(From the history I see it actually took time for 3D and anime fighters to belong. The one that is rooted in traditional 2D fighters. We can't call it 'FGC', yes - but because a fighting game (or genre, sponsor, publisher, etc) itself is not a community as you say.įor clarity I personally like to call ' the FGC' the ' larger FGC'. But it can certainly lead to miscommunication or feeling like the term is attacked. That doesn't mean you made a grave mistake and nobody understood what you mean. Step back, read that out - really it should be FGC. But to me that's no different as a mistake from this: So, yes - the script has some RAS Syndromes and nobody in the process caught it. Thanks for spelling out your thoughts rather than going 'ThIs Is NoT a FiGhTiNg GaMe!1' 🙏 And not being FGC is more than OK, considering the tremendous success Smash has on its own. That game is incredible, but it is not FGC. And it has nothing to do with Lethal League Blaze. I'm not gonna play his games and he's not gonna play mine, but we are playing TowerFall together, and it's just awesome. In fact, I frequently played with a Project M player at this game. But I would never dare trying to shoehorn TowerFall into the FGC.

People have no idea how deep and frenetic that game can be in a competitive setting. Which is not how it works.įor example, I'm a huge supporter of TowerFall as a competitive game. We stopped mentioning the people and their origins, and we started using 'FGC' as a synonym for 'Fighting Games'. u/EdszxNeo is right to point out how ridiculous 'FGC Communities' sounds, because it's an 'RAS Syndrome'. Usually, it's used to also describe publishers, esport orgs and sponsors, but it's now used to cram everything remotely close to fighting games, into one acronym. In that era of esports, we can clearly observe people who do clearly not care about using the term 'FGC' properly. None of those games are supported by the FGC either. And FellowsTV, their Twitch/YouTube channels, organizes and records tournaments on games like ARMS, Lethal League Blaze, Mario Tennis Aces and Super Smash Bros. FellowsInARMS, the people mentioned in this video, and responsible of their own online league in the game, are ARMS players. In fact, it may have more overlaps with the Smash community, or PFC. But the FGC never really cared about the actual Lethal League scene, nor does it have any sorts of overlap with other FGC scenes. And it's very sad, because the game feels absolutely incredible on an Arcade stick. It has nothing to do with the high quality of the game as being competitive. You'll find tons of overlap within the Windjammers scene with accomplished SFII players, like DonYann, Keikun, Tuxosaurus, etc. Same goes for Windjammers, a game picked and carried by the French Super Turbo scene. Dacidbro is one of the most known face of the competitive Catherine scene, and he's a big Guilty Gear, Persona 4 Arena and Blazblue player. The best players in Catherine, for a long time, were all accomplished Airdasher specialists. Both those 'non-fighters' games were supported and played by the actual FGC. I'm very conflicted, because it's not like Catherine or Windjammers.

You're just doing it indirectly, through the ball. The goal is still to make your opponent hurt. But I don't think that we can call it 'FGC'. It deserves every bit it has, competitively. It's an great work of art, it has incredible depth, its community is awesome, etc.

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