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quettatonia
@quettatonia

lots of cool new fighting games coming out in the next couple months.

if you're a fan of the genre or curious about it at all, i urge you to seek out any local fighting game events happening in your area! if one exists in your area, i'm certain that they will welcome anyone that wants to check it out. i wrote up a post about how to find stuff going in your area.

playing side-by-side with others, being able to joke, talk, laugh, and read body language really enhances the experience of playing and makes it easier to not stress. it's cool to feel comradery while you and the homies level up and learn new stuff about the game and characters. it's how these things were originally made to be played!

if there's no event for you in your area or if you (understandably!) do not want to attend an in-person gathering, consider arranging a weekly lobby online with friends or find a community for the game you like- but you should still hang out in a voice call or something and have the social experience!

i really cannot stress it enough- playing matchmaking online with no connection to the other player in your matches is missing on out so much that the genre has to offer. go make some friends and beat each other up!


lydia
@lydia

i might be dating myself as "mega old" here but i need you to understand that we used to lug consoles, PCs, and monitors over to our friends' places for the fun of playing games in the same room as one another. for the right to stand up, make eye contact, and yell "fucking OWNED" at a friend after you killed them in a game of battlefield. and they would laugh and return the favor and you'd go back and forth all night.

like, if you played these games online these were the people you were playing with anyway. you'd take over some server in a server list and run a riot. you'd pubstomp and win every game.

we had online lobbies we could dominate and we still went through the hassle of throwing LAN parties because winning wasn't the point... games are better with friends but best with friends in person.

with the rise of always online, matchmade, and eventually microtranscation-laden games, there's whole generations of y'all who love games that have never had this joy and you really really really should go fix that. there are people who love this so much they throw time and money into getting a space, dragging some consoles, chairs, and monitors out so you can game while they run a bracket and order some pizza. they make this so easy for you.

learn a fighting game's basics. go to your local. eat some pizza. make friends. get your ass kicked. i promise you no loss will ever feel as good as the one where your opponent shakes your hand afterwards and asks if you want to get more games in later.


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