This game goes on sale for dirt cheap and is getting updated with great netcode soon. You've got no reason not to buy it.

it's a great game because the only people you fight are 5000 hour of playtime schizophrenics who have been playing since before my parents even thought of conceiving me

I want to Have sex with Potemkin

Robo-Kyle changed my life

Why are girls allowed to say girlfriend to refer to a platonic friend but i can't say this is my boytoy malewife Robo-Ky

While I do recommend this game, I cannot recommend it to anyone who
A) does not already play fighting games
or
B) is not prepared to spend a bunch of hours learning why GGXX (and beyond) is one of the best fighters ever!

Why?
Because it offers more freedom of choice than other fighters.
How?
For instance, in most fighting games, you're (rightfully) quite screwed if you do a bad jump. In Guilty Gear you don't stop thinking at the jump. Will the jumping character attack, air-block (or air-instant block, a sort of semi-parry) any ground normals, spend meter for blocking anti-air specials, double-jump, air-dash forward/backwards? (Not counting character specific stuff as triple jumping etc.)

The character (mechanics) design is quite extreme too, since almost every character has one or more exception from the standard game mechanics, like: triple jump, double air dash, parry, delayed wakeup on sweep, not being able to dash, being able to level up specials and supers, having a heat gauge that allows for more damaging normals but also running the risk of over-heating unless venting steam (yeah, really) and more...


Of course, my recommendation is quite biased:
I was a casual arcade game scrub since the start of the 1990s and took a liking for 2D fighting games. When I came across the console version of Guilty Gear XX #R and more importantly, people who played it seriously, GG almost became more than a game to me.

I played the game with my friends for hours on a daily basis. I went to tournaments, domestic as well as abroad. This was before there were any real prize money to speak of, meaning that VERY few (if anyone) would actually have their expenses covered. Still, I have zero regret for the time and money I have spent playing this game!

Guilty Gear XX accent core plus R is the definitive Guilty Gear Experience. Highly Balanced Gameplay, great visuals, tons of content and the largest roster of playabel Fighters in the series. Its fast its fluid its fighting at its greatest whats not to love. Now if we could just get Guilty gear xrd, Blazblue chronophantasma extend, and Persona 4 arena ultimax on steam aswell.

I played this game to forget about all the girls that rejected me and its pretty good so that helps
Edit: I can't roll back my feelings but the rollback in this game feels really good

After playing Strive I finally understand why people still play Melee after all these years.

it's saturday. you haven't left your home in months. after drinking 500 cans of monster energy and maining millia for 2 weeks straight, you've finally beaten your first player in multiplayer. you're on to the big leagues now son. you play arcade mode now. you breeze through every opponent without cracking a sweat. damn, you're really starting to get the hang of this. but wait. there's one final opponent you must face.

eddie.

the match starts. you punch him. he blocks it. a compressed MP3 sound of a drill levels your eardrums as a drill comes up from the ground and throws you backwards onto another drill. you are at half health. you try to attack him from the air. he turns into a sword and instakills you. second round. you jump behind him and try to attack him. he blocks it instantly. he grabs you and puts you inside some sort of dark orb thing. you are dead.

you try again. you chain 700 combos at lightning speed on him. he blocks all of them. he throws some sort of dog thing at you. you block it, but it's no use. you die instantly. you try again. and again. and again. you try different tactics on him. you try to block his moves and catch him off guard. he instakills you.

it is 2AM. you have tried to beat eddie for 11 hours straight. you didn't win a single round. you are drenched in your own sweat. you smell horrible. you feel horrible. everything is bad.