Casselman Wrote:
If it were up to me, id make them harder....

I remember when I first did a fatality (i was 3 years old, mk1's first day on snes). It was in the book or manuel. "up,up" (my father directed me which button to push)

I was never happier.

The challenge is the best. Then when I pulled off a brutality.... LOL that was an even better feeling.

Casselman Wrote:
If it were up to me, id make them harder....

I remember when I first did a fatality (i was 3 years old, mk1's first day on snes). It was in the book or manuel. "up,up" (my father directed me which button to push)

I was never happier.

The challenge is the best. Then when I pulled off a brutality.... LOL that was an even better feeling.

DEPRAVED Wrote:
I would like there to be some middle ground when it comes to this dilemma. The thing is, what kind of system/mechanic would fit that title well?

But anyway, here's my attempt to analyze both extremes of the spectrum (long inputs/more than 1 button v.s. 1 button). As well as give other possible scenarios.

Some players that dislike long fatality inputs feel that they deserve an easy "one button kill" because they won a match. So why should they have to "struggle" to remember an input for a certain finishing move (I'm taking into assumption that every single fatality has it's own unique input sequence. Does anyone know if this true?)

I and others might see this being even more of a problem if the aforementioned is true. But on the other hand, people in favor of such a system could argue that you have to get good at performing a fatality, by practicing it in the "Fatality Trainer" mode. They could say it would be like remembering any other normal move for a character. So yeah it doesn't seem like anybody wins here as far as this input length debate goes. It's a matter of opinion really.

Another thing I'd like to point out is with the current system NRS has in place of someone having to enter button sequences when it says "Finish Him", that there is an awkward "pause" of the characters not doing anything because of the time it takes winning player to input the fatality command. In other words, a less fluid looking "match finisher".

There is also of course the fact that if you gave everyone 1 button finishers, that at it's simplest it would work like this: Lets say one character has 3 unique finishing moves. Well then you would assign a different button to each finishing move. Not really too much memorization going on here, I mean at least nothing like what I've talked about already and you would still might have the "pauses", depending on how much time you give the player to perform the finishing move. Another drawback to the 1 button setup is, you would be seeing a fatality every time.

Here's an idea though. If NRS were to make where you didn't have to enter a fatality command at the end of the final round, and it would be that the last normal hit became the finishing move, then this would completely solve the situation I mentioned earlier about the characters pausing before the fatality is performed. As a result of this, there would be no "Finish Him" announcement. But then of course, this goes back to allowing everyone to do a finisher.

To me this is the most ideal system. But because the game would be doing an "auto-finisher" for you, the whole aspect of finishers becoming interactive would be pretty much gone. You might also not get such great looking kills in the end, because the characters last hit would of course be the killing blow (however "special" it is that the developers want it to look compared to how the move normally looks when it lands on the opponent.) It just depends on how well the developers can get that "look" of a kill across to you. This would also more than likely be a lot more work on their end.

As you guys can tell I have thought a lot about this since I plan on making my own fighter with a team someday. The thing about all these systems is that it SEEMS that not matter what system you try to come up with, you take away one good aspect of that which belongs to an entirely different system. So it's give and take really. Anyways, if you guys need any clarification on my thoughts, don't hesitate to ask. Sorry for the long read and reiteration of some words I had to use.

Also i would like to see you guys come up with some mechanic/system like how I did above. Maybe you'll surprise yourself as to what you can come up with.

Edit: I had to fix some of the paragraphs above because much of it sounded like incoherent rambling. Sorry guys, it's late where I am and under the circumstances it can be difficult to formulate thoughts into well written sentences.. I'm off to sleepy town.