While I respect King of Fighters, I also kind of hate it because it essentially killed off Fatal Fury. Which was always my favorite fighting game setting of all time(basically every character is a martial artist, but there is still plenty of supernatural powers, but they all come from martial arts, there’s no demons or robots or science experiments), and Mark of the Wolves might be my favorite fighting game ever.
Hmm, not sure how I feel about that. My first reaction is to be against it, but I suppose I could live with it, as long as it’s SUPER clear that the character is dead.
And the way to do that would be to make sure the character has NO story mode. The living characters all get a story prologue, dead characters aren’t even selectable in that mode.
My concern is that they would be tempted to still give those characters a story, it would just be a flashback story or a “what if they came back!” story. Of course, then half the people playing the game wouldn’t recognize it as a flashback or what-if and would start getting the story wrong. I don’t want that kind of confusion being put into the game.
I’d be fine with a “past stories” sort of thing for dead characters where you can flesh out previous events in their lives or something. I’m not a big fan of killing characters though in SF since it’s not a very fatal setting as compared to something like MK
Not really. Comic books did great for DECADES without any real major usage of death other than as a time-out for villains. In fact, the new age style of lots of deaths has actually damaged comics.
It doesn’t gain anything in the long run. If you kill of a non-main character it’s usually just a story point and it’s a “whatever” thing that doesn’t affect playables in a video game. If you kill off a popular main character, however, their popularity may require you to bring them back. Double-edged sword. When you bring them back death is diminished in importance.
I disagree. If done correctly, and if popularity is high, then In video games, the possibilities are endless. If it’s the end of one story, it is the start of another one. Just because an arc ends, doesn’t mean that the overall story finishes. Life is a never ending story that continues to be written. So who’s to say that there isn’t more chapters to be written by the SF characters?
No, but having one arc ends can mean certain characters can be replaced. I mean, we can’t just have bison doing world domination for his whole story all the time.
That, I kind of agree with. And I think that the SFV story is going to be something monumentous in regards to the SF Lore because the story is going to be about the fall of shadaloo and Bison’s downfall. So I think that might be the end of one arc. But Bison is still a powerful character. So after the story, he may not be the MAIN villain any more, but he can still exist and be transformed into a completely different and dangerous psycho monster.
