Anyone calling it "Street Fighters" POSSIBLY has a biased opinion.
KoF does look fantastic though.
Smash is not as hard to "master" as traditional 2-D tournament games. Not flaming -- but the basic level of how to do combos in MvC2 takes weeks. Smash has plenty of tactics but doesn't emphasize the execution of stuff like 3s/CvS2/Marvel/VF. No disrespect, but just YouTube a Marvel or VF player's hands, haha. Shit is unreal.
People say Smash isn't a standard tournament fighting game because you have to put about 10,000 rules in play to balance it for tourney play. Capcom/SNK balance games themselves; the community doesn't have to do it. None of this is saying Smash sucks or whatever.
Another thing about Smash that's so different is you can't carry the fine points of its gameplay to other fighters. Most 2-D people play a lot of 2-D competitively; most Smash people play Smash. I've been all over the country for majors and it's the same thing everywhere. So there's this eternal rift btw the communities :P
