Def Jam New York is literally nothing but real world rappers.
The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan has Jackie Chan.
Samurai Showdown features a couple historical characters.
And if you wanna count them, every fight night, every UFC game, and Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! although, I figure you were asking about Street Fighter/MK/Tekken type games.
I just thought of Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game and I guess technically it has real people too. But they’re playing as fictional characters. You could still say that Jean Claude Van Dam is in it. lol
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has Cristiano Ronaldo and Salvatore Ganacci in it. Having a goofy soccer character as a character is out of place in that game, I don’t want real people in fighting games at all, and to top it off, Rinaldo is a piece of shit anyway.
Wacky characters aren’t really out of place for Fatal Fury, or fighting games in general. Duck King for example never was too serious either, and Mai is a joke / comic relief character as well. In fact I’d say fighting games weren’t 100% serious since World Warrior.
Regarding Ronaldo, I agree with the point, though I think the fact that he is in the game is the Saudis, and SNK managed to get a pretty good fighting game character designed around that. The fact that they had to include him specifically and not generic soccer dude shows how out of touch the Saudis are with the audience. But I guess they don’t have a problem with rapists in the first place.
I won’t stand any slander against Ganacci though, he seemed really happy to be included in the game, played it and even visited tournaments.
Not to try to dissuade you from your stance, because as an American who could not be more divorced from knowing anything about soccer, I only learned about Ronaldo when he was announced as a character for Fatal Fury; but a guy who can do mixups with a soccer ball is among the more interesting character designs in that game. Shame who it had to be attached to, but it wasn’t nothing.
What?
Are there fighting games with real people?
Def Jam New York is literally nothing but real world rappers.
The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan has Jackie Chan.
Samurai Showdown features a couple historical characters.
And if you wanna count them, every fight night, every UFC game, and Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! although, I figure you were asking about Street Fighter/MK/Tekken type games.
That’s fair, I guess I was focused more on the bigger players in fighting games which usually focus on fictional worlds/fighters.
I just thought of Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game and I guess technically it has real people too. But they’re playing as fictional characters. You could still say that Jean Claude Van Dam is in it. lol
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has Cristiano Ronaldo and Salvatore Ganacci in it. Having a goofy soccer character as a character is out of place in that game, I don’t want real people in fighting games at all, and to top it off, Rinaldo is a piece of shit anyway.
Wacky characters aren’t really out of place for Fatal Fury, or fighting games in general. Duck King for example never was too serious either, and Mai is a joke / comic relief character as well. In fact I’d say fighting games weren’t 100% serious since World Warrior.
Regarding Ronaldo, I agree with the point, though I think the fact that he is in the game is the Saudis, and SNK managed to get a pretty good fighting game character designed around that. The fact that they had to include him specifically and not generic soccer dude shows how out of touch the Saudis are with the audience. But I guess they don’t have a problem with rapists in the first place.
I won’t stand any slander against Ganacci though, he seemed really happy to be included in the game, played it and even visited tournaments.
Not to try to dissuade you from your stance, because as an American who could not be more divorced from knowing anything about soccer, I only learned about Ronaldo when he was announced as a character for Fatal Fury; but a guy who can do mixups with a soccer ball is among the more interesting character designs in that game. Shame who it had to be attached to, but it wasn’t nothing.
That’s really weird