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Best single-player mode in a fighting game?
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Dacon
Banned
shepard?
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
This is exactly why Im complaining about the mk story mode talk.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Someone explain to me the fundamental difference between the Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe story-mode implementation and Mortal Kombat 9's. I personally don't find there to be any huge difference between the two, but people overwhelmingly mention the latter and pretend the former never happened.
Is it that the overall quality of the fighting in MK vs DC was considered broken/subpar that causes people to take it out of consideration when it comes to conversations like this? Or was MK's story mode really THAT much better? And why?
Is it that the overall quality of the fighting in MK vs DC was considered broken/subpar that causes people to take it out of consideration when it comes to conversations like this? Or was MK's story mode really THAT much better? And why?
To Far Away Times
Member
Soul Calibur's mission mode.
People are mentioning MK9 not only because of its untouchable, godlike story mode, but also because other parts of the sigle player, such as the Challenge Tower and Krypt, were also great.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Okay, but I'm asking SPECIFICALLY about the story mode - what makes MK9's that much more improved from MK vs. DC's, for you?
The actual story of the game. MK9 felt like the original MK movie, meaning it was cheesy, epic fun.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Okay, gotcha. To me it was just as corny/cheesy/terrible as the story in MK vs DC, and was implemented pretty much identically. so I kept getting confused when general reaction/gaming press reacted as if MK vs DC hadn't happened a few years earlier. But if it basically comes down to "the writing/acting was better in MK9 than MK vs DC" then to each their reach. Thanks.
Revolutionary
Member
I think the problem with this thread is that "singleplayer mode" can mean anything. Some people are understanding it as the entire singleplayer suite of modes (hence, the amount of MK9 posts), while some of us take it to mean the singleplayer campaign.. I.E. story mode.
Seeing as how OP himself has listed a single story mode, I'm going to assume that's what he meant and therefore... MK9 story mode disqualified!
Unless you truly think that MK9's story mode truly was the best, of course...
Seeing as how OP himself has listed a single story mode, I'm going to assume that's what he meant and therefore... MK9 story mode disqualified!
Unless you truly think that MK9's story mode truly was the best, of course...
Jawmuncher
Member
The DOA Dimensions Story mode on 3DS was pretty good.
I'm glad developer are finally not being lazy on the SP for fighting games.
*Take note capcom. Arcade with a 2D screen ending aint cutting it anymore.
I'm glad developer are finally not being lazy on the SP for fighting games.
*Take note capcom. Arcade with a 2D screen ending aint cutting it anymore.
ZacharyDCCLXXVII
Member
Definitely this. I also loved All-Stars mode.
I couldn't stand the Subspace Emissary. Too many generic enemies and locations in a game that had so much to take from many universes.
I also enjoyed playing through Bushido Blade 2's story mode. Unlocking characters was fun.
A lot of us do think this, yes. So did the press; see (or rather listen to) Giantbomb's GOTY 2011 deliberation podcast, where they talked at length why NetherRealm's effort put into the game's story mode was something to be admired. I think 1up's review put it best:
Ragingnight
Member
P4A story mode is up there for me.
Shit on MK9's story mode. If I were to give MK9 a score it would be a solid 5 with capcom fighters being 1s.
Shit on MK9's story mode. If I were to give MK9 a score it would be a solid 5 with capcom fighters being 1s.
Net_Wrecker
Member
OP ended his own thread. Super entertaining game. I really liked the character models too. Very expressive.
Going by story: Blazblue Calamity Trigger
Going by presentation: MK9
Going by gameplay: VF4: evolution's trial mode.
Everything from strikes and guards. To evading, dealing with evades, and other techniques.
Should be a standard in fighting games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVSvN4NM4Ik&feature=relmfu
Going by presentation: MK9
Going by gameplay: VF4: evolution's trial mode.
Everything from strikes and guards. To evading, dealing with evades, and other techniques.
Should be a standard in fighting games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVSvN4NM4Ik&feature=relmfu
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Adventure Mode in Super Smash Bros Melee was great. Played the fuck out of it.
Subspace Emissary in SSBBrawl was packed with enough raw fanservice to make the first playthrough decent, but ultimately the only really enjoyable component was the sticker collection/customization.
Persona 4 Arena has some fun storylines that would be enjoyable to watch in bed or something, but as a game it's really blech. Fights are few and far between, and they're all isolated one-round matches.
