As someone who plays Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct and doesn't touch Street Fighter, the Street Fighter stuff certainly looks slow to me.
The new mechanics in SF6 definitely feel prescriptive and force an extra layer of decision making. There’s a really strong focus on drive meter economy and the games pace is already pretty fast with all the decisions you have to make moment to moment. The game feels like it has more active defense and offense than MK does.
Revisiting the chaos of the old fighting games is bittersweet, in general.
Here’s me, a bronze Wolverine eating a 60 +hit infinite from a grandmaster Spider-Man in Marvel Super Heroes, one of the few 1v1 games that were part of the most recent collection.
These games are pretty janky but they’re also pretty fast paced and fun. SF6 is definitely more considered than any of these old arcade games but a dash of chaos can be fun, and there’s a reason that marvel vs capcom collection is doing so well - it’s not just MVC die hards.
but there’s a balance to be achieved between a loose game and a tight game using maxes categorizing system.
