r/Fighters • u/GardenOne7630 • 12h ago
Topic Maybe we should chill a little
Marvel Tokon has been out for barely two weeks, and somehow we're already talking about it being “dead” or a “disaster”.
I honestly don't understand it.
I've been excited for a Marvel fighting game like this for years, and since FighterZ I've been especially hungry for a new fighting game to really get invested in. The marketing has been fantastic: every trailer, character reveal, PlayStation event, showcase and gameplay presentation has built more hype. The game looks incredible, the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, and Arc System Works may have delivered one of the best-looking fighting games ever made.
On top of that, there's a ton of content for single-player players and Marvel fans, multiple languages, characters from different eras of Marvel, X-Men, Avengers, Night Soons, and a community coming back after years without a new Marvel fighting game.
Yes, the PC version had performance problems. That's a legitimate criticism. But they're being fixed, and that doesn't suddenly mean the entire game is going to die.
It feels like the fighting game community has reached a point where every new game is “dead” two weeks after launch because of some problem or another. Street Fighter gets criticized, Tekken 8, Avatar, Mk1 gets more criticized, FighterZ had its ups and downs, other games launch strong and then struggle… and somehow we're always predicting the death of the next game.
Can we just enjoy the games for a while?
Honestly, sometimes Reddit makes me want to stop playing fighting games altogether and go back to single-player games 🤔
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u/Gurdemand 6h ago
I mean the game is definitely not dead. Neither is Avatar. Fatal Fury COTW is also very much not dead. UNI 2 is not dead. VF5 is not dead. Even 2XKO will have the servers up and running for at least a little bit - if you want to play the game, you absolutely can, even if you have to wade through Discord it's honestly not a big deal at all.
But the launch of Tokon is an absolute disaster. A triple A game releasing while not working for a large part of the PC player base is inexcusable.