Fighting games are hard! (KI)

[Lulz]

torok said:

Lulz said:

So, I'm a fairly hardcore gamer. I've played everything from MOBA's, to RTS games, to WoW arena at a fairly high level, and I generally pride myself on being able to pick up new games quickly. Last night I decided I was going to start playing Killer Instinct, so that I could own some noobs on XBL.... I couldn't even complete the dojo!!!

I felt like I had gone full retard trying to input forward, down, down-forward + any punch! I could not make it work! Does everyone suck at fighting games this bad when they first pick them up? Is the XOne d-pad just not great for fighting games? Is a move like that particularly hard to pull off, or should that be child's play? Am I not just cut out for fighters??????

Any tips that anyone can give to help ease the learning curve for KI would be greatly appreciated!

 

Fighting games demand more pratice and usually the default difficult level is more harsh. I usually play decently any new fighting game  because I have played a lot of them and that counts as experience. The D-pad isn't probably the issue, the one on 360 was an atrocity and even with it I can play nicely (but not as with a DS3 or arcade controller). My tips:

- For that move, press forward, them move your finger to down and slide it to the forward key (without releasing the down key), pressing punch midway. Try to press punch at different timings to see what the game accepts. Other alternative is to never release the D-pad and just do all the movements sliding your finger on the desired keys.

- You don't need to learn giant combos to play decently. Start learning how to block well all types of strikes (standing up you block aerial / normal ones, crouching you block normal / crounching ones). When fighting the CPU, concentrate on your blocking and just use simple punchs and kicks (crouching, normal, aerial, etc) and you won't have problems. After you master it, learn the more quick combos. 

- Online play isn't a good test. In fighting games all you will find is perfect blocking, giant combos and fast as hell reaction. Up you game with the CPU first, specially because you aren't an experienced fighting game player. I played KoF, Street Fighter, Tekken, Marvel vs. Capcom, Samurai Shodown, a lot of NeoGeo fighting games and others. After that, you gain a solid blocking and striking, it's just a matter of seeing the controls and choosing a quick combo and some special attacks and I'm playing decently a new fighting game. KoF helps to, it ups the game of any player pretty fast. 

- Trials in fighting games are hard. KoF 13 trials are almost impossible. Don't be worried about them.

Thanks a bunch! I appreciate the tips.