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[CoolBatteryCharge]

Power Stone and Smash Bros are very much fighting games =/

 

[The Dear Leader]

Power Stone and Smash Bros are very much fighting games =/

 

[Lunar FC]

Is it strange that the only fighting game I own is BlazBlue Calamity Trigger?

 

[Mister Negative]

as someone with no interest in fighting games and little to no interest in smash, smash is not a fighting game

 

[DrFunk]

Because it came out in a year where there were 20 better fighting games, it was on a system nobody cared about and it's mediocre.

I was too busy playing Smash Bros which came out about a month prior.

opinions and all, since you enjoy smash bros - but I knew of it and enjoyed it greatly

 

[styl3s]

Power Stone and Smash Bros are very much fighting games =/

Yes, they are "fighting" games.

 

[justjim89]

Smash Bros. is absolutely not a fighting game. It's so much better than all that trash.

 

[Keyser Soze]

So weird, never usually have any problems but it keeps stop/starting. Having to go to awful SD quality.

Ran a speedtest and I'm getting 72meg as well so I am super confused.

I can run HD on 8.50 Mbsp

 

[LiK]

Is it strange that the only fighting game I own is BlazBlue Calamity Trigger?

very

 

[ratcliffja]

So every fighting game has to use the Street Fighter 2 system of beating up the other guy until his health runs out or the timer reaches 0?

 

[shadyspace]

I was pretty into SS43D for a while.

 

[daydream]

not that i'm invested in this debate, at all, but i would consider smash a fighting game and power stone an arena brawler, instinctively

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Also, boxing and wrestling games are fighting games.

 

[Lunar FC]

very

I thought it was pretty rad. But it will also be the only fighting game I ever purchase.

 

[Jintor]

Of course smash is a fighting game! Like, expand your mind, brahhhhh...

 

[LiK]

I thought it was pretty rad. But it will also be the only fighting game I ever purchase.

SFV, c'mon you can do it

 

[Keyser Soze]

Nidhogg is a fighting game

 

[Hot Coldman]

Fighting game = any game where two human-controlled characters fight, with the defeat of the other players being the core objective.

Boom

 

[LiK]

Fighting game = any game where two human-controlled characters fight, with the defeat of the other players being the core objective.

Boom

correction: two or more.

 

[Lunar FC]

SFV, c'mon you can do it

Never even played a Street Fighter in my entire life..so..

 

[Keyser Soze]

Divekick is a Flash Game

 

[KingKong]

Fighting game = any game where two human-controlled characters fight, with the defeat of the other players being the core objective.

Boom

So youre saying Quake 3 is a fighting game

 

[shadyspace]

Bet Jeff would consider Gundam Extreme Vs. a fighting game.

 

[Lijik]

This thread is a fighting game

 

[BobTheFork]

Fighting game = any game where two human-controlled characters fight, with the defeat of the other players being the core objective.

Boom

I still don't think that qualifies Smash Brothers...

 

[Hot Coldman]

So youre saying Quake 3 is a fighting game

I mean

yes

I still don't think that qualifies Smash Brothers...

2 or more

 

[Chance Hale]

Every now and again I go into the Smash Brothers thread and see tons of jargon for character moves and abilities so I'm pretty sure it's a fighting game. And whenever I go online I get wrecked so definitely a fighting game

 

[Twin Tails]

Just deck him Jason.

 

[Tan]

If you're fighting it's a fighting game. Genres are already super broad, it's not a big deal.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Ranking of Fighters is really good. It's nice to see a whole fighter's roster in depth (more or less) while they talk about the mechanics and stuff. Especially for someone like me who's never played 99% of fighters out there - very informative stuff.

I still miss TOGS, though.

OMG... https://vine.co/v/egh1DinOg7Y

goty

GOAT

Why is everything related to Contradiction so awesome? It's mind-boggling.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Just deck him Jason.

aye

 

[Archaix]

Fighting game = any game where two human-controlled characters fight, with the defeat of the other players being the core objective.

Boom

Disagree. Boxing and MMA games are sports sims (at least in general), not fighting games. Both are centered around 1v1 fighting of some sort, but are not fighting games.

 

[Keyser Soze]

This is not a fighting game as there is no FGC idiots shouting HYPE

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

correction: two or more.

I'd say one or more. Fighting games can be single player too

Spoiler

for lonely people bless their hearts...

 

[Hot Coldman]

Boxing games are fighting games. That's like calling Project CARS not a racing game.

If you're fighting it's a fighting game. Genres are already super broad, it's not a big deal.

Honestly, the whole "but it's not a fighting game" stuff stinks of elitism. Which is hilarious when the same parties that trot out that line look at Vs. and go "YEAH THAT'S COOL"

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Fighting game = any game where two human-controlled characters fight, with the defeat of the other players being the core objective.

Boom

Halo is my favorite fighting game.

 

[daydream]

combat on atari is still the pinnacle of the genre

 

[nckillthegrimace]

It's weird to see Giant Bomb dump on non-standard fighting games but laud novelty fighting games like Mortal Kombat II and Divekick as exemplars of the genre.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

It's weird to see Giant Bomb dump on non-standard fighting games but laud novelty fighting games like Mortal Kombat II and Divekick as exemplars of the genre.

I get Divekick, but I don't know what you mean with MK2.

 

[DrFunk]

Salty Bet, all night

 

[Mister Negative]

Salty Bet, all night

I'd watch this stream

 

[Hot Coldman]

Halo is my favorite fighting game.

OK for real, I was broad as fuck there, but honestly I feel like it applies. Unless it obviously, OBVIOUSLY is some other genre (like an FPS), that could well be a fighting game.

Like Catherine.

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Disagree. Boxing and MMA games are sports sims (at least in general), not fighting games. Both are centered around 1v1 fighting of some sort, but are not fighting games.

I probably don't see eye to eye with the FGC about this but I think fighting games and combat sports sim games are not exclusive from each other. They're just sim vs arcade versions of the same thing.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

OK for real, I was broad as fuck there, but honestly I feel like it applies. Unless it obviously, OBVIOUSLY is some other genre (like an FPS), that could well be a fighting game.

Like Catherine.

Yeah I was just poking fun at you, but really I so don't care about genre labels. I don't know why Jeff gets so hung up on it.

 

[nckillthegrimace]

I get Divekick, but I don't know what you mean with MK2.

It's more of a silly thing.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

You're a silly thing.

 

[styl3s]

Bomberman is my favorite human vs human fighting game where the core object is to defeat the other person.

 

[nckillthegrimace]

You're a silly thing.

I'M HOBBY GRADE

 

[The Dear Leader]

I hope they play a Smash Bros. game for Ranking of the Fighters so it can be the worst fighting game of all time for the entire run of the series.

 

[Mister Negative]

I hope they play a Smash Bros. game for Ranking of the Fighters so it can be the worst fighting game of all time for the entire run of the series.

it has to be melee, though.

if it was brawl i feel like smash players would just agree