This gets talked about a lot, and I feel like the talk always gets mired by drama between the Smash community and the FGC. I'm not asking if Smash is a part of the FGC (it's not), I'm asking if Smash is a fighting game.
Is Smash a fighting game?
Charles Carter
Michael Reyes
No, it's not.
Ryan Watson
It's a 'fighting game', but not a competitive fighting game.
Anthony Flores
Yes, it is.
Charles Sanders
This is an interesting topic that will likely yield insightful discussion!
Angel Hughes
Then what is a competitive fighting game? It's a fighting game. It's competitive.
Caleb Taylor
Name 3 (three) other competitive fighting games released in the last year that does not have patch notes with each update.
Isaiah Ortiz
Is that honestly where we're drawing the fucking line? Patch notes?
Jacob Sullivan
Party game with fighting dynamic.
Joshua Ward
Yes. Only brainlets say otherwise. Usually, they have to go through such rigorous mental gymnastics to convince themselves it isn't. Sad!
Mason Jenkins
Daniel Martinez
Like the fact that the mechanics of Smash are not the same as the mechanic for any other game considered a fighting game?
Eli Gray
take a shower
Juan Gomez
Fighting games as a genre is still far too young and to untested to truly make that distinction. Hell it's a big of an undefined mess as the RPG genre.
Andrew Wood
Mechanics for Gears of War, Halo, CSGO, Call of Duty are also different. Which of these are shooting games?
Andrew Hughes
Smash bros is a competitive fighting game when you play under very specific circumstances. I don't think that's a bad thing, but it's probably why a lot of people consider the game inherently casual. I disagree with that, the games (especially ultimate and melee) are very mechanically deep, but whatever.
People who don't think it's a fighting game because it's not a 1v1 on a flat surface with health bars are retarded, though. Way too narrow of a definition for fighting games.
Lincoln Gonzalez
Why are tournament settings not the default in a 'competitive fighting game'? Why do fans (manchildren) have to find out changes between updates? Why was the competitive scene outright discouraged by the series' creator 3 games in? None of these sound like components of a competitive fighting game.
Joshua Williams
It is a game in which you fight but its competitive scene developed in isolation with Melee
Hunter Sanders
>over thirty years
>too young
As opposed to the titan that is the fps genre. (Street Fighter 2 came out a year before Wolfenstein 3D by the way)
Isaac Diaz
Kayden Rodriguez
It's a platform fighter.
Ian Parker
>insert it's perfectly normal not to shower every day pasta
Dominic Hall
How about outside of specific circumstances, your attacks don't actually guarantee death? If I hit you with a sliver of health left in SF, you die. If I hit you with a sliver of health left in Smash, you fly off and get a chance to recover still. The mechanics are not the same.