Dead fighting game series

[@DragonSeoul]

Soulcalibur dead? Never! The soul still burns and the legend will never die!

[@davidsentanu7836]

The way Namco brought back Heihachi from dead might suggest that the monks summoned Heihachi from the past (Soul Calibur III's Heihachi.) Thus it might be the start of Tekken x Soul Calibur crossover event. Also, they added more weapons into Tekken aside from Yoshi, like Raven, French Raven, nun-chuck Law, and magic staff Leroy. And probably they'll add yet another guest character from Final Fantasy (Cloud or Sephiroth, maybe.)

[@coolbrotherf127]

​@@davidsentanu7836Tekken is fine, but personally I really don't care for the controls of Tekken. Soul Calibur's control scheme is way more intuitive and smooth.

[@davidsentanu7836]

@@coolbrotherf127 I prefer Tekken's. The each button correspond to each limb is so intuitive I don't know how to top that. Soul Calibur's horizontal and vertical slash control scheme is fine I guess, but I really don't like pressing a button for guarding. The 3D movement system feels rather awkward to me, like if pressing down is strafe right, but then low guard is guard-button + strafe right. Not to mention how weird jumping is. You can only jump while guarding.

[@NeoZiggy92]

@@DragonSeoul Damn straight! One day we're gonna be right back to The Stage of History!

[@terrysyvertson9205]

too bad, the series is permanently dead and not coming back ever, Bandai Namco doesn't care about soulcalibur anymore because it's not popular or profitable enough to say alive

[@ryanfriscia1132]

Rival Schools got some hope with the new collection, but Itsuno leaving Capcom is a major blow to that franchise.

[@bryanc7094]

True

[@baberuthless]

The collection is awesome to finally have! but i agree Itsuno could have made an awesome follow up. I hope someone will follow in his footsteps someday

[@davidsentanu7836]

What about the other Itsuno? The producer of CAPCOM Fighting Evolution, Kenji Itsuno. Idk if they're related or not.

[@fermingamboamartinez8042]

The same we could say about Darkstallkers being in the first Capcom Fighting Collection, but…

[@WarrenGdog28]

​@@baberuthless Dissidia NT was Hot Garbage Duodecim n Blazblue has Chrono Plasm

[@TheSeventhForce]

Gotta love Harada's random, insanely detailed insights into the inner workings & politics of game development on a random weekday.

[@baberuthless]

I hope he makes it a regular thing more often haha i appreciate the bluntness

[@wolfman210]

He's a bored old man with nothing to do and as his history with Tekken and Bamco shows gives no ****s lol.

[@_Digishade_]

That post was so fucking good. I'm so glad Maximillian highlighted it.

[@TheLegendRome]

2020: Konami buys Bloody Roar 2024: Konami has still done nothing with Bloody Roar

[@baberuthless]

Ill even take a shirt at this point....

[@tmma1869]

2012, actually, with every Hudson Soft IP. Of course Konami only cares about Bomberman

[@X2011racer]

​@@baberuthless or an American Slot Machine?

[@chazmaru9583]

@@tmma1869Biggest Konami franchise right now is Momotetsu which was a dormant Hudson franchise for two console generations. Not super hopeful about Bloody Roar but sometimes they bring back stuff from the Hudson morgue.

[@memesandhoi2924]

@@chazmaru9583 Momotaro Dentetsu ain't even the main series either lol. It's a spin-off of Momotaro Densetsu, an RPG series. The spin-offs outlived the mainline titles.

[@ShinHakkai]

Out of all of these games, Blazblue hurts me the most. I really love the series. The only thing that comforts me is that at least we had an ending to Ragna's story. But there were a lot of loose ends that we will never know what they would lead to...

[@glacierwolf2155]

The best thing for that franchise to have is a crossover game with Guilty Gear, in all honesty.

[@matthewbrunell413]

There's still the rougelike that came out fairly recently.

[@petalsinthebreeze]

​@@glacierwolf2155 Major disagree, they don't belong together, either from a story or gameplay perspective

[@aketsuuu]

​@@glacierwolf2155 To be honest, there's a high likelihood Strive does a crossover with Blazblue over a full crossover game. They also just released Entropy Effect earlier this year, and even if it's a roguelike asset flip, it shows ArcSys does still have Blazblue in mind.

[@gijane2cantwaittoseeyou203]

Blazblue was my favorite fighting game franchise but it is better if it stays dead. Bringing it back would just ruin the story and ragna's sacrifice.

[@neckapples3526]

I didn't even consider how much Capcom can make out of Morrigan costumes alone if we get a new Darkstalkers.

[@aketsuuu]

That'd be where most of the profits are at. Morrigan is basically the face of Darkstalkers, which uh... Yeah, makes sense.

[@VideoGameStupidLC]

On the otherhand... they'd probably lose money putting time into actually making outfits for Felicia, ha!

