i want to get into fighting games, recommend me the easiest one for newcomers

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Granblue Fantasy Versus or Under Night in-birth.

RetroRadTV said:
MK11 is great but it wont teach you or enable you as well as Granblue.
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MK11 is trash but Granblue isn't. Shame it is full of fucking dlc shit.
 
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JokerMM said:
i play on PC mainly, so preferably, it has to be on steam,, and with a decent player base
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man most people here post what they like but not really the easiest.
The easiest one is dead or alive 6

It's basically 1 punch 1 kick 1 block and 1 counter .

yet after you get this simple basics it teach you more about the counter as it's your ticket to win but in very basic idea .
Counter is what makes you win in most fighting games .
Tekken has 2 punch and 2 kicks and really hard to master and counter as you will need to know the moves of the opponent character and when to block and counter after the block . It's not an easy game to get used to. Same goes for soul caliber as well.

that's for 3D fighting .
For 2d fighting it's killer instinct with auto combo on that will help you to do combos in 2d fighting games followed by dragon ball fighterz as second easiest

king of fighters and street fighter are hard to master for a new comer.

All those fighting games I mentioned are very awesome and you should play them all
 
BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle is the easiest ive seen to get in to. The execution threshold is lenient, youre looking at 2 and a half attack buttons instead of the usual 4 to 6, and it's very heavily movement focused which will teach you good habits in the long run. The only problem is the game has a ton of dlc, and the community has already peaked. There's still people playing and events to participate in, but don't expect a lot of new blood. None of that matters if you can get friends to learn with you though.
 
They're all hard to get into. But once you get into one you can apply much of that knowledge to most others.

So the best advice is just pick the one that makes you want to play it and improve at it. The one with the characters/world you think is the coolest. With an art style you love to look at, music that jives with you etc. Sounds cheesy but more than other genres the passion needs to be there for an fg.

Soulcalibur VI is my current favourite fighter but the player population isn't the biggest. If you want games with really big communities there are 4 to choose from right now and that's Tekken 7, Mortal Kombat 11, Street Fighter V and Dragon Ball Fighterz
 
Reizo Ryuu said:
I'd honestly replace gg with one of the more popular fighters like sf5, tekken7 or sc6, because with gg you are kinda putting yourself in the same tier as those, "difficulty to get in" wise.
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The BB and Guilty decision is also not optimal because these games are dead as shit online. Since you're new you'll be trying to find new players on discord only and there just isn't that many of those for either.

If price stuff isn't an issue, seriously, Granblue.

If you want bang for buck on sale, then Mortal Kombat 11.
 
JokerMM said:
i play on PC mainly, so preferably, it has to be on steam,, and with a decent player base
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Whichever one you decide to get into you're going to spend huge amounts of hours in order to be relatively competitive online. Do you really want random people on the internet telling you on which one you're going to dedicate all those hours?
Just try them yourself and see which one feels the more satisfying and "addictive" to you. A good fighting game must really click on you otherwise you are not going to invest all that time that is needed in order to get better.
Personally i have tried almost every series out there and the only one that really clicked was Tekken. That doesn't mean the others were bad they were just not as satisfying as Tekken felt to me.Although to be honest i'm not really a fan of the most recent ones.
 
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RetroRadTV said:
The lack of Granblue fantasy versus in here is alarming.

The game is the most new player friendly fighter there is that can teach you great fundamentals.

MK11 is great but it wont teach you or enable you as well as Granblue.
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I was thinking the very same thing.
I'd love to get into that but I fear it will fall into a Blazblue scenario, whereupon endless versions will release.
I can't keep up with that shit.
 
Street Fighter 2 Turbo whatever. There's a certain pace and mentality you have to understand so it's best to mess around in an older game then switch to something more new.

if it has to be a current game then Tekken 7.
 
Street Fighter and Tekken are your best bet for 2d and 3d.

Street Fighter V is generally pretty simple, 1v1 and what you learn will carry over to almost every conventional 2d fighter.

Tekken requires you to memorize way more stuff but when it comes to 3d fighters they're all giant movelists at this point. Though of them Tekken has a bigger scene and playbase to get into.

