Smash Bros Becomes Biggest Fighting Stream In History

[NoirSon]

MDMAlliance said:

NoirSon said:

MDMAlliance said:

You lost all credibility with that statement.  I read everything else, and it's also not true. You have no evidence.  I don't think anyone who knows what they're talking about agrees with you.

ACtually that statement has some truth.

The original Street Fighter was not a "Fighting Game" since there was no such genre, it was a action game. The genre eventually grew out of Street Fighter 2 but for the most part the original Street Fighter was just a arcade game where you played Ryu and went from one fight/stage to another. It had a versus mode but so did other side scrollers and action games, Street Fighter's main claim at the time of the original was pressure sensative buttons for different levels or punches and kicks along with "secret" special moves like the Hurricane Kick and Fireball.

That's only through a technicality, and even with  the first "fighting game" as you would call it, it still doesn't prove anything at all about his claim where a fighting game gets more hype as it gets older.  

In the tournament scene there is usually more support for older games because people know more about them, the character tiers, glitches and such are more stable. But you both are right because once everything is discovered, eventually people do tend to move on so saying it gets more hype as it gets older is both partially true and false.

If Brawl didn't have elements like tripping and purposely was slowed down due to mystery complaints (I never heard anyone complain about its speed outside of its creators when justifying changes made in Brawl) of it being too fast, it would have been played but Melee is the favorite of the tournement crowd because it fits what the competitive Smash Bros. players want from the series. If the next Smash Bros game is closer to Melee in terms of how it plays, just like with Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs Capcom 3 (which most tournament players at first didn't like compared to older games like Street Fighter 3: Third Strike or Marvel vs Capcom 2) it will eventually be replaced. If it plays more like Brawl, you will probably be seeing Melee or some sort of fan made Melee game in its place.