why does everyone categorize fighting games by the gorram, motherrutting tourney scene?!
THIS IS A GAME ABOUT DONKEY KONG SUCKER PUNCHING PIKACHU! why can no one enjoy it for what it is?! why must you make a friggin competition of everything?! i hope the game is horribly unbalanced and introduces another random bulls**t mechanic just to deter tournament players.
do you have any idea how stupid it sounds when you carry on serious discussions about jigglypuff vs mario? i honestly believe the tripping mechanic was really introduced as a subtle way for the developers to say "stop taking this s**t seriously!" the only reason tournament fighters even exist is because obsessive losers challenged each other to arcade fighters in the 80's because they had no other means to compare the size of their dicks.
there are some valid concerns about controller and game connectivity, which to me really just highlight how one of nintendo's best franchises continues to fly in the face off all the gimmicky bulls**t they keep shoving into new consoles. other than that, my biggest concern is whether mewtwo comes back and they stop using the character roster to advertise other games, or if princess peach's butt bomb attack is turned back into a normal explosion instead of that heart thing, because the explosion is just hilarious.
this game is about nostalgic wish fulfillment, not friggin tier lists. losers are going to meta-game the ever loving hell out of everything anyway, so just ignore them and focus on making the next SSB fun.
hitman is more about finding that one, perfect assassination that leaves no witnesses and no evidence than just completing the basic objective. all the previous games have fallen into trial and error at times, the advantage being that you had a bajillion different things to try and figuring out the best way was half the fun of the game. with the wonderful "remove options and make things easier" approach to game design that absolution is apparently following however, trial and error gameplay might be a serious concern, but in the same way that a hammer is a good weapon once youve had your machine gun and hand grenades taken away.
so does this imply that none of the normal in-game armor will be customizable? heres to withholding entire game features for pre-order crap!
at least they arent day one dlc packs, though im sure they will be made into dlc.
but really, who didnt see this coming a mile away? microsoft wouldnt dare release one of their cash cow series without milking it for every dime with pre-order insanity that leaves no one but pirates with a complete game. you can bet your ass theyre going to go crazy with the DLC, releasing new map packs every week featuring recycled maps from the previous games that required little more than a port. this is just the first step on the well-treaded path to franchise milking.
@Duke_51 well by that logic developers arent entitled to anything either, and we dont owe them jack s**t. therefore, giving them the benefit of the doubt for artistic integrity makes them as entitled as us, which doesnt solve a frakking thing.
the only way big business works is by whiny customers acting as a check against greedy corporations. yes gamers are entitled, and they damn well should be because if they arent companies are going to walk all over them. gamers being grateful little doormats is how we got to this point in the first place. its a nice ideal, but im sorry to say good guys finish last. in the real world the only thing you get by being grateful is exploited. if we dont act like spoiled children, no one is going to listen and nothing is getting improved.
the latest MK game had a better story than pretty much any other fighting game ever, and while that probably isnt saying much, at least we know they will make a real, dedicated effort to the storymode.
im glad to see the mortal kombat guys didnt put wonder woman in a stripperiffic outfit, though ill bet one of her alternate costumes is.
im cautiously optimistic about this, given what happened when they tried to make a DC fighter before. a lot of the outfits look overdesigned, but whatever, i still really want to hear more about this. it cant be like mortal kombat, because the only thing holding that game together is gratuitous violence; the simple mechanics are more a means to inflict cathartic gore than anything. trying to do mortal kombat without that was the mistake made in MK vs DCU, so i hope they have something better planned.
@GunEye if the game can live up to the insane campy action we've seen in MGS cutscenes, maybe the title will be perfectly appropriate in the end. it just sounds like something that would come out of 90's Image comic, not a series of "war is hell" melodramas.
@Solid-Snake-P it sounds like a title you come up with when inventing sarcastic fake sequels in your head. its like the revengeancers from metalocalypse: its a hilariously over-the-top XTREME name that isnt meant to be taken seriously, yet its 2 letters away from a game title that IS meant to be taken seriously.
im also not entirely sure its an actual word. dictionary.com doesnt give it a proper page, it may just be a confused term for non-native english speakers who dont know that the noun form of "revenge" drops the "re" part.
really, if it doesnt immediately sound stupid to you the moment you hear it, it never will. you dont see anything wrong with it, but i dont see anything right with it. maybe im just a glass half empty kind of guy.
i would like to take this comment space to remind the world that "revengeance" is a really stupid name. dont know how the actual game will be, but just saying, the name is stupid.
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