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Fighting Games - Do You Care?

15-Oct-2008 They're not as big as they used to be, so does anyone still care?
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Soul Calibur IV. Virtua Fighter 5. Dead or Alive 4. Fatal Fury Special. Samurai Shodown 2. Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. And in the future, Tekken 6, Street Fighter IV and Battle Fantasia. Xbox 360 has plenty of fighting games.

But do you care about fighting games? The genre once ruled the arcade back when Street Fighter II was first released, with its success inspiring clones to follow and also find their own success in its wake. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters, all series had their own following and were big in their own way.

Nowadays, the genre has lost its prominence and relevance as arcades have died out and sales numbers have declined. I reckon the last fighting game that had real mainstream success was probably Tekken 3. Tekken was probably the most popular series once Street Fighter split its fanbase up across several games and once Tekken 4's polarising gameplay split the community, it never really brought them back.

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So question for you guys - do you play fighting games? If not, why don't you like them? As you probably know by now, I love fighting games and I'm always curious to see why people play them if they do enjoy them and if not, why not.

More importantly, if you fell out of love with fighting games, which was the last one you put some time into and why did you stop?

Ryan KingOXM.co.uk

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