![]() ![]() Street Fighter V had an incredibly underwhelming launch and titles from Arc System works such as Guilty Gear Xrd and Granblue Fantasy: Versus suffered from notably outdated online experiences. Unfortunately, this meant that sort of quality would be lost on the vast majority of eighth generation titles. It’s a shame, then, that the early life of the game went severely under-appreciated and underplayed by the vast majority of fighting game fans due to the sour reputation of the Xbox One at launch. ![]() Killer Instinct offered players action-packed 1 on 1 brawls that balanced mechanical execution and situational awareness in a masterful way with an innovative combo breaker system. Though this aspect of the game wasn’t very fleshed out, the rest of it certainly was and only became bigger and better over its lifetime. Killer Instinct is also notable for being the first mainstream attempt at a free to play fighting game. The year after that, Killer Instinct exploded onto the scene with these features and more, along with eye-popping visuals as an Xbox One launch exclusive. This love letter to fighting game fans was the first glimpse at the innovations that were possible in the coming generation for fighting games. It explained basic and abstract concepts of the genre in a clear fashion then allowed you to try the moves yourself. The game also showed everyone just how in-depth and important a good training mode and tutorial is for both beginners and genre veterans. ![]() Titles such as Skullgirls at the sunset of the seventh console generation showed the world that rollback netcode was the future when talking about playing fighting games online. By the end of the PS3 and Xbox 360’s lives, fans had many questions concerning online play quality between indie games and AAA titles, and ideas surrounding the reach of the genre and its accessibility had been hot topics of conversation due to how they affected players’ experiences. These heights were not easily reached, however, with questions facing the fighting game genre coming to a head during the seventh console generation. Ultimate has passed 27 million units sold this year and Mortal Kombat 11 also crushed the charts by being the best selling game of its launch month and continues to impress years afterward. Fighting games are doing better than ever and the future looks bright. ![]()
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