Which Fighting Franchise Should Return? | Triple K.O. 

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Bloody Roar: It's CLAWberin' Time. You're welcome, Konami.

I'm still holding out hope for Tekken X Street Fighter to actually get made.

Eternal champions. Bloody roar, rival schools , Capcom vs snk 3 , dark stalkers ,SF ex 4 , battle arena toshiden, killer instinct.. art of fighting

Darkstalkers & Rival Schools are at the top of my list, but only if they have the same quality and passion of the originals; they cannot be mere works for hire who don’t care about the properties. Super Puzzle Fighter II & Super Gem Fighter would be interesting to see make a proper comeback (bonus to have X-Babies Vs Gem Fighter if Marvel gets their act together). Red Earth has such a unique mechanic (leveling up your fighter to earn moves and powers to defeat boss fights) that I’d love to see it properly utilized for home consoles in a new game (if not a new Red Earth). A new Fatal Fury continuing the story from after Garou would be fantastic (and maybe even some interquels between Real Bouts & Garou to flesh things out). Those are the ones I want personally, but I feel just about every dormant franchise deserves a chance to find its audience. I can appreciate having the older entries available to allow fans to explore the past, but true longevity seems to lie in proper sequels or new games. Just as Killer Instinct 2013 was developed by talented fans of the originals, similarly any franchise can be brought back to find its place in the fandom, just so long as there’s talent and passion driving it.

Thinking about it, CVS3 has a large chance of actually happening in the future considering Capcom and SNK's current relationship. Heck they did a mobile Collab, that's usually a sign.

Yes with Bloody Roar one of the best fighting games growing up. Played all of them from PlayStation to the GameCube games. Modern day Bloody Roar would be so amazing!

I'd love to see a new TMNT: Tournament Fighters like the one on SNES, with the wide array of characters in the franchise and seeing all the previous games coming back with the cowabunga edition, it'd be amazing to see a new game.

Virtua Fighter, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Dark Stalkers, Fighting Vipers, Rival Schools, World Heroes, The Last Blade, Martial Masters, Power Moves, Rage of the Dragons, Buriki One, Slam Masters.

My list, very first game I want a remake or reboot, 1 : Eternal champions 2: bloody roar 3: mace the dark age 4: fighters destiny 5: darkstalkers

If it's games I want to have a sequel: Colorful Fighters, Eternal Champions, Kenju, Weaponlord, Fighters Megamix, Fighting Vipers, Daemon Bride, Rage of The Dragons, Dark Awake, and a couple great obscure franchises that haven't been mentioned already.

Bloody Roar 2: The New Breed is one of my favorite fighting games of all time. I put so much time into that game. At the time, my friends and siblings and I were all so young we didn't recognize how fully busted the gameis with this option turned on. But in vs matches you could play with the special rule "any cancel point" that just made it so you could cancel basically anything into a special attack, at any time, even other specials. Turning that on and just going crazy on each-other was the best.

Primal Rage should get redone especially if we could move to Kaiju/Mechs with special appearance from Rampage Characters. Eternal Champions I think deserves a redo as well. Power Stone, Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi could use a new version and complete redos. If we can’t do MvC, why not just another Marvel Super Heroes on its own again! Clayfighter could use a return! Darkstalkers is a must!

59:56 You know what Marvel characters would be PERFECT for a Marvel vs Capcom game and have also never been playable in any of them? Blade, Daredevil and Carnage (Red Venom doesn’t count)

Bloody Roar. - Anthro. - Reboot to current gen graphic fidelity. - Ease-of-Access mechanics naturally incorporated into the system by default. - S-tier waifus and husbandos. - "They blamed the beasts" except it's the ACTUAL BEASTS. - Busuzima nut slap.

I feel like we could do with some throwbacks to some of the more esoteric early to mid 3D era stuff like Ready 2 Rumble, Power Stone, Bushido Blade, Def Jam, Fighting Vipers, etc. Just stuff that's a bit outside the box or at least has a really distinct personality

Def Jam: Fight for New York deserves a true successor. Arguably more of a wrestler, but still.

1:04:24 You're correct. There is a character with multiple bars on mugen. When you kill Apocalypse, Onslaught enters the arena during the same fight. Kill Onslaught and you fight Abyss. All forms. Mugen is wild.

It warms my heart to see how many people are recommending Eternal Champions & Weapon Lord. I had a lot of fun with those back in the day. It'd be cool to see them brought back. I could have sworn ages ago, the Weapon Lord creator wanted to bring it back, but haven't heard anything in a long time.

BLOODY ROAR!!!! I was just in the other upload asking for this!!! Thanks guysss !!!

