I\'m not a huge fighter fan. To me every fighter seems abit shalllow. I know there have been great efforts to make fighters a deeper genre but it just does not do it for me. From my perspective it is a "Showcase Title" but most fighters are IMHO. The last fighter that I played that I was really into was Street Fighter 2 Turbo now that game was the bomb!
I think fighters should be a little like RPG\'s where you play out the character\'s persona in a world and choose to pick a fight with certain people within that world while telling a half assed story or something like that. Kinda like Shenmue but fight characters that mean something to the plot rather than just fight 6 guys at a time.
Example: Take the whole street fighter story and actually play it out with the defined roles that were determined from each character\'s background description. Like if you pick "RYU" place him where his background will play out in the grand scheme of the whole story.
Just an opinion of course.