I think the reason you feel I’m on some high road is because of the deep hole you buried yourself in by crying about fighting games in a non-fighting games section…and instead of owning your mistake tried to insult me by involving my mother into this.
That’s some low brow grade school shit son.
I think that lowering the difficulty of a comeback with built in mechanics cheapens the act. But my biggest issue is how risk/reward shifts to encourage defensive and low commitment play for the dominant player while encouraging the losing player to get aggressive and experimental. That kind of necessitates doing max damage combo right before the mechanic activates.
Characters are still unique enough to utilize different combo setups and strategies at various ranges in Under Night. Long combos have every successive hit damage reduce heavily. While the ability to do high damage combos is a great benefit in any game, there is enough there to read an opponent and put a considerable dent in their healthbar with the simpler appropriate punishes. Compared to the time length of some of the tag combos in Tekken Tag 2 the combos in this game are mini teasers.
Best players usually do not think about their character, but instead react to their opponent’s character doing something. There are only a finite number of states programmed into the game and completely removing all move options in a given state exclusively for a character is worse than giving them a weak move. So long as there are differences in the quality of available tools useful for a given state between characters there is uniqueness.
Not a fighter.
Moved to FGD.
YOU FIEND!
How do you move things? I sort of figured it out and then forgot.
Also 
Old fighters didn’t emphasize execution.
Wait, I don’t remember any of these vids making it to the front page of SRK.
Wtf? These are a great idea.
Bullshit. Can you shoot hadoukens with Ryu?
Fighting game.
then so is Mega Man x
Smash is not a fighting game, end of story.
Of course it is! You choose to be Ryu, and your opponent chooses Ken. Then you travel to Suzaku castle in japan and beat the shit out of each other by doing hadoukens, shoryukens, and tatsus. You can even combo into those moves. And they are all input based- meaning the best versions come if you actually do the inputs like QCF for hado.
I remember the first major fighting game that popularized the genre had all of those same fighting game elements. Players fighting each other, Ken, Ryu, Suzaku Castle, input-based hados, shorys, and tatsus, and combos. BOOM! Fighting game.
I mean, the entire point of the GAME is to FIGHT.
Nice try, though.
Thats some retarded mental gymnastics, and you know it.
If you have to go that far out of your way to set up the match, then its all a Sham.
With your argument I can make almost anything a “Fighting Game”.
Mario Kart is a Fighting game
Tetris is a Fighting Game
Pac-man is a Fighting Game
Minecraft is a Fighting Game.
Please Stop, just Stop.
Smash never was and never will be a fighter.
Do you punch your opponent in the face in any of those games? No. Not fighting games.
Do you punch your opponent in the face in Smash? Yes. Fighting game.
You never played competitive Mario Kart then.
At any time you throw a blue shell, you can get punched by the other player.
Please you fucking imbecile stop.
Touche. Though, giving my brother a black eye doesn’t really count because it’s happening outside of the game’s environment.
Why be mean to me? You know I’m just fucking with you, right? I mean, really- how could anyone actually think a game where Ken and Ryu fight each other using their signature moves in a classic SFII location (complete with the theme song) be considered a fighting game? That just doesn’t make any sense.
why are you doing this 
I know, man. This whole thread is a shit show, just trying to pile on, lol.
@Darksakul Thanks for humoring me, bud.
You are sick dude.
Imma just quote this
Thats some retarded mental gymnastics, and you know it.
because of this:
You never played competitive Mario Kart then.
At any time you throw a blue shell, you can get punched by the other player.
can’t get punched if the player is online away from you
Just sayin’…
You hit me for throwing a Blue Shell and I’ll break your fucking eye socket with my fist.