FABIO wrote:

MK2 was the last fighter I played that didn't entirely revolve around super ultra monster combos. I tried playing Tekken but it seemed the most newbie unfriedly, unintuitive thing ever. All the games you mentioned above just reminded me of street fighter 2 with different graphics: cartoony fighters where button mashing just might land you a victory.

FABIO wrote:

WUH???? The 3 different fighting styles give you something like 20 combos you have to memorize per character, then you have to memorize what combos lead into each other. Just trying to peg down HALF of that blind dude's combos made me feel like I was studying for a quiz ("okay let's see square square down X....circle?...fuck *peek at cheatsheet*, fuck! square square down X triangle you dummy!"), there really are no "basics". What the fuck happened to the simple uppercut? Oh, now it's foward foward high punch for scorpian, down X X for raiden, up down triangle for whoever the fuck this character is, etc. When a game starts bearing any sort of resemblance to test taking, it has FAILED in my book.

FABIO wrote:

I like characters being the same execpt for their special moves as long as they make the special moves unique enough; that allows you to pick up the basics and ease into learning each character while still having each character be different.