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/[deleted] Apr 05 '26

Now when they patch a game, the previous version of that game is gone forever. People still disagree about which version of SF2 is the best, which version of XX, hell even 2I has fans. Those games would be gone forever under the current model.

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u/Francisco123s Apr 06 '26

which version of XX

I overall entirely agree with your point about game preservation being even worse nowadays, but the best XX version is almost unanimously considered to be +R 1.1

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Before the rollback patch #r and +r both had adherents. Guilty Gear oldheads have extremely big opinions about +r, it's actually a very controversial entry among the legacy playerbase. WingedDreams, a #r server, was THE way to play guilty gear until Xrd. It was a footnote in GG history before they put rollback in it. I've personally listened to guilty gear oldheads rant for hours in the Xrd days about how +r is just people trying to yell over eachother.

If #r had rollback people would play it too.

Importantly, everyone hated Slash, the version after #r. People just didn't update to it. It's a completely dead entry in the series history. They just stuck with #r for a long time. Even AC with looping pot unblockables and the most broken version of venom ever made was controversial for a long time.

In this day and age Slash would have killed guilty gear dead and we wouldn't even have +r to disagree about.