Bloody Roar, Battle Arena Toshinden, Eternal Champions, Bushido Blade, Clay Fighter, These Franchises Need Revived 🥲

Yo can I just say... JWong really keeps up with his anime XD. Absolute madlad having Marin as his desktop background ahaha

I want Star Galdiator and Plasma Sword series brought back.

Primal Rage DAMMIT! With bonus port of the unreleased/unfinished sequel.

I've been listening to this as a podcast as I drive to Brooklyn for offlines the last few weeks. been an excellent ritual.

Podcast is awesome! Can't believe I've been sleeping on this!

Now that Soulcalibur is kinda on limbo, it's the right time to bring back Dynasty Warriors fighting game.

Justin with the Marin wallpaper omg, love your content guys !

BLOODY ROAR! I want to fight with animorphs god damn it! Also Bushido Blade and this last one is more of a beat em up but Final Fight.

Good stuff. You could also try breaking the show into segments, main topic, optional secondary topic and retro game of the week, but I like what you got going now.

This shit really is the best. Three of my favorite people that have defined the last 15 years of my life talking about the genre that I love. It’s being with friends who care about fighting games and just throwing out crazy ideas. Beautiful, please keep this going.

I'm so glad Tony is producing this show. 3 of my favorite RU-vid Creators working with one of my favorite producers. Big Ryan fan btw. Keep doing this show. I need it. Thanks

The Marin Kitagawa's wallpaper on Justin's background, such a cultured man

these are are more valuable than you know guys. It's really important, that someone actually verbalises some of the thoughts, that "everyone" thinks they think. Thank you. Hope I get to play master of teräs käsi against you guys some day.

If you guys want a new topic, I'd personally like to hear the top recommendations for some of the early console exclusive fighting games. Thinking things that came out on the SNES/Genesis, even those that didn't make it the US. Or the best console ports of arcade fighting games.

Great topic fellas

Thank you Justin, Matt, and Maximilian for this fun episode of blue sky braining storming. All of you gentlemen brought up some great games to resurrect from the digital beyond. As Capcom games go please use your combined brain power to bring back Vampire or CvS and for SNK it would have to be Garou or Last Blade I absolutely LOVE this series of games and would over the moon to have proper sequels for any of these great games. If we are talking about modernization of a classic fighting game (online lobby, roll back netcode, digital gallery) I would like 2D Samurai Showdown to get the UM treatment. Thank you gents again. Eagerly awaiting the next episode.

If they ever make another mvc I'd like to see, Blade, daredevil, moon knight, punisher, and either doc oc or green goblin

DLC characters killed the fun of unlocking secret characters. This should come back. But it'll probably be like "play this mobile game and unlock characters in your game" kinda shit.

I've been saying for the longest time that Capcom should let Arksys make the next Darkstalkers. Also a new Bushido Blade would be sick.

I'm so glad Matt mentioned MACE, because it is still a little tiny child dream of mine that if I get my game Studio to do its thing with the project that we're currently trying to make happen, that that establishes me and team enough that I can buy the license to do so. No joke.

CvS3, SvC2, Red Earth 2, Rival Schools 3, Cyberbots 2 , Killer Instinct 4, The Last Blade 3, Darkstalkers 4, Star Gladiator 3, Art of Fighting 4, Garou 2, and Buriki 2 are the games I want to see come back.

Love these episodes, these are the like the exact conversations I have with my buddies about fighting games. Also, Bloody Roar: ROARMASTERED.

fighting Vipers and Virtual on, those games were AMAZING!

man of culture justin, has a wallpaper from marin

Deep in my heart I hoped Matt would say Bloody Roar, hell yeah! Great episode all around, loving the show!

Max’s thoughts on a new KI always get me excited about the what if. Perhaps I missed it but the only thing I’d add is that they have to put just as much effort into the music. Every facet down to using the menu was shown love and if it’s not Mick Gordon again (I would hope so) then it needs to be someone with the same passion.

After SF6 comes out and does well for awhile hopefully, i want Capcom to make a game called Capcom UniVS with only their IPs and if it does well just imagine this. It’s dlc announcement time at evo The screen goes black “Capcom Presents…” “MARVEL COMICS” Then fully remade in 3d the Japanese Xmen intro starts playing announcing the Xmen season pass for Capcom UniVS INTERNET BREAKS FOR 48 HOURS

48:26 Completely off topic, but I love how naturally Max just throws out this pun. The dad powers are truly strong with him

Funny little inside baseball. I'm one of the people working on an X-Men Children Of The Atom rom hacks (Uncanny) and the philosophy of our changes are giving the characters a modern day feel and snappier game play. A good portion of changes we have made are shortening animations because they just linger in certain ways that make the start up and recovery very long and drawn out. Bringing the animations back would be super granular.