[@CertifiedUltraEgo]

​@@VideoGameStupidLC are you serious???? Have you seen women's clothing lately??? Felicia cosplay will be through the roof

[@SummonSkeletons]

@@CertifiedUltraEgo lately?

[@CertifiedUltraEgo]

@@SummonSkeletons yeah when the slut walk happened women's clothing became much less and more revealing

[@jsttv]

Soul Calibur may seriously been wounded, but the SOUL STILL BURNS!

[@JeseSavignon]

Soul Calibur can't be dead man, that game is absolute gold, banco needs to stop being stingy and give the team the budget they deserve, just imagine this game with actual cutscenes like Tekken and MK, new guest characters, new mechanics a big roster and improved graphics 🤤🤤🤤

[@HazeEmry]

But it's banco. They never do anything for us... Speaking as a Digimon fan

[@finfen9730]

Dissidia especially hurts me because the PSP versions were perfect. Me and my friends each easily clocked a 1000 hours on both titles. I don't know why there were surprised when they literally changed everything we loved about it and limited the release with NT. Maybe they'll wise up and actually rerelease the PSP versions with a proper online with steam.

[@CoralCopperHead]

PPSSPP. 🏴‍☠

[@darkstardarin]

If NT was Duodecim with NT's visuals, it could EASILY been a GOTY contender

[@finfen9730]

@@darkstardarin EASILY. I think that's what most of us wanted.

[@GodOfOrphans]

@@darkstardarin GOTY more like game of the Decade if it was done right.

[@saloz9483]

Even though there were some stuff I wasn't a fan of in the second one gameplay wise. I still would say its better than NT. I still had fun with NT but it felt so bare compared to the two games that came before.

[@NeoZiggy92]

I wouldn't say SoulCalibur is dead, more like dormant, just like what happened to Soul Edge in the 3rd title's story.

[@rankyb8088]

playing as Yoda was one of my favorite memories

[@emperormegaman3856]

If Garou got a sequel after 24 years, there is still Hope for some of these. Let's cling to that hope.

[@realamericannegro977]

True but SNK is still there with many of the talents that built the company.

[@ZoddGuts]

SNK got that Saudi money by a Saudi Prince who genuinely loves SNK. That's why SNK have greenlit a bunch of projects with higher budgets now. A new Art of Fighting game and a Samurai Shodown Action RPG game was confirmed to be being made by SNK.

[@stevenedwards8353]

@@ZoddGuts is it a remake/re-release of that one Samurai Shodown RPG that was on the Neo-Geo CD ages ago, or is it a totally new one?

[@tango9601]

I agree that Terry and Mai in SF6 might be a sign we're getting MVC instead of CVS. If a new MVC did really well it would obviously make them more inclined to make a new CVS.

[@melon3109]

A dead fighting game series that I would love to see again is the Naruto Clash of Ninja (or Gekitou Ninja Taisen) games on GameCube and Wii. They werent the battle arena games on Playstation consoles, but an tomy and 8ing series that played like Bloody Roar with Naruto inspired mechanics like spending meter to ninja-teleport out of a combo. They were such good and underrated titles, overshadowed by the much prettier Playstation arena fighter cousin.

[@StunEdgeD]

Bro I played the shit out of Clash of Ninja 2! I could never figure out how to beat the CPU on the highest difficulty because they would just block everything XD.

[@readyeddy1631]

Now that Capcom's been shipping collection, hopefully this will light a fire under Konami, Bandai Namco, Team Ninja/Koei Tecmo, and Xbox to bring these classics to a modern audience

[@GmNdWtchr96]

Heck, they should also put Netherrealm over that Fire so we can get the older MK games as well.

[@leonlegend]

M-modern audience!?

[@davidsentanu7836]

@@leonlegend Well modern audience needs something to play now that Concord has been pulled from the shelves.

[@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239]

We need a Re-release of DARAKU TENSHI: THE FALLEN ANGELS and RAGE OF THE DRAGONS , and we need an ART OF FIGHTING 4 & 5, CAPCOM VS SNK 3, FINAL FIGHT and GAROU 3 & a STREET FIGHTER GAIDEN/LEGENDS/7 , then let that be it for those franchises. They also need to bring back BURIKI ONE and do two sequels for that. Capcom and SNK needs to stop bullshitting and give the fans what they want.

[@therealjaystone2344]

Yeah… about that…

[@naejimba]

Darkstalkers is the biggest tragedy of them all... look at where Vampire Savior landed where it was easy to pick up and almost impossible to master, this perfect balance between traditional 2D fighters and Anime fighters that would appeal to just about anyone, amazing character designs that are some of the best in t he history of the genre, phenomenal sprite animations that are STILL some of the best and most creative examples to this day, a fun and easily understandable theme that makes it stand out and bypasses all cultural and language barriers.... you can't tell me a modern version of this wouldn't sell?! I want to scream every time I think about it. You re-release the same game over and over (ensuring everyone who knows about it has already bought it), while at the same time doing NOTHING to advertise it to people who aren't familiar with the series, and then use your poor decision making as justification on why it wouldn't work after you've done everything humanly possible to kill it. I mean, Christ, Nintendo is over here taking notes on how to kill a competitive scene and it's STILL going strong. I'm going to go cry now.

