naznatips said:
I'd take the original SC over any other technical fighter made in the last decade. SCII made the game about gimmicks, and that's all it's been since then. A giant gimmick. SCIV just cemented that by not only being gimmicky but picking the gimmicks over balance. |
Someone needs to play some more Virtua Fighter. VF is the king of having zero gimmicks and being all about gameplay and balance. If you play Virtua Fighter 5, you'll very quickly begin to notice that it has some of the most balanced characters of any fighting game in a long time (although there are still obvious disparities).
And besides, what do gimmicks and balance matter? Super Smash Bros. has tons of gimmicks and not very much balance, but it's still very fun. Of course you could claim that it doesn't matter since the game isn't realistic in the first place, but in the end, almost no fighting games are.







