i just play hello kitty dress up

8:16 Yeaaah this was me, I picked up Strive as my first fighting game ever, played it for a year straight getting good and with the season change I just kinda started to lose my momentum and started blaming the beasts, I needed a break so I picked up playing SF6, Granblue, UNI 2, and yeah omg fighting games are fun! And eventually (once the 3v3 mode comes out) I'll get back on the Strive train. Great video, now I'm motivated to get even stronger!

Simple solution, choose grapplers then grab then lose while laughing! That's what I do.👍

You posted this right as I lost my motivation lol Thank you

My motivation is to Beat Up my friends in the games we play. One thing I found out is that I never played a Guilty gear game I played everything else (personal favorite is Skullgirls 2nd encore). Til Strive came out, and I and two of my friends got it. i wasn't good, like at all none of us were, but after months of beating each other up and playing Baiken a lot. I went online cause I was bored one day and played VERY GOOD. Who knew getting Heavenly Bustered countless times would make me good at Guilty gear

Was not expecting Ultrakill footage :0

Such a breath of fresh air in approach and mentality. Gave me a personal conclusion to challenge myself by finding answers instead of making excuses. Might not have the time to grind as I used to, but at least giving myself the ability to figure out and "troubleshoot" my experiences would get me to where I wanna be as a player. Thank you for quality content GekkoSquirrel, community needs mentality like yours~

felt this back when i played UMVC3 thank you Vergil. Now im playing Strive and this is helping my Anji in floor 8

I love that this video is geared towards fighting games but the main points can also be interpreted for real life stuff as well

3:47 you fought here with my homie ❤

this video came to me at the perfect moment. i was getting frustrated at being stuck on floor 6-7. I'd constantly find flaws, but i could never focus on fixing any, instead just hoping I'd remember in the moment. I immediately clicked on this video, and halfway through, opened guilty gear to apply what you were saying (watching more of it between matches) i decided to focus on one specific improvemnt i could make. I'd make sure i remembered it by making a list on steam. this way i had constant access and could change it if needed. In three hours i've done what I couldn't in twenty. I'm now solidly on floor 8.

Ok, Vergil in the thumbnail goes unfathomably hard

This is exactly what I needed to hear right now

Just started Guilty Gear as a Baiken main and I’m getting some really good combo ideas. Great video too👍🏽🎉

yesterday i noticed that i lost motivation to keep up w strive and unninstalled it to take a break since i was mad w it, today you gave me that advice in this video think i was right in taking a break

I've kinda needed this so the pick up was very much appreciated

For me, I even decided to even put online tournaments as well as ranked and causal as a way to improve and try out new things, but when it is offline, especially the only major in the UK being vsfighting that's when the claws come out

In Tekken 8, hitting any moves is satisfying enough to trigger my intrinsic motivation.

gamers are the most masochistic people on earth. We love the struggle and love to be beat down over and over just to finally get that fat W.

I think you legitimately might have just helped me deal with a block I was having. Thanks for the video dude.

Gotta say ggst was my first Fighting game I got like 90 hours of Playtime and after trying character and playing Anji and Asuka about 20-25 hours each I got to playing Leo and omg I am still bad but I enjoy the game but for me the "casual" matches against my friends are for me probably my biggest motivation as I want to win against them but I lately got a new motivation and that motivation is to get good at Leo and getting the most out of the character( I wanna learn to use his full potential) but to say it I couldn't care less about my rank in the battle tower

what i do if I'm getting really frustrated is i just play my other games. keeping a good rotation of game is healthy for gaming ingeneral anyway, so dont worry, (insert fighting game) will still be there when you return

8:07 This is honestly just great advise for playing any game

YO I WASNT PREPARED FOR DRAGONSONG FLASHBACKS IN THE BEGINNING

Oh shit I am going to SFO this weekend it’s my first ever tournament, I didn’t realise that was your local that’s sick!

Really Good Video Some things a lot of player must hear :)

Thanks I needed this and I could have used this vid like 3 years ago lol

I'm currently on my Strive break, mostly just doing silly labbing stuff in BBCF and Skullgirls for now, the tip at 8:12 is the realest shit ever

Man I'm early. Love your stuff Gekko!

What happens if they gut my character, they take everything away that made them fun and make him not function like a normal character

This just comes in handy

Someone must've watched raycevick and whitelight to prepare for this vid

Welcome💙 🔥🔥🔥

Hell yeah

Completley unrelated but I'm glad I wasn't the only one who made a customization for Rugal from Kof in Tekken 8.

Lmfao, i was feeling in a slump playing Strive and I play Ultrakill to reset between study sessions, so opening the video with Ultrakill footage is really funny.