[@SonicHaXD]

6:09 quote of the century right there XD

[@leonlegend]

Don't you already have a shape-shifting lizard to gush over?

[@robertlafrance9974]

Where u came from

[@AmotivatedIndividual]

@@robertlafrance9974He’s usually in the Mortal Kombat community

[@robertlafrance9974]

@@AmotivatedIndividual no I know that lol I meant what are you doing here

[@AmotivatedIndividual]

@@robertlafrance9974 He’s just commenting, he’s usually in the Mortal Kombat community

[@krono5el]

the fact Itagaki and Harada were homies and went to the same school is so awesome and makes me happy af.

[@davidsentanu7836]

Ah, so that explains everything now. They went to the same wear-sunglasses-at-all-times school!

[@neogotham2k39]

Darkstalkers is still one of my favorite fighting games thanks to Morrigan because she's iconic!

[@pockystyx4087]

Bloody Roar needs to come back, It was basically a crazy anime fighter when most 3D games were slower and more grounded. Konami jail is such a mess for its chances.

[@realamericannegro977]

I know right. I would be okay with good remasters. I don't think they have the talent to make new ones at the moment.

[@AcidGlow]

Fighters Destiny on N64 was highly overlooked back in the day. Truly a Unique Gem

[@dmtmediabrothers]

🧢

[@Lozzu]

Bloody Roar was developed by 8ing, so development isn’t as much of an issue as interest from Konami

[@majortom331]

There is nothing stopping konami from just contracting 8ing again like the old days besides apathy. they could have them whip up a collection in a heartbeat.

[@wolfman210]

@@majortom331 Right? Konami barely cares about Contra and Castlevania, Bloody Roar has no chance.

[@unknownuser494]

​@@wolfman210 Konami recently released a haunted castle remake with Castlevania ds collection.

[@LOL-gn5oh]

Of all the companies that could have bought Hudson's IPs (including Bloody Roar), it's a damn shame that f*ckin' Konami was the one that got them.

[@bw4708]

Gotcha Force mentioned! The game of my childhood, I loved it so much

[@bazzjedimaster]

Remember doesn't matter how dead the game seem to be, there is a chance bunch of cracked latino americans players keep it alive on fighcade (nationality of players may vary per title)

[@NeoZiggy92]

Don't forget about the East too! Man, they're good...

[@bazzjedimaster]

@@NeoZiggy92 as I said players' nationality may vary per game.

[@ironmaster6496]

so true hahahah we just love our fighting games

[@DragonSeoul]

While on the subject of Killer Instinct, October 24 would mark the series' 30th anniversary so if Microsoft were to tease anything about a new KI, that would be the best time to do it.

[@retroman3960]

And I hope they don't do that free character rotation BS again, 'cause that was awful.

[@davidsentanu7836]

@@retroman3960 Instead they'll do live-service now. Free-to-play, pay for every little things else, with 3 types of in-game currencies. And lootboxes. And battlepasses.

[@Gametester110-qf8vs]

It's Microsoft: They love buying up prominent studios and doing NOTHING with them.

[@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo]

The irony: Dead or Alive felt so alive back in the days but now its completely dead. Dead or Alive went from alive to dead

[@Darkchao_berserko22]

Tell me about it

[@ReallyBigBadAndy76]

DOA, in my opinion, has a better fighting system and plays more fluidly than either Tekken or Virtua Fighter. But I couldn’t buy the last one because it’s just a Japanese perv simulator at this point. If they toned it down to less embarrassing levels it would be a fantastic fighting game. I put tons of hours into DoA2 Ultimate on Xbox. Probably the first truly functional online fighting game.

[@MrTopTenList]

Great video! This was a great collection of all dormant fighting game series that were once popular. I can't think of one missing. The most surprising ones to me were honestly the games that came out within the last decade that are considered dead. It feels weird to think of Soulcalibur or KI as dead titles, but yeah, it's been 6 to 10 years. Usually that's when we see new titles take over, or at least continuing DLC when looking at games like Skullgirls. Darkstalkers and MvC are games Capcom likes to dangle the carrot in front of us for making new titles, but I'll take the bait every time. Darkstalkers are not dead and MvC will return!

