If you see the signs and ignore them, you can only blame yourself when you are inevitably disappointed. Any chance of a revival or your favourite series returning to form is effectively nill- forget about it and just remember the good old titles that make you happy.
Muh ReALiSm: It's a game about people ripping each others' spines out in Mortal Combat- fighting other realms for the survival of your own, but titty armour is too unrealistic?
Growing up: Oh, we want a mature beat-em-up with cartoonish levels of gore and ultra-violence. Right.
Lore revision: Can't have any stronk wahmen ever show weakness or be perceived as less than a man in any capacity; re-write that shit so her motivations no longer make sense or have the same impact.
Don't give these assholes that hate you and your hobby any money, ever. If they aren't making games or adding elements "because it's fun", then it's not worth your time. Rule of Cool is the only creative law a spectacle fighter should follow.
I skipped 11 until a friend of mine whom I always want to get into fighting games got it when they did the character expansion that included Robocop. I couldn't justify not playing a game in the genre I want to play with him just because I disliked the recent aesthetics of. So I did.
They butchered Sindel and Sheeva to such an extent it borders on the unbelievable. Sindel is the most damaged character story-wise due to massive ret-cons that make her a far far FAR less interesting character than ever before. Everything interesting about her has been deleted. Justification was "She looks evil, so she should be plainly evil" and this justifies her being a dick to everyone more often, which is how you write a good strong "feminist" character I'm told.
Sheeva is now a raving mouthpiece of incoherent man-hate. For no reason. She's a female barbarian, so of course she hates men, that's how it works when you're an obviously strong muscular female... again, so I'm told. It is unfortunate because her playstyle is perhaps the best (and most unfair) it's ever been. And if not for her grotesque look, and even more grotesque dialog, she'd be my main. That's actually what ultimately killed me off the game. They made my perfect character and made it impossible for me to play her.
Jade and Scarlett were both hit with the +ugly, +ethnic, +clothes sticks. Jade keeps getting blacker and more 'representative' and Scarlett is now vaguely Asian for some reason and hates showing skin when that doesn't work with her power of blood manipulation at all. You need access to your own blood while fighting... lets draw it through seven layers of turbans and leather!
With the singular exception of Johnny Cage, every character was made worse with the writing in 11. Then they went and removed Johnny's end-round taunt where he plays the circle game with you, because its suddenly a white-power symbol according to these brainlets.
My friend showed mercy on me because he knew I was having a very hard time holding my nose while playing and instead we transitioned to Guilty Gear AC+R (rollback is required for us due to how far apart we live, which is again why it's a shame we can't play MK since its netcode is great).
Ultimately, it did work, and my friend is much more into fighting games now. We're currently awaiting the new Melty Blood game, and entertaining ourselves with emulated versions of great old NeoGeo games. Seriously their fighting games were top-shelf. Hurray for good outcomes!
Mortal Kombat X was a turning point after they hired She-Burch and got rapidly converted.
Status: Converged
If you see the signs and ignore them, you can only blame yourself when you are inevitably disappointed. Any chance of a revival or your favourite series returning to form is effectively nill- forget about it and just remember the good old titles that make you happy.
Muh ReALiSm: It's a game about people ripping each others' spines out in Mortal Combat- fighting other realms for the survival of your own, but titty armour is too unrealistic?
Growing up: Oh, we want a mature beat-em-up with cartoonish levels of gore and ultra-violence. Right.
Lore revision: Can't have any stronk wahmen ever show weakness or be perceived as less than a man in any capacity; re-write that shit so her motivations no longer make sense or have the same impact.
Don't give these assholes that hate you and your hobby any money, ever. If they aren't making games or adding elements "because it's fun", then it's not worth your time. Rule of Cool is the only creative law a spectacle fighter should follow.
I skipped 11 until a friend of mine whom I always want to get into fighting games got it when they did the character expansion that included Robocop. I couldn't justify not playing a game in the genre I want to play with him just because I disliked the recent aesthetics of. So I did.
They butchered Sindel and Sheeva to such an extent it borders on the unbelievable. Sindel is the most damaged character story-wise due to massive ret-cons that make her a far far FAR less interesting character than ever before. Everything interesting about her has been deleted. Justification was "She looks evil, so she should be plainly evil" and this justifies her being a dick to everyone more often, which is how you write a good strong "feminist" character I'm told.
Sheeva is now a raving mouthpiece of incoherent man-hate. For no reason. She's a female barbarian, so of course she hates men, that's how it works when you're an obviously strong muscular female... again, so I'm told. It is unfortunate because her playstyle is perhaps the best (and most unfair) it's ever been. And if not for her grotesque look, and even more grotesque dialog, she'd be my main. That's actually what ultimately killed me off the game. They made my perfect character and made it impossible for me to play her.
Jade and Scarlett were both hit with the +ugly, +ethnic, +clothes sticks. Jade keeps getting blacker and more 'representative' and Scarlett is now vaguely Asian for some reason and hates showing skin when that doesn't work with her power of blood manipulation at all. You need access to your own blood while fighting... lets draw it through seven layers of turbans and leather!
With the singular exception of Johnny Cage, every character was made worse with the writing in 11. Then they went and removed Johnny's end-round taunt where he plays the circle game with you, because its suddenly a white-power symbol according to these brainlets.
My friend showed mercy on me because he knew I was having a very hard time holding my nose while playing and instead we transitioned to Guilty Gear AC+R (rollback is required for us due to how far apart we live, which is again why it's a shame we can't play MK since its netcode is great).
Ultimately, it did work, and my friend is much more into fighting games now. We're currently awaiting the new Melty Blood game, and entertaining ourselves with emulated versions of great old NeoGeo games. Seriously their fighting games were top-shelf. Hurray for good outcomes!