With fighting games on the upswing and Marvel vs. Capcom's sudden surge of popularity, it's time to look at the one game that started it all.
NetherRealm confirms its Mortal Kombat franchise has sold over 80 million copies in the last 30 years, and here's how it competes against other fighters.
Don't care what anyone says, Smash isn't a traditional fighting game. May as well call Powerstone and Playstation All Stars fighting games. They're more of an arena fighter /party game.
You don't have to care what anyone says. It's not a traditional fighting game. But it is a fighting game.
I mean what makes them an arena fighter than say something like Tekken? Because there’s platforms?
because theres a bunch of pokeballs and other random stupid stuff on stage that you can use at your advantage and flying ultra super power ball that you got to chase on the stage to get your ougi LMAO.
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I mean what it sounds like is they took a fighting game and “added” unique mechanics to it to me.
When I think arena game I think of things like Spawn: In the Demon’s Hand or Virtual-On.
Smash to me is a fighting game, they have fighting game tournaments for it. It just doesn’t jive with me to call it “not a fighting game” because you have poke-balls and platforms or because it has 4 players at once duking it out.
Power Stone I’d consider a fighting game as well. Hell, if you google what it is everyone calls these games “fighting games”. So yea, they’re fighting games…
oh its a racer but its not a realistic one like GT or Forza. only kids check for mario kart and smash .
I didn’t say it was realistic. I said racing game. Does Burnout not being realistic make it not a racing game?
What does a demographic have to do with a genre? Do kids playing CoD make it any less an FPS? You see how ridiculous bringing up that subject is?
Nobody said it was a traditional fighter. Everyone acknowledges it as a platform fighter
PSASBR & Power Stone are fighting games, the former being a platform fighter and the latter an arena fighter
Because if cute and lovable characters are fighting it's not a fighting game? XD As long there's a versus fighting, it is a fighting game.
Including Smash Bros in a list of fighting games, is like including GTA in Racing games.
I hate to break it to you but smash bros has fighting game tournaments so it qualifies.
"and here's how it competes against other fighters"
No, Mortal Kombat doesn't compete with games like Smash Bros? It's a different genre for a different audience.
Anybody can host a tournament in their garage it doesnt mean it qualifies.
I'm going to assume you're not part of the FGC. However, I am, and I can tell you that there is a ton of overlap between people who play smash competitively and those who play other fighting games competitively.
Now for casuals, there is a lot less overlap between the two for sure.
While technically true, Leffen comes to mind, FGC and Smash community have always had a rocky relationship.
And yet, If Smash Bros was over 80 million, you wouldn't be complaining. On the contrary, you would be bragging about it.
Bad comparison. You do a LOT of things in GTA outside of a car while fighting is what you’re mainly doing in SSB
Yeah, that's a good point. Most of these games have parts to the franchise outside of traditional fighting games.
Like for example, with Mortal Kombat, do Special Forces, Mythologies: Sub: zero, and the Kollection count?
With Tekken does death by degrees or the tag tournament games count?
With Street Fighter, are we counting all the iterations of 2, 3, and 4? how about the ex series or alpha series?
There are a lot of variables at play here
Even after including Tekken Tag, they have less titles compared to all MK and SF games.
With the support for Mortal Kombat 11 officially finished, what's next for NetherRealm? It could be Injustice 3 or Mortal Kombat 12, or another game entirely.
plottwist...its Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe II..now with 100% more merged Darkseid & Shao Kahn's.
Doubtful. WB owns Netherrealm and DC comics. I can't see Disney making that deal....
Maybe, but a bunch of reputable leakers have rumored it for a bit now.
Even Ed Boon teased it a couple times, but he's a known troll of his games.
Don't get me wrong, I would buy a Netherrealm Marvel fighting game in a heartbeat. Even faster if it has some X-Men in it, namely Cyclops. But I'll believe it when I see it.
Really, that'll be awesome. I just have it fixed on injustice 3 because of the recent random patch to injustce 2 after many years and injustice animated movie makes it seems it IJ3. That Marvel stuff could just be trolling.
The recent Capcom leaks mentioned nothing about a new Marvel vs. Capcom game -- but there's no better time than now to bring back the series.
Only if Marvel stays out of interfering with it's development and not force in characters because they have movies coming out.
Well, they own the X-men and Fantastic Four film rights and moving into Phase 2 which also brings more characters, so that's an improvement already. They lost 12 from 3 to infinite and gained 6 new characters. Hopefully, we get 40 - 60+ characters again, and I'd rather they go back to 3v3, and individual comic-book like storylines of MvC3 than the poorly told and rendered cutscene story of Infinite.
Infinite had some cool ideas, but it was overall a step back for the franchise from 3 IMO.
Right!! who in the hell want to play as Hawkeye and Blackwidow??
I rather have the Fantastic 4 instead.
Nothing in the leaks unfortunately. We need a capcom vs capcom. They have enough characters to make a good game.
I have it on my PS3 and it still works. Idk what magic is behind it but I thank god for it daily
Lol yea man i had it on xbl but then my nephew was doing some bootleg stuff on my name and that name was banned. Everything i owned gone all because he wanted to use someone else's name to play mk online back when if you bought a used copy they made you pay 10 bucks to unlock online play. Thats the only game i regret losing, I would give anything to get that game back lol.
As long as you owned it and had it downloaded it will work forever just dont ever erase it.
Damn that sucks man lol. Is there anyway I can transfer it to my PS4 or 5?
I have a bunch of PS3 games that I wanna transfer over
wasn't there devs who spoke out after the meds that was MvsC3? Saying Marvel and Disney were very unpleasant to work with? Same thing seemed to have happened with KH3 with Pixar not allowing any creative freedom. I feel like this would just suck, even tho Capcom has really turn around in the quality of their games I don't trust Disney
they need to port this all over to the ps5 as well marvel vs sf marvel vs cap 1 2 in a collection would buy it in a heart beat got the 1 up arcade as well marvel vs sf saturn ps1 xmen vs sf saturn ps1 saturn marvel vs capcom 1 2 on dreamcast love these games