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[Would]

Don't worry, they'll move on to Injustice 3

Thanks to Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League WB has no plans for an Injustice 3. KTJL has tainted the DC brand so deeply the Wonder Woman game is on ice and the only thing NRS is allowed to make is a new MK in an effort to drive up profit margins for 2026 or 27.

They still will make it DEI as fuck though, both in development and final product.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

Thanks to Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League WB has no plans for an Injustice 3. KTJL has tainted the DC brand so deeply the Wonder Woman game is on ice and the only thing NRS is allowed to make is a new MK in an effort to drive up profit margins for 2026 or 27.

They still will make it DEI as fuck though, both in development and final product.

Guess they're super scared of the retarded game devs completely turning off everyone to the DC brand while they're trying to get their new DCU up and running.

 

[Wesker]

Guess they're super scared of the retarded game devs completely turning off everyone to the DC brand while they're trying to get their new DCU up and running.

James Gunn fucks kids and he's still spearheading the whole thing, so if that doesn't turn anyone off nothing will.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

James Gunn fucks kids and he's still spearheading the whole thing, so if that doesn't turn anyone off nothing will.

Most normies (the main audience) have zero knowledge of that and only think about Guardians of the Galaxy and Peacemaker when his name comes up.

 

[The handsome tard]

MK1 failed because it wasnt conceptually a good idea.

You know when people complain that nothing ever changes and the status quo remains the same? I think MK1 is an example of the other extreme, when you change things too much but not even in engaging ways. The old Sub-Zero is now Scorpion? That isnt as clever as they think it is.

Dont get me started how the plot became very MCU ish with another extremely tiresome dip into multiverse because of fucking course. I dont think I gotta point out the flaws with the narrative, many already did.

I legit think that, for all the fuck ups of MK X, it really was the last worthwhile entry narratively wise, without mentioning that the gameplay was great and didnt feel like they were trying to reinvent the wheel like MK11 and especially MK1 did.

And, of course, there are the guest characters. You know how sad is it to an old school MK fan to see people more excited about what guest characters we will get rather than the actual game? And, god damn it, at least MK X and 11 had sort of a theme with them, if 1 has a theme its "Whats popular right now/characters that should have been in the main game/leftovers we couldnt fit in previous entries". There is a reason why people are making fun of Ghostface being here because, well, WHY is he here? What connecting thread he has with MK or the other guest characters? Doesnt help that most cant ignore that Ghostface wouldnt be able to take on literally anyone from the MK universe and the lore doesnt really even try to explain that he got a buff or something.

There was Chaos Reigns but I heard so much mixed shit about it that its not even worth talking about it, Im just saying that if this DLC ends on a cliffhanger (that would be continued on the second expansion which, opps, aint happening anymore) then anyone thats a fan of this narrative is shit out of luck.

More and more I look back and think that Armaggeddon really should have been the end or at least MK9 should have continued it instead of resetting everything and then do nothing that unique with it.

Street Fighter is winning on the simple basis that its not shitting the bed as badly, especially narratively.

Thanks to Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League WB has no plans for an Injustice 3. KTJL has tainted the DC brand so deeply the Wonder Woman game is on ice and the only thing NRS is allowed to make is a new MK in an effort to drive up profit margins for 2026 or 27.

They still will make it DEI as fuck though, both in development and final product.

I remember how they complained that they were only doing MK and Injustice but now they can only stick with on IP and nothing else.

Also it will be difficult to make an Injustice 3 and just have Batman with a new voice with no explanation

 

[Jaimas]

MK1's woes are a bit different than the ones your average fighting game deals with. Some of the issues it has are metastasized versions of ones from previous games, and some are unique to MK1 specifically. The netcode woes are apparent, balance issues are there, and the fact that the game's reliance on assists gave it a bit of wonk are all well-known, but it's NRS itself that caused the biggest problems, focusing on monetization methods and overpriced skin and voice packs and taking ages to roll out basic fixes.

And that's on top of corollary issues: matchmaking still takes forever compared to many other games. What NRS has forgotten is that the fighting game community, if you don't deliver, will move on - either forward or backwards, depending on what they want. NRS literally can't understand this, which is fucking wild considering their pedigree and history.

They dawdled, focused on the exact wrong things, and did fuck all while the community was burning. This entire disaster is on them.

 

[Level99Manchild]

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Funny how even the most iconic of games don't break a few thousand players anymore. This is truly what fightan has to offer? Tekken killing itself despite the legion of nostalgia-baiting thugs and SF being the 'best ever' with those numbers?

