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>established characters that fans have invested decades in
>>283978
>Garou that always had a worse roster
The worst thing about the CotW discourse is old retards like you who don't understand that nobody has given a fuck about either Fatal Fury or Mark of the Wolves since the Playstation 2, and that 15 guys in a Fightcade lobby on 200+ ping isn't enough community groundswell to will a new player base into being. It's been enough time for an entire new, physical generation of boys to grow up, get driver's licenses, and get jobs without even hearing the words Fatal Fury and if it hadn't been for Smash Bros then nobody outside of the FGC would even know who Terry Bogard is.
>b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but they ported Mark of the Wolves to a new console!
So? Shit like that is for the handful of people who play the game in side tournaments at big events. Ports, good or bad or rollback or whatever, do not get new people to play the game in large numbers because SNK never fucking markets their releases. The entire company has been coasting on nebulous notions like arcade spirit and word of mouth since before they went bankrupt, and now that they have infinite Saudi oil money they're realizing that no amount of money can make up for being out of touch.
Sure, fine, maybe you didn't like the Garou characters. It's been twenty six fucking years since that game released. The entire genre has nearly capsized like two times since then. You have a fucking room temperature IQ if you sincerely think "new generation roster clash" is a meaningful talking point for any of these games. Boring characters like Fat Guy In Suspenders and Chinese Twins and Tall Guy With Tattoos and Straw Hat Fisherman would not have saved this game. The Second Coming would not have saved this game.
Did CotW have rich, nuanced mechanics for offense and defense?
Did it have a roster of cool characters?
Did it have some kind of unique thing you can't get anywhere else?
Arguably yes (even if the game's style isn't to my tastes).
Did CotW fucking work?
Did it release at a fair price?
Did it do something do differentiate itself from SF6?
No. End of fucking story.