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KingFate on 15 May 2010

I'd have to say it's a fighter overall.



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The Ghost of RubangB on 15 May 2010
scottie said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
It's a fighting game. It uses ring-out rules, like sumo wrestling. And if that bothers you for some reason, you can change it to use regular hit points like Street Fighter or whatever. So it can be a regular fighter if it wants to be, but its default setting is to be far superior.

I think either you misintrepreted the OP or I did.

I think he is saying that the Subspace Emissary mode has more in common with a platformer than a fighter, and thus we could possibly consider SSB:B to be a platformer

I think we can consider the Subspace Emissary a platforming game within a fighting game.  But even the Subspace Emissary turns into a tournament fighter for the boss battles.  Every mode in Brawl has fighting.  Not every mode has platforming.  Calling Brawl a platformer is like calling Final Fantasy 7 a snowboarding game or calling No More Heroes 2 a cooking game.

The only reason to call Brawl a platformer is to pretend that Nintendo didn't make the best selling fighting game of all time.



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scottie on 15 May 2010
The Ghost of RubangB said:
scottie said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:

I think either you misintrepreted the OP or I did.

I think he is saying that the Subspace Emissary mode has more in common with a platformer than a fighter, and thus we could possibly consider SSB:B to be a platformer

I think we can consider the Subspace Emissary a platforming game within a fighting game.  But even the Subspace Emissary turns into a tournament fighter for the boss battles.  Every mode in Brawl has fighting.  Not every mode has platforming.  Calling Brawl a platformer is like calling Final Fantasy 7 a snowboarding game or calling No More Heroes 2 a cooking game.

The only reason to call Brawl a platformer is to pretend that Nintendo didn't make the best selling fighting game of all time.

 

Haha, that's exactly what I said!! :D

 

"If the multiplayer of Smash Bros is fighting and the single player is anything else, then the game as a whole is fighting. Smash Bros = multiplayer.

And the majority of the single player is fighter too btw - Subspace emissary is just one part of the single player, and even that has a lot of fighter part to it interspersed amongst the 'platformer' bits"



Viper1 on 15 May 2010
The Ghost of RubangB said:
scottie said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
It's a fighting game. It uses ring-out rules, like sumo wrestling. And if that bothers you for some reason, you can change it to use regular hit points like Street Fighter or whatever. So it can be a regular fighter if it wants to be, but its default setting is to be far superior.

I think either you misintrepreted the OP or I did.

I think he is saying that the Subspace Emissary mode has more in common with a platformer than a fighter, and thus we could possibly consider SSB:B to be a platformer

I think we can consider the Subspace Emissary a platforming game within a fighting game.  But even the Subspace Emissary turns into a tournament fighter for the boss battles.  Every mode in Brawl has fighting.  Not every mode has platforming.  Calling Brawl a platformer is like calling Final Fantasy 7 a snowboarding game or calling No More Heroes 2 a cooking game.

The only reason to call Brawl a platformer is to pretend that Nintendo didn't make the best selling fighting game of all time.

This....and nothing more.

 



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Kasz216 on 15 May 2010
The Ghost of RubangB said:
scottie said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
It's a fighting game. It uses ring-out rules, like sumo wrestling. And if that bothers you for some reason, you can change it to use regular hit points like Street Fighter or whatever. So it can be a regular fighter if it wants to be, but its default setting is to be far superior.

I think either you misintrepreted the OP or I did.

I think he is saying that the Subspace Emissary mode has more in common with a platformer than a fighter, and thus we could possibly consider SSB:B to be a platformer

I think we can consider the Subspace Emissary a platforming game within a fighting game.  But even the Subspace Emissary turns into a tournament fighter for the boss battles.  Every mode in Brawl has fighting.  Not every mode has platforming.  Calling Brawl a platformer is like calling Final Fantasy 7 a snowboarding game or calling No More Heroes 2 a cooking game.

The only reason to call Brawl a platformer is to pretend that Nintendo didn't make the best selling fighting game of all time.

Wouldn't it be more efficient to combine all the SF2 versions in existance?

Champion and Turbo are at 10.4 on SNES alone.

What's odd is that according to this site the Genesis versions only total 1.81.  Genesis can't sell third party games confirmed?

Seriously though, I thought SF would be right up the Sega owners alley.

 

I guess Sega owners were Mortal Kombat fans?  A breadown of Genisis fans would be interesting...

 

To see how multiplatform games held up... did they sell way better on the SNES... because Genesis was all about what Nintendidn't?

So exclusives and games like mortal kombat sold while games that were on Nintendo just the same like streetfighter didn't?

 



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kylohk on 15 May 2010

The SSE reminds me of those old platformers where you punch and hit bad guys along the way. Kind of like Streets of Rage?

The normal modes are of course, fighting games.



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Kasz216 on 15 May 2010
kylohk said:
The SSE reminds me of those old platformers where you punch and hit bad guys along the way. Kind of like Streets of Rage?

The normal modes are of course, fighting games.

Actually, games like Streets of Rage and Final Fight were called "Beat-Em ups."





Fab_GS on 15 May 2010
The Ghost of RubangB said:
scottie said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
It's a fighting game. It uses ring-out rules, like sumo wrestling. And if that bothers you for some reason, you can change it to use regular hit points like Street Fighter or whatever. So it can be a regular fighter if it wants to be, but its default setting is to be far superior.

I think either you misintrepreted the OP or I did.

I think he is saying that the Subspace Emissary mode has more in common with a platformer than a fighter, and thus we could possibly consider SSB:B to be a platformer

I think we can consider the Subspace Emissary a platforming game within a fighting game.  But even the Subspace Emissary turns into a tournament fighter for the boss battles.  Every mode in Brawl has fighting.  Not every mode has platforming.  Calling Brawl a platformer is like calling Final Fantasy 7 a snowboarding game or calling No More Heroes 2 a cooking game.

The only reason to call Brawl a platformer is to pretend that Nintendo didn't make the best selling fighting game of all time.

I thought Street Fighter II is the best selling fighting game. Of course if you count all the multiple versions/editions of the game



Joelcool7 on 15 May 2010

SmashBros64 was a fighting game entirely, Melee was pretty much a fighting game as well. But with Brawl their was an entire platformer inside the game so I'd have to say it fits into both Genre's.



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vonboysp on 15 May 2010

it's i fighting game, but fighting can only go so far, so some platforming goodness was mixed it to make it an even better fighter.



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