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Xen on 14 May 2010

Definitely a fighter... though it sure has some platforming elements... such as the need to knock your opponent off rather than out.



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SmoothCriminal on 14 May 2010
dtewi said:
SmoothCriminal said:
It's neither. It's not similar enough to traditional fighters (Street Fighter, Soul Caliber, ect.) to be in the same genre, but it certainly isn't a platformer. Instead, it created it's own genre, the Brawler.

*coughs*

Yeah, it's a fighter with platforming elements.

How so?



aoixgp on 14 May 2010

Its the Single best selling fighting game of all time.



dtewi on 14 May 2010
SmoothCriminal said:
dtewi said:
SmoothCriminal said:
It's neither. It's not similar enough to traditional fighters (Street Fighter, Soul Caliber, ect.) to be in the same genre, but it certainly isn't a platformer. Instead, it created it's own genre, the Brawler.

*coughs*

Yeah, it's a fighter with platforming elements.

How so?

I have no clue, I just wanted an excuse to use the pic.



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Games4Fun on 14 May 2010

Fighter...



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theRepublic on 15 May 2010

Fighter.

No question in my mind.



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xeroxm3 on 15 May 2010

Fighter, my favorite one too.



scottie on 15 May 2010

If the multiplayer of Smash Bros is fighting and the single player is anything else, then the game as a whole is fighting. Smash Bros = multiplayer.

And the majority of the single player is fighter too btw - Subspace emissary is just one part of the single player, and even that has a lot of fighter part to it interspersed amongst the 'platformer' bits



The Ghost of RubangB on 15 May 2010

It's a fighting game. It uses ring-out rules, like sumo wrestling. And if that bothers you for some reason, you can change it to use regular hit points like Street Fighter or whatever. So it can be a regular fighter if it wants to be, but its default setting is to be far superior.



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scottie on 15 May 2010
The Ghost of RubangB said:
It's a fighting game. It uses ring-out rules, like sumo wrestling. And if that bothers you for some reason, you can change it to use regular hit points like Street Fighter or whatever. So it can be a regular fighter if it wants to be, but its default setting is to be far superior.

 

I think either you misintrepreted the OP or I did.

 

I think he is saying that the Subspace Emissary mode has more in common with a platformer than a fighter, and thus we could possibly consider SSB:B to be a platformer