I've only played a little third strike but god i cant stop watching it. It's so thrilling. I don't know if it's the animations or the parries but it just feels so... true. It feels like I'm really watching digital martial arts

"how it feels to learn SF3S in 2023" is getting the shit kicked outta you by dudes who have played the game for 37 years.

I just love how simple you make a fighting game with so many technical details (for a newcomer like me)

I got to C rank on fightcade last week after being stuck in D rank for forever. Third Strike is such a fun game to grind.

I say this as a COMPLETE beginner, but that unblockable setup you did during the character overview is absurdly hard. TTH is impossibly hard too. I practiced for close to 10h and got TTH once in training mode, let alone any setups. The beginner experience is moreso spamming normals, dropping motion inputs and feeling utterly and completely lost. This just ain't how getting into 3S felt like to me.

So stoked to watch you on this journey, keep 'em coming!

I'm so glad this is the fighting game that my friends made popular amongst our classmates in high school. This made it my the first fighting game I truly got deep into. Especially 2007 and senior year 2008, we had a lot of active players in town

Great idea, I'd love to see more of this as a series on the channel! Never enough 3S content

Everybody loves watching the come up. I just said this on Brian's community post about road to warlord popping off, but it's such an easy to follow storyline it's easy to watch and enjoy. It's also hype to see you learning a new character at the same time, and I'm realizing I get to live all my charge character dreams vicariously through you. I just can't commit to changing up how I play for that archetype but they're so cool so often, and it's super frustrating.

This would be a hype series please do more!

Before fightcade existed there was a much smaller community on another service like 15 years ago, I played at like 3am local time and the only other person online was guy from Egypt who was an absolute demon, I would play him everynight for hours, I don't think I even took a round off him for the first few weeks. Than I started to take some rounds off him and eventually beat him the odd time Throwing myself at this demon everynight for like a month made me ok at this game. He didn't even speak English so no talking just fighting.

Love this format JM. I've seen a few videos where you have lamented being stuck in C rank and this video series is the answer.

Really cool video, looking forward to seeing more!

Definitely in to this series! Would also be interested in seeing practice/grind sessions where you work on punishes and mix-ups and what not

Ive just started on Brian's series and it's great to see someone attempt a similar challenge with Third Strike Looking forward to episode 2

This is super sick! Loving the content

I love Brian_f’s warlord series, happy to see someone get inspired by it

Always love the positivity, you don’t always see players compliment their opponents and you’re consistently good at that

Great series, keep it up!

ayo this is a fun idea! i love ranked climb stuff, the journey is a lot of fun. keep it up :)

Love the serie bro, GL on u goal

Lovin the variety of ur videos bro. Keep it up mayne!

Was literally teaching my friend 3S, this is kinda funny that this video came out

Definitely do more videos like this love watching the grind!

Keep going! Those matches were awesome! It shows off Fightcade's matchmaking, and what someone coming in fresh can expect.

Niiiice! It's a very interesting challenge because nobody does retro games ranking-up on public. I've never seen anything like this. Good luck! Looking forward to the future episodes

This was really fun to watch!

good to see more 3S on the channel especially urien :)

Feel like most fighting games that are still played, but are quite old, have a really serious BARRIER for anyone not already a storied veteran. You're walking into a school full of blackbelts, and you've got your yellow, goin' "uh...so, let's spar!"

This is hype! Keep this kinda content coming

Love the mini series really fun.

My best friend and I would play this in the arcades and he said it back then that 3S was too far ahead of it’s time. We would locally and go out of state to play other players. Fun times man. Especially drumming the buttons to Ryus Kobu theme with the other arcade cabinets

Great video JM

You can never have enough 3rd Strike in your life. Maybe the sickest Fighting Game what is out where on the market. It also is my favorite Fighting Game and it made me appreciate old school Fighting Games a lot more and motivated me to try out more of these Games. Definitely exited to see more. Also enjoy your Videos, the recent Videos where a huge step up in my opinion. Keep up the good work. 👍

In the arcades when I played this, I already knew if I would win or lose. If a player comes up and says, "Hello, do you mind if I fight you?" oh I already knew I would whip them. However, if someone came up, didn't say a word, just inserted a coin and hit start no matter what I was doing in the match, then it was gonna be a real fight.

Your vid’s make my day bro thank you

Man, I really like your videos. Everything is so considered without being over designed

Love this series. Looking forward to more Urien

That set against Dudley with the comeback was epic, ggs!

Love the idea!

Gonna love this series

Thx for the upload! 3rd Strike is such a great game! Everyone should really try it out if you haven't. You won't be disappointed.

I love jm 3s videos, we need more!!!!

I don’t like playing 3S, but I love watching it. Go figure. Fun idea for a series, JM.

6:55 that skip was so good, thought you grabbed em in mid air 🤣

Great idea !

Love this series

nice video waiting for part 2

I already love this series. Hope you make it to B!

Makoto is love, Makoto is life. That said, looking forward to the series.

You're the best, man!

Sick series

I love these kinds of videos

love brianf series and love this one too

Funny that you'd start this series now! I started third strike about 4 days ago. I only played SFV, and mained Balrog there. Truly an average player, as I only reached gold rank. As of right now, I'm playing Makoto and still getting my confirms down (Hayate into SA1 is a pretty challenging link). As soon as I get that down, I'll follow you in ranked path. Pretty fun game, I'm really enjoying it.

