FIGHTING GAME RENNAISANCE?

[unbeknowNst]

Are we currently in the reawakening of fighting games?

At first I thought all these fighting games coming out was about average... I thought with MvC3, SF4, and Blazblue we would be set for the next decade.

But what is going on now?

There is a SHITLOAD of new games in progress or already out...

KOFXIII
New Guilty Gear (TBA)
Aquapazza (Queen of Hearts)
Skullgirls
Ougen blahboahblah I dont know the name
Mortal Kombat 9
SFxT
Tekken Tag Tourny 2
TxSF
SF4: Koryu (lol)
BlazBlue 2?


It's like a new revolution of fighting games. Personally I think the reason why all these new fighters are coming out... is because or Yoshinori Ono.

His success with SF4 (2008) --> 2010/11 SSF4/AE era has inspired a shitload of other companies to throw out new fighters as well.

Maybe it isn't Yoshinori Ono.... but one must think to himself, was it not SF4 and SSF4 that not only rehyped the fighting game scene, but brought in a shitload of new players as well?

i don't know, I just find it interesting to speculate

[SNT]

Renaissance is a word that describes a period of revival in a medium inspired solely by love for the culture.  That age passed for videogames long ago.  If anything we're in the videogames industrial revolution, where the revival, sustaining and dying of a genre is determined solely by how profitable it is.

[Duos.act]

Definitely SF4 that set this off.  Capcom took a pretty big gamble, but the success of SF4 is a large factor in the revival of the genre.

[Nero D.]

wouldnt call it a revival so much as a return to the manstream/casuals

the fighting game genre never died it just fell off the radar for a while but its always been there even if in that while it was a niche to some with the annoying surge in fps war games set during FUCKING WORLD WAR 2 that made people stop playing fighting games for the longest time

but yeah fighting games have always been there regardless of that drought

see: evo

[unbeknowNst]

nah man it didnt just fall off the radar... the fighting game genre fucken died out in 2007 and mid 2008.

evo 2k9 prize money: $6,000
evo 2k10 prize money: $20,000

it's always been there but was smaller, muchhhhhhhhhhh smaller than now

[S.D.]

the fighting game genre fucken died out in 2007 and mid 2008.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf
Big Bang Beat
Bleach: Dark Souls
Fate/tiger colosseum
Godzilla: Unleashed
Naruto Shippūden: Narutimate Accel 2
Naruto: Rise of a Ninja
One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
Soulcalibur Legends
Tekken 6
Ultimate Mortal Kombat (DS)

[unbeknowNst]

are those fighting games?

[OZ]

Soulcalibur Legends

poppycock
i call shenanigans

[S.D.]

are those fighting games?

They are MMORPGS

[GOH]

Tekken 6 is a dating sim. HUMF HUMF OH YEAH ANNA HUMF HUMF

[S.D.]

I'm more fond of Alisa.

[Iced]

The one you take out on dates while you buildup her AI and then dress her up?

FUCKING DATING SIM.

[GOH]

And then your character gets obssessed with her and wants to have sex but she's all like "If you would like to have sexual intercourse please update your software to the latest version. Thank you."

[Iced]

You noob, i bet you didnt even play it to see the love triangle when she trades you for Jin.

[GOH]

I just play to get all the CG artwork so I can fap all day.

[Hrestelan]

New Guilty Gear (TBA)

What?! When? How?

*goes in a mad spree searching info*

[Formerly Hoshi]

What?! When? How?

*goes in a mad spree searching info*

derp

[Basara Bogard]

Rennaisance?? And in which moment it died??

[OZ]

New Guilty Gear (TBA)

What?! When? How?

*goes in a mad spree searching info*

Daisuke Ishiwatari pulled the plug because you're too old to be playing games.
Go get a job.

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

Lets not forget Soul Calibur 5 and its thoiusands of hentai etc guest characters