Hello everyone

Hi, everyone. I’ve been watching from afar for awhile now and have saw your community grow to be something pretty spectacular and I always thought to myself “why can’t other parts of the gaming community be like this?” Yes, I’ve see my fair of drama happening in this community as well, but that is almost like hindsight in the end. What I saw was a family. A family of people who want nothing more than their genre to grow and flourish. I want to be apart of this. People may call me a bandwagoner, but I love video games, I’m starting to truly fall for fighting games and I really wanna give this a shot.

Now, to the actual point of this thread, I’m a relatively young guy. I’ve played fighting games casually for years and I’ve had fun, but never really understood that there was a deeper level to these games until I discovered streams and SRK. Needless to say again, I’m in love. So to my first newbie question guys and it may be the noobiest of them all and I half expect to get eaten alive for it, but here it goes. Where do I start? Do I jump in at AE or maybe wait it out for a different series like SF x Tekken? Thanks.

tl;dr Should I start with AE or wait for a new series like SF x Tekken to get into the community?

You’ll be waiting a while for SF x Tekken. Simple answer, do whatever you want. But from what I hear, actually playing does help. Waiting won’t.

Third Strike OE is coming out soon; why not jump on that? It’s a good way to work on your execution since there are no input shortcuts like in SF4.

Because 3rd Strike is a bad game.

Welcome to SRK!

I agree with Booty Clapper. SFxT is relatively far from being released, and waiting won’t really help you develop your skill. The more you play, and ultimately the more experience you get, the better your skill will develop and thus improve. I advise starting as soon as possible, so I would start with AE.

Play 3s, it’s a good game

start with AE. When 3S drops you can give it a try(some people like it & some don’t).