i think that snobbery is more like misdirected sadness, knowing sooner or later, majority of developers will be trying to get a larger audience, with fewer games that actually gained some sort of complexity over time. You saw what happened to Atlus; they concentrate on making social network games now, with their IPs…

even if vs. series was aimed for casual players, they ended up with some ridiculous high level play that makes any mundanes and commoners panic. Mike Ross talked about in cross counter; if you give a commoner an SF4 video, they could probably figure out what's going on. Give them some Chris Schmidt vs. Yipes MVC2…

fighting games still require the same strategy and reactions, the games have just evolved past those basic requirements at this point. If you want to play a fighting game that has no focus on combos, you can go back to ST or HDR. Even 3S required some combo execution to get anywhere.

As long as the NGP doesn't begin its life as an expensive port machine like the PSP did, it's exciting.

I paid $376 for the Otomedius G Konamistyle box with the touch-pad controller; if i went to play-asia instead of ncsx, it would've been $470. It would've been a DISMALLY bad investment if Otomedius X wasn't announced and coming, now it's only a stupid bad investment.

I paid $376 for the Otomedius G Konamistyle box with the touch-pad controller; if i went to play-asia instead of ncsx, it would've been $470. It would've been a DISMALLY bad investment if Otomedius X wasn't announced and coming, now it's only a stupid bad investment.