#Fighting Freaks: The Freakquel
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figured i’d remake the thread since i noticed the new forum changes :3c hope all itemlabel fighting fans enjoy
I'm a big fan of King of Fighters! I'm not very good, but I adore fighting games.
this is the second fighting freaks forum x) https://discord.com/channels/609093676223823872/1186762429074518076
ive been thinking about GG more lately,, i should play strive again
GGX2 was the game that really got me into fighting games. I miss Zappa. :C
zappa is cool but freaky lol, he showed up in Xrd’s campaign which was pretty cool, also i love kof too but know next to nothing about it LOL i’m rlly into the character designs tho
as for getting back into gg i highly suggest it, ggst is in a pretty good spot balance wise + more ppl playing recently cus new character, so it’s a pretty nice time to hop in again
Okay, let's have some fun.
What's your favorite fighting game character? Any game, any reason. Could be because you're really good with them, could be because you like their story or aesthetics, just your number one face you hope shows up in whatever sequel.
Give me your favorite character and all the reasons you like 'em.
without a doubt slayer lol, i think his design is like peak guilty gear character design
if/when he comes back into strive, i hope they do what they did with johnny and only slightly change his design because frankly idk how you could improve it
though you could probably guess by my actual username LOL
Hugo from Street Fighter for me. I love grapplers, but Hugo is a level beyond. Most grapplers are large, but Hugo is a GIANT. And his animations portray this so well. His wrestling style isn't showy, but sloppy and brute force meant to get you under his weight. His rush moves are wild, stampeding charges and he manages to make pink look terrifying.
But his story's what adds the icing to the cake. An ex-villain who went bad simply because it was so hard to find any work at his size. And in SF4 when you really got to see his past, you could see how badly he was mistreated. But with the help of someone else who's been misunderstood, he turned his life around and finally found a place he belongs. And that's what really makes him special. This massive, terrifying lug...is just doing his best so he and his friend can be happy.
...Also successfully catching someone with his anti-air Megaton Press super is satisfying beyond words.
hugo is the best!! i’m particularly fond of him in third strike (most cause i’m just rlly biased for that game lol, the art is too good), but basically everything u said is why i like the guy too lol
grapplers aren’t rlly my sorta playstyle, i have huge respect for those who play them :3 very nice choice ^^
If I'm being honest, I'm surprised Slayer isn't in Strive yet. But at the same (and I'm curious how YOU feel since you're a big fan of his), I wonder if they don't know what to do with him. In X2, he was so powerful that he pretty much only existed as a 'I'm going to watch and guide people from afar'. It felt so weird seeing him lose to Bedman in the story of Xrd, but they couldn't have him as the 'super powerful background watcher' since That Man took a more active role.
I don't know, what do you think?
that could very well be the case. judging by past popularity polls and the like, slayer has ALWAYS ranked high, so it’s not like he has a shortage of fans. i’m honestly thinking either him or jam are the next dlc tho, since those are some of the last two big names that i hear ppl wanting from the former games that aren’t in yet
there could be a few ways they deal with his story i feel. since he was finally beaten by bedman, the only guy who could hold a candle to him, maybe he could be on some sort of soul-searching thing in strive, or maybe just looking for another powerful person who could best him. that, or we get a more assassin’s guild-centric storyline, i honestly can’t say. also curious about how he’d react to nagoriyuki, since i’m pretty positive slayer thinks he’s the last vampire alive that he knows about. but that is one thing i haven’t rlly considered when thinking about slayer coming to strive. gameplay (or rather, meta-wise), it could also be something arcsys is worried about. this entire season it’s been the big players from Xrd’s meta coming in (johnny and elphelt both reigning supreme basically, notoriously so), and slayer was also really damn good in that game, so it could be balancing concerns? i’m not sure. great question tho!
Maybe I'm just being an old-head. I liked X2's version of Slayer much more in terms of story. I think giving more spotlight to That Man made him infinitely less interesting. That Man was most fun and intriguing when he was a recluse who was ashamed at what he'd done, trying to avoid the world for his sins. When storylines led to him, it meant something because of just how rare he was.
...And in turn, Slayer had the role of getting to be the mysterious figure who seemed to know everything about everything and appeared from every corner. Both chars had separate and unique places in the story.
Now both chars are less compelling. That Man went from a hyper mysterious shadow to a (weirdly) named character with an eye flower, and Slayer didn't really have a place in Xrd except for getting beaten to show how powerful Bedman is.
All of that to say I think Slayer's a great char who deseves better writing.
mine got deleted for inactivity 💔 so good thing moon made another one
anyways hi fighting freaks
Howdy. 😄 Who's your favorite fighting game char?
faust guilty gear! because hes funny but also has good story (and hes my main)
i did a cosplay of him last year, don't remember if i shared to the original fighting freaks thread but i can send it here
also munmun cosplayed with me for the itemlabel halloween contest haha
mun mun is forever in mini faust gear bc its too hard to get the costume off of him lol faust is always in my house
btw faust is basically what got me into guilty gear, someone in a server im in kept posting gifs of him and they were so silly i just had to play
Oooooooh, good call. How do you feel about the direction he's taken in Strive?
its kinda strange that he changed out of nowhere but i still like it! i like that even tho he looks totally different theres still references to the way he was in his moves
im also a little biased as a certified Scary Character Design enjoyer lol
but my favorite design is still the older one
I think I would have loved the reversion back to the Doctor Baldhead theme if there was more story behind it. Faust has some serious demons of his past to overcome. He turned into a serial killer because he botched an operation. If they're gonna play with dark themes with Faust, I hope they go into the idea that he might relapse!
i think my favorite parts of his story are when he’s interacting with millia, it’s an interesting dynamic to me, but i can see what you’re getting at lol
yes, he doesn’t have much of a like refined role in xrd’s story, but his personality is rlly just what makes it redeeming for me
albeit my knowledge on gg lore is really rusty so i don’t remember everything, i still am a big fan of slayer in xrd tho, he has his own charm to me :3
also let’s go faust fans unite!!
faust’s design pre-strive is the best i luv it
also he’s just a silly guy
You're not wrong that he has his charm. His interactions? Amazing. You're 100% on the money. I just wish he had a better role in the grand canonical story plot.
