Fighting Games Might Be F💣💣💣ed | Future Genre Hopes? | State of Fighting Games 2025 | Cutting Room Floor

Hello Enlightened Members of the Gentry!

Here is my Gentry Exclusive Cutting Room Floor episode about my thoughts on the state of fighting games right now and how I am deeply concerned by a number of trends I am seeing that are converging together in really ugly ways. The continued loss of motion inputs is definitely one of them, but I also think their destruction is a symptom of an overall shift and change that I'm not optimistic about. I think the fighting game genre is by the day losing touch with its classic arcade roots and is on an accelerated path to shift its design into much more of a strategy pvp genre or something along those lines.

I also bring up what I think could be an unexpected but interesting shift in direction we might see rising among the legacy fighting game audience, especially as we run out of classic arcade stuff to play.

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Sincerely,

Mark