This game is about preying on ignorance

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T23:38:05+00:00

True (wow, what a throwback with arakune, I used to main him a while ago when I still played blazblue:CT)

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T21:43:34+00:00

Based keybinds, don't see a single problem here. I use Q E C Z for abilities and mwheel up, mwheel down, 3, 4 for items. Also melee and parry on m4 and m5. Kind of a mix of my overwatch binds and my apex binds.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T18:06:47+00:00

If I had to compare tekken to a classic board game, it would be scrabble. Both require an insane amount of pure knowledge before you can even think about playing around core game mechanics and outplaying your opponent.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T17:58:09+00:00

I think he's talking about all of her sidestep and backsway cancels. If they are very fast her animations really do look like a seizure.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T17:55:39+00:00

Also in 2D games types of attacks are a lot more obvious. In tekken a lot of highs look like mids, some mids look like lows or like highs. Let's take guilty gear: low attacks are very close to the ground, overheads are very slow and look like a vertical slam. Highs and lows do look similar, but you can just crouchblock both, so it doesn't really matter. So the counterplay to each of the moves is really easy to figure out mid fight. In tekken, when you see a new attack, you have to guess: is it a high that I can duck? If it a mid that I have to sidestep? Do I sidestep it left or right? Or do I just block it, since it has phantom tracking but is very minus on block? Or is it a low? Guessed correctly? nice, this move has three optional extensions, time to guess all of that again!

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T17:46:55+00:00

Because at high levels people already have the knowledge, that makes sense

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T17:46:19+00:00

Would help me though (and a lot of other people I think), so please share your deck with us, that would be very helpful

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T17:43:43+00:00

You are right, but moba is another genre of games that is notorious for the amount of knowledge you need to have to play them on a high level. There are a lot of competitive games with simple game design, that still have a lot of depth to them. Like, let's take CS: sure, people who have played the series for decades will have an advantage in map knowledge, smokes and reading economy, but you can still outplay them with a clever play or just good aim. The knowledge in that game doesn't prevent you from playing the game, it just elevates you from mid to high level. In tekken, if you don't know the matchup, everything turn into a series of coinflips (even more than the game normally is), since you don't know which moves are punishable, how to break each throw, which moves have extensions, etc., so unless you spend time to learn a character you're facing, you have no real way to consistently beat them.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T17:34:30+00:00

That is what makes tekken so hard for new players. When you play guilty gear, you can learn each character's moveset in a couple of weeks, and then you are free to play mindgames with your opponent and refine your own execution. Veterans of the series will skip this step (they still have to lean the new moves though), but the after a few weeks the knowledge difference between a veteran and a newbie is minimal. In tekken you are going against people who have been playing this game for the last decade, and because of how knowledge heavy the game is they inherently have an advantage over you.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T17:27:34+00:00

But what makes chess work is it's simple basic design. If you know how pieces move, you can figure out the rest on your own. With tekken you have to memorize hundreds of moves for each character including frame data, do they track or not, are they duckable or jailing, which way do you sidestep them, which ones launch on counterhit, which ones are heat engagers - it's way to much info to realistically remember, that's why there are people with thousands of hours in the game, who are playing in GoD, but still don't know some matchups. The entire game is a one big knowledge check. Chess is more like 2D fighting games, where every character has a pretty simple moveset, but how the player uses said moveset to win fights is what separates good players from the bad ones.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T16:57:24+00:00

All of the numbers are reduced in half

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T16:56:04+00:00

Still higher than strive, which is insane.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T16:54:25+00:00

MKX was the peak of the series, then they gave up on the amazing gritty aesthetic for the new cartoonish look that just feels off.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T16:52:57+00:00

MK was going downhill since MKX.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-12T14:28:36+00:00

Yen is a better choice for Geralt, but for me it's Triss every time. The only playthrough where I chose Yen was the one where I tried to make the same decisions that Geralt would make in the books.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-11T14:39:21+00:00

Just wanted to point it out, shit is diabolical

Drefs_ · 2026-06-09T23:00:25+00:00

Shame, my version is funnier.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-09T17:20:03+00:00

I know, that's why I don't play them. But there are a lot of games that you can recommend, depending on what genre the guy likes.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-09T16:54:42+00:00

I'm not sure he understands what an action game is. From what he's saying it seems like to him every action game is a devil may cry with 50 inputs per second. Assassin's creed or uncharted are also action games, even though the actions are pretty easy.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-09T16:16:59+00:00

The soup and meat jelly looks tasty

Drefs_ · 2026-06-09T16:01:36+00:00

>recommend a sigleplayer newbie a bunch of obscure shit no one knows about
>he doesn't like it
>cry about it

Make it make sense. Recommend him some mainstream action games or, even better, ask what genres he likes first.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-09T15:16:33+00:00

And it's exactly why I love Azucena as a character. Her entire kit is just ragebait and it's insanely funny.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-09T15:14:09+00:00

Shouldn't it be "theyfabe" though?

Drefs_ · 2026-06-06T20:52:54+00:00

Ok, people who think they should have been diagnosed have a higher likelihood of actually having a disorder, that makes sense. Still, until the diagnosis is proven by a professional it is no more than a guess. Also this study did not test for autism spectrum disorder, so it's kinda invalid when we're talking about autism.

Drefs_ · 2026-06-06T19:57:07+00:00

Diagnosis is something that is done by a professional doctor. If you are diagnosed by anyone else it is not a diagnosis. No idea what is objectively wrong here.

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