...But to be fair, I also think that's an issue that Guilty Gear has dealt with since it got rid of its old format of story mode in favor of a long movie. The main chars have a LOT of plot while the side characters sometimes just exist.
oh yeah 100%, the old form was admittedly better, but i think the changing of it was almost inevitable, seeing as it’s a very arcade-y concept i guess? i think xrd really was the turning point in that line of thinking cause they really wanted to flex the new animation work, from how i see it
don’t get me started on how i have yet to watch xrd’s story tho,,,, that’s a herculean task that i do not have time for 
Old Guilty Gear's story mode made everyone have their own plot and they all intersected. Everyone had lots of development and time in the sun. And Slayer popped through everyone's routes like the Cheshire Cat. I don't think the new mode was inevitable. I just think it was a bad decision. Guilty Gear X2 managed to do more story with less resources. The fact that it's too long for you to watch (and I don't blame you) is the biggest strike against it for me. You're right. It just...isn't FUN.
i like the older story mode better too
havent really tried it out much in the newer games, mostly watched videos and mostly play strive with friends, but from what ive seen i prefer the older style
Tekken did the same thing in 7, and it was even worse. Any of you play that one?
A lot more moves to memorize and combos are more reliant on things like knocking your opponent up or bouncing them off the ground. I'd look at some of the movelist videos on youtube, maybe the sample combo things.
...But if you're just a casual sort? Yeah, it's fun. Though Tekken 7 has a sadly lacking amount of single player modes, so online is where it's at.
i see
😄 What about you? Got any favorite fighting games other than Guilty Gear?
not really, the only other fighting game i play is smash brothers and i only play that at other peoples houses because i dont have the game haha
i wanna get more into different fighting games tho
Would you like any recommendations?
sure!
Personal favorite of mine is King of Fighters XV (15). 2D fighting game just like Guilty Gear and an absolutely MASSIVE roster. Currently 59 characters with more DLC likely on the way. All sorts of fun.
yeah ive heard good things about king of fighters but wasnt sure where to start, i'll check that one out!
...in the morning bc im going to sleep, good night fighting freaks
Niiiight!
Phighting is a fun roblox game
That seems more like a shooter game than a fighting game. Like an Overwatch knockoff. Or am I thinking of the wrong one?
So I see we're all very familiar with Guilty Gear. Does anyone want a few other 2D fighting game recommendations they might like? I know a LOT of fun ones.
sadly i think i’m also familiar with most of the popular/semi-obscure fighting game titles :( but i do think we need to spread the gospel on this one game i discovered called Hinokakera, there’s a great video by GuileWinQuote (great older fighting game youtuber) that talks about it, it’s like anime fighter mixed with 3d fighter sensibilities and mechanics? idk how i’d describe it. i think a lot of ppl in here who enjoy guilty gear would also appreciate it :3 i can find the link to the video since it goes into it far better than i do but still it’s rlly cool
(video link woo) https://youtu.be/rCksAaC1wWk?si=l_pMAd_1W034G3ib
ONE DUDE DEVELOPED THIS!!!
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Thank you to @OldEra_Kamekaze, @goosenos, and @PAPIO for script + info help!
Shout outs to @eagle_epsilon for the Ashley combo I stole even though the version I did was an easier combo route.......
ooo ill have to watch that later!!
hmm it’s a beat-em-up, but i played river city ransom a while ago!!! it’s a fun little game 
Oh that's awesome! It kind of reminds me of Battle Arena Toshinden.
now that you say it, i get those vibes from it too lol
also reminded me of the old fate fighting games (that isn’t melty blood), i forget the proper name but they were 3d anime fighters like it
ooo i'll watch it later too
Fate/Unlimited Codes?
i believe so yeah
🤜 💥
just watched the video, that game seems super cool!
me when the freaks are fighting
i learned the bass part to potemkin's xx theme a while ago, today i figured i should write it down
maybe one day i will record a cover
i’d love to hear it omg
i will send here when i do it 👍
i wish i had done it earlier because now i have school again on monday 😭
been playin tekken 8, my first tekken game
very fun to play!!! i lov buttonmashing ❤️
My first Tekken was Tekken! Been a Jack fan ever since. Who's your favorite?
Great choices. I'm just hoping they stick with Azucena. They had Katarina and Josie as similar female newcomers last time and both just disappeared.
aww thats upsetting :-( i hope so too!!
To be fair though, Tekken's a game that has a lot of DLC, so they might not have made the initial cut, but they could show back up later. And Azucena seems -way- more well recieved than either of them were.
yeee shes cool!!! and character dlcs are expected ya, heres to hopin they return!
