When playing through many action or shooter titles you will most likely encounter many enemies, some of them look great, have a back story with the main character you happen to be playing as and a unique way of trying to kill you, but on the way many, other characters attempt to stop you and sadly you will never remember them they are the nameless peons.
It matters not there reasoning for fighting you nor if they have family's or reasons, they will fall to your might. However what you do not realize is just how important they are, with out the nameless peon how would you find a different gun, or build up that super meter to prepare for the inevitable showdown with your rival of the moment or just take out your aggression on? They do much for very little and seldom get remembered for it
So this week I salute you nameless peon for putting up with having the short end of the stick for so long.

2-D fighters a genre many know and many love, myself included. Fighting games set in two dimensions have been around for years ever since Street Fighter was first released by Capcom back in 1987, but they jumped in popularity back in 1991 when SF2 came out. Ever since then the Genre has been milked by many other companies such as Sunsoft, SNK, and various others, but should it still be around?

Games like StreetFighter and King of Fighters have been released time and time again with different numbers, new mechanics and new characters. Many of the fans rejoice when the new games come out but with each new release it seems that some of the old crowd stop playing the games, complaining that the new system was uneeded and upset about the character roster changing and with the steep learning curve it is harder to get new people into the genre. All of these factors lead to the genre dying out, but this year something came out to help revitalize the genre.

Street Fighter 4 which came out Feb, of 2009 helped give the genre a much needed boost, the updated graphics, cast of old characters, and simple easy to learn gameplay made the game easily accessible for both the old comers and people new to the genre. Is it enough however? 2-D fighters still do not have the popularity they once did, mainly due to the fact that arcades are not nearly as prevalent as years ago and it is harder and harder to find a play group, sure there is the fact that you can play over a network with some titles, but issues such as lag plague it.

So was SF4 enough to breath life back into the genre of 2-D fighters or is it simply temporary, will it just slowly lose popularity and fade away again?