Bushido Blade remake please. Primal Rage, Rival Schools, Godzilla Melee, and Clay Fighter are other top selections. I'd also like to see another attempt at a dedicated Star Wars fighting game. There are more than enough Jedi/Sith to make a dedicated light saber fighting game.

This was great! A new era for fighting games is much needed 🔥

At the most recent Japanese fighting game round table, the panel had a moment to share a very treasured fighting game merch/ memorabilia and it was cool. I’d love to hear about some of your guys treasured stuff.

I'd love bloody roar to come back. particularly the first games roster. alternatively I'd love to see Last Blade come back....after the success of Samurai Sho I think they could do another with a stacked roster

I definitely feel like bloody roar, Darkstalkers and marvel vs Capcom are the top 3 most needed fighting games that need to return. They've done too much to both the fighting game genre and pop culture to simply make them go to waste. Fourth place would probably be KI, but that isn't necessary dead yet

At 18:09 - dangit, I so want to make that remixed MVC2 where we give everyone their full animation set back!!! I study and reference Capcom sprites all the time when animating for Skullgirls, so I could totally count those frames and insert them back where they'd work best. Dear Capcom, plz hire us, thx!

10:30 I'm also reminded of the Kyo clones in Kof99, where you basically had a pick of his older movesets. It was mostly a gimmick because of the current storyline, and they did it just for a character, but it was neat.

I loved the concept of bloody roar today, that game has so much potential on modern consoles and would easily stand out

Dark Stalkers and Bloody Roar

I have a soft spot for Dream Factory. Tobal 2 being my favorite 3D fighter to this day. So I would love to see a Tobal 3. But give it a nice proper budget to go nuts with. I would love to see the quest mode turn into a fully made RPG, with actual towns and such packed with npc’s to talk to and challenge to a fight. Dungeons could still be randomly generated, but current hardware can make them way more detailed. In Tobal 2, you could unlock playable monsters by tossing a purple stone at them when weak, it was basically Pokémon, but I would change it to where you could purchase them with in game money. I wanna see a large roster again with this. Instead of picking a single character to solo dungeons, you could maybe have about 3 characters as a party and change who you play as so you’re not too overwhelmed with only a single life bar. Characters not being controlled could rest and gain a little health back. For tournament and vs, definitely add some new unique characters. The main roster should all have fully animated (or in game) endings like before. The tournament mode was always more focused as an actual tournament, so have lots of spectators in the background of various stages cheering on the fights. I love the gameplay as it is, so I can’t really think of any major changes there.

Clay fighters nuff said.

Eternal Champions has already been mentioned by others so I'll just throw in Tech Romancer. But I'd want to go pretty radical with it and have all the original cast either not show up or be background characters in "sequels" to their original "shows". So G-Kaiser is replaced by Great G-Kaiser, Dixon replaced by Zeta Dixon, Pulsion by Pulsion7, etc etc.

I'd honestly love to see y'all's vision of MVC4. It's a series that deserves some justice after MVCI. I'm not a heavy fighting game player but MVC3 is by far one of my favorite fighting games that I actually really enjoyed.

OMG I didn't know about this but I'm so hyped!

Yeah, really want a Bloody Roar reboot. Was my first fg ever

As a guy who watching all of your channels I absolutely love this

So many old beloved classic fighting games that deserve to return. Darkstalkers and Rival Schools are for sure the ones I want to return the most cause their characters are just so iconic and loved and it would just be amazing to return and in RE Engine no less!

If there is a fighting game that deserves to come back in my opinion it is "Newgrounds Rumble". It's one of the few flash games that I'm surprised that hasn't gotten a sequel on steam/PC since the game is super popular and is the first indie platform fighting game. The sad thing is the game was going to have a sequel but sadly it never happened. Luckily one of the sprite artists is interested in working on a sequel but hasn't found a programmer and doesn't have a team to make the game a reality. A sequel to Newgrounds Rumble would be super hype for so many people and myself included.

Well Justin's pick aged really well!

Awesome podcast keep up the good work guys 👍

Omg! An all new darkstalkers would be massively appreciated. And new power stone haha

I see that "My Dress Up Darling" wallpaper Justin. Dead Or Alive Ultimate was one of the best online fighting game on XBOX OG.

