If you need to win in order to enjoy a fighting game, at absolute best, you will manage to reliably have fun 50% of the time. If you find your fun in the slow process of improvement, in finding where your own tactical understanding and decision making can become stronger, you’ll love them.

April 10, 2026 - 15:56 UTC

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Fighting games are much like anything else that requires practice. If you’re doing it for the sake of some end product result, you’re going to hate your life, and you’ll probably look for something else long before you become skilled enough to achieve what you had the potential to, whatever it is.
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But if you enjoy the doing of a thing, that changes; you don’t play guitar to be in a band, you play because you want to play guitar. You don’t draw to become a world famous artist, you draw because your imagination needs that outlet and you find your ability to express yourself there.
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