Video summary
The narrator recounts his experience entering a Dragon Ball FighterZ tournament at CEO, an event that ultimately led him to realize he might be "washed" or obsolete in the current meta. After letting his game skills fade due to the release of new DLC characters and other games, he decided to return to ranked play to regain his footing before competing. Despite the realization that the game's glory days are behind us, with players now facing stiff competition on modern hardware rather than broken consoles, he found the tournament experience enjoyable and filled with good opponents. The video captures his journey from feeling unprepared to engaging in high-stakes matches, highlighting both the excitement of returning to the scene and the harsh reality of having to adapt to a much tougher competitive landscape.
Throughout the match footage, the narrator showcases intense gameplay featuring characters like Jiren and Goku Black, demonstrating various mechanics such as command grabs, super dashes, and beam attacks while dealing with the pressure of high-level play. He frequently expresses frustration at being dominated by specific strategies, particularly instant transmission and level three combos that seem to bypass his defenses, leading to moments of humiliation where he feels his character's abilities are insufficient against skilled opponents. Despite these setbacks, he maintains a humorous and self-deprecating tone, joking about his inability to block certain moves and the whimsical nature of the game's unpredictable outcomes, which keeps the viewing experience entertaining even when he is losing rounds.
As the tournament progresses, the narrator reflects on the enduring appeal of Dragon Ball FighterZ, declaring it the best fighting game ever made despite its flaws and the inevitable decline of its competitive scene. He emphasizes that while the game cannot be replicated, only duplicated, its unique mechanics and character interactions provide an unmatched experience that keeps players engaged. The video concludes with a mix of genuine excitement for the sport and a resigned acceptance that he may no longer be at the top level, yet he still finds joy in playing and competing. Ultimately, the narrator leaves viewers with a message to appreciate the game's current state while acknowledging that the era of dominance is over, but the passion for fighting games remains strong.
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I entered the Dragon Ball Fighters
tournament at CEO and it made me realize
one thing. I might be washed, man. After
so many other games came out, fighters
getting what might be its final DLC
character. I I don't know. I I just let
my game go. And that's really bad
because there was never even that much
to my bag to begin with, which is why
today I've decided to jump back into
rank for the first time in a long time
to get right and maybe talk about the
tournament. I don't know. But man, the
tournament was fun. I was facing some
good competition, some some nice people.
But now I got to I was going to say now
I got to deal with a great priest
online. It's been a while since my last
online fighters match. I'm not going to
lie. But I'm excited. I'm hyped. I'm
ready to block anything except for
double overhead. I blocked the first
one, but I started crouching immediately
after that. Is this death for my Jiren?
No. I'm a spark early. I did this in the
tournament, too. [music] Speaking of the
tournament, that's
I want to just win a scramble. The
tournament was a lot of fun. So, it was
CEO standard typical Fidian affair. Oh,
I'm I'm I got to I got to super dash
that. If I don't you you just didn't
want to tech. Hey, if you don't want to
tech, that's fine. I will be taking all
of your health away into a Yamcha level
three. You got to guess the mix. What is
the mix? I [music] don't even know yet.
Oh, I didn't know it. I just didn't want
to say it out loud. I Oh, invincible
medium. And we don't bite on the on the
um air.
Okay, that didn't work. Oh, beautiful
guard cancel. I'm looking for I'm
looking for something here. Super dash.
I'll take that. I will definitely take
that. Not going to be great. Wow, a
delayed heavy. Not ready to guard
against it. I wanted to talk a little
bit more about the tournament
experience, but I don't have the time.
This is not going to kill. I think we
just go Jiren and we try to go for a
command grab. It might be crazy enough
to work. Yay!
You got to be ready for the mix. I was
not doing that in the tournament. That's
why I got the place I got. Oh my
goodness. But it was really cool just to
see the amount of competitors fighters
still had. Obviously, I think I'm not
going to lie, guys. I know the glory
days are behind us because they had us
playing on broken PlayStations with one
fighter set up. I mean, I still
appreciate fighters being there, don't
get me wrong, but but man, the glory
days are no longer here, man.
