FGC Hollywood: A Fighting Game Podcast

We're coming back for a vengeance soontm! Everyone who doubted us is going to be playing basketball in pelican bay when were finished with them, SHOE PROGRAM. (not really but we are coming back).

The long awaited MapleStory episode is here! Pringle and Mac reminisce about the days of old MapleStory, and talk about how the game changed over the years, and why it was so special during a moment in time.

Broken talks about his semi-cancelation experience at Dreamhack Dallas, Pringle and Mac discuss crime and punishment in the fighting game community.

Longtime listener and RTO community member Zio joins the show to talk to Mac about Street Fighter 6!

We're back with a catch up show this week after a month off. Next episode will be the MDK2 review discussion.

Mac and Pringle are scared of Tekken 8, meanwhile Broken is excited to get aggressive in 3D. The gang also plays some fighting game trivia, recap Pringle's GGXRD tournament victory, and preview some fighting games in 2023.

We finally finished our first game review discussion episode, only took us 6 months to plan and record it. Also, I added a lot of b-roll to the video version of this one for more context, so you can check out the video version here: https://youtu.be/F04QRuKnRgc

We had a rough start to 2023 but we're picking it up finally. Broken, Pringle, and Mac catch up after three weeks away from the podcast.

A new era for RTO is upon us. We'll still talk about games because we're nerds, but we want to expand on some topics moving forward instead of just painting ourselves into a corner. Hope to see ya'll around for the ride.

Final show of 2022! The gang wraps up their favorite games of the year, alongside reviewing The Game Awards 2022 albeit 3 weeks later.

Mac, Pringle, and Broken catch up on all of November's fighting game news, including a little bit of FGC Twitter drama as well as the big Panda Global drama Smash controversy.

Mac, Pringle, and Broken use another slow week in the gaming world to answer a few of the mailbag questions, make fun of fighting games, and ramble a bunch for 90 minutes.

Pringle makes his podcast return, and we talk about how we play games, and how our different priorities create for different experiences despite playing the same games.

Broken and Mac combine their own game genres tier list into one and discuss on the podcast!

Voice actors love drama, and by drama I mean twitter.

Previewing the Street Fighter 6 beta and talking about Juri's feet.

Mac and Broken talk about the latest Arc System Works news, including Toshimichi Mori's departure, Guilty Gear XRD getting rollback netcode, as well as reading the listener's questions for the first mailbag episode.

The long-awaited spoilercast/review discussion game picks episode is here. Broken and Mac each talk about their 5 games they've nominated to be a part of the final vote for the review discussion episode!

Tokyo Game Show and Sony's State of Play had a lot games up on the stage, and so Broken and Mac are tasked with recapping it all, as well as giving their thoughts on the upcoming next gen fighting games Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8.

No Pringle again this week, but Broken and Mac talk about how certain gaming communities affect the gaming experience, as well as talk about flash and stickman games, and of course whatever Temtem is.

Mac and Broken talk a little about games that they can't help but love, despite having some significant flaws and criticisms. Turns out Broken is a waifu weeb, and Mac likes to be depressed. 

The first episode of Ride To Orbis is here! The gang talks about expectations for the new show, EVO 2022, Indie games, and more!

The final episode of FGC Hollywood! Mac, Pringle and Broken talk Street Fighter 6, reminisce about their favorite moments while recording the podcast, and look on the horizon for what's next!

We took off like 3 weeks, intentionally for one of them but unintentional for the rest, anyway, we are back with a bunch of news, an announcements about Hollywood's future, and Broken's Combo Breaker 2022 experience!

Mac and Broken take another slow news week as an opportunity to predict which games from the EVO 2022 line-up will age like milk or age line wine, also the FGC got jebaited by Capcom's composer, and Capcom revises their community license for tournament organizers.

Broken and Mac having a fighting game themed draft, Lab Coat 21 was almost banned, and Zio wrote in a 4000 page essay to read on the podcast.