Fighting games are in a terrible state now, and it's too little too late for the FGC. Tranny Gear strive just pissed off more fans with more censorship and balance adjustments nobody asked for in the new season, and SF6 is only popular out of copium. Sparking Zero was supposed to promise hype and fun for the FGC, but the dumbasses in the FGC tried to make it into a competitive game, something the devs never planned at all. It's pretty much dead. The League of Legends fighting game is still trying to figure out its gender and pronouns with only 7 characters being playable (one or three of them nobody asked for). Mike Z's new game is too ugly and lame for anyone to give a shit about it.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

MK1's woes are a bit different than the ones your average fighting game deals with. Some of the issues it has are metastasized versions of ones from previous games, and some are unique to MK1 specifically. The netcode woes are apparent, balance issues are there, and the fact that the game's reliance on assists gave it a bit of wonk are all well-known, but it's NRS itself that caused the biggest problems, focusing on monetization methods and overpriced skin and voice packs and taking ages to roll out basic fixes.

And that's on top of corollary issues: matchmaking still takes forever compared to many other games. What NRS has forgotten is that the fighting game community, if you don't deliver, will move on - either forward or backwards, depending on what they want. NRS literally can't understand this, which is fucking wild considering their pedigree and history.

They dawdled, focused on the exact wrong things, and did fuck all while the community was burning. This entire disaster is on them.

It's not even well-done monetization. You can't expect to sell too many costumes when your characters have zero sex appeal in the first place, and nostalgia-bait costumes look like ass on the current incarnation of the characters.

Just look at their Deceptions costume on Mileena. It looks like someone placed that costume over an ironing board, and they expect people to pay $5 for it.

Meanwhile, Capcom made Cammy wear pants for her default appearance in Street Fighter 6, but they made those pants so skin tight that she may as well not be wearing any. Chun Li has a more matronly default appearance, but her thighs may as well be nude due to how defined they are, and the main complaint is how her arms appear stubby and twiggy compared to those glorious thighs. Ditto AKI, who has stolen Juri's thunder as the new crazy chick you want to stick it in, but even Juri, the poster girl for people with a foot fetish, makes sure that her most appealing parts are showcased prominently.

Hence, one of the main complaints when it comes to monetization for that game is that the game isn't pumping out enough costumes for the players to buy.

Sex appeal isn't about showing a lot of skin. Your characters can still be sexy and cool while without being 90% naked - just see Cammy, AKI, Chun-Li in Street Fighter, Chizuru and Elisabeth from King of Fighters, B. Jenet and Blue Mary from Fatal Fury, Jun and Lidia from Tekken, and so on.

 

[Level99Manchild]

Chun Li has a more matronly default appearance, but her thighs may as well be nude due to how defined they are, and the main complaint is how her arms appear stubby and twiggy compared to those glorious thighs. Ditto AKI, who has stolen Juri's thunder as the new crazy chick you want to stick it in, but even Juri, the poster girl for people with a foot fetish, makes sure that her most appealing parts are showcased prominently.

Chun-Li's dlc costumes make her look younger too despite she's supposed to be what? 40-something?

Sex appeal isn't about showing a lot of skin. Your characters can still be sexy and cool while without being 90% naked - just see Cammy, AKI, Chun-Li in Street Fighter, Chizuru and Elisabeth from King of Fighters, B. Jenet and Blue Mary from Fatal Fury, Jun and Lidia from Tekken, and so on.

I wouldn't call Lidia sexy. She'a a boring af girlboss.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

The League of Legends fighting game is still trying to figure out its gender and pronouns with only 7 characters being playable (one or three of them nobody asked for).

I spoke of this in the Arcane thread in Multimedia, but that game (2XKO) will probably make an initial splash because le heckin' new game the FGC is desperate for... and after the honeymoon period promptly dry up through a cross of Riot's predatory monetizing and likely shoddy balance decisions. And as it seems to be one of the few Riot projects not really crashing and burning - the MMO is a money pit years in the making and clearly years ahead before release if they don't just give up on it, Arcane's starting to be questioned for its rushed writing and putting shipping over all else, and PC League itself is clearly suffering with over-expensive, poorly-designed cosmetics as Riot focuses on the Chink-favored mobile version of Wild Rift - that we may actually see 2XKO still end up a "relative" "success story." Relative.

 

[Level99Manchild]

if they don't just give up on it, Arcane's starting to be questioned for its rushed writing and putting shipping over all else, and PC League itself is clearly suffering with over-expensive, poorly-designed cosmetics as Riot focuses on the Chink-favored mobile version of Wild Rift - that we may actually see 2XKO still end up a "relative" "success story." Relative.

It's not just the woke shit and shitty, overpriced skins killing League. The game is hardly fun to play, beloved characters are unrecognizable now, and the meta is hated by everybody in and out of esports. Riot just admitted the Esports side isn't making money like it used to, so it's cutting back on the esports. Wild Rift isn't going to knock off Mobile Legends, a Chinese Moba that doesn't have all of woke shit and dumb meme shit found in Western LoL (I'm still disappointed knowing how Riot ruined Aatrox and Taric).

