it doesnt sound good for a community to stagnate, there is also the difference between issues in the community as a whole vs a individual having issues with changes, it would be really weird for just every single fighting game to be having problems at once
People have been playing stuff like 3rd Strike and Melee for like 25 years, community develops new strategies and tech, top players come and go, new competitive storylines form. The game stays the same but the way people play it is constantly adapting and changing. The community itself does a good enough job at preventing stagnation. Now new fighting games shouldn't all be made the same as the old, but they should at least being aiming to appeal to their existing audience. Strive got lucky and found a new audience that was willing to support it.
but what split the community?
oh, the major changes to gameplay. I could go into detail but the long and short of it is everything is much more limiting in Strive compared to the previous games. Personally I find the game to feel very sluggish, the combo routes too basic and defensive options weaker like the change to just defend.
The newcomers literally pushed away the old players despite the old players being welcoming. That combined with the completely different game feel and gameplay + the Bridget retcon left many old players bitter and feeling replaced. Some even felt back stabbed after being so welcoming.
i mean it was clear and concise before, i just kinda wanted to see the reasoning stated
Very funny. Phase. I should of hit you with a sock full of quarters a few days ago. JK
That wasn't a retcon. You can't handle character development and people changing. Most people handled Bridget fine. I know some of the old heads complained, but more than a few took it way too far, or did not have anyone's best interest in mind. Aside from themselves.
Sucks that happened, and I get it, but it still sounds like a small bunch of entitled assholes, and not a large. I can't say you shouldn't feel bitter, but don't take it out on people who are legit having fun, or had nothing to do with any of it in the first place. Once again, most old and new fans I met online or in real life are pretty chill with each other.
See, Imp gets it. Thank you Imp.
The whole Bridget thing is a non-issue, but a retcon to be sure. A lot of plot points pre-Xrd have been retconned. Guilty Gear 2 Overture was kind of a soft reboot for the story.
Okay, then apparently those other retcons didn't bother anyone else as far as most people know or knew. Why cry and bitch about it now, when they didn't even bother back then.
Brother, almost every single time I would go on Twitter a few years ago Bridget would be trending. It became so big it escaped the game itself. I bet there are a lot of people who's only exposure to Guilty Gear was through the Bridget drama.
It's Twitter, not the best for "engagement" and to expect any reasonable discussion is a fool's errand and only fit for the king of foolish fools mindlessly being fools to each other.
So? I checked and translation and I don't what you exactly want to me to make of it. Unless that term is meant as an insult to Bridget, but I doubt it. Feel free to correct me though. Regardless, it's twitter. I don't give a fuck, and places like that don't represent an entire population nor group. Fuck Twitter and the big bitch who owns it.
Get outta here with that Mad Katz stuff. They were always the shitty controller you gave your little brother or friend to use.
You're not wrong, but they did get better pretty much around 7th generation and SFIV era. It sucks after SFV, Mad Catz went out of business in 2017. They had actually turned their reputation around, but it was too late.
their controllers where shit, but they made a godlike arcade stick. The Madcatz TE2 is still considered one of the best around. That was really the only loss once they shut down.
Thats cool I guess, but the real holy grail of controllers was Steel Batallion on the OG XBOX
Not everything Mad Catz made is the same as the controllers they made for N64 and PlayStation. There was a window where if you wanted a great stick on a budget that's where you went. And you didn't suffer for it.
If you are talking about like PS1 controllers, they were like $5 back in the day, nothing was better than swinging that thing around by the cable and blasting it into oblivion on some hard surface. Seeing the
Yeeeahhhh...I've seen more than a few rich kids, or kids whom were better off financially compared to poor kids, but $10-$15 Mad Catz controllers more than a few times.