I'm curious who your favorite's gonna be in a week or a month. You have three winners there, I want to know who ends up as your main once you've had time to learn Leo.
ill let u know for sure >:3c
I'm guilty for gear
I got the game like a month or so ago, was going to play with a Polish friend but his piece can't run the games anymore
Currently I'm using Ky though I wanted to take a look to Chipp, Chaos, and uuuuh idk
nice, too bad your friend cant play tho
yeeah
still, if any of you want to add me, just send me a friend request through Steam
the Id is 1224386361
send a message saying "goof goop is real" so I know it's one of you
will do next time i get on o7
Who here plays Smash Bros? I was thinking of playing some rounds with some people here
Also, who here has Skullgirls? I want to buy it either my Switch or PS4, and I was wondering if there’s any crossplatform or online multiplayer
i still need to get smash bros, i always play it at my friends houses and think its fun and then forget to buy it lol
i forgor
will actually do soon
Is your friend a competitive Smash player? As in he enters tournaments?
no
Do you or your friend play Skullgirls?
no
finally, after a month, i sent a friend request 😭
i dont actually know how to send a message on steam.. i'm dinner_rol
Thank god you told me, I was about to reject the friend request
I pretty much never take random invites
i forgot i wanted to say something here, slayer in strive! yay!
Yay indeed. 😄
i definitely have forgotten about this server a bit (and this thread cause threads barely work on my phone) but YEAHHHHHH
as the one petitioning for slayer in strive since forever i’m so happy he’s here and he looks so good!!!
since i want to gush about slayer in strive everywhere possible here’s some screenshots from his trailer that are very important to me 
yess
3 weeks left from today
exciting
haven't played him on Xrd, I have XXAC+R put I don't play the game anyway
can't wait for Pilebunker x 13 into win
howdy, didn't know this was a thread but I love fighting games 
I usually prefer the goofy characters but strategy is fun too
i also like goofy characters
ooo nice what are your mains?
nice
if robo ky comes to strive i’ll explode
genuinely like i think it’s unlikely but he was on the character popularity polls so he has a chance
and if they got aba in then he can maybe, just maybe, somehow get in
he’s the only other character i want now that slayer’s in lol
Strive is my first GG game so I don't know all the characters, but I'd like to see Zappa come back
yeah aba getting in does give hope for robo ky lol
i like zappa, funny ghost guy
ive never fought an actual person playing zappa but i remember having a really hard time playing against the bot in arcade mode lol
guilty gear bots are on another level lol
I remember trying over 100 times to beat the hidden arcade boss for the trophy
to be fair, bots in fighting games are cracked when they are set on a high difficulty. They literally know what buttons you're pressing
I'm sure the only thing that you can get them with is more modern techs, frame traps or stuff like that
If they want to, developers can make them unbeatable
I'd be up to play Strive if anyone wants
let me know and I can set up a room
Zappa is one of my favorite characters in anything ever.
He's horrific and hysterical in equal measure.
Go for it!
havent found it yet but heres testament and sin from last year (testament) and two years ago (sin)
fouund it
this was also from 2022, time flies... i should draw zappa again
Fantastic. 😄
those are great!
I could play strive, I'm just on sf6 right now
I'll at least add you
ever growing wild boy 
yeahhh 
steam code
do any of you play streets perchance 
@hybrid anvil let me know whenever you're up to Strive
I'll be in the vc once we begin
I probably wouldn't vc because I'm sick right now but I can get on in a minute
I'm ready
omw
I play on console so you can drop the room code here if you make one
good luck 
yeah
those super confirms were so cool
yeeeah, I was just trying to get damage done
you have any other mains?
I use Ky but sometimes I've used Sol, Faust and some others
at smaller scale
not really any at this level but I know a few characters
I'd say maybe Anji and Testament
yeah, same
maybe my Sol is of similar level but it's Ky who gets me to higher floors
it now should let us rematch
I haven't really tried any ranked in strive yet
eeeh, fair
most of it is skill carrying over from street fighter and blazblue
you can see that I don't have that much experience against bed
yeah that's understandable
I am getting away with a few things but for the most part you're doing well
that's valid lol
yeah I've never used di but I love the meme
di wins because it's cool or loses because it's the true intended combo
exploded
first time that install has ever done anything for me lol
kk
haven't played this guy in a bit
want me to switch characters?
if you want
alright I can do that after this match
that was really close
nago seems like a hard character to play
is it okay if we do best of 5 in this one? probably play another day
I mean, first to 5
fair fair
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me when the function has more slayer info 
super mappa hunch is funny
mappa has always been a funny move
im just sad that 13 pilebunkers in one combo probably wont be possible ☹️
whfbssjjk yeah
What kind of loving god would allow such a thing...
that's what i'm sayin
Slayer's theme is so dandy 
REAL!!!
of all his themes it’s probably like
lower than jack-a-dandy but higher than haven’t you got eyes in your head
imo
I really need to listen to the older music
I've had Ups and Downs on repeat all day though it's so good
jack-a-dandy is the best non-vocal guilty gear track of all time ever
it’s soooo so good
most of xrd’s music is tho so take of that as you will
something about strive's ost really resonates with me but jack-a-dandy is objectively amazing
whoever was on saxophone absolutely slayed
real as hell
just listened to ups and downs its great
trumpet solo 🔥🔥🔥
i havent heard jack-a-dandy i will listen now
i said that and immediately got distracted, anyways ive now listened to it that was great
jack-a-dandy propaganda has been administered
now everyone will play xrd instead of strive
just like i planned 
haha
i do have xrd, i wanna play it more
in a couple weeks when summer starts i will be free to guilty gear 
hell yeah brotha!!! i’m hoping i’m able to get xbox gamepass + slayer so i can play strive once again
he looks so fun to play i’ll be eternally angry if i’m not able to play when he drops
hope you can get it!