Do I I I thank you for hitting a button.
I thank you for hitting a button. You
got to die, though. You have to die. You
click a button against my basic Jiren,
you're still dying. Now, watch this. You
know the rules. TRY SOMETHING. OH, DID I
SEE A BUTTON CLICK? Now you're over
there. Rush down with the rocks. Try.
I'M STILL HITTING IT REGARDLESS.
You can't stop me. It might not hit, but
the counter doesn't need to be a counter
anymore. Take a second one. Key blast
up. Key blast up. Super dash beam. I
should have I I wanted to do the beam. I
don't know why I didn't get it. It would
have been so hype. Sit me down. You
can't stop me. Oh, I forgot. You can
stop me. I always forget about the level
one to three. Oh, when you're so low.
Damn, so much damage for no reason. Do I
go for solar flare here? We'll just
block. Watch command grab.
Okay, you're an assist. Keep them
honest. Keep them honest. Keep them
honest, guys.
Oh, that's nothing.
That's nothing. That's nothing. You know
I'm going to be there. I'm going to be
there to hit you with the jump medium.
Great first game for us. Honestly, I
wish if my tournament games went like
that, I might have won. Oh, but one
thing I did struggle with because I went
to that that tournament mostly to play
Tokon. Not like, you know, it's not like
I had I was like, "Oh, I'm going to win
Tokon." But I went mostly to play Tokon.
I was practicing Tokon. It had it it had
pretty much just come out. So, like I
had just been playing it a lot
naturally. When I went to play fighters,
tell me how like you know how in other
fighting games, if you're a fighters
player, you've definitely done this. You
like you've tried to vanish before.
You're like, "Oh, damn. I'm not in
fight." I was trying to do like
crossover reflect. What is this M? Oh my
god, he actually got inside my head so
bad. That was so embarrassing.
Oh, that was actually so humiliating,
man. Why was Goku Black moving? I didn't
know he could move like that. He just He
put me in the Goku Black show.
[screaming]
Oh god.
Oh man. Okay. Not good. I I'll say this.
This this round, not so good. What was I
talking about before? Oh, I was
basically just doing toeon mechanics. Uh
day one of of the tournament with wasn't
the tournament necessarily, but I was
just playing warm-ups for fun. Um
speaking of which,
I'm getting absolutely dominated by this
instant transmission.
Instant transmission is making me look
like I've never played defense before in
my life. Another level three just
killing my sparking time. It won't kill
Krillin. It's just going to kill the
only thing important to me right now.
Like I haven't seen it before, bro. Why
don't you
Maybe I should play games without
vanish. Maybe I should stick to not
hitting banish and tokon. And yet
I'd be lying to you right now if I said
I didn't think I was going to win this
thing. Look at the conversions. We're
not going to spend the level one. We
don't need it. I'm doing this strictly
for knockdown. Strictly for knockdown.
What's the mix? He won't spark. He's too
proud. Dragon rush. He won't. Wow.
[ __ ] I I thought he would. I thought he
would go way faster. Of course, he gets
a combo. This is not launch Goku Black,
guys. This is This is This Goku Black is
is different now,
man. It's just so much It's so much
pressure. The beam just hits like a
hardy chunky suit, bro. Like, the more
you eat, it just never stops. Level one.
Level three. Three. Am I dead? I think
I'm dead. I I I'm dead to level one.
Yeah, never mind. That health fell.
Okay, so look, we [music] might have won
game one, guys. Game two looked
horrendous. Okay, we cannot be looking
like that. I'm going to get right. I'm
going to get right. We have to get
right. That was a great priest
performance. But can you do it twice?
Can you look me in the eye and genuinely
say that you're going to do it twice?
Because I don't think you can.
Ah, he's ready for that now. I hit him
with it twice. Don't do that. Don't do
that. Don't try to hit him with the
command grab.
We spark early.
Easy block.
Jeez, man.
Jeez, man. I'm getting it on.
Let's go. Jeez. I didn't actually think
I'm doing it.
