Poll: Best fighting game franchise?

[Odysseous2]

[snip]Reply to Deiko[/snip]

I totally agree on all points to be honest.

I'm not a fighter fan, I've only played a couple fighting games, I'm not good at them, and I don't even have any for this gen's consoles.

But I've heard of, and played, at least 1 game from each of the franchises you've got in the poll and this thread is the first I've heard of guilty gear. I've heard of BlazBlue but only because I was working in Games retail when it came out.

So although I'm sure you don't care what random internet people think, and what I've said can't validate or refute an argument, I thought you'd like to know I agree with you.

I just spent a good few hours of my day arguing with Dreiko over something as petty as the franchises listed in the poll. So yes, I apparently do care about what random people on the internet think. It's nice to have at least a little support, even if only to use as an example for the next time someone wants to ***** about the list.

So thanks your support does not go unappreciated.

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Protip: Include a "Guilty Gear/BlazBlue" option next time. Why? Every single time this topic comes up, it is left out of the poll and a bunch of comments are for them or are bitching at the OP for leaving them out. Every. Single. Time. So just start including them. That bottom option is useless anyway.

You're right, the bottom option is pretty useless. But when I was making the poll, I found it somewhat rude to go ahead and assume that everyone actually has a favorite franchise. And I was actually curious as to how many people simply don't like fighters.

But at the same time, I didn't realize such a huge mass of niche gamers would be attracted to the thread, ready to crucify me for not including Dead or Alive. Had I known that would be the case, I would have used the seventh slot for another franchise. But the votes are already in, so no sense changing it now.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Street fighter once it hits the 10$ mark, because it's fun for about an hour or two when really drunk with friends, then you will never play it again.

 

[Feylynn]

Well thanks for putting an edit to the explanation in, this is no longer a complain.

I picked other for Guilty Gear and BlazBlue because the thread did ask which I believed was best.
You now have my answer.

If I absolutely had to pick from the others listed I'd have to say Soul Calibur for having:
-Tira, Zasalamel, and Ashlotte.
-A decent custom character set up in recent games.
-The Chronicles of the Sword mode in 3 was pretty rad.

 

[black_knight1337]

mortal kombat wins hands down for me.
as for your whole debate over the selections for the list i think you did a pretty good job. as for what dreiko was saying about how if a game is popular it doesnt make it the best. considering how subjective the choosing of the best of a genre is then popularity pretty much is equal to how good it is. if theres a game (like mortal kombat or ssb) which has a tonne of fans then it is one of the 'best' games of that genre. where as if a game has a smallish niche following (blazblue and guilty gear, which i havent heard of till now) means that they are inferior overall. the whole idea of the game being the 'best' doesnt mean that everyone is going to like it, it just means that most people like it thus making it very popular.

 

[I_Sinanju _I]

'Tis a tale of souls and swords eternally retold.

 

[AzureRaven]

I have trouble considering Smash Bros. a true fighting game. In the typical format anyway. It's a party game with nonsensical violence and what not. But that's just my opinion. If it has to be considered one, I guess that. If not, then I'd go with BlazBlue, it's the only one I've had moderate success in learning how to play, seeing as how bad I am with them.

 

[Arisato-kun]

Blazblue was a front-runner game at EVO OP, how could you just not include it?

Street Fighter is the best IMO. SF4 pretty much revived the genre and brought it back into the limelight. I don't think we'd be seeing such a fighting game boom these days if it wasn't for that game. And let's not forget to mention the incredibly awesome Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.

Oh and Brawl doesn't have the balance on its own to be considered a proper fighter in my eyes. If the community has to put a ton of restrictions on it to make it tourney viable then it wasn't meant to be a competitive game in the first place. No items. Fox only. Final Destination.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

mortal kombat wins hands down for me.
as for your whole debate over the selections for the list i think you did a pretty good job. as for what dreiko was saying about how if a game is popular it doesnt make it the best. considering how subjective the choosing of the best of a genre is then popularity pretty much is equal to how good it is. if theres a game (like mortal kombat or ssb) which has a tonne of fans then it is one of the 'best' games of that genre. where as if a game has a smallish niche following (blazblue and guilty gear, which i havent heard of till now) means that they are inferior overall. the whole idea of the game being the 'best' doesnt mean that everyone is going to like it, it just means that most people like it thus making it very popular.

The fans of SSB are from a huge pool since it has characters from 30+ different games each with it's own fans. It's an unfair comparison and certainly NOT a declaration of quality. You're being utterly simplistic in thinking otherwise.


As for high popularity being equal to something being good, I again raise the Sonic example.


The games have smaller followings cause they're too complex for the average joe who will never get any good at them to not feel intimidated and give them a shot, not because they're not good, in fact, most people who REALLY like fighting games would take guilty gear over MK and SSB in a heartbeat.





You know what, read all my responses in this thread too before bugging me again, I feel I already covered this sufficiently just like our Odysseus here .

 

[hoboman29]

Other I can't decide which one I like best

 

[Vohn_exel]

Street Fighter. All other 2D fighters and even most 3D ones take at least one or two ideas from this series. Few games are of the "easy to pick up, difficult to master" variety, but SF is definitely one of them. You can start out just throwing fireballs, but it's when you learn how to use them that it really gets good. (and I don't just mean sitting around going "Hadoken!Hadoken!Hadoken!" in a corner, not to rag on that strategy but I'm just using it as an example.)

But most importantly, Street Fighter gave us Capcom vs SNK 2, which is the greatest 2D fighter ever made.

 

[garjian]

I'm glad, to my very core, that street fighter is second from the bottom. And no, it did not revive the fighting game genre, no matter what Inside Xbox told you.

...although i like MvC3 a lot, im not suprised by its position due to the latest dick-move by capcom, and wide negative feedback in respoce to the character roster and general style of combat... and the fact that i hated 2 and never played the first.

I voted Soulcalibur... as its the fighter ive spent the most time with (over the 9999:99:99 maximum on the time counter thingy) ...i couldve said Smash Bros as it is more fun, but it has nothing in terms of character creation, and even i regard it as a party game...

 

[aba1]

I prefer the Super Smash Bros. games. Reason being: they're extremely simple to play, you aren't required to memorize 100 combos per character, and button-mashing actually loses to skilled players.

It's literally the only fighting franchise that I don't despise with every bone in my body. So it's a pretty clear answer for me.

I agree its one of the few fightning games that are easy to learn hard to master so you get clear skill levels.

I am also a fan of bloody roar.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I bias to say Street Fighter (I have play other fighting games) since I'm old school with that game (played it back when it was F2 Turbo) but I still like the modern incarnation of it like SF4.

 

[SilentBobsThoughts]

Dragon Ball Z is my fave :3 so much flying around :3

 

[TheBadGamer]

BlazBlue, for it's awesome characters, it's amazing OST and it's almost perfect gameplay.

 

[ArchAngelKira]

I'd like to see a remake of Project Justice for the 360.

 

[Wayneguard]

I'm partial to Soul Calibur. Particularly SC2.

 

[Aura Guardian]

1)Mortal Kombat Series
2)Vs.Capcom Series
3)Super Smash Bros Series
4)Street Fighter Series
5)Psychic Force 2012(10-1...no one's ever heard of it)
6)King of Fighters 12/13(after playing these, I can't play the older ones)
7)Virtua Fighter 5
8)Soul Calibur series(even 4 and that one was bad)
9)Power Stone 2
10)Guilty Gear

Most hated
1)Tekken(never got into it)
2)Blazblue(and I used to like it)

 

[esperandote]

King of freaking fighters