HAPPY SLAYER DAY EVERYONE
🎊
hoping and praying i can get slayer
if not, that’s fine i guess
i’ll be happy just to play strive with my buds (and maybe some people here)
Slayer Day! 
he's so hot I mean cool 
REALLLLL
REAL AS HELL
stopped in the middle of what i was drawing to draw slayer bc a guy on the perry mason epsiode im watching has a goatee and mustache (i always watch perry mason and go “haha that guy looks like slayer” to random side characters hwhdhsjkak)
ok back to what i was already drawing LOL
This is SO GOOD!! 
ITS HIM
ITS MY HUSBAND!!!!!!!
OOOOMG roland this is so peak i love it sm, slayber goober gear my beloved
thanks guys 
slayer update (because i managed to get him woohoo!!)
he is SUPER fun so far, like really he’s so silly i love him in all his scottish vampire glory, BUT
i am so not used to playing this game again 😭 i haven’t played properly since elphelt was added and the game feels so weird to play
i’ve been tempted to just go back to playing bridget for a bit so i can get used to playing again but...,. i paid 3$ for slayer guilty gear so i feel obligated to play him lol
if anyone wants to play, however, i am available most of the time :3 just ping me and i’ll respond (eventually)
woooo slayer acquired
i want to play but im banning myself from guilty gear until the school quarter is over whfhjsjak
fair enough lmao
Been listening to these two songs all day and it makes so much sense
https://youtu.be/7t2heZozLXc?si=xP9mYhnFvbMgOCEX
Slayer's new theme, Ups and Downs, appears to sound quite similar to one of his previous songs.
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zappa if his shirt had a hole. i love drawing zappa hes funny
My favorite GG char. The world's unluckiest Australian (and that's saying something).
haha
zappa!!!! personally i don’t get the hype around him BUT i do think he’s pretty neat. if he comes back to strive i wouldn’t upset
great work!!! love how u drew him :3c
...Do you want me to geek out and explain the hype? I will hype the Zappa.
of course (sorry for this being so late i was busy) ((i love hearing people geek out about characters, i do the same thing for slayer lol))
Zappa gets his name from Frank Zappa, one of the major inspirations of Weird Al. He was a very funny musician, but instead of parodies, he did original and strange pieces with a very funky style. Big fan, so points there. Look up the song 'Joe's Garage' or 'Montana'.
Zappa is a love letter to Japanese horror. He's possessed by a ghost who makes constant The Ring/Grudge references, and follows my favorite guiding principle of Japanese horror. The spirits are extremely strong and it makes no sense, the confusion adds to the horror. There's no 'beating' the spirit, it does what it does and mortals have to deal.
He is also a major Jojo's Bizarre Adventure reference. Like...everything about him. Highly muscular body suit, various articles of his clothing (Pillar men, Vanilla Ice, Dio), and his ghosts are allusions to Stands. The reason he strikes such wild poses isn't just because he's possessed, but because Jojo's is known for that!
But all of that pales in comparison to the reason I adore him. He's like Spiderman, but twisted. Zappa is a normal dude in a world full of weird demi gods. And this guy has been 'blessed' with the power to be able to take on ANY of them. And weirdly enough, his main spirit? S-Ko? She seems to be genuinely protective of him. Zappa is a normal dude who didn't ask for adventure, wants no part of adventure, and yet can (and probably has) put Potemkin through a building while bent into a pretzil upside down.
He's the most creative version of the 'average joe who is suddenly super powerful'.
You've reminded me of why I want him in strive so badly 
very fair reasoning lol
you’ve convinced me he’s cool, i’m just a slight stickler for lore i guess and it doesn’t really occur to me how he could potentially get in strive seeing as he got unhaunted (i think?) in xrd’s story
which is also why venom (the other character i want in strive so bad it hurts) might not get in as well, he’s basically retired but not in the slayer “sorts retired but not really” way, like he’s settled down and made a shop and stuff
then again that doesn’t mean i DONT want him in i just think there’s other characters that have logical priority to my stupid brain like dizzy or jam
'Regarding his status in Strive, Ishiwatari has stated that Zappa is still capable of using spirits to fight should be the need arise, and that S-Ko is still obsessed with Zappa.' - According to the wiki.
ive always wanted clothes with things written on them like guilty gear but turns out i had shoes like that already!
they say free time on the tongues
btw my finals are over on thursday so maybe i can get back to covering potemkins theme soon 
woooo!!!!
i feel a little bad that i’m not playing as much strive as i should but it’s literally only because i’ve fallen down the fallout rabbithole again 😭 i’ve been playing modded to all hell fallout 4 recently and have been wanting to start a new savefile for new vegas, basically meaning i’m torn between like three games i really want to dedicate myself to rn
BUT that doesn’t mean i’m not thinking about slayer guiltygear every single day 
oh, cool! might check it out as well :0
theres gonna be a guilty gear anime coming out 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8NJgvsvRQh/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
LET'S ROCK❗
The Guilty Gear series TV Anime Adaptation is coming❗❗❗
Announcing - [GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS]
Official website 🔽
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I saw this!! 
i know i’ve already been spoiled by the quality of slayer in strive but pleaaaase slayer content in the anime i’d love it if i saw some
its zappas birthday 
:DDDDD
happy zappa day !!
