What happened to combat sports games? 10-15 years ago Fight Night was a great series...

FNC is still active on Xbox and even ps3, there's also a new boxing game coming out soon, but not from EA

of the first 3 FN games, Round 3 is my lest favorite. it feels like they were still transitioning to a new generation of hardware and werent taking advantage of it yet. 3 feels like a broken 2, and 2 is already fucking broken with haymaker spam.
im legitimately amazed how good FNC still looks over a decade later.
no console from that gen currently so i've been emulating them where i can. thinking about getting a 360 just for FNC, UFC Undisputed, and Backbreaker

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>Backbreaker
How do you walk straight with that fucking log dangling between your legs?

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EA got the UFC license and presumably paid a chunk for it, perhaps it was just for the one game? And they haven't tried to do another boxing one because the execs think MMA is the new big thing and the projected return on investment for a boxing one isn't worth it
ESBC is looking alright although it's clearly AA and they've spunked a ton of cash on licenses and mocap which I distrust
When EA got into MMA games I imagined they would combine the Fight Night and UFC licenses into one game with both boxing and MMA mechanics, and the story mode would be similar to FNC, following you as a young boxer having a decent career, then getting a recurring hand injury or some shit and transitioning to MMA. Having both sports in the same game would surely boost the total sales since you'd capture fans of both sports, but it never happened.
You would think it would be the perfect time for a new one with all the youtube meme fights
Real boxing fans would hate it but they'll buy it anyway

>youtube meme fights
>Real boxing fans would hate it but they'll buy it anyway
god you're right, its a great time to attempt a fight night reboot. you can bring in a younger audience with the youtube names, and older boxing fans are just so starved for a game they will buy it too. i wonder if its harder to get licenses for some classic fighters these days. wasnt muhammad ali even missing from one of the earlier FN games? and they did that crossover in UFC3 with bishop and whatever the other story character's name is
your combined game idea could totally work too. EA will always be legendarily out of touch

You can actually get career-ending brain damage in Champion. You get an evaluation after every fight and can pass or fail the exam depending on your facial damage during the fight. After every failed exam the game will tell you that your brain is turning to mush. Fail enough times and you get forced into retirement.

The thing about it is that, like I said, the exam is based on facial damage for some reason as opposed to something more reasonable like your health, and your resistance to cuts and swelling are maxed out to start with, so you have to be super unlucky to get cut at all. On the other hand, the damage snowballs, so it's annoying if you're trying not to die and get cut early in your career.

Fuck, that's the one Fight Night I never actually played.
I should pick it up.

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>love fight night round 4
>years after buying it I decide to pop it in and play
>disc rot
lol

The game definitely looks good, like a Mike Tyson hook actually looks like it should literally kill you. The gameplay is more RNG than previous games, I still say Round 3 is the best in the series. Career Mode is busted though, the randomly generated fighters are unviable and the real-life fighters age into irrelevance almost immediately.

Side note, if you're looking for fighter drama and don't mind shitty mobile sims, try Bit By Bit Games's MMA Manager. It features stuff like injuries, PEDs and media scandals, but like I said it's a shitty mobile sim. Also it's no longer in any store so you'll have to go looking for an APK. Good news is there won't be any ads.

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dropping counters was a mistake for champion. most people say thet round 4 is where the series peaked in terms of gameplay but thats the only one i never tried.
and to comment on your "fighter drama" suggestion, that MDickie wrestling empire game has the funniest career simulation i have ever seen even though its connected to what is basically an n64 wrestling game.
my very first career ended 2 fights in when someone broke my spine

Hellish Quart if you like fencing and eurojank.
No online tho, physics and online are not a good match

I never played this game. I remember seeing footage of it, this was one of the first games that I thought was photorealistic.

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if hellish quart had some kind of single player beyond random fights i would have picked it up

Its still in its earliest stage and the dev team is just one guy that likes HEMA too much.
Im surprised there's no big studio copying that idea, because the matches are just great