Does anyone here not purchase fighting games, or if you do, very rarely?

When it comes to games, I have to say that I am probably the worst at fighting games. When playing against other people that is. I just could never really get all that into them. I liked them a lot back in the early 90s when Street Fighter II and its expansions were popular and also  the Mortal Kombat games. But, it seems after that I just didn't care about them that much anymore. I don't know why, I would rather just play a beat em up, something story driven, platformers, adventure games, action RPGS etc. But for me, one on one fighting games just don't really cut it for me.

I guess fighting games are mainly for really competitve people as well. I don't really seem to fit that demographic. When I buy a fighting game now it will not be over 20 dollars and I  RARELY ever purchase one. I liked Street Fighter IV but I rarely played it online. When I did play it online I just got slaughtered over and over lol. I was content with the single player though. I don't really care to take the time to get super amazing with characters or care to. I have so many games I want to play that I have already. I've been eyeing the Mortal Kombat Complete version or whatever thats 15 dollars now. I think the single player would be fun alone just for that price. This will be the first fighting game that I buy since...well.. Super Street Fighter IV.

Does anyone else on this forum not buy fighting games much at all or play them much at all? Also, whats the most you would spend on a fighting game? For me? 20 dollars at MOST.

Peace.

it's not that i have something against fighting games so much as i hate the super long combos that so many of them are based around. i have fun when it comes down to positioning, situational awareness, and all that stuff. however, i can't think of much that would bore me more than bothering to memorize some 12 input line of presses, holds, simultaneous presses, quarter spins, and all sorts of other stuff put into a garble specific only to that game (would it really kill the developers to make platform specific labels?).

there are some fighting games i like though. virtua fighter 5 is a good one. there is still a fair share of annoying combos, but they are mostly a character by character thing so you can find one that's decent and still be competitive.

I have some friends that like to play fighting games so I usually pick them up pretty quickly and get online while the communities are still active. 

My issue with fighting games is that the online servers and features are usually lackluster or uninteresting. For example, DoA has some great mechanics but the functionality is easily exploitable. It amazes me that they're so susceptible to lag when everything else I play runs rather smoothly.

Lately, I bought Injustice, DoA5, and Darkstalkers Resurrection. I really like Darkstalkers but it seems like the community is dead (Side rant: Capcom apparently used the sales to determine interest in a new Darkstalkers and that's dumb considering each game in the package is well over a decade old) and other Capcom fighters I'm not too horribly into (not a huge Street Fighter fan for whatever reason)

As for price, I got Injustice at full price because I thought the story mode would have been as good as Mortal Kombat's. It was not. Online is still fun, but it wasn't worth $60. I picked up DoA5 for $25. I think the downloadable games, like Skullgirls for $15, is a great strategy for this particular genre as less people are wanting to shell out $60 for each of these games

It takes a special kind of person to get into fighting games, and I for one, love them to bits. They're the games I've spent playing the most for the past few years. 

Seems to me that you can beat 90% of players online just by using the block button once in a while. And yes, I pulled that percentage out of my ass. But I'm pretty decent against other people...still, I just don't get enough out of them to warrant purchasing them at full price. I'll probably play one for a couple weeks and get bored, and usually when I look back on the time I spent playing them, I feel like I could have gotten more out of that time by playing a good single player or co-op game.

I also prefer brawlers. Can't wait for those D&D brawlers to come out on PSN. I never got to play them as much as I would have liked in the arcades. Games like Streets of Rage 2 (all-time favorite) still really hold up for me. Notsomuch X-men or TMNT, but I wasted a lot of quarters on those back in the day.

I really like the character variety that fighting games bring and I have a lot of respect for the genre but the learning curve is too steep for me. It's very rewarding for dedicated people who like video games with a lot of depth, but personally I'd rather spend the effort practicing a real martial art than remembering combos.

