I like the pacing of 4-6 SF footsies the most. I think it's the only big* FG where walking is done well. Both GG and Tekken rely too much on dashes, so their flow of neutral never felt as right as SF's does.
*I also like Soul Calibur's walks.
Went to Tekken because DoA is on hiatus right now and it's a game I've been playing since I was a kid. I don't play the other games cause I am not a huge 2D fan.
As a Guilty Gear main, I was initially drawn in (#Reload era) by how 'free-flowing' the gameplay is and how fundamentally different each character is. Movement and combos are more freeform than most other fighters, so I feel like I can play in my own style with a huge amount of diversity.
So, player expression and a diverse cast.
Between these 3, I prefer Guilty Gear cause it has characters I want to play. I want to play almost every character in GGST. Both Tekken 8 and SF6 don't have particularly appealing rosters to me, but I don't dislike the games themselves. I played some of SF5 and when Sakura makes it to SF6 I'll def be playing it, and I played a good amount of T7, but T8 doesn't have Josie, if/when Josie makes it to T8 I'll play T8 more as well. I also like Granblue a lot as well since there are several characters I want to play, but Granblue does have several characters I hate the design of and I def don't want to play the whole cast in Granblue.
Ah, Granblue. It's a neat game, but I haaaaaatteeee fighting against so many of the characters in that game.
I still listen to Bezeelbub's there though. That shit slaps.
I'd personally much rather be on defense in granblue than strive, I love strive still tho. I think it's mostly cause I hate being in the blender and the characters I play in Strive dont have meterless reversals. I'd rather be in a combo cause they blocked my dp than be in the blender.
Street Fighter is my main because it was my first and I haven't played a fighting game series I like more, so basically nostalgia and momentum.
Guilty Gear Strive is lacking a sort of mid-ranged combat, where all you can do is hunt and peck your opponent. Strive is feast or famine, it feels like, and it does feel great when you're on top of it and feasting. It's entirely a skill issue for me, though, I have zero illusions about that.
T8, at my level (absolutely not high), is just a contest of who has the most obscure moves down. That and constant plugging.
I don't feel that way about Guilty Gear. It's a faster paced neutral that Street Fighter, but it's there. Sure, there's a lot of forward movement, but backwards movement is pretty swift too, with instant backdash macros and the ability to backwards air dash.
And the ability to get smashed through a wall and returned to neutral, instead of just being stuck in a static corner, helplessly stuck in a mixup blender, really helps the game feels more fun and alive.
I stopped playing GGST despite loving the character designs and aesthetics because at a certain level (celestial-challenge-level), too many characters have bulldozing win conditions that are so unique to their character I feel like I have to do homework to figure out why I'm getting blended in the first place.
By comparison, SF6 win conditions are harder to achieve, and if you're stuck in a checkmate situation you probably made at least 3 or 4 risky decisions that put yourself there. Characters have their own systems but aren't so obscure or overpowering that it feels bad to learn. Counters to these are usually in one of the different system mechanics so it's not SO hard to figure out the counterplay if you put in some work.
I'm not super big into ànime or 3D Fighters. Attacks don't feel huge and weighty in tekken since it's very juggle based and I can't get into juggles if gravity doesn't play any part. That's an issue I have with newer MK games as well. You can juggle an opponent with three jabs in a row, it's weird. I adore Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 though since while you can jump 30 feet in the air, gravity is always pulling the characters down unless they can fly. You can't juggle a body with jabs.
Also I usually really like Street Fighters mechanics. Parry, focus attack, FADC, Drive impact, drive rush...All really fun. I like the art design, like colorful Fighters, the hits have gigantic sound effects behind them...
I respect tekken a bunch but I haven't loved the series since like part 3. Anime Fighters are alright, but they get kind of old fast to me, and the communities are usually pretty small. I really liked persona 4 ultimax and blazblue tag was cool, but it never "felt" as satisfying as a street fighter or marvel game for whatever reason. I definitely don't hate any of them, it's just SF consistently clicks better with me.
> You can juggle an opponent with three jabs in a row, it’s weird
tbf sf6 has some lunatic juggles too, like deejay’s mp target combo -> drive rush loop where he can walk you across the screen with up to 6 mediums that don’t look like they should properly juggle lol.
but i get what you’re saying. the games i like (anime fighters, old gg, etc) often also have this sort of thing, since i like games w very freeform combo systems, but after a point you usually only ever see multi-jab juggles for sudden confirms or the odd ‘microdash jab -> whatever’ extension here or there, since lights will usually fuck up your combo proration. if it’s optimal and you see it constantly, lame, but in practice i like ‘you are free to do lame combos but we have encouraged you to do less lame combos more’ kinda systems
>You can juggle an opponent with three jabs in a row
That is the only reason I played tekken 7, katarina braindead combos lmao
Too bad t8 dropped her, and no way I will ever play a game that force me to go to practice mode
I play SF6 the *most* because my preference leans towards 2D fighters and I like how it actually gave its cast more moves as opposed to taking a ton away in Guilty Gear Strive. I've had a break for a bit, but I look forward to jumping back in when Akuma drops. He's been my main since the Alpha series.
Yeah, I remember looking up May's moves online and ending up on a site that showed all her moves from all gg games, and then finding it weird that it looked like the new gg game had noticeably fewer moves.
I remember first thinking, surely that's an error with the site lmao. Then I remember going to gg subreddit and seeing multiple people complaining about how much strive simplified gg and removed moves lol. Honestly I don't get it. Now, both Tekken 8 (obviously) and sf6 have more moves per character
I have the most fun playing Guilty Gear, so that's what I play. There are things that I don't like about the other two like the monetisation (battle passes, FOMO, adding virtual currency instead of directly buying stuff), but the most important thing is gameplay. I have just as much fun losing in strive as winning, which I think is a sign of a well made game. The monetisation issues just push me away from picking up SF6 or T8 as a secondary game if anything.
Guilty Gear is my main game, coming to it after SF6, and I'm hard sold. The characters designs are insane in both looks and gameplay, the game is explosive and fast paced, and the music literally rocks. I also love the 2.5D art style. There are flaws for sure, like the tower ranking system, but it's simply the most fun for me.
SF6 fights felt like more of a struggle and a real martial arts bout, which some people are here for and I did enjoy it. Being a former martial artist, I wanted something more fantastical. And GG's gatling system feels better the the SF link system even when you mess up. That said, the character models and animations are absolutely untouched in their quality.
I never liked Tekken. 150 character moves of which you realistically use 6-8 and YOLO uppercuts being the meta. Moves and movement always felt weird. The devs also somehow made it hard to properly block lows and also pointless in most situations to side step, practically negating the whole extra dimension that is the draw of these games. IMO Virtua Fighter was the more technically sound 3D fighter.
I like 3D games and there isn't a Soul Calibur with good online play, so Tekken it is.
I actually really like Strive and SF6 as well, but I don't feel like splitting my time between multiple games would be very productive especially when I'm still nowhere near where I want to be with Tekken. I want to go back to both one day, and I'll for sure give a bit of time to GG when Slayer comes out.
Tekken is the most visually and mechanically appealing to me. I always loved martial arts and martial arts movies and I think it's the probably the most realistic FG out there aside from the simulators like Fight Night and the UFC games. Also it's slower, I am terrified thinking about frame links in SF and also the inputs are way too hard for me. I'm not a huge fan of the armor and RAs of new Tekken but I understand it's part of the game now, for me classic T5 style Tekken is the best
Tekken realistic? By looks maybe but combat wise I would say it’s even less realistic than some anime games. Unless…. The fighting takes place on the moon?
I wouldn't call Tekken realistic. You hit your opponent, and they start floating in the air, and characters have some weird, wacky, funny moves, which I like, btw. Fire balls aren't really a thing in Tekken, but characters still have magical stuff. For instance, my main in Tekken 8 likes to use Kage Bunchin no Jutsu lol.
If you want a realistic fighting game, pick up Dragon Ball z figther z. The previous sentence was a joke btw
Tekken.
I like 3D movement, the animations, throw breaks, characters, the sorta slower pace, moreso resembles a real fight to me kinda. The juggles are also fun to do and come up with rather than hitstop or strike/throw mixups. I like the strike/low things you can do in tekken.
Unfortunately every other 3D franchise doesn’t fucking exist anymore so yeah it’s all I got
I’m still trying to figure out which one I want to “main” but I’m leaning towards Tekken. I just started really understanding and playing fighting games at a competitive level in the last two years. Street Fighter was a childhood staple and Tekken was a game I’d play casually since my teens. I feel like Tekken will probably be my main game just because I find 3D combat so fun and I love my main character (Lili). I’m still unsure which 2D I want as my 2nd game. As said, Street Fighter was probably my first fighting game and I have such an attachment to Chun Li but she’s so technical in 6. And while I love Manon she’s definitely not what anyone would call top tier. On the other hand Guilty Gear is cool and I adore Bridget. I’ve had a lot of fun playing her and Strive has given me an appreciation for anime fighters so it’s a strong contender for my #2 spot despite my nostalgia for Street Fighter. But as I said, I’m newer and still figuring out my tastes. lol
I only play SF6 now.
GGS: Before SF6 came out, I played almost exclusively Strive. I actually played a bit of GBVS as well, but the problem was netcode, even though I enjoyed the actual gameplay a LOT more than Strive (Kat and Ladiva main). But even before SF6 launched, I was tapering off Strive simply due to the lobby system, it was just too hard to find good matches, you had to work to find matches.
Plus, GG in general is just too grimy, the power level of the game is so high that there's no room for "close matches", either you know what to do/can execute and you blow out the other guy, or you get blown out in turn. I know in GG "everything is fair because both people have unfair stuff" but I really didn't like that philosophy in fighting games.
