Tfw fighting games will never return to the height of their popularity in the glory days of 3rd Strike and MOTW

>tfw fighting games will never return to the height of their popularity in the glory days of 3rd Strike and MOTW

You do realise that Third Strike was so unpopular that it killed both Street Fighter and fighting games as a whole, right? Those weren't "glory days".

>killed fighting games as a whole

oh boy here we go. Fighting games just stopped existing after 1999.

>SFIII
>popular

lol

SFIII almost single singlehandedly killed SF with how unpopular it was.

Fighting games were obviously still around but they were nowhere near the level they were in the past, only Tekken was really pulling good numbers at that point because it had home versions for the playstation.

We have to go back (to Super Turbo)

Are you stupid?

3s is garbage

Fighting games were most popular with Street Fighter 2. The sales and all the different versions and ports of the game should make that obvious.

>killed SF
>literally the most known fighting game worldwide

>3S is the most known fighting game worldwide
Are you trolling?

I think your dumbass means the game had one of the most known moments in fighting games with that Daigo parry comeback.

Idk about popularity but ill have to say it will be pretty hard for games to get at the fun levels of third strike and guilty gear xx ever again.

For as much of a mess that third strike was balance wise the game is just too fucking fun, the sprite work is also fantastic, same for the soundtrack.

Guilty Gear was alive and well while SF was dead.

>Fighting games were obviously still around but they were nowhere near the level they were in the past

Yeah, but to contribute that solely to Third Strike's failure is insane.

When the sequel to the most successful and genre-defining arcade fighting game of all time horribly underperforms it's a pretty big deal

It is a big deal, but that is like saying that if Infinite Warfare 2 fails then fps games are dead.

SNK will makes Fighting Games Great Again.

On a semi related note, having a native x86 version of the game now is awesome for no input lag due to emulation.

>threerd strike
really?

I blame butt ugly SF games and animeshit

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>mfw online edtion never got a pc release
I kno fightcade exists but id rather have this