I really like the character variety that fighting games bring and I have a lot of respect for the genre but the learning curve is too steep for me. one_plum

[QUOTE="one_plum"]I really like the character variety that fighting games bring and I have a lot of respect for the genre but the learning curve is too steep for me. JML897

I grew out of them when my teen-aged friends stopped coming over to play them locally years ago.

Fighting games are one of my fave genres, but I can see where TC is coming from. If you don't have a decent amount of friends to play with, or if you lack a competitive drive, they are a waste of money. The only fighting game I purchased at full price was DOA5.

I will say this, I do not get the idea of playing fighting games online. It's not all that different than just playing AI, aside from your standing on a leader board. With genres like FPS and RTS, there is an element of human creativity that simply cannot be replicated by AI, but in fighting games, the whole game is based around technical button combos, so the difference between AI and some dude on the other side of the world is very marginal.

Sorry if someone already talked about this. I'm at work and didn't take time to read the thread :P

With genres like FPS and RTS, there is an element of human creativity that simply cannot be replicated by AI, but in fighting games, the whole game is based around technical button combos, so the difference between AI and some dude on the other side of the world is very marginal.Jimn_tonic

I don't play fighting games in general.

[QUOTE="Jimn_tonic"]With genres like FPS and RTS, there is an element of human creativity that simply cannot be replicated by AI, but in fighting games, the whole game is based around technical button combos, so the difference between AI and some dude on the other side of the world is very marginal.MethodManFTW

Enlighten me.

I purchase fighting games, but only the ones that interest me. I enjoy them when I can and I don't mind online competition every now and then either, but sometimes, they can get boring either very fast or once everything you wanted to do is complete, there is no further need to play the game. Of course, multiplayer competition is a great incentive to keep on playing.

I'm not a fan, even tho i like the concept, i'm more into my story driven games now that i'm a little older, i did used to play mortal kombat when i was younger, and street fighter, but i hate the whole button combo's you have to do for the moves, and there was just to many to remember and hard to get right, and i found myself sat in the menu for half the game trying to remember what move i want to do. i have to many numbers to remember in my own life let alone on a game aswel. plus all fighters are exactly the same except for locations and the fighters themselves there all based on the same princiable but i guess there isn't any other way to have a fighting game.

[QUOTE="MethodManFTW"][QUOTE="Jimn_tonic"]With genres like FPS and RTS, there is an element of human creativity that simply cannot be replicated by AI, but in fighting games, the whole game is based around technical button combos, so the difference between AI and some dude on the other side of the world is very marginal.Jimn_tonic

Enlighten me.

Cancels, buffs, frames, baiting, launching, looping, a parry, a reset, a throw, etc etc.

Fighting games are actually incredibly complex. 

I have only ever played Mortal Combat, and it was like 10 years ago. Fighting games are incredibly boaring for me.

The last fighting game I actually played was Battle Arena Toshinden on the PS1.  Just not my thing.

I don't like Fighting games, so don't buy or play them.

It takes quite a bit of dedication to get into fighting games, but when you do it takes over your gaming time almost completely. There's just so much depth and strategy in a good fighting game that you'll always have new tech to learn or better timing/spacing to master.

You could probably right a book on mind games alone... So much of fighting games are mind games

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[QUOTE="MethodManFTW"] You could not be more wrong.. There is so much more to fighting games than hitting combos. Though that is certainly an important part.IndianaPwns39

Enlighten me.

Cancels, buffs, frames, baiting, launching, looping, a parry, a reset, a throw, etc etc.

Fighting games are actually incredibly complex. 

And we can't forget that humans adapt to each opponent whereas AI have a set play style that never really changes.

It's incredibly easy to exploit holes in AI programming but playing against a good human player is an entirely different story. 

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[QUOTE="Jimn_tonic"]

Enlighten me.

MadVybz

Cancels, buffs, frames, baiting, launching, looping, a parry, a reset, a throw, etc etc.

Fighting games are actually incredibly complex. 

