Gonna be the pedantic games history twat here and argue that STREET FIGHTER 2 is only really a sequel to STREET FIGHTER in the narrative sense, in every other sense it's the first installment of the franchise FATAL FURY: KING OF FIGHTERS is the actual sequel to the "first" SFhttps://twitter.com/dark1x/status/1264667737458163717 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
... Arguing that a developer switching companies and making a game for them is a sequel for the game they made for their last one is a bit of a stretch, I think. That's what "spiritual successor" is for.
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Replying to @MassiveQ @Nymphomachy
How is it a stretch? Seems to track for me.
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Replying to @nonahcagney @Nymphomachy
So Avatar is a sequel to Titanic then? Having the same people working on two properties does not mean they're a sequel.
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Replying to @MassiveQ @Nymphomachy
Yeah like you're allowed to think of it as a sequel in all but name but for the purposes of game history (or film history) it clearly isn't because if it were they'd get sued
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MassiveQ
Yeah it's not simply "two properties", like the SF "property" isn't just the plot and setting In terms of direction, format, game design ethos and dev team, Fatal Fury is the true successor because it's an upgrade to the original framework, not a wholesale outsider reinvention
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
And I have zero problems referring to it as a successor. But sequel is pretty much just plot and setting.
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Replying to @MassiveQ @Nymphomachy
Yeah especially in games there's an enormous number of series where it's only the lore (or really just the aesthetic) linking one game to the next
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Also, SF2 *is* more of a sequel to SF1 than Fatal Fury in probably the most important way, that SF2 is a game about one-on-one fights and not a scrolling beat em up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MassiveQ
Fatal Fury isn't a scrolling beat em up?
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Oh, sorry, I was misinformed
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