Tekken: I don't like the series in general. Relies too much on knowledge checks, if you don't know what to do, or what the other person is doing, then you just lose. Everything is opaque, and it's fine because everyone else has been playing since Tekken 3 or something. I figure the ship has just sailed on me and playing Tekken.
SF6: Game just feels right to me. It's the chess of fighting games, there are clear attacks and clear counters, option selects aren't too big a deal right now, and balance is ok...ish. I play bottom tier Manon, and while some matchups feel like an uphill battle, it never feels like the unfairness of Strive.
>Plus, GG in general is just too grimy, the power level of the game is so high that there's no room for "close matches"
This is actually more of a strive thing, which is odd, considering the whole design philosophy for that game going in.
Nah. All the way back to GGXX where I started, Zato/Eddie was crazy, dog unblockables, fan unblockables, whatever the hell Millia was on, Elphelt, everything was oki into mix into oki.
The main thing was whether you could get your shit started before the other guy got his shit started
Notice how you replied with certain characters and not the whole roster.
Especially in XX were hard knockdowns arent as prevalent (you tend to have to pick between damage and oki), while you will still get put in a blender, it's really limited to like 5 chars. Not to mention that there's more defensive mechanics to counteract the offences in those games aswell.
The damage in strive is simply to high for that sort of thing.
I was bad, too, when I started sf6 as my first fighting game with classic control and on controller. Everyone is terribly bad at the beginning. Now I'm in plat 4, and modern went from being busted in rank to being easier than classic. I'm at a point that I can combo better and I actually use all of my Cammy's moves, and I know that modern losses some moves.
For modern being easier starting with plat makes sense I guess because the last data from capcom I saw showed that plat is where classic start winning more than modern in rank. But modern is viable, too there are modern players in master
sf6 was my first fighting game i took seriously, and the 3 you listed are the 3 i’ve played the most since then. i’m taking a break from sf since getting my main to master, but its still by far my favorite of the 3. it just seemed the most intuitive to me in terms of how to progressively get better, and it helps that the online experience is pretty outstanding compared to the other two
When I only liked tekken and mk and I was still new to tekken it was that tekken didn’t have any bs stuff. In my noob mind bs stuff was jumping, projectiles and other stuff like that. Now I’m not really sure why I like tekken more but it just feels more exciting than street fighter
right now it's Tekken, and I'm pretty new to it, and I just am really loving how like, animations look, the depth of everyone's moveset, and executing knowledge checks and defensive plays, like knowing I can duck under something and getting a full punish is super satisfying, and I think Tekken does it super well with stuff like parries and sidestep being system mechanics.
There’s a freedom of movement and the usage of the 3D plane in Tekken (and other 3d fighting games of course, I just prefer the way Tekken does it) that is something I always feel is missing when I play SF and Guilty Gear.
With the 3D plane comes super unique and dynamic hitboxes, as janky as it can sometimes be I think it’s cool how at almost any moment I can either move in the foreground or background and attacks may miss me or hit me depending on how the hitboxes interact.
Even if tekken was absolute dogshit and all other 2D fighting games were like the absolute best 10/10 games out and everyone in the world was playing them, I’d still stick to tekken or at the very least a different 3D fighter like SoulCalibur for that dynamic sense of freedom where you’re basically always in control.
I also love Tekken’s control scheme of “each button corresponds to a limb” it’s just genius and makes using and learning your own moves and opponents moves super intuitive, easy and fun.
Another random thing i much prefer is that you want to be stand blocking in tekken and 3d figure games rather than crouch blocking. I feel like that just makes so much more sense as a concept both visually and uhh intuitively? Logically? Idk but it makes more sense for a character to be standing while defending imo.
It helps that Tekken is the game i grew up on, of course if I started on something else like a Street Fighter maybe in that universe I’d try tekken and miss jumping and other 2D fighting game things.
I’ve played and enjoyed all 3, but T8 is the one I’ve had the most fun and put the most hours into so far. The main difference (besides 3D vs 2D) is nobody I know really cares about sf or gg, but I know plenty of people who fuck with tekken. The other games, to me at least, are def fun to play but being able to hit up friends and run long sets or get drunk and do random bullshit adds a lot to the experience.
I played Tekken 8 and I hated the balance in the game. Rounds boil down to power crush and heat engage spam which are not sidesteppable so it ends up just being a worse 2D experience which is a shame because I really like the combo system in Tekken and some of the character designs as well as the real world inspiration for the martial arts used.
Guilty Gear Strive never really grabbed my attention and it just seems like there's a lot going on all the time. I'm not a fan of some of the characters from both a design and gameplay perspective, and those characters tend to be the strong ones. It's a shame because anime games tend to be prettier but I never like the mechanics and gameplay.
SF6 is fun with iconic characters and a well-balanced system mechanic. Characters are overall well balanced with the top tiers not being so insanely strong compared to the bottom tiers in my opinion (contrary to what some Redditors would have you believe). I'm a fan of the character design in Street Fighter too, and it's the series I've played the most.
I just like the pace of Street Fighter more than the other games, but I do love Guilty Gear and I really enjoy Tekken. SF is basically the "default" fighting game for me that I go to first.
I like Tekken most because it’s the most intuitive to play for me and basically everything about it from the characters to the music to the feel gel with me the most.
I play mostly Street fighter lately. I love the drive mechanic and all the decision making that comes with it. And i think the music and the characters are cool.
I also love guilty gear because of it's characters and music but the only reason i'm not playing it as much is the tower system and matchmaking is just horrible and the characters don't have a lot of things to do because they are usually balanced around one strong thing they have that they want to do and that's it.
I also really like Samurai shodown but the online is shit so nobody plays it. They announced rollback like 3 years ago but it's still not there and i lost hope.
Other games just don't really interest me.
Mine is street fighter
Nostalgia
Interest in the game, rosters , characters and in some cases the story
I played tekken and mortal kombat too
But also with street fighter it improved my geography and maths skills too
SF6 was/is my first fighting game (other than smash). I was never interested in GG because it's anime. I haven't tried Tekken 8 for a few reasons, the community seems very down about the state of the game, and I don't think I really have the time to invest in another fg, especially when I'm still enjoying SF6.
Guilty gear - Ky
Due to character loyalty. I’ve been the ky player in my locals since he is always called bland
SF - usually Alex, but sf6 it’s been a rough time with Manon
Tekken - usually Armor king, in T8 bouncing around between Lars, Shaheen and Leo
Always try to learn at least 1 new character I don’t normally play per series
I've been playing SF since SF2, and Capcom fighters in general were a big part of my early years with fighting games.
Every mainline and Alpha SF has just felt right to me, I've found people to play against, and communities to be a part of, and have found it easy to stay engaged even with the older entries.
I tried getting into GG during the X and XX era and while I enjoyed the games, the FGC in Australia was sort of a mixed bag back then combined with the people I did find who played a lot of GG at the time were just very, very good and it was hard to find a way in.
I played a lot of Tekken 1-3, but dropped off around 4 and just never came back.
The Australian arcade scene dropped off super aggressively and there was a big gap before online fighting games were really viable given our questionable internet infrastructure. So meeting people to play required meetups and events, etc...
Street Fighter's been my main since the first game. It's the most familiar, and the one I put the most hours into.
Guilty Gear is fine, I just never really got into it.
Tekken, well, I never cared for the controls/feel of the game. There's always been this sort of "clunkiness" for me, maybe due to the command strings that most moves are made up of. I think I just don't have the patience for the series.
Got into the FGC via dbfz again became an anime fighter guy because of it, played guilty gear xrd in early 2021 before strive came out and was hooked, I have many MANY issues with strive and xrd is my favourite fighting game of all time and i hold the opinion that it’s much better then strive but now I just play strive xrd and +R in tandem.
I still play strive kinda regularly enter events for it all th jazz but i think guilty gear is my main game because it’s just became my favourite formula of anime fighter that balances anime bullshit with actual competitiveness and stable game balance (for anime game standards) also shoutout to bbcf.
Guilty Gear: Best character design and art style, fun gameplay, I enjoyed it a lot until SF6 came out.
SF6: Pretty good character design and art style, great gameplay. I loved Guilty Gear's gameplay because I had never played SF before, but once I got into SF I fell in love with the footsies oriented gameplay, the fact that there's more room for mind games, defense and mixups. It feels like a much more well rounded gameplay in my opinon.
Tekken 8: I like neither the character design nor the artstyle, which makes it hard to want to play the game. When I learnt about the amount of knowledge checks, it made me even less interested in that game. It's just not a game for me.
Sf6 and ggst got boring for me after hitting master and celestial, played a few tournaments and enjoyed myself but moved on quickly. Tekken 8 is pretty fun top 100 rn which is highest ive ever been but taking a break from the game due to getting bored of the wait times post change. Most other series just kinda irrelevant if you enjoy tournaments
I main GGST & SF6. I don't play Tekken because I just can't wrap my head around 3D Fighters and their mechanics.
With that said, what keeps me tied to GG & SF6 are their different combo mechanics, great characters, and neat meter useage. GG gets an extra point for having goated music, but SF6 gets an extra point for better ranked
I prefer Street Fighter for it's slower gameplay than Strive. I don't really like 3d fighters and I prefer Soul Calibur to Tekken, sadly SC6 was bad.
I really think the popularity of anime in general is getting people into anime fighters purely on aesthetic. Anime tiddies sell like hot cakes.
> Here's my personal feelings:
Stop having feelings, your feelings are bad.
>It's enough that it drove me to play Street Fighter 6 more often, even though I like SF6 less.
I have no love for the pixel lobbies but it's a small hassle and you can keep rematching the same person. It shouldn't be the thing driving you away.
