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He wanted to die because it's a requirement for an achievement/trophy, only he didn't realize that he has to kill himself for it.

Smash
Returnal

Literally every fighting game series has some lore to them that people enjoy no matter how convoluted they may be.

Even if the general FGC cares more about play-style, a lot of the community won't ignore the characters' backstories.

Leonhart4 posted...

People always complain that fighting games keep bringing back the most popular characters, but that's why they do it.

When you try to make a semi-clean break like SF3 attempted to do, people aren't interested.

To be fair, SFIII's case also had to do with its timing. It came out in like the late-90s at a time where 3D games were emerging, so people were probably less interested in 2D games (even one as good looking as SFIII). It also didn't even get a console release until Dreamcast, so before then you were at the mercy of your arcade even having it. By the time it got a PS2/Xbox release, people have mostly moved on to 3D fighters and Street Fighter itself was in a drought, with it mainly featured in crossover games.

Like you're not wrong with SFIII not being as well-known because it lacked a lot of the SFII/Alpha characters, but there were other factors involved.

I love how a couple games only I nominated made it in the side-bracket.

I will give a single save for

Super Mario Bros

Darn...well I can't be upset with how far it has gone.

Reaper of the Cards

You know, I might have thought Game.com was a website all this time...

The Gizmondo was further overshadowed when Swedish press revealed criminal pasts of several executives, causing their resignations including Tiger Telematics CEO Carl Freer. Director of Gizmondo Europe Stefan Eriksson was involved in a Swedish criminal organisation, the "Uppsalamaffian" (the Uppsala mafia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo

Yo, what?

Zero

I just learned that Dr. Kawashima had several other brain training games developed under his name, like on iOS and Xbox 360 with Kinect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Exercise_with_Dr._Kawashima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_and_Brain_Connection

I backed Kawashima a lot during the later rounds, but for these last rounds, I shifted towards backing an actual Nintendo rep to be a finalist, which we now have.

That said, I'll likely still go with Zero for the final round.

Now that I think about it, Mortal Kombat 9 has been delisted for some time, so when Ed Boon said this...

https://twitter.com/noobde/status/1601750517595590658

Maybe he was hinting at something all along.

Ryuk

Rukia

Reaper of the Cards

Moon

Rukia

Reaper of the Cards

Moon

Dr. Kawashima

Zero

Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Mario Kart 8
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Alucard

Jeff

Dr. Kawashima

Ryuk

Rukia

Alucard

Reaper of the Cards

Isaac

Jeff

Is he the guy that gave Violent Ken an afro in SNK vs. Capcom for some reason?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/3/5/AAC8J1AAEeBP.jpg

If Sion appears again in Under Night In-Birth 2, I look forward to them explaining in-game why she's in that game but not Melty Blood: Type Lumina.

Hey, Black_Turtle got banned. So it can happen.

It only takes saying the absolute worst shit ever to make it happen.

(I don't even know what Black_Turtle said to get banned)

Gacha Star Ocean already happened though.

It shutdown years ago.

Rukia

Reaper of the Cards

Alucard

Zero

Isaac

Jeff

Reaper of the Cards

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

That should be it for me

Botan

Ryuk

Rukia

Reaper of the Cards

Hades

Rukia