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I had really high hopes for Injustice. I was under the impression that NRS had learned their lesson with MK9. It seemed like they did at first, a lot of player suggestions for MK9 made it in. Like alt costumes in arcade ladders, robust practice mode and better netcode. All of the aforementioned is very cute and lovely, but that isn't what saves a fighting game. MK9 was killed by NRS' choice to patch every single casual complaint weekly. The game was given no chance to grow. Every perceived imperfection was snipped at like a bonsai tree. Nobody could keep up with all of the changes and by the time they were finished, most players had moved on and lost interest.
That is what I had hoped NRS would take note of the most. The fact that their kneejerk reactions to the casual player who plays 3 matches a week hurt their game. There are and were definitely things that needed to be changed like Batgirl's infinite, Kabal's block infinite and Grundy's unclashable grapples. But those things were unavoidable. If Batgirl got you in the infinite, that was the game. You started blocking Kabal and you were eating that chip until you gave in to the fact that you needed to get hit by the gut punch. Those things prevented growth in the game. But things like Black Adam's dive kick and Scorpion's teleport are just strong. You cannot find a single fighting game where a certain character or characters have clear advantages. That doesn't mean the game is broken, it just means that some players will have to work harder than others. That is the nature of the beast. If you want to have the respect of other players or you want to be a character loyalist, you in most cases have to put in the work to do so. Strong does not equal game breaking.
Case in point is Doomsday. Doomsday was a huge problem during the game's release. His Ex Supernova seemed to be the all seeing finger of god. Able to strike you from wherever. And even though the outcries reached the heavens, NRS didn't patch it right away. And as a result of this, players were forced to grow and find out how to fight it. And when it was discovered that it was beaten by a simple forward dash, Doomsday fell out of favor with the casual scrubs who were content with Body Splash and Supernova spam. And another tactic became prominent. Deathstroke. Deathstroke received a nerf very early on in the game's life. I believe it was actually day 2 that he got hit with the foam stuff. Outcry once again became the name of the game. And just when word was getting around that you could dash in between his gun shots and that his flip was punishable by full combo, he got slapped, again.
Now we are reaching the finale of the first season of DLC, where Zod will be announced in a few hours. The current man listed on Metropolis' Most Wanted is named Scorpion. His teleport, which on block was punishable by full combo, got nerfed to high hell. With recovery frames added to whiff, hit and block. Essentially ruining some of his bnb's and to add insult to injury, they nerfed his flip kick. A move in which I saw no complaints for. This was his get off me move. His block string ender. His "Super Breath". And it was nerfed. Along with it he received a damage reduction. It was like a virtual True Hollywood story. Scorpion can now be found in rehab, snorting oxycotin with Hasslehoff.
tl:dr
LET YOUR GOD DAMNED GAME GROW A BIT BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO CHOP IT UP
That is what I had hoped NRS would take note of the most. The fact that their kneejerk reactions to the casual player who plays 3 matches a week hurt their game. There are and were definitely things that needed to be changed like Batgirl's infinite, Kabal's block infinite and Grundy's unclashable grapples. But those things were unavoidable. If Batgirl got you in the infinite, that was the game. You started blocking Kabal and you were eating that chip until you gave in to the fact that you needed to get hit by the gut punch. Those things prevented growth in the game. But things like Black Adam's dive kick and Scorpion's teleport are just strong. You cannot find a single fighting game where a certain character or characters have clear advantages. That doesn't mean the game is broken, it just means that some players will have to work harder than others. That is the nature of the beast. If you want to have the respect of other players or you want to be a character loyalist, you in most cases have to put in the work to do so. Strong does not equal game breaking.
Case in point is Doomsday. Doomsday was a huge problem during the game's release. His Ex Supernova seemed to be the all seeing finger of god. Able to strike you from wherever. And even though the outcries reached the heavens, NRS didn't patch it right away. And as a result of this, players were forced to grow and find out how to fight it. And when it was discovered that it was beaten by a simple forward dash, Doomsday fell out of favor with the casual scrubs who were content with Body Splash and Supernova spam. And another tactic became prominent. Deathstroke. Deathstroke received a nerf very early on in the game's life. I believe it was actually day 2 that he got hit with the foam stuff. Outcry once again became the name of the game. And just when word was getting around that you could dash in between his gun shots and that his flip was punishable by full combo, he got slapped, again.
Now we are reaching the finale of the first season of DLC, where Zod will be announced in a few hours. The current man listed on Metropolis' Most Wanted is named Scorpion. His teleport, which on block was punishable by full combo, got nerfed to high hell. With recovery frames added to whiff, hit and block. Essentially ruining some of his bnb's and to add insult to injury, they nerfed his flip kick. A move in which I saw no complaints for. This was his get off me move. His block string ender. His "Super Breath". And it was nerfed. Along with it he received a damage reduction. It was like a virtual True Hollywood story. Scorpion can now be found in rehab, snorting oxycotin with Hasslehoff.
tl:dr
LET YOUR GOD DAMNED GAME GROW A BIT BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO CHOP IT UP