Me: Lives in a country where there's barely something like a major and it's just Tekken Has no artistic skills Has no time to even try to do cosplay Has little interest for the lore in most games Still suck even in casual matches Yesterday I was thinking of playing some Granblue Rising but I was too tired after work and dozed off so I watched something instead. I'm screwed, probably.

thank you for uploading this, i was just starting to feel a fighting game burnout creeping in lol

I've made mods for ggst, and my way of recovering from burnout is tuning and discovering new things for my mods. Idk why, but it makes me feel a lot better about playing my chars.

For SF6 especially, there are already ingame tournaments in the battlehub every midweek/weekend. Those are great for building confidence outside of actual locals and regionals (online and offline). I got 0-2 in CPT offline premiere, got 1-2 in the subsequent online premiere. My motivation is to become a better player, pick up a new character and do better next year.

I'll be honest, as much as I like fighting games, it's also the one genre I often feel the most demotivated to play. I've been playing fighters on and off for something like 20 years now and I'm still complete garbage at them. I've been trying to get better lately but it's been a strangely harder time than I anticipated. Of course, there's the whole "I'm bad" self pity thing. It's hard to want to continue doing something if you don't feel like you're progressing, or having fun with the progression. But then there's the fact that I grew up liking the wrong fighters. Either they are fighters that nobody cares about ("Chaos Code", "Daemon Bride", "Nitroplus Blasterz", "Million Arthur", etc), I failed to properly connect with ("Skullgirls", "MB: Type Lumina", etc), or are actively hated by the FGC ("DNF Duel", "BBTAG", etc) if not outright despised and demonized ("Arcana Heart"). It's somehow a struggle for me to find a fighter to just play with others around my skill level. The only fighter I even have to play offline with IRL friends is "Skullgirls"...and most matches just devolve into me being a punching bag. So the only enjoyment I've had is to, as the video put it, go for achievements. Well, trophies in my case. And sadly, once I'm done with that, that's often the last time I ever touch most of these fighters. Sometimes I'll do combo trials but even those only go so far, especially given how impractical they usually tend to be. At the start of this year, I've been trying to put a concerted effort in getting better, whenever I find the time for it between responsibilities and all the other stuff I've been playing. Aside from playing, I've been watching match footage, taking notes of certain situations that I struggle with, practicing them, and just trying to replicate tactics one step at the time in actual matches. I've primarily been focusing on "GBFVR" (Zooey main) and "UNI2" (Mika main) and it's a hard struggle. Though I only have like 600 and 300 matches respectively so far. I'm not sure I'm even having fun but I keep telling myself to continue cause it gotta change at some point. Unfortunately, it's looking like the skill floor for "GBFVR" especially already has risen high enough that I'm on the cusp of getting weeded out. I just can't keep up anymore. Of my latest session of 100 matches, I not only lost like 70% of them, most of those were complete washes on my end. I'm just not sure what I should be doing anymore. And all this doom posting is no doubt annoying for everyone and tiring for myself.

Clicked on the video cus funny Virgil Meme but in all seriousness even though I play A LOT of different fighting games I know I won't be good at every single one, but I want to be "Mid" or halfway decent at them even though I sound like crazy person trying to master like 5 or more different fighting games. Again maybe "Master" isn't the right word but like the earlier word being "Mid" but I honestly loving playing fighting games for the story or character most of all and want play these game and characters because I love or connect with them in way that I personally enjoy. I just have to keep the motivation up in each game I play as I know I'm going to get my butt whooped with jumping between different fighting games periodically, but I like playing different fighting game even if having a main game being Granblue Fantasy Rising but been try to get back into KOF and even Pokken and others because I remember having fun with them. And sometimes I know winning isn't everything, but you feel good knowing you know what you're doing in the game that you can hold your own even if you aren't the best at them and winning just adds a little icing on the cake.

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I think grandblue did the best at motivating its players like they do lock some of the colors and weapon skins but this is all so you can grind the game, level up and earn them and even though I hated grandblue versus rising initially getting that final mystery item kept me coming back. And now I love the game after learning how it works and my character (s+ rank charlotta). Also not every one can go to tournaments like myself for example so ranked is my tournament

King mains cant keep getting away with this

What I struggle with is finding a main and just a playstyle overall. I convince myself over and over that I like to rush in but I don’t want to press buttons, or I like big numbers. But when I try any character like that I run away and try to get away. This worked in lower levels but not in higher ones, so should I try a zoner in like strive or something? I am going to say my play-style so here’s that if you wanna read it: So I like neutral a lot and to keep my opponents guessing what I’ll do next while being safe. I also run and try to hit my opponent with long normals. I can’t do combos like at all and whenever I try I fail immediately so combos are a big no for me. Mobility for me is an issue because I don’t want the character to be too slow but not super fast either. I’m not exactly patient either so I don’t like waiting around and not doing stuff.