There it is. is
nice.
Okay, I'm not worried about that. That
did not That did not connect. I'm going
to be brutally honest, bro. That did not
connect. How? How? I swear I blocked
that. Okay, it's fine. We lost Jiren,
but Goku Black's not in the driver's
seat anymore.
>> No.
And then I somehow get two S whatever I
got.
>> Ah, that's really bad. Oh, he dropped
it. AND THE DOUBLE SUN. OH MY GOD. I'M
SERVING it up. DQ special.
OH, I'M SERVING. NO, NO, don't drop
that. Please don't drop that. No.
Anything but a drop there, man. Oh, what
the
Okay, we escaped.
How are you not dead?
[laughter]
>> You can tell it's not fun in games
anymore, huh? You can tell I'm locked in
now. We I I decided to kill Gohan
instead of Goku Black. Why? I don't
know. I mean, I should have killed them
both. Okay. Goku Black should have been
dead.
>> Your feet
Let's go.
>> Let's go. Let's go. Sit. No. No. No. No.
No. No. Not another drop.
>> Oh god. Okay, that's fine. We'll take
that trade.
>> Okay.
Nice, guys. This is Fighters. I don't
know what to Guys, fighters neutral just
feels so good. I know I'm saying that
post me getting hit, but I I was having
a blast there.
It felt so good, man. Fighters is the
best fighting game ever made. I'm going
to say it. I'm going to say what
everybody else in America is afraid to
say. It's the best fighting game ever
made, bro. You can't You can't replicate
it. You can only duplicate it. You got
to make Fighters 2 drop the DLC.
Somehow drop this. That had to be a
drop. Oh my god. I was I was I was
totally lying before.
He actually paid me back for my drop. Oh
my god. He's even more mad than I was.
Why? Because he thinks he's better than
this. I know I'm not. He thinks he's
better than this. I know I'm not. It
doesn't hurt me the way it hurts you.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. What the [ __ ]
is going on? This is the most whimsical
game of fighters I've ever played. How
did that catch the destru?
Ah, this might be death, guys. Emphasis
on might. We're below the sparking line,
which I think guarantees we're dead, but
if you have enough heart,
my bad. I thought we were working with
Airbud rules. That is genuinely my bad.
Uh, we can still win this pretty easy
though.
>> Oh [ __ ]
>> You blocked that.
Okay. Okay, he This guy This guy is
scary. This guy is scary, bro. I don't
even know what he's thinking half the
time.
Max the damage.
He doesn't He doesn't respect me. I got
to build him up in my head. I got to
build him up so that he doesn't like me.
He's blocked every dragon rush. I knew
it. I knew it.
I knew it. [laughter]
He wasn't ready for that. He was trying
to cheese me with barrier into super. Is
that what you were going for? You are
disgusting, man. Like I It wouldn't
work. It would have worked, too. But I
knew it. GG's. That was a great set.
[laughter]
Look at Goku. I I I've never seen that
one, bro. He's hitting the the white guy
in the kimono look right now. That was a
great first set to start the video off.
Now we're moving on to mostly bad, kind
of. Okay. I like the name cuz it it you
know, that's kind of me, bro.
What the
I thank you for your sacrifice. And I
get one bar off that. I can't believe
that didn't work.
I can't believe that didn't work. All
right. I Something had to work
eventually. It was just a matter of
time. All right. In the corner, we can
[screaming]
DP. Okay. Okay. I forgot about DP.
Oh, man. You got to you got to defend
yourself, though. You're swinging too
often.
Oh god. Thank you. Thank you very much.
I'll be taking that.
>> Uh
I don't know if this kills the burst
isn't quite there.
Super dash.
Oh, dive kick.
Oh, Goku. What the [ __ ] Oh, double sun.
[laughter]
I'm getting a lot of those today. Okay,
I don't mind that. I don't mind that at
all. I like how this was going to be
like I was going to talk about the
tournament way more, but low key fighter
is just such a good game. Like, who
wants to talk right now?
