People Justify Themselves So Much When It Comes to Not Playing A Fighting Game

"is the game easy to learn"

"are the controls too hard"

"is the netcode good"

"Is it a dead game" (Someone talking about steamcharts or going "dead series" "dead anime" etc is a pop-culture discussion equivalent of someone saying the n word or complaining about Woke/DEI/whatever the next buzzword will be. Zero value in listening to what this person says)

"what's the tierlists"

"Is Character X good at specific thing Y" (people ask ultra technical questions at day 0 beta and as if this will matter to them they're gonna play Daigo or something)

When a fighting game releases, both neophytes and people used to fighting games have been formatted to think in a certain way and always ask these same questions. They need to be comforted in their choice of playing or not playing the fighting game.

In my opinion most people don't admit that they just don't wanna play fighting games. And don't realize that there's no need to justify yourself so much.

People have been formatted by social media era to always have an opinion on something. I don't need a "good" reason to explain why I'm not playing Alt Sonic Yoru no Kimi or Hikatteru Yami Golgo 33. I'm simply not interested. But it feels as if people forgot you can say this these past 10 years, and need to make up excuses.

Moreover, we are always pressured to have the "good" opinion, that you're liking or disliking the series for the "right" reasons. It's the usual problem I always bring up in how people always need to show they have the moralistic higher ground and aren't liking something "problematic" in a "problematic" way.

I think it's partly linked to the internet's irony poisoning problem. It's like it's forbidden to earnestly just like or dislike something.

This problem is accentuated when it comes to nicher things such as fighting games. Mecha anime, sports anime, and kids anime specifically are strident examples too. You always always see people making up reasons to not watch these. "I heard it's X, I heard it's Y" etc.

And fighting games have a big history with minorities, and certain series have always been much more popular outside than inside USA.

This is all an nth consequence of english pop culture discussion being so white and USAjin centered. With other languages copying whatever the english side does. I see it firsthand all the time with french and japanese.

Games media, streamers, youtubers, anime discussion, pop culture in general desperately need more black people not necessarily from the USA, black muslims, disabled black people, queer black people, and various combinations of all these. And as always I'm stressing out specifically "black people" and not saying "non-white people in general" because we need to break that taboo. You have to acknowledge that structural racism has a hierarchy based on people's perceived identity, with disabled black muslim queer woman being the biggest combo score multiplier.

And needless to say being black doesn't mean you automatically know how society is based on racism and how to fight it. But it helps.

I feel bad for the people reading my posts because I'm always perpetually repeating myself all the time indefinitely.