When I was in middle school, after class I would head straight to this dingy local liquor store. It had outdated merchandise, cruddy floors, and sold single cigarettes. In fact, the only attraction this place really had for a kid like myself was a brand new arcade game that all the students would surround everyday and pump a ton of quarters into. That game was called Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior. Released in 1991, it was an instant hit with gaming fans and game critics alike. With its popularity came a large number of imitators trying to cash in on its success. Eventually the fan base grew tired of the countless upgrades to their favorite game Street Fighter 2, as well as a saturated fighting game market that had ran out of new ideas. By the end of the 90’s only a few diehard fanatics were left to support the slowly fading genre. What happened to the once mighty fighting game craze that had so many followers?
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After Street Fighter II released in in 1991, it caused a fighting game explosion, both in arcades and in home consoles. But, as the decade ended, and arcades were failing, so too were 2D Fighting games. This is how Street Fighter IV completely revitalized the genre.
I'd say Blazblue helped too. Didn't care for Street Fighter 4, but Blazblue was amazing during that time. Sad that the series kind of went downhill after the first 2 or 3 games though.
BlazBlue was phenomenal. Platinum'd Calamity Trigger because I loved it so much. I remember buying Continuum Shift back in the day at launch for like $40. They did have DLC characters (Valkenhayne, Makoto, and Platinum at the time) and it came out to just a tad more than it would at full price. Didn't mind at all.
Great fighting game.
Continuum Shift was definitely my favorite. Spent way too many hours on that game, haha... Had the counters for days with Hakumen.
BlazBlue was the much better, more technical game..and a real 2D Fighting Game after all. But yes, since it was a big name..the characters were still popular and the game itself was good, SFIV indeed helped a lot. However, I am pretty sure the much better-selling Mortal Kombat 9 would have been done without SFIV as well..and that one truly helped to make the fighting game genre in general more popular again.
You’re sound dumb. Blazblue was not better than sf4. You’re just saying that because you’re a street fighter hater.
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The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.
