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Originally Posted by sdp

well the reboot MK9 retold the first 3 games, MKX was moving forward not adapting the 3D era games. But fans complained and since they had already done a time jump had to do time travel to please old fans but even then the storyline was moving on more than Street Fighter.

NRS could ignore this crap and just do whatever they wanted, but as usual they have overcorrected. Its their normal work mode.

Originally Posted by sdp

I do agree another reboot is BS, but I didn't really like the reboot storyline too much so it's ok. Though I don't think it's retelling of MK1, Ed Boon has been hinting for months this will take place during the Great Kung Lao era, so before the first game, so while I"m sure they'll get to the MKTrilogy era in the sequel, at least the first game should be different enough. I wonder if Scorpion's great great great grand son will show up with his Dragon tattoo.

I don't like new timeline either, but MKX made it work more or less. And finally moved story forward. MK11 ****ed up everything and MK12 gonna dial everything back again and for what? For another reboot down the line? Besides, this time, NRS will be saddled with elements of two timelines at the same time.

They either should make reboot, which doesn't acknowledge past timelines at all or it will be a traditional NRS over convoluted mess. And it will be since they will pander to old school fans and will include elements of past timelines in the story.

Originally Posted by sdp

Did they really?

Yes, I am talking about SF6.

Originally Posted by sdp

They moved on with 3 which was a huge failure so they quickly made Street Fighter Alpha 3 which added the whole SSFIIT cast that was missing. In fact even the Street Fighter Alpha series turned into SFII. Then later revisions to SFIII added more SFII characters like akuma, chun-li etc. And because they moved on they killed the franchise.

SF: New Generation was planned to be a spin-off and was made into SF3 only after fans threw a hissy fit about lack of Ryu and Ken in the Street Fighter game. And, because, Capcom plan for the original SF3 (which has ended up as Street Fighter: The Movie) failed on its face.

So, in this case "moving on" was forced by outside circumstances. And, yeah, because, of it SF4 and SF5 were kind of retreat of SF2, much for the same reason MK9 was remake of MK1-3.

Better example would be SoulCalibur 5, which replaced most of the (female) characters with their pupils and copycats, which effectively killed the series and necessitated a complete reboot.

Originally Posted by sdp

Basically fighting games died when they tried to move on, and the fighting community just wants new games with the old tired cast so that's why we get the same stuff over and over.

Fighting games can move on, but it requires either consistent quality or moving forward on little by little, like Tekken does.