Davis from Denkiphile: "It’s a generally accepted idea that those who create games are not necessarily the same people who excel at them. However, it does make us wonder if the converse would make for an ideal game. Enter Rising Thunder, a new F2P fighting game from the Tom Cannon, Tony Cannon, and Seth Killian, three previously competitive fighting game players and all big players in EVO every year. After all, we’ve already seen some success with titles like Yatagarasu and Skullgirls, so there’s no question that it’s possible. Considering what we’ve seen so far from Rising Thunder, it looks like we have another quality fighter to look forward to."
"With 2016 rapidly drawing to a close, what better time it is to look back at the state of fighting games, in a year that featured some of the biggest names in the genre making gigantic comebacks." - Eduardo Reboucas, Entertainium
I found it weird that you did not even mention BlazBlue Central Fiction or Mortal Kombat XL and the upcoming Injustice 2 in your article.
I haven't been following MK, so I didn't think I'd do a good enough job talking about it But you're right about Injustice 2, I'll make an addendum in regards to it!
First, why is this article tagged with XB1 when there are no XB1 games mentioned.
Second, Killer Instinct is considered one of the best brawling games now... Why was it not mentioned in the article?
Well, first, Tekken 7 is coming out on Xbox One.
Second, I have not played KI, the whole purpose of the article is to talk about games I had some experience with! =)
The title is misleading then.
If you are going to write an article about the "state of brawl in 2016" you would think you'd have played all the major brawling games from 2016. Killer Instinct - Season 3 shipped in spring 2016 and has over 7 million players!
And Tekken 7 isn't coming until at least next year to North America. So it isn't really the state of brawl for 2016, but 2017! (Which you do mention is coming in 2017... but nonetheless the title is about 2016. Shown and shipping in 2016 are completely different things!)
A better title would've been State of Brawl 2016-17. And go and play Killer Instinct so you can truly talk about the state of brawl in 2016-17.
I definitely will! I just recently got a Windows 10 capable PC with that in mind! I agree, the titling could've been better. I saw Tekken 7 at E3 and yeah, it's coming out next year, you're right.
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!
Rising Thunder may be dead, but the robot battler from Radiant won't soon be forgotten. GameCrate looks back on why the game was important, and what we can guess about the future of Radiant inside Riot Games.
Unlike the vast majority of fighters, from Street Fighter, to Mortal Kombat, Rising Thunder doesn't use directional input to control special moves, (things like Ryu's hadouken, or Scorpion's spear) at all. Instead, each special (3 per character) is assigned to its own button, and in a manner very reminiscent of skills in the RPG genre, has a cooldown timer attached to it.
According to an email from Radiant Entertainment, Radiant has been acquired by League of Legends publisher Riot Games, and as of right now, Rising Thunder is no longer in development, and the alpha access is about to be cut off.
