Hey all. I’m still relatively new to fighting games, but I really enjoy watching them and have been playing casually for a pretty long time. I’ve jumped in with almost every game I could get my hands on lately but now I feel like I’m spread too thin. I’ll spend an hour here on one game, an hour there, etc. Trying to balance streams / match videos, learning new things. But I feel like I’m not progressing because of this, and yet, I have a hard time deciding what games to stick with.
How many fighters do you typically focus on at a time? And how many characters for each fighter? Also, if you do spread it out, do you stick in a specific style - such as, would you stick with 2d without mixing in 3d games, would you only play sf/kof and not mortal kombat. How do you balance that sort of thing if you do?
It seems like most people in tournaments only have 1-2, and maybe a third casually.
Also, what really throws me off is when I go online and people constantly go back to the character select screen. Do most people typically juggle between different characters to learn at a time, or am I just getting set up against folks who aren’t as focused? I feel like if they go to the select screen it would be bad form for me to stick with the same character(s) so I try to vary it with them. But I can’t tell sometimes if they’re trying new things to see how to play against my character or just want variety, and then I can’t tell if I should be doing visa versa. I suppose this could be solved with a headset, but you know what I mean.
I typically play 1 game at a time and play with 1 main character, any secondary characters are due from me maining that character at some point prior. At the moment I play 2 games actively (and seriously) with a possible 3rd on the way (Skullgirls).
If you’re new at fighting games and are wanting to get into serious or competitive play. I’d highly recommend playing 1 at a time. Too many games may be counter-productive due to lack of time to play and learn the game.
I play mainly for fun and more competitively with friends but for example the only game I’m worth anything at is UMVC3. But I also have SSFIV and BB:CSE that I dabble in (SSFIV if I’m tired of the breakneck speed games of UMVC3, or BB if I’m just feelin the urge)
I only play two fighting games seriously and those are UMVC3, SFxT, and SSF4/MK9 when I want to fool around. I only try to learn one character/team very well and have a backup if necessary.
I would feel as though the limit should be around 4, because having too many fighting games in your mind will eventually make you forget most mechanics in one game, which will make you lose. That’s just me, though.
As many as you can/want. I play a heap. BB/SCV/GG/UMvC/SFxT, tried to get into SF4 a lot of times but never have, want to get into KoF but there isn’t much of a scene for it here.
I pretty much try everything, going to be getting into Skullgirls soon. I also play some other games occasionally, though I have no real competition like Vsav. I want to learn but Jojo’s but… wtf…
If any of the games you play right now are SFxTK and SSF4, concentrate on SSF4 and you will easily become jesus with the street fighter characters in SFxTK. Although I would keep your fighting games focus to 2 games, MAXIMUM. 3 is pushing it. Meaning you can concentrate on two, but if you play any others just do it to fuck around. IMO anyway.
I’m having a similar problem as well…all of these wonderful fighting games I have and can’t play them all with any regularity:
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Capcom Vs. SNK 2
Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom
The King of Fighters 98
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
Marvel Vs. Capcom 2
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Guilty Gear X
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Vampire Savior
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
The King of Fighters XIII
I have many more but these are the one I’ve spent heavy amounts of time with…and now I might have to add BlazBlue and Skullgirls to that list.
Having a hard time trying to focus on like one or two…someone said that playing lots of different fighting games to get better at them but I’m beginning to zone out.
Street Fighter ex 2 plus
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Double upper
Capcom Vs. SNK 2
The King of Fighters XI
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Ultimate Ninja 4
Clash Of Ninja 3
DarkStalkers 3
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
I can play a lot of FG, but to be able to provide even some sort of competition to a good player, there is a limit. I’d rank myself from best to worst from all these years I played:
Garou
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Last Blade 2
SFIII: 3rd Strike
SFA 3
KOF98 and 2002
Vampire Savior
SSFIV: AE
Blazblue CT
Rage of the Dragon
For games like Samurai Spirits I-V, SF2, MK 1-3, Fatal Fury, Guilty Gear, CVS2, MvC, Double Dragon, Breaker’s, 3D fighters etc I do not feel I can learn them adequately since there is a limit or have forgotten them and dont bother to relearn.
