why i don't play fighting games

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[tyler]

It's like when you try playing chess for the first time and they start naming which historical figure made the same blunder as you

[JamesMurray]

I swear everyone does this. They could be your closest friend and beat you so hard in a fighting game with 0 remorse.

[justaguy]

I like to imagine they didn't even start the game and that that's just how his friend reacts when he gets excited

[Reiderreiter]

This is absolutely me with basically every online shooter. Sure is fun to drop into a map, wander around for five seconds then immediately get headshotted from a different county.

[joannelee]

The beauty of having a friendship where you’re both absolutely terrible but both adamantly despise losing, an eternal loop of “just one more” lmao

[pelepele]

As someone who loves fighting games, yeah. Yeah, it really is like that some days.

[boccs]

My roommate in my early 20s was one of thise intensely great fighting game players. The kind who entered local tournaments and would clean house with perfect matches. At the same time though he was SUPER into getting others into fighting games regardless of skill level and coaching them on how to improve. He knew exactly when to "pull his punches" and to pick characters he was bad with to even the playing fields and to make the games fun for everybody. I remember we spent the better part of an afternoon just practicing parry mechanics in 3rd strike (that is to say he'd throw some telegraphed attacks at me until I could parry them without problem and then start weaving more difficult combos so I could improve). He was a really great guy to play games with

[Boonehams]

One of my favorite gaming experiences was in college. A bunch of friends piled into my room and we played SoulCalibur 2. I picked characters I was AWFUL with because none of my friends had played it before. I turned the timer off, told them the basic buttons and mechanics and let them get comfortable with the controls. I let them say when they wanted to engage and then we fought. The win/lose ratio was pretty even and we all had a blast.

[deanyt]

Just the fact he did this with no special effects, no footage of an actual fighting game, just his own voice and movements makes this so much better.

[CronyneWARE]

It takes the right mood to get into fighting games, and a GOOD helping hand into one.

If you ever want to get into one, pick a friend who knows what they're doing, and who can give you an actual understanding of the core of a game.

[MusicJokeHere]

Honestly I have friends that are really good at Super Smash Bros, and I had told them how I had only played at parties and that I legitimately didn’t know the controls.
They took the time to let me figure out the basic controls at the beginning of the first few matches, then started teaching me a new thing once in a while like grabbing, how different characters play, stuff like that. I now really love smash bros and it’s because I had people who took some time to help me learn. And also who would let me drop out when I got bored or tired. (we only played at one persons house so I got to play like once every few weeks). Love those guys.

[Wolfesbrain]

On the other end of this spectrum, I've had a handful of good times picking up a random fighting game with a friend or sibling that neither of us have ever played before (most of my memories of this are at, like, Chuck E. Cheese type arcade places); we just start button mashing and then laughing and fake-bragging about how awesome we are for pulling off whatever special or combo is flashing across the screen at the moment.

[rosenrot]

Reminds me of my cousin. He learned combos and special moves for the original Killer Instinct from a cheat code book at walmart. He refused to teach me then acted all confused when I'd start crying from losing so much.

[skippingstep]

Not a fighting game, but I used to play Kirby: Air Ride on the GameCube with a friend of mine all the time. He owned the game, and would usually win every single race, but this one time, he made a bunch of mistakes, and I gained a good quarter of the track ahead of him.

He then proceeded to pause and quit the game right before I crossed the finish line. Even at 10 years old, sweatlords gonna sweat.

[PresidentPixel]

My dad and brother used to be exactly like this with fighting games and would laugh at me when I lost badly. Then I got back into fighting games during my teen years and got good enough to the point I started obliterating them. Now they refuse to play fighting games with me whenever I ask, oh how the tables have turned…

[ajch]

As a fighting game enthusiast, is really hard to find the middle point where we are not throwing the match, but we are not downright destroying everything you ever cared for either.

[JWhitePWC]

i think this has been said before, but the editing in these skits is so good that i sometimes legitimately believe that there are two different people involved

[koboldcatgirl]

"It's okay, I'll take it easy on you" being a blatant lie is a universal fighting game experience.

[demiurge]

I hate it when I’m teaching someone and they’re like “come on, no need to go easy on me” like yes. There is definitely a need to go easy on you

[borrelsupremacy]

You also somehow perfectly described what happens when a new player wants to get into Yu-Gi-Oh.