[quote name='RelentlessRolento']It's really weird because my friends and I were talking about this on friday... so odd:
http://kotaku.com/371136/on-fanboyism-and-reviewing
I still say that smash would be such a put down game if the entire cast were original and non-franchise characters.[/quote]
that would be like saying that doa xbv would be a terrible game if the entire cast was male. it's just a part of the game so why try to figure out what would happen if it didn't exist?
i'm liking brawl but then again i'm a strictly multiplayer person and playing with my brothers 1v1 style has been a lot of fun. it might not be as deep as melee, but melee didn't get really deep until 4-5 years after it came out. again, it's like stepping from sf2: hf to ssf2 or from tekken tag to tekken 4. maybe it'll be good. maybe it won't.
i didn't play sse. i don't have to. i don't play any of the events, don't care about home run contest or any of that. and i'm still having a lot of fun with it.
then there's sf3. sf3 brought back ryu, ken, and akuma. that's it, and a bunch of "generics" at the time. when i grew up, i didn't know anyone that cared for sf3 'cause of that, all of my gamer friends fled to alpha because it had a more recognized cast. until 3rd strike came out and we lost to japan in it in evo, then it started gaining ground. and then after daigo parry, it became more popular here from an FG perspective. but you still won't find people on the street who know who oro and yang and urien are, but who can readily identify zangief, blanka and the rest of the sf2 cast. and i'd wager that there are a lot of people who would play 3S over ST so should you really care about review scores?