Highly technical...

>Highly technical, difficult to play character from previous game comes back severely dumbed down and reworked for newcomers and influencers
Name some examples.

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All the characters in guilty gear strive

That's Strive. Still considered too hard for those newcomers.

>creator of magic and mystery nigga that has been pulling the strings behind the scenes for years
>uses a gun just because
>most technical character in that game that filters casuals and executionlets
>is also the best character in the game
holy based

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She’s also by far the most fun she’s ever been.

>She’s also by far the most fun she’s ever been.

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In some way or fashion, yeah, but Baiken is a very peculiar case because they almost completely changed her from one archetype to another.
Like, Strive Zato is obviously easier to play than Xrd Zato or +R Eddie, but he's still is Zato in the grand scheme of things and he's among the most difficult characters to play in Strive, which may not be much but it's enough to maintain that DNA.
Closer comparison for Baiken would be Ramlethal, another complex character who became almost scrub-friendly in Strive. Very easy to pick-up and play.
And it's not like the devs aren't able to make some complex characters from time to time, see Happy Chaos. It's a very clear intentional decision to dumb her down in such a drastic way. They probably saw the average Baiken "fan" who doesn't actually play fighting games and designed her accordingly for Strive.

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>Highly technical
> difficult to play
pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

He looks fucking gay

WTF STRIVE LOOKS LIKE THIS????

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they were right tho

one of the best and most popular designs was wasted on one of the weirdest playstyles that nobody wanted to play. Now people are actually playing her and having fun

>but muh dumbing down
Arcsys already fucked up big time by making the first 3 dlc characters difficult and technical as fuck. Litearlly the least played characters. It was high time that they release a character with a relatively normal playstyle

>dumb the character down
>still too complex for baiken “mains”
I’ll admit she’s very fun to play and it’s been fun shitting on other Baiken players with her.

But that what you define "weird playstyle" is part of her identity. If you remove that aspect just because it so happens that the majority of her fans are either coomers or Maximilian Dood subs you ruin a part of the character itself for the sake of popularity, and given that fighting games are developing themselves as eSports products, what you're given is essentially a boring character for the people who actually want to invest time with her.

>Not "Sol Badgirl"

>No visual change from Xrd
>Still that stupid looking eyepatch and shoes
Too bad

>I like this character but she´s too complex. Change her.
> SHE´S A GENERIC GORILLA NOW? YOOO LETS GOOO
>*Drops the game after a week anyway*

Love me some Any Forums FG takes. Doesn't get any funnier than that.

Why would you design her for people who want to actually learn to play her at a high level when the people who want to pay 8 dollars to stare at her tits for 2 hours is a much larger audience? Not defending it, but it’s obviously the better business decision, especially when you do have characters like Happy Chaos who appeal to the former crowd.

As I said before, I can see the reasoning why they changed her. They realized her fanbase is mostly composed by people who do not play fighting games. Business-wise it makes sense, but for a series that way always known to use unorthodox fighting game ideas to make new characters, this step-back in game design is quite depressing to see. Like one of your favourite indie companies jewing out and lowering themselves to the lowest common denominator just because they know it will bring them more bucks to their pockets.

Those tits are huge, I wanna see them bounce.

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toxic

Nobody played baiken

I can see the logic behind the change too, but the fucking changes were too extreme imo

Making Baiken easy was the smartest move a fighting game dev has made in a decent while, like it or not. Wonder if Capcom will do the same to Juri.