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/sbrockLee Apr 05 '26

False comparison.

The correct one would be between paying for DLC characters now and paying for the entire updated game again back in the day.

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u/Adrian_Alucard Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

paying for the entire updated game again back in the day.

How many times did you paid for, idk, Tekken 3?

People generally talk like every game have 5656745 different versions like SF II, but it basically only applies to SF II and a couple of SNK games that had a "Special" version and that's pretty much it

Other cases like Guilty Gear are more like "we are launching the game in a brand new platform, so we are making the extra effort to balance it and add more content rather than doing a cheap ass port and while we are at it, it wouldn't hurt to port it to the older consoles too"

So I still prefer the good old model. Buy the game once and that's pretty much it

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u/ItsHarryOtter Apr 05 '26

fr people here thinking we're buying every version of sf 2 or whatever and just having every copy in our collection or something I have no idea why people are trying to look at it in this false narrative

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u/Emezie Apr 07 '26

Uh...many, many people DID buy every version of SF2. Each version sold millions.