Hello, everyone! First time posting here; just sharing a fanart of Kimberly I made some time ago!

Right now for "Feeling like they came from the wrong game" all I can think of is... the old men from E's Laf++ and Akatsuki Blitzkampf, Yagabi and Fritz respectively. We interrupt these high-speed fighting games to bring you sword-wielding old men from Samurai Shodown who will eat you alive if you make a single mistake. You'd think looking so old would be repellent to many players but no, a few of my friends who don't play many fighting games love how you don't need to practice long-ass combos to get big-ass damage, you just need situational awareness. Plus, one big donk for bigass damage just triggers something primal in the monkey brain.

As for simple characters, those chicks from Blazblue, the ones with the bigass normals and straightforward game plan. Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? Yeah, but still, it sure worked, people love them.

I was wondering if there was similar discourse in the past about projects like fightcade, project m, melty blood community edition, DFCI (Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition), etc.

It seems kind of arbitrary as to where the like is drawn.

I also remember years ago there was some stink from JP players about modding in different colors to an anime FG but I can't remember which one, sadly. I specifically remember Obama speaking out against it too.

Switch 2 trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9hipdLzKgg

E’s Laff++ is fucking beautiful. Trying to get into other indie fighters is weird. They either stress how simple their controls are, remove motions and buttons, sometimes they don’t let you walk or crouch, they take away high-low mix-ups, they do something in general that restricts the traditional fighting game experience to be “easy to play, hard to master” (9 times out of 10 they aren’t hard to master at all, you have to actually ADD an interesting layer to it).

It’s a cool experiment like what Divekick back in the day but we can’t let it become a crutch where 9/10 games are trying to do the “simple inputs, complex sauce!” gimmick. I

Indie games need to be more comfortable with making crazy games where you can do cool shit. I know “casual audience” is a big thing now but I’m sorry to tell you, your game doesn’t have Ryu or Goku or Scorpion in it. You’re not capturing the casual audience. Jimmy John II from Kentucky doesn’t know who the hell you are. You will not gain a single extra by simplifying everything. Your target audience is fighting game fans.

That being said.

Where are all the games where you can do crazy combos and your characters have insane toolkits and fresh new ideas we’ve never seen before? In the 2000s, the indie and doujin boom was full of this. They took from the ideas of Guilty Gear and gave us some really fresh new ideas. Hinokakera, Fate Unlimited Codes, Big Bang Beat, Melty Blood, Under Night, ect.

Can we go back to that?

Is there a discord people tend to use to converse about characters and get together for games/training? Maybe a particular website? I would like to learn more about the game and maybe make some friends.

No real reason, but I’ve always wondered: are there still tournaments for older games? Like Soulcalibur 2 or Melee or like an older Tekken? Like does that exist or are those games just eternally dead?

If anyone’s down to play tonight lmk :)

1. Central Fiction

https://youtu.be/DMd-CeZPug4?si=kbCs9_sempDjKo3P&t=108

There is a pretty wide gap after this one

1. Calamity Trigger

https://youtu.be/3xuYGwOaWlI?si=7a6s0JCOARU4ajUI

Surprisingly iconic. The "AKSHUN!" feels like I'm in a real tournament man. I can imagine her raising her hand to the sky saying this.

1. Continuum Shift
   https://youtu.be/BNrqlIaCt9U?si=o5QO05dejzROpg2f
   I don't like how she says da will of fate, or the "turning". It sounds like she's unsure about it. Da will of fate is turning? Are you sure?

2. Chronophantasm

https://youtu.be/iWHvV2aIwhA?si=rC7OymE0yCVY9S5m&t=41

"The wheel... *yawn* of fate is uhhh, turning i guess

rebel one... go ahead man idc"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmingoSupremacy/

I made this subreddit because I appreciate the sombrero wearing cactus guy of the Marvel VS Capcom series who only appeared in New Age of Heroes because he's very underrated. Also, for players who main Amingo were welcome.

Be sure to join the subreddit and follow the rules because this subreddit needs attention. I'm the only one who's active and I wish other users can post Amingo-related stuff here.

I have a wonderful suggestion to ask Sony who runs EVO tournaments and Xbox who allow Xbox games in tournaments to allow non cheating adapters for the GCN controllers/Dreamcast controllers and fight sticks like smash boxes. In my opinion it would be time efficient and less worrisome and allows gamers to play for example Tekken 8 and SF6 and Fatal fury COTW. And this could allow non cheating button mapping in the game settings of those 3 games as well as plugging it into a USB-A slot. And I'm asking the community for help in this accessibility. I've sent word to Xbox and PlayStation but none have accepted my feedback. Thank you for listening.

so any thoughts on this crossover or which tokyo revengers characters would be perfect if you were to replace mikey and draken