How do I get into fighting games? What are some good ones to start out with?>inb4 build a time machine and go back to the 90sI fucking wish
>>12342406Start Street Fighter II: World Warrior. It's the codex for pretty much every other fighting game.
Play Soul Calibur, it's newbie friendly and the single player content is great
>>12342406You start up the game and play it.
Yie-Ar Kung Fu is a fun pre-SF one I liked to play on my Famiclone. It's primitive but you can see the roots of the genre there.Then yeah just play SF II The World Warrior. From there try Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting
>>12342406Play the one that interests you.
Play the one with anime titties in it.
>>12342731Isn't that like every single one of them?
>>12342912thats_the_joke.gif
>>12342406Play bloody roar
>>12342406Depends on what you mean by "get into." As a genre fighting games only really shine in pvp which is a problem when revisiting a lot of older series. Outside of arcade modes, they generally didn't start trying with single player until around gen 5 console ports and beyond. Street Fighter 2 pretty much established the genre as we know it so you can give that a whirl just to see the foundations like smb with platformers. A personal favorite is red earth which is more single player focused
>>12342406KoF is pretty beginner friendly.
>>12342480Seems too complicated for OP
If you don't have a fightstick play on a keyboard
>>12342406find a bro equally as newbie and interested in the genre as you, fight and learn tech, become ryu and ken irl
>>12345264spar irl to keep it real
>>12344004This. And this board..99% of people have no clue what it means to actually play a fighting game guaranteed. To actually get good at any noteworthy fighting game means virtually sacrificing your life
>>12342406play with real people
>>12344149'Jumping' in KoF is more complicated than entire games
>>12342731>>12342912There are franchises pretty much dedicated to that. Pic related, but also Asuka 120%.
>>12345901Not if you start on the Orochi saga games, especially '95. (skip '94 since '95 is just that gane but bigger and better)
>>12342406The home port of Street Fighter Alpha 3 to PS1 (also on Sega Saturn) has a World Tour mode that starts off really easy and gets progressively more difficult, gradually introducing missions that require combos and supers to beat. That was my start and it helped me hold my own in a lot of other fighting games.Most retro fighters are just a 1P vs 2P or CPU for an Arcade mode. As >>12344004 said, it's only around the PS1 era you start to get dedicated Training Modes and extras in addition to the direct port main course. Newer fighting games have relatively exuberant tutorials that show you how to do everything from basic to advanced. They also show you all the combos in the pause menu, and let you pause.
>>12342406I suggest finding a buddy for couch co-op or a couple of friends to have over for a game night. Try to find some games no one has ever played
>>12342479>Soul calibur DC>Tekken 3 PSX>Soul Blade PSX>Street fighter alpha 3 PSX/PSPThese are all good 1p fighting games
>>12345878>99% of people have no clue what it means to actually play a fighting gameGet over yourself. Everyone understands they could be much better if they went full autism mode and dedicated their lives to a single video game. They're actively choosing not to.
Honestly the best starting place is probably sf6 since it’s the most noob-friendly with all its zoomer content. After you pick up the fundamentals then reflect on your intended peer community and choose your franchise based on who you want to interact with:>street fighter - Japanese salarymen, casuals, nostalgia chasers>versus series - aging blacks and the “wrong kind” of asians>anime fighters/smash - trannies and autistic weebs>nrs - weightlifting bros and unsupervised children>tekken - pakis, koreans, and masochists>snk - Mexicans, Chinese, the poor
Let's not derail the thread, just don't reply.
>>12342406SF2 is good, but you should also try Samurai Shodown (the not-vr one is an amazing game imo), getting good at it doesn't rely on the tricky "execution/cancels" part, so it should get you used to the basicsIf you're serious about wanting to try fightans, you're in for a ride, given how complicated the genre is, but beating a tough player really is as good as gaming gets
>>12342985Cammys lovely legs
>>12342406Super Turbo. Despite the relatively strict and random input window for specials and supers, it's a pretty straightforward game.Feel free to try any game that catches your eye, but don't overwhelm yourself with info. So, take it easy and have fun.>>12344149>>12345901'98 is my main game. I wouldn't recommend it to an absolute beginner, but I also think that the difficulty is a bit overstated. There are tricks for executing stuff easier. The hard part comes from dictating the pace of the match in your favor, which is not unusual in this genre.
Try every game from every company, pick the one you like the most and get a fren to play
>>12342406If you want to get into fighting games you should probably start with a game that you can actually play other people in i.e. a modern one. Pick up the most interesting modern fighting game then work your way backwards.
>>12349258Based
>>12349287Why are you implying you can't play /vr/ fighting games with other people?
>>12349258>get a fren to play It's over
>>12350583you can but its harder and there are less new players to pick from. If you play something on fightcade theres a good chance theyre better than 95% of the random dudes you'd match against in SF6. Like I said cut your teeth in a modern fighting game against noobs then work your way back to old stuff.
>>12351281You can improve yourself.
>>12351357Or just find an online buddy to play SF2 or whatever with on fight cade. Newer games are a lot easier than old ones so it often turns off people who go backwards thinking sloppy inputs new games let them get away with, meanwhile starting with the older games will give you better fundamentals for the newer ones
>>12349258Never gonna happen