[@ShinHouou]

Morrigan is the ultimate example of a character outliving their franchise. Just because Morrigan, Felicia, Hsien-Ko, Demitri and the like are floating around out there in the ether in other games doesn't mean Darkstalkers is a shoe-in. If Capcom can thread the needle and make a new Darkstalkers that people will actually play, it'll be impressive. Also, kudos to SNK for putting out bangers and steadily revitalizing their catalog of IPs since returning to game dev. Reviving Fatal Fury has been a most personal mission for some of the developers, so being able to finally get it done should be invigorating. They've already confirmed a new Art of Fighting is in the works as well as a Samurai Shodown action RPG, to say nothing of whatever they're doing with Metal Slug. The company has well-documented aspirations of becoming AAA within ten years, so seeing them spread their wings more and more with every year will be interesting to see.

[@aishalee4572]

If Darkstalkers did return, I hope that they could find a way to integrate Red Earth/Warzard into the series. The characters just mesh well together and well could potentially get a game mode similar to Red Earth's gameplay. Though Darkstalkers along with Red Earth would probably have to be rebooted storywise for the two work.

[@jerfuhrer2581]

Im just amazed someone remembered Battle Arena Toshinden.

[@crashpal]

It's on the mini PS1 classic

[@ricrom17_]

Everybody knows Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi needs a revival! But on the real it’s actually tragic most of these entries won’t be seen for a while now. DOA mostly bums me out tho, Hayabusa was my first main in any fighting game and my fav video game character of all time. Hopefully we’ll see him again soon

[@emperormegaman3856]

You're joking, but an actually good Star Wars fighting game would be a cool idea.

[@GodOfOrphans]

DoA was a game of firsts for me as well, it was the first fighting game I learned to consistently 1CC and the first one I did every combo trial for. I main Zack and Lisa.

[@huitersantos8905]

Timming is something essential for franchises. Akuma in TK7 was a genius move from Namco. Made people excited and kinda "forgive" SFXTK in a way. Not a fighting game, but one of my favorite franchises its a rythym game for PS1, Bust a Groove. Characters from it also look likes FG Characters. But it lost interest by people really fast, again timming. And now a day with soo many good and more famous rythym games, a comeback is almost impossible. Soo its really important to help those collection for old games. Helps to keep it the legacy avaiable, since those ips are closed to their past consoles. Great video btw! :)

[@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo]

Blazblue Central Fiction, the final main Blazblue title cause a lot of controversy because it didn't get an english dub, didn't have playable unlimited characters & didn't even get an "Extend" version like Continuum Shift & Chronophantasma did.

[@vikingfromnorth45]

Plus dark ear mobile which continues the main series sorta

[@midknighthuargo2670]

With the case of the Bloody Roar series, during the pandemic, there was actually a re-dub project for Bloody Roar 2 performed (with consent from Konami) by Casey Mongillo, Kira Buckland, and a few others voice actors.

[@baberuthless]

I remember that! Did that ever release?

[@midknighthuargo2670]

@baberuthless Yes.

[@wolfman210]

That's one good thing about Konami getting into Pachinko I guess... They're more easy going about they're back catalogue outside of Castlevania and Metal Gear.

[@saloz9483]

Yea I got the rom recently and its great work. If thats not fan dedication then I dont know what is.

[@Metal0maniac98]

Heres hoping that most of the fighting game series in this video manage to comeback at some point. I would personally love for Bloody Roar, DOA, Killer Instinct and the many Capcom/SNK fighting games to somehow comeback from the dead.

[@coolbrotherf127]

I'm a big Soul Calibur fan, and I've been playing them since I was a young kid. It's so sad to see my favorite fighting game series drop into obscurity.

[@DarthWall275]

Indeed. 30 now, started with SC2 when I was about 9, it was the PS2 version since I was already a Tekken kid.

[@manjitheerratic5127]

You have my greatest gratitude for including both Bloody Roar and Dissidia Final Fantasy

[@VitorCosta40]

I love Battle Arena Toshinden 3, it's the king and best game of the franchise 🔥 Toshinden 3 have a charm that no other fighting game has for me, it's a unique one 🔥😎

[@casedistorted]

*first game* "Battle Arena Toshinden" So we going oldschoooool, ain't we? Man, you bringing back ps1 memories when that system first launched for me..

[@Zeppeli0]

As soon as the CvS music started, i was looking for the hidden Kaiser beer ad, its at 0:16

[@Lynxan]

Ahh... Bloody Roar, my all time favorite fighter. Still got all six of them and even got a Japanize version of the first mostly for the box art. Ya, there was a sixth, most seem to forget that there was a version made for the Xbox, though much like Primal Fury on the Gamecube, it was another redo of 3, just with yet more in it. I just wish some one would work on the idea of were transformations in a fighter again. Not like the concept is a Bloody Roar only thing.

[@garcher7169]

Bloody Roar 2 was one of the few games I was good enough at to talk trash to my friends! With Gado or Bakuryu Id win like 95 out of a hundred times! I got my ass kicked hard in most fighting games but for some reason I was really good at BR2!

