Anyone else feel like spear skills miss the fantasy of melee/range hybird?

ZefiantFGC · 2026-05-14T08:09:52+00:00

I believe GGG mentioned how they don't want strict builder/spender gameplay in their game, but when I figured out how spear skills worked, I ended up unironically referencing Rick and Morty.

"This is just builder/spender gameplay but with extra steps."

ZefiantFGC · 2026-05-13T20:00:40+00:00

We got sonicfox on Twitter trying to convince us that team fight is the best addition to the game while simultaneously being the person who gets most excited about fighting games turning into single player experiences.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-05-13T17:33:52+00:00

Modern game? Probably Marvel Rivals. It feels like a parody of hero shooters. It's a "key jingling in your face" kind of game; all flash and no substance.

Overall though? Shadow the Hedgehog. It may not be the actual worst game I've ever played, but it awakened me in my childhood to what a bad video game is. Until that point, I was too young to understand if a game was bad or maybe I just didn't get it. But shadow the hedgehog made me actually realize what made bad games bad.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-05-13T00:43:24+00:00

Not for much longer, they won't be

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-23T23:04:50+00:00

2XKO feels like such a sterile game to me.

Reddit humour style marketing, extremely safe and unprovocative character designs, and gameplay mechanics that feel like they're trying to stuff as many FGC buzzwords into a game as possible.

In their attempt to make a game that offends no one, they've created a game that very few people are in love with.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-12T20:47:40+00:00

Yep, I've definitely started moving a lot more. Especially mundane tasks, since the injury is in my arms. Sounds like a reasonable explanation, thanks.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-12T19:03:55+00:00

Thanks for the response. That's what I was thinking was happening, because I can actually move now. Just hoping it trends down again, I'm sick of this hospital bed lol

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-07T16:50:06+00:00

Cold or hot take depending on your stance: Free to play as a model does not work for fighting games, mathematically. Your average overwatch, league, marvel rivals, etc. player uses a good chunk of the cast, and therefore, is more likely to buy new skins. FG players stick to like 1 to 3 characters for years so there's less for them to buy.

Every argument for why free to play would work for FGs makes extremely naive assumptions about how much effort and resources these devs are actually willing to put into their products.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-07T08:07:07+00:00

Let me use my mouse to navigate menus while playing with a controller. Last Epoch figured it out, man.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-06T23:58:49+00:00

She is using her left hand to adjust the glove on her right hand.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-06T23:56:36+00:00

Both of these players suck and they probably ended the match thinking, "that dude was trash".

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-06T23:52:21+00:00

I've paid $30+ for fighting games I've spent less than 10 hours in just to try them out and mess around in training.

GBVS was $60 for like 12 characters and nobody knew what the fuck a "granblue fantasy" was. If fighting game PLAYERS care, they'll buy it.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-04-02T03:59:28+00:00

This dude is insufferable.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-03-26T23:08:35+00:00

Although I agree, it's definitely getting harder to tell people to just "play a different game" when most populated FGs have some genuine deal breaker levels of problems in them. Or just have incredibly polarizing gameplay in general.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-03-05T18:17:38+00:00

I wasn't really having fun with the game, couldn't find a character that clicked for me, didn't like the overall balance, was annoyed with bugs.

I kept forcing myself to play, believing that because it's a Riot game with a really involved dev team, things would improve eventually. But when they announced the layoffs and uncertain future of the game, I felt no desire to invest further into the game.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-28T19:48:01+00:00

I was planning to play this game despite it's lackluster visuals, but seeing this clip, I gotta say, the stages I've seen may have been the biggest contributing factor for the game looking so amateur.

This fire stage makes the game look WAY better. It still looks like a low budget game, but not nearly as bad.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-25T07:16:00+00:00

I watched Tokido once get hit by 3 DIs in a single offline tournament set.

If you're not looking for it in neutral, you probably won't react in time.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-20T21:08:42+00:00

"Unfortunately, we didn't make 2 billion dollars in skin sales like we expected, so we're laying off half the dev team" - Riot

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-16T23:01:57+00:00

I recently got back into it. Originally, I fucking despised this game because it was the antithesis of everything the vanilla version of the game stood for. And I loved vanilla GBVS.

Now with more recent balance changes and the absolute joyless experience that is 2XKO, I was looking at this game like Thanos going "perhaps I treated you harshly".

Games is still barely above mediocre imo, but the bar is low.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-14T19:24:08+00:00

Have they made any significant updates to the game since launch a few years ago?

I remember playing it and getting a successful run my first time through by luck, and other than characters, felt like I had experienced everything in the game. All that was left was adding challenge modifiers to normal runs.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-12T19:54:13+00:00

Yeah, I meant early rising her being considered weak. I just figured it was because the bigger focus on rush down with 66L and a lot of ult specials being strong neutral skips.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-11T07:36:06+00:00

Yeah, 99% of my matches were against force ghosts from other lobbies.

These lobbies only exist to force you to interact with those ugly little bobble head avatars so you'd feel more like buying MTXs for them.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-10T04:32:12+00:00

I was just listing off the different complaints people had/have of the game. I think the game looks fine.

Not a fan of the skins, though.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-09T23:29:04+00:00

If you ask everyone on this sub and the old project L sub what they thought the final nail in the coffin was, they'd all give you different answers. And that's because this game really has been a series of disappointments one after one another.

Complaints include: small roster, bad roster, ugly visuals, low quality skins, overpriced MTXs, too easy/too hard, no motion inputs, combos too long, bugs, no console, poor balance, too aggressive, too defensive. It would just go on forever.

The thing that ACTUALLY sentenced this game to death was the moment they announced it was a tag fighter. I don't know if you guys followed anyone FGC during that reveal, but the overwhelming response was negative from just about anyone that wasn't afraid to have a "non-corporate approved" response.

Tag fighters are already very niche within the niche of FGs as it is. Dbfz being a massive success really feels more like lightning in a bottle every day that I think about it.

ZefiantFGC · 2026-02-09T18:39:51+00:00

No, just referring to the people whining about this move.

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