Counter argument: Street Fighter is not of a genre in which modding keeps the game going, especially not cosmetic modding. It'll be kept alive because SF7 doesn't exist yet and nothing else has come along to dethrone it in the meantime and ideally because it'll have gameplay that's deep enough to keep the community engaged and developing new tech. Bethesda's titles are good examples of the point you are trying to make, whereas fighting games are an atrocious example.
Good counter argument as not into fighting games (just don't have the muscle memory for it) but it does seem from and outside perspective capcom is not putting that much effort into their franchises anymore at least aesthetically.
Is there a balance as with other genres where the gameplay can only carry a title so much before the asthetics ruin any incentive to play it?
There's probably some level where bad aesthetics will turn people off from playing a fighting game, but it's pretty much an ancillary feature and I'm not aware of any game on the market that has actually crossed that threshold. If the core gameplay isn't there then the game will die. If the game is losing momentum it's always down to the gameplay and no injection of good visuals will do anything to move the needle. Just look at DNF Duel. That game had gorgeous visuals and some of the best rollback netcode known to man, but the gameplay just wasn't strong enough and it died a pretty meek death.
Yeah, fighting games are simply a total anomaly when it comes to the industry, it’s basically the only genre where current DLC practices are actually an improvement over what used to happen.
Counter argument: Street Fighter is not of a genre in which modding keeps the game going, especially not cosmetic modding. It'll be kept alive because SF7 doesn't exist yet and nothing else has come along to dethrone it in the meantime and ideally because it'll have gameplay that's deep enough to keep the community engaged and developing new tech. Bethesda's titles are good examples of the point you are trying to make, whereas fighting games are an atrocious example.
Good counter argument as not into fighting games (just don't have the muscle memory for it) but it does seem from and outside perspective capcom is not putting that much effort into their franchises anymore at least aesthetically.
Is there a balance as with other genres where the gameplay can only carry a title so much before the asthetics ruin any incentive to play it?
There's probably some level where bad aesthetics will turn people off from playing a fighting game, but it's pretty much an ancillary feature and I'm not aware of any game on the market that has actually crossed that threshold. If the core gameplay isn't there then the game will die. If the game is losing momentum it's always down to the gameplay and no injection of good visuals will do anything to move the needle. Just look at DNF Duel. That game had gorgeous visuals and some of the best rollback netcode known to man, but the gameplay just wasn't strong enough and it died a pretty meek death.
Yeah, fighting games are simply a total anomaly when it comes to the industry, it’s basically the only genre where current DLC practices are actually an improvement over what used to happen.
An improvement over just having alternate colors/costumes being built into the base game? Or were you referring to roster expansions?
Roster expansions