/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8742754
>comparing Street Fighter to Final Fantasy VII
If the only game you can pull to bolster your argument of "revisionism" is Street Fighter 2, just GTFO. In terms of popularity and impact, both games are S-tier and beyond that is nitpicking faggotry. The only thing I'll give to SF2 over FF7 is that SF2 essentially defined a new genre while FF7 tweaked an established formula.
>>8742805
>>8742769
The SF2-fueled fighting game craze was huge. If you were young enough to look around and see lots of kids playing FFVII, you are too young to have been aware of SF2. It was huge, everyone played it. Franchises like Mortal Kombat would not exist if it had not been for Street Fighter 2. Undoubtedly some other 1v1 martial combat game would have gotten popular but who knows what that might have looked like. FF7 clearly influenced emphasis on storytelling in JRPGs and cinematic approach to games in the industry as a whole, but most of those trends were all in progress, FF7 was just one of the first big examples.