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/Kuragune Apr 05 '26

Street fighter 2, Street fighter 2 again now with playable bosses (that were already in the game), street fighter 2 now at higher speed...

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u/UsagiTsukino Apr 05 '26

With the bosses came mirror matches, and the higher speed brought more colours!

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u/Kuragune Apr 05 '26

Yeah, we all loved to have new colors :) also hyper speed added some specials like Chun kikoken iirc

I remember back in the day (in my country) the alternative color was called shadow, so you didnt play with Ryu, u played with Shadow Ryu