He has the right idea, but the wrong reasons. Among my friends there is a pretty clear pecking order in our fighting game skills, generally with 1v1s producing the same results. When we play team games like smash, we can cheer for each other and find some success to celebrate collectively. Instead of everyone feeling bad that Dave destroyed us again. Fuck you, Dave.

Among my friends growing up, nobody would even play fighting games with me because I would always beat them. Savagely. Like double cherry with Dan styling on them.

And then compared to people who regularly play them when they started being online, I still fucking suck dick. 😩

@CaptDust: Sounds like I was Dave.

Tekken boss shifts responsibility for the game being less popular with younger players to younger players.

Tekken boss

He has a name: Heihachi Mishima.

I prefer to not play team games because I don't want someone else to be the reason I lose.

Conflating correlation with causation, I think.

Does that mean me and my midlife crisis aged friends are actually younger players?

Yay!

(We alternate play between Tekken 8 and Helldivers 2, but have been playing more of the latter this week)

its why RTS games have less toxic communities relatively speaking. the fact that its more often played 1v1 and has a very high technical skill requirement floor, it becomes. obvious when one person gets outplayed

Sounds about right