Why do fighting games even bother with a story if it's always
>yeah we killed that dude, but he's coming back from hell to throw hands with the same assholes again

>>713563905 (OP)
How else would you play the videogame if you have no internet and no one to play irl

>>713563905 (OP)
I agree, it’s silly that they try to have lore or anything.

If they wanted to do a campaign it may as well be pure slice of life and have fun with it instead of trying to cram a more traditional story structure into the game. Which I guess is what Street Fighter 6 did.

>>713563905 (OP)
They dont even bother with making a proper arcade mode anymore. The last good arcade mode was in SF4. It had a final boss, a rival for every character, and an animated ending

>>713563905 (OP)
It's for the people who suck at or afraid of fighting other people. It lets them have something to obsess about.

>>713563905 (OP)
Why does everyone hate Tekken 8?
I haven't played it yet because it's too expensive.

>>713565765
S1 had decent bones but needed a few character nerfs and mechanic nerfs, namely chip damage and heat doing too many things
S2 opened with giving everyone insane new moves and plus on block buffs, several installs, and more heat mechanics. Multiple things seemed to be outright not be tested, like a glitched Paul string that became unblockable and a Jack string that was near uneacapable. Plus Anna was the new dlc character, a character who excels at chip damage and 50/50s.
This was in April so now we gotta wait while they slowly month by month patch a small handful of things to unfuck what they did.

>>713563905 (OP)
Tekken 4 had good stories for its characters

>>713563905 (OP)
They can provide an interesting backdrop or a framework for stages, characters, and all that. I mean that's really the extent of it, for the most part, expanding on the very things the games are centered around, their characters. Old Mortal Kombat was relatively extensive though, there was more thought in it, lots of worldbuilding.

>>713565765
it's a stealth pokken sequel

>>713563905 (OP)
I did like the funny endings in tag tournament 2

Is this worth 30 bucks?………… I don’t think so

>>713563905 (OP)
>kekken

>>713568005
anon pls

>>713565351
The original SF4 console release even had hidden unlockable boss characters. Probably the last of those around before DLC became the norm.