ive noticed int he 9 hours of owning sin that he was a little easier to learn then i thought he was
ggst is my first fighting game so i went in blind initially and only knew how to play testement as my own crude verion of a rushdown and aparently i play sin weird too
i showed my sevant of a friend in fighting game related topics and she was "flabberghasted" so im quite honestly not sure if thats good or not 😭
honestly strive as a beginner fighting game is probably one of the best options, at least for anime fighters lol
it was my first proper dive into fighting games (despite loving things like mortal kombat most my life) so i feel you on that one
as long as you’re having fun that’s great!! more people loving guilty gear is always good
honestly i havent had a more fun time playing a game with mates then ever with this game LMAO (we previously played OW2 so you know how that went)
understandable seeing as you play testament as a “rushdown” but honestly that’s just more funny to imagine than like. offensive or something LMAO
but if that’s more your thing i do think playing sin is a good idea, he’s like a crude mix between leo and sol if i had some sort of comparison gameplay wise
very gorilla no-brain max-reward sorta thing, i say this as a slayer main so i know what i’m talkin about
understood understood, ive heard that sol players are "crayon munchers" and i dont blame them sol looks so brain numbing
oh yeah strive with friends is the best fun i’ve had in any competitive-ish game, it’s so easy to just devolve into stupid stuff i love it
we use it as a means of finishing arguments if anything, OH and tourdoments ARE SO FUN WTFFF
never entered one but honestly if i ever get better than i currently am i might, my internet SUCKS so yk i’m mostly either fighting for my life in the tower or playing with friends
it’s the one fighting game besides maybe melee i’ve ever gotten super into the comp scene of tho
like watching tournaments and whatnot
BAHAHAAHA nah i feel you, i live rural so theres always input delay BUT BEST KNOW WHEN WE GET BETTER WIFI, ITS OVER FOR YALL!!!!!
UJHFHUFJEFOLJFOJ LMAOOOO
but seriously strive is probably the best comp game i’ve been into
and believe me, my most played competitive game before this was apex legends, that shit SUCKS
but scene-wise its very welcoming and the game itself is fucking amazing, i love every aspect of it and i love talking about it with people
the only game i ever wanted to actively get better at for fun lol, daisuke’s doing something right
AND it has slayer. doesn’t get better than this
fr cant wait to play with friends again now that its summer (but i want to practice first so they cant beat me lol)
god hes so scrumtious
AMEN!!!!!!
i’ve been preaching for slayer since i got into guilty gear omg i love him so much u don’t understand
my nickname in-game is “xSLAYERLUVR666x” it’s so bad i love him so much
OFFICER!! ITS THAT ONE!!!
- officer runs over to arrest the D1 slayer enjoyer for being too cool*
eddie button up kinda goes hard
as a certified button up enjoyer (wearing one rn) the guilty gear button ups are tempting
the roger button up goes so hard
a top bridget player wears it a lot in irl tournaments and it tempts me so hard
maybe it’ll make me get good as well,,,.,
the skill is stored in the buttons
ouugh i didnt know about these.. so cool…
devastated that theres nothing testament there lmao but these are fire as hell anyhow
a testament one would be cool
waiting patiently for the strive slayer merch (i most likely won’t buy it but still)
need that fr
i doubt many people here watch tournaments but even if you don’t this might just be the hypest top 8 of all time, almost all the matches go to game 5 and it’s genuinely insane
i’m so sad i missed watching this live BUT i strongly suggest watching this top 8 :3 it’s like the super bowl but for silly people
https://youtu.be/_yfljNH7bXk?si=iiTtiKgP1Cj7El0X
Match Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
5:28 Aarondamac (Happy Chaos) vs. UMISHO (Sol Badguy)
18:27 TempestNYC (Leo Whitefang) vs. Leffen (Happy Chaos)
37:46 Cheryo (Goldlewis Dickinson) vs. Lucien (Happy Chaos)
58:28 Aboii (Potemkin) vs. RedIAmNot (Goldlewis)
1:15:58 Losers Quarters A
1:30:25 Losers Quarters B
1:42:16 Winners Final
1:53:10 Losers Semifina...
grand finals had my blood pressure rising it’s so good
there’s also a bunch of other brackets that happened for games like street fighter 6, mk1, tekken, etc
so if those are more your speed then they’re all on the TNS youtube as well ^_^
ooo i'll watch it later
if you don’t want to sit through a 2 hour vod (which is fair enough) then the last match between leffen and umisho is honestly probably the best set that’s happened this year
woah
played accent core today, tried and mildly succeeded (enough to finish a story mode) at playing zappa
he has so much going on lol
omg i know 😭 he’s like super top tier in that game but nobody plays him cause he’s surprisingly complex
all accent core characters have a bunch going on with them tbh, that’s really how old fighting games were
well i say “old” but even Xrd was complicated as hell
new challenge: try looking at ramlethal’s command list in Xrd and try to understand what the hell any of her 50+ moves mean (she’s still somehow mid tier)
i wanna play the past entries prior to strive tho, they honestly fascinate me a lot
especially xrd, if i properly sunk my teeth into that game i don’t think i could ever stop talking about it lol
||i say, even though i never shut up about strive LMAO||
haha
Also with Zappa you are at the mercy of RNG and have to adjust -quick-. XD
yeahh
Did y'all see the strive season 4 trailer 
As a major Cyberpunk fan, I might have a new main.
