Most underrated content creator in the FGC. Proud to be an OG Alex Nostalgix viewer.

Alternate title: how a instant dive kick changed a mans hobbys dramatically

Playing fighting games: depressing

Watching people play fighting games: Fun.

this made me give up on fighting games.

I firmly believe that talent is simply not quitting.

I love playing a fighting game once, getting my ass handed to me and never touching it again

No matter what fighting game i play, if I'm on the player 2 side I'm probably gonna lose.

I play fighting games, I won’t lie. A lot of this was great : the editing, the presentation, the voice work. However, the story about the Tiger Knee Divekick… that’s what sold it for me. I can’t ever look at those moves the same. You’ve shown me how much story (whether in game or in real life) matters. Thanks for making the video

2 years later, still coming back to this video every now and again. Been really caught in a rut, feeling like my improvement was just at a permanent plateau, but thankfully I have this still here to remind me that the journey can never be over until I say it is. Maybe I just need to change my approach to learning, maybe I just need more reps, or maybe I just need someone to straighten out my misunderstandings or explain my bad habits that I can't see. Whatever it is, Thank you for making this piece of art, the most inspirational video on the internet.

I was a halo semi pro top 32 in the world , I hate how corporate the industry has gone , We left the casuals behind, I am new to the FGC but I love how grass roots the industry and how every person has a chance. I fell in love with the FGC. Awesome Video

As a kid, I didn't have a very worthwhile childhood like the rest of them. However, thanks to my stepfather I was introduced to Tekken 3, my first ever fighting game. We would play every weekend and he was incredibly good. Not good as in like he has won Evo titles, but good in the sense that I looked up to him. I remember picking Hwoarang as my first ever fighting game character and crying when my stepfather beat me in a mirror match. What he told me still rings with me to this day, "There are characters, no, games that will feel like obstacle courses. They were made to be difficult to play. But crying about how hard they are won't make them any easier. Learning to understand, accept, and appreciate them will."

Now I can proudly say that after years of playing tekken and finally understanding how such a complex character like Hwoarang works, I was able to best my stepfather in a mirror match. It's kind of metaphorical actually; what held me back from being what I am today was me and my ignorance to accept the difficulty of tekken with open arms and overcome those odds. As it stands in Tekken 7, I don't main Hwoarang anymore. I main Miguel, and the reason is because Miguel's backstory reminds me of my own childhood traumas, and his angry "I don't need a flashy fighting style to kick your ass" playstyle is much like the anger I've pent up for years thanks to my past. Of course, I've come a long way since my anger management issues, but playing Miguel helped me realize that I can vent my anger through rushdown. Hell, even his ending in Tekken 7 is satisfying, because he finally gets back at Jin for bombing his sister's wedding in Tekken 6 by beating the shit out of him and let's him live. I don't think Miguel can forgive Jin for what happened, but that in and of itself is a reminder for me to forgive everyone who ever hurt me during my childhood.

Both characters mean a lot to me, and they along with Tekken as a fighting game will forever hold a special place in my heart. Thank you, Stepdad, for exposing me to such a fabulous game. I wish you were still here with me to play Tekken 7, but all good things come to an end. You will be missed, I love you lots....goodbye.....

24 years. Never played fighting games with intentionality. Just got st6 on a whim. The ending to this video gave me soo much vigor to keeps trying to learn. Great big, thank you!

"fighting aren't about waiting for your turn"

old anime fighters: look at this fokkin dope eh

"Don't give up on fighting games - fighters need more punching bags".

