Guilty Gear Strive is the best fighting game I've ever played

Broco · July 21, 2021, 3:48am

Gotta stay well-coiffed

geist · July 21, 2021, 8:05am

this is all part of the united states government’s plan to slowly disclose the alien presence on earth. and in the game.

Mikey · July 21, 2021, 7:04pm

captainlove · July 21, 2021, 7:12pm

Goldlewis looking like a fun secondary for us slowpokes.

Broco · July 22, 2021, 7:13am

AutomaticTiger · July 22, 2021, 8:17am

I hate that all my favorite character designs in this game are feds.

geist · July 22, 2021, 9:25am

all my homies play gold dick fuckinson

captainlove · July 22, 2021, 10:12am

It’s a fantastical world, they can bend realism and make feds likeable.

ArOne · July 22, 2021, 6:37pm

The President Has a repulsor cannon arm and shoots a football at a mook with it.

I also love all the love I’m seeing for Goldlewis on my twitter feed. And then there’s Leffen showing his bad taste.

I’m also happy to see a big body fighter who’s character isn’t whole summed up as a fat joke or being a gross slob. I’m taking this as a W provided a win quote or new story bit doesn’t ruin it.

Broco · July 23, 2021, 1:13am

Whoa

remz · July 23, 2021, 1:32am

This is now my favourite special move in any fighting game

BustedAstromech · July 23, 2021, 2:01am

This might be a really good way to thread the needle between the hard approach barrier of fighting game movelists and the benefits it provides to high-skill play. Each move direction still has a very specific purpose so you need to know what and why you’re doing it, and the half-circle motion still provides the execution risk and skill cost of the fighting game input.

Plus I love how the input motion mirrors character motion

geist · July 23, 2021, 2:29am

this is some anti hitbox tech

Broco · July 23, 2021, 2:44am

I don’t think that’s what’s going on here, this character looks harder to play even at low skill than the average Strive character (which is to be expected since he’s DLC). Probably the ingame movelist will split this into 8 moves (because every move has a paragraph explaining its properties in detail). And these are a lot harder to execute than e.g. Sol’s half-circle because many of them will cause an accidental jump if inputted too slow, and also the reveal explained you have to continue holding the final direction

I think it comes down to:

swing a ball on a chain = meh
swing an alien coffin with 8-way pizza chart = super awesome

ArOne · July 23, 2021, 3:54am

Yeah, I don’t think Goldlewis is made to appeal to players freshly approaching fighters but I do think he’s made to attract a certain type of player that wants to feel like they are controlling the character in a cognitive reflection of the input to the action. Kinda like the Punch-Out arcade game where how you curve the stick reflects on the punch you get out.

Edit: Now that I think about it, this feels like Tekken inputs in regards to having having specific tools on specific directions at least with my time with Kazuya in Smash.

Brooks · July 23, 2021, 10:21am

captainlove · July 23, 2021, 7:42pm

‘In this Behemoth Typhoon…’ Was hypnotising me when I watched the vid

HOBO · July 23, 2021, 10:08pm

Gonna host a PC lobby tonight. Around 2021-07-24T01:00:00Z. Maybe a little later, not sure, if someone else wants to host it themselves first feel free.

eska · July 24, 2021, 12:05am

i’m just absolutely not going to be over the name Goldlewis Dickinson for a while. is this what white names sound like

HOBO · July 24, 2021, 1:02am

PC lobby is up. Code is h5knhj. Currently set to first-to-two wins. Can change if there’s demand.

I gotta go do something for a few minutes right now but I’ll probably be back before anyone joins.

Edit: not sure why ft2 wasn’t working right. Changed the rules back to default.