Newgamernation writes:
Newgamernation loves a good fighting game and almost every time a new one pops up I jump on it to learn the nitty gritty. However there are lots of folks who aren’t like me and most fighting games just scare them away with all the nuances and precise inputs. For those looking to dive into a fighting game, but are too intimidated by game like Street Fighter, may I introduce to you Rising Thunder. Rising Thunder boils the game down to the basics. No half circles or button combinations to pull of a fireball. This simplicity gets rid of most execution and lets players focus on the fun part, beating up their friends. After going undefeated for the day (1-0) I got to speak with Tom Cannon the CEO of Radiant Entertainment. Check out the interview below.
"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.
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?
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.