Suggestions for the Series

It's still there, and that's a fairly subjective take on it anyway. I'd say the fact that we have a group of people playing every week, sometimes multiple times a week, would speak against that.

That said, I'm up for increasing longevity. I think some randomly generated areas might be the way to go. That or some kind of boss rush. One of the most fun moments I've had in the series as far as gameplay was at the end of Yumi's story mode and you're suddenly stuck taking on Yagyu and Hibari on at once. More stuff like that, combined with maybe an option to turn off levels/difficulty (or max your level and the difficulty?) would work pretty well so you're not overleveled.

For a new gametype for the Versus titles, maybe they can have a modified deathmatch mode where players compete to take down as many AI enemies as possible as opposed to each other, and the one who takes out the most enemies wins. The scoring could be like that of the underwear collection mode, as opposed to the 5-digit one that deathmatch has, where the point value is determined by how tough the enemy is. For example, the weakest enemies can just be worth one point, while stronger level like those giant panda shinobi enemies can be worth maybe 3 or 5.

Also, how about improved records in terms character use? In SV, it kept track of how many times you've used certain characters from the library, but how about expanding on that by including additional data, such as amount of enemies you've defeated with that character, max combo reached with them, amount of time used, etc.?

By singling out SV/Versus (not to mention coming from someone who has regularly suggested the Versus games add nothing but fanservice), there is an implied comparison/suggestion that it isn't necessary to do in the other games. It's not for "no reason."

And SV has achievements, multiplayer, side stories outside the main one to add to the mission count, and the ability to boost the difficulty of stages. It certainly has replayability as well, arguably even more - potentially limitless if you have a good group for multiplayer to play with regularly.

I already stated my reason, and it was not "no reason." You can disagree with it, but it was still there, and as I was the one posting, whether or not you agree with it is irrelevant. If anything is happening for no reason here, it's your making an issue over nothing and ignoring the context of it again, and I would appreciate it if you would stop.

As for your assessment of SV, I disagree. I've never used the harder difficulty and I still found the game difficult enough to actually need to go through the heart stories first on my import run. I got better and didn't need to the second time around, but I can speak from experience, as well a having seen how others have taken to the game, that it isn't immediately that easy at all.

Furthermore, it had a fair amount of mission differences - you can only do so much when the point is still getting two girls to fight. It can't be compared to Burst in that respect as the two set out to do different things and be two different kinds of games.

Lastly, as this is heading to off topic territory now, I really am going to insist/request that this is dropped, and I apologize to the thread for my part. Let's get back on track.

Anyway, as for suggestions, what about some more integration with their summon animals? Maybe throw in a minigame involving that somehow that can grant bonuses or something.

On that tangent, what if we went the Smash Bros. Mii Fighter route with the specials (ninpos, ninja arts, whichever) and let characters have different ones you could set onto them? It'd spice up fights for sure, not knowing what might be coming your way.

Oh that reminds me.
They should implement clothing sizes and tightness.
I wanna be able to put characters in clothing that is too small for them and see the resulting life struggle to stay in the outfit.
Apparently they tried something similar for Murakumo's armor, but couldn't get it to work?
They should get to doing that. :drool:

On that note, when are we gonna get multiple versions of outfits again?

In Burst, each character had their own personal version of most outfits.
While I wouldn't necessarily want that aspect to return, having multiple different styles of (cheerleader, maid, racequeen etc.) outfits again would be awesome.

Also, no more being stingy with outfits Marvelous!!!!
DLC should be for the extra special awesome stuff, not things from previous games that should be in it to begin with!! >:l