Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2424420/Avatar_Legends_The_Fighting_Game/
•12 characters at launch • Rollback netcode + crossplay PC/PS4/PS5/Xbox Series/Switch 2
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2424420/Avatar_Legends_The_Fighting_Game/
•12 characters at launch • Rollback netcode + crossplay PC/PS4/PS5/Xbox Series/Switch 2
It was the whole game when you bought it, and then they added more. The reason they can continue to refine a fighting game after launch these days is that they sell stuff after launch. In the online era, you can’t really get away with releasing Street Fighter Alpha 1, 2, and 3 three years in a row, because the people who bought it the first time aren’t around to play with the people who bought Alpha 3, for example. I think there’s a happy medium to strike here, but literally no one has done it before or since Ultra Street Fighter IV.
Obviously I can’t specify on this game, since it isn’t out yet, but there are plenty of cases were games are released very light on content and use season passes as a way to fill it out, as well as attempt to keep the player counts up.
The alternative is they can pad the roster out with shotos and echo fighters if they want to seem like they’re offering better value, but the truth is that making a great fighting game character takes time and money. 15 characters is a pretty reasonable expectation for a base roster, and if it does well, they can add more, keep their people employed, and hone in on a better version of the game.
I 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.
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.
MK and the FGC divorced long ago. When people say fighting games, they’re mostly talking about Japanese fighting games and a few indies.
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.
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.
“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.
It has been getting better though, no? Hasn’t Under Night registration numbers been higher than MK for the last two Evos? I don’t necessarily wish failure for MK as a competitive game, but it seems they’re happy cashing in on the casual appeal more than anything else.
Maybe this new Warner Bros. gaming division shake up will lead to a new direction, who knows what the future holds.
Sure, but for every Under Night, there’s a DNF Duel that comes in well under the likes of MK. Even if the trend line is going down for NRS, it’s still consistently high enough to track, and the era post-MK9 has done better than pre-. MK1 was supposed to be the one they supported long-term, like their competitors do, to hone in on that better game, but it misfired. A misfire for MK is still better financially than Street Fighter or Tekken on most good days, and it can be attributed to many things (only new gen hardware, rushed out the door, no advance beta to work on system mechanics, a total misread of the audience’s interest in kameos, etc.), but this wasn’t the one. Rumor has it Injustice 3 is around the corner, and like the Sonic cycle, fans will hope this is the one where they nail it, but I think people keep hoping that because they’re not far off from being able to do so.
It’s frustrating too, because other than maybe their attitude toward unblockables in their core systems design, they never seem to make the same mistakes twice. I don’t think any WB shakeup has a high chance of improving the NRS situation, but regardless of one, they’d be crazy not to keep a regular release cadence. Their single player and couch multiplayer experiences have been superb, head and shoulders above their competition, for a long time now, and people show up to pay for that. (But I’m grouchy that they replaced the Krypt with the significantly worse Invasions mode.)