YES
VENOM IS REAL IM SO HAPPY WAHHHHH
I TOTALLY FORGOT TO SAY THAT HERE BUT HE WAS LIKE MY ONE OTHER DLC CHARACTER I WANTED WOOOO
It's so unexpected but maaaan does it fit well.
also that was crayz yeah
like right out of left field
i feel like gg is the series that doesn’t have crossovers in their own games but rather IS the crossover
but i’m happy
i think lucy (i think that’s her name? idk i didn’t finish the cyberpunk anime) will look so cool once she gets in
also dizzy but we all knew she would be here
but venom over JAM?
that one i didn’t expect either
i’m literally so happy tho i wanted venom so bad even tho it felt a little unlikely
then again anything’s possible in the gear
so now we have the assassin’s guild get-together!!!! woo
Lucy has this thing called monowire which is like a razor-thin and superheated whip that extends from both wrists. They picked her of the cast for a reason.
Venom's been a quiet little favorite of mine. I just love the design of a pool hall assassin. He's like what other animes would make as a 'really cool side char who the hero defeats' because his powers are so wacky and niche. And Guilty Gear made him into one of the major heroes. Just 10/10.
YOOO VENOM IS IN?!
YESSSS EARLY NEXT YEAR
venom is probably the coolest fighting game gimmick character of all time imo (mechanic wise)
like he’s literally mr. setplay, i don’t know how they’re gonna adjust him seeing as in previous games his moves were VERY reliant on juggling to keep up combos (or well,,., as much as you can combo with setplay characters), not to mention strive’s whole thing of making things simpler, i’m curious how he’s gonna play
in any case i’m gonna be buying him, complexity isn’t gonna stop me from playing my other babygirl
Oh yeah, this is one hell of a pass. And Dizzy is finally a queen! I'm kind of glad we get to see her all regal and not just a lost child of immense power. :C She's all grown'd up.
oh i knowww her design looks so good 😭 i’m hyped to see her
literally can’t wait to see her animations and model
like slayer looked so goddamn good when he dropped, if she’s anything like him visuals wise then this is gonna be so cool
Also for all you OLD SCHOOL fighting game fans and SNK fans...we're getting a new ART OF FIGHTING game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE5Qd_s5q5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GojAeduyodo
REALLY old school franchise. All of SNK's recent projects have been 3D on a 2D plane. My crazy prediction is that they're bringing this niche series back to do an old school 2D fighter.
This video shows all Super and Desperation Moves from Art of Fighting 2.
0:00 Ryo Sakazaki - Haoh Sho Ko Ken
0:10 Ryo Sakazaki - Ryuko Ranbu
0:28 Robert Garcia - Haoh Sho Ko Ken
0:39 Robert Garcia - Ryuko Ranbu
0:55 King - Double Strike
1:05 King - Surprise Rose
1:22 Temjin - Mongolian Fire Tackle
1:33 Temjin - Mongolian Mantra Masher
1:51 Eiji...
This video shows all Desperation moves in Art of Fighting 3:
0:00 Robert Garcia - Ryuko Ranbu
0:32 Ryo Sakazaki - Ryuko Ranbu
1:03 Rody Birts - Hyper Tonfa
1:27 Kasumi Todoh - Cho Kasane Ate
1:53 Wang Koh-San - Kyukyo Ogi Randa Kun
2:27 Lenny Creston - Flick Break
2:58 Karman Cole - Aufeinander Folgerte
3:30 Jin Fu-Ha - Tohshin Shoh
3:54 Si...
yeahhh!
that looks cool
if that happened it’d be so wild lol
a lot of people complain about new fighting games, both competitively and visuals wise, so if they actually did do that then i wonder what the reception would be
Right? And I mean, I think there's room for both old school and new school stuff.
I really don't care what it looks like, I loved Art of Fighting's weird chars, so I'm all about this. XD And hey, more fighting games is never a bad thing!
exactly :3
oh they're making a new art of fighting?
I'm really happy snk is back with so many fighting games again
by the way idk if anyone posted it here yet but there’s also a balance patch coming out tomorrow i think for strive
zato, johnny, testament, elphelt, and others got buffed
system mechanics like white wild assault got nerfed (thank god), along with other changes, etc
overall pretty good unless your name is baiken
TESTAMENT WINNNN
big win from the looks of it!! i got to play a little bit of testament due to a glitch (don’t ask how it happened) so this is pretty exciting for me too, but according to the notes, the biggest things are that they get better okizeme off things like throws, their teleport doesn’t get rid of their succubi after grave reaper anymore, and tweaks to their normals
i’m excited personally, besides venom soon i was wanting to buy them and pick them up as a secondary, seeing as recently i’m getting a little discouraged from bridget :(
otherwise big wins for a lot of characters and others are uh. left to rot kinda
my heart goes out to all the baiken mains in these trying times
both my usual mains either got changed indirectly or nerfed not at all tho, so i’m chillin
I'm happy with bedman? buffs but the wild assault changes will probably overshadow them
having jump D launch sounds fun though 
gl, i hope u enjoy playing them!!! i don’t play a ton these days but they’re super fun
always loved em
bruh, Chipp on Accent Core is a menace. Out of all his iterations, this one is the most difficult I'd say
the game is fast enough already. Chipp goes so freaking fast with 3 jumps, invisibility, teleports
not sure if he also has wall cling here. One of his supers is a full-screen punish
now i will say my knowledge on chipp in like any iteration is limited but yeah i can believe that LMAO
The team of 3 beta for strive is open now through the weekend, it's really fun if any of you haven't tried it yet 
i played a little, it’s fun but omg i cant tell what’s happening 😭 it’s like what people imagine strive is like for those who don’t play guilty gear
it’s pretty fun tho
Yeah it's very chaotic lol but it helps if you can communicate with your teammates
ooo i'll tell my friends about it
theres exactly three of us that play strive haha
nice, I think you'll have a lot of fun 
ok 3v3 is pretty funny now
played some late last night and here’s some of the team names me and my friends came up with 😭
the second match also had us fighting three slayers and two of them were named “baiken’s baikens” and “johnny’s johnnys”
lmaoo
I fought a 3 sol team but they didn't have silly names like that
😭 amazing
F,B, and I
HA
Moss gaming
Moss hits the ewgf every time
Who's his main?
