What makes a good fighting game?

[Intrinsic]

ganoncrotch said:

You make a fair point, looking at sales since the PS2 era ended Tekken has been a dying franchise, I guess it had the run of the manor on the PS2 since there was no real Street fighter outing that gen (not counting the 3rd EX+Alpha game)

Meant to say btw, when it comes to the unblockable moves having a 3second "arming" time, yoshimitsu's diagonally down forwards and square slash was instant with almost no recoil and many variants of tekken have featured Devil/Angels standing Eyebeam being almost instant with little to no recoil animation as well (the flying one has a ton of arm time but at the same time you can alter that to swoop behind with it as well or in TTT2 turn it into that crazy dive bomb attack)

Don't get me wrong Intrinsic, I really like Tekken, but it has some pretty bad flaws, especially I think if you put it and something like SF4 side by side.

I get what you are saying and mostly agree with you. Tekken does have some flaws.

But so deos SF. All that aside, those are simply two of the absolute best fighters out there. They are also bot h so different its not even fair to compare them to each other. They are both deeply technical games; I am inclined to believe that its near impossible to love both games equally. Your fighting games gene is either attuned to one or the other. The games are such that the reasons you will take one is great is the exact reason you will hate the other.