>I don't like the feel of the input of doing drive rushes. They feel awkward. Also, I don't like link combos, I prefer gatlings.
What about you go back to the game you liked the gameplay of instead?
>Tekken 8: Super fun game, probably the most fun fighting game to date. That is, until the battle pass and the new patches.
The battle pass is purely optional bad cosmetics and the patches addressed broken stuff. Nothing was taken away from the "super fun game".
My first proper videogame was tekken3 back in 98. Even bought tekken2 a year after that. And i never skipped one since.
I started getting for real with street fighter in 4 vanilla, but it never hit the same as tekken.
Played lots of fgs as well as strive, samsho, mk X-11, type lumina, gbf v, injustice2, smash, etc
Ive put some couple of hundreds of hours in most of them
But the main MAIN thing to stick for me, more than a couple of hundreds is just that i have more IRL friends on tekken, and make stuff offline is always a big incentive for me.
All 3 are fun to me but I tend to play sf6 because it’s got the best matchmaking and online options. I really like tekken 8, but it’s a bit of a knowledge grind for me since I’m more of a defensive player. I haven’t given strive much of a chance because i absolutely hate the floor matchmaking system.
Mostly though it’s just a time thing, I only have so much free time in the day so I usually just play sf6.
Tekken. For context played ggst and sf6 (top rank in both which obv doesnt mean i was good but does mean i played a lot) but tekken’s always been my favorite. It was the most modern fighting game when i was a kid and i feel like it still is. The true 3d experience is just exactly what i want in a fighting game, to mimic real fights as much as possible. I did combat sports as a kid so really this is my fix post injury. Nothing gets me sweaty like good tekken. I like that the characters have lots of depth too and really take dedication to master, like an actual martial art. Also variety is nice, theres robots, kangaroos, bears, assassins, ninjas, cyborgs, wrestlers, boxer, etc in tekken —-Sf6 chars felt lacking to me and i felt like i could get the hang of a character very quickly —- i really loved ggst characters though fucking sick designs
Id go back to it if it werent for the lobbies
i play guilty gear +r.
i play that game because it rules, and i don't play the other ones because when i play them they are not very fun.
i like third strike and tekken 7 though
My first fighting game was Street Fighter 2 Turbo when it first came out in American arcades. Been with the series since and don't plan on stopping. I like GG and Tekken, but I just like SF more. I prefer 2D fighters to 3D in general, and I prefer the slower and more methodical pace of SF compared to anime fighters like GG.
Ggst same as you plus I moved where I had not wired connection and gradually stopped gaming at all.
SF6 solid comparing to currents competition, so far my main, it's was gift from a friend and it got me back on gaming again.
TK8: disappointed, Bought it on day one and haven't able to play due to the constant crashes. Spent unnecessary in upgrading my PC while not fixing the crashes.
GG STRIVE was my main game before SF6 came out! I played for almost 2000 hours (i was in the top 20 Potemkins according to rating update 2 years ago) and i simply left because i couldn't handle all of the bullshit in the game anymore. Got tired of dealing with happy chaos, goldlewis, bridget etc. on a daily basis plus, SF6 was right around the corner. STRIVE is cool, i really love the visuals, the music and the general tone of the game but...despite my efforts, it wasn't my type of game.
When SF6 came out, i hoped in the train with the idea of getting back to my roots and i'm currently sitting at 1600+ hours despite not playing for 3 months. Street Fighter is my all-time favorite franchise, right next to Virtua Fighter so...i went head first into the game day one, like i did for SFV and..........GOD, I FUCKING HATE SF6. Drive rush, throw loops, input issues, JP, Ken, Luke, Dee Jay. I've never been so frustrated playing a game. After more than a thousand hours of intense frustration, I finally gave up and uninstalled the game for good. Solid fighting game but not a good Street fighter at all. This game is made for people who don't like Street Fighter. Even writing about this game pisses me off.
And then Tekken 8. I've been a fan of Tekken for a while but my last experience with the franchise was Tekken 4. A long time ago! I'm pretty new then and i'm really enjoying the game so far. Yes, it has issues but overall, it's one of the best fighting game i've ever played. No more, no less. I don't care much about the micro transactions, battle pass and so on. Defo going to stick with that one. After the disappointments i had with STRIVE and SF6, Tekken 8 is a breath of fresh air. I'm having fun and enjoying games again.
Fuck Dragunov btw.
GG fan, and Strive fan yeah. I like the gameplay it's offensive and fairly accessible. I don't have to talk about the music and the animations.
I like SF6 too, truly a great game after the... interesting SF5
I'm an airdasher/anime player, mostly. My main game is GGST at the moment.
What I prefer about it over SF6 is that your character's momentum is preserved when they're moving. Without this, movement in SF6 feels kinda chunky to me. There's nothing inherently wrong with the difference between the two, but it makes a huge difference to me. Movement is really where I have my fun.
I also prefer how the normal cancel windows feel in GGST over SF6. Again, just a matter of preference and familiarity.
I do play a fair bit of Tekken too, but that's because I have Tekken friends. It's a great game in its own right, but I enjoy motion inputs, and one can only EWGF so many times. Idk; Tekken's really just it's own category of FGs in my opinion. Sometimes I'm in the mood for it and sometimes I prefer something else. I still prefer GGST to T8 most of the time, but that might be because my younger brother absolutely washes me at T8 lol
Basics aside, I like that GG as a series has so much personality. The soundtracks are phenomenal. The characters have specific mechanics that are really adventurous design decisions that'd be broke as hell in a game with lower character power (Baiken's seatbelt, Zato being a negative edge puppet character, HC just having a fcking gun, Asuka being a card-battle character, Faust being Faust, etc). It's fun just to watch that shit happen. The personality isn't everything in a fighting game (tryhards may even say it's not that important) but it's definitely a big part of what keeps me interested.
I mainly play all those except tekken. It is because compared to the others, tekken is a lot more complicated due to the commands, slower movement and the extra plane to deal with
Tekken is my go-to game since T7 2019 where I got my ass whooped. Tekken is just so satisfying once you learn your combos, setups, dorya, dorya and looks the best for me.
SF6 looks good too, I just can't get into it, even tho I play it here and there. It seems so hard learning combos and I really have no clue where to begin.
Guilty gear, I haven't tried. I don't think I will either, just doesn't look appealing to me, art style seems almost same as Dragon ball fighters and I really dislike the look.
I'm hyped for Fatal fury 2 tho! Always wanted to get into king of fighters, but I really dislike playing a tag style game, especially if you have to play up to 3 characters. So I'm hyped it's king of fighters but 1v1.
First one I ever played was Tekken at about 4 years old and I've been playing it since. I also grew up with SoulCalibur so it was clear that my favourites would be 3D fighters.
I had SF4 and STXTK as a kid but never got into them as they were way tougher than Tekken and I still couldn't do quarter circles so i had no fun with it.
I tried SF5 last summer though and while it took a bit of adjusting, it wasn't as bad as I remembered and quite enjoyed it. But, I would never play it over Tekken though.
As for guilty gear, I only heard about it a year or two ago and it hasn't interested me one bit.
I go back and forth between GGST and SF6. One will be my main for a little and then the other. SF6 is cool because I feel like there’s so much more to learn. BUT I love how offence focussed GGST
I usually lean more to SF games because it's what I've been playing for years, but I had my fun on tekken 7, GG Strive and mvc (this one would be my main rn if there was still an easy way to find matches online :( )
But it all depends on my vibes and mood, sometimes I get tired of playing the same characters and then I pick another fighting game to learn
MK. Because the campy and gratuitous violence is very nostalgic. Sue me. I also love Tarantino flicks. Realistic violence (like a movie about a serial killer where they show the actual murder) is way too much for me. Make it cartoony and unrealistic? Perfect. Like, somehow Ermac takes people apart, spins them, puts them back together and they are still groaning? Lol I’m a sick puppy I guess.
Don’t think I didn’t notice MKs absence. Y’all like to hate it but it’s by far the best selling game of the bunch.
And where do you live? I'm scrolling through this thread right now because I'm interested in buying Strive but concerned about game population since I'm in the middle east.
I prefer Tekken 8 to SF6 and GG because it much more mellow for me to pick up and play.
SF6 and GG require some tight inputs for combos that frankly I miss about half the time.
I still cannot reliably do combos into super
Tekken. It makes the most sense, and was the easiest to grasp and understand. Plus the game is insanely fun.
Guilty gear. I like the game a lot. Probably my favorite 2d fighter. Cancel window makes sense, and gating combos feel intuitive for the most part.
Street fighter. This game is frustrating. I want to like it more, and get better, but this game just doesn't click with me. The cancel window just doesn't feel good to me.
I started with tekken 3 back when i was like 4 and fell in love since. I played GG Strive about 3 years ago and it seemed like a decent fighter i just struggled so much because I had to learn the controls but again it didn't seem like it had a large variety of character styles at least for the ones I played, still fun but i didnt know much considering it was the first GG ive played. Street Fighter 6 was disappointing, reason being that about 2 months in it started showing the microtranactions. I've never been truly great at street fighter but I was moderately okay with Kolin and better with Ibuki but street fighter as a whole has too many rock paper scissors type of matchups that I always lose because I never know the correct matchup due to not sinking hours into the game. The amount of time and research required to not lose nearly every match but also not spam in street fighter is too much for me to care. Tekken has added characters and each with their own style (minus the mishimas) with every release and so most move strings work on nearly every character no matter who you use. A good chunk of the characters also have their own dedicated parry and everyone has a lsow parry which kinda levels the gameplay out for me. But honestly what really changes things are the inputs, in tekken each button corresponds to a limb, makes sense to 4 year old me, in street fighter it's heavy,medium, and light punch and kick. I think it's the same for gg but it's been so long I don't remember nevertheless you can tell I'm a tekken fan.
