Why don't you play fighting games?

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spemanig said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Smash is extremely fun. You can blow of steam from using too many brain cells in the other fighting games.

I hope you aren't seriously implying that Smash somehow requires less brain cells just because it isn't a fighting game. Comments like this are why Smash players get so defensive when you tell them it's not a fighting game. Playing Smash is just as technical and requires every bit as much "brain cells" as a fighting game does. It just so happens to not be a fighting games.

By the way, I've figured it out the overwhelming answer to this thread. Most of these people don't play fighting games because it's not Smash.

If smash fans would just accept that their game is the fucking babytown frolics of fighting games then there'd be far less vitriol in the communities.  There'd still be natural haughtiness from other fanbases and jealousy because smash sells better, but there wouldn't be this nonsense if smash fans would just go, "Look, it's fun, I like it and your opinion doesn't impede my enjoyment of it," and left it at that.