This almost definitely doesn't reflect how it would be for a beginner getting into 3rd strike for the first time because you certainly know 3rd strike pretty well and on top of that looks like you already know Urien. But still i learned some things while watching you play, and i enjoyed the video a lot :)

thanks for making this - SF3 is like a whole different ballgame for me.

Hope this keeps going

I started playing fighting games casually about 3 years ago because I used to mainly play RPGs but started a job where I worked almost 70 hours a week. I didn’t have the time to put into an RPG and get any enjoyment out of. I grew up playing MK with some of my childhood friends. They were always way more into it than me. I’m high school I playing MK 9 quite a bit but not online or completely. I didn’t even know there was a competitive scene. 3 years ago when I was at that job I got the street fighter 30th anniversary collection and I loved third strike! Just the art style of it really drew me in. Alpha 3 did too but not like 3rd strike. I started doing research and watching videos and I’m still nothing more than extremely casual at all the fighting games I play but I really want to dedicate to getting to the next level. I don’t have a pc but I need to get on Fightcade and start getting my ass beat so I can finally learn!

Interesting idea!

I remember I got to C rank during quarantine after 4 years and popping off. It may be a small thing, Im still at a low intermediate/high beginner level I think but its the little victories that matter the most.

Nice video, this is the true new player experience, new players losing to secundary accounts

This is why I love you jm

ggs JM, I'll see you around. I keep hovering from B to C

I love Urien so much, if I ever pick up 3rd Strike he’s near the top of my list to pick up

No doubt hommie. Be positive broski. You can do it...

Swivel's a real one for repping Q in my book. That Ibuki deserves props, they had you going. Speaking of going Both the Dudley and Akuma deserve to be in C rank like you ended up in (IK the Dudley is, but y'know)

Let’s go new video

I enjoyed this video idea

Been playing this on fightcade and it is fun but incredibly brutal for new players. Even the D ranks are really good

For the next video could you make your camera a little bit smaller so that the enemy bar is visible? I'm looking forward to this series

Just started playing this game is so fun

please make more, fun watch. Also i will do anything for a new Tatsunoko vs Capcom video. the people need it

man this is dope

FINALLY you play somebody I main. Urien Has timeless gameplay,i Can play urien in the middle of the night

6:38 going to try this. thank you.

Most good Urien players i see and one of my friends who does play alot of charge chars ( UR,Q,Alex) he does Uriens lp fierball > super cancel Aegis reflector. It might be better for timing of the setup if its hard to parry fierball then mirror in 2 odd timings or if its esier to get the super while the special move is out and you get to buffer super before animations end.

I know it's not optimal but I love Ibuki's SA2. Nothing more satisfying then when you are close to an opponent and do it and it just eats their life bar.

812 is a very chill guy, played him before

This is a fun video, but let's be honest here, just because you're playing as a new character doesn't mean all the other 3rd Strike knowledge you've accrued over the years just suddenly vanish; you are literally always going to do better than a real 1st-time player today, I can tell without ever having played the game. I just recently got into SF6 as my first SF game and I love it but I've been really enjoying watching 3rd Strike and I've been thinking I might try to download FightCade and learn how to play in the near future (especially since it doesn't seem like we're gonna get any 3rd Strike characters in SF6 any time in the foreseeable future,) but I somehow doubt I'm going to do as well as you're doing in this video when I decide to do that.

I say continue this series, I like "Unranked to X" style series and good luck on the climb.

This is something that us guys want to see more of

You gotta do more I love 3rd strike

how you commentate your own matches is impressive

I am learning this on my mobile phone. Learning ken right now.

A spreadsheet??? Oh hell yeah, sign me up!

Oh this is fun

i like this series on third strike

With the Ibuki SA2 against urien: I main hugo, and I usually will take Gigas Breaker into Urien when he tries to do his Aegis corner setup. If you tech roll out of his setups, or are able to catch him in a grounded position, you can pretty much always wake up super with command grabs to get out of aegis. As soon Urien catches on, you have to start using it more sparingly lmao

lets go!

As an Ibuki main that started 15 or more years ago here on FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE, super art II works fully as a command grab for Max damage or its secondary use at least for me it gets used similar to Chuns fireball super which is a anti Air for multiple hits or chip out

Gotten back into SFIII:3rd Strike recently with Ibuki (thinking of checking out Alex).

I am amazed you chose a hard setup charge character, I could never do charge, tried Oro & Alex but they are semi charge & can win with other specials, I main Dudley, & Yang as 2nd and I like to use SA2 & sometimes SA3 on big char, it has some dirty setups....

Do you remember/have you ever played an older game called Bloody Roar where your fighter could turn into an animal also? Think I played it on the GameCube, but that game had some pretty insane combo involving switching back and forth between human and animal.

Everyone needs a spreadsheet arc.

Iv thought about starting with 3rd strike as my first street fighter game

I love this game so much and I suck at it. Wish I could find people to play in person

Please more🔥

Ive been playing for a week, the start was rough but im starting to win some matches against my fellow D ranked ^^

oh haha. I've been playing third strike for a few weeks with two friends... it's fun, though i am not able yet to do hcb inputs or dp inputs super comfortably...much less flex execution combos