Time for a New Stage in Fighting Game History
Tue, June 7, 2011 at 5:55 PM Fighting games need to grow up.
They’ve had their moment in the spotlight. We’ve seen all there is to see of their current paradigm. I get it already, developers. Every female character is going to wear a slutty outfit. Schoolgirls in short skirts are fair game. Boobs are awesome. Violence is equally awesome. Long strings of complex commands completely unexplained by the game are the norm. Single player exists because it has to and is deserving of little to no focus.
I’m not saying the current state of fighting games is bad, I’m saying it’s time to move on.
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JRPGs get a lot of crap for being stuck in the past. Everything about them is stagnant. From character designs to save systems to menus to combat, all aspects of modern JRPGs could have come from a decade ago with almost no change.
The only reason fighting games aren’t getting the same level of shit for the same problem is that they’re not as popular.