fighting games and characters: unlock them or all available from the start?

[Bigbazz]

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo!

I actually only played SF2 Champion Edition (Mega Drive) and SF2 Turbo (SNES), but never SSF2 Turbo. After that I was playing the Alpha games on the PS1 and Saturn, with the Saturn version heavily preferred because of the more suited controller, though I suppose if you had a stick it's neither here nor there. I bought 30th Anniversary collection today for Switch, time to dive back in.

[Derrick Robinson]

I like playing Tekken 7. But I always didn't like the fact that a lot of characters are closed. Fortunately, there are always guides out there like this one on how to open them. In general hidden characters are a common thing in fighting games. I think it mostly done to motivate people play more so it's not such a bad thing. If you like the game you will eventually open them all.

[Lodreh]

As long as it not something stupid like DLC or Loot Boxes. I would prefer to just sit down and play the game. I don't need bragging rights... especially in a fighting game. I can let my skill do the bragging... however, if I can't play certain characters because you have to beat Nightmare difficulty with this one character (which I don't care for) using a predetermined attack sequence... then yeah I'd rather just have the character from the start. Let me play and enjoy the game. If I never want to touch certain characters that should be fine.

EDIT: And beating the game a set amount of times like 20 or 100 can fuck right off. It's not challenging it's tedious.

[avitush]

If the requirements to unlock characters are reasonable (ie, play through arcade mode once as X character, and you unlock Y character), I don't have a problem with that. If it's some bullshit grind like "once you complete the story mode on the highest difficulty as every character 10 times, you get to play a slot machine for a chance to unlock a random character" then no. Fuck that.

As for DLC...it depends. If a fighting game has Leatherface as a playable character, but he's DLC, I'm okay with that because he's a guest character. If I'm looking at the character select screen in a Street Fighter game and see grayed out portraits with shopping cart icons on them for characters like Ryu or Chun-Li, we have a problem.

edit: just noticed this was like a 2-year-old necro. Oh well.

[nickbor34]

I used trainers to unlock all characters.

[Mysterymask]

As for DLC...it depends. If a fighting game has Leatherface as a playable character, but he's DLC, I'm okay with that because he's a guest character. If I'm looking at the character select screen in a Street Fighter game and see grayed out portraits with shopping cart icons on them for characters like Ryu or Chun-Li, we have a problem.

GOD I actually kinda hate that. To me If they were playable without DLC in the previous game they shouldn't be DLC in the NEXT game. Fuck if they were a part of the core cast they DEFINTELY shouldn't be DLC...IE Shang Tsung, Mileena, Guile, Sagat, Balrog, Blanka, and E Honda

[Edge-]

Closing due to thread necro.