Literally the only reason I keep playing fighting games (specifically gbfvr) is bc I love learning and improving, but also my one friend who will always play with me

0:5 HI-FI RUSH MENTIONES?!?!🗣🔥💯💯 WHAT THE FUCK IS A BAD GAME!!??!? 🗣🔥💯💯‼

Ultrakill 🤤

Damn I wonder who's that Johnny

But what happens if you dont do tournaments? My goal is to reach the top of ranked and play at a higher level. The issue is burnout comes easier im hard stuck in plat 5/diamond in sf6. The burnout got so bad i switched to tekken 8. Tbh its difficult to find that motivation in either but thats the hand im dealt with. Win=fun lose=not fun.

Gek reina cosplay when?

Playing ranked to win is the best way to not have fun. And that goes for any game

I play P4au and nobody plays ranked so technically, no match matters :D

i get that mentality but ranked is all i have since i can't really compete in tournaments.... And i have 0 knowledge about how to engage in those anyway

1:15 in other words . weakness. We have gotten to a point where people will play games that are designed to be bad so they can get their digital dogtreats each day so they can try a gatcha. We have gotten to a point where people will PAY for extra homework in form of battlepasses so they have something to do in their mid games. Buying Fomo is something else man. a good game should be so good that the only reason you need to play them is that the game is so good. and THAT is fighting games. no nonsense just constant interaction

Where are you from btw?

Devil May Strive

I see Hi-Fi Rush I smile

I usually go to the park to have the "games don't matter" mindset, but that leaves Ranked as my "games do matter" games. Doesn't help that there are so many floor 10's and celestials in the park, while I'm a measly floor seven. Trying out new characters in the park do still help though.

strive is my first fg and then it plummets to me owning several titles of fg all of them having some 2 to 5 odd hours on them. my main title rn is granblue and its cuz of the battle pass ngl. idk why im the BP guy but i always grind those out knowing the finish line is me spending money for in game cosmetics. but its always my motivator. even rn im grinding a battle pass in several games, some close to completion. sad part is knowing that i will finish it and then having no drive to come back and play it because i have no incentive to (sorry granblue, i got my waifu jpeg skin) (siege plz update already ffs i need content). but im hoping more future FG will do the BP thing cuz then itll incentivize me to play the game.

Great job Gekko, I am defeated and called out… And now I regret my BS I pulled… but too late, right?

Im playing a lot of GBVSR rn and I love the game even if Im playing it on free edition but trying to find a local tournament of the game here in Malaysia is hard. I do have a local major happening for dbfz and other games that I dont have the money for so Imma put my time into dbfz. If anybody can give some good tips please feel free to drop some

Yeah, all of these are true to keep motivated, I must say, fighting games are entertaining and enjoyable, but uhh... I have a problem. You see, yk it's common for people to get afraid playing ranked matches or online matches, but that's fine by me- the only problem I have rn is I am afraid of opening up the game (lol), can anybody give me tips so I don't freak out or scared whenever I want to play my fav fighting games? (And oh boy do I need an arcade stick or a hitbox controller, or a controller...)

Neco arc reina goes hard

I suffer from over playing the games. I think the issue for me is the point where you feel like you're not learning, i tend to hit this fast because setups and combos be damned, I just play pure fundamental bullshit. I find that I live a game then learn to hate it after playing it for too long.

Being a dumbass for memes is a great place to be.

how to keep yourself motivated at life :(

0:17 certain Visual Novels disagree! XD

Just venting here Finding motivation is hard even for someone that does not care at all for win/loss, i just hit walls after wall and don't ever see myself improving. It's so frustrating seeing people improve so easily while I can't move past certain point, and people saying "just go train" or "play more" ruin my day because i have tried doing this for a long time and never saw any improvement. What makes this all the more frustrating is that this applies to everything i do in life. I have a friend that met in a rhythm game that i had been playing for half a year, he had just started out and was confused with everything so i helped him undertand the game and get some levels. Two weeks later we chat in-game and he asks me what level im currently on, i say i was still in the same level and he didn't believe it. He had improved way past my level with less than 1/8 of my playtime. I've grown used to it, but sometimes i just wish i was a normal person.

Gekko play more mortal kombat games or just neatherrealm in general because it applies to allot of ur videos. Also try brawlhalla pls

Hey, can I just take a second to say that I love that Neco-Arc Reina? Because I love Neco-Arc Reina.

If you don't feel like playing a game - just don't play it. It's simple as that. Don't force yourself. They are not running anywhere, and you'll feel better if you take long breaks. unless you're a streamer/youtuber with a patreon; or a signed competitive player, you are most likely not paid for playing a fighting game.

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Wheres your motivation?

Why does this feel like Yugioh 😅.

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Why does every youtube video feel the need to explain the backstory of video games and why people play them? What does explaining why people play mmos for drops have to do with the subject matter. Takes everyone 5 minutes to get into the topic after being reminded about the concept of skill of games, thanks bro I would have forgotten. I almost conpletely forgot why I even play games