[@TakaComics]

In my opinion, DoA needs to embrace its silliness (yes, THAT silliness). I know it would probably cause issues for advertising and main stage tournaments, but come on... that series lived and died on sexy costumes and ridiculous physics, and DoA6 tried so hard to distance itself from that to make it more marketable. I don't understand why we can have MK on main stages with characters ripping out organs and goring everyone to death, but the minute R. Mika slaps her butt it becomes a problem. -_- I really think there's a space for DoA as a semi-lewd, but technically solid fighter, and these major sponsors have to grow up and let that be part of the community as well. Also, I'm sure there's talk at Arcsys to give Blazblue the GGST treatment. If I were to venture a guess, I'd say it's in some sort of pre-production right now, and they'll announce it in the next couple years.

[@Karzeon]

Yeah, I personally thought DOA stood out with it's doll-like visuals. DOA 3 is why I asked for an Xbox for Christmas (that and Jet Set Radio Future enthralled me for years). DOA 5 and 6 felt....too real for me. I think BlazBlue could be Strive-ified, but it's *the* anime fighter to me. They proved they can still make insanely crisp sprites with the new characters in BBTAG so I hope they do it again.

[@davidsentanu7836]

DoA should simply combine the fighting game and the beach volleyball game. Add a few more activities, like bowling, dancing, tag team, three-way battle / dramatic battle, battle royale, etc. Focus the story less into bumbling schoolgirls kawaii adventure, but lean more seriously into the ninja lore, with a menacing world-ending villain arc. Make it a real high-stake story with over-the-top characters that just happened to dress sexily for no reason, instead of everyday story about cute ordinary girls that dress sexily also for no reason. The first is fan-service, the latter is just perverted. Two totally different things. Add silly gimmicks too choose, like low gravity, underwater stage, anything really. Just make it the most fun, dress-up dolls sport/action/fighting amusement park and laugh all the way to the bank with the cosmetics microtransactions.

[@GodOfOrphans]

@@davidsentanu7836 Thing is there already was huge parts of Ninja Lore with DoA the boss of the second game was a Tengu for pete's sake heck there's even another Tengu that's playable in later editions of 5 and 6. Even with the more sci-fi stuff with Alpha the ninja lore never went away and still played a significant role in the story.

[@realamericannegro977]

I agree. I feel like it needs a soft reboot. The old Dead or Alives like part 2 Hardcore and 3 to this day are still the best looking fighting games to me outside Virtua Fighter.

[@davidsentanu7836]

@@GodOfOrphans True. Ninjas are cool. They fight all the time. They flip out and kill people. DoA needs to lean more into the ninja lore to even differentiate it from Tekken. As can we see, the more Tekken focus on the devil gene lore the more popular it is. Fighting tournaments are too 90s. Most people don't care about martial arts anymore, but ninjas are still cool. More ninjas! Less schoolgirls!

[@GDPanda69]

My heart when Dark Stalkers and SC come back

[@videogamerzero1schannel]

I'm on the same boat, I wasn't thinking Capcom would remember stuff like Power Stone, Rival Schools & Star Gladiator but with Fighting Collection 2 coming out next year, there's hope to maybe give us a new Darkstalkers now that SF6 is a success especially since that team cares about fighting games & they can also be the ones to make that 3rd Rival Schools game which would be a bit bittersweet since Itsuno wouldn't be the one to make it but I do believe the SF6 team can be the ones to make a new Rival Schools since they were the same people that gave us Akira in SFV if I'm not mistaken

[@wolfman210]

Yoshinori Ono cared about fighting games, was the guy basically responsible for SF's return as a Capcom flagship and a new Darkstalkers was his personal passion project alongside SF4 but Capcom didn't think the interest was there after the collection's failure. If he couldn't make it happen I don't think it ever will.

[@videogamerzero1schannel]

@@wolfman210 Idk this collection with a majority of it being old IPs that Capcom themselves said they wanted to bring back gives me some hope things will change even if I might be hopelessly naive & have a lot of wishful thinking

[@wolfman210]

@@videogamerzero1schannel As a fan of both DS and SC I'd love to have my pessimism proven wrong but I think the Industry has been "Hollywooded" too much for less mainstream genres like fighters to have a chance in the eyes of the giants like Bamco and Capcom if they aren't proven pop culture icons like Street Fighter, Tekken, Nintendo and Mortal Kombat. Why put money into DarkStalkers or Soul Calibur when a new Resident Evil or Dragon Ball game would make more money?

[@videogamerzero1schannel]

@@wolfman210 Perhaps you're right but I believe things might be different this time with Capcom even if I might be naive into believing things can change now

[@theonewhowrotethis5681]

3:33 Wanna make a slight correction. Soulcalibur II is the best-selling entry in the franchise. The director stated in an interview for III's demo/beta/E3 build that II sold 4m copies. The Japanese Wikipedia page for II leads to the page that featured the E3 2005 interview that had Yotoriyama (longtime series director and producer) state this. This 4m sales figure was stated way before HD Online was made, so II's total sales numbers should be even higher. As for IV, we so far only know that 2.32m copies were sold for the game. It still makes it one of the best-selling games of the franchise, though, as I believe VI only sold 2m copies. This puts the games total sales ranking as follows: II > IV > VI > V > III > I > Edge > Legends As for whether the series is dead or not, I think it's just taking a break. Bamco's approval process for games is annoying, and Tekken only really got where it was due to Harada having to skirt the rules at times (based on his interview that he had that you mentioned in the video). It'll probably take a while though as Bamco takes forever to approve stuff (as their management sucks).

