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Dialogue
Issue 398
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It’s fantastic to read that teenagers such as Callum Muir are still discovering Edge – and for the same reason I got into it 25 years ago! Ironically, though, I’m here to defend the hype.
While I’d rather play Capcom Vs SNK 2 or Fantasy Strike, the fighting games I would currently recommend are Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, simply because that’s where the competition is at. Why are they so popular? Surely the story modes help, but I like to believe it has a lot to do with marketing. The truth is, it’s the casuals that determine which fighting games are the best experience. As for shooters, how’s Ultrakill doing? I can’t recommend Tribes because, last time I heard, servers rarely had enough players. The last competitive game I sunk my teeth into was Clash Royale, mostly because of all the real-life opponents I would bump into. Fun times!
Singleplayer games also have a social component. Last week, hoping for some help with the secret areas of Animal Well, I asked the three clerks at my (last) local videogame store how far they had gotten. None of them had even heard of it! Two of my three gamer buddies didn’t know about it, either. Odd, since if I were to believe my YouTube and Twitter feed, it’s the most talked-about game this year.