I’ve been saying this for a while now, but if Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were released today, g*mers would have a shit fit. Oh wait that did actually happen lel 🤣
They added a streamlined “Modern” control mode alongside their original “Classic” mode with motion inputs. This was an effort to make the game more accessible to newcomers to the genre, people who were intimidated by fighting games, and people who for various reasons can’t do the motion inputs necessary for special moves.
The Modern control scheme balances this ease of use by somewhat restricting the available special moves - you can do specials with one button and have access to the basic tools, but the real complex combo stuff you can only do on Classic.
It was generally a good compromise, as it was mostly the die hard crowd who were going to get into deep mechanics stuff anyway, and if someone who can’t do motion inputs wants to get far with Modern they can still do so by learning good fundamentals (which like 90% of Gamers refuse to do) alongside the simple controls
This of course made a lot of gamers very angery, including like one or two people here. “It’s woke for allowing casuals and disabled people to play in the same sandbox as me and cheat not only the game but themselves”. It’s the same argument as dark souls when you boil it down
Huge fan of pretty much every souls game but I wish it had more accessibility & ability to customize play. I would love to share the experience of the beautiful art, creature design, music, wonderfully bleak landscapes, but then the online Gamer discussion becomes about “cheating yourself out of the experience”. Fuck that lol
Fighting game communities always complain about how small and insular they are, and wish their games had larger audiences, but the instant a game tries to actually get a larger audience they all throw a massive fit.
simplified controls to “help” new players, because street fighter is designed for arcade stick and imperfectly translates to 4-button pads.
i’m skeptical of these things as noob traps versus making better tutorials and figuring out how to teach button mashers to actually play neutral, but i do find it extremely funny that the broken exploit people were (understandably) worried about actually showed up on the regular controls, not the new ones.
I’ve been saying this for a while now, but if Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were released today, g*mers would have a shit fit. Oh wait that did actually happen lel 🤣
I’m still thinking about the guy who tried to coin the term “woke controls.” For SF6
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They added a streamlined “Modern” control mode alongside their original “Classic” mode with motion inputs. This was an effort to make the game more accessible to newcomers to the genre, people who were intimidated by fighting games, and people who for various reasons can’t do the motion inputs necessary for special moves.
The Modern control scheme balances this ease of use by somewhat restricting the available special moves - you can do specials with one button and have access to the basic tools, but the real complex combo stuff you can only do on Classic.
It was generally a good compromise, as it was mostly the die hard crowd who were going to get into deep mechanics stuff anyway, and if someone who can’t do motion inputs wants to get far with Modern they can still do so by learning good fundamentals (which like 90% of Gamers refuse to do) alongside the simple controls
This of course made a lot of gamers very angery, including like one or two people here. “It’s woke for allowing casuals and disabled people to play in the same sandbox as me and cheat not only the game but themselves”. It’s the same argument as dark souls when you boil it down
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Huge fan of pretty much every souls game but I wish it had more accessibility & ability to customize play. I would love to share the experience of the beautiful art, creature design, music, wonderfully bleak landscapes, but then the online Gamer discussion becomes about “cheating yourself out of the experience”. Fuck that lol
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Fighting game communities always complain about how small and insular they are, and wish their games had larger audiences, but the instant a game tries to actually get a larger audience they all throw a massive fit.
simplified controls to “help” new players, because street fighter is designed for arcade stick and imperfectly translates to 4-button pads.
i’m skeptical of these things as noob traps versus making better tutorials and figuring out how to teach button mashers to actually play neutral, but i do find it extremely funny that the broken exploit people were (understandably) worried about actually showed up on the regular controls, not the new ones.
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