Author Archives: Daniel De Leon Aguilar

Street Fighter 6, Capcom’s new entry into their popular fighting game series hit the streets June 2nd, 2023. SF6 hit the shelves with three main game modes: World Tour, Battle Hub, and Fighting Grounds. World Tour is the game’s story mode that also teaches you the mechanics of the game. Battle Hub is SF6’s onlineContinue reading “Street Fighter 6 (Reviewbase)”

It’s been a long time since I’ve wrote an article for my blog and a lot has changed. I finally graduated from Texas State University.I’m about to be married to my fiancée in a few months.I’ve “retired” from smash.I’ve moved on and I’m playing more traditional 2D fighting games.I’m currently looking for a job inContinue reading “I’m back!”

College students at Texas State are hitting the end of the semester. Sharing my insight of fighting games was a fun experience and I hope it helped some people. One thing I wish I could have included more info graphic type videos. I wanted to share a more visual experience with my audience, and itContinue reading “The Experience of Content Creation.”

Let’s say you’ve been playing fighting games casually for years now. Pressing random buttons and knowing one special move is how you get by playing with friends. One day, you randomly meet someone at a friend’s birthday party while you guys play smash, you notice your not winning at all. You really want to beatContinue reading “Fundamentals”

Finding a main can be difficult. Depending on the games roster, there could be a lot of possibilities to find a character to use in your competitive career. Some people don’t just find one main, they co-main or tri-main, or have secondary’s for counter-picking. The way a player finds their main depends on the playerContinue reading “How to find a Main”

A huge part of fighting games is the controller the player chooses to use. Controllers used by most of the FGC population are the “Fight Stick” and the “pad.”  The fight stick has been around forever. The fight stick is the portion of the arcade cabinet that has the stick to move your character aroundContinue reading “Controllers…So many of them.”

I like to play video games with friends all the time (even outside of fighting games), its one of my favorite things to do. Even if it’s a game I dislike, if I’m playing it with friends, I’ll try to make it fun. Once it starts to get competitive though, my mindset changes. My mindContinue reading “Mentality”

Fighting games are difficult. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard so many people tell me that as we’re playing or in random conversations about video games. There was even a time where I had this type of mentality. When I started playing fighting game competitively, I was always thinking of new things to do. It wasContinue reading “Core-A Gaming Review/Appreciation”

I injured myself skateboarding in 2014. It took nearly a whole year to get an assigned date to get surgery. I could walk perfectly but anytime I tried to get more active than that, my knee would be in so much pain. During that time, video games took up a lot of my time. IContinue reading “What is the FGC?”

My name is Daniel De Leon Aguilar and I play Fighting Games competitively. The Fighting Game Community (known as FGC, a branch of eSports) knows me by my gaming alias: Doombase. I play Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter. I started out my competitive career playing Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in 2015 andContinue reading “Let me formally introduce myself….”