Current Events > Rate this video game genre: Fighting

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For the record, your vote should reflect your personal taste about the genre, how likely you are to play it, etc.

Previously, we rated FPS games, where after 24 hours and 51 votes the average rating was 6.16 with a median vote of 7.
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It's okay to talk about it, you know
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Honestly my favorite genre
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10/10

One of my favorites.
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I'm terrible at fighting games and don't even attempt anymore. I really respect the depth and the people who are even competent at them.
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I really, really like them. I'm just awful at all of them.
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Super Smash Bros or bust
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I only like fighting games that barely fit the genre, like Smash or WWE. Straight up fighting games get very boring for me very fast.

One of the 5 pillars of the worst game genres:

Fighting
JRPG
MMO
MOBA
Sh'mup

I like them in concept but I really don't want to ut in the time and effort to learn all the intricacies of any of them, and all my friends I have irl to play them with are super serious about them (like, attend tournaments and stuff) so it's never a very fair match

I think the most fun I've had with fighting games is picking weirder / more obscure ones that no one knows, and then making a pact not to grind them in training mode since it keeps everyone on a more even footing
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5/10

There are a handful I like but overall the genre is far too complicated just for the sake of it. Without the outliers, it's more like 2/10.

I'm talking 300 button presses per second, all that kind of crap. It's nonsense. Inputs should be easier. There's no excuse for the Shoryuken input to have ever existed--and this is coming from someone who can generally do it. Making the game harder to control is how you make a crap game, and yet it's the genre standard.

Then there's the part where it's designed around playing with humans instead of CPU's. Humans suck. They cheat, they spam, they camp, they come up with whatever methods they can to either win the game at any cost or just make it no fun on purpose. Not just a fighting problem, but one that is central to the concept of the fighting game genre.

To make matters worse, the shift to online multiplayer has put everyone in the same pond where now the people who play the most are the best players, and since they play the most, they're the ones you're most likely to play. So when you first pop the game in, your first challenge is to fight the world champion. There's no learning curve. It's a learning wall. Beginner lobbies don't help because some of the beginners at Tekken 7 played Tekkens 1-6 religiously beforehand, and many of those who didn't switched from Street Fighter, or SoulCalibur, or whatever.

The people who do play well will often have logged dozens or hundreds of hours in practice/training mode, literally doing the same moves over and over on a dummy because the developer decided the best way to make a game is to make doing simple things stupidly hard with frame-precise timings, multiple presses on opposite sides of the face and super fast mash expectations.

Everything about the genre is apparently designed to make sure that players have as little fun as possible--especially when they're new--and to make people take it way more seriously than anyone should take any game.
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It's a very "shallow" genre when it comes to quality. Once you go outside the big hitters, the games worth playing sort of evaporate.
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4/4 da bess genre

Wasn't expecting this to be so polarizing
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Smash is gr8
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Evening bump
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Morning bump
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Does Smash count?
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My favorite genre but even the more successful series has some duds in their history.
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I'll give it a 10 because 2d fighting games are really awesome. I don't like 3d arena style fighters like Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, Dissidia and J stars, but i'm not going to let that change my score.
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10/10

Rewarding with effort, fast paced, never feel cheated
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