Why is it so hard to have a good story for fighting games? Is there a fighting game with a story you'd rank pretty high?

Why is it so hard to have a good story for fighting games? Is there a fighting game with a story you'd rank pretty high?

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I enjoyed Blazblue's story, not sure if I'd say it's good but enjoyable.

Guilty Gear's story is a slightly above average anime.

Less is more, sf 1,2,3 all had great story because it was more like lore.

None of them seem to have a main character. Could you honestly tell me who the main character of SFV was? It's definitely not Ryu.

You have to write a story where everything gets solved by a fight, but somehow nobody gets seriously injured or even really feels any personal consequences for failure, and you have about thirty seconds to do it before the player gets bored and wants the next fight to start already. Most fighting game stories are even worse than they "should" be, to the point that sometimes it feels like the writers actively tried sabotaging it, but even for a good writer it would be a difficult task.

Lore beats dedicated story ten to one. I love ARMS a whole lot because of the backstories behind every character, and the history of the ARMS gene. It's all really interesting (and makes me wish the comic hadn't been put on ice for the last three years).

Ken

imagine smelling that bench

Fighting games don't need long intricate stories or anything, retard. They just need cool characters and a plot that gives a reason for people to fight.

>story for fighting games
No thanks

It bums me out that I could never enjoy ARMS gameplay because I do love everything else about the game.

If it counts, and hold your (you)s, TFH actually has an at least engaging story. It’s noting too special, but it plays like an RPG, with combat engagements being a traditional 1v1 fight. It’s still being developed, but chapter 1 is fun

Imagine playing fighting games for the story.

fightan stories only serve as excuses to shit on or straight up delete your favorite character from the series

Daraku Tenshi or Akatsuki Blitzkampf.

God, I wish fighting games had better story. I might actually play one, despite the fact that I don't like the gameplay.

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I've always been a sucker for the Mortal Kombat lore.

What's the point? Do you want story in your porn as well?

It's only the poor and uneducated who don't want plot in their porn.

DC vs Mortal Combat

Well I hope that in Tekken 8 these characters get killed off:

>Anna
>Kazuya
>Feng
>Eddy
>Lee
>Jack
>Miguel
>Marduk

Doujins are at their hottest when the story supports the porn instead of generic fucking though. Not to mention stuff like Believe Machine.

Nobody buys fighting games and less people play fighting games

It’s not worth putting the talent and money behind a fighting game when it could go to something mass market.

>inb4 20 bajillion Tekken sales
It hit the bargin bin in a month. Retailers priced it to clear shelves after they over shipped.

Wow you have shit taste. All of those characters are great.

I think Fatal fury and skullgirls are kinda radʕ•ٹ•ʔ

Storyfags are the worst
go watch a fucking movie or read a book if you want a story

some of the maps in chapter 1 felt way bigger than they should have been and I wasn't a fan of the dialogue. doesn't mean the dialogue should be catered to me but I wasn't the intended audience so it came off as childish at best to me.

Soul Calibur 6 is a $130 game ($60 game + Pass 1 + Pass 2) and all they could be fucked to do was have VN monologues. In an age of 15 hour movie games you couldn't slap together some fucking cutscenes? For $130?

Ken's barely in it, either.

Oh, just engage with a text, right?
Video games also count as a text.
They should be expected to have the normal elements of a text.

Tekken's story took a massive nosedive in 6. Jin should have found an alternate way to awaken Azazel and kick his ass maybe by holding another King of the Iron Fist tournament instead of starting WW3

youtube.com/watch?v=CttxIgiVSBU

I was just watching this recently.

I think fighting games do have potential to have good story. SF is one of them but capcom are not good at doing story most of the time.

Blazblue, convoluted as hell, has a nice story for a fighter.

>Do you want story in your porn as well?
actually yes. I can always skip to the boning then go back and find out why they started boning.

Every character can be the main if you pick them, so you would need many stories to make it feel authentic. Plus it makes it so sequels either have to assume one character's story is the real one, or do vague broad strokes thing where they take aspects of many characters' endings but don't work out exactly what happened.