It got a sequel because it was a huge seller. If it was a non-seller, it wouldn't matter how hardcore the fans were. Netrek has a rabid, hardcore following but I haven't seen any commercial sequels to that. Starcraft sold over 9.5 million copies around the world. Your hardcore component of that is say, 1%? 0.1%? 950,000 gamers buying the disc means Blizzard doesn't even break even on it.
this is what I believe. It has sold a lot in the past and thus, the company wants to crank out another one.
I could never triangle jump. I figured it had to do with Fly. My bad. Never played much mvc2. Only reason I care about 3 is because now Lei-lei is in it.
After the rest of the people who bought the game moved on, yeah. There's a reason companies will try to have elements that cater to a hardcore crowd. Most of the money will come from the casual crowd, but it tends to be the hardcore players that attract the casual crowd after the initial release.
Fair enough, I'll agree that a large portion of the more serious "fighting game" crowd tend to be pompous assholes. Seems we need both kind to keep our favorite games coming out.
That's debatable. I've found hardcore players to be an absolute turn off after the initial release. There's not much fun in playing a game against some douchebag living in his parents basement that has min-maxed every single move down to ultimate lethality. I play games for fun, not to be a prick. I have forums to do that.
The attraction to a game doesn't come from playing them if you're a casual player. They're going to beat you, hands down. They're going to be the ones who will tell people this game is really fun. Watching them play people their skill level can be fun, since you're watching a game being played at a high level.
Yeah no. I don't think I'm a minority in preferring to play a game rather than watching someone else play it at a high level. We already have that it - it's called a 'movie'.
Not good enough, I hate your opinion and think that you are a Palin fan who should be sterilized!
I don't have any links, but I remember an interview where they were talking about making every character viable. True balance is impossible for the format, but they wanted to make sure characters like Hulk could at least hold their own. Assuming they succeeded, that may be the greatest improvement for this sequel over the 2nd one.
