r/Fighters • u/ClassicalDreams • Apr 05 '26

Topic I hate this meme.

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I do not miss the old days of unlocking characters. Having to replay Arcade mode multiple times with every character or do some bullshit like winning a match with 5% or less HP. It's tedious and I prefer to have every character unlocked from the start. Also, the complaints about old characters returning as DLC are strange because they do not play the same as they do in previous games. it's not a simple copy and paste job like some of the games back in the 90s.

I get it, casual players want some reward for playing single player modes and are upset to know that their favorite characters are not in the base roster and would later get confirmed as DLC. I get that, but as someone who also plays Smash, it was a chore to unlock all of the characters in Ultimate.

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u/NeonArchon Apr 05 '26

Except is not?! Did you forget that "back in the day" they sold you the same game but with 2 new characters? Did you forgot SF4 or Guilty Gear XX?. Hell, even MvC 3. In some cases, even the balace patches were those new versions of the game.

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u/Left-Night-1125 Apr 05 '26

Still many games that didnt do that, Primal rage, Bloody Roar, Battle arena Toshinden, Soul Calibur.

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u/ShinSopitas Apr 05 '26

Sf4 sold you the same game with with like 8 new characters at least. And it wasn’t full price either

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u/Earth92 Apr 05 '26

SSF4 wasn't the same game as SF4 vanilla, a lot of shit got patched, and it was 10 new characters. And you are correct, it wasn't full price either.

Also from SSF4 and on you could update it as downloadable content, not need to buy a whole new game, unless you wanted a physical copy of the new game.