First, im not a native english speaker, so i apologize for any grammar mistakes.
I was thinking on a game played for a long time here in the Dominican Republic: Mortal Kombat Trilogy for N64. Yes. That old damm port of UMK3 with more characters / features, etc. On other places / countries, this game was quickly dismissed: Agressor mode being the main reason, with good reason, is a really broken mechanic, and to boot, you could play UMK3 on arcades.
Not here.
See, not having a strong arcade culture / presence, makes you play the shittiest home versions ever. PS1 KOF 98, A3, SNES A2, WW, etc. But this MKT fellas made the damm game work: by banning Agressor mode, old characters, bosses, and a couple other things (oh, and playing 3 vs 3, something that makes this game look like Marvel, lol). And guess what? They’re still playing this old game, to this day, happily ever after.
Of course, arcade perfect was never an option for those fellas (sorry, i dont play MKT), so they adapted the game. For me, was YEARS of playing shitty ports of A2 and ST, until recently. But we altered those games in their options (making A2 running a tad bit faster, on the ps1 port, for example), so we could play the damm games. Sure, is better than nothing, isnt?
So, arcades dies everywhere, and now all the big titles are console exclusives, or released first or close to the arcade version. But IMO, most of the new games are really subpar. I was trying to get into UMVC3 (i liked MVC2 a lot, but there was no scene here), but dammit if XF and the huge damage output didnt make it drop it. FAST. But now people are doing tournaments / side events that BAN XF, and as i could see, even lower the damage to the minimun. Heck, banning gems in SFxT, was IMO the best thing SRK / the community could do.
So here’s my question: can this make a change? Could these rules / standards be the thing needed to make this newer games more akin to what the community really wants (adopting those rules, that wouldnt be home made, but accepted for all), making these new games better? Would developers see this as the proof that whilst liking in some way the games, we want them to be something… different?
This is too dam TLDR rite now, so ill give more ideas / thoughts tomorrow. Again, sorry for my grammar,