The year is 1991, and all eyes are on a new game that is taking the arcade by storm. Salarymen and young kids alike are playing it, and there are no boundaries on who can play this game, be it race, age, occupation; nothing is keeping anyone from playing and being the best. This was the title that brought the advent of the fighting game genre to becoming the focal point of arcade gaming in the early-to-mid '90s. Street Fighter II made it cool to play arcade games, and this was only the beginning.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
I remember going into the Namco arcade in London years ago in a buisness suit and sitting down at a Streetfighter machine surounded by a bunch of kids. They laughed when they saw me and what I was wearing and then I proceeded to beat all of them and earned just a touch of respect heh, the arcades were good fun and it's where I've been at my most competitive all thanks to (actually the original piss poor streetfighter) Streetfighter.
This article is correct, fighting games have died out a bit but that was due to 100 itterations of the same game out each year (I was thinking recently, is Capcom the Japanese EA? =/ hmmm...) SNK are just as bad if not worse (especially with 5 or so different fighters on the go not much different from each other)
With the gen that we're in I'm hoping that with all the fighters due, most if not all will add to the genre, sure they all look pretty but what makes Tekken 6 different from Tekken 5 apart from 1 or 2 characters and shiney new graphics?
I'm a fighting fan, at one time it was my favourite genre of game but with the decline in games my love has waned ever so slightly. I hope this year (Which is shaping up for me to be best year for games ever) lifts fighters out of their rut.