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at worst the game is just hella weird but what about it about make ppl continuously go "omg Guilty Gear is sooooo hard to get into omg"

I will say this, on a gameplay level here is no character that appeals to me, I only play for the aesthetics, so maybe Im a weirdo but Im curious what others think

Depends you talking the Xrd? That game isn't really that hard it's pretty much a gate way to get into the series if you've never been into GG before imo. I honestly have been playing GG for years in small groups before the Xrd series and before all the trending stuff. So all this GG talk on the internet is still very odd to me because people never talked about it. When I say it was a cult classic it really was.

Old GG is a little harder but that's only because the combos can be way more inconstant, and people I feel have this mind set that you need to be doing a swag combo all the time, but once you realize all you need is a few basic BnBs that work on all the roster you're truly playing GG. GG has artificial difficulty amongst new people I feel, because they don't know better.

By no means am I saying GG is super easy or even easy at all. What I'm saying is people are making it out to be this super hard game because it's cool to say. Sorta like Virtua Fighter. Games so hard games so technical, but most of those people don't even play. But if you actually talk to the VF community and try playing for real you'll find you can learn it and it's really not that bad.

Granted I'm speaking between VF4 and VF5 and they have things that are hard to do, but again the amazing thing about VF, and DOA(not counting 6) Is all the hard stuff is not needed to technically be successful in those games. You can always get around to doing the hard stuff at anytime if you so choose to.

I was talking more XX and everything after (can't comment on OG GG cause i never played) , but I think you hit the nail on head when talking about inconsistency, I guess that is one that in GG that takes time getting used to, like routes available off certain buttons change drastically depending on distance, whether you're accelerating, etc

this has improved with time, GG Xrd has characters who can straight up combo off everything and get the same combo every time, DBZF is a very consistent game when it comes to combo, and ppl seem to like that stuff, I have a feeling this is be a big factor in strive but we shall see soon enough

Well when I say old GG game I'm talking anything that isn't Xrd. So yea I'm talking GGX, GGX2 and so on. basically before it went 3D or 2.5D whatever you want to call it. I played strive beta feels more like a SF fighter game with a anime spin to it imo, but I guess will see once it's ready.

eh, doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world, I have no nostalgia for old Guilty Gear so I'm open to changes, and I actually like GBFVS so if strive makes a similar shift can't say i'd be upset, if they could make 1 character I actually like on a gameplay level i'd be set, tired of defaulting to Jam lol

It's not bad by any means, but I don't want the series to forget what it was or what it is just to cater towards SF players so they can do more Esport. All and all I want the game to be fun, but at the end of the day I still want to say that its guilty gear. Take from SF do whatever but dont forget you're still guilty gear if I wanted to play SF I'd go play SF.

Yup, the reason why people think modern Guilty Gear is hard is mainly because it's the cool thing to say and people are incredibly sheepish and bandwagon-y. Same case like with VF like has been mentioned above, people go off of reputation very heavily. It doesn't help that GG or VF can feel "hard" if you've only put in, like, 10 minutes into training them. No instant gratification like in GBVS.