oddech_wymarlych_swiatow
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Fighting games' origin is beyond Japan but one could say that this is place when quality titles began to appear - everything before was shit compared to SF2. After 1991, market exploded with bazylion japanese copycats hard to distinct from each other (Year 2014, does it sound familiar for you?) And then, it happened.... fuckin Mortal Kombat! Regardless of what you think of its quality, it had major advantage over Street Fighter rip off - it was so unique then! Uniqe because of its western oriented aesthetics and brutality. And those lovely digitized sprites - you felt like you were 'playing the movie' and by this I don't mean on-rails / no gameplay crap of nowadays. MK gave birth to new branch of fighting games genre, with Killer Instinct as its right hand. We had Primal Rage which was so poluar that it landed on almost every platform from Amiga to PSX and even a fuken Gameboy. PCtards had FX Fighter (with Turbo remake), Xenophage (repugnant alien tournament), Pray For Death (hell tournament organised by Death himself, with Anubism, Cthulhu, Bruce Lee rip off, devil, fallen angel etc. as participants), War Gods, One Must Fall fall and few others.
Most of them was designed with PC in mind so when this platform ceased to be considered profitable for genre's devs (=when japanese companies ceased to release PC ports), western titles was no more. Only MK franchise survived but until 2011 reboot, quality lacked a bit... The last new IP I can remember of was typical 1/10 game called The Untouchable from 2000 and that's it.
But... but few years ago tiny spark of hope shined - Capcom released SF4 on PC which was success enough for not to drop the idea and gave as SF X Tekken as well. What's more, it was an impact to bring latest MK to PC and earn on it, the same with Injustice. Killer Instinct was resurrected on Xbone. Finally, someone brought back diverstification to the genre and I keep my fingers crossed for more followers to come.
I'm tired of roosters being reduced to mix of anime cliche character clones, lolishit, moeshit etc. or take on example Virtua Fighter. Gameplay-wise is fuken brilliant but also has most boring cast ever, no shit - generic kwan blonde slut, generic kwandude, generic ninja, two generic wrestlers, generic sumo, generic Ryu-rip off... booooooooring, even more than Fifa 278 with Call of Doody 3423 combined. Why can't we get more of this:
...or this...
...or this:
Most of them was designed with PC in mind so when this platform ceased to be considered profitable for genre's devs (=when japanese companies ceased to release PC ports), western titles was no more. Only MK franchise survived but until 2011 reboot, quality lacked a bit... The last new IP I can remember of was typical 1/10 game called The Untouchable from 2000 and that's it.
But... but few years ago tiny spark of hope shined - Capcom released SF4 on PC which was success enough for not to drop the idea and gave as SF X Tekken as well. What's more, it was an impact to bring latest MK to PC and earn on it, the same with Injustice. Killer Instinct was resurrected on Xbone. Finally, someone brought back diverstification to the genre and I keep my fingers crossed for more followers to come.
I'm tired of roosters being reduced to mix of anime cliche character clones, lolishit, moeshit etc. or take on example Virtua Fighter. Gameplay-wise is fuken brilliant but also has most boring cast ever, no shit - generic kwan blonde slut, generic kwandude, generic ninja, two generic wrestlers, generic sumo, generic Ryu-rip off... booooooooring, even more than Fifa 278 with Call of Doody 3423 combined. Why can't we get more of this:
...or this...
...or this:
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