[@Radd1976]

Remember when Ono teased a DarkStalkers4? When a collection comes out, it's used as a gauge as to whether a new one would be successful and funds it. (think MvC collection now = MvC4?) There was a moment at an EVO where Ono had people hold up dollar bills about it. Capcom USA had a design contest afterwards, and my submission was a female gorgon dressed as an office lady, and her snake head tied into a ponytail which could open for super moves, etc. Maybe someday.

[@baberuthless]

And that trailer they showed at comic con? That was insane and they just pretended it was for the collection the whole time 🤷‍♀️

[@imafgc]

Franchises I want to see return that you spoke about: 1. B L O O D Y R O A R 2. Power Stone (or at least make a capcom all stars game inspired by power stone) 3. Soul Calibur 4. Marvel baybee As for Red Earth, I'd make it part of the Darkstalkkers universe and have Tessa be a character if a new Darkstalkers were ever to be made. I don't want to see a new Dissidia but I would die for a 3v3 anime tag fighter with the Final Fantasy franchise.

[@Dreweybaby]

Rival schools was gold! I remember me and my buddies playing that for hours on the PS1 back when I was in the 6th grade 😢😢😢

[@Zeboki]

I need a drink to make this less painful.

[@Jerm6760]

My Soul still burns for the tales of Souls and Sword…Eternally Retold.

[@henrybitencourt]

Virtua fighter soul calibur and darkstalkers is especially sad

[@dennisgodman9732]

Thank God for emulation and what not, I love revisiting old fighting games

[@TheChues91]

Seeing SC in the thumbnail hurts, not gonna lie. Crazy there's been ONE game in 12 years. :/

[@Flungz_99]

I miss Bloody Roar. That and Tekken 3 were my introductions to fighting games. I’d say Marvel Nemesis too.

[@dinosspanos7409]

Fighting games forever! I’d love to see alot of these come back. The soul still burns

[@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo]

Capcom vs SNK 3 is the ultimate dream crossover Capcom & SNK fans, including myself have been longing for years

[@AlexIn_ThaCosmos89]

Killer Instinct: A game that should *NEVER* be overshadowed

[@wolfman210]

It's hard to believe it was a Nintendo flagship in the 90s on the SNES and N64.

[@AlexIn_ThaCosmos89]

@@wolfman210 oh yeah, it jumped from Nintendo to Microsoft Now under Microsoft, they might as well make KI, Halo, Gears, and Battletoads in the same universe

[@wolfman210]

@@AlexIn_ThaCosmos89 Yeah when Smash hit Nintendo forgot all about KI. MS tried to make it Xbox's Street Fighter but alas.

[@AlexIn_ThaCosmos89]

@@wolfman210 more like a mix of a fast-paced Street Fighter and Smash Bros, because of the inclusion of other characters owned by Microsoft

[@SeViLionCollectibles]

Battle Arena Toshinden & Bloody Roar are main games I’d love to see make a comeback!

[@Wing-Zero-si1eu]

Soul Calibur was one of the first fighting games I grew up with. With 3 being my first of the series, since I had a PS2 growing up. My main 5 were Siegfried/Nightmare, Sophitia, Kilik, Mitsurgi, & Xianghua.

[@nicks4802]

Bloody roar was so cool. It was like the closest thing to a DBZ game where you can go super Saiyan. Fighting games where you can change forms, and be knocked out of those forms to a less powerful state..... They need to make a comeback

[@GabeNwagbala]

SOULCALIBUR is dormant for now not dead.

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Thanks because these are some of my favorite titles in gaming and wish that they'd get more love and not be dead anymore... Soon hopefully or whenever that is of course.

[@MrDarksol]

I would agree that DOA is pretty much dead if it weren't for the fact that the company is more focused on turning the girls into and to quote my friend here " Virtual girls that people spend vast amounts of money on for costumes" then making a DOA7. I mean really 5 had that much money for DLC costumes and then 6 made it even worse with even more scummy decisions on top of them focusing more on extreme beach volleyball 3 where they had a whole bunch of new female characters that I'm pretty sure everyone forgot about and even more dirty costumes. Now I honestly think that all the girls do from the series is just go on that island and just chill for the next several years because they're not getting any work and Kasumi is currently being a gravuare model lol. But man it does always suck when there's a fighting game franchise that you want to see come back only for certain things to come by and say nope that's not going to happen.

