FriskyTanuki
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Agreed, it's an upgrade.Which in themselves is quite the upgrade considering the genre.
New story is laughably bad, cutscenes are full screen GIFs with 2 or 3 frames of animation total, bonus stages were cool but only in arcade mode, rival scenes are cool, "new" music is largely remixed Street Fighter anthems, ultras are cool but some weren't very useful compared to other ultras (Boxer's Ultra 1 vs. Ultra 2, for example), etc.However, you seem to be forgetting the new story, new cutscenes, bonus stages, new rival scenes, new music, new sound effects, new ultras, new filters, etc.
Some of it is superfluous, some isn't. What's superfluous = wasting time half assing a story mode in a fighter, shitty balance and ed up hit boxes (Makoto anyone?).Yes, you could say a lot of it's just superfluous, but I could say the same about the shit you mentioned for Gears.
Agreed. But how often do you see them adding significant gameplay and story via DLC? Gears 2 is more than just a glorified expansion to Gears 1, unlike SSFIV was to SFIV. It's a fighter, we've been here before, plenty of times. As much as I love 3rd Strike, I know it's just a 3rd update to Street Fighter 3, not changing anything significantly, but tweaking it enough to improve it. I still paid $40 for my Dreamcast copy back in the day, no regrets. But saying that SSFIV has more new content than Gears 2, or that Gears 2 would even be possible as an update or DLC to Gears 1 is a flat out lie.Adding story to a game isn't exactly unheard of, like Dead Space 2's alternate story.
Bitch please. Maps and other DLC, while usually overpriced, are still a vastly better value than SSFIV's costume DLC that doesn't add anything tangible to the gameplay. That shit should be free.Maps? Bitch, please, they charge for those all the time. New multiplayer modes? Yup, been done as DLC. New characters? You could practically reskin the Gears characters and make them look "new." Different levels? Same shit as episodic story content, see Dead Space 2 again.
Your argument towards what? My whole argument is that Gears 2 is a sequel to Gears 1, whereas SSFIV is just an update to SFIV. It is not a sequel, it is not a new game. It's Street Fighter IV with tweaks, new characters, new shit, but still the same damn game.Good enough explanation for you? Feel free to continue, because I know a lot of the shit I said can be categorized in the same way, which just further strengthens my argument..