 

[Make America Dumb Again]

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Funny how even the most iconic of games don't break a few thousand players anymore. This is truly what fightan has to offer? Tekken killing itself despite the legion of nostalgia-baiting thugs and SF being the 'best ever' with those numbers?

Fighting games have a tendency to drop in player count pretty quickly due to an overall skill gap. Not to mention console gamers are usually prevalent among fighting game community. This phenomenon is nothing new.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

WildGold dropped this and it kinda went scorched earth on people like Maximilan Dood. It's incredibly funny and a little cathartic.

Max literally said the game failed due to "lack of lobbies".

.....Okay.

Actually WG comments on a lot of the bad takes from others and I'm a little baffled that people are saying this shit unironically.

"The game had more monetization and DLC so it should have made more money."

??????????????????????

 

[Celebrate Nite]

"The game had more monetization and DLC so it should have made more money."

More ≠ Good. it's all about QUALITY, and all of these new fighters, including MK, have been lacking that for a long time now.

While we're at it, Monetization and/or DLC ≠ GOOD Quality. Games were MUCH better without all that shit, and any game that revolves themselves around those things is doomed to fail from the word "GO!".

 

[DenseDeerFather]

More ≠ Good. it's all about QUALITY, and all of these new fighters, including MK, have been lacking that for a long time now.

While we're at it, Monetization and/or DLC ≠ GOOD Quality. Games were MUCH better without all that shit, and any game that revolves themselves around those things is doomed to fail from the word "GO!".

People like these are why gaming companies keep getting away with this shit.

I can't believe they actually shill for predatory monetization tactics

 

[Would]

Max literally said the game failed due to "lack of lobbies".

Max is a paid shill who gets flown out by Trannyrealm to playtest their games and hang out. His word on MK means less than shit.
Even when the checks stop coming, he only gives the mildest of critique like "it's not fun anymore" and never has the balls to state why and what sucks and what always sucked and was never fixed.
I'll sooner trust Max on real estate than I would about game companies.

 

[GloryHole Stalker]

Max is a paid shill who gets flown out by Trannyrealm to playtest their games and hang out. His word on MK means less than shit.
Even when the checks stop coming, he only gives the mildest of critique like "it's not fun anymore" and never has the balls to state why and what sucks and what always sucked and was never fixed.
I'll sooner trust Max on real estate than I would about game companies.

I hadn't even heard of this guy until the last year or so. I gave his vid on this mess a watch... yeah, he's definitely an NRS shill. He proceeded to lay ALL the blame on WB, or the "publisher" as he called them as he doesn't even have the balls to name check them and absolved NRS and Boon from all blame and accountability. Fucking retard.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

I remember how they complained that they were only doing MK and Injustice but now they can only stick with on IP and nothing else.

Also it will be difficult to make an Injustice 3 and just have Batman with a new voice with no explanation

Off the top of my head, the only ways I can immediately think for NRS to make an Injustice 3 and still keep Batman are "AI Kevin Conroy" (risks pissing off everyone), make Damian take up the cowl (who the fuck likes Injustice Damian), or say fuck it and dust off Batman Beyond for the first time in god only knows how long.

And two of those still require an off screen death for the Batman. No ones going to be happy with that, regardless of what option gets picked...

 

[The handsome tard]

Off the top of my head, the only ways I can immediately think for NRS to make an Injustice 3 and still keep Batman are "AI Kevin Conroy" (risks pissing off everyone), make Damian take up the cowl (who the fuck likes Injustice Damian), or say fuck it and dust off Batman Beyond for the first time in god only knows how long.

And two of those still require an off screen death for the Batman. No ones going to be happy with that, regardless of what option gets picked...

Oddly enough, Damian does take up the cowl in that bizarre He-Man/Injustice Crossover (yes that happened) after it dawns on him that maybe Superman is evil after he begins to use Brainiac's tech to monitor and/or brainwash people (in that crossover, the evil ending seems to be canon). Bruce is still alive but brainwashed so *shrug*

And apparently Damian dies tho I cant recall what happened much outside that it was a bizarre story and that if there is no Injustice 3, it might as well be the closest thing to one.

They should have gone with Injustice 3 instead of MK1 in my opinion, hell, they could have been able to get Kevin to record his lines before his passing even. He just sadly leaves a very big shadow to fulfill by any voice actor.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

He just sadly leaves a very big shadow to fulfill by any voice actor.

DC has a few Batman voice actors (Jason O'Mara and now Jensen Ackles for their animated movies) but Kevin's absence is definitely going to be at least a third of the online conversation about Injustice 3 when it eventually comes out.