Babby's First Fighting Game

[Catgirl (male)]

I don't play fighting games, but I want to know how to play fighting games by the time Fighting is Magic becomes a reality.

So, I probably have two or three years to wait, but still: I'm interested in learning how to play fighting games. I like the idea of one on one competition that's all about mind games, quick thinking, and timing, like a video game fencing match.

The thing is that I find the whole setup of fighting games to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I play LoL, and the learning curve in that game is brutal too, but I don't have to pound buttons on a fightpad in order to sling a perfect Lux combo. I've watched some tutorials out of curiosity, and the layers of complexity involved in things like "the wake-up game" and "loops" and stuff is not only opaque but also obnoxious.

Let's go further with the LoL comparison: LoL would be like a fighting game if characters got stunned after using certain skills, but during that time they were only vulnerable to very specific other skills for a very short window of time, and using that skill requires an execution trick instead of just a button press, and instead of four skills you have a double digit number of them.

Now, in order to win an exchange, I have to know exactly what my opponent's character likes to do, I have to read my opponent and dodge the attack, then I sting back with the one correct move out of twenty, then I pull a string of potentially difficult execution tricks in order to combo for more damage, if I ♥♥♥♥ up that execution trick then I've lost the advantage and am probably going to get slapped for it--

And, most importantly, I must be a master at all of those things, in all matchups, or else I am doing nothing more than button mashing.

How in the ♥♥♥♥ is anyone supposed to learn to play a game like that without going into hardcore esports mode? Is this a game or is it some kind of gaming exam?

Anyway, that's why I haven't *yet* started to play a fighting game. This one, though, bills itself as "making the game fun and accessible to newcomers."

What do you think, fellas? Is this the game to teach me how to play fighting games?

[Spooky Ibuki]

I'm fairly sure Fighting is magic got a cease and desist order and is no longer being released, and skullgirls is as good as any fighter to get used to them I find, just spend a while in training and arcade mode learning the basics and bnbs, there's even a tutorial mode in this made specifically for people new to fightning games.

[Sir-Taun]

@Scootaloo

The original Fighting is Magic game is defunct for the reasons you stated. BUT the same team is making a game with original characters created by Lauren Faust, the creative director and executive producer behind My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

The new game will still involve 4 legged fighters, but they aren't going to be ponies. If you want to see what they've been up to here is their website; http://www.mane6.com/