Fighting Game GIFs

[fggif-blog]

Mike “Mike Ross” Ross v. Nice1

Mike Ross, if nothing else, is one of the most well liked players in the FGC. He and his life partner Gootecks pour a lot of work into a popular Youtube channel called Cross Counter in which they play the infamously terrible Xbox Live ranked ladder - usually with top tier players as guests. I would recommend checking it out - but with my current number of followers that would be equivalent to a lemonade stand saying “Hey you know they sell lemonade at Wal-Mart?” In this match, Mike Ross’ opponent Nice1 decided that his stick was at fault for him losing the first game. Nice1 then spent roughly ten minutes holding up the tournament, making people watch nothing on stream, and generally being a guy that blames his controller for losing. As you can see, the crowd wasn’t really having it. Or maybe they were. After Nice1 fixed his stick, Mike Ross over-aggresses on pretty much every situation on a character that IS REALLY BAD at being aggressive. Nice1 loses in humiliating fashion.

[fggif-blog]

Aris and Super_Yan

Street Fighter x Tekken was a short lived competetive game in which the characters of Street Fighter fought Tekken characters. Pretty cool concept. Sadly there were certain aspects to the game that made it not-quite-right, and the community abandoned the game despite a 2013 patch that attempted to fix some of the problems. To promote the game, Capcom hosted a webshow called Cross Assault in which people from the Tekken community played in a team against a team of Street Fighter players. Again, it was a pretty cool concept. In the upper right of the GIF you’ll see the Tekken team captain Aris smelling Super_Yan after *numerous* unwanted sexual comments. Super_Yan got up out of her chair, left the room and forfeited the show slightly after. Aris then said “Hopefully she’s crying in the restroom.” This moment is especially worth mentioning as it highlights the fact that the FGC is largely male based. There are numerous reasons for this, but clearly direct sexism from other players is at least somewhat involved. I’d also like to mention that this moment does not in any way paint a broad brush of how the FGC treats women. This is sadly the only moment of SFxT’s brief lifespan worth mentioning. I could show Combofiend and Mike Ross getting absolutely obliterated by Laugh and Infiltration in top 8 of Teams at EVO, but no one really cared even back then.

[fggif-blog]

M2K v. Shiz Whiz

One of the bigger moments in the Smash community (I’ll probably talk a little about how and why the Smash community and the FGC are separate later). This happened at a tournament called Revival of Melee. The scene at this point was kind of dying down and a lot of people weren’t as interested in playing as they used to be. M2K’s hype as fuck comeback against Shiz turned a lot of heads and got people interested in playing Melee - either for the first time or all over again.

[fggif-blog]

Fanatiq v. Megaman Steve

There was a lot of hate surrounding Fanatiq in MvC2 due to his use of a custom control setup. Fanatiq would replace one of his assist buttons with a Dash command - which would allow for easier combos/pressure but an inability to call Storm as an assist. This resentment is probably best shown in this match. After this, Fanatiq wrecks Steve pretty hard. Probably didn’t help that MvC2 had the most aggresive fanbase of any fighting game. Regardless of the hate, Fanatiq was a solid player. Not really a classic moment, but it definitely shows how in your face the MvC2 community can be. Also, check out that guy to the far left who’s loving it

[fggif-blog]

Justin Wong v. Yipes

A lot of people talk about how godlike the Daigo parry is, but honestly this comeback was *a lot* more impressive. OCV’ing Yipes’ full MSP team without assists and with a character that isn’t one of the four Gods (Mag, Storm, Sentinel, Cable) should have been an impossible hill to climb. Not much else to say other than “It’s Mahval, baybee”

[fggif-blog]

Daigo v. Justin Wong

Well this is gonna be a blog that posts exactly what you would think. I’m gonna post some of the more classic moments to kick it off. Sorry about the GIF quality, blame Tumblr and its 2MB size limit. Anyways here’s Wonderwall