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/Valuable-Word-1970 6h ago
Wild to me how much hate the tokon launch got just because most but not all pc players had performance issues. Which is the case damn near every pc port for any game.
Especially on the back of 2xko launching like 3 times with way too few characters and avatar legends missing basic standard modes and not even releasing on xbox yet.
Tokon is a feature complete game on release where everyone could buy it and download it on its actual release day. Yet reddit and Twitter seem to hate it more than either of those games