reais is about 24 USD. The expense really comes from the difference in local incomes.
tldr price is VERY big cuz of dickheads basically loser ass scumbags ruined steam for people in countries with shitty economies by getting steam to more or less force people to convert their currency to USD before buying a game. so like, to get a $60 USD game, a Brazilian person would pay $300 because 1 BRL is 0.2 USD. scumbags abused the lack of this (good thing) before it was added (or removed, depends on how you see it) by getting bots to gift them games while having the bots pretend to be from countries like this to get insanely low prices. miniscule dong energy. the worst thing is, is that these changes were probably a net negative for steam. I highly doubt the amount of people using these 3rd party sites to buy games like this were a high enough percentage of their userbase to warrant basically deleting steam's store for people from South America, Africa, a good bit of Asia, and a lot of Eastern Europe. edit: I'm Canadian, so i don't know any exact prices, but I know they've skyrocketed and are low key absurd
Your pfp matches the energy of your comment perfectly What PS2 Nishiki does to a mf
Worth is different for different people. Obv
They refuse to modernize and put frame data in game. The ranked system is complete Garbage. You can legit avoid matchups to climb. They fumbled. Strive heads will defend this shit btw. Definitely wait xD
the funniest part is that i was given the base game as a gift but looking how lacking it is and how absurdly high the dlc prices have become id rather not lol its almost double
I love playing the game but agree that the tower is tedious. altho i admit that looking for specific matchups is nice.
>Strive heads will defend this shit btw. Literally who have you seen defend tower
Why would people hate playing Strive?
As someone who actually likes Strive, once I ran some sets in +R and Xrd I understood immediately. I got into Xrd last year and 300 hours later it's probably my new favorite. The game is just packed and so much more fun.
Most people, myself including, don’t like that is hella watered down compared to other GG games.
She looks super fun to me. I think being able to have some armor and also play an offensive 50/50 with the opponents high lows could be super fun.
This is me but if they ever add Zappa.
Strive died for me when they kept happy chaos top tier for far too long. I’m also not a fan of the wall breaking. DLC order just missed I think.
Every time guilty gear character announces i gonna ask this, is she a tran?
Her design REALLY doesn't work in Strive imo and this reveal confirmed it to me.
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What are you talking about my guy, Strive is as easy to pick up as smash bros.
You serious? Strive’s the most mainstream entry in a very niche IP (outside Japan), and even then it’s numbers peaked at what Street Fighter, Tekken, MK, or Dragonball could do with one hand tied, due partly to the reliance on meter, footsies, and inputs that genuinely require minutes-hours of practice, the game’s not a casual “plug and play” with friends. My gripe isn’t even a knock on the game itself, but the fact that it’s such an unknown IP to casual gamers, forget your average nerd, that it never sees playtime with friends (offline) because they just write it off as “typical edgy anime game with super hard inputs” and they aren’t entirely off-base. Of course I speak on my experience, evidently your mileage varies.
They gutted guilty gear for mass appeal and this was apparently the result. Daisukes vision my ass, dude has cataracts.
That’s the only response GG “fans” have, you guys sound like the old men at the bar “you think G inputs are tough? Back in my day….” *proceeds to give long winded rant about how the Gatling system was somehow objectively “better” in Xrd*. it just sounds like coping to me, you either suck at Strive or else you’re a hater on the sidelines, because any true fan of the franchise would stand by their niche ass IP, regardless of how edgy or stereotypically anime it is. The whole post is just how, from an offline perspective with friends that haven’t spent 30 minutes learning QCB’s or reverse DP’s, this game, which is GREAT, suffers.
I play blazblue and Uni, so I'm not short of anime "edge" And if being a "true fan" means mindlessly consooming whatever mediocre slop they try to feed me, I'm good. I'd rather play things I think are fun. Typical striver though, the idea that learning quarter-circles is adjacent to suffering is emblematic of the crowd that game appeals to. This post is from the perspective of someone who likes fighting games and not just the idea of them.
Calling me a “striver” like it’s an insult on CNN is genuinely sad, I could care less about your little FGC shanty town, it’s filled with unhygienic creeps that haven’t seen the sun or kissed a girl in years, I made this post to lament that, in spite of this game being great, it’s just not something I can play with friends that aren’t FGC sweats, whatever you and all the other neckbeards want to think is fine, but the FACT is that Strive dumbed down everything and still failed to pull in a casual crowd past the first 1.5 years.
Your haughty opinion aside, how you feel about the entry is irrelevant, the only point worth contending is “how appealing is it to casuals” the audience that keeps games alive when hardcore wannabe “fans” abandon the game for lacking some imaginary level of “depth”. Keep gatekeeping though, I’m sure the 200 people playing GG before Strive gave it life really appreciate you fighting for them from the cheap seats. This post was made by a gamer that appreciates art, and not by some FGC NPC.
Literally the opposite of gatekeeping, I jumped ship and gave all the room in the world to strive fans that don't even play. Rich, calling me an npc, when you don't even play. It's the people who play games that keep them alive, once the posers are gone the players are still there playing. If you think that tournament numbers or sales are the only things that matter to determine somethings quality, then nice self report, you don't know anything about art. You want to tell me about fighting games? Learn how to play them.
What makes you assume I don’t play them? I’ve got over 100 hours in Strive alone, reread the post, I was just talking about it not being something my friends want to touch, or even look at, nothing to do with my personal ability. I’ll take real, solid, quantifiable data like sales and tournament numbers+views as validity over the opinion of some random on Reddit, thank you.
And to be honest with you, Strive’s my least touched FG, probably in 4th or 5th place, but again, it’s because until Strive the only real exposure Westerners had to GG were the legacy games they’d put out every so many years with barely any hype, hell, you can thank COVID for giving Strive the numbers it got.
> because any true fan of the franchise would stand by their niche ass IP, regardless of how edgy or stereotypically anime it is. Do these people really exist? Guilty Gear fans LOVE anime and especially edgy anime. They don't like Strive because it is a much slower and more streamlined game. I think Strive is pretty cool but I'd be a fool to argue it wasn't made significantly easier to play than other GG games.
Marvel casual friendly? Wh...what dude even with 4 arms i couldn't ever play marvel or know what im doing at all. And dont get me started on dragonball(TOD simulator) fighterz. Both are way harder than guilty gear strive imo from personal experience.
I’d rather play Strive than Modern Impact 6
You sound like you'd lose in any game, really.
FEMC SPOTTED!
Me for real.
Tbh same. I suck too much shit at XXrd to buy strive. But I love seeing these reveals.
I mean I get it lol. I got into Rev 2 last year and loved it after playing with some friends. Mained Elphelt during that and a bit of Jack-O Figured fuck it lets try Strive out after that.....and ngl I hated it lol. Rev 2 was so much fun but Strive feels watered down, across the board even. From game mechanics to even character designs. I mean Ky went from looking like a priest straight out of a fantasy JRPG to looking like a guy I would see at a bank, but with a sword. And then Elphelt's DLC released and it all was even worst lol. Completely removed everything unique about her in that new design lol. So yeah I get it. I wouldnt want to play Strive either.
It should've been Ragna!!!!!!