having played SSB and SSBM i'd have to say that i dont really like it.
the Cube version i do remember having some nice graphics but after about 2 battles with a freind it got boring. its more of an "8 year olds" fighting game... i could be wrong and i know there are people out there that will say
"WHAT?!!? but it has so much strategy involved"
my only answer to that is
"yeah whatever pal, the game sucks"
sorry man, im not a member of the "target audience" for ssbm, so the game just doesnt appeal to me.
as for button mashing VS skillz, well i'd have to say that it worked for me.
8 year olds? I'd like to see any 8 year old beat me. I'm 17, and female, so more or less exactly NOT the demographic for the game (according to you, from what I gather of your posts). =)
Also re: Button mashing. I just turned to some of my friends (I'm in a comp class at school) and asked them if button mashing can conceivably work in SSB... I got three unanimous and simultaneous NO!'s. You may not know the moves, but you definitely weren't "Button mashing" - you were probably drawing from your general gaming skills to figure out what moves seem to work well, then repeating them.
as for powerstone and the comparison, ive never really played powerstone properly. ive had a go at it but i seem to remember that being rather unexciting also. but in all id say powerstone is a superior game.
You pretty much don't like fighting games at all, do you?
why is it so hard to realise the facts. powerstone is a CAPCOM game, SSBM is a NINTENDO game.
Capcom good fighting game history: A HELL OF A LOT
Nintendo good fighting game history: jack shit except KI but since they lost RARE to micro$oft...
Oh, wow.
BRAND MEANS EVERYTHING. Oh wait, that isn't even what you're saying!
NUMBER OF GAMES RELEASED MEANS EVERYTHING! There we go.
Who gives a fuck about Capcom's fighting game history? Really?
Or will you say Serious Sam sucks because it's Croteam's first FPS and their first game ever? Or Max Payne sucks because it's Remedy's first FPS? Or that Breath of Fire (SNES) sucks because it was Capcom's first RPG?
whats the concept in SSBM? a bunch of fluffy nintendo characters fighting each other. the characters are smiling while the so called frenzy is taking place.
Even the famously happy-as-hell Pikachu doesn't smile while fighting, shows how much attention you paid while playing. And I wouldn't call Samus, Link, Ganondorf, Roy, Marth, or Bowser "Fluffy".