Azucena, but she goes to a Mishima because EWGF is fun to hit
Might also pick up King, Kuma, and Jack as well
Oh my god I found ggs fans this is the greatest day of my life


haiiii :3
john guilty gear here
i forgot about this thread a little but i haven’t stopped gearing it up rest assured
uhhh here’s a funny faust bug for everyone’s troubles https://fixvx.com/FgcIzi/status/1826027468232294792
Wake up guys new Faust bug just dropped (Credit to Bap for finding this)
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WHOAA THAT WAS AWESOME
Just faust doing faust things
hello fighting freaks.,..,.
it has been a while
https://youtu.be/vIZjtb-CFEE kind of forgot abt this place once more so i figured i'd post this here
Get your first look at Queen Dizzy in Guilty Gear -Strive- in this latest teaser from Tokyo Game Show 2024. Queen Dizzy is arriving to the game on October 31st!
the dizzer.,.,. she looks so good 
also ive officially bought strive!!!! got it for my birthday a week ago
also bought testament and have been messing around with them, they're super fun :3
idk if im gonna buy any more dlc characters until venom comes out
but past that i think im good lol
THE DIZZERRRR!!!!!
have fun with strive!!!! i lorve testament 💗
YAYYY
only bought it bc gamepass decided to take it off their catalogue finally
i find it funny now that the only arcsys fighter on there now is BBTAG which has like 3 concurrent players at any point but yk, to each their own
but ive been having a lot of fun with it ^_^ can't wait for dizzy to come out
Yippee!! Test is my secondary they're so cool 
No thoughts just a big scythe
amen
at first i was a bit apprehensive because they're advertised as a zoner but tbh zoning is just one of the tools they have
they have other cool stuff that i like
Once I figured out you can teleport to the succubus their mix became so fun
Just got street fighter and have been a guilty gear fan for a longgggg time (Haven’t played any of them.) Also was wishing I hung out in this server more so hi everyone. HAPPY DIZZY TRAILER DAY!!!!!
Happy Rivals 2 fellas
Yay new guilty gear fan! Hello! 
So excited to play strive I preordered it for the switch day one LOL still like 3 months away…
This is why I'm glad they're putting it on switch
And I think it comes with the dlc characters so you can try them all
YEAH I’m so glad I don’t have to pay like 120 dollars for this game 😭
It came with a preorder bonus box full of. Mystery stuff I’m really curious what that’s going to be
hallo!!!! i forget this thread exists a little bit but it's great i luv talking guiltyu gear in here
the new balance patch that's coming with dizzy is actually insane
highlights inlude goldlewis being able to do behemoth typhoon loops, potemkin buster having armor, leo backturn being safe on block now, and many more
which is scary for me because bridget main BUT
bridget got a new buff!!!! she can change what direction she goes in while rolling which will probably be great for mixups : 3
overall im excited cause dizzy looks really cool and the characters that i do play got buffed
im just hoping arcsys remembered to do some nerfs too cus . slayer
and sol
and Others
(but slayer is the one i keep hearing about that needs to get nerfed and while i love him to death i 100% agree, they need to give him the zato treatment 😭)
other than that i've been playing strive a lot lately
or at least trying to cause my internet is god awful
Ooh exciting I wonder what it'll be
I honestly can't tell what bedman got in the video but I hope something fun!
his head projectile goes really far now and i don’t like it cause i hate fighting bedman 😭 but i’m happy for bed players their character’s been bad for too long lol
oooo
I get hating to fight him though, when he's not suffering he's controlling the entire match
real ‼️
realistically i have a good matchup against bedman on all the characters i play (except maybe testament but they have one of the best 6p's in the game and a better zoning game + theoretically teleport to counter say bedman's projectile)
it's just entirely a thing of me being annoyed at the character itself lol
theres always one mf who gets on your nerves in these types of games
bedman is one ofthem
as well as johnny
My least favorite to fight is Sin cause I just have to block his mix like 8 times in a row and when I guess wrong the RISC gauge is full so I lose all my health
Slayer is also tough but honestly I like fighting him cause he's just so dandy 
the slayer matchup is fine when im not playing bridget tbh
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yooo thats great
Thank you!
do people still play ggst here
sadly havent been able to play at all recently cause my wifi randomly crapped out one day and never fixed itself, but i still lab a bunch
havent been able to play any cuz of school 
when winter break starts i shall play again o7
blegh, we finna have to do an itemlabel tourney or somthing
i gotta show everyone that testement isnt just a "worse ramlethal"
Still waiting for my copy of strive to get here LOL
i am a mac user i had to get switch version……
would be fun 
that would be fun : D i'd have to play when my internet is Not Terrible thoiugh
https://x.com/GUILTYGEAR_PR/status/1858439251869983203 erm,,,,,, gamers,,,
aaaa that's so exciting!
