Fighting games aren't as popular as they used to be. The 90's and early 2000's were perhaps the golden years of the fighting game genre. Arcades were still relevant in North America and mainstream publications covered these fighting games as extensively as any other genre. There was no shortage of releases for fighting game fans. From the usual Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat to King of Fighters, Virtua Fighter, Tekken, etc... the genre was alive and kicking.
Unfortunately, as years passed by, the popularity of fighters waned. With each coming year, less and less new fighters released and even a juggernaut like Virtua Fighter was relegated to niche status. The fighting game that ushered in the 3D era of fighting games and spurred an upsurge of competitors died to all but the hardcore faithful.
Fighting games are still around. With the impending release of Street Fighter 5(as well as Tekken 7 and King of Fighters 14) stirring up excitement and more recently released(or re-re...
Street Fighter 5 launched in 2016, and is widely considered a misstep for the hugely popular franchise. This article explains why that is.
Every Street Fighter is called a misstep of the series since Street Fighter III..and even the Alpha games were not liked by everyone.
SF V had a miserable start but later it did a lot things actually better than SFIV and SF6.
SF6 is the first SF since SFII Turbo for that I did not buy at launch. And today, around 6 months after its launch I still have no motivation to buy it.
I've had every Street Fighter on launch since SFII on the SNES. SFV is definitely my least played of them all.
SF6 is very good. You should give it a second look.
Maybe in 2-3 years when there is a version that has characters I care for.
So far there is not one of the new characters I like..and my favourite 4 are not a part of it either. (Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Vega) + the whole hip hop style and the crappy music turned me totally off.
Looking forward a lot to Tekken 8.
SF4 vanilla was loved by most and and not considered a misstep. It wasn't until they went revision crazy that people started turning on Capcom.
Don't remember the criticques it got for the big hands and feet, the sometimes weird looking faces, the lame boss (Seth) and that so many characters were shotos and yup..the many new versions. Just every SF got its haters no matter how good it was.
It was criticized for the first trailers having an interesting art style with those ink splashes, but the real game had none of that and people felt cheated. And Capcom decided to add some of those effects in the game later because of the backlash. But I don't remember any other big complaints about it.
I grew out of fighting games, loved them as a kid but online you just get your ass kicked over and over leaving just the bare bones single player and also having no friends anymore who like fighting games either just makes me not want to buy or play them anymore.
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agree on the accesibility... DOA 5 last round is the only fighting game where I can play online and feel like I'm really playing... in Street fighter or MvC I try to play online and I'm not really playing I'm just watching helplessly as my life bar drains
With the steam sale you can buy DOA5LR and all DLC for around $440. The more "realistic" breast physics are still console exclusive.
Matchmaking can take up to half an hour to find 1 match, if you're lucky, in all versions. If they spent half as much time on their netcode as they do pandering to perverts and weeaboos, DOA5LR might not be the ghost town that it is today.
"Fighting games aren't as popular as they used to be."
Lol what? Both Netherrealm and Capcom will disagree with you there.
I love fighting games.. Hopefully DOA 6 gets released with no censorship issues