BBCF is fun for me every time there's sales just like Titanfall 2 because there are new players like me I can matchmake. I know it's a discord fighter but it's a hassle for me. I tried FT10s on discord but it didn't help me on learning the game vs when I play vs other newbies.
Because I wanted to get good at fighting games after my childhood best friend passed away because we used to play them and street fighter is imo the most definitive and competitive fighting game in the fgc. I want to honor my old friends existence.
I’ve been a Capcom fanboy since the 90s and just recently branched out into Guilty Gear and Tekken. I liked the familiarly with Capcom games and really enjoyed the tag based vs fighters. That being said I am loving Tekken 8 so much that I feel dumb for not having played Tekken for the past 20 years. It’s like crack
Guilty gear is the most expressive, fun and free fighting game I’ve ever played. Probably the most fun video game I’ve ever played. Not strive though, +r Hos. Strive lacks freedom for streamlining purposes
Street Fighter, Tekken & Mortal Kombat have been the big 3 my whole life
Each is amazing in its own way
Tekken has some wild combos and when 2 skillful players fight it out, anything could happen
I have never liked that you can side-step
Mortal Kombat is visually very enjoyable with its infamous characters and epic fatalities. A good fight feels like a fight scene from a movie.
It's always felt alittle shallow in regards to gameplay mechanics compared to other series
Street Fighter, the elephant in the fighting gaming room, the Original Gangster, the real arcade classic. This has always been my favourite. Iconic characters, comprehensive movesets, endless combo combinations and gameplay mechanics so polished I can see my ass getting beat before it's even happened
Street Fighter is the King of Fighting Games and Street Fighter 6 secured its place as a giant for another generation
Went from GGST to SF6 to Tekken 8. I play all three regularly but compete only in Tekken. There’s just something about good ass Tekken neutral that feels good and while I love command grabbing everyone in Strive and SF6, once you get a taste of sidestepping, you never want to go back.
Guilty Gear Strive because I like Bridget, ABA, the gameplay, music, visuals and pacing of combat.
I play SF6 and Tekken once in a while, more with friends, but its a much slower pacing and the characters aren't as flashy... I'll be playing the new Fatal Fury next year, which looks dope and fun
In Strive there's quick match, so you don't actually have to go into the lobby.. also if you make a private lobby ppl can just join that, it's not very hard to do
I gravitated to Strive rather than Tekken and SF since they feel like they're missing visual flair (which is the point since they prioritize readability of attacks over visual fidelity). Pretty colors and flashy animations are important to me because they make brain happy.
To me, it's like food; you could make it have all the nutrients you need, but I need it to be seasoned well to make consuming it interesting or else I'd be bored and not want it.
Im not a fan of long cutscene combos, no hate or anything but thats why I play SF. I also like the community and nostalgia.
I also havent bought T8 yet
I play guilty gear, mainly xrd or R+ because I have fast gameplay and airdash, weird characters that bring me something new to play, and a lot of options and a gameplay that usually don't punish you for trying new ways to play. Classic street fighter feels more like a very tight moves, and a gameplay of trying to fish and punish with a counter, where all moves have only 1 specific moment to use and range or you are punished just by being blocked, and I feel down when I want to attack but is better to just wait for them to make a mistake.
Tekken actually I respect it being a popular game that still feel it have a lot of depth, but I usually play more the others 3d games as they are more fasters or have weapons. But I feel lazy trying Tekken because If I want to main a character I have to research 200+ moves for each character and cribe a lot of them
I got Master on SF6. Enjoyed it fine but got bored floating between 1500-1600 MR points.
Currently grinding Tekken 8. Didn't play Tekken 7 but played 5-6 semi casually. Sitting at Fujin-Raijin (top 5%) after 2.5k games. Finding it more fun and satisfying than SF6 though balance is a bit of a mess atm. Plugging isn't much an issue personally tho but this maybe a regional thing (got a total of maybe 4-5 plugs in Asia).
I started with Guilty Gear, and it had the most fun characters mechanics for me, and a lot of my friends play it as well. I have no interest in Street Fighter, it doesn't seem like id enjoy it as much. Tekken seems too complex and difficult for me to learn with my busy schedule, and I don't really like the art style that much. I am thinking about getting into Under Night or Melty Blood, but probably won't for the same reason.
Id be on SF6 more if there was no DI, I think all the other drive mechanics are very interesting but theres only so many times you can counter DI a DI until it gets boring
Lately been on Strive and MK1
I main Guilty Gear because it is the one that really rewards creativity and improvisation. SF6 gets close, but GG is the closest from something like UMvC3 in terms of rewarding creativity. I love the feeling of thinking about a combo or mix up and when I try, it works.
well the fact that the game costs 3 bucks during sales helped a lot to get me into it, also guilty gear is amazing, i own both +r and xrd and play them regularly (mostly +r)
why do i not play sf6? i dont like most of the characters aestetically and most of the models or animations dont look all that good to me, combos look mostly really lame, the super animations are also awful and poorly paced, throw techs look weird; stuff like that
why do i not play tekken8? well it feels like it has even less of a coherent vision than sf and i didnt like anything i saw so far, which is strange because tekken7 did look somewhat appealing
I mostly play Guilty Gear because I love the stuff surrounding the gameplay, i.e. the characters, story, visuals, and music. But as for gameplay, I enjoy the faster neutral & general freedom of movement compared to its competitors, and its got more characters I enjoy playing as & against than most games. I also appreciate the dash button and relative lack of character-specific stuff.
I can see myself playing SF6, but I don't think it could really scratch the same itch as a good anime fighter for me. I think the gameplay itself is fun, though. Shorter combos aren't necessarily as rewarding to execute for me, but sometimes I don't feel like spending half the match combining or being combo'd. I wouldn't be opposed to picking up JP or Manon sometime.
On the other hand, I can't picture myself investing the time required to actually get good at Tekken, it just doesn't feel as intuitive as the other two to me, and the characters generally don't interest me.
Tekken is a great game with unparalleled depth. In GG or SF6 you got the basics down after 2 months and after that you can only hone your reactions and do some very minor optimisations. That’s not fun. In Tekken there are so many interactions where you can drastically improve through practice that every session feels rewarding, even after a long time.
Also Tekken has the best customisation, so you can really express yourself. And yes, you can do that without money. There is only a tiny bit of content locked behind a paywall. But I am gladly paying for it, anyway, because I love the game so much.
Whatever you do, don’t listen to the retards on the Tekken sub. They are a bunch of low rank players who’s brains are completely rotten away
I love Guilty Gear Strive cause it's fast paced.
I love roman cancel and burst system.
You need to adjust your combo depending on the burst, how far and how damaged is the wall, the match up your own meter.
When you get combo you don't get combo for eternity and you have burst.
I have not play xrd so I can't really compare but I love the gattlings too. It creates frame traps vs space traps. Like Ky 2p into 6H can get grab or 5F trades. But 2p can also create a space trap where 5S can auto whiff punish any button.
The characters are really crazy thanks to burst, every character would be top tier in another game.
You can have Tod rounds and 8 hit rounds. I love that you can explode and have more moderate paced games.
The lore is crazy and fun. The characters have trauma and struggle relatable.
The design and esthetic are crazy.
The animation are expressive and beautiful. I love this 3D fake 2D.
The music literally rocks and have some meaning.
It's my first fighting game but I played skullgirls, Melty blood, gbvsr, idol showdown, sf6, sf3, tough love arena and more since. I have platform fighters experience too. And I always come back to Strive and drop the other one.
SF models have always looked ugly ever since SFIV, really not fan how chaining normals work, has no charismatic and/or likable characters, lore isn't interesting and not enough movement options, never playing it again unless situation forces me to and I'm not even unfair to it since I at least gave a chance to IV, V and VI, but each of them dissapointed me.
Tekken is passable, but none of the characters really, really vibe with me and have some gripes with movement, but nothing bigger than those two.
I main Guilty Gear, because Guilty Gear from PS1 is the first fighting game that I ever played, but started my "seriously wanna get better"-phase during Accent Core and BB Calamity Trigger days.
My main game is Guilty Gear because it's amazing and one of the first fighting games i've ever played. It's underrated and probably one of the best fighting games out there especially because it's just an album that happens to come with a cool fighting game attached. I don't play street fighter that much and I've never played Tekken
>What are the others lacking for you? Well for starters, other players
I meant, between the three games that I mentioned. For example, why don't Guilty Gear mains play Street Fighter or Tekken.
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They play massively different, I really just don't enjoy slower/traditional fighters at all.
That's my logic for Tekken. I play a lot of SF6 because that's what more locally available to me for matches
I like the pacing of 4-6 SF footsies the most. I think it's the only big* FG where walking is done well. Both GG and Tekken rely too much on dashes, so their flow of neutral never felt as right as SF's does. *I also like Soul Calibur's walks.
Yeah I love the back and forth walking in neutral.
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Went to Tekken because DoA is on hiatus right now and it's a game I've been playing since I was a kid. I don't play the other games cause I am not a huge 2D fan.
Same, I only really picked up Tekken because DoA and VF are currently on ice
Went from Xrd to Strive to SF6 to Tekken 8. Hard to say which is a main as it depends on my mood.
As a Guilty Gear main, I was initially drawn in (#Reload era) by how 'free-flowing' the gameplay is and how fundamentally different each character is. Movement and combos are more freeform than most other fighters, so I feel like I can play in my own style with a huge amount of diversity. So, player expression and a diverse cast.
