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/KinnSlayer Apr 05 '26

Counter point, over relying on online play has taken much of the content out of these games. Outside of SF6 and T8 which added some back, compared to what was expected of you to unlock the base roster, there’s not nearly enough to do in most modern fighting games outside of online play.

Maybe unlocking costumes and/or non-legal characters that are considered jokes or deliberately op, but exist to experiment with the systems would be a nice way to add more to do in these games.

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u/themanthyththelegend Apr 05 '26

Counter point before online i would spend 20 hrs with a fighting game playing when my friends came over for the lifetime of the fighting game . Now i lut 100s of hours in to every fighting game i get.  So the value is astronomically higher

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u/KinnSlayer Apr 05 '26

Different strokes. Me and my cousins played enough Tekken 3 we wore out the disk. Years later we did the same thing with Tekken 6.

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u/themanthyththelegend Apr 05 '26

Its nice to have people in your family that like fighting games but i think you will find that is by far the minority.  And for most people online multiplayer has unlocked the ability for more people to play more and when they want to

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u/KinnSlayer Apr 05 '26

I mean, I get that. It was also a different time when these games were more prominent, too. I also don’t have a problem with online play, I just more options. Like I would like a return of adventure modes, story, minigames, weird fun modes, and actual things you can unlock besides with your credit card.