Spy X Family took over the podcast, as well as everyone's twitter feed, but it's okay, we still managed to talk about how P4U2 is great, and rant about fighting game tutorials being bad.

Pringle is back on his birthday and to celebrate he joins Mac and Broken on episode 50 of FGC Hollywood!

Testament's gender overshadows Strive crossplay, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is great, but the port isn't, Capcom loves costumes, DNF Duel has a release date, and more on this episode of the podcast!

The podcast is finally back and so is Brokenwing! We had a lot to catch up on from KOFXV launch reception, SFVI's logo and Capcom's fumbling of their new license agreement, and much more!

The end of the TMP era of FGC Hollywood. KOFXV is right on the horizon, I take a look back at the whole Persona Fight Club beef, and answer a comment about oversexualized characters in fighting games.

Baiken is out in Strive, TFH gets a publisher, and Mac has a run in with the Persona Fight Club.

It's been one Sloooooooooow week so Mac made up a bunch of fake headlines, and goes over some lessons learned in fighting games. Two more months till purse owner!

A delirious episode from a hotel room, but the lesson here is just be happy ya'll.

End of the year is here, and so are the FGC Hollywood Fighting Awards! Happy New Year everyone!

EVO is in good hands, Atlus hurts us all with P4U2 delay netcode news, and Mac explains why he picks his favorite fighting game characters.

No PringleTheOne nor PringleTheTwo on this episode of Hollywood. Mac's bad internet does not allow for cross country podcasting, so monologue podcasts will be the norm for a while. However, plenty of things to discuss like P4U2 PC remaster, DNF Duel not playing by any rules, Guilty Gear: Strive winning fighting game of the year, and more!

Fighting games are back offline with CEO 2021, Hollywood boycotts SNK, we pick our DNF Duel characters, and Pringle picks a fight with an orangutan.

Mac goes off on the Hitbox twitter account, and tournament rules. Project L released new information after over a year of silence, The King of Fighters XV beta is rip to non-PS+ users, and the crew picks their top 5 League of Legends characters.

Red Kumite was a great reminder of why offline fighting games are so fun to be a part of. We talk about Phantom Breaker: Omnia's poor decisions, Happy Chaos' addition to Guilty Gear: Strive, and rate guest characters in fighting games within the last 8 years.

We're back! FGC Hollywood is finally recording again after a 4 month slumber, and we have some exciting things to talk about in the world of fighting games, as well as some fun changes for the show, which now includes video on YouTube, segment changes, and expansions to shows like the upcoming FGC Hollywood+

Episode 38 of FGC Hollywood will come out on November 1st!

The podcast will be taking an indefinite break until Mac feels it's the right time to come back. Thanks to all who have supported the show for the last year.

Hollywood is going bi-weekly moving forward, we have a discord exhibition coming soon, and Melty Blood: Type Lumina is still on our minds.

NRS ceases development of Mortal Kombat 11 to no one's surprise, Arcsys might get purchased by Sony, and we got beef with the C in the FGC.

The true savior of the FGC is almost here, Melty Blood: Type Lumina shows off more in one trailer than KOFXV has in 24 trailers. We also talk about the future of Killer Instinct, why Claymore is so good, and how casual input can be dangerous for the future of fighting game development.

Not a lot of news to cover, but we made sure to talk about what we want from KOFXV outside of character trailers, more of our thoughts on Guilty Gear: Strive, and even a little bit of Killer Instinct talk.

I'm sorry. We'll be back next week lol.

We're alive! Hollywood is back after two weeks and we make sure to talk all about the stuff we missed such as Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown, KOFXV's delay to 2022, the upcoming release of Guilty Gear: Strive, and more.

Almost an entire episode dedicated to Guilty Gear: Strive's second open beta, we also make sure to talk a little about Leona in KOFXV, and answer a GBVS related listener question off the heels of it's director pretty much saying no to rollback.