Like, I I don't Do you guys want to I
should have just exed it. I tried to go
for medium. That was that was literally
just me. Like, I I knew he wasn't going
to react and I was wrong. It's important
to Oh, Broly combos almost.
Let's go.
>> Wow. In the corner, too, man.
I can't believe who I am. All right,
this plus. Oh,
I'm so stupid. I'm so d
I should have just level one or or
something. I don't I don't know. I I
don't know what I should have. Maybe
double I should have double back flipped
level one.
What are you talking about?
You did not snag my super dash.
The fact that you think you did is
making me upset, bro. That was fight.
That was a fighter's gift. I'm expecting
raw tag immediately. No. Whoa. He locks
himself out of raw tag.
I'm going to run up and command grab.
Okay, never mind. Jabs to the forehead.
always be jabbing. All right, now all we
have to deal with is base Goku. I'm not
really worried about base Goku. Took
I'm scared.
Okay, it took it took 3 seconds. It took
3 seconds to find fear. I'm still not
Shut the [ __ ] up. Never. I'll shut up.
I'll I'll shut up. I swear to God I'll
shut up. Oh my god. Oh, that's
impossible.
So this is who I am.
>> I was I was going to say just let me
have it, bro.
You got to just let me have something.
Okay, he has level three, which makes
him insanely dangerous. I think we go in
and just 2M. If we 2M, we win. Um um
[ __ ] Why does nothing work against this
move? Why does nothing work? And he got
a level three. He didn't use it.
[screaming]
>> I'm getting bullied. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Go ahead. Try it one more time.
You should have just do it. You should
have just did it again. Should have just
did it again, bro. Maybe it would have
worked. Now look. Now look. Now you're
going to eat the truck disc for
breakfast lunch. I didn't even get to
throw. I could have thrown like 70 of
them. I'll still take it, man. You I I
Dude, I feel like he knows I'm
fraudulent now. I'll tell you what I'm
going to do. I'm going to snap in base
Goku the first dragon rush I get. My
very being towers above all. It's all a
lie. Oh, well, he's going he's going
through something. Hey, go ahead. Try
something real quick. My bad. We'll
start with this. I do promise though.
Actually, no. No. I want to see Goku.
Oh, what's up, Goku?
That's crazy, Goku. I didn't I didn't
know you were I didn't know you went to
this school, man. Oh, where are you
trying to go? You trying to run? No. You
would you would leave me, would you?
Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no, no.
Don't leave. Don't leave. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. No limit break. No limit
break. I had to
I had to talk to him real quick. I had
to talk to him. That's all I wanted to
do. I just wanted to speak to him. I
just wanted to speak to Goku. Anybody
else? We can we can talk the old
fashioned way.
Wow. I actually traded.
Yes.
Oh,
[laughter]
I just I feel like Jurro right now. Not
Not anymore. But me just spin kicking
Cooler away was sick. Oh man, it's it's
so good. It's so good. [screaming]
I wish somebody could make a game better
than this or at least on par with
[music] Dragon Ball Fighters.
That would be amazing. Sadly, I don't
think it's ever going to happen.
Oh my god, I'm nuts. I'm actually nuts.
I'm nuts.
Sit him down. Sit him down. Let's just
use some level ones. Keep keep Yamcha in
the back. That's the strategy. Make sure
you're always keeping some strong assist
back there. And now we just dominate.
Now we just dominate. I I I can say it,
but that doesn't mean it's happening.
All right, just like this, we are back.
We are back to Jiren frame one. And
going back to the tournament, this is
pretty much all I was doing. I was
always trying to go to Jiren level three
and just like instant air dash be I was
actually like simple dashing more in the
tour. Maybe I should simple dash more
online.
And I think
I think that's going to be it, guys. I
think that's going to be all she wrote
for Cooler. Beautiful set. Let's go on
to the final one. And it looks like we
got a rematch. Go ahead, hit me. Thank
you. [laughter]
And oh, Krillin Rock, I feel like
sometimes hits there. I wonder if
there's something I can do to make that
more consistent.