There’s nothing wrong with playing multiple games. It’s good to branch out and at least try other titles, even if it’s just to get a fundamental understanding of how the game operates. It can give you insight into how things work, and maybe bring to light certain strategies that weren’t apparent at first.
However, you’re going to still have to put in the time to learn each game. Depending on how much free time you have, it may hamper your development as a player. I wouldn’t worry about it too much. In many cases, certain fundamentals like linking and motions carry over from title to title, you’ll still grow as a player if you’re hopping between a game like SFxT and KOF XIII if you’re intent on learning the games in their entirety and exploring the combo systems.
Rule of thumb, if you want to get good at one game, play that one game. Sometimes this is the best if you’re just starting out, since you don’t know enough to make the most out of your time with each game. If you want to understand the various franchises and options available to you, explore other games. I personally don’t give the Arc System Works games as much love as I should (I haven’t touched BlazBlue since their PC CT release).
UMVC3 Mortal kombat 9 Tekken 6 KOF13 Super Smash Bros Brawl and Melee MVC2 Capcom vs SNK 2 a bit of Blazblue Dont like SF4 tried SFxTek and didn’t like it. Its good playing a different style of fighting games as they offer and use different game mechanics, You could be surprised at one you thought you wouldn’t be into. Branch out as much as you can and enjoy the many fighting games out there
My recommendation is to try playing as many games as possible and picking one character/team to master. I was mainly a KoF player for a while until I started branching off, now I train/play about 5 different fighters (I’m putting all Kofs down as one fighter, otherwise it would probably be like 10).
I’m definitely in similar sneakers. Here is my mega-list of fighters that I play; (though lately I have been consumed with SFIV and SSFIV/AE.)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Upper)
Capcom Vs. SNK 2
The King of Fighters 2006 (Hanzo’s in this game, WHAT?!?!)
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike/OE
Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
SFxT (still awaiting the UBER patch that fixes everything… Note: Heavy Sarcasm)
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Mortal Kombat 9
SC IV
Darkstalkers 3
Guilty Gear XX
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
The King of Fighters XIII
Samurai Showdown 2, 4 (Anthology)
Tekken 5 (still have yet to acquire 6)
TTT
Plasma Sword (For Fun)
The only reason I don’t have KOF13 and BB(all of them) is funding. I haven’t even thought about looking into SkullGirls. I’ve seen it in action andlooks uniquely interesting.
FGs are just so complex and one may study them like a Physical Martial Artist. I love researching the frame data, the match-ups, combos, etc.
Then there is the fact that I went to school for Animation and love to design Characters and this is the catalyst of the multi-game debate within.
It’s like having a vast amount of friends and you want to spend time with all of them, but it’s simply impossible to do so consistently, if at all.
Yes, I’m quite strange.
the only limit is the one that you can handle, some players can only with one, maybe two, othrs can handle multiple games
with practice and time is possible that you can learn to play multiple games
only 1 because I want to get really good. If I were splitting my time between a bunch of games I’d be a much crappier player, not just at that particular game but in general. It took me a while to get to the real meat of fighting game strategy because I had to learn combos, the game mechanics, matchups etc. Having to learn that crap for a bunch of different games just slows down your ascension to high level strategy. Guys like JWong or Ricky O can do it cause they already understand high level fighting game strategy. They’ve been playing forever.
I can play about anything, as long as I actually care to. Been doing it since the old days when you had to come up with a lot of your own shit, so it makes my understanding of mechanics a bit better. But, anymore I cant really say I ‘play’ this game or that one, with Skullgirls being the closest thing to a game I currently ‘play’.