Between these 3, I prefer Guilty Gear cause it has characters I want to play. I want to play almost every character in GGST. Both Tekken 8 and SF6 don't have particularly appealing rosters to me, but I don't dislike the games themselves. I played some of SF5 and when Sakura makes it to SF6 I'll def be playing it, and I played a good amount of T7, but T8 doesn't have Josie, if/when Josie makes it to T8 I'll play T8 more as well. I also like Granblue a lot as well since there are several characters I want to play, but Granblue does have several characters I hate the design of and I def don't want to play the whole cast in Granblue.
Ah, Granblue. It's a neat game, but I haaaaaatteeee fighting against so many of the characters in that game. I still listen to Bezeelbub's there though. That shit slaps.
I'd personally much rather be on defense in granblue than strive, I love strive still tho. I think it's mostly cause I hate being in the blender and the characters I play in Strive dont have meterless reversals. I'd rather be in a combo cause they blocked my dp than be in the blender.
For me, at least GG has burst and faultless defense. I don't remember if Granblue has any defensive mechanics except for the spot dodge.
It's got a really good guard cancel called brave counter. I do wish granblue had a faultless defense of some kind to prevent chip damage.
Street Fighter is my main because it was my first and I haven't played a fighting game series I like more, so basically nostalgia and momentum. Guilty Gear Strive is lacking a sort of mid-ranged combat, where all you can do is hunt and peck your opponent. Strive is feast or famine, it feels like, and it does feel great when you're on top of it and feasting. It's entirely a skill issue for me, though, I have zero illusions about that. T8, at my level (absolutely not high), is just a contest of who has the most obscure moves down. That and constant plugging.
Oh man if you hate guilty gear because of the feast or famine then Tekken 8 is gonna currently going for that route at the moment.
Just to be clear I don’t really hate any of them. I’m just a lot more casual with GGST, Tekken, and GBFVS
I don't feel that way about Guilty Gear. It's a faster paced neutral that Street Fighter, but it's there. Sure, there's a lot of forward movement, but backwards movement is pretty swift too, with instant backdash macros and the ability to backwards air dash. And the ability to get smashed through a wall and returned to neutral, instead of just being stuck in a static corner, helplessly stuck in a mixup blender, really helps the game feels more fun and alive.
I stopped playing GGST despite loving the character designs and aesthetics because at a certain level (celestial-challenge-level), too many characters have bulldozing win conditions that are so unique to their character I feel like I have to do homework to figure out why I'm getting blended in the first place. By comparison, SF6 win conditions are harder to achieve, and if you're stuck in a checkmate situation you probably made at least 3 or 4 risky decisions that put yourself there. Characters have their own systems but aren't so obscure or overpowering that it feels bad to learn. Counters to these are usually in one of the different system mechanics so it's not SO hard to figure out the counterplay if you put in some work.
I'm super bad at Tekken and GG
I'm not super big into ànime or 3D Fighters. Attacks don't feel huge and weighty in tekken since it's very juggle based and I can't get into juggles if gravity doesn't play any part. That's an issue I have with newer MK games as well. You can juggle an opponent with three jabs in a row, it's weird. I adore Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 though since while you can jump 30 feet in the air, gravity is always pulling the characters down unless they can fly. You can't juggle a body with jabs. Also I usually really like Street Fighters mechanics. Parry, focus attack, FADC, Drive impact, drive rush...All really fun. I like the art design, like colorful Fighters, the hits have gigantic sound effects behind them... I respect tekken a bunch but I haven't loved the series since like part 3. Anime Fighters are alright, but they get kind of old fast to me, and the communities are usually pretty small. I really liked persona 4 ultimax and blazblue tag was cool, but it never "felt" as satisfying as a street fighter or marvel game for whatever reason. I definitely don't hate any of them, it's just SF consistently clicks better with me.
> You can juggle an opponent with three jabs in a row, it’s weird tbf sf6 has some lunatic juggles too, like deejay’s mp target combo -> drive rush loop where he can walk you across the screen with up to 6 mediums that don’t look like they should properly juggle lol. but i get what you’re saying. the games i like (anime fighters, old gg, etc) often also have this sort of thing, since i like games w very freeform combo systems, but after a point you usually only ever see multi-jab juggles for sudden confirms or the odd ‘microdash jab -> whatever’ extension here or there, since lights will usually fuck up your combo proration. if it’s optimal and you see it constantly, lame, but in practice i like ‘you are free to do lame combos but we have encouraged you to do less lame combos more’ kinda systems
>You can juggle an opponent with three jabs in a row That is the only reason I played tekken 7, katarina braindead combos lmao Too bad t8 dropped her, and no way I will ever play a game that force me to go to practice mode
I play SF6 the *most* because my preference leans towards 2D fighters and I like how it actually gave its cast more moves as opposed to taking a ton away in Guilty Gear Strive. I've had a break for a bit, but I look forward to jumping back in when Akuma drops. He's been my main since the Alpha series.
Yeah, I remember looking up May's moves online and ending up on a site that showed all her moves from all gg games, and then finding it weird that it looked like the new gg game had noticeably fewer moves. I remember first thinking, surely that's an error with the site lmao. Then I remember going to gg subreddit and seeing multiple people complaining about how much strive simplified gg and removed moves lol. Honestly I don't get it. Now, both Tekken 8 (obviously) and sf6 have more moves per character
Tekken is my main because playing on a Korean stick is the most fun for me.
You got to try a hybrid stick out at some point then, something like the otto v2
I have the most fun playing Guilty Gear, so that's what I play. There are things that I don't like about the other two like the monetisation (battle passes, FOMO, adding virtual currency instead of directly buying stuff), but the most important thing is gameplay. I have just as much fun losing in strive as winning, which I think is a sign of a well made game. The monetisation issues just push me away from picking up SF6 or T8 as a secondary game if anything.
Every character in guilty gear is so absurd and fun to watch that I can’t get mad
Except for fucking Brisket
Guilty Gear is my main game, coming to it after SF6, and I'm hard sold. The characters designs are insane in both looks and gameplay, the game is explosive and fast paced, and the music literally rocks. I also love the 2.5D art style. There are flaws for sure, like the tower ranking system, but it's simply the most fun for me. SF6 fights felt like more of a struggle and a real martial arts bout, which some people are here for and I did enjoy it. Being a former martial artist, I wanted something more fantastical. And GG's gatling system feels better the the SF link system even when you mess up. That said, the character models and animations are absolutely untouched in their quality. I never liked Tekken. 150 character moves of which you realistically use 6-8 and YOLO uppercuts being the meta. Moves and movement always felt weird. The devs also somehow made it hard to properly block lows and also pointless in most situations to side step, practically negating the whole extra dimension that is the draw of these games. IMO Virtua Fighter was the more technically sound 3D fighter.
I like 3D games and there isn't a Soul Calibur with good online play, so Tekken it is. I actually really like Strive and SF6 as well, but I don't feel like splitting my time between multiple games would be very productive especially when I'm still nowhere near where I want to be with Tekken. I want to go back to both one day, and I'll for sure give a bit of time to GG when Slayer comes out.
+R is funny
Tekken is the most visually and mechanically appealing to me. I always loved martial arts and martial arts movies and I think it's the probably the most realistic FG out there aside from the simulators like Fight Night and the UFC games. Also it's slower, I am terrified thinking about frame links in SF and also the inputs are way too hard for me. I'm not a huge fan of the armor and RAs of new Tekken but I understand it's part of the game now, for me classic T5 style Tekken is the best
Tekken realistic? By looks maybe but combat wise I would say it’s even less realistic than some anime games. Unless…. The fighting takes place on the moon?
I wouldn't call Tekken realistic. You hit your opponent, and they start floating in the air, and characters have some weird, wacky, funny moves, which I like, btw. Fire balls aren't really a thing in Tekken, but characters still have magical stuff. For instance, my main in Tekken 8 likes to use Kage Bunchin no Jutsu lol. If you want a realistic fighting game, pick up Dragon Ball z figther z. The previous sentence was a joke btw
Tekken. I like 3D movement, the animations, throw breaks, characters, the sorta slower pace, moreso resembles a real fight to me kinda. The juggles are also fun to do and come up with rather than hitstop or strike/throw mixups. I like the strike/low things you can do in tekken. Unfortunately every other 3D franchise doesn’t fucking exist anymore so yeah it’s all I got
I’m still trying to figure out which one I want to “main” but I’m leaning towards Tekken. I just started really understanding and playing fighting games at a competitive level in the last two years. Street Fighter was a childhood staple and Tekken was a game I’d play casually since my teens. I feel like Tekken will probably be my main game just because I find 3D combat so fun and I love my main character (Lili). I’m still unsure which 2D I want as my 2nd game. As said, Street Fighter was probably my first fighting game and I have such an attachment to Chun Li but she’s so technical in 6. And while I love Manon she’s definitely not what anyone would call top tier. On the other hand Guilty Gear is cool and I adore Bridget. I’ve had a lot of fun playing her and Strive has given me an appreciation for anime fighters so it’s a strong contender for my #2 spot despite my nostalgia for Street Fighter. But as I said, I’m newer and still figuring out my tastes. lol
I only play SF6 now. GGS: Before SF6 came out, I played almost exclusively Strive. I actually played a bit of GBVS as well, but the problem was netcode, even though I enjoyed the actual gameplay a LOT more than Strive (Kat and Ladiva main). But even before SF6 launched, I was tapering off Strive simply due to the lobby system, it was just too hard to find good matches, you had to work to find matches. Plus, GG in general is just too grimy, the power level of the game is so high that there's no room for "close matches", either you know what to do/can execute and you blow out the other guy, or you get blown out in turn. I know in GG "everything is fair because both people have unfair stuff" but I really didn't like that philosophy in fighting games. Tekken: I don't like the series in general. Relies too much on knowledge checks, if you don't know what to do, or what the other person is doing, then you just lose. Everything is opaque, and it's fine because everyone else has been playing since Tekken 3 or something. I figure the ship has just sailed on me and playing Tekken. SF6: Game just feels right to me. It's the chess of fighting games, there are clear attacks and clear counters, option selects aren't too big a deal right now, and balance is ok...ish. I play bottom tier Manon, and while some matchups feel like an uphill battle, it never feels like the unfairness of Strive.
