I kind of disagree with this one, tutorials are necessary...but showing us basic bnb? isn't that something we're supposed to figure out on our own?
That's no fun, with tutorials players are constricted to play on what is viewed as the "official" way to play the game. Why can't we not mock gamers' intelligence? they're old enough to figure it out on their own...and half the fun in a fighting game is figuring stuff out! remember how flabbergasted we were when people pop out a completely unknown combo? well, that can rarely happen now.
You may argue that new players don't like getting their asses kicked. Well...the whole point of the game is ass-kicking. Of the two people playing, ONE of them will be the loser, by now we should be accepting this fact.
That's the kind of elitist attitude that will keep fighting games niche. I've said it once and I'll say it again.
It didn't work before and everyone was left to fend for themselves, not knowing how to play the game properly made them dis it and not appreciate the game in its greatest form.
I say this from experience because if it weren't for the fact that Tekken gave me some basics to start up, I wouldn't have appreciated the game at all. I just think they can go further.
Gone are the days where people would have to figure everything out by griding mass hours by themselves or having known someone that has experience. Honestly, I don't have the time to be putting endless hours into practice mode, I shamelessly look up tutorials online or watch match videos to get inspiration like many other players. So what's the difference in the fact that the game teaches you instead of youtube? Not everyone likes watching videos of gameplay, they'd rather just play the game outright.
You know, by all means if you don't like having a tutorial, then
don't use it. No one's forcing you to use it and tutorials only teach you day 1 basics. It's a great way to teach someone how to play a game with depth without having to make the game retard easy by a result. Besides, a good game has infinite discovery for combos, mixups, frame traps and etc.
I, for one, am sick of elitism and want to see fighting games be just as big as StarCraft, Halo, CoD or that pile of dogshit called League of Legends.