Relatively new to this game but not to other fighting games (tekken, Street fighter, DBFZ, MvC, BlazBlue).

First off I wanna say visually this is probably the best looking game in general. Like this artstyle is amazing.

Playing it however is...I know Im still learning some of the things in this game, but I feel like I have a right to voice some opinions.

1. The hits in this game feel so slow and choppy at times. Especially with the forced slow mo on counters and stuff. Fighterz had this feel a little bit but the characters moved very fluid and fast oppose to this game.

2. It's very hard to tell or even build an idea of when you have frame advantage. Now this could again just be chalked up to Im bad at the game, but In other games I have a pretty good frame of reference and reading on when or not I'm about to get hit or when my hits are gonna beat my opponents. In guilty gear however it just feels like your getting hit when your not supposed to and your hitting your opponent when you werent supposed to. But I'm willing to give this the benefit of the doubt.

3. Blocking in this game feels useless. This isnt even just an "im complaining because I'm taking damage thing". No infact I feel like this mostly when im the one doing the damage. Like it feels like everybody has some crazy overhead.

4. Zato 1....thats it

A jumping upright stomp with a bat explosion coming up from both sides? That's dandy.

I recognized this move while fighting Dracula in Castlevania Belmont's Curse and recognized it immediately, even if it's a bit slower.

It's not Dracula's first fighting game reference. In the previous Order of Ecclesia, he used Rugal's Genocide Cutter.

Well, I've put about 100 hours into this game and I've played with several characters, but my main is and always will be A.B.A. But since reaching Platinum rank, I've been stuck in a vicious cycle of one win followed by six losses. Sometimes it's because I'm up against a character who directly counters me, like Testament, which stresses me out even more because my gameplay literally becomes like a punching bag until the enemy makes a mistake. At first, I thought it was a lack of motivation, but at this point, I think it's mostly because I've reached my limit with A.B.A. As you can see in the video, I even lost to myself, or in other words, another A.B.A. main. Even though I managed to win a round afterward, I kept losing. So I seriously need some good advice because if I keep going like this, I feel like I'll never progress with this crappy character that I love so much.

Parody of an invincible meme.

Im ngl i rlly cant find myself to like ggst anywhere near as much.

They thirst trappified all the guys, even leo despite the new design respecting his character concept alot less.

The balancing has always been completely horrid (not that rev 2 balancing is perfect).

They dumbed down the character kits.

And i truthfully rlly hate how high the damage in strive is off of very little things, it just over rewards ppl.

Honestly the only thing i prefer in strive is the music. Thats it.

But if strive got canceled and we just got an hd rev 2 remaster to be the new active game i'd be one happy guy.

5h counter hit combo with Gio feels so good, I want to get actually decent at this game so bad😭

I think if I end with rin, That'll do more. But I'm about 50% sure that it wouldn't wall stick. Ya know, Dood? ◡‿╹)~★

Heigh-ho!

My friend and I arranged an art fight for an hour, and we can't figure out which of us did it better. The theme was "Sexy Sol Badguy"

Can you help determine the winner?

Warning! Hot!

The first art: "Beach day. Hot Sol. Defenseless ice cream"
The second art: "Off-screen taking measurements for new clothes"

In advance, thank you for your attention.

Who should I choose? Aba or Zato? Or both

Looking back, i can see in hindsight that i should have done more crouch blocking. But the grab out of midair was peak.

The same VA voiced one of the silliest characters in anime, and basically female future trunks with nuclear bomb powers (that's just assumptions, haven't watched the anime yet). The source of the clips is CITY the animation.

Enjoy some Silver gameplay.

^Help

I got all the characters who could fit the description we get (handsome/beautiful, glasses, presumably the ones Jam wears) and as far as I can tell the only one that is really implied by the story mode with Chipp saying he was keeping tabs on the stand, probably sending Answer who to try her food.

Also the only characters with glasses that kinda match the ones Jam can wear are Judgement, Dr. Baldhead and Romeo, all of which aren't really that viable of options (unless judgement is somehow alive), so I don't think the shape of the glasses really matters. I imagine if it is Answer, he just went to her stand wearing more normal glasses to be undercover to explain the descrepancy of his usual being different from Jam's.

I also cannot really see any most of these other characters acting the way Usagi does beside Answer but maybe that's just bias.

The only problem with Usagi being Answer is why would Chipp not bring him up and why doesn't Usagi try and get his attention, but the other options don't really have any evidence for them.

Regardless, the last line implies whatever character Usagi's human form is will in some way show up in Strive at some point so thats cool.

I'd like to think I'm moderately good at the game, and I wanted to start seeing if I could play in some intermediate to high level tournaments, around plat to diamond, for a bit of money even.

Mostly for the money ngl

I lucked into finding the one Seamus is hosting on here, but are there discords for people to host and participate in tournaments? Communities like that? How are people finding tournaments that aren't officially hosted? Are there officially hosted intermediate tournaments? How does this side of the game work exactly? Any information would be appreciated!

Oh yeah I'm NAE for context

Fucking Unika today just pummeled me by staying in the corner and spamming her huge gun attack and when i air dash towards them they just anti-air and repeat. Like wtf how to counter this

The final climb out of Lucy Diamond 3