Perfect character balance is "boring", says Samurai Shodown director

Maybe in the sense that each character should have enough difference to them that they have a unique identity, and so no matchup is ever really going to be on completely equal footing because each character has their own strengths and weaknesses, but not in the sense that some characters should be strong and some should be weak. Everyone should be strong in their own way, ideally.

why doesn't the bird want the fish? :(

Yeah I love not being able to play my favorite character competitively because he's trash
I also love watching a tourney and have 70% of the matches be a mirror because 1 character is plain better

Balance sure is boring

if he can do it why can't you :^)

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People here misunderstood.
He said perfect balance, which mean every characters will be viable, but on the same time, no balance changes will ever be made anymore.
The game will be the same after you played it for a month, a year, or a decade.
Can you imagine people playing the same game since 21 November 2001 without any balance changes?

>Can you imagine people playing the same game since 21 November 2001 without any balance changes?

every game gets boring over time

>Can you imagine people playing the same game since 21 November 2001 without any balance
You think people didn't play games for a long time before online patches were introduced?

Lorewisely it's right, you retard

He's wrong. Look at fucking Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition. Yun and Yang were made overpowered on purpose and fucking everyone hated playing AE.

>fighting games lore

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people still play ST.

Lorefags are the worst. Even if the gameplay is good they'll shit on a game because "MUH LORE".

In a sense
A game in which every character is viable and good against every other character would be pretty boring. But a game in which every character is viable against an equal number of matchups can be interesting.
The big difference is whether or not character selection actually matters.

Guess i have to treat you kids like you're from red fucking dit.
Here's your '/s'

I'm talking about Smash Bros Melee.
Autistic fucks had been playing the same game for 18 years, yet they are not bored yet..
Not to mention how small the actual viable roosters are.

No
When you make some characters objectively strongest evrione flocks to them and it kills all suspense and variety during tournaments.
No one was suprized when Genjruos where in the top 8 and even less so when he was the Evo winner.
Kinda how for a long time Camy was wining left and right.
Or how evrione played Sagat in SFIV vanila.

Same thing in smash when bayonetta was broken.

Perfect balancing is impossible but no figther should have SS rank characters.

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If you follow this line of reasoning eventually you end up with 8-player smash on that Kirby stage with the lava with items set to max as a competitive event. That's the kind of world this man will allow.

Its not just the small roster thats viable.
Moves as well.
People in Melee use 1-2 moves per character outside of combos.
I cant remember when was the last time iv seen a melee player use more than 2 moves in the game and literally the only used offensive special move in the game is Foxes blaster.
Technically people also use the up special on some characters to escape death and thats it.

Yes. That said Genjuro being overly dominant is too.

Cope seethe dilate have sex

Once you achieve near perfect balance in a fighting game true player skill starts to shine thru.
People then stop playing thats the best and start playing what they like.

The deprivation between say Panda and devil jin is much closer than say shiki and genjuro

Most teken characters lack special moves like in other fighting games.
There are no invincible reversals or super practical projectiles (especially ones that bounce for an additional hit on block) also no cross-ups.
Tekken is about reading your opponent and being unpredictable.
Panda ma be low tier but she has all the same fundamental tools as Devil Jin. Meanwhile only genjuro can do genjuro stuff in samurai showdown and its not special situational stuff but core to his game-play. No other character in Smasho has hard to impossible to punish invincible moves and a fireball that is more dangerous if blocked or straight up grounded auto cross up moves.

i like it when the highest technical character is top tier, that way you know the person had to lab the shit out of his character to get where he is and it's possible he could fall asleep at the wheel and fuck himself over and lose
genjuro is far from technical

I agree, perfect balance may not achievable but at the very least every character should feel viable, Samsho has this issue where genjuro just stands out so far from the rest of the cast that'd you have to be stupid to not pick genjruo if you were actually serious about winning, I get the dev not wanting to nerf him but they need to at least buff every other character to/close to his level

WE know it doesn't exist, yet there are shot tons of developers out there right now striving for it as we speak slowly ruining one game at a time.

He is. Having characters who are stronger creates an interesting meta game sometimes.
However, right now Genjuro is so busted this doesn't really apply to him right now since the balance in the game right now is very poor.

But you're talking about good balance, not perfect balance.
Perfect balance isn't easily achieved specially if you have a game with different characters.
What would you rather take, perfect balance but everyone plays the same or a game with some balance flaws but lots of different characters?

>and it kills all suspense
That's bs though, nothing is more thrilling than seeing a top tier getting his ass handed by a lower tier character.

ask the people who play chess that and lets find out.