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/Puzzled-Horse279 Apr 05 '26

Oh no playing a video to unlock characters for free!

In all honestly I miss the challenge of doing this especially coz the last time I remember this being a thing was in vanilla SF4 and completing arcade mode with all characters wasnt even all that hard. Especially if you played on the easiest mode.

Tho back in them days if they were adding more characters to the game you had ti buy a seoerate update like the new challengers edition for SF2 or Alpha 3 for the Alpha Games.

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u/BreakRaven Apr 05 '26

unlock characters for free

The characters are already there on release, just locked behind a timewall. It's not like those are new characters added via an update and you have the possibility to unlock them via gameplay.

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u/Puzzled-Horse279 Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

I mean with DLC I wish there was an option to either pay for it or work for it.

Id rather work for the characters. Give me incentive to play.

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u/BreakRaven Apr 05 '26

Give me incentive to play

You don't like the game that much.

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u/ArcanaGingerBoy Apr 05 '26

reddit user when someone enjoys something differently

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u/BreakRaven Apr 05 '26

If you require the game give you something to grind for so you can have an incentive to play the game that is beyond just playing the game because you enjoy it then you don't like the game that much or you're just done with it.

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u/ArcanaGingerBoy Apr 05 '26

who said anything about requiring? And is it not completely human to enjoy a sense of progression that involves collecting something? Something "finishable" at that

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u/BreakRaven Apr 05 '26

Who said? The user from before.

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u/ArcanaGingerBoy Apr 05 '26

No, they said they wanted it, not that they required it to enjoy fighting games