Okay but really, why are they all boring 3D fighters that have barely changed since the PS2 era?

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    10 months ago

    “Stop trying to monetize popular IP!”

    Or as Yogurt put it “merchandizing, merchandising, merchandising. That’s where the real money is”

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    10 months ago

    Honestly most anime games were hot garbage. Kinda like games based on movies.

    Dragon Ball Z Kakarot was incredible though. And was really wishing it kicked off a revolution, but nope. One Piece pirate warrior series is only fun because it’s just Dynasty Warriors with a anime reskinning.

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      10 months ago

      I liked the concept of Kakarot but boy was it full of filler. Other than that we’ve had a One Piece RPG which was supposedly alright and a Fairy Tail game which was supposedly alright. We had Dragon Ball Fighters which is one of the most visually impressive Dragon Ball games imo. And we had the Shounen Jump game which seemed like it was supposed to be a big deal anyway but wasn’t great.

      On a different note there’s a Shin-chan and Doraemon game for something more low stakes.

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      10 months ago

      I heard people really enjoyed One Piece Odyssey last year. Never seen the series myself.

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      I found it kinda funny when they gave fighter z and kakarot as examples of DBZ games that broke that mold when fighter z is a fighting game and kakarot was an adventure game that followed the original story. Don’t get me wrong, I loved kakarot (because it was the my first time going through the whole DBZ story), but Xenoverse would have been a better example IMO because it did break the mold more (it does still focus on the original story, but you’re a part of a time patrol whose job it is to basically provide help to the original heroes because villains are trying to change the original story).

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        10 months ago

        FighterZ is an actually good fighting game in the style of MvC or Street Fighter though, not the same 3d drivel with copy paste movesets and terrible game balance usually associated with anime tie-ins.

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    10 months ago

    They are the easiest one to make since you only need an arena and characters movesets, don’t even need to balance it properly since there’s no esports money to be made on it (unless it’s called gundam extreme versus).

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    Games are hard to make. Its even harder to adapt plots because what works for watching doesnt drive the same enagagement when you play it.

    Except for Berserk, what the fuck guys. FromSoft had to come in and make something because whoever was handling this just couldn’t see it.

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    10 months ago

    There is a long history of video games cash grabbing any IP they get their hands on. Pokemon and the sort are few and far between. Do we need to talk about ET?

    My biggest gripe right now is game designers have an incredible platform with mobile devices, that I would havre murdered for when I was kid, and the best they can do is slot machines. There are some great titles for mobile but it’s way overshadowed by the dopamine harvesters. I’ll be dead before they get this shit sorted.

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    I remeber enjoying the Naruto gekitou ninja taisen games on gamecube. Everything since then has been in the ultimate ninja storm arena fighter format and is garbage.

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    I don’t play these games much but at a glance I swear every anime fighting game has had the same artstyle and graphics for the past 15 years.

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    10 months ago

    There is no better game of anime than Jump Ultimate Stars (especially if we talk about a big roster and a crossover), fight me.

    Well, actually you could say it is a manga game…