| retroking1981 said: What cracks me up about this is how little people cared for the series back in the day. |
Speak for yourself. Were you around back then, did you go to arcades and play the actual games, not just the watered down (though still decent) home ports? They were immensely popular. Yes, people did love 3D fighters like VF and Tekken, but you seem to be forgetting that this was during the same span of time when Capcom's own 2D sprite based fighters like X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom were, quite frankly, WAY more popular than Tekken or Virtua Figher ever were. Killer Instinct was right there with those games, and Mortal Kombat 3/UItimate, King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, etc.
I personally really loved the first two KI games, they were excellent for what they were, and very unique among a slew of Street Fighter clones from that 90s era. I had always hoped that Rare would make a KI3, but they never did, and then after they got bought by MS, and all the actual talent gradually left the company, I switched to fervently hoping that they NEVER tried to bring the franchise back, because I had a feeling it would be shit if they did. And from all I've seen, at least in my personal opinion, I was right.
