Don’t test the patience of new users who may well just decide to go and play something else.
While advanced functionality is important, you need to make it easy to use. I’ll dive through menus, suffer not being able to instantly rematch in lobbies, and deal with having to find which little man my tiny Goku has to talk to in order to start a game. Often this isn’t a problem for enthusiasts like me. From having to ask my friend what a ‘Battle Lounge’ is, through the charming-but-baffling extremes of Arcsys’ chibi-fied lobby systems and the simple ugliness of SoulCalibur VI’s entire user interface, it’s hard to find a fighting game where it’s simple to just ‘go’. What I mean is that as a function of ergonomic user interface, finding your way around the game’s available modes and using them to access the core experience has to be straightforward and, preferably, enjoyable.įighting games have historically been bad for this. Again, I don’t think this necessarily means that your game has to be easy, or lose the depth that separates experienced players from novices. If you want people to play your game, you have to make it easy to play your game. Ease of use, user interface, that awful lobby This is becoming more important with every passing day, and it’s hard to imagine that the presence of an incoming game like the aforementioned Riot one – by the inventors of GGPO – wouldn’t influence this. This is a massive improvement over games like DBFZ or GBVS, which struggle to maintain playability across countries. The extended open beta which ran from last week into this week showed that people could play stable, impressive matches even from across continental lines. It’s looking like Strive‘s netcode is a success. It’s hard to tell lag from a screenshot, but this was a very bad one from the last beta, which did not have rollback
#Guilty gear player stereotypes series#
Not so whether due to pressure from fans or a sense that their most iconic series should push the genre in the right direction, Arcsys are joining the cool kids. Had it done what Granblue Fantasy Versus did and simply used the same old delay-based schemes that Arc System Works have been using for years, we’d have just written it off as another anime fighter with shitty online. In a way here, Guilty Gear Strive’s netcode is being judged more harshly because of its ambition. It defines more than just stuttery games and disconnects – allowing for fast matchmaking times, high amounts of potential matches and a wide, continuing community is core to the way we expect games to work. And there is fundamentally nothing more essential to this experience than connectivity between players.
#Guilty gear player stereotypes Offline#
Like it or not, with the year we’ve just spent even the staunchest of FGC offline play advocates can’t deny that online play has become the core fighting game experience. Guilty Gear Strive’s online experience must be good I’ll elaborate what I mean by splitting it into three points.
To me, the key is a more general view of user experience from the very fundamentals.
Dota 2 is massively popular, and it’s one of the most oppressively complicated games I’ve ever played.
I’m personally not certain that the key to the masses’ hearts is necessarily simplification, however. In this newest reinvention, Arc System Works are aiming towards a broader appeal for the Guilty Gear series, a vision that could either expand the series’ horizons or alienate long-term fans. It has a bit of a rep for being intimidating for outsiders, especially once the game on the current engine has a few revisions under its belt (we’re on Guity Gear XX Accent Core +R and Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2), but with the sort of depth that gives it real staying power among its devotees. Its distinctive, heavy-metal-inspired anime style and amazing soundtrack shot them to a level of cult fame within the genre fandom, and it’s been a staple of the fighting game community (FGC) ever since. Guilty Gear Strive is the newest entry in the Guilty Gear franchise, which has been coming out since 1998 courtesy of Japanese developer Arc System Works (Arcsys). Before: Guilty Gear Xrd, the last ‘full’ entry, and after: the previous closed beta for Strive
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