are you talking about the meter system?! i don't see how that was a bad thing, it only seemed like the natural course for any fighter these days to take. i don't feel that they "sold out" to cater to 2D fans (i say 2D instead of SF since almost all 2d fighters have meters). if anything, SC2 "sold out" with 3 different well-known popular characters.
SC including guest characters is what gathered that "huge" SC2 fanbase in the first place. That, and making the game in all three consoles of that gen.
Exactly. People saying SC "sold out" should have said that a decade ago.
Says most of the majority that disliked Patroklos and the new characters? Willingness to play as them and liking them aren't specifically tied as one or the other. Though the time skip was just used to get rid of the old cast purely and if thats what people hate then they hate the time skip being the cause.
Enough to petition for a 5th installment/enough to mark 200k likes on FB. Seems big to me.
I think the hype came from the guest characters but from what I know of SC2 was a lot of people's starting game into the franchise. It got them in but it isnt what kept them, not many people liked the starwars inclusion seeing is clashed. I'd give you references but its all from gathered comments on various review sites and people I've spoken to.
i was a child at the time of SC2's release, so the guest characters pretty much made me bug my parents to get it for me. it was also my 1st real fighting game. though i never had an official community back then, i did play it with friends a ton.
No. The guest characters were just to get people's attention but weren't part of the game itself. The meter thing was added in specifically to make the game more like SF and now intergrated into the engine despite it never needing it. With all the options in mobility in a 3D field and a ring out rule there was no reason to add a "comeback" feature. Skilled players usually made their own comebacks. Selling out as in making their game play like the leading one while having no similarty to itself at all or building off a feature they already had is where I see it as "selling out". The whole just gaurd thing was copied from SF Ex.
Whether it's bad or not is based on how you play I guess but all they really did was hop onto the popular things from other games they are nothing like. The respect SC had was that it was able to create a unique and very complex system for itself that was its own and not created from gimmicks like that. It was why I came into the series; I was tired of all the SF clones or rereleases. I also admired the closer take to realistic visuals they had over the cartoony stuff.
I never said SC5 was a SF clone just because of that. I said it has foriegn gameplay functions that dont belong in the Soul Games. MK however is still and always was meant to be a 2D fighter but the meter addition isnt anything that wasn't already. I support enhanced moves sure; MK's meter just did that. The X-ray moves were actually just non lethal fatalities but still what MK is. Violent. I never had a problem with SC5's enchanced move combos because thats all they are, just an upgrade to an element already part of its own system.
Didn't you already say that?
Is there a point to why you only quoted this particular part of my post? :/
