I've seen this debate often, and now I want to know what the GB community thinks!

Is Smash Bros a proper fighting game?

In the same league as BB, SSFIVAE, KoF, GGXX, MvC3, etc...

This will not end well.

If it is, we have to include Digimon Rumble Arena and TMNT Smash Up on the same level. Smash Brothers is not a fighting game. Not in the traditional sense of fighting games. 

Yes, it's a fighting game, just a different style of fighting game...

It's a kiddy brawler.

It is a fighting game because characters fight each other. I just don't think it is a very good fighting game.

It is a fighting game because characters fight each other. I just don't think it is a very good fighting game.

Hidden depth.

Party game is more like it.

Who the fuck said no?

If it's not a fighting game, what is it?

Who the fuck said no?If it's not a fighting game, what is it?

No. Idiots will say yes, but the answer is no. It is a brawler.  Also just because it is not a real fighting game does not make it a bad game, you people defending it being called one need to realize that.

It's a kiddy brawler.

It's a fighting game, but its not in the same degree of something like SSFIV or MK9.

@FourWude said:

It's a kiddy brawler.

I don't like you.

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.

I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.

It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

  Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as blocking, counter-attacking, and chaining together sequences of attacks known as " combos". Since the early 1990s, most fighting games allow the player to execute special attacks by performing specific button combinations. The genre is related to but distinct from beat 'em ups, which involve large numbers of antagonists.

It just sounds like a simplified fighting game.  Not sure why people get upset when people think its a fighting game.

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

I think so. There isn't exactly another genre it would fall under.

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Take away the weapons in MK, then what delineates it from other racing games?

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

A "kart racer" is a racing game.  It has the fucking word in the descriptor.

@Andorski said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Take away the weapons in MK, then what delineates it from other racing games?

It's simple, anyone can play it. There is virtually zero learning curve to begin playing and enjoying Mario Kart, although there is some depth hidden just underneath that with things like drifting. Same thing from Smash Bros.Take away the special moves from Smash Bros. and Street Fighter and then compare the two, convince me those are even close to being the same game.

@EVO: That means nothing. Go look at Pac-Man's genre.

@LordXavierBritish said:

@Andorski said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Take away the weapons in MK, then what delineates it from other racing games?

It's simple, anyone can play it. There is virtually zero learning curve to begin playing and enjoying Mario Kart, although there is some depth hidden just underneath that with things like drifting. Same thing from Smash Bros.Take away the special moves from Smash Bros. and Street Fighter and then compare the two, convince me those are even close to being the same game.

Just because Smash Bros. isn't like Street Fighter it doesn't put them 2 in different genres.

Then what fighting game is Smash Bros. like.

@SethPhotopoulos said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

@Andorski said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Take away the weapons in MK, then what delineates it from other racing games?

It's simple, anyone can play it. There is virtually zero learning curve to begin playing and enjoying Mario Kart, although there is some depth hidden just underneath that with things like drifting. Same thing from Smash Bros.Take away the special moves from Smash Bros. and Street Fighter and then compare the two, convince me those are even close to being the same game.

Just because Smash Bros. isn't like Street Fighter it doesn't put them 2 in different genres.

Then what fighting game is Smash Bros. like.

@Andorski said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Take away the weapons in MK, then what delineates it from other racing games?

It's simple, anyone can play it. There is virtually zero learning curve to begin playing and enjoying Mario Kart, although there is some depth hidden just underneath that with things like drifting. Same thing from Smash Bros.Take away the special moves from Smash Bros. and Street Fighter and then compare the two, convince me those are even close to being the same game.

@SethPhotopoulos said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

@Andorski said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Take away the weapons in MK, then what delineates it from other racing games?

It's simple, anyone can play it. There is virtually zero learning curve to begin playing and enjoying Mario Kart, although there is some depth hidden just underneath that with things like drifting. Same thing from Smash Bros.Take away the special moves from Smash Bros. and Street Fighter and then compare the two, convince me those are even close to being the same game.

Just because Smash Bros. isn't like Street Fighter it doesn't put them 2 in different genres.

Then what fighting game is Smash Bros. like.

@LordXavierBritish said:

@SethPhotopoulos said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

@Andorski said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Take away the weapons in MK, then what delineates it from other racing games?

It's simple, anyone can play it. There is virtually zero learning curve to begin playing and enjoying Mario Kart, although there is some depth hidden just underneath that with things like drifting. Same thing from Smash Bros.Take away the special moves from Smash Bros. and Street Fighter and then compare the two, convince me those are even close to being the same game.

Just because Smash Bros. isn't like Street Fighter it doesn't put them 2 in different genres.

Then what fighting game is Smash Bros. like.

Power Stone

It kind of doubles as a party game, but I don't think that excludes it from being a fighting game as well. You select your character and are put into a relatively enclosed environment with the express purpose of defeating your opponent in close-combat. Other game modes that you can choose take it out of the genre, certainly, but at the very least I think stock mode counts.

@keris said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

@SethPhotopoulos said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

@Andorski said:

@LordXavierBritish said:

Calling Smash Bros. a fighting game is like calling Streets of Rage a fighting game.I'm not saying that's bad, I love Smash Bros., but it isn't a fighting game.It's to fighting games what Mario Kart and other kart racers are to racing games.

Take away the weapons in MK, then what delineates it from other racing games?

It's simple, anyone can play it. There is virtually zero learning curve to begin playing and enjoying Mario Kart, although there is some depth hidden just underneath that with things like drifting. Same thing from Smash Bros.Take away the special moves from Smash Bros. and Street Fighter and then compare the two, convince me those are even close to being the same game.

Just because Smash Bros. isn't like Street Fighter it doesn't put them 2 in different genres.

Then what fighting game is Smash Bros. like.

Power Stone

Both of those games are really nothing like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat etc. 

Yes. 

Yes, it's a fighting game, just a different style of fighting game...

@brodywb said:

It is a fighting game because characters fight each other. I just don't think it is a very good fighting game.

So any game where you can punch someone is a fighting game?It's like how every game is a Role-playing game since you play a role. GENRE NAMES AREN'T LITERAL.