How does one even begin to give MUGEN as an individual concept a numerical rating?
Always a captivating idea for the prospect of cherry-picking your favourite characters from a billion different fighters and slapping them into a single roster, but it's frustrating to figure out where to start. Information is so decentralized, fighters are hard to find and will have at least 14 different versions you have to guess between, and the engine doesn't often play nice with resolution scaling or controller support. It's very much a labour of love. I dream of the day this somehow sneaks onto Steam and gets Workshop support like Rivals of Aether.
If you wanna just skip all the fuss and play a damn good fighting game that's free and has more characters than you could ever possibly need, then King of Fighters Anthology is an incredibly fun and high quality pre-built MUGEN game. Or Hyper DBZ if you'd prefer a similarly high quality game that -doesn't- have, uh, 600+ fighters.
Always a captivating idea for the prospect of cherry-picking your favourite characters from a billion different fighters and slapping them into a single roster, but it's frustrating to figure out where to start. Information is so decentralized, fighters are hard to find and will have at least 14 different versions you have to guess between, and the engine doesn't often play nice with resolution scaling or controller support. It's very much a labour of love. I dream of the day this somehow sneaks onto Steam and gets Workshop support like Rivals of Aether.
If you wanna just skip all the fuss and play a damn good fighting game that's free and has more characters than you could ever possibly need, then King of Fighters Anthology is an incredibly fun and high quality pre-built MUGEN game. Or Hyper DBZ if you'd prefer a similarly high quality game that -doesn't- have, uh, 600+ fighters.
Vices, madness, passion, hate
Thirst for power and being
Diversion thru oppression
Starts an intense reaction
Trying to say something
You can burn yourself
This game has no rules
No mercy, no compassion
There's only school to enter
And only a language to learn
Nobody can escape
From the laws of scourge
Hunted by all the curses
Our destiny is to join this war
Awaiting our friend, mrs. death
To stitch their last uniform
Fight for what you believe to be right
You just wish and you get (it)
You'll see my friend
We'll gonna win in the end!
You must learn these laws
Or you better kill yourself!!!
Learn how to use your enemies
To manipulate the dolls
To discover who your friends are
And learn how to kill of the false
Thirst for power and being
Diversion thru oppression
Starts an intense reaction
Trying to say something
You can burn yourself
This game has no rules
No mercy, no compassion
There's only school to enter
And only a language to learn
Nobody can escape
From the laws of scourge
Hunted by all the curses
Our destiny is to join this war
Awaiting our friend, mrs. death
To stitch their last uniform
Fight for what you believe to be right
You just wish and you get (it)
You'll see my friend
We'll gonna win in the end!
You must learn these laws
Or you better kill yourself!!!
Learn how to use your enemies
To manipulate the dolls
To discover who your friends are
And learn how to kill of the false
The closest any singular video game has ever come to being designated as an SCP
It's like Street Fighter/King of Fighters/Super Smash Bros, if its character roster was built out of the Akashic records and took the form of an impossible shape optical illusion
I don't know how the community is now, but back in the 2000s/early 2010s it was a bureaucratic nightmare hellscape ruled by Napoleons, the worst possible community for a game reliant on user-generated content, with so many rules, moral prohibitions, and warring factions (warehousers vs. creators) that it'd make Kafka shit his pants and die
This game is basically the video game equivalent of the King in Yellow, an impossible forbidden game that drives its players to madness, when I was a 12-year-old autistic child with strong convictions about preservation, my actions in the community made people threaten to kill me and dox me and send fake reports to the FBI over me (which is a felony btw! epic win) which definitely has NOT fucked me up for life with anxiety issues
There used to be a list of "unrequestable characters" that were prohibited from distribution due to stolen code, or stolen art, or because they just didn't like who made them, and that instantly turned every character on that list into a hot commodity all of us WAREHOUSERS just had to find
We were all assholes and deserved each other, like we had all sinned during a previous life and this community was our punishment
P.S.: a "warehouser" is defined as somebody who engages in unauthorized distribution of MUGEN content, you would become a social pariah if you shared characters without permission, even if those characters had been offline for years and would be lost permanently without reuploading, you are still catching a ban
It's like Street Fighter/King of Fighters/Super Smash Bros, if its character roster was built out of the Akashic records and took the form of an impossible shape optical illusion
I don't know how the community is now, but back in the 2000s/early 2010s it was a bureaucratic nightmare hellscape ruled by Napoleons, the worst possible community for a game reliant on user-generated content, with so many rules, moral prohibitions, and warring factions (warehousers vs. creators) that it'd make Kafka shit his pants and die
This game is basically the video game equivalent of the King in Yellow, an impossible forbidden game that drives its players to madness, when I was a 12-year-old autistic child with strong convictions about preservation, my actions in the community made people threaten to kill me and dox me and send fake reports to the FBI over me (which is a felony btw! epic win) which definitely has NOT fucked me up for life with anxiety issues
There used to be a list of "unrequestable characters" that were prohibited from distribution due to stolen code, or stolen art, or because they just didn't like who made them, and that instantly turned every character on that list into a hot commodity all of us WAREHOUSERS just had to find
We were all assholes and deserved each other, like we had all sinned during a previous life and this community was our punishment
P.S.: a "warehouser" is defined as somebody who engages in unauthorized distribution of MUGEN content, you would become a social pariah if you shared characters without permission, even if those characters had been offline for years and would be lost permanently without reuploading, you are still catching a ban