I can't believe how perfect of a timing this video was.
I am an about to be 18 year old who has basically been into fighting games her entire life, one of my first video game experiences was the many KoF on the arcades, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Street Fighter 2, and so many games filled my entire gaming life, alongside stuff like Smash (which I do actually consider myself at least good enough at) but I always had this negative loop of feeling frustrated, I always felt like it was a genre I played out of love, nostalgia and tradition for it over the actual fun I got out of it. I am a major visual learner specially with irl experience, so reading through a million imputs, fundamentals or combo lists always felt horrible to me, I always just gave up, DB FighterZ is a game I was always so hyped about, the perfect representation of how Budokai Tenkaichi 3 felt in my childhood....and then when I got it I couldn't even handle how sad it made me feel to play it.
It was a constant negative loop of feeling like the genre, the game, nothing was for me, I just couldn't do it, then, I got BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle on switch a year or two ago, and even though I started the same...something clicked with me, Chie is a character that represented everything I loved about these games, stylish combo heavy strings and fast movement and reactions....it drove me to get better and better with her and with the game as a whole....and then I hit the wall again.
As my stupid learn while I play mindset came to bite me back, I kept getting curvestomped on online, on everything, and that was the loop all going back again. Until I met someone very special for me...my boyfriend, he is a very experienced fighting games player, we started playing together, and I was finally trying to get back into the genre, trying to get better at it, everything just to have fun with him and to compete healthily with him, there was still those times of frustration when he would really beat the shit out of me and get me on a 10+ lose streak, but thanks to his help and positiveness and reaffirmation, I noticed myself improving, learning and getting better with him.
Today was a different and very important day though, I played like two hours with my boyfriend after a while of not touching the game, I got completely cooked as he is very good as a whole, all until he mentioned something to me "I say this with all the kindness in me, but I don't think Heart is for you", the second character that I always used was Heart Aino, and yeah, she almost always was a sitting duck that could sometimes do a big heavy damage that won me games...which is the reason I kept trying to force myself to play her, practicing her just as I did with Chie, I resonated with what they told me and decided to try something new, ended up picking up Yuzuriha alongside Chie and...I won, I won three matches in a row, and even when I lost, the next one I won again, I felt myself getting better and better until we sadly had to stop...that little experience today reignited everything I loved for the game, for the genre, and now this video has only enhanced it even more because it does remind me of where I came, button mashing on KoF not being able to beat Rugal or any kid that came to play alongside me, spamming projectiles as megaman on MvC2, wasting all my supers on MvC3 because I thought Dante's level 1 was sick.
Everything lead up to me getting these combos I only dreamed of, winning matches against people I consider very highly like my boyfriend, and...having fun again.
With this and the eventual release a few days after my birthday of Jojo All Star Battle R, I am really wanting to get into fighting games seriously for the first time, this passion I had only felt before with Mobas after falling in love with League, I don't know if I will aim as high as I am feeling right now, but I definitely have lost all those feelings of wanting to give up for now, and when JASBR launches, I am really aiming to get good at that game, I want to finally get to a level I can be really proud of, a higher level I haven't touched, and I will do my best to get on it.
This video helped me very much on that decision, and I am incredibly grateful for it.

Gotta tell you:

I lose
I get salty
I fail execution
I get teabagged
I lose again

But I can't explain this little voice that compells me to keep trying and whenever I least imagine:

I win
I celebrate
I execute perfectly
I respect my opponent
I win again

That's my experience with FG

Mine is nothing special but something that I actually regret a lil bit.
I used to play a lot of competitive games, fps, mobas and even card games, but I never once tried fighting games because I figured it would be impossible for me to approach any game without prior experience in the genre, then I started finding videos from A-core gaming which told stories about incredible moments at fighting games tournaments which led me to know about arcade sticks and how sickly they looked which then led me to EVO streams and fighting games streams, all the while not playing the genre myself, but secretly wanting to be part of it and I wouldn't do anything about it till the season 3 of DBFZ when a friend of mine told me the game wasn't extremely difficult to get into and it would give me an excuse to buy an arcade stick that I wanted so desperately for how sick I thought they looked.
That's when I discovered just how much I wanted this, I wanted to play a game where I could see myself getting better without any other factor affecting the outcome other than me as a player.
I WISH I had done it sooner, I'm completely in love with the genre and is thanks to videos like this that people find that love.
Much appreciated, watched till the end, good stuff.

I think what makes fighting games fun for me is the journey of learning and growing as a player, kinda like studying for an exam you’d worked hard for.

This was seriously so well made and thought out. Been playing fighting games pretty much all my life (and I’m still pretty bad at them) but, this video really captured the struggles and hardships of starting, as well as the rewards and satisfaction when you finally start to win.  All in all just excellent!

Ayo can we all just plaster this video via the YouTube algorithm across all FGC people's feeds?

Fire video my guy, the writing, the explanations, the visual esthetic, the editing, the jokez, the message, the PhiDX collab ... You're up there with TBS and Core-A 1000 % (and speaking of collabs, they should holler at you as well). I'm in a similar spot as you too with fighting games, but got started only a year ago pressing some buttons and getting my first stick and all that. Cool to see where a random new interest can take you. I hope this vid helps put more people on to FG's and Tekken especially.