Fighting Games Pt. 2: The Dial-Up Demon

👊🕹❷: ☎️😈 EVO Moment #37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS96auqau0 THE BASICS What are fighting games, and how do they work? An introduction to the genre, and the basic rundown of their universal mechanics and concepts. Analysis: Why Button Mashing Doesn't Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0hbe8HZj0 An introduction to the system mechanics to fighting games, in a general sense that should be easy to understand for the average person. (In case this assumption is made) When you get to it-- No one actually calls it “Shen Long.” Analysis: Tekken - The Difference Between 2D and 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGSkWVXE2mo Self-explanatory: What makes 2D games and 3D games so different from each other? What is the FGC? How Hype, Sweat and Tears Saved Gaming’s Oldest Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY176IOvS_c Also self-explanatory: This is a simple introduction that will set up the dive for the other videos. CULTURE [Some backstory] Playing with others, an in-depth view of going past “playing online against a bunch of randoms.” What kind of things can you expect at events? What can you find out there? FGC: Rise of the Fighting Game Community [FULL MOVIE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkdCdrzj7Ik A light introduction to the fighting game community, focuses on a couple of players, and introduces a few tournaments. The most notable things to understand: What goes through the mind of the community members when it comes to tournaments? What ideas keep getting brought up? Pay special attention to what you see of EVO and the (names of) players. The Story of EVO: Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qppcyLgFuK0 What is EVO? What is it? How did it start? EVO’s roots, the events before, and lead-up. The Story of EVO: Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYZXGtxaU1Y& The recent years, retold. [The life of …] ...How have some of the current fighting game series survived? How have they influenced the sphere of fighting games as a whole? Which ones were saved, and by what or who? What have people done to sustain the FGC? Inside Combo Breaker - Games, Culture, and the Midwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXoHFeG5Baw Insight into fighting game tournaments This takes you into the eyes of Rick “TheHadou,” the director of Combo Breaker Long Live The Night: An Under Night In-Birth Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV9GXR5Y4mU Under Night In-Birth, a game in the anime genre that rose to popularity and won in prominence over the others due to pure passion of the players. Road To King of Iron Fist - Tekken 7 Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugCiMKCLzk4 Tekken, its competitive history, and a focus on the Tekken 7 North American tour early in the game’s life. Features several players and their perspective on the game. Locals #2: Fighting Tuesday (Feat. Majin Obama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcBlb69aM2Y Fighting Tuesdays! These are the locals in Tokyo’s Red Bull Sphere. What does it take to grow and feed a scene? Core-A Gaming and Making Good Content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78nRAilQYe4 The face behind Core-A Gaming, the man who created the first two Analysis video, and many others (on his Youtube channel). Content-creation and what goes behind making a good piece? The Story of Super Smash Bros.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmqbRcmZeMU The tumultuous history of Nintendo’s most popular franchise STORYLINES Live either the origin or life of a player throughout fighting game history. What have they done? Who are they? The Story of Leffen: The God Slayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m5RnRySsEU Learn about the villain and God Slayer of Smash. The Story of Arslan Ash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-fZciAKvho The origin story of Arslan Ash, the nobody from Pakistan who became a Tekken God. The Story of Tokido: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY1EDYluZ58 (Street Fighter) What makes fighting games so great? The Furry Who Beat Everyone: The Story of SonicFox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R77ZNA5n-Ok The greatest Nether Realm Studios and one of the best Dragonball FighterZ players of all time! Voted best eSports player of the year in 2019 Read comments DLC Some of the hypest matches in fighting game history. Combo Breaker 2018 BlazBlue Central Fiction Grand Finals SKD vs Fenritti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfxr5Vl2UTA Dragon Ball FighterZ Evo 2019 Grand Finals (Go1 VS Sonicfox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm8PT07pdyA Daigo VS Poongko @ EVO 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ooeBDyARug Mortal Kombat XL: EVO 2016 - Grand Finals - SonicFox VS TekkenMaster! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozly_lhg9sQ Knee vs JDCR, TEKKEN 7 @ REV MAJOR 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yhSH1_RCU UMVC3 EVO 2014: Grand Finals - EG Justin Wong vs GG Chris G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pPKV8lH9qI Supplementary information: Fighting Games Glossary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_fighting_games