I don't really care what Capcom / NRS / Namco / Sega or anybody do with their games as long as its good. People want to play the allegiance game to feel good at the end of the day, that fine. All I'm about is good fighting game packaages, and I just think we've reached a point where NRS has proven a competent story helps a fighting game. Maybe its not essential, but the fact that MK9 and Injustice's story modes were actually serious selling points for a lot of people, I think its something that merits looking into. Capcom preached a lot early on about how they were learning things from MK9 about storytelling but both Ultimate Marvel (admittedly, it would've been hard to change that) and SfXt still wound up with. . well this;
Even if you ignore the fact that the writing is goofy as shit, the music, the animation, the dub, the camera work, the releavance to the gameis like, who fucking cares? Who paid good money to mocap and record that (in multiplle languages, no less) when nobody will ever watch that a second time ever? What a waste.