why has Street Fighter been the top dog of fight games since forever when other fighting games have more interesting mechanics, have much more flashy comboes and just look better?
90% of Street Fighter gameplay is just poking at each other or spamming projectiles its so boring
Because it was the first and most influential
Super Turbo is also really really good
3S is also good but not as good and didn't get a lot of popularity
4 is just nostalgia but it's decent too
5 is purely money
just jump retard
Sure, you're ken.
>opponent is throwing fireballs when you're on the ground
>opponent is waiting to uppercut you when you jump
sounds like you're getting read like a book kiddo
Fanboys
Because it's simple. No pointlessly flashy combos, no strange extraneous mechanics, you can just focus on the neutral game more. Aka the actual fun part of fighting games.
If you can't grasp street fighter's legscy then you're just underage.
You may be over 18 but you're still underage.
>muh legacy
superman is like the 1st superhero but hes also boring AF
and he's still the most popular DC hero right next to Batman
>Super Turbo is also really really good
spoken like someone who wasn't even alive till 7th gen consoles
Fighting games have a problem reaching new players, and SF is both one of the most simple fighting games to read as a newcomer and has 30 year old brand name backing it.
It's zoning when you're doing the action with intent.
>inb4 the intent is to do the move
>90% of Street Fighter gameplay is just poking at each other or spamming projectiles its so boring
Not really? 3 and Alpha was basically an anime games. Infinites, TOD, unblockables, 8-2 match ups, you name it those games probably had it. Alpha, in particular, is probably one of the most broken fighters ever to exist. The isms were fucking nuts, especially v-ism.
2 has a lot of zoning but that's because characters like old Sagat are FUCKING nuts, but there's still characters like Claw who can put you in a constant 50/50 to death with his claw slash/throw crap. They even soft banned Akuma because the character is just so nuts compared to everyone else. The HD remix actually tried to make him balance and he was STILL too broken. Unthrowable frame 1 invul fireballs, true block-strings of grounded normals to air fireballs, teleport 50/50 cross ups and constant reliable safe jump oki pressure in air fireballs.
4, often criticized the most of any game before 5 was still pretty broken until ultra by which most of the fun got removed. Before Ultra though, there were plenty of unblockables, inescapable vortexes and tons of janky shit.
5 is the dullest game by far and probably the closest to what you're actually talking about, but even 5 has pretty degenerate offense because they don't want you having any defensive tools.
Well, there is the intent to annoy the fuck out of people.
>throw fireball.
>Get hit by some hop.
The issue with SF sometimes is the utter lack of movement options.
You just explained the zoner archetype.
street fighter is shit
guilty gear is less shit but still shit
all fighting games are shit except soku
but i am bad at soku pls send help
>Soku
who?
Because Street Fighter wrote the book damn near every other fighting game took pages from.
Not after Snyder, Aquaman and WW fucking him.
And Shazam is like 7 weeks away
Touhou Hisoutensoku, the standalone expansion to Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, is a fighting game that mixes traditional fighting game gameplay with bullet hell/Shmup concepts of projectile warfare. When i refer to "soku" i refer to the combination of Hisouten and Hisoutensoku.
Gameplay-wise, basically, everyone is a different flavor of zoner, and everyone has access to "graze", a feature that lets you dodge through projectiles but makes you unable to block ground attacks.
there's also a random spellcard system that acts as a replacement to normal super bars and can be used for anything from super moves to upgrades/swapping of specials to permanent stat modifications to more fun effects like "destroy top card of opponent on hit" and "cause an earthquake that can hit everything, including the user"
also it's touhou, so the soundtrack is awesome