What makes an anime game "anime"

[lightskintwin]

I have no idea why some of you are still trying, when not_Anime has you beat on every move.

Checkmate is unavoidable.

[Fujiwara]

All hail Not_Anime.

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SF4 has Health, Super, Ultra, and technically an invisible Stun “gauge”. BB has Health, “Super”, Barrier, you can count Burst too I guess. So define “numerous”?

By ‘numerous,’ or ‘extra,’ I meant gauges that aren’t intuitive upon first glance, and there being more going on with the HUD than most fighting games Western audiences gravitate toward. The average fan or passerby knows of health bars and super/stun meters, which are almost always across the board concerning rosters of applicable games, mind. Many an ‘anime fighter’ employ gauges that are both esoteric to the casual observer and specific to a handful of characters.

SF4 has SIX buttons, BB only has four. Does that mean SF4 is more anime than BB? So many buttons must be complicated, aren’t anime games “complicated”?

‘~4’ means, ‘4, give or take.’

You shot yourself in the foot there with that 6-button ‘counter-argument’ that had no basis for its inference to begin with.

Desk.

So…Anime right?

Or MarlinPie…wait…what games does MarlinPie play again? GG…Persona…MARVEL…there’s a theme there right?

You can’t apply egregious examples like Desk to substantiate your point, attempting to pass off his feats as status quo. Same applies to anyone else with insane execution to a lesser extent. An overwhelming majority of these so-called ‘anime fighters’ are combo-heavy by design; it’s a bullet point.

And UMvC3? Your point?

You can’t cherry-pick a certain aspect to discredit the next guy, straw man. You’re only managing to implicate yourself, lacking comprehension, willing or otherwise, by asserting that I had the stance of, ‘If it has a single aspect of x, then x.’

'Twas never the case, friend. There’s no ‘one-drop rule’ to this. They’re required, at the very least, to possess a combination of a few of the aforementioned traits to be acknowledged as an ‘anime fighter.’

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Calling out your attacks dates back to SFII: WW, and perhaps earlier, I wouldn’t doubt. At any rate, you can’t compare that to the oft-interrupted-by-the-following-string-of-words sentences that are known to saturate the perceived sub-genre in question.

SFII Sagat was notorious for ‘Tiger, Tiger!’ though it wasn’t in the same league as the nonstop chatting that ensues in every round of a lot of said ‘anime fighters.’

IMGs

‘1st Clause. DIVIDE.’

General quirkiness in small details. If an Air Force officer getting the ‘Stinkface’ is your idea of whimsical flourish, then–

Thanks for clearing it up for us.

Your mess.jpg? Anytime, broheim.

[not_Anime]

lots of stuff

You’re pretty quick to discredit and pass off certain things as if it somehow doesn’t apply to the other games in the same exact way or ignore the point entirely.

Which is probably why this thread exists in the first place.

[Negative-Zer0]

why are you even taking the argument seriously? they always devolve into either bitching about popularity of games, Capcom fans being delusional, and anime fans being babies.

[d3v]

Here’s a hint.

[details=Spoiler]There’s no such thing as a definition of “anime fighters,” (at least not in the way this thread wants to use teh term), if you think that there is or that there needs to be, then here’s another hint.

Spoiler

You’re exactly what’s wrong with the FGC in 2013.[/details]

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Here’s a hint.

[details=Spoiler]There’s no such thing as a definition of “anime fighters,” (at least not in the way this thread wants to use teh term), if you think that there is or that there needs to be, then here’s another hint.

Spoiler

You’re exactly what’s wrong with the FGC in 2013.[/details]

If you hadn’t noticed, I never endorsed the term itself, hence the quotation marks and stance of neutrality on the matter. I’m for people referring to a niche of a niche however they’d prefer to.

Amicably reaching a consensus isn’t likely. Cool. Moral of the story was, the ones for and against the term both know what it’s meant to cover, regardless of how asinine or ‘wrong’ it might be.

For the record, I stated ‘working definition,’ which is more or less an antithesis to ‘definition.’

[rayplay]

It’s time to have a 5 page debate on if Fight Night is a fightan gaem or not. Lets add the WWE games in there while we’re at it!

[Mr.X]

In Japan, Capcom has a patent on the use of 6 buttons in arcade games. That’s why every other game uses 5 or less.

BONUS: In the USA, they have patent on 4 buttons + 2 assists control scheme.

[Negative-Zer0]

Earth, where you could patent the way you pee.

[Hyper_Inferno]

In Japan, Capcom has a patent on the use of 6 buttons in arcade games. That’s why every other game uses 5 or less.

BONUS: In the USA, they have patent on 4 buttons + 2 assists control scheme.

What’s the patent number?

[PozerWolf]

I think it’s obvious that anime fighters are NOT SF4, Tekken, and sometimes Marvel 3 (only sometimes).

[ironboy89]

if the eyes are bigger than the mouth then its anime

http://fenixware.net/fab/images/trivia/164.jpg

Yep.

That means that the aesthetics are anime, and thus that means the game will automatically have long combos, airdashes, chain combos!

Like Samurai Showdown! Which have tons of lolis!

[Aloci]

oh rofl this thread is still here.

I love you SRK.

[Hawkingbird]

It’s time to have a 5 page debate on if Fight Night is a fightan gaem or not. Lets add the WWE games in there while we’re at it!

WWE All-Stars is legit damn it!

[Spirit_Juice]

This thread in a nutshell:

[Hecatom]

In Japan, Capcom has a patent on the use of 6 buttons in arcade games. That’s why every other game uses 5 or less.

BONUS: In the USA, they have patent on 4 buttons + 2 assists control scheme.

TBH, 5 buttons is more than enough imo, after all we have only 5 fingers on our hands

[IglooBob]

In Japan, Capcom has a patent on the use of 6 buttons in arcade games. That’s why every other game uses 5 or less.

BONUS: In the USA, they have patent on 4 buttons + 2 assists control scheme.

TBH, 5 buttons is more than enough imo, after all we have only 5 fingers on our hands

3s Chun sees your five and responds with two. she is not impressed by those six button characters. back fierce and low forward will be quite enough, thank you.

[krazykone123]

http://fightingstreet.com/folders/variousinfofolder/ripofffolder/ripoffpage1.html

[Graymalkin]

WWE All-Stars is legit damn it!

‘WWF WrestleFest’ is the only legit WWF/E game…

…nearly as good as ‘Exciting Hour’.

5 buttons is more than enough imo, after all we have only 5 fingers on our hands

This is why ukuleles are better than guitars…