Making a fighting game fit all kinds of player

[Chavinchi]

Is like wearing any size of shoe and expecting it to reshape to the form of your foot.

At least this one for me, less like SF4, isn't made of wood.

[Maverick]

That’s what happens, unfortunately, when executives and chairmen call the shots, and devs have no choice but to do what they’re told.

[Johnny]

"Modern" shoes, someone make that patent! 🤣

"M" is 100% the biggest crap in all of this, it's everything opposing what fighting games is all about (improving, learning, creativity, etc.).

[Peddie]

See, while it is just in the nature of creating art where someone else pays for your supplies that you need to appease the ones paying them (after all, even Da Vinci did a ton of commission work), it seems a bit disingenuous to declare that the suits called all the shots here. If you want to see what Street Fighter by committee looks like, look no further than SFV. It was Street Fighter by the numbers, very safe, very risk adverse, and to wrap off this corporate tasting dish, actual development was even outsourced to another company.

If a bunch of old and out of touch men in Osaka were calling all the shots we'd never have seen the likes of Marisa, Manon or Kimberly make the roster. We certainly wouldn't have seen an aesthetic that's a departure from the way the franchise has been for the past 25+ years, and it certainly wouldn't have hit the level of critical acclaim that SF6 has enjoyed so far. So the logical conclusion is that the Capcom offered the team reasonable creative freedom to put Street Fighter back on the map in a way it hasn't been since SFII. You don't achieve that if a bunch of over 60s have to think of what has to go into a successful fighting game. And if anything, putting Mai and Terry into SF6 was the director's idea as he was a big fan of Fatal Fury and KoF in his youth, which runs counter to the notion that it was SNK that approached Capcom for it.


NHK has made two documentaries that featured looks into SF6's development and it really shows how serious the team was to make SF6 a gem, with ideas all of their own. And if anything, if nobody cared about getting this right a VFX artist wouldn't have been allowed to spend two whole days redoing AKI's poison bubble effect until they got it juuuust right. Give'em a watch sometime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6joB4j6kemY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxfIkVV12CI

[Maverick]

It's literally the chairmen's and executives' primary job to maximize long-term profits for the company and its investors and shareholders. They set guidelines for the overall direction of the company and define expectations and goals with regard to their products. It's common knowledge that any media brings in the most profits when it appeals to as wide an audience as possible.

It's kinda obvious that this is what Capcom is trying to do with the introduction of simplified, Modern controls. The suits want kids, adults, families, casuals, competitive players, and pro tournament players to all be playing Street Fighter 6. They want that Fortnite money, as do all AAA devs. And the flamboyant characters has everything to do with the management's decisions: make the game appeal to the Western audience. They see all the woke ruckus here and in europe and think this is what Westerners want, hence, Street Fighter 6, Manon, Marisa, Kimberly, and of course, Eternity.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by Maverick:

That’s what happens, unfortunately, when executives and chairmen call the shots, and devs have no choice but to do what they’re told.

That's what happens when they listen to the complaints of PrO pLaYeRs and worry about ToUrNeYs, actually.

Classic is in there because of tears. Modern is the default control scheme. Cope harder.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by Maverick:

Originally posted by Castyles:

Hidden profile? Get some balls.

Profile is literally not hidden. It just doesn't show very much. Stop deflecting.

I wasn't the one who started with the personal attacks.

[Ashling]

SF6 is the most played fighting game rn...