What Guilty Gear Xrd Taught Me About Strive

jokes on you, I have no friends into fighting games, I just have to fight people with years of experience

What you said about "God forbid you bring up Strive around an Xrd player" is also true the other way around lmao. Xrd players hate Strive because it was such an absurdly massive departure from the typical Guilty Gear formula, and whenever they complain about it they get told to shut up. And Strive players hate Xrd because they constantly being told about how simple and bad their game is. And then there's +R players, just sitting in the corner, playing their favourite fighting game and eating glue.

Most people only talk about gameplay and multiplayer. But forget to mention single player content and polish. Xrd REV 2 has a superb tutorial (general and for every character), missions, an ADDICTIVE mode called MOM, arcade mode with actual cutscenes... and so on. And yeah, Xrd REV 2 is also still king in gameplay matters (gatling, anyone?)... and art direction... and character roster... The only sad thing is: there's too few people playing ranked matches and you won't find someone your level.

I have like 300+ hours in Strive and it was my first guilty gear game, but was starting to get madder at the game because of high damage, longer load times, the tower system being frustrating (I got to celestial before anyone says skill issue) and smaller move lists feeling limiting. Xrd has been so much fun for me so far, I play Faust and having pogo stick and jackpot items is like crack. I hope Strive incorporates some more further depth in the future because I would love for both of these games to be equally fun (please add bedman back I miss him)

"I will buy this game because strive is too expensive" -Most people me included

Xrd, Ac+R and strive really do cater to different individuals. I started with strive 2 months ago, back in the days I was interested in rev 2 when the beta came out but since the moment that everything was incomprensibile to me (coming from the SF series) I never bought the game. Fighter Z introduced me to anime fighters and that eventually lead me to discover Strive, which lead to buying it and Xrd on my PS5 and ac+R on my laptop when everything was in discount. Strive remains my favorite in terms of feels (could give everyone some old moves) and Xrd/+R are tied, but each game is so different from each other that like some dedicated +R player said, they can coexist without sapping from each other because each one inspires different people.

Wow! The lessons you learned playing Rev2 are applicable to so many non-gaming areas of my life—specifically, my creative pursuits. Making art & making music can been full of so much more joy & growth when you can easily remove your ego, learn with friends, and remember to have fun. I needed to hear this today. Thanks!

Since you only played the game for like 20 hours, I can't exactly blame you for this, but while YRC is strong, using it recklessly is a quick ticket to win a round, and something a lot of intermediate players get stuck on. Since metered options are so strong in Xrd, you can't afford to incur the 6 second long meter penalty where you basically gain no meter at all. A lot of novel uses for YRC like ICPM YRC for Potemkin as a pseudo airdash or the YRCs you mentioned in this video for Sol's BB and Fafnir are simply too wasteful to really be useful. Now since you seem to have played +r and definitely have played Strive I can DEFINITELY fault you for saying Xrd has "oppressive top tiers" when +r Baiken, Test and Zappa, and Strive HC, Nago and Ram exist lol. This might be bias but I think Rev2.1 is overall the most balanced a Guilty Gear game has ever been. Johnny and Elphelt aren't as bad as the memes say, guys.

Honestly, i recommend all of them regardless. +R, Xrd and Strive are all so cool and unique in their own ways while keeping the core of what makes the series amazing that its impossible for me to not adore them all.

As a +R player I humbly ask Strive players to petetion the Strive developers to make it so you can air-throw burst in Strive because it's a funny mechanic from older Guilty Gear games that has no practical use when optimizing...but people will still want to go for it because it's funny.

Playing fighting games with a group of friends is far and away the best way to have fun playing fighting games. It's not even close. I enjoy online play it's cool and I get satisfaction from it, but it's never like joyful, laugh out loud, fun like playing with a group of pals. Playing in person, on the same TV with a bunch of people hanging out, a few bears or blunts, is the ideal way, but you could get close with a discord voice chat and a single cab in an online lobby.

"I hope arcsys doesn't take long to add rollback officially" Rollback mod users: HEY KID YOU WANT SOME OF THAT 60 MS?

i understand you played only 20 hours but holy crap you did it maaad dirty

I’m not good at Xrd, like at all, but I freaking love it it got me into the series enough to go back and play the original game. And just Monday this week I bought GGX and XX! Looking forward to trying those out too. And I bought Strive on launch and love it too. They’re both very different games, but both equally great IMO

4:55 In Akatsuki Blitzkampf you can ex cancel ANYTHING, even DPs, but you gotta commit to whatever ex move you use

>20 hours That's baby numbers for fighting games lol. Hell that's baby numbers for any competitive game.

Ummmm actually, guity gear xrd was the checks notes 14th game in the franchise, after Guilty Gear, Guilty Gear X, Guilty Gear X Plus, Guilty Gear X Advance Edition, Guilty Gear X ver 1.5, Guilty Gear XX, Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload, Guilty Gear XX Slash, Guilty Gear XX Λ Core, Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus, Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus R, Guilty Gear 2 -Overture-, and, for completion's sake, Guilty Gear Vastedge XT. Here's hoping this time they just stick with Strive, and not Strive XX Ω +XR Enhanced Edition 1.46.

It took me 2 hours to pull off sol's dustloop in the lab💀💀💀

I understand preferring Strive over Xrd, but man, you kinda did Xrd dirty with some of your statements on the game 😂 That aside, it's cool that you were able to use Xrd to learn more stuff to do in Strive. Playing other fighting games in general really help players view their main game outside of the box. You should continue to play it on the side! (with steam console's rollback trick ofc; screw delay-based lol)

Your wish for Jam, Slayer or Johnny might just come true because season 3 of strive is coming, hehe. Great video btw, I just bought xrd a few days ago and it's a different type of fun than strive, but I like them both