Thread 725147341

Why is the Darkstalkers franchise so beloved?

Because Lilith is a miracle of the universe and the perfect wife.

>>725147341 (OP)
Great to decentish designs, great visuals, invented a lot of fighting mechanics now taken for granted.
Just watch a Bigone Darkstalker/Vampire Tournament to see for yourself, the game's high paced so it won't take long to get the gist but it also might be difficult to tell what the hell's going on until a few matches especially without an English commentator.
https://www.twitch.tv/d44bas/video/2607643954

It was really revolutionary.

>>725147341 (OP)
tourists and zoomers pretend to love it Darkstalkers, but it's not as popular as you think. You can see the Fightcade activity for it. Below expectations relative to other games.

It's only carried by fake nostalgia and characters Morrigan <big gap> Felicia, a little bit of B.B. Hood and Hsien-Ko.

Capcom was seriously considering making a DS title but their market research suggested otherwise.

https://www.destructoid.com/street-fighter-6-director-hints-that-capcom-cancelled-a-new-darkstalkers-game-years-ago/

If it's so beloved there'd be more games

>>725149654
Slut

I'd like a new one, I think capcom need more fighters besides Street Fighter.

>>725153780

Join the club.

I like to think the new Monster Hunter flopping might scare Capcom into changing things up. But I doubt it.

>>725153780
That's the catch 22 of it, if SF does well it's now a question for Capcom of "why use any ideas and devs for another fighting game instead of SF?", if SF does poorly it becomes a question of "why use etc if fighting games aren't selling?".

This video also goes into some weird internal issue that kept kneecapping DS even when reviving more fighting game titles were on the table around '09, so I'm not sure what could shake them out of it anymore.
https://youtu.be/hW11gla0gok?&t=3657

>>725147341 (OP)
>Posting the ugly Western release

>>725147341 (OP)
Generationally good character designs and music from Capcom at their absolute Arcade-era peak
Invented Chains, Vsav is a proto-dasher
The most personality in any fighting game for animation, UI, etc.

Also, it's themesong is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snLcLP_uexw&themeRefresh=1 and that's funny/badass. Probably because the series is set in the 80s.

>>725154376
>>725154445
I understand that Capcom is stupid.
Still would be sick to see a new one even if I'm sure everyone would complain about the game being "casualized" or "ugly".

>>725156959
I thought DS was set in like, the 1800s.

>>725147341 (OP)
Because succubus.

>>725147341 (OP)
the wolf is sexy x3

>>725156959
*proto-AIRdasher, shit.

>>725157049
Naw, many of the stages in Vampire Savior make it clear it's the modern world. Some of the characters look the way they do because they're just that old. Time may be convoluted however, since other stage backgrounds can medieval torture chambers still in use or what appears to be a bombed out town during WWII. Zabel/Lord Raptor's backstory also involves heavy metal music existing several decades before even rock n' roll did in real life.

because it's funny

>>725149534
Nonsense. The games are just mediocre, but people like it as a property and idea. The remake was irrelevant as they just chose to not fund something based on badly made collections

>>725159143
I liked the OVA's style well enough, but I kind of wish it was done like Tank Police so Morrigan could be more like this/the Puma twins, strong and sexy but still prone to silliness.
Her dry humor in the OVA wasn't bad but didn't convey much character.

>>725147341 (OP)
I like the games and I'm tired of being told by faggots "you never really played Darkstalkers" so I stopped giving a shit about it and Capcom. If everything Capcom is determined by brand loyalty then fuck the rest of you and them.

>When Dr. Wahwee showed up in the OVA
I was very amused by this.

>>725149534
>>725149593
>DarkStalkers
Heeeeeeey

It does rather feel like "Morrigan is fucking gorgeous and cameoed in a BUNCH of games for over a decade so the series is in the back of people's heads". But then the series hasn't had a NEW game since 1997 so who would know.

>>725163569
Wait I read that as the handheld, whoops

Same reasons Street Fighter and Marvel VS Capcom are.

>>725147341 (OP)
fun designs. Also invented the Anime Fighter genre.

I think we just need more monster fighting games in general

>Darkstalkers is dead
>Bloody Roar is dead
>Primal Rage is dead
>Killer Instinct is probably dead, scene is tiny
>Mortal Kombat is alive but kinda sucks
>Pokken's scene is surprisingly active but is smaller then it should be from people wrongly assuming it was an arena fighter

>>725157049
It's modern day. First game is on Earth but Savior is in Jedah's weird dimension which just slaps everything together

>>725154445
They could take the franchise into a new genre. Arena fighter if nothing else. But fuck I'll take anything but gacha as long as it keeps the aesthetic and tone,

>>725169136
I'm all for it, I'd even take a VN at this point.
Halloween's gotten real thin.

They should have made a Vampire Savior Complete Edition with the extra characters and a completed Dee, afaik every port has some issues that doesn't make the game to play as well as the original vsav.