Your Favorite Fighting Game
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Super Smash Bros Melee - based sheerly on it being the fighting game I've spent the most time actually playing. Advanced techniques are hard to learn, and combos are challenging since enemy reactions are based on damage percentile and individual character properties.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo - It's the refinement of the original fighting game. Reversals, supers, combos, mix-ups, dizzying. It all started here.
Soul Calibur II - Guard impact, ring outs, feints, unblockables, great character design, great playstyle variety, fun and useful movesets, and additional optional depth for those who seek it.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo - It's the refinement of the original fighting game. Reversals, supers, combos, mix-ups, dizzying. It all started here.
Soul Calibur II - Guard impact, ring outs, feints, unblockables, great character design, great playstyle variety, fun and useful movesets, and additional optional depth for those who seek it.
We have a winner! Those three games are the best iterations of their respective franchises for reasons of dynamics and character balance. I would have to say that the HD Remix version of Super Turbo is starting to become my favorite version of Street Fighter II.MisguidedZen said:
The competitive Street Fighter community seems to unanimously agree that Third Strike has far worse character balancing as compared to Super Turbo. I love the parrying system and some of the other ideas employed by III, but because of the balancing issues, I'd have a hard time calling it "better" than Super Turbo.Vlane said:
Since most fighting games are total garbage, I'd have to say Def Jam: fight for new york. I liked vendetta more, but FfNY is hilariously bad. And by bad, I mean LOLWUT. I beat the game's story mode 3 times, and versus mode just comes down to timing.
I've had more fun with that game than SSB, because this game is so fucking silly with the insults and with the total fake hip-hop world.
Virtua Fighter is my favorite competitive fighting game, because that game got to the point where I needed to practice (A LOT) to be skilled. I'm glad that it's for people who actually enjoy fighting games and isn't a button mash. It is way more satisfying than any other fighting game I've ever played (killer instinct (though that took time too), tekken, street fighter (I was a young piece of shit), Soul calibur (though I love that one...), etc...)
But anyway, Def Jam FfNY lets you throw people in front of a subway, smash their car with their body, dish out a combo called "NY Nightcap" where you hit someone over the head with a golf-club, has a lot of blood, an interesting fighting system with several fighting styles, (leaving the game as a street-fighting game with wrestling-heavy elements) and several other things that set it apart from other fighting games. The story mode is sorta cool, and the generic underground-style drama happens...and people leave you threatening voicemails, which are a big source of laughs.
As I said, the game is terrible, but it's so much fun. It's one of those fighting games I can turn on, play for 20 minutes, say "hahaha, oh wow" and go do something more worthwhile with my time.
Killer Instinct Gold is a classic one for me, as is Bloody Roar Primal Fury, and VF is my personal "best" but not favorite. ^^;
I've had more fun with that game than SSB, because this game is so fucking silly with the insults and with the total fake hip-hop world.
Virtua Fighter is my favorite competitive fighting game, because that game got to the point where I needed to practice (A LOT) to be skilled. I'm glad that it's for people who actually enjoy fighting games and isn't a button mash. It is way more satisfying than any other fighting game I've ever played (killer instinct (though that took time too), tekken, street fighter (I was a young piece of shit), Soul calibur (though I love that one...), etc...)
But anyway, Def Jam FfNY lets you throw people in front of a subway, smash their car with their body, dish out a combo called "NY Nightcap" where you hit someone over the head with a golf-club, has a lot of blood, an interesting fighting system with several fighting styles, (leaving the game as a street-fighting game with wrestling-heavy elements) and several other things that set it apart from other fighting games. The story mode is sorta cool, and the generic underground-style drama happens...and people leave you threatening voicemails, which are a big source of laughs.
As I said, the game is terrible, but it's so much fun. It's one of those fighting games I can turn on, play for 20 minutes, say "hahaha, oh wow" and go do something more worthwhile with my time.
