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Fighting Game Revival?

I've noticed lately that fighting games are making a huge comeback. All kinds of fighting game franchises are making new and improved games. With a new arcade version of SSf4, a new tekken tag, new MvC, street fighter x tekken, and a new mortal kombat ready to be released. i'm glad to see fighting games finally stepping up to the plate and revolutionizing they way they are played to go with the new times.It was interesting to see that 2000-20010 was clearly the age for FPS games. When Halo dropped on the Xbox in 2001 it paved way for the FPS generation. All kinds came out fast and hard and unfortunately many bad and repetitive FPS games came out that really bogged down the genre. Now it seems 2010/2011 is the beginning of what could be the new decade of 1 genre owning and that genre looks to be the fighting game genre. It's amazing how one game can start the kick just like it did for the FPS games. I'm talking about Street fighter 4 of course. When it got updated to SSF4 it seemed like the whole fighting game genre was back on it's feet 100%. The community was huge again and now there are streams of people playing SSF4 or blazblue almost every day. I only hope that if it is the second age of fighting games, that they do not follow what happened with the FPS games. That the games continue to be different from each other so we as gamers have choices as to what fighting game we want to play.