[@gespenst1329]

The team was scrapped and the main man jumped ship to Tekken. The writing’s on the wall at this point.

[@MrDarksol]

@@gespenst1329 Trust me, I know.

[@pancholopez8829]

This video is good at explaining what happened to each series. I didn't know that the create lead left in the case of Soul Calibur and Blazblue. As for the Capcom games, I will say they should do the Capcom All Stars idea another shot. A 2v2 or 3v3 fighter with all IPs. We got CFE which everyone hate, but I see it as a guilty pleasure on what could have been. As for DOA, that part hurt me. I personally have all 6 games. Yes, all 6. Plus Dimensions on my 3DS. Still annoyed that Koei fumble the bag with 6 and focused too much on reselling and costume season passes. 😢 I want another DOA game personally.

[@jordanwhite352]

...no Eternal Champions?

[@jackofallgamesTV]

One series you haven't commented on was Eternal Champions: Sega USA's Genesis and Sega CD fighter that was killed by Sega Japan. Another casualty of the Sega Civil War

[@ChannelCortez33]

Darkstalkers is my favorite Capcom fighting game IP. I would love to see a new release, but I would only be really interested if they used hand drawn sprites, which seems highly unlikely to happen. That coupled with the fact that they don’t even have the data to support their confidence in releasing a new game in general means I’m not keeping my hopes up about it coming back.

[@SOBEKCrocodileGod]

Soul Calibur 7 is inevitable. Also holy hot diggedy damn, I did not expect a Gotcha Force reference

[@DAv2003]

I'll echo the sentiment for Pocket Fighter being nice to see return. A very cute and fun game that can have a limited budget and so on, just so long as they show the care of the first and make it really enjoyable to play.

[@AllPerspectives]

I was really happy to see that Power Stone was mentioned. Power Stone 2 doesn't get the love that it deserves. I have a lot of fond memories of this game. I put a few friends on to this game back in the day. This was a gem and the mechanics were fun.

[@Sk4tman91]

One series many wish for a comeback is Injustice. Where IJ2's story left off there's quite a potential for Injustice 3. But with Netherrealm busy with Mortal Kombat it might take a while if there will be any news regarding next Injustice game.

[@samflood5631]

I wonder if Kite Man or Spoiler will be the new characters in Injustice 3.

[@Sk4tman91]

@@samflood5631 Another Injustice 3 major character would be Anti-Monitor.

[@Sk4tman91]

Other series I'd like to see return are TMNT: Tournament Fighters and Virtua Fighter. From this list I want Soulcalibur and DOA return.

[@dr.wolfstar1765]

I love soul caliber. I would buy Soul Caliber 7 and would hope their guest characters would be master shredder and splinter from TMNT

[@samflood5631]

I think the guest characters for Soul Calibur 7 would be Joker from Persona 5 Sly Cooper Raziel or Kain from Legacy of Kain Alphen from Tales of Arise Velvet from Tales of Berseria Sir Dan from Medievil Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima

[@lurkzie]

Gotcha force is criminally underrated. I would play that game into the early hours of the morning

[@merciless972]

DAMN YOU KONAMI!

[@Peony_tree]

Ey another excellent video! With all these collections coming up I have hope for some of these series coming back ❤

[@ahmakki]

OOOooo I neeeed new Battle Arena Doshilden game!

[@KRVFTMAGIK]

"Transcending history and the world. A tale of souls and swords; eternally retold."

[@kayla8402]

Especially when you look at the style of the vampire savior versions of darkstalkers, and compare to things like guilty gear, they could EASILY update the systems to something with a similar feel (use the special gauge for a percentage pushblock instead of mashing! build in more juggles and natural links but avoid super long combos! easy!), start with the entire old cast an build a new generation off of there (how much does Leo feel like a new vampire hunter two generations down the line? lots of easy examples of concepts). People would go nuts.

[@plaguedfrost1753]

Fighting games were doomed the day Playstation AllStars Battle Royal failed… :( We’re just now realizing our folly…

[@baberuthless]

🤣

[@coolbrotherf127]

PlayStation AllStars just wasn't an interesting game. It could be fun, but it was kind of messy and lacked a clear identity. Other platform fighters like Rivals of Aether and Brawlhalla did a better job replicating the fast combat of Smash Bros while adding their own unique and interesting elements.

[@plaguedfrost1753]

@@coolbrotherf127 I got’chu, I was joking. I love Rivals and can’t wait for Fraymakers. (Tbh I like Rivals more than Smash…)

[@gregc7699]

I used to absolute love Fighters Destiny back in the day who remembers that what a classic that was

[@thetoondevil]

I think the issue with darkstalkers is Capcom is possibly not willing to pay for animating the game. DS has a lot of insane animations that's possibly too difficult to translate into 3D, I think ArcSys is the only company who could possibly pull it off.

