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Machina said:

Best Fighting Game of 2023

I mentioned that Best Platformer was the most one-sided contest this year. The second most one-sided was Best Fighter, which surprised me a bit given there were two particularly big releases in the genre this year, so more potential for competition. I expected them to be fairly evenly divided, but they weren't: the winner managed 68.095% of the combined vote, the runner-up just 23.22%.

I'm not suprised since SF6 had a lot more buzz and an excellent reception. It probably also helps that it's been twice as long since the last game in that series than MK which makes it a bigger event. I kind of wish SF and Tekken had released in the same year because that might have been an interesting showdown.



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