2D fighting game with most intuitive or engaging combat system?

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

KI is an interesting one. If you're familiar with bursts in arcsys games, and with the metagame of baiting those bursts in particular, you kinda get how KI works.

In KI, mindless button mashing nets you combos but your foe has infinite bursts as long as they can predict which of the three strengths of buttons you're mashing, and then you can even burst the burst for an unburstable 4 seconds of button mashy goodness. It also has some link combos which makes players who don't button mash harder to burst against and it requires you to end combos with specific moves to not have the damage become recoverable health, but that's after you've won the burst baiting part which is what everything revolves around.

All in all, this is a simplistic game, but it has a lot of cool character designs going for it. I'm especially fond of the flame-spouting mech velociraptor.

 

[Worgen]

I would say Guilty Gear Xrd or Dragon Ball FigherZ. Both of them have special moves that are rather simple to do so you can spent more of your effort on learning the game and not fighting with the controls.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

KI is an interesting one. If you're familiar with bursts in arcsys games, and with the metagame of baiting those bursts in particular, you kinda get how KI works.

In KI, mindless button mashing nets you combos but your foe has infinite bursts as long as they can predict which of the three strengths of buttons you're mashing, and then you can even burst the burst for an unburstable 4 seconds of button mashy goodness. It also has some link combos which makes players who don't button mash harder to burst against and it requires you to end combos with specific moves to not have the damage become recoverable health, but that's after you've won the burst baiting part which is what everything revolves around.

All in all, this is a simplistic game, but it has a lot of cool character designs going for it. I'm especially fond of the flame-spouting mech velociraptor.

I actually bought it a few months ago, but promptly got it refunded after discovering that the only way to use a DS4 controller would?ve been through an x360ce or Xinput hack. Being a Microsoft Studios game, it simply wasn?t officially supported, and IIRC that would make it the only game in my Steam library to do so. It?s off-putting personally, ever since having insane issues getting the Silent Hill 4 port to play correctly with an input hack, let alone smoothly.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

KI is an interesting one. If you're familiar with bursts in arcsys games, and with the metagame of baiting those bursts in particular, you kinda get how KI works.

In KI, mindless button mashing nets you combos but your foe has infinite bursts as long as they can predict which of the three strengths of buttons you're mashing, and then you can even burst the burst for an unburstable 4 seconds of button mashy goodness. It also has some link combos which makes players who don't button mash harder to burst against and it requires you to end combos with specific moves to not have the damage become recoverable health, but that's after you've won the burst baiting part which is what everything revolves around.

All in all, this is a simplistic game, but it has a lot of cool character designs going for it. I'm especially fond of the flame-spouting mech velociraptor.

I actually bought it a few months ago, but promptly got it refunded after discovering that the only way to use a DS4 controller would?ve be through an x360ce or Xinput hack. Being a Microsoft Studios game, it simply wasn?t officially supported, and IIRC that would make it the only game in my Steam library to do so. It?s off-putting personally, ever since having insane issues getting the Silent Hill 4 port to play correctly, let alone smoothly.

Wow, that sounds rough. On consoles you can just use a converter (though they do sometimes give input lag) so I didn't think pc would be even worse haha.


Well, if you go get Xrd on ps4 or something (I think they may be doing a sale on it cause we're close to black friday) and you want someone to fight I can help with stuff haha.