TEAM OF THREE LETS GOO!!!
im a hardstick sin and testament player and ive only ever played pot in team of three beacuse we thoguht it would be funny, so im exited to see how this plays out
we ran three and we matched with another three LOL
lmaoo
greetings fighting freaks.,.,,. someone has bought me accent core +r and im so exciter
played it a lil until my controller died and its rlly fun, sadly slayer is confusing to combo with so i might not play him for now 💔
might play other characters in the meantime : 3 thinking i might try bridget in this game too, alongside anji and order sol / ky
the greed sever..... its calling me.......
the internet might be trash but sure!! since i sent that ive been trying slayer more and finally learned how to do exactly one link, lol
Only 24 days until strive switch release…..

can you believe it guys? strive on switch, just 24 days away! woohoo!
i am so happy about this information 
🎉
Yippee happy strive switch day!! Time to blame the beasts 
Learning aba
all u need is danzai ❤️ nice work lol
??????? > keygrab > danzai > win
the random dude in the background lmaoo
Made this guy :3
omgomgomg hiiiii Paracelsus
yooo nice
hes beautiufl........ hes like a son to me
very nice work hehe
Ty ty!! He’s also 2 sided but I don’t have a pic of the other side rn
Yayyy dizzy in switch version
I played her a bunch in x I’m so excited to get my hands on her again. I love dizzy yayyyyy
wahoo!!! hope u enjoy playing the dizzer hehe
her strive design is so cool ... was rlly tempted to play her for a while but never had enough money to get her lol
her colors are sick too, that color 11 is prob my favorite in the game
hoping venom colors are good when he comes out.... so sad that he was delayed ☹️☹️need my silly little guy in strive
My aba gameplay
nice
Just picked up ggxx accent core lol
nicee 
nice ! i haven’t played much cus my internet sucks so much and it’s a very precise game, but it’s fun from what i have played 
https://youtu.be/0Ds4zgV8ZW4 WE'RE SO BACK FELLAS
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VENOM TOMORROW!!! WAHOO
god i havent been so excited for a gg thing since slayer LMAO
it feels so long ago ....... but i'm ready to hop back in the gear
not exaggerating when i say venom was the only other character i was hoping for, and while he's popular i didn't expect him to be added this soon
his design is amazing, his kit looks phenomenal, his theme (from the snippet that's played in the trailer) sound amazing, and ROBO KY IS THERE!!!!!! I PREDICTED IT!!!!!!!!!!! THE HATERS TOLD ME HE WOULDNT BE THERE BUT I BELIEVED
love them so much it's actually insane
YEAHHH VENOM
i was pleasantly surprised earlier today when i opened youtube and the trailer was the first thing i saw
and i love that robo ky is there
Elphelt ball….
omg did they do the darkstalkers thing of making every character a ball
👇every ball
Johnny's looks so funny lol
Johnny ball
i think my favorites of these are the zato, bridget, goldlewis and bedman balls LMAO
they're so good..... goldlewis looks like the pringles mascot on his
I do love slayer and axl too
The ball command grab is so interesting it looks so fun and exciting. Well I wish I could play him (venom is not available for switch players
)
Wait he's not out on switch?
zato's is really good
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Also it’s very funny to me that he isn’t voicing himself it made me go “close enough, welcome back Multiversus LeBron James”
Why does he need a voice actor
How and why did this even come about
Why did they yassify him
Are there gonna be more celebrity guest characters
Nvm forgot about his crimes
OMG Robo Ky is doing okay, I'm so happy.
IS THIS REAL, OH MY GOD

This kind of makes a weird sense because SNK games are inexplicably popular in central and south America. There has got to be some soccer fan overlap.
I love it. Sports-based fighting game chars are fun. They just usually aren't fucking RONALDO HIMSELF.
From what I heard the prince of Saudi Arabia who owns SNK just really liked Ronaldo but I’m a tourist so I can’t say for sure
I would believe that. A fine reason!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROYc-ATzL8o Something is wrong at SNK.
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Ronaldo really opened the floodgates here
theyre adding in a musician whos got less monthly streamers than these animated gay ass mfers
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I'll be very, very honest. I am a HUGE fan of Duck King. I think he's one of the most underrated and fun SNK chars. I'm more than a little angry that they name drop him after not including him for over a decade. If Salvatore is in the game instead of him, I might actually be hesitant to buy.
Homie's homie has strong opinions.
Bocchi The Rock! mentioned
https://fixupx.com/ishowspeedsui/status/1910687966290419764
this is just CotW being used to market a boxing match but the fact they got ishowspeed and ksi is funny and interesting
I opened the wrong door 🚪
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Idk how people here feel about it but congratulations to Acola for winning Kagiribi 13 (the biggest tournament ever held for Smash Ultimate)
smash was what got me into fighting games properly in the first place (melee not ultimate), so hey ! thats pretty cool : ] congrats indeed 🙂↕️
Congrats indeed! 😄 Smash may not be a 'traditional' fighting game, but hard to deny it is one.
Does Wii Sports Boxing count
Good question! Don't know enough about it.
i’ve been hearing about that, realistically it shouldn’t be much of an issue because there’s no RCE exploits (from what people are saying) so you shouldn’t be at risk of being like hacked or anything
at worst, servers are gonna be down for a bit
if you’re afraid tho then yeah probably don’t play strive for a bit
just play xrd instead!
Final hour of MVS, kinda gonna miss this fuckass game (or just Tom & Jerry specifically this game was ass)
From when I was done playing, I’m gonna miss sniping people as Jerry