I HATE these games... To me, they just feel like boring, button-bashing pad busters for "the kids", but I guess there must be a market for them.
I'm looking forward to Dragonball Z: I'm not really anything like the last 5,000 fighting games...honest :)
This is always going to be one of those ancient wars between people that remember what gaming was like when we were the age of the Halo generation (and yes I am one of the older ones) and the very audience of which gaming is aimed for nowadays.
Every game has a soul (well, except Pit-Fighter..!) and it is how the games industry nurtures that sacred life force from a game to generate siblings who are more wise and powerful than the last. It is very true, GTA IV would not be here...
People need to stop sitting at their PC's for so long if this is the outcome... bad times indeed.