As someone who played XX back in the day but never touched Xrd, I'm surprised Faust isn't high up on the list. In XX, he was always seen as a character who was both easy to play mechanically and did a lot of "fun" stuff, which made him really popular (at least with the folks I played with). Or maybe I'm just biased because I was a Faust main. Who knows.

I also hate ranked, because it fosters truly anti social behavior and thoughts in people.

Online matchmaking in video games will always have people who are better than you, I wish more games would just give you a notification telling the players to keep their goals realistic, as to prevent tweets from ScrubQuotes to form.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these people don't play Xrd at all. I used to talk to a lot of people about who they would "main", and their idea of who they would main came from memes and wiki reading, KZbinrs talking about characters, and not from actually playing the game (some didn't even own it.) Characters like Kum, Baiken, and Venom, are probably showing up more often than they should exactly because it's your channel. People who don't actually play the game much, if at all, but would want to main Venom or Kum, because you told them how cool he is.

100% with you on the vegan sausage rolls, bakes are a bit naff though, legit super insightful on all fronts, thanks for sharing and happy holidays fella🖤🖤🖤

I have purchased xrd rev2 and if I don't enjoy it then I can blame the youtuber that inspired me to buy it because I am 6 years old

"A normal dude" nah, guy plays WoW, blizzard andies are all like that, everything else is wrong but themselves.

I miss rising thunder.

maybe this is kindof indulgent,, but may i propose checking out touhou project's Ulil? or AoCF, same/similar bones theres no floor, characters are floating so theres a bit more verticality ig, and theres lots of projectile hijinx (normal touhou games are bullet hell so all the official fighting game spinoffs are still bullet heavy) i like em but ive always wondered how they shape up to other proper fighting games; i don't know enough about mechanics and all those cool intricacies to have interesting thoughts;;;;;;

rayman origins mention lets goo!!

Very little thought my ass you can and will be hit out of heat bursts if you don't place it right

Holy shit Magenta Horizon reference

3:00 I think climax of night has tho vibes, really only French bread games but there's drinks, there's a dj, people come together for uni but the vibes are also immaculate

Have a good christmas man - been watching you for years and always a pleasure to see your content - a elden ring type thing would be great, moreso to validate my own viewpoints on the game LOL

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Leon PLEASE play MELTY BLOOD (the good one)

How you feel about people just going to an event just to play and leave is exactly how I do about the Colorado FGC. We have dedicated setups for casual games here, but the moment it goes to top 16 there is nobody in the room to play with if you got struck out before top 16 (i alwats do). I want to play the game and improve with others, but that doesnt seem to be the majority opinion here.

13:51 you are really gonna do this to me huh its been years i still dont know what that was about

Venom doesn't exist in Strive though, so it makes sense that if you play GG for Venom, you'd still be playing XRD, while mains of other characters like Leo or Mei can just go play Strive.

Leon Massey should be on Nebula

Your comment about the tekken "community" being people at a tournament rather than a community is depressingly accurate. My other love is Ultimate Frisbee and there's a good mix of tournaments where we play to win, and others where there's nothing on the line so we play some games for the fun of it, then just the whole tournament just hangs out and chats /drinks/plays silly games till the wee hours

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i don't think ranked nor the ranked system is really the problem with modern games, it's that players are not at all incentivized to play any other mode. personally, i enjoy playing ranked from time to time, but if it becomes the main way i play the game i start to understand the frustrations you have. ideally, ranked should be the mode you play only a little bit a day when you really want to test your skill-that way, even if you have some bad matches and derank, you still have alternate modes to fall back on. developers could easily give you rewards for playing casual matches to encourage you to go in and warm up before ranked and stuff like that. while it is still up to the players to not have a bad relationship with ranking systems, it feels like developers have a pretty hands-off approach to it all right now that could be changed in the future. maybe they could have a more casual "ranked" mode, with hidden rank or the league-style MMR climb, and then a more competitive ranked where you can only get so many points in a day and works more like traditional elo

clicked for the thumbnail. next time i recommend pig b-roll

Yo the fez thumbnail looks so sick

As someone who grew up playing doujin fighters on a cheap netbook, my first serious fighting game had double airdashes that functioned like runs, my second one was melty blood, I totally agree with you about jumping.

What's the best fighting game that you don't play

Something I like about smash ultimate online is that every character has their own rank, so you can play whoever without worrying about your mains rank. That is the only thing i like about smash ultimate online.

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"I like vertical space" Leon yearns for MBAACC Also merry christmas

The title of the Elden Ring VS the "foundations" of Soulsborne be like: *The price of an open world structure*

I have only been to two events, in both of em the Tekken players left the frame the Tekken 8 tourney ended. I was also told this was gonna happen but didn't want the stereotype to be true in the moment.

I like Leon and all his work

_Wisdom is not born in us_

HEYYY, STEEP

Good conversation chat

Please don't "KZbin-ify" your thumbnails their so cool and unique

He REALLY likes the content slop metaphor

Glad to see people are still drinking the going back in time potion :) What a legendary video

If you rage quit in Mortal Kombat they straight up just kill you. An animation of your body desintegrating of getting impaled plays and your opponent still gets their ranked points

14:28 EXCUSE ME, I'M RIGHT HERE

so true about the marble it up ultra stuff being kinda weird i hit the rewind button by accident so much

10:57 i too would love it if Legally Distinct Homura Akemi were in xrd

on god, the first other person I've ever met who also describes themselves as hating elden ring

Oh neat, Leon bleis video coming soon

We love a holiday video

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oh hey thats me

12:56 Ok now why would you mention that? 🙄

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