Category: Fighting Games
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My Impressions of Street Fighter 6: A New Era of Fighting Games
Accessibility. Single-player content. Casual appeal. These are three core tenants necessary for the success of a fighting game. Yet they’re three things that most modern fighting games struggle with. Most of them focus purely on their more competitive players. Some just settle for making a decent combat system, then adding characters until the season passes…
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Why We Love Street Fighter
It’s finally here, lads and ladies. Street Fighter 6 is out at last, and with it begins a new generation of fighting games. Or so Capcom promises. Only time will tell if the game lives up to that hype. When it comes to fighting games, no franchise even comes close to Street Fighter. Sure, Tekken…
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Fighting Games Should Be Free-to-Play
I know those three words are unpopular, but hear me out. Fighting games are a more niche genre of video games. Not just because the barrier to entry is intimidating for new players; no one wants to get their asses kicked before they know what they’re actually doing. A large part of it has to…
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My Cautious Excitement For Guilty Gear: Strive
Guilty Gear is one of the most underappreciated fighting game franchises out there. It’s been around for about twenty-three years now, but it’s always been mostly under the radar. It’s had a large enough following to keep going, but nothing to blow the world away. It’s always played second fiddle behind the Street Fighters and…
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Skullgirls: The Little Fighting Game That Could
I love a lot of fighting games. I wrote a whole list just a few weeks ago. Smash Bros, Guilty Gear, Marvel VS Capcom, Soul Calibur, Tekken, the list is long. Am I good at any of them? Oh, absolutely not. But I love playing them regardless. But of them all, one has had an…
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