| twesterm said:
If you look at something like Tekken it's veeeeeeeeery technical and hard to get in to. With Killer Instinct you may not be able to do the cool ultra combos on purpose, but you can sure mash buttons and feel awesome. The experienced player who knows what they're doing will likely win, but Killer Instinct was always a game you go play at the arcades or on your console and you'd feel awesome right off the bat. |
I'd argue almost the exact opposite about Tekken. Tekken can be a button smashing game which a newb can beat a pro player depending on who they pick. Example: I haven't really played Tekken since PS1 days. I went over to a friends house and played against two other decent players that played Tekken Tag 2 PS3 (I believe) a lot recently. I picked Nina because I mainly played as her back in Tekken 1. Her kicks and hand slaps are quick as shit. I was able to beat them a majority of the time (with their best characters). I eventually started picking Eddie and I believe I won like 4-5 games in a row against these 2 experienced players. It got to the point where I actually almost wanted to let them win because I felt bad about beating them over and over with Eddie through button smashing (they were eventually able to get a win or two in on me with Eddie). Most of the time I was just button smashing with Eddie (a lot more smashing than playing with Nina since I remembered a few of her moves).
Anyways, the best example of a newb not being able to win in a fighting game vs an experienced/pro player would be Super Smash Bros. You can't really button smash in Smash because you will just be open up for a counter attack or easily avoided through a roll, etc. You can spam quick smashes a lot (which I had friends do) but that strategy doesn't work that well either. I could easily destroy any newb in Smash and not have to worry about someone winning through button smashes. You can't say that about Tekken.