Okay. Oh,
nice jabs.
Actually, very good. Keeps me keeps me
under pressure. Starting to do some
cooler stuff. We did see some Broly
combos earlier, so things could get out
of hand.
Oh, actually, hold on. Don't think I
forgot about you, man. Paging Mr. Goku.
Paging Mr. Goku. I'd like to speak to
one Mr. Oh, no.
That's Mixie. I mean, that was just
pressure. You got to be ready to guard
against that.
>> Oh, that's just that's just I that's
just lovely pressure. And you know, I
got to keep him in the I got to keep him
guessing. I'm not done with him yet. I
like to start it off with the cross up
every time. Maybe it'll bite me.
Oh, I made my adjustments. I made my
adjustments. Actually, I'm good. I'm
going to raw tag instantaneously.
Nice. Raw tag works out pretty well. But
the pressure actually it keeps me
jailed. I thought I might be able to get
a 2L out there.
Instead, I'll be sat down. Actually,
I don't want to get hit with a command
grab, but I think I'm going to bet it
all on an EX counter.
>> Yep.
Oh no, that's a drop.
No, it doesn't matter. We still lived
that.
We still lived it. Oh my god. It doesn't
matter. Nothing matters anymore.
Autocombo pose. Evil must perish.
Oh no. I'm kind I'm
sorry man. I countered your assist. So
you have to die. So you have to die. Go
ahead. Hit me again. Hit me again. I'll
come to you. Oh, and then I just
followed that. Evil must die. I got
evil. I I got This is the end. Hold on.
Can I do it twice in one combo? Oh, I
think I'm dead. I think this is it.
Yeah.
He had no coming back from that one. Let
me just
Oh, he finally got the anti-beam
property off.
I will not be doing that again. In fact,
I think this is I think this is just two
level. Well, not even two.
Yeah, that is a lot of destructive disc.
Another beautiful game. Can we end it on
a final win? Going two again would be
very, very nice. I would not say no to
that. I would not say no. It's not about
what you decide. It's like, can you
actually do it? Oh, we had the start.
Oh, we had the start.
Doesn't matter though. Can he can he?
Assist usage is beating mine right now.
Oh god, I'm I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm
scared. Did that work?
Oh, that sucked. I'm I spark here.
Okay, I don't mind this. I think I'm
just going to level three. I I was
thinking about bringing in the rest of
the team, but honestly, we'll sit with
just the level three. And I'm just going
to go He's going to DP actually. Oh,
wow. He didn't, but this still works for
me. This still works very much. We eat
up his spark. Now we can just eat up the
time. That was a fail.
Beautiful.
Beautiful. I don't need the I don't need
it. Anything else I don't need. We'll
drop the combo. We'll reset it. Come on,
Broly. What do you got? Walk on into the
counter for me. Doesn't matter if you
said no. I'm I'm I'm going to show
myself into the door. I'll show myself
in. Thank you very much. You got to
jump. You got to hit something. I'mma do
it again. Hey, how's it going, Broly?
Let me punch you one more time. I would
never do it a third time. I would do it
a third time, actually. Yeah, I deserve
that.
I deserve that. I I was having fun. I
was having fun. Listen, man. I look I
thought it would be funny. I thought I'd
get the clip and you sat me down.
Damn, it is getting pretty low. I'm
going to do it again. Oh
no.
Yeah, back in the day that would have
worked though, which is Man, I missed
Jiren's old counter.
I forgot about Goku.
Okay. Okay. We got the hit. Now we have
to deal with Goku if we can get through
the insane.
Oh, he's not doing it. He had seven
bars. He had enough to do like start
spamming. He didn't want to. He had his
time. Now we punish. We just 2m on wake
up. No, we dragon rush on wake up. Yes,
cuz last time he reflected. I remember
that.
Oh, he wanted it. He was he was spamming
something and because of that he got
caught. And that's going to be the 2.
Hopefully you enjoyed this video. If you
did, let me know down below in the
comment section. With that said, I have
been Dada and I will see you in the next
one. This was really fun.