Subspace Emissary in SSBBrawl was packed with enough raw fanservice to make the first playthrough decent, but ultimately the only really enjoyable component was the sticker collection/customization.
Persona 4 Arena has some fun storylines that would be enjoyable to watch in bed or something, but as a game it's really blech. Fights are few and far between, and they're all isolated one-round matches.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Again - that 1up quote reads to me like it could be describing MK vs. DC. The Giant Bomb game of the year discussion baffled me at the time because I couldn't believe people like Shoemaker and Gerstman were overtly gushing over some of the shittiest writing and voice-acting to occur in games that year. Sometimes they'd try to qualify it with the phrase "for a fighting game" or "it's supposed to be tongue in cheek" but I don't think that's really the case - I've seen/heard multiple interviews from Ed Boon, and I honestly believe he thinks that shit isn't "corny/cool" or "cheesy/cool" but legitimately "epic/cool" but even then - I just didn't see how it was functionally/aesthetically any different from MK vs. DC, which came out three years earlier.
akachan ningen
Member
foolishness. if you're playing fighting games alone, you're doing it wrong. unless you're in training mode.
Really?
I never bothered unlocking all the characters because of this mode.
So you never played the vs. mode either? All of the characters can be unlocked by just playing enough vs. matches. Alternatively you can play through the Classic mode and unlock most characters (except Luigi, and I think two other which can be unlocked in the challenges).
I think Adventure mode in Melee and Brawl are definately the greatest single player modes in fighting games.
Lord Phol
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBCwCyHUjXg
Soul Calibur 3's Chronicles of the Sword is still the best single player mode in a fighting game to this day. Strategy, customization, its own stand alone story basically an RTS lite mixed in with soul calibur's great gameplay.
This is the right answer.
I remember playing this a while back and finding that point system interesting. Gonna have to dig it up again for another playthrough.
Different people, diferent motivations, yadda yadda yadda...
Over the course of a franchise the contents of a story mode tend to have more lasting impact on future games than features specific to individual games in a series - for example, hours of training Charlies custom combos in the SFA series mean nothing now that he's dead in the story and won't be coming back, and custom combos themselves are no longer present in the current games of the series or its spin-offs.
JonnyKtyler
Member
Soul Calibur 2 had my favorite single player mode. I played through it 2 or 3 times and loved it, and I never put many hours into fighting games.
friskykillface
Banned
Mortal Kombat 9 was pretty much what I expected a fighting game single player story to be about, it was amazing.
Also every character was in it which was cool to try out different styles.
Smash brothers had some ok adventure modes, brawls story mode was good for the cutscenes and that part with all the games ships and Kirby riding the star was
:O B^) godly lol
Also every character was in it which was cool to try out different styles.
Smash brothers had some ok adventure modes, brawls story mode was good for the cutscenes and that part with all the games ships and Kirby riding the star was
:O B^) godly lolOne Foul Note
Member
Perhaps it doesn't technically count, but Shaolin Monks was amazing on co-op. If not then I have to give my vote for Mortal Kombat 9, so much awesome level of content in that game. Great fun.
beyond_death
Member
MK9
I actually enjoyed the campaign mode in Tekken 6 (probably because I was addicted to collecting the costumes)
The Smash Brothers ones (even though I dont remember playing them all that much)
Blazblue
Persona 4
I actually enjoyed the campaign mode in Tekken 6 (probably because I was addicted to collecting the costumes)
The Smash Brothers ones (even though I dont remember playing them all that much)
Blazblue
Persona 4
Alcoholikaust
Member
Soul Calibur on DC. Getting all the weapons witg everyone was great.
MK9 or the first Soul Calibur.
ASW games have long story modes, but large amounts of them are redundant. Persona especially suffers from this, with those enormous, incredibly boring monologues and the fact that a lot of the stories are very similar. I feel like in both cases they should just have one story mode which is maybe ten hours in length, and cut out all that horrible fluff. I don't need six paragraphs of un-voiced monologue every time Yukiko is thinking about her bloody lunch box.
ASW games have long story modes, but large amounts of them are redundant. Persona especially suffers from this, with those enormous, incredibly boring monologues and the fact that a lot of the stories are very similar. I feel like in both cases they should just have one story mode which is maybe ten hours in length, and cut out all that horrible fluff. I don't need six paragraphs of un-voiced monologue every time Yukiko is thinking about her bloody lunch box.