No I didn’t know about the podcast awesome bro

the Dreamcast had mvc1 and it was really the fact that it had training mode at home that made it so dope. no longer having to go to the arcade when no one was there so you could try new combos and set ups with the arcade. it's was the future

I came here desperately hoping for Bloody Roar, and was not disappointed. Love it!

I would love to see power stone return, a new darkstalkers, mvc 2 remaster, and bloody roar!

I see your monitor Justin. You sir, are a man of culture.

I’ll draw some of those redesigns, Matt. I love creature/character art. I do traditional ink and marker work…unless I’m too late…but it sounds interesting for sure! Drawing beast people…hell yeah

Justin's background is best backround

In the gamepass era, a new KI is gonna be in a great spot by default if the gameplay is good.

I would love to see what are y'all's thoughts on guests characters in fighting games in a future video .

Need a Breakers remake man! Also hopeful for Eternal Champions, Darkstalkers and Rival Schools. And have the folks who made Skullgirls do the art for Darkstalkers!

See, the Eagle President idea, that would be amazing! Make him over the top, cigar chomping, gusto-filled. Senator Armstrong, Antonov, and G put in a blender and you got a success on your hands.

I want Fist of the North Star HD, no arcsys 3d anime, just an up-rezed version of the most jankiest ToD game ever, with rollback.

A proper Battle Arena Toshinden game, as in one developed by Tamsoft with character designs by Tsukasa Kotobuki, would be great for me. There were old plans for a prequel game that delved into the origins of the Secret Society that were the villains of the first two games, and it'd be cool if Tamsoft got the chance to just use that idea for a full-on reboot. I'd also love to see someone make a new Fighters History, since that'd just require licensing the rights from G-mode. Make it a sort of "back to basics" game that follows what made FH Dynamite work so well, and maybe expand on the weak spot system a little bit more. Finally, I'd love to see SNK & Arc System Works team up to revive World Heroes, since WH Perfect was essentially like a prototype to ArcSys' usual style of fighting games, especially with how the ABC moves gave everyone their own personal mechanic, like Hanzou's "roman cancel" or J. Max being able to catch projectiles & throw them back.

Still haven't seen the video but its something i always think : `Primal Rage. It NEEDS to come back

Would've been cool if they would've reached out to Thorgi to guest host on this one...his 'Build the Roster' series is great.

This channel is so good

Damn this podcast is good!

I loved the color edit mode in Darkstalkers.

Bloody Roar, Primal Rage, Powerstone, Darkstalkers.

I like that idea for a Bloody Roar reboot story, the president of this Zoan Society holds a tournament to find the next ultimate Beast and this tournament happens every ten years. and the president is the last tournament winner and was crowned Ultimate Beast.

For the bloody roar remake … input to where they change automatically between human & beast simultaneously certain during combos, as well for a flashy level 3 super …..

I’ve never been a big fighting game guy. I’m obsessed with this podcast. And it’s caused me to go back and binge the old Friday night fisticuffs and Woolies get into fighting games I’m definitely gonna jump into SF6 and tekken 8 and give it a real attempt for the first time

After watching Matt’s Fatal Fury retrospective and playing the real bout series I really want fatal fury to come back so bad now it’s so much fun way better than street fighter 2 imo

I saw the thumbnail and nostalgia for Bloody Roar just crushed my senses.

Bloody Roar is so much damn fun! Keep the ring outs because damn it felt good drop kicking someone through the boundary and getting the win

This was a great episode...got the wheels turning lol. I would love to see these games redone/rebooted (visual style)* 1. Rumble Fish 2 (Arksys) 2. Rival Schools (Arksys) 3. Eternal Champions (NetherRealm) 4. Def Jam (RE Engine)

There are a bunch of great series/games that I miss a ton, like Killer Instinct, Darkstalkers, Virtua Fighter, Last Blade, Power Stone and Martial Masters, but there’s also a lot of fighters that were maybe regarded as midtier or even worse that I thought had great ideas or concepts that could be amazing if brought back well. Eternal Champions is still a great concept with fun characters. Mace: The Dark Age is Soul Calibur meets Mortal Kombat and I love that idea. Primal Rage, Weaponlord, Toshinden, Golden Axe: The Duel… Honestly, even Mortal Kombat clones like Way of the Warrior and Kasumi Ninja could be cool if they were actually handled well. I also think Tao Feng and Kakuto Chojin had potential. Same goes for a Star Wars fighting game, even if Masters of Teras Kasi didn’t get a lot right.

A tag-version of all MAHVEL games, that has a HYPER mode combination of characters from MSH, XCOTA, MvSF and MvC that has all their mechanics can select assist type either SPECIAL PARTNER or MVC2 Assist.