Worried about the Microsoft account servers going down eventually? If this actually happens before your X1 breaks down, something has gone very wrong - aliens, zombies, general apocalypse type stuff - and you should probably worry about that instead.Įverything else is just personal preference and with the clock slowly winding down on physical media, people should start adjusting anyway. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Titanfall goes digital only as well.įrom a consumer standpoint, the only reasonable, objective benefit to a disk release is the ability to re-sell and that is precisely what Microsoft (and every publisher) wants to kill with fire.ĭon't have reliable internet? Well, you'll have to go online at launch somehow and unless you're hosting house tournaments every night, your KI experience is going to be severely handicapped right out of the gate anyway. A much-hyped, online fighter is a pretty good place to start nudging digital distribution along. KI is there to start warming us up to the idea of buying bigger, retail quality games online. Publishers & devs want us to go digital as soon as possible because retailer mark-ups are ridiculous and trade-ins are cannibalizing their sales. Your petition could get ten thousand signatures and it still wouldn't make a difference unless every one of them actually boycotts the game. It's a strategic move on Microsoft's end, not a misconception of what fans want. Rare was never shy about the fact that they cribbed a lot of their roster from other games if you removed Thunder's projectile, he was essentially T.Hawk from SSF2. Giving him a couple utility command throws and a throw-range buffing Instinct Mode would go a long way to making Thunder a more interesting character.Īlso, Thunder makes sense as a grappler simply because it's already in his DNA. A grappling Thunder would still be primarily rushdown and would likely have a moveset very similar to the one you remember, sans projectile. I think a lot of people hear "Grappler" and immediately picture Zangief.but that kind of grappling won't work in KI we have to think of things in a much broader way.
For me, Thunder was all about spinning through the other guy's fireballs and getting in close. Honestly, I think the only time I used his fireball was to tag someone coming down from a juggle state.
Thunder only had the phoenix projectile because everybody had a projectile or ranged attack. One of the worst parts of KI was that Rare tried to balance the roster by giving every character the same tools. If DH just said "f*ck it" and imported the movesets from KI1, every character would slot into the "Rushdown/Balance" category.