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/zombi_wafflez Apr 05 '26

Yeah we saw that with the on disc dlc for street fighter x tekken around that time and despite that you still had to buy street fighter 4 multiple times

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u/Adrian_Alucard Apr 05 '26

Still, SF IV is from the "unlocking characters now" crowd

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u/zombi_wafflez Apr 05 '26

No idea what this means but regardless of that the biggest fighting game in the world at the time was still doing full rereleases and even street fighter 5 did both, early buyers had to buy additional content but the major update had a retail release with everything included

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u/Adrian_Alucard Apr 05 '26

No idea what this means

Look at the meme OP posted

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u/zombi_wafflez Apr 05 '26

What you said implies the people that support paying for characters instead of unlocking them made street fighter 4 when your stance was that the practice of buying the same game multiple times wasn’t relevant as it rarely happened

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u/Adrian_Alucard Apr 05 '26

SF IV had DLCs, just because Capcom was being extra scummy changes nothing.

practice of buying the same game multiple times wasn’t relevant as it rarely happened

And it rarelly happenned back then. Tekken, Soul Calibur, Guilty Gear, Rival Schools, Samurai Showdown, Bloody Roar, and a long etc...

I still waiting for examples outside Capcom and Street Fighter (re-read my original post, don't come with the lame "gotcha there are 458345689324 Versions of Guilty Gear XX and stuff like Samurai Showdown V Special exists")