Poll: Best fighting game franchise?

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Arisato-kun

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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

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black_knight1337 said:
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 :D.
 

Vohn_exel

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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.
 

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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...
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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)
 

K84

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KOF, i loved that and SFII in the good old days.
But the sprites were always a little bit prettier.
That and Mai.
 

SuperSuperSuperGuy

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I love Super Smash Bros. because it's simple to play yet surprisingly deep. However, lately I've been gravitating toward Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and my latest obsession is Touhou Hisoutensoku. I played Hisoutensoku for many hours so far today.
 

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the old SNK Arcade games (and their NeoGeo ports) are missing...

Super Smash Bros currently first? you mad? (or just maybe really young...)

out of the list i would pick SF(2) because of it's impact/legacy and playability at all skill levels
 

black_knight1337

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Dreiko said:
Firstly i have read all of your posts on this thread and to be quite honest you are coming across as a bit of a dick (no offence intended). for example, when you were talking about the so called fighting game 'experts'. so basically if someone plays a game at the very high levels then whatever their opinion is of games in the genre is absolute fact. well i guess that means that stuff i say about fps' is fact then (so basically cod is a pos). this is obviously not fact because it is simply my own opinion.

on to what makes games the so called 'best' of the genre. like i said in my previous post quality of games is purely subjective. everyones idea of what makes the best game of a genre and what game is closest to that will be different. it doesnt make people wrong for thinking a more obscure title is that or if the think a vastly popular game does that. so it is not fair for you to be discrediting peoples opinions when they say that "Mortal Kombat which actually is probably one of the deepest games...atleast story wise." and then you just say that they are wrong and basically imply that what they are saying means nothing at all. which i beleive is totally unfair because the point of discussions like this is to state your own opinion on the subject matter.

also if you can point me to a place where i can get these games which you think are the best relatively cheaply then i will see just how good these games are.
 

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black_knight1337 said:
Dreiko said:
Firstly i have read all of your posts on this thread and to be quite honest you are coming across as a bit of a dick (no offence intended). for example, when you were talking about the so called fighting game 'experts'. so basically if someone plays a game at the very high levels then whatever their opinion is of games in the genre is absolute fact. well i guess that means that stuff i say about fps' is fact then (so basically cod is a pos). this is obviously not fact because it is simply my own opinion.

on to what makes games the so called 'best' of the genre. like i said in my previous post quality of games is purely subjective. everyones idea of what makes the best game of a genre and what game is closest to that will be different. it doesnt make people wrong for thinking a more obscure title is that or if the think a vastly popular game does that. so it is not fair for you to be discrediting peoples opinions when they say that "Mortal Kombat which actually is probably one of the deepest games...atleast story wise." and then you just say that they are wrong and basically imply that what they are saying means nothing at all. which i beleive is totally unfair because the point of discussions like this is to state your own opinion on the subject matter.

also if you can point me to a place where i can get these games which you think are the best relatively cheaply then i will see just how good these games are.

You're confusing me expressing opinions with me stating facts.

Fact: Japanese game makers invite expert players to play experimental versions of their games and then change their games depending on the things these experts tell them.


Considering the above fact, how can you come to any OTHER conclusion? What would be your thought patter if you did? I'm legitimately curious here. My logic and common sense drove me to what I said, not my opinion.



As for the story element, simply put, the comment was about storymode as it relates to "content", a finite thing which can be measured and tallied. A simple mathematical observation reveals the content of blazblue's storymode as being considerably denser, more complex and varied. I stated as much, personal opinion was never any part of it thus I wasn't actually being in that unprovable state of potential correctness or not of people expressing opinions. It was merely a factual statement.


Blazblue:Continuum Shift should be $18 on gamespot new, guilty gear xx:accent core+ (the most up to date version) is relatively old and you should get the ps2 version but I wouldn't know where to go to find it offline, you should be able to order it online on amazon or something though.
 

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I haven't really played a fighting game other than SSB. (I played MK1 and 2 as a child on my snes, but I can't really remember, I was 4 or something.) So I have to give it to SSB.
 

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I actually like the latest Mortal Kombat despite having a huge collection of fighting games that are considered to be much superior on the competitive scene to MK. And that's mainly due to the accessibility for complete fighting game newbies. The combos are easy to pull as well as the X-Rays and Fatalities. However the persistent gore ruin the aesthetics of the game, though I don't mind clothes getting torn apart, specially on the ladies (>.>).

UFC 2010 is pretty fun as well, mainly for some cheap laughs. Heh, two men ... hugging each other ... and changing positions ... a lot ... > . >