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Message: [QUOTE="Octopus, post: 76821, member: 4"] Like a lot of people have said already, I think the biggest hurdle is that the genre is rather hard to get into for a beginner. There's obviously the whole combo and control aspect, but even just the concepts involved can be hard to grasp for someone who doesn't already know about them. It's one thing for a beginner to hop into training mode with Ryu in SF6 and eventually get down the basic S.HP>DRC>S.HK>S.HP x H.Shoryken BnB with enough practice, but then try explaining what a mix-up to them is or what an option select is (or since it's SF6, what a throw loop is). There's a lot of refined very abstract concepts that people already 'in the know' take for granted, while that stuff can be another obstacle for someone trying to get into fighting games over the usual combo practise. Some of them you don't necessarily need to know to play at an intermediate level of course, such as option selects or fuzzy guards, but even some of the basic ones can be hard to grasp. I think the fact we're in the third golden age of fighting games comes down to a lot of the more recent big releases finally getting accessibility right. I'm coming mainly from being a SF6 player (think I'm at like 500ish hours before I stopped playing when Terry came out, few characters in Diamond and Honda in Masters) but the game is the most approachable Street Fighter yet for someone new. There's the obvious Modern controls of course, but even the system mechanics of the game themselves are easier to grasp then previous games, while being deep enough to attract higher level play still. 'Easy to learn, hard to master' kind of thing. A lot of earlier games leaned either didn't have enough approachability, or they overcompensate and don't have enough meat anymore to support higher level play and turned too casual. In SF6's case, this has kinda made the game stale a little bit (at least to me), but that's a different discussion. Also, single player content I think is actually important to have even for hardcore fighting games. [/QUOTE]

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