Courante
Give all to another and save yourself
Why is it that you can draw a direct line between a a fighitng series becoming:
A) More Competetive
B) More Mainstream
and the game also being
a) dumbed down mechanically (more "accessible")
b) less exciting / slower
We had/are having this discussion with
Popped into a livestream and apparently people take any critique of MK11 personally to the point of becoming visibily frustrated that the discussion is even being had.
"If you liked X you had no neutral"
"9 was jank shit we've come a long way"
"If you don't like MK11 then X was your first game"
Like holy shit look around you. You cannot deny that there has been and will continue to be a trend with newly released fighitng games that seek to radically redesign themselves in order to appeal to people who don't fucking like fighting games. And for what? Sales and ESPORTS $? Imagine flushing an entire genre down the toilet for ESPORTS appeal.
Fighting games are shipping with:
i. Smaller Rosters
ii. Pre-Release on disc DLC
iii. Core Characters missing to be on said DLC
iv. Bare Minimum features (ie paying 60/80/100 for online ranked and training mode lmao)
v. slower nuetral based approach but also gimping or removing moves from characters to make it more balanced
vi. ESPORTS TM (C) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
vii. fifty fucking season passes etc.
viii. dumbass cross promos
MVCI:
SFV:
Mortal Kombat 11
GUILTY GEAR -S T R I V E-
A) More Competetive
B) More Mainstream
and the game also being
a) dumbed down mechanically (more "accessible")
b) less exciting / slower
We had/are having this discussion with
- Street Fighter
- MK
- Guilty Gear
- Dead or Alive
- Marvel vs Capcom
- Soul Calibur 6 (dead fucking game lmao)
Popped into a livestream and apparently people take any critique of MK11 personally to the point of becoming visibily frustrated that the discussion is even being had.
"If you liked X you had no neutral"
"9 was jank shit we've come a long way"
"If you don't like MK11 then X was your first game"
Like holy shit look around you. You cannot deny that there has been and will continue to be a trend with newly released fighitng games that seek to radically redesign themselves in order to appeal to people who don't fucking like fighting games. And for what? Sales and ESPORTS $? Imagine flushing an entire genre down the toilet for ESPORTS appeal.
Fighting games are shipping with:
i. Smaller Rosters
ii. Pre-Release on disc DLC
iii. Core Characters missing to be on said DLC
iv. Bare Minimum features (ie paying 60/80/100 for online ranked and training mode lmao)
v. slower nuetral based approach but also gimping or removing moves from characters to make it more balanced
vi. ESPORTS TM (C) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
vii. fifty fucking season passes etc.
viii. dumbass cross promos
MVCI:
- looked like trash
- trash roster
- simple inputs
- MCU IP for normie $$$$$
- E fucking SPORTS baby
SFV:
- trash launch roster
- eCAPCOM PRO SPORTS TOUR
- no fucking story mode or arcade mode or any fun additional shit that used to be there when fighitng games were still videogames and devs wanted to put cool content in
- NERFED EVERY CHARACTER AFTER BETA
- less creativity / balanced / less moves
- 65 million DLC packs
- CRUSH COUNTER so normies know when they got a counter hit
Mortal Kombat 11
- variations are back and worse than ever (wtf was going on at launch lmao)
- grindy FOMO chain yourself to your console SP content
- launch roster was dog (all your favorites are dead LUL)
- NEUTRAL IS FINALLY HERE !
- but say goodbye to staple moves, movement, execution, meter management, high octane mixups, setplay, combos, and creativity
- custom variations but with objectively trash moves that never seem to get buffed
- Breakaway
- Wakeups were hard so we got rid of them for a universal hold your hand baby's first wakeup system
- KrUshINg BlOW so normies know when they got a counter hit
- E S P O R T S
- Rounda Rousey
- dumb downed gameplay
- tiny launch roster with core characters missing or on-disc DLC
- fanservice bad we need the esports audience
- release with no fucking content
- no lobbies for online play
- fanservice is good actually please play dress up with your waifus (600000000 DLC PACKS) we need money
GUILTY GEAR -S T R I V E-
- dumbed down for people who never liked the series enough to learn
- less moves per character
- C O U N T E R
- nerfed movement and setplay
- THE CORNER FUCKING BREAKS SO BABIES DON'T HALF TO LEARN DEFENSE KEKW
- tiny as fuck launch roster with less than 16 characters confirmed at launch L M A O
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- S
- P
- O
- R
- T
- S
- 100% gauranteed
- ez inputs and cooldown system for RPG players I guess and mobile
- 0 fucking meaningful content
- 11 FUCKING CHARACTERS AT LAUNCH
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