[@worldmedic3187]

Could you imagine a reboot of Brutal: Paws of Fury. I remember seeing ads in my comic books only to get disappointed with a sub par gameplay. The characters were so cool though lol.

[@GuntanksInSpace]

Particularly, the 3D fighter talk spoke to me a lot as I've primarily played Soul Calibur for a looooooooooong while. I wish it had more love within Bamco (the pandemic cancelling its world tour and a host of other plans hurt that game a lot, I feel. But not enough to make it look like it didn't sell). That also said, the start of the video reminded me of being on the receiving end of "yo why you still playing dead games tho" only for the guy talking like that also witness his favorite fighter lose support too.

[@tobymaxmax658]

BAT needs to come back along with Clayfighters.

[@samflood5631]

What about PlayStation Allstar Battle Royale? That was a fighting game that used a lot of PlayStation characters such as Kratos, Sly Cooper, Racthet and Clank, Jak and Daxter and Nathan Drake. There were also leaks of Dart from Legend of Dragoon being a DLC character but that was scrapped because the game wasn’t doing too well. I brought up PlayStation Allstar Battle Royale to a friend in college and he acted like the game never existed and stated that there was only Super Smash Bros. It’s a damn shame that the game never got any sequels because there were so many other PlayStation characters for Sony to use like Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima, Raziel and Kain from Legacy of Kain, Joker from Persona 5, the characters from White Knight Chronicles, Rose and the other dragoons from Legend of Dragoon, the characters from Ni No Kuni 1 and 2, Sora, Riku, Roxas and Aqua from Kingdom Hearts and Jaster and his gang from Rogue Galaxy.

[@leonardohenriquez7814]

You’ve been killing it with these video topics! Take my sub!

[@bek9924]

Great video. Fully agreed on MVC, I think it’s just a matter of when. I would be down for SNK handling their crossover too; SVC Chaos was a disappointment, but their NEOGEO Pocket version is actually really fun!

[@booch2912]

Soul Calibur on The Dreamcast back in 00' was my all time fave game

[@saloz9483]

Ya know its sad that Battle Arena is forever lost. Its one of the PS1 fighters that I got addicted to. SC6 was a huge step in the right direction for the series as it offered more SP content than the previous entry. It gave me memories of SC3 which is my favorite entry plus it had a decent amount of DLC so I'm guessing there was some extra cash thrown at it for doing well. I feel its not if we will get a SC7 but when. Side note no SC game has yet to have a banger opener like soulblade/edge. Iv always loved bloody roar since it made itself stood out with the blood and the fact people can transform back and forth from human to animal. I feel it can stand out even today since well you dont see any other fighter doing this. I mean there is a fanbase as well since some fans made a mod for BR2 that redubs the whole game with brand new pro voice actors. Speaking of standing out I will never understand capcoms fear of releasing a new darkstalkers. Its basically a horror movie character fighter and those are close to non existent not counting an indy game here and there. Also like you said they keep selling morg merch and it must sell so why not do another game with more of the popular female cast from there. I dont know what they were thinking with def jam icon. It was nothing like the last two games which is what made those games popular even to people who dont care for rap/hip-hop and yea no remaster since thats legal hell right there. I will never forgive for what blazeblu did with its final entry before the tag fighter. It gave a big middle finger to fans who supported them by releasing it sub only and never doing a dub when all the games before it had one. So some people couldn't really experience the end of the arc with the voices they come to enjoy. It came off as lazy and cheap.

[@davizloco]

These fighting games make me so sad! 😭

[@nazeres1]

this video was amazing, i'm glad i found this through my recommendation

[@mrmeteor64]

I don’t have faith with Namco Bandai and it’s franchises.

[@theonewhowrotethis5681]

Yeah, Bamco really has bad management and administrators as office politics are a real issue there.

[@patrickholt8782]

I wish toshinden would come back. It could be such a charming and simple game. I would love it.

[@BerryNiceToMeetYou]

Soulcalibur could be great if they gave it the same kind of time and attention as Tekken. It needs to go back to having great singke player content and modes. Chronicles Of The Sword is still one of my favourite extra modes in any fighting game.

[@ahmakki]

I just start watching bur pleaseee dont tell me that soul calibur is dead!!! legend never dies! lets keep the dream living!

[@GodOfOrphans]

Fighting vipers actually did get a 7th gen digital port to 360 and I think PS3 as well and that was well before it was playable in Yakuza

[@hardkoregamer1981]

It's all about budget, timing and having the right people involved.

[@misterkeebler]

My biggest surprise in this vid was the toshinden game on the wii! I had no idea that existed. Definitely plan to give it a try now. You always have interesting vid topics.

[@AlexRFightgames]

2:15 owwwwww right in the feels. I need a Tekken collection *and* a Toshinden collection :-\ See my Sofia in Toshinden 1 as soon as we get netplay...

[@vincentfitzgerald9738]

I would love to see the soul cailber series come back i still love using its character creator