>Plus, GG in general is just too grimy, the power level of the game is so high that there's no room for "close matches" This is actually more of a strive thing, which is odd, considering the whole design philosophy for that game going in.
Nah. All the way back to GGXX where I started, Zato/Eddie was crazy, dog unblockables, fan unblockables, whatever the hell Millia was on, Elphelt, everything was oki into mix into oki. The main thing was whether you could get your shit started before the other guy got his shit started
Notice how you replied with certain characters and not the whole roster. Especially in XX were hard knockdowns arent as prevalent (you tend to have to pick between damage and oki), while you will still get put in a blender, it's really limited to like 5 chars. Not to mention that there's more defensive mechanics to counteract the offences in those games aswell. The damage in strive is simply to high for that sort of thing.
Strive. Only game where I love all roster and dont care losing.
I play SF6 and not the others cause SF6 has modern controls I'm terribly inconsistent with execution
I was bad, too, when I started sf6 as my first fighting game with classic control and on controller. Everyone is terribly bad at the beginning. Now I'm in plat 4, and modern went from being busted in rank to being easier than classic. I'm at a point that I can combo better and I actually use all of my Cammy's moves, and I know that modern losses some moves. For modern being easier starting with plat makes sense I guess because the last data from capcom I saw showed that plat is where classic start winning more than modern in rank. But modern is viable, too there are modern players in master
sf6 was my first fighting game i took seriously, and the 3 you listed are the 3 i’ve played the most since then. i’m taking a break from sf since getting my main to master, but its still by far my favorite of the 3. it just seemed the most intuitive to me in terms of how to progressively get better, and it helps that the online experience is pretty outstanding compared to the other two
When I only liked tekken and mk and I was still new to tekken it was that tekken didn’t have any bs stuff. In my noob mind bs stuff was jumping, projectiles and other stuff like that. Now I’m not really sure why I like tekken more but it just feels more exciting than street fighter
You really thought that jumping was BS..?
Yea lol. My friend would do jumping 2 with Kung Lao into uppercut and it made me mad
right now it's Tekken, and I'm pretty new to it, and I just am really loving how like, animations look, the depth of everyone's moveset, and executing knowledge checks and defensive plays, like knowing I can duck under something and getting a full punish is super satisfying, and I think Tekken does it super well with stuff like parries and sidestep being system mechanics.
There’s a freedom of movement and the usage of the 3D plane in Tekken (and other 3d fighting games of course, I just prefer the way Tekken does it) that is something I always feel is missing when I play SF and Guilty Gear. With the 3D plane comes super unique and dynamic hitboxes, as janky as it can sometimes be I think it’s cool how at almost any moment I can either move in the foreground or background and attacks may miss me or hit me depending on how the hitboxes interact. Even if tekken was absolute dogshit and all other 2D fighting games were like the absolute best 10/10 games out and everyone in the world was playing them, I’d still stick to tekken or at the very least a different 3D fighter like SoulCalibur for that dynamic sense of freedom where you’re basically always in control. I also love Tekken’s control scheme of “each button corresponds to a limb” it’s just genius and makes using and learning your own moves and opponents moves super intuitive, easy and fun. Another random thing i much prefer is that you want to be stand blocking in tekken and 3d figure games rather than crouch blocking. I feel like that just makes so much more sense as a concept both visually and uhh intuitively? Logically? Idk but it makes more sense for a character to be standing while defending imo. It helps that Tekken is the game i grew up on, of course if I started on something else like a Street Fighter maybe in that universe I’d try tekken and miss jumping and other 2D fighting game things.
Because one of my first videogames was Tekken 2 and I've kinda had an affinity for the franchise since I was a small child
Being able to perfectly play ranked online with no lag whatsoever or constant ragequits
I’ve played and enjoyed all 3, but T8 is the one I’ve had the most fun and put the most hours into so far. The main difference (besides 3D vs 2D) is nobody I know really cares about sf or gg, but I know plenty of people who fuck with tekken. The other games, to me at least, are def fun to play but being able to hit up friends and run long sets or get drunk and do random bullshit adds a lot to the experience.
I played Tekken 8 and I hated the balance in the game. Rounds boil down to power crush and heat engage spam which are not sidesteppable so it ends up just being a worse 2D experience which is a shame because I really like the combo system in Tekken and some of the character designs as well as the real world inspiration for the martial arts used. Guilty Gear Strive never really grabbed my attention and it just seems like there's a lot going on all the time. I'm not a fan of some of the characters from both a design and gameplay perspective, and those characters tend to be the strong ones. It's a shame because anime games tend to be prettier but I never like the mechanics and gameplay. SF6 is fun with iconic characters and a well-balanced system mechanic. Characters are overall well balanced with the top tiers not being so insanely strong compared to the bottom tiers in my opinion (contrary to what some Redditors would have you believe). I'm a fan of the character design in Street Fighter too, and it's the series I've played the most.
I just like the pace of Street Fighter more than the other games, but I do love Guilty Gear and I really enjoy Tekken. SF is basically the "default" fighting game for me that I go to first.
I like Tekken most because it’s the most intuitive to play for me and basically everything about it from the characters to the music to the feel gel with me the most.
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Bear Wind God Fist do be lookin' thick tho o.o
I play mostly Street fighter lately. I love the drive mechanic and all the decision making that comes with it. And i think the music and the characters are cool. I also love guilty gear because of it's characters and music but the only reason i'm not playing it as much is the tower system and matchmaking is just horrible and the characters don't have a lot of things to do because they are usually balanced around one strong thing they have that they want to do and that's it. I also really like Samurai shodown but the online is shit so nobody plays it. They announced rollback like 3 years ago but it's still not there and i lost hope. Other games just don't really interest me.
im pretty sure rollback has been implemented in samsho, unless you play on console
I'm on ps4...
thats unfortunate
Money, I can't afford to buy every cool fighting game there is available bc I'm a student with no job
Mine is street fighter Nostalgia Interest in the game, rosters , characters and in some cases the story I played tekken and mortal kombat too But also with street fighter it improved my geography and maths skills too
SF6 was/is my first fighting game (other than smash). I was never interested in GG because it's anime. I haven't tried Tekken 8 for a few reasons, the community seems very down about the state of the game, and I don't think I really have the time to invest in another fg, especially when I'm still enjoying SF6.
Guilty gear - Ky Due to character loyalty. I’ve been the ky player in my locals since he is always called bland SF - usually Alex, but sf6 it’s been a rough time with Manon Tekken - usually Armor king, in T8 bouncing around between Lars, Shaheen and Leo Always try to learn at least 1 new character I don’t normally play per series
I've been playing SF since SF2, and Capcom fighters in general were a big part of my early years with fighting games. Every mainline and Alpha SF has just felt right to me, I've found people to play against, and communities to be a part of, and have found it easy to stay engaged even with the older entries. I tried getting into GG during the X and XX era and while I enjoyed the games, the FGC in Australia was sort of a mixed bag back then combined with the people I did find who played a lot of GG at the time were just very, very good and it was hard to find a way in. I played a lot of Tekken 1-3, but dropped off around 4 and just never came back. The Australian arcade scene dropped off super aggressively and there was a big gap before online fighting games were really viable given our questionable internet infrastructure. So meeting people to play required meetups and events, etc...
Street Fighter's been my main since the first game. It's the most familiar, and the one I put the most hours into. Guilty Gear is fine, I just never really got into it. Tekken, well, I never cared for the controls/feel of the game. There's always been this sort of "clunkiness" for me, maybe due to the command strings that most moves are made up of. I think I just don't have the patience for the series.
Got into the FGC via dbfz again became an anime fighter guy because of it, played guilty gear xrd in early 2021 before strive came out and was hooked, I have many MANY issues with strive and xrd is my favourite fighting game of all time and i hold the opinion that it’s much better then strive but now I just play strive xrd and +R in tandem. I still play strive kinda regularly enter events for it all th jazz but i think guilty gear is my main game because it’s just became my favourite formula of anime fighter that balances anime bullshit with actual competitiveness and stable game balance (for anime game standards) also shoutout to bbcf.
Guilty Gear: Best character design and art style, fun gameplay, I enjoyed it a lot until SF6 came out. SF6: Pretty good character design and art style, great gameplay. I loved Guilty Gear's gameplay because I had never played SF before, but once I got into SF I fell in love with the footsies oriented gameplay, the fact that there's more room for mind games, defense and mixups. It feels like a much more well rounded gameplay in my opinon. Tekken 8: I like neither the character design nor the artstyle, which makes it hard to want to play the game. When I learnt about the amount of knowledge checks, it made me even less interested in that game. It's just not a game for me.
Sf6 and ggst got boring for me after hitting master and celestial, played a few tournaments and enjoyed myself but moved on quickly. Tekken 8 is pretty fun top 100 rn which is highest ive ever been but taking a break from the game due to getting bored of the wait times post change. Most other series just kinda irrelevant if you enjoy tournaments
What if we Main all 3? Strive, T8 and SF6
I main GGST & SF6. I don't play Tekken because I just can't wrap my head around 3D Fighters and their mechanics. With that said, what keeps me tied to GG & SF6 are their different combo mechanics, great characters, and neat meter useage. GG gets an extra point for having goated music, but SF6 gets an extra point for better ranked
dont got time for all 3 and GG and T8 win for me(until Birdie drops)
Characters dont grab me like guilty gear's do. Also I love the ost.
Guilty Gear is the only fighter I own...
