RazorsEdge701 Wrote:diirecthit Wrote:
But following the trend did damage the MK brand
You can't know that staying 2D would have been successful at a time when the entire marketplace was rejecting 2D fighters as old fashioned and demanding games like MK become more advanced and go the 3D route.
At the time, 3D wasn't seen as an "option" or just another style or genre like it is now. It was seen as the inevitable future of all games. 2D only came back because it became retro and nostalgic.
But if you never made the new stuff, the desire for retro versions would never exist and you'd just be seen as an old fashioned franchise who never grew up or tried anything new and just kept making the same game year after year and franchises that do that become unsuccessful over time too.
Also, Deadly Alliance and Deception were VERY successful games at the time they were released. Not AS successful as MK9, sure, but they were not flops. We only look poorly on them NOW.
One thing is adapting to the times and upgrading/ adding new features, gameplay mechanics, characters, etc, and that's what every other fighting game franchise has been doing for years, whereas MK started out as SF with gore with 2D gameplay, then became Tekken for MK4, then became a Tekken/Soul Calibur hybrid, and then went back to being 2D (or 2.5D as they call it, just like SF4). MK is just inconsistent at about everything, hell, some characters from MK9 have completely different facial features than in MKvsDCU, and that has been happening evver since they started using 3D models, BUT that's another topic.
