MELTY BLOOD Actress Again Current Code coming on Steam!

It's not like I'm good at fightning games ._.

Oh, you're still alive! I was getting worried you know, your last post was in january.

I don't like that fighting games become a pattern of learn baiting the enemy into performing unsafe moves, which you then use safe moves to punish. I don't like that whole mind game feel to fighting games. Ultimately that's what all fighting games are, but it doesn't mean I have to be happy about it. There are some I enjoy, DOA, Smash Bros, but when it comes to classic 2D fighting, I think it's too hardcore for me.

Huh, this is a take on fighting games that I haven't seen before. I can see why you would think this way, but it's not necessarily the way they work.

Matches in a fighting game are played out ideally with neither player throwing out an unsafe move. That mostly just occurs when a player is fighting someone that he figures will throw out special moves in desperation because the person doing the specials otherwise doesn't grasp how to deal damage. What you're saying can very much be the case when two players are close to the same level of play, but one realizes that by just blocking for a while, eventually he will be able to hurt the other player for doing a random move. Instead, and I admit that this isn't an easy thing, the way this should play out is both sides use things like throws, overheads, cross-ups, fireballs, wake up games or just pokes to do damage instead of a special move wait-and-reply. All those things I listed are safe ways to initiate offense, but all can be countered or dealt with defensively if you're looking for them. The issue is more likely that it is indeed a "hardcore" thing, but it's not purely reads of safe/unsafe moves.

Ironically enough, DOA would be the worst for this...or I suppose an exception depending on how you look at it? Technically, almost nothing is unsafe because you can cancel most of what you do into a counter, but if the other person perceives that you're mashing out a counter during your own move or theirs, they can instead throw you. It's like a constant back and forth rock/paper/scissors, so it's kinda funny you would like that more with the mind game aspect being so heavy. I think the game is popular though mostly because the risk/reward of doing things isn't as starkly pointed/clear cut as it is with traditional fighting games, where it's more "I blocked a dragon punch, I get to hurt you a lot now". In DOA, after their initial questionable decsion, you also have to read their next decision to properly deal with it. Killer Instinct is like that too.

Smash has the reputation widely of being less hardcore fighting, but that's mostly just because there are so many people that play it casually. That game at its competitive level of play is REALLY HARD. I was looking up proper movement in Smash and it was some of the most technical reading I've done. An entire match seems like a stressful nail-biter to me, but I've not actually played the game at all myself...aside from just jumping around and hitting buttons one time in Brawl.

Anyway, Melty Blood is like...well, there are hardly even unsafe moves. You might have a dragon punch/invincible move, but it's not often you have punishable ground specials, reading and jumping over fireballs, not really a climate of "dealing with other guy's special moves"...unless it's navigating special move zoning. Part of the reason the game is this way is because of shielding, but...okay, I'll just stop here lol. I think I've probably already lost people haha.

I'm always lurking in the shadows. Just mention me and I'll be summoned. ...Maybe.

Ooh, this looks interesting.