Dir Wangem
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1. It doesn't mean it's good, either, or carries merit just for being a continuation. Notice the same criticism isn't levelled at Zelda, Mario Kart, SMB and so forth as their ports to the 3d realm were outstanding.
2. SSB is SSB. It doesn't even register for fans of the 'serious' fighting games. It's a niche with a die-hard following. It got added to the Evo roster at a later date and wasn't there at inception because it wasn't considered to be worth a place. SSB has little to no influence in the FGC as a whole.
3. As I said, the list gets very hazy and subjective quickly once the first few games are out of the way. The N64 doesn't have anything close to the strength in depth of other consoles because it had barely any 3rd party support and Nintendo and Rare couldn't fight the battle by themselves, which is where the N64 ended up falling off a cliff towards the end of its cycle whereas other consoles kept going even past the end of their production cycle.
1. I never said that all continuations were good. But the ones I listed certainly are.
2. This a completely different debate, but the Smash community considers Smash a fighting game. The also consider themselves a part of the FGC, even if most of them only really like Smash. But the same can be said of other game communities as well. There are people in the FPS community who only likes CS:GO. But regardless of all this, SSB is revoluationary in so many ways that I could create a whole new thread on the topic. I'll leave it at this: SSB has become Nintendo's arguably most important flag ship. And it started with SSB64.
3. There will be 8-9 games that 90% have in their top 5, but I feel that the same is true for PS1 too. Almost everyone have MSG, GTA, Tomb Raider, Tekken, FF and Grand Turismo in their top 5.