Just curious what yall thing? I use to love fighting games back in the SNES and made it point to get every one I could and play them in the arcade but I just started losing interest in them as time went by. Even with Super Smash Bros. Melee, I liked it, but couldn't get into it. The last fighting game I was really interested in was Tekken Tag Tournament but nothing new had really compared since that game.
And then Super Smash Bros Brawl came out and I suddenly loved fighting games again. I've seen and looked at the other ones coming out, but nonen of them really interested. I was even 50/50 on Street Fighter IV. I loved Street Fighter II Turbo back on the SNES but then I tried SFIIHD and it just wasn't the same.
On a whim I bought Street Fighter IV and instantly fell in love with the game.
So onto the actual thread-- for those of you that have played both, which do you think is the better fighting game? Personally, I think these are easily the two best fighting games this gen, just curious what do you think is the better game?
Super Smash Bros Brawl
- One of the most complete games ever
- Excellent control
- More controller choices than any game (remote, remote + nunchuck, Gamecube controller, Classic Controller) all fully customizable.
- Easy to pick up and difficulty to master
- One of the most epic soundtracks ever
- Simple moves that anyone can pull off
- Many different stages that all change the game
- Different game modes with different win conditions
- weapons and items
- Graphics are good, one of the best looking games on the Wii
- Very large cast of characters
- Complete single player game
- Online with friends works well
- Online with strangers is painful
- No way to actually communicate with people
- No stat tracking
Street Fighter IV
- Classic gameplay we all know and love
- Excellent art style
- Online with strangers and friends is easy
- Variety of stages but they do absolutely nothing to affect the game
- Not a lot of variety in characters. Sure, there are 25 characters but how many of those are Ryu clones with slight tweaks?
- Easy to pick up, difficult to master.
- Move list full of random movements that can be difficulty to pull off (especially if you're playing on a certain notoriously bad D-Pad).
- Stat tracking
- Lack of variety in game modes. You can choose match time and number of matches and that's it
- Every game mode is essentially the same thing with the same conditions.
- Ranked matches with strangers kick you out of the lobby after the match is over, you don't get to play the person again unless you just happen to see them.
- Not a lot of control options.
- I do have trouble finding matches with random people unless I make my own match. When I look for a match and it brings up people, they're all already full and then have to search again. I usually have to go through this 10 or so times before I finally find a match. If I'm playing unranked, I can just keep playing the same person, but if I'm playing ranked, I finish the match and then have to start looking again.
