I wish i could be half as excited for fighting games as you guys
To this day, i can't see the appeal of this genre of games. For me, it's a combination of two things i don't really like in games - versus multiplayer (i can tolerate it if it's turn-based and requires some thought, like in Civ or card games) and the lack of "game substance", by which i mean a story or some kind of diverse gameplay. This is the reason i've never liked WoW arenas, despite playing that game for God know how many years. I've always wondered why would people play an MMO just to lock themselves in tiny rooms and miss out on 99% of the game itself - that's exactly how i feel about fighting games.
Come to think of it, maybe i just prefer longer gaming sessions and games that require something else rather than pure reflexes. I guess that has something to do with me growing older and having my tastes change, i remember playing a lot of CS and Quake 3 about 15 years ago, as well as games of other genres i'm not interested in anymore - like racing games. But even at that time i didn't see the appeal of fighting games
Every time i see some port or new release announcements for fighting games and people going crazy about them, like the recent MvC announcement, i think to myself: those developmentporting resources could have been used on something interesting instead