Games That Should Go Back To Their Roots
 

I nominate Mortal Kombat. The original 2D fighter was the shit and played MK2 for hours upon hours. I did like MK3 and UMK3 and played a little MK Trilogy. After that it went 3D and I lost interest. Don't get me wrong I did like MK Deception and Armageddon but mostly for the Konquest mode and the CAF (in Armageddon). Imo the last great MK game was MK2

I nominate Final Fantasy. Cannot stand the other shit, love the ATB

I would agree with Resident Evil 5, but Resident Evil 4 struck me very much as a step forward for the series. RE5 felt like a big-budget rehash of RE4.

Playing Code Veronica made it very evident to me that the series needed a change in control scheme, and 4 did an admirable job in doing so.

I do still prefer the old ones, though. But that's probably nostalgia talking.

Tekken: Screw this 10hit juggle shit.

And honestly for me, the FPS genre in general needs a huge fucking reboot. TF2 is about the only FPS I feel like playing anymore. Even L4D, which I originally adored, quickly lost interest from me. COD4 might be the only other series that has just obviously reeked of quality in the past few years.

Dunno what they'd do though. I hope not go back to their roots...I rather like strafing.

Most people I play with never bother to try them. Tekken can be pretty strategic and result in tense stand offs round here.

what are mario games like these days? mario 64 was good but the 2d ones were great too. i think there needs to be a shitload more 2d games really, they were so much more addictive back in the day.

There's very little you can tell me about Tekken, but trust me - the game is dependent on long juggle strings. That's not fun. That's not cool. To survive at an advanced level you must adapt and integrate such tactics. Me and my guys don't do long juggles either, but challengers abroad will not share those honor rules.

The last one was basically Mario 64 except in space. They still make the 2D ones too, as they have Super Mario Bros Wii coming soon, which will actually have 4 people playing at the same time. They also have Mario *insert sport here* games, Mario Party games, and a bunch of Mario RPGs. Oh and super Smash Bros, which is like the Mortal Kombat of Nintendo games.
Sad, but true. Can't ever play Tekken in the arcades because of this. Not gonna lie tho, I bust out "big" combos from time to time (6 hits max, and usually chains of moves that aren't meant to be strung together).

Not really any cheaper than SFIV's ultras tbh.

NO. Street Fighter 4's Ultras are far less annoying than Tekken's juggles. Are you crazy?!

Some ultras are ridiculous. Most are fine tho.

The 10 hit juggles aren't exactly a cakewalk to perform.

You want to talk annoying in tekken? How about a really good king player.

also, just in case you missed it,

METROID

Shadow Complex filled that void nicely, don't you think?

Shadow Complex is very good, but you and I know, that it's not the same as a new 2-D metroid. Come on.

Shadow Complex is just temporary relief for 2-d metroid withdrawl.

King's are obvious, sort of like Zangief's. You know what they want, react accordingly. Dragonuv(SP) is a bitch however.

Now I feel like like talking/playing fighting games. Had a great MvC2 session just today. I am so tourny ready. Gonna train over the weekend as well. Cammy is so fucking boss.

Completely unrelated, but I just wanted to say condemned is way scarier than any other survival horror game. Just got both games for 15 bucks.

The problem with that is that even if they went 2D again, the games would still be shitty. They're bad fighting games that were only good because of OMG VIOLENCE AND BLOOD.

Yup. No real merit to them nowadays.

They should just make MK a Kongquest type game from now on. Forget the fighting game and just make it story mode of Armageddon with several playable people.

How about let another studio get at it?

Seriously. The one thing MK has over its competitors is a much better mythology, and more intrigueing characters.

They've done all they can (Kan?) as a fighting game. Their only big thing now is the Konquest mode they had in Deception and Armageddon.

They ain't do shit as a fighting game.

Sonic should have never been 3D

Real people can get out of a pool when there's no ladder.

Yeah, I tried the sims once, and it was mind-numbingly boring. Don't "get it".

Also, ninja gaiden.

I want a new 2-d ninja gaiden.

Do the 3-d games even aknowledge the stories of the 2-d ones at all?

Also, I feel like the Jaquio is the most overlooked videogame villain ever.

Yeah, sim city is awesome tho. Havn't played anything past 2000 however.

Jaquio is a fucking piece of shit. I hate him

Word.