Killer Instinct Gold is a classic one for me, as is Bloody Roar Primal Fury, and VF is my personal "best" but not favorite. ^^;
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
That game was probably the most chaotic and frantic fighting game that I've ever played. Just the amount of characters alone creates enough unique matches that your sure to always be finding a new strategy. Plus experimenting with different teams to see who can get over 100 hits was always a lot of fun.
Here's also a list of fighting games I like but never seem to get much recognition:
Samurai Showdown
Killer Instinct
Captain Commando
Street Fighter vs. X-men
Power Stone
Dark Stalkers
That game was probably the most chaotic and frantic fighting game that I've ever played. Just the amount of characters alone creates enough unique matches that your sure to always be finding a new strategy. Plus experimenting with different teams to see who can get over 100 hits was always a lot of fun.
Here's also a list of fighting games I like but never seem to get much recognition:
Samurai Showdown
Killer Instinct
Captain Commando
Street Fighter vs. X-men
Power Stone
Dark Stalkers
The best is King of fighters, if I had to pick one it would be 98. Much more depth that Streetfighter 2 and beter charecters. How can you not like kyo kusanagi and iori?
Others Ive played to death were powerstone, UFC and Marvel vs Capcom 2. The dreamcast had all the best beatem ups, im tempted to dig it out of the loft right now...
Others Ive played to death were powerstone, UFC and Marvel vs Capcom 2. The dreamcast had all the best beatem ups, im tempted to dig it out of the loft right now...
Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution.
The training/practice mode in the game is, AFAIK, unmatched to this day (yes, including VF5) and goes way beyond simple tutorials. There was a lot of stuff there that was simply out of my reach to do.
And I'm also going to say Soul Calibur, since that's what got me started on deep fighting games. Even if you guys say SC2 was the best of the series, I didn't like it. In particular, it no longer seemed to matter so much if you are playing a far-reaching slow character or a close-reaching fast characters: both got equalized to having medium range moves on the fast side. It was much more fun when in SC you got the opponent trapped on your best range, or vice versa, and then the one in a bind would have to really struggle to either rush in or move farther. And I think ringouts might have been easier in SC?
The training/practice mode in the game is, AFAIK, unmatched to this day (yes, including VF5) and goes way beyond simple tutorials. There was a lot of stuff there that was simply out of my reach to do.
And I'm also going to say Soul Calibur, since that's what got me started on deep fighting games. Even if you guys say SC2 was the best of the series, I didn't like it. In particular, it no longer seemed to matter so much if you are playing a far-reaching slow character or a close-reaching fast characters: both got equalized to having medium range moves on the fast side. It was much more fun when in SC you got the opponent trapped on your best range, or vice versa, and then the one in a bind would have to really struggle to either rush in or move farther. And I think ringouts might have been easier in SC?
While i did like UMK3, the AI in the game is just downright bollox.
Anyone who ever tried UMK3 for the Nintendo DS knows this.
Other than that
Fatal Fury-franchaise
King of Fighters-franchaise
Last Sword 2
Capcom vs SNK 2
Marvel vs Capcom 2
ftw
Anyone who ever tried UMK3 for the Nintendo DS knows this.
Other than that
Fatal Fury-franchaise
King of Fighters-franchaise
Last Sword 2
Capcom vs SNK 2
Marvel vs Capcom 2
ftw
Tekken 2 or 3, I'm afraid I've only played Street Fighter II on gameboy (which was awesome). But some of my best gaming memories involve Tekken, 9 hours of "winner vs. contender" ie; the winner of the match plays the next person in line to play - I'll never forget accidentaly (sp?) pulling off gun-jacks craziest move.
Are you guys serious? Only one person has mentioned the greatest fighting series ever... Dead Or Alive duuuh, I mean come on, how can't you like it? I bet everyone that posted likes the games they picked because there weapons and powers and shit, DOA is straight up hand to hand and the fighting is fucking intense.
