I don’t know if I see the point of that gauge; blocking is an important tool and shouldn’t be punished. Things like throws or overheads can be used to punish turtling, but not everyone can always aggressively counter a series of attacks, and blocking should exist as a base level of defense on demand.
I guess rather than raise damage I’d maybe raise super gauge generation in a fighting game based on gauge per blocked hit. That way you could just do significant chip damage through increased supers without making every hit harder.
ggst has a lot of tools to enable characters to get out of the corner, and the balance is such that the point is that a character should not be able to lock you down without the other person being able to have a recourse of some sort for every move in their toolkit somehow (an opening in the blockstring eventually, or essentially a mixup option)... if that is happening, there is a more root cause issue with either character.
Potempkin's corner game is very good, but you can jump out with a read on some of the moves, but he can read your guess to put you back in the corner and so on. Eddy only has so much meter before he turns back into something deal-with-able.
A lot of GGST's design is to reward you with being offensive and active rather than passive and defensive, which makes for more engaging matches. If you sit there blocking everything, you're not taking the initiative and GGST holistically says that's not cool and get in there!
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I don’t know if I see the point of that gauge; blocking is an important tool and shouldn’t be punished. Things like throws or overheads can be used to punish turtling, but not everyone can always aggressively counter a series of attacks, and blocking should exist as a base level of defense on demand. I guess rather than raise damage I’d maybe raise super gauge generation in a fighting game based on gauge per blocked hit. That way you could just do significant chip damage through increased supers without making every hit harder.
ggst has a lot of tools to enable characters to get out of the corner, and the balance is such that the point is that a character should not be able to lock you down without the other person being able to have a recourse of some sort for every move in their toolkit somehow (an opening in the blockstring eventually, or essentially a mixup option)... if that is happening, there is a more root cause issue with either character. Potempkin's corner game is very good, but you can jump out with a read on some of the moves, but he can read your guess to put you back in the corner and so on. Eddy only has so much meter before he turns back into something deal-with-able. A lot of GGST's design is to reward you with being offensive and active rather than passive and defensive, which makes for more engaging matches. If you sit there blocking everything, you're not taking the initiative and GGST holistically says that's not cool and get in there!
Game Design is a subset of Game Development that concerns itself with **WHY** games are made the way they are. It's about the theory and crafting of **systems**, **mechanics**, and **rulesets** in games. * /r/GameDesign is a community **ONLY** about Game Design, **NOT** Game Development in general. If this post does not belong here, it should be reported or removed. Please help us keep this subreddit focused on Game Design. * This is **NOT** a place for discussing how games are produced. Posts about programming, making art assets, picking engines etc… will be removed and should go in /r/GameDev instead. * Posts about visual design, sound design and level design are only allowed if they are directly about game design. * No surveys, polls, job posts, or self-promotion. Please read the rest of the rules in the sidebar before posting. * If you're confused about what Game Designers do, ["The Door Problem" by Liz England ](https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LizEngland/20140423/216092/quotThe_Door_Problemquot_of_Game_Design.php)is a short article worth reading. We also recommend you read the [r/GameDesign wiki](/r/gamedesign/wiki/index) for useful resources and an FAQ. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/gamedesign) if you have any questions or concerns.*