Is it too late for beginners to get into Guilty Gear: Strive?

My MVC2 video tackles the last point you made. I realized learning +R alone was a bad idea, so sent out a call for other beginners to learn MVC2 with me, and that's made the experience so much more fun. To any beginner reading this: FIND YOUR FELLOW SCRUB, you'll be playing cleaner by the day.

Over 63% of all players who touch the Tower are on Floor 7 or below, and over 40% of all matches happen at Floor 7 or below. The "low skill" or "new player" population is honestly thriving within Strive. You can see numbers at the Rating Update site, in the Player Distribution section.

Just got into Strive a week ago and its hella fun. You can learn quickly and there's a lot of modes that support that. If you really want something you can make it happen.

Long as the new player interacts with a community thats willing to teach and practice then there’s no issue

I just started playing GGST a little less than a month ago, and I definitely think its doable for beginners. The only other fighting game I've played in the last 10 years has been Smash Bros, so I was basically starting at rock bottom. None of my skills from other games translated to GGST, it was like learning to ride a bike again for the very first time. I could not do a thing when I started; couldn't remember how to block, constantly struggled to remember the controls, and was absolutely hopeless when it came to movement and special attack inputs... and yet I found it super fun. Seeing incremental improvements each time I play, recognizing that I'm becoming familiar with the controls, and developing muscle memory feels great. The training mode felt adequate in giving me time to experiment with the controls and find binds that I was comfortable with. It let me get familiar with the most basic aspects of the game like movement and specials. The missions helped with game knowledge and taught me what scenarios to look out for and how to react in gameplay. It also helps that the game felt like it wasn't rushing me, and it didn't berate me for failing even simple tasks. I then managed to convince a friend to play it, and he had a blast. He even started playing on his own time, and seems to enjoy it more than I do. It was genuinely so fun seeing him pick Faust as a new player and getting to experience us both figuring out wtf was going on. I do think whether or not a new player will enjoy the game depends on their temperament though. If they get frustrated immediately for not being able to navigate the game as effectively as they want to, they might drop it quickly. That could also be said about any fighting game, though, and I think GGST and older fighting games have an advantage in that you don't necessarily feel the need to "keep up" with the rest of the player base, its a bit easier to go at your own pace. Ultimately I think a new player should play whatever game interests them the most, be it the latest Mortal Kombat or some obscure anime fighter from a decade ago. There's going to be a bit of a struggle and a learning curve regardless of what fighting game someone picks up, especially if they're brand new to the genre.

I’m buying this game right now, it’s on sale and I love the style. I dabbled with a few MK games, but only on a super casual level, wish me luck!

I started playing Strive when Elphelt came out, I mained Axl, got to lv500 with Axl and got to Celestial, I'm having fun learning and playing with people both on my own skill level and higher.

I think that Strive is still very beginner friendly even now. There are tons of matches happening on lower floors and even about a year ago when I first got the game, I was able to pick it up pretty easily since I was focused on learning the game. So I think GGST is a very beginner friendly game

I've gotten multiple friends into the game within this month. It's a great game for beginners still, it's community is thriving. Unless you want to spend 50-60 on a game you're unsure you'll enjoy, in a genre you're unsure if you enjoy, you'll always need to buy them later. It has a thriving casual community and is great to learn the genre through honestly

Sol said it best: Listen to your heart; not the voice in your head. I picked up Strive back in 2021, just a month or so after its release. I had played FGs before, but I never actually got into one enough to say I was good at it. Even back then I was intimidated by how many people I found who were absurdly good, and despite trying my damndest, I never felt like I got particularly better. Eventually, after stumbling my way in the floors and being unable to even skirt past floor 7, I've recently been able to get to floor 10 pretty consistently, and there's very few fights of mine that are one-sided. If there's any FG players out there who aren't satisfied with themselves, who are doubting whether or not they can actually do, who are discouraged by the fact that it never, EVER feels like you're getting better - hear this: You can do it. You just have to find the way of "doing it" that works for you. Be patient with yourself, and make sure you study plenty practice hard, and celebrate harder.

hay so uh... yeah strive is good for beginners im a beginner(or i was a few months ago now im floor 10) and a lot of my friends are getting into strive for the first time. i have a strive discord server and over half of the almost 30 people joined within a week of getting strive and around 10 of those people have barely touched any fighting games before that. so yea strive is great for newcomers

I started strive recently. It's the first fighting game for me that felt good learning, with the move overview that comes with video examples, to the tutorial that explains everything at a good pace, to the ability to train and play other player's combo's online. I felt good at the game quickly. That and Potemkin is fun af.

GG-ST is the first fighting game I ever tried (by trying I mean actually trying to learn because I don't think button mashing in tekken 5 as a 12 year old counts). I bought the game just a week ago and it's been incredibly fun, as long as I stay within 2 floors I can stand my ground and play people within same skill level in the evening hours all floors have tens of players in EU. Though it's important to note one of my best friends being a fighter games head helped me a LOT, taught me all about how shit works and pretty much analyzed my games for me to say what I should learn next cus he enjoyed watching me stream the game for him or just by beating me mercilesly for 2 hours with random characters he didn't know well. Taught me notation, all types of cancels, since i'm playing bridget he taught me to okizeme with yoyo and repeatedly told me to be less scared of jumping; it's easier with a friend but i'm assuming it's still possible enough to learn on floors 1-2 with just youtube tutorials because I improved so rapidly that after fighting bots and my friend for 3 days, first time I went online I settled on floor 3 (I dropped to floor 2 but got out within 3 matches). 30 hours in I'm floor 4-5 and only struggle against characters I never played against before. If you just wanna try strive as a game and aren't that curious in fighting games in general, it's probably not an amazing experience, but if you're willing to actually learn you'll probably do fine.

I started playing Strive a few months back and I have had a blast playing with friends, online and in training mode! I’m not that good at the game (haven’t been playing consistently bc of school), but my first few characters have been fun and easy to learn! Well, except my first guy Anji; He took a minute to click with, but once I got it I felt elated!

I am a complete beginner to classic fighting games, I got into GG:S a week ago, having the time of my life at floor 4 (sometimes 5)

A friend of mine got me into the GG series a few months ago. I consider myself to be very inexperienced at fighting games but I really enjoyed the gameplay and artstyle of GG so I stuck with it. I've only been seriously grinding the ranked tower for a couple months and I've been able to reach floor 9 which I'm happy with considering I've never really seriously played any FGs before.

I’d say that Strive has had one of the biggest constant streams of new players in the whole genre. I’m new to the game since December and I’ve had a really great time learning the game.

In my opinion beginners can get into any fighting game with the right group of friends to have fun on it, I got a friend of mine into Tekken of all things a game he never played before starting with Tekken 7 and now he's actually pretty good at the game and can't wait for T8, so for something like Strive I'd like to think it's not Impossible.

Started like a month ago, always been a tekken fan so 2d fighters were a struggle for me, but guilty gear is really good. I even don't get sad or angry when losing, so fun this game is. Now getting some grip on mechanics, burst, cancels and mini combos and really like it a lot

I started strive about 9 months ago and I’m doing just fine, I got celestial once and I’m currently grinding my way back from a comfy position at floor 8