I've been wondering this because everywhere I see them being talked about, no-one's ever said anything positive about them.
If someone had a complete full game that was bug free and available
"no, I made this, it's all my work".I really had issues with someone making this in the past.
Even now, mugen is 20 years old and you can count on two hands the complete 100% bug free full game releases.In those 10 years, I saw only 2 full games with content self made and now working in my own project, I know how hard is to make something like this, we put too much effort, and the result come slowly. And thats for me is one of the issues of a compilation, the guy behind a compilation don't know how hard is, and most simply don't respect the work.
100% bug free full game releases.
a compilation killed my wife
Compilations burned our crops, poisoned our water supply and delivered a plague onto our houses!!!
No, but are we just going to stand around until they do???
^This is my major problem with compilations. Many of them are a mish mash of various authors' content that it becomes a jumbled mess. It honestly grinds my gears when the compilation creator proceeds to say something like "Hey guys! I made a Mugen game! Check it out!"
Not to mention the bad name compilations tends to give Mugen as a whole. Many people outside of the community often only know Mugen through poorly made compilations and skews their impression of the engine.
That brings me to another point where some people complain about Mugen as a whole because it has broken or dumb shit. Like what the fuck, don't download it into your roster then? Nothing's stopping them from excluding those characters, but people whose only hands on exposure to Mugen is through compilations wouldn't have learned that.
Call me an elitist, but I honestly think people should just construct one's own personal compilation from scratch, starting from the base roster of Kung Fu Man, and working their way up to a full personalized roster of characters, stages, and various motifs segments. You learn a lot more about how to work with configuring things on your own that way.