| GamerOhaLAA said: I dont mean a revival as in more games. i meant more attention. People are more excited about the Halos or the Final Fantasies and Gears. Its more appealing nowadays. Remember when vgchartz asked which is our fave genre and you were able to vote (like the wii question now). the fighting genre was nowhere to be found. it got low votes. theres gotta be a reason why it got low amount of votes so it makes me think why. Many points here make sense like how shooters and other genres improve by adding more to the gameplay where fighting cant because its all mostly there. Its true what one of you said too about how we need a new fighter to appeal to each console like teken did to PSX and Soul Calibur to Dreamcast and Super Smash did for Nintendo. (Killer Instinct 3 is still in my radar, hopefull for it) |
Slimebeast already answered your question. It's an old genre that outside of depth rarely sees noticible changes. When a change comes however it's generally very note worthy and the individual game get's lot's of attention. Karateke for being one of the founders, SF2 for current design. VF for 3d. Tekken for unique emergent combos. Soul Edge for weapons. While many games improve on themselves non offeres anything all that different in design than their original. Of course we have had Power Stone, SSB series and Dissidia, but for the most part the genre hasn't made a large impression becuase they are all mostly the same. Someday someone will come out with a new fighter that will make a big splash, but it will be very different.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
