Poll: Most buttonmashey fighting game series.

[Souplex]

Ah fighting games. A pillar of the vidjama game industry known for being the way to settle things like men.

However, one problem seems to pop up with fighting games: Button mashing.

So, in what game is it the biggest problem?

There is room for one more series on the list so if anyone has any suggestions toss em up.

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[The Wooster]

I'd say fight night was button mashtastic.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Tough call. Tekken is the king of "dial a combo" but you can get further in Soul Calibur by mashing buttons.

 

[unholy vagrant]

I went with DOA. I think they define button mashing.

 

[Fayze]

Hmm check out the Facebreaker demo thats pretty button mashy. Also maybe Killer Insinst I don't remember doing anything but button mash on that

 

[poleboy]

I went with DOA. I think they define button mashing.

I totally diasgree. If anything, DOA is the only one that doesn't ecnourage it, because with good timing you can win a fight with nothing but counters.
Well, the old DOA games anyway. Haven't played the current gen ones.

 

[Souplex]

I personally found street fighter to be the least button mashey, or at least street fighter 3.
Is there a way to have multiple polls in one topic so wwe can also see what is the most skill reliant.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Virtua Fighter is the most skill reliant . You can hand it the crown now.

 

[JaguarWong]

Soul Calibur by absolute miles. Especially 2 + 3 (I haven't played 4 yet for this very reason).

Virtua Fighter is by far the least and DOA has a bad rep for this that is undeserved - DOA4 in particular was almost in Virtua Fighter territory.

Tekken has a horrible engine but not a particularly button mashy one.

SF is still the daddy of fighters though!

 

[Rankaratar]

Soul Calibur

I use 'THROW' button!

 

[Souplex]

Remember people it can be either basic school of button mashing. The lil' button style or the high roller technique or various mixes of the two.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I went with DOA. I think they define button mashing.

I totally diasgree. If anything, DOA is the only one that doesn't ecnourage it, because with good timing you can win a fight with nothing but counters.
Well, the old DOA games anyway. Haven't played the current gen ones.

The last one was the same way. If you button mash with anybody, you will get your ass handed to you. The only way to make it through is learn a character, learn their combos, and mix them up. Oh, and learn where a button masher will hit you so you wipe the floor with them.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

Soul Calibur...

Number 4:
Just mashed random buttons, and my character flung the other guy into the air, then smacked him one, he fell on the ground, i hit him back up again :S
then hit him with sword, then punched and then kicked, then did some sort of awesome as attack in which i went red and glowy and hit him off the edge of the level.
Then repeated, in a slightly different order.

Then i won, with no idea what the hell i was even pressing :S

 

[Shinkada]

Soul Calibur. I love the series, and it's great fun to play with non-mashers, but playing with mashers sucks.

You probably won't win buton mashing if the person you're fighting is good enough, but at least you can get through the singleplayer and beat less skilled people.

The least button-mashey is obviously Guilty Gear. Considering two hits do about 5% of someone's health and a proper combo of anywhere from 6 to 16 does, often, more than half someone's health...

You likely won't get away mashing against a pro in SF, I admit, but you're even less likely to get away with it in GG. You can't even special spam like a masher can in SF because mashing = roman cancels. I ALWAYS see mashers accidently use RC's.

Also button mashing isn't the worst thing in fighting games, tourney players are. (I say that because it encompasses everything wrong with fighters: infinites, crossups, cheap mixup combos, unblockable setups, and projectile lockdowns.)

 

[L4Y Duke]

Totally agree with Shinkada. It's painful to watch a Guilty Gear button-masher.

It's painful to watch ANY button-masher, for that matter.

 

[dalek sec]

Soul Calibur, which is one of the reasons I like playing it because I can't remember all those damn moves if my life depened on it.

 

[GrimRox]

I opted for Soul Calibur, especially number 2 which I had on Xbox with it's handy "instant combo" button. Either that or Tekken.

 

[Arntor]

You can't even special spam like a masher can in SF because mashing = roman cancels. I ALWAYS see mashers accidently use RC's.

100% Agreed.

But the best is when they accidentally enter Instant Kill mode and then frantically try to get out of it before they get punished. XD

 

[Souplex]

Roman cancel?
Please elaborate.

 

[Shinkada]

Roman Cancelling is a technique in Guilty Gear. You press three face buttons during a move and you flash red. It uses half of your tension (special) gauge, and immediately cancels what you're doing. Mainly used for either getting out of missed, long-cooldown moves to stop people from punishing you for them (like a whiffed shoryken ripoff) or extending combos.

Watching a button masher roman cancel a light punch = hilarious.