And we can't forget that humans adapt to each opponent whereas AI have a set play style that never really changes.

It's incredibly easy to exploit holes in AI programming but playing against a good human player is an entirely different story. 

Yup. I wish developers would spend more time developing better AI in fighting games so the single player is more fun. It gets obnoxious when they read your inputs and are capable of the toughest of combos.

Fighting games versus an actual person are usually unpredictable and intense depending on the skill of the two players.

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[QUOTE="IndianaPwns39"]

Cancels, buffs, frames, baiting, launching, looping, a parry, a reset, a throw, etc etc.

Fighting games are actually incredibly complex. 

IndianaPwns39

And we can't forget that humans adapt to each opponent whereas AI have a set play style that never really changes.

It's incredibly easy to exploit holes in AI programming but playing against a good human player is an entirely different story. 

Yup. I wish developers would spend more time developing better AI in fighting games so the single player is more fun. It gets obnoxious when they read your inputs and are capable of the toughest of combos.

Fighting games versus an actual person are usually unpredictable and intense depending on the skill of the two players.

I own a grand total of 3 fighting games: Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl (if you even count those) and Soul Calibur II. Injustice looks interesting and I might pick it up when the price drops. I'd buy Persona 4 Arena if it came out on a system I own.

It takes quite a bit of dedication to get into fighting games, but when you do it takes over your gaming time almost completely. There's just so much depth and strategy in a good fighting game that you'll always have new tech to learn or better timing/spacing to master.

You could probably right a book on mind games alone... So much of fighting games are mind games

Pikminmaniac

I never buy fighters, unless you count Smash Bros. which I would say is quite similar but have been told it doesn't count as a fighter. 

Not any more.

Fighting games were cool back when Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat and Tekken 5 was the shyt. They're fun with friends or a chic who plays games. Other than that, I would never purchase them for myself.

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It takes quite a bit of dedication to get into fighting games, but when you do it takes over your gaming time almost completely. There's just so much depth and strategy in a good fighting game that you'll always have new tech to learn or better timing/spacing to master.

You could probably right a book on mind games alone... So much of fighting games are mind games

CecilChups

What does exercise and martial arts have to do with anything? Fighting games are all about strategy and exploitation of your opponent's weaknesses, much like any other competitive genre. The only difference is the context. 

That's like saying instead of spending x amount of hours into a shooter you'd rather join the military. 

 Running away is an excellent strategy, why don't Fighting Games do it anymore ? Lulekani

It's called zoning. Though the strategy is non-existent in most 3D fighting games (Tekken, Soul Cal, DoA etc), in 2D fighting games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, it's relatively easy to maintain distance and keep your opponent away with certain characters. 

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 Running away is an excellent strategy, why don't Fighting Games do it anymore ? MadVybz

It's called zoning. Though the strategy is non-existent in most 3D fighting games (Tekken, Soul Cal, DoA etc), in 2D fighting games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, it's relatively easy to maintain distance and keep your opponent away with certain characters. 

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It takes quite a bit of dedication to get into fighting games, but when you do it takes over your gaming time almost completely. There's just so much depth and strategy in a good fighting game that you'll always have new tech to learn or better timing/spacing to master.

You could probably right a book on mind games alone... So much of fighting games are mind games

MadVybz

What does exercise and martial arts have to do with anything? Fighting games are all about strategy and exploitation of your opponent's weaknesses, much like any other competitive genre. The only difference is the context. 

That's like saying instead of spending x amount of hours into a shooter you'd rather join the military. 

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[QUOTE="CecilChups"] Well put, but honestly, I'd rather sink that time and dedication that goes into fighting games into actual exercise and learning real martial arts.

CecilChups

What does exercise and martial arts have to do with anything? Fighting games are all about strategy and exploitation of your opponent's weaknesses, much like any other competitive genre. The only difference is the context. 

That's like saying instead of spending x amount of hours into a shooter you'd rather join the military.