Of the current crop MK11 is actually the easiest fighter to learn but NRS titles have lots of weird aspects and idiosyncrasies that are unique to NRS games and will potentially warp you.
 
JokerMM said:
so, my cart is looking like this now
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is this good?
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Guilty Gear is awesome. You have a handful of Arc System fighters, which is good. You may get accustomed to their design. Cross Tag Battle is cheap. A good selection. There's also Melty Blood, but that's a bit underground. You'll have to use a controller mod to get the 360 pad to work with it. Melty Blood and Under Night are good. One I think you might not be interested in is Arcane Heart.

If you can buy more check out Tekken 7 for $9.99 USD right now and Street Fighter V (don't know how much it is). Soul Calibur VI is $9.99 for the base version, but I'm not a huge SC fan. I admire it, but it's not my first choice. I love arcade mode and story mode. I'm slightly disappointed in SC's story mode. I'd say you're on the right path in terms of 2D fighters. You just need Street Fighter now.

Guilty Gear Strive is out in April. Guilty Gear Xrd and then Rev 1/2 look amazing. You'll set yourself up for a good time if you enjoy Guilty Gear. Arc System made the best DBZ fighting game to date with FighterZ. Get the DLC if you really like it. Super Baby is on his way to the roster and there's a bunch of cool characters in Season 1 and 2 already.
 
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Any Soul Calibur game. You can even start with a PS1 and play Soul Edge (based off the Soul Blade arcade game). No doubt it's the best fighting game to literally mash buttons and find cheese moves to spam over and over again.

Avoid Killer Instinct. That game relies on good timing and button sequences to pull off 10-20 hit combos. You won't get anywhere in that game messing up timing and trying to win based off shitty 2 and 3 hit combos.
 
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As others in the thread have said, Granblue is probably one of the best for learning fighting games. Easy inputs and lots of tooltips and help to show you when using particular moves are effective etc. The only problem is that it's usually pretty dead on PC for after you've spent time in training mode and want to go online.
 
Pejo said:
The only problem is that it's usually pretty dead on PC
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The other problem is that it costs 115 bucks to get everything, that's an insanely steep price of entry if you're just trying to into fighting games, even worse is that there's a "premium battle pass" on top of all that now; all other ones are on sale frequently for a fraction of that price and much more content/active playerbases.
 
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Whatever you decide, get a fight stick or fight pad. Makes it more fun and eventually easier to pull of moves .
 
Dr. Suchong said:
I was thinking the very same thing.
I'd love to get into that but I fear it will fall into a Blazblue scenario, whereupon endless versions will release.
I can't keep up with that shit.
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So far it only has one version. The game just gets season passes of character DLC.

Honestly the game monetization isn't different from Street Fighter V *shrugs*

Its main ArcSys thing I don't like is paying for colors for the new DLC characters instead of accessing that spectrum for all current and future characters.

Stages are sold separately just like in Street Fighter.

Seriously people are blowing Granblue monetization out of proportion. I also doubt we will get a "super granblue fantasy versus" gimmick like Street Fighter in the past used to do.

If you're cool with SF and how its model works you'll be fine with Gran. The best characters aren't DLC anyway. ;)
 
Reizo Ryuu said:
Probably because it's still full price, without dlc characters and never goes on sale.
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Agreed. It's ridiculous that the game or the DLC never goes on sale. Granblue could probably be doing better now actually. The physical goes on same every now then, but it's still expensive if you try to get everything. Eventually I'll play it because I really want to try it out. Then they wonder why the community is very diminutive.
 
Rhazer Fusion said:
Agreed. It's ridiculous that the game or the DLC never goes on sale. Granblue could probably be doing better now actually. The physical goes on same every now then, but it's still expensive if you try to get everything. Eventually I'll play it because I really want to try it out. Then they wonder why the community is very diminutive.
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Some japanese devs have a real strange disconnect about why their shit isn't selling; you don't put the game up on pc a year later, full price, no crossplay and no sales...and then cygames tops it off with their gacha greed nonsense.
I would love to get into it, but I just cannot justify the price.
 
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