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8/7/2025, 3:59:58 PM
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>what made fighting games go from mainstream genre
The only mainstream fighting games have been Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Tekken. Everything else either got a brief time in the spotlight (DOA2 and VF) before vanishing forever or their popularity has been way overblown by the history books.
Outside of games like SFII and MK2, fighting games were always niche as fuck which only got worse when arcades died and you had that period in the 2000's where online gaming was still getting it's legs under it's feet and every fighting game franchise was trying to figure out how to adapt to home consoles (usually by attempting to remake their franchises into shitty 3D versions). Tekken was basically carrying a dead genre on it's back during that timeframe until SFIV came out later on in the decade and gave everything a jumpstart.
Genre is doing a lot better now than it was then playercount-wise, the problem is that the big games nowadays fucking suck major balls and devs are now chasing the mythical "modern audience" that doesn't like fighting games to begin with.
>what made fighting games go from mainstream genre
The only mainstream fighting games have been Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Tekken. Everything else either got a brief time in the spotlight (DOA2 and VF) before vanishing forever or their popularity has been way overblown by the history books.
Outside of games like SFII and MK2, fighting games were always niche as fuck which only got worse when arcades died and you had that period in the 2000's where online gaming was still getting it's legs under it's feet and every fighting game franchise was trying to figure out how to adapt to home consoles (usually by attempting to remake their franchises into shitty 3D versions). Tekken was basically carrying a dead genre on it's back during that timeframe until SFIV came out later on in the decade and gave everything a jumpstart.
Genre is doing a lot better now than it was then playercount-wise, the problem is that the big games nowadays fucking suck major balls and devs are now chasing the mythical "modern audience" that doesn't like fighting games to begin with.
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