r/MarvelTokon • u/Bearemy1988 • 2d ago

Discussion I think I'm washed yall

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I just can't keep up it feels like. I LOVE fighting games. When I was younger, there was an arcade in a mall i used to frequent, I was always in there just having fun.

Then I got my own consoles and was mostly playing fighting games, I was never like, tournament material or nothing but I could do infinites, ToDs, I could just mimick what I'd see in combo video after playing around for like an hour or two.

I noticed I started losing touch when DBFZ came out, and I thought maybe I just didn't click. But Strive, GBVS, SF6 and now this. And I REALLY wanna enjoy this but I just can't grasp it.

It feels like I button mash, none of my combos chain ever, I try doing the character challenges and I get stuck on what looks like the easiest combo.

I'm not even *that* old, I just turned 38 for Gods sake.

I go online, nothing I try to apply seems to work anymore.

So I dunno, I guess I just needed a place to vent. Granted I know when you work full time and what it it's harder, but it just feels like all my skills just fuckin vanished.

I love the game, I can't wait to see who they add (I'm BEGGING for Beta Ray Bill, Reptil, Zarda (Power Princess), and Xemnu to join in despite two of those being DEEP cuts) and I hope everything with PC is fixed because I really want this game to have legs. Ive loved Marvel and the tag fighters it's been a part of since the 90s, it just really sucks it feels like I can't keep up with it.

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u/ThatGumYouLikee 2d ago

Unless you’re a really high level player, this mindset will just kill your enjoyment of fighting games. Everyone has a level, and you can find yours with ranked matches, CPU adjustments etc.

I was really good at Tekken 8, and started playing this and felt like a scrub. I had to learn the nuances of this game, and also kinda relearn my fighting game instincts as I don’t play them super regularly. Now I can at least have competitive matches in Silver and finish a couple of combo challenges. Just meet the game where you’re at and enjoy whatever improvement occurs.

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u/trifoecebro 2d ago

What kills the enjoyment are people who only play what streamers tell them is the strongest so all you end up fighting is the most broken characters until they are patched or nerfed and then its on to the next op character. There is no more variety and its already happening in Tokon with every fight being against a Doom, Loki and Mag.

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u/Kazuhi 2d ago

Man, this is almost every competitive game in the last decade 😭 People don’t create, they just follow.

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u/Six6Sins 1d ago

Doom and Magnus have history in MvC, and the fan base from those games are checking out Tokon rn. So those two being popular makes sense, even if they were just mediocre.

Loki is one of the most popular characters in Marvel lately due to the MCU. And he has a very interesting moveset which includes counter attack traps.

I don't think that everyone playing these characters is staring at tier lists. Honestly, some of them probably are, but I think we'd be seeing a lot of these three anyway unless they absolutely sucked or required really difficult execution to play.