MK and the FGC divorced long ago. When people say fighting games, they’re mostly talking about Japanese fighting games and a few indies.
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Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 hours agoI bought MK Deception at launch, it had multiple different play modes, a lot of characters and a new incredible sequel MK game came like the next year and another year after that an entire new game with every character ever.
3 complete distinct games that pushed the envelope in 3 years without DLC. New MK sucks, just looks more polished and people think it should be priced with RDR2 AND get the season model?
You are defending greed to the detriment of art.
mohab@piefed.social 9 hours ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s not true. MK always improves something and walks something else back, but the last few games have been their largest competitive community by a significant margin.
mohab@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I don’t even know how to respond to this, like, you’re wrong, but show the graph. I wanna see what kind of numbers you’re looking at because MK competitive numbers have clearly been nosediving for at least half a decade.
Like, even if you go back a decade to MKX just to prove a point, you’ll at best get a nice bell curve that clearly shows a divorce with the FGC when compared to the steadily rising competitive numbers of other fighting games.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Their last few games” spans about a decade, yes. When given the choice to pick eight main stage games by number of entrants, NRS games make the list. Their ratio is horrible compared to copies sold, but they still pull more entrants than most. Believe me: I’d prefer my favorite indie fighting game could pull better numbers than MK too, but it doesn’t.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I never played the MKs from that era, but they do not have a great reputation compared to the modern games. There is a competitive game to be played here too, and a new one every year doesn’t really give any one of them time to breathe.