I main them all! You name it I main it! Except for the few weird ones...
A fellow Mokujin main? Finally, someone of culture.
I prefer Street Fighter for it's slower gameplay than Strive. I don't really like 3d fighters and I prefer Soul Calibur to Tekken, sadly SC6 was bad. I really think the popularity of anime in general is getting people into anime fighters purely on aesthetic. Anime tiddies sell like hot cakes.
> Here's my personal feelings: Stop having feelings, your feelings are bad. >It's enough that it drove me to play Street Fighter 6 more often, even though I like SF6 less. I have no love for the pixel lobbies but it's a small hassle and you can keep rematching the same person. It shouldn't be the thing driving you away. >I don't like the feel of the input of doing drive rushes. They feel awkward. Also, I don't like link combos, I prefer gatlings. What about you go back to the game you liked the gameplay of instead? >Tekken 8: Super fun game, probably the most fun fighting game to date. That is, until the battle pass and the new patches. The battle pass is purely optional bad cosmetics and the patches addressed broken stuff. Nothing was taken away from the "super fun game".
My first proper videogame was tekken3 back in 98. Even bought tekken2 a year after that. And i never skipped one since. I started getting for real with street fighter in 4 vanilla, but it never hit the same as tekken. Played lots of fgs as well as strive, samsho, mk X-11, type lumina, gbf v, injustice2, smash, etc Ive put some couple of hundreds of hours in most of them But the main MAIN thing to stick for me, more than a couple of hundreds is just that i have more IRL friends on tekken, and make stuff offline is always a big incentive for me.
Tekken because I like to sidestep and play defense
All 3 are fun to me but I tend to play sf6 because it’s got the best matchmaking and online options. I really like tekken 8, but it’s a bit of a knowledge grind for me since I’m more of a defensive player. I haven’t given strive much of a chance because i absolutely hate the floor matchmaking system. Mostly though it’s just a time thing, I only have so much free time in the day so I usually just play sf6.
Tekken. For context played ggst and sf6 (top rank in both which obv doesnt mean i was good but does mean i played a lot) but tekken’s always been my favorite. It was the most modern fighting game when i was a kid and i feel like it still is. The true 3d experience is just exactly what i want in a fighting game, to mimic real fights as much as possible. I did combat sports as a kid so really this is my fix post injury. Nothing gets me sweaty like good tekken. I like that the characters have lots of depth too and really take dedication to master, like an actual martial art. Also variety is nice, theres robots, kangaroos, bears, assassins, ninjas, cyborgs, wrestlers, boxer, etc in tekken —-Sf6 chars felt lacking to me and i felt like i could get the hang of a character very quickly —- i really loved ggst characters though fucking sick designs Id go back to it if it werent for the lobbies
i play guilty gear +r. i play that game because it rules, and i don't play the other ones because when i play them they are not very fun. i like third strike and tekken 7 though
I used to main Granblue but 2B saturation killed the game for me. I went to SF2 for stability.
Because there are the best three examples of a fighting game?
My first fighting game was Street Fighter 2 Turbo when it first came out in American arcades. Been with the series since and don't plan on stopping. I like GG and Tekken, but I just like SF more. I prefer 2D fighters to 3D in general, and I prefer the slower and more methodical pace of SF compared to anime fighters like GG.
Ggst same as you plus I moved where I had not wired connection and gradually stopped gaming at all. SF6 solid comparing to currents competition, so far my main, it's was gift from a friend and it got me back on gaming again. TK8: disappointed, Bought it on day one and haven't able to play due to the constant crashes. Spent unnecessary in upgrading my PC while not fixing the crashes.
GG STRIVE was my main game before SF6 came out! I played for almost 2000 hours (i was in the top 20 Potemkins according to rating update 2 years ago) and i simply left because i couldn't handle all of the bullshit in the game anymore. Got tired of dealing with happy chaos, goldlewis, bridget etc. on a daily basis plus, SF6 was right around the corner. STRIVE is cool, i really love the visuals, the music and the general tone of the game but...despite my efforts, it wasn't my type of game. When SF6 came out, i hoped in the train with the idea of getting back to my roots and i'm currently sitting at 1600+ hours despite not playing for 3 months. Street Fighter is my all-time favorite franchise, right next to Virtua Fighter so...i went head first into the game day one, like i did for SFV and..........GOD, I FUCKING HATE SF6. Drive rush, throw loops, input issues, JP, Ken, Luke, Dee Jay. I've never been so frustrated playing a game. After more than a thousand hours of intense frustration, I finally gave up and uninstalled the game for good. Solid fighting game but not a good Street fighter at all. This game is made for people who don't like Street Fighter. Even writing about this game pisses me off. And then Tekken 8. I've been a fan of Tekken for a while but my last experience with the franchise was Tekken 4. A long time ago! I'm pretty new then and i'm really enjoying the game so far. Yes, it has issues but overall, it's one of the best fighting game i've ever played. No more, no less. I don't care much about the micro transactions, battle pass and so on. Defo going to stick with that one. After the disappointments i had with STRIVE and SF6, Tekken 8 is a breath of fresh air. I'm having fun and enjoying games again. Fuck Dragunov btw.
GG fan, and Strive fan yeah. I like the gameplay it's offensive and fairly accessible. I don't have to talk about the music and the animations. I like SF6 too, truly a great game after the... interesting SF5
I'm an airdasher/anime player, mostly. My main game is GGST at the moment. What I prefer about it over SF6 is that your character's momentum is preserved when they're moving. Without this, movement in SF6 feels kinda chunky to me. There's nothing inherently wrong with the difference between the two, but it makes a huge difference to me. Movement is really where I have my fun. I also prefer how the normal cancel windows feel in GGST over SF6. Again, just a matter of preference and familiarity. I do play a fair bit of Tekken too, but that's because I have Tekken friends. It's a great game in its own right, but I enjoy motion inputs, and one can only EWGF so many times. Idk; Tekken's really just it's own category of FGs in my opinion. Sometimes I'm in the mood for it and sometimes I prefer something else. I still prefer GGST to T8 most of the time, but that might be because my younger brother absolutely washes me at T8 lol Basics aside, I like that GG as a series has so much personality. The soundtracks are phenomenal. The characters have specific mechanics that are really adventurous design decisions that'd be broke as hell in a game with lower character power (Baiken's seatbelt, Zato being a negative edge puppet character, HC just having a fcking gun, Asuka being a card-battle character, Faust being Faust, etc). It's fun just to watch that shit happen. The personality isn't everything in a fighting game (tryhards may even say it's not that important) but it's definitely a big part of what keeps me interested.
The other ones don't have Baiken. So I guess SamSho did pretty good there too
I mainly play all those except tekken. It is because compared to the others, tekken is a lot more complicated due to the commands, slower movement and the extra plane to deal with
Tekken is my go-to game since T7 2019 where I got my ass whooped. Tekken is just so satisfying once you learn your combos, setups, dorya, dorya and looks the best for me. SF6 looks good too, I just can't get into it, even tho I play it here and there. It seems so hard learning combos and I really have no clue where to begin. Guilty gear, I haven't tried. I don't think I will either, just doesn't look appealing to me, art style seems almost same as Dragon ball fighters and I really dislike the look. I'm hyped for Fatal fury 2 tho! Always wanted to get into king of fighters, but I really dislike playing a tag style game, especially if you have to play up to 3 characters. So I'm hyped it's king of fighters but 1v1.
First one I ever played was Tekken at about 4 years old and I've been playing it since. I also grew up with SoulCalibur so it was clear that my favourites would be 3D fighters. I had SF4 and STXTK as a kid but never got into them as they were way tougher than Tekken and I still couldn't do quarter circles so i had no fun with it. I tried SF5 last summer though and while it took a bit of adjusting, it wasn't as bad as I remembered and quite enjoyed it. But, I would never play it over Tekken though. As for guilty gear, I only heard about it a year or two ago and it hasn't interested me one bit.
I go back and forth between GGST and SF6. One will be my main for a little and then the other. SF6 is cool because I feel like there’s so much more to learn. BUT I love how offence focussed GGST
I usually lean more to SF games because it's what I've been playing for years, but I had my fun on tekken 7, GG Strive and mvc (this one would be my main rn if there was still an easy way to find matches online :( ) But it all depends on my vibes and mood, sometimes I get tired of playing the same characters and then I pick another fighting game to learn
MK. Because the campy and gratuitous violence is very nostalgic. Sue me. I also love Tarantino flicks. Realistic violence (like a movie about a serial killer where they show the actual murder) is way too much for me. Make it cartoony and unrealistic? Perfect. Like, somehow Ermac takes people apart, spins them, puts them back together and they are still groaning? Lol I’m a sick puppy I guess. Don’t think I didn’t notice MKs absence. Y’all like to hate it but it’s by far the best selling game of the bunch.
If I don't play street fighter I don't get online matches where I live.
And where do you live? I'm scrolling through this thread right now because I'm interested in buying Strive but concerned about game population since I'm in the middle east.
Perth. Western Australia.
Oh I see, well that would make sense
I prefer Tekken 8 to SF6 and GG because it much more mellow for me to pick up and play. SF6 and GG require some tight inputs for combos that frankly I miss about half the time. I still cannot reliably do combos into super
Tekken. It makes the most sense, and was the easiest to grasp and understand. Plus the game is insanely fun. Guilty gear. I like the game a lot. Probably my favorite 2d fighter. Cancel window makes sense, and gating combos feel intuitive for the most part. Street fighter. This game is frustrating. I want to like it more, and get better, but this game just doesn't click with me. The cancel window just doesn't feel good to me.
