well fighting games are perhaps the one of the most fun and competitive genres out there next to FPS and RTS games. Most of the fighting games out now are actually quite complex and take a great amount of skill to play at a high level. So its hugely satisfying to work hard to become great at the game and face other people to put your skills to the test.
Saying that its stale after 1 match says one of two things, either you just genuinely don't like fighting games or you seriously haven't given them a chance. It helps if you play online / with friends though because playing against computers and offline only will quickly get boring. A large amount of the fun from fighting games come from the fact they they are usually like mental chess and as such is very dull against a computer who doesn't really think.
It also helps if you dig deeper into the game and try to learn its advanced mechanics. Many of the games out now seem simple on the surface (SF4 / MVC3) but are actually many layers deep and extremely complex at tournament level play. For example take MVC3. People often claim that its a button masher which is true at low level play but when two skilled players are going head to head it becomes anything but and then it becomes too deep for most people to wrap their heads around. That and you start to see combos that are way more complex than the general L -> M -> H -> S variety.
Last but not least most people will benefit greatly from picking up either a fight pad or fight stick of some sort to play fighting games. The default controllers for both systems just dont cut it as they weren't designed for fighting games. Some people can make them work but those people are few and far in between. Its hard to get enjoyment out of a fighting game when you cant pull off the tougher stuff due to your controller.
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