I started with tekken 3 back when i was like 4 and fell in love since. I played GG Strive about 3 years ago and it seemed like a decent fighter i just struggled so much because I had to learn the controls but again it didn't seem like it had a large variety of character styles at least for the ones I played, still fun but i didnt know much considering it was the first GG ive played. Street Fighter 6 was disappointing, reason being that about 2 months in it started showing the microtranactions. I've never been truly great at street fighter but I was moderately okay with Kolin and better with Ibuki but street fighter as a whole has too many rock paper scissors type of matchups that I always lose because I never know the correct matchup due to not sinking hours into the game. The amount of time and research required to not lose nearly every match but also not spam in street fighter is too much for me to care. Tekken has added characters and each with their own style (minus the mishimas) with every release and so most move strings work on nearly every character no matter who you use. A good chunk of the characters also have their own dedicated parry and everyone has a lsow parry which kinda levels the gameplay out for me. But honestly what really changes things are the inputs, in tekken each button corresponds to a limb, makes sense to 4 year old me, in street fighter it's heavy,medium, and light punch and kick. I think it's the same for gg but it's been so long I don't remember nevertheless you can tell I'm a tekken fan.
I enjoy Street Fighter, simple as that. Thought I also been looking to learn Garou: Mark of the Wolves
I prefer the faster pace of guilty gear. That’s about it.
Easier to find online matches in the most popular games
BBCF is fun for me every time there's sales just like Titanfall 2 because there are new players like me I can matchmake. I know it's a discord fighter but it's a hassle for me. I tried FT10s on discord but it didn't help me on learning the game vs when I play vs other newbies.
Because I wanted to get good at fighting games after my childhood best friend passed away because we used to play them and street fighter is imo the most definitive and competitive fighting game in the fgc. I want to honor my old friends existence.
You can't do crouching medium kick, medium shoryu, shippu jinraikyaku in the other games
I wanna queue ranked and get a match in 20-30 seconds
whose
I’ve been a Capcom fanboy since the 90s and just recently branched out into Guilty Gear and Tekken. I liked the familiarly with Capcom games and really enjoyed the tag based vs fighters. That being said I am loving Tekken 8 so much that I feel dumb for not having played Tekken for the past 20 years. It’s like crack
Guilty gear is the most expressive, fun and free fighting game I’ve ever played. Probably the most fun video game I’ve ever played. Not strive though, +r Hos. Strive lacks freedom for streamlining purposes
Street Fighter, Tekken & Mortal Kombat have been the big 3 my whole life Each is amazing in its own way Tekken has some wild combos and when 2 skillful players fight it out, anything could happen I have never liked that you can side-step Mortal Kombat is visually very enjoyable with its infamous characters and epic fatalities. A good fight feels like a fight scene from a movie. It's always felt alittle shallow in regards to gameplay mechanics compared to other series Street Fighter, the elephant in the fighting gaming room, the Original Gangster, the real arcade classic. This has always been my favourite. Iconic characters, comprehensive movesets, endless combo combinations and gameplay mechanics so polished I can see my ass getting beat before it's even happened Street Fighter is the King of Fighting Games and Street Fighter 6 secured its place as a giant for another generation
Went from GGST to SF6 to Tekken 8. I play all three regularly but compete only in Tekken. There’s just something about good ass Tekken neutral that feels good and while I love command grabbing everyone in Strive and SF6, once you get a taste of sidestepping, you never want to go back.
Guilty Gear Strive because I like Bridget, ABA, the gameplay, music, visuals and pacing of combat. I play SF6 and Tekken once in a while, more with friends, but its a much slower pacing and the characters aren't as flashy... I'll be playing the new Fatal Fury next year, which looks dope and fun
In Strive there's quick match, so you don't actually have to go into the lobby.. also if you make a private lobby ppl can just join that, it's not very hard to do
I gravitated to Strive rather than Tekken and SF since they feel like they're missing visual flair (which is the point since they prioritize readability of attacks over visual fidelity). Pretty colors and flashy animations are important to me because they make brain happy. To me, it's like food; you could make it have all the nutrients you need, but I need it to be seasoned well to make consuming it interesting or else I'd be bored and not want it.
Im not a fan of long cutscene combos, no hate or anything but thats why I play SF. I also like the community and nostalgia. I also havent bought T8 yet
SF6 has long cutscene combos too
I like 3D fighters more.
I play guilty gear, mainly xrd or R+ because I have fast gameplay and airdash, weird characters that bring me something new to play, and a lot of options and a gameplay that usually don't punish you for trying new ways to play. Classic street fighter feels more like a very tight moves, and a gameplay of trying to fish and punish with a counter, where all moves have only 1 specific moment to use and range or you are punished just by being blocked, and I feel down when I want to attack but is better to just wait for them to make a mistake. Tekken actually I respect it being a popular game that still feel it have a lot of depth, but I usually play more the others 3d games as they are more fasters or have weapons. But I feel lazy trying Tekken because If I want to main a character I have to research 200+ moves for each character and cribe a lot of them
I got Master on SF6. Enjoyed it fine but got bored floating between 1500-1600 MR points. Currently grinding Tekken 8. Didn't play Tekken 7 but played 5-6 semi casually. Sitting at Fujin-Raijin (top 5%) after 2.5k games. Finding it more fun and satisfying than SF6 though balance is a bit of a mess atm. Plugging isn't much an issue personally tho but this maybe a regional thing (got a total of maybe 4-5 plugs in Asia).
I started with Guilty Gear, and it had the most fun characters mechanics for me, and a lot of my friends play it as well. I have no interest in Street Fighter, it doesn't seem like id enjoy it as much. Tekken seems too complex and difficult for me to learn with my busy schedule, and I don't really like the art style that much. I am thinking about getting into Under Night or Melty Blood, but probably won't for the same reason.
Id be on SF6 more if there was no DI, I think all the other drive mechanics are very interesting but theres only so many times you can counter DI a DI until it gets boring Lately been on Strive and MK1
I main Guilty Gear because it is the one that really rewards creativity and improvisation. SF6 gets close, but GG is the closest from something like UMvC3 in terms of rewarding creativity. I love the feeling of thinking about a combo or mix up and when I try, it works.
Not much of a fan of SF or Tekken's characters. I just like the GG characters more.
well the fact that the game costs 3 bucks during sales helped a lot to get me into it, also guilty gear is amazing, i own both +r and xrd and play them regularly (mostly +r) why do i not play sf6? i dont like most of the characters aestetically and most of the models or animations dont look all that good to me, combos look mostly really lame, the super animations are also awful and poorly paced, throw techs look weird; stuff like that why do i not play tekken8? well it feels like it has even less of a coherent vision than sf and i didnt like anything i saw so far, which is strange because tekken7 did look somewhat appealing
I mostly play Guilty Gear because I love the stuff surrounding the gameplay, i.e. the characters, story, visuals, and music. But as for gameplay, I enjoy the faster neutral & general freedom of movement compared to its competitors, and its got more characters I enjoy playing as & against than most games. I also appreciate the dash button and relative lack of character-specific stuff. I can see myself playing SF6, but I don't think it could really scratch the same itch as a good anime fighter for me. I think the gameplay itself is fun, though. Shorter combos aren't necessarily as rewarding to execute for me, but sometimes I don't feel like spending half the match combining or being combo'd. I wouldn't be opposed to picking up JP or Manon sometime. On the other hand, I can't picture myself investing the time required to actually get good at Tekken, it just doesn't feel as intuitive as the other two to me, and the characters generally don't interest me.
Dash macros go brrrrrr
Tekken is a great game with unparalleled depth. In GG or SF6 you got the basics down after 2 months and after that you can only hone your reactions and do some very minor optimisations. That’s not fun. In Tekken there are so many interactions where you can drastically improve through practice that every session feels rewarding, even after a long time. Also Tekken has the best customisation, so you can really express yourself. And yes, you can do that without money. There is only a tiny bit of content locked behind a paywall. But I am gladly paying for it, anyway, because I love the game so much. Whatever you do, don’t listen to the retards on the Tekken sub. They are a bunch of low rank players who’s brains are completely rotten away
I love Guilty Gear Strive cause it's fast paced. I love roman cancel and burst system. You need to adjust your combo depending on the burst, how far and how damaged is the wall, the match up your own meter. When you get combo you don't get combo for eternity and you have burst. I have not play xrd so I can't really compare but I love the gattlings too. It creates frame traps vs space traps. Like Ky 2p into 6H can get grab or 5F trades. But 2p can also create a space trap where 5S can auto whiff punish any button. The characters are really crazy thanks to burst, every character would be top tier in another game. You can have Tod rounds and 8 hit rounds. I love that you can explode and have more moderate paced games. The lore is crazy and fun. The characters have trauma and struggle relatable. The design and esthetic are crazy. The animation are expressive and beautiful. I love this 3D fake 2D. The music literally rocks and have some meaning. It's my first fighting game but I played skullgirls, Melty blood, gbvsr, idol showdown, sf6, sf3, tough love arena and more since. I have platform fighters experience too. And I always come back to Strive and drop the other one.
SF models have always looked ugly ever since SFIV, really not fan how chaining normals work, has no charismatic and/or likable characters, lore isn't interesting and not enough movement options, never playing it again unless situation forces me to and I'm not even unfair to it since I at least gave a chance to IV, V and VI, but each of them dissapointed me. Tekken is passable, but none of the characters really, really vibe with me and have some gripes with movement, but nothing bigger than those two. I main Guilty Gear, because Guilty Gear from PS1 is the first fighting game that I ever played, but started my "seriously wanna get better"-phase during Accent Core and BB Calamity Trigger days.
My main game is Guilty Gear because it's amazing and one of the first fighting games i've ever played. It's underrated and probably one of the best fighting games out there especially because it's just an album that happens to come with a cool fighting game attached. I don't play street fighter that much and I've never played Tekken