What is your favorite fighting game?

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Super Street Fighter II Turbo.

It was the superlative fighting game of it's generation, if not the superlative game of any genre. It nailed absolutely everything and established Capcom as a masterful developer. No fighting game before or since has surpassed it. The newer games, Street Fighter IV in particular, strayed from the formula. My biggest gripe with SFIV was the EX/Hyper bar that charges as you attack/are hit. A player on the receiving end of a thrashing gets this mega attack, for free, that can wipe out 3/4 of their opponents health in one go. There is no way to disable this feature. It is such a detriment to a game that otherwise has the polish and promise of it's predecessor.

The story of the SFII world, the tournament, the individual reasons each character has for entering, their inter-relationships/enmities were great. A new King of fighting games would try to take the best of SSFII Turbo, lose the HyperBar, improve on story, characterisation and graphics, have a variety of stages, costumes and unlockables, a handful of polished multiplayer (local and online) modes and it will be a winner.

PS. I also quite liked the old Tekken games. Eddy Gordo is to this day one of my favourite game characters.

 

[DBLT4P]

Blazblue and Smash Bros. Melee are probably my favorites, and I have a personal soft-spot for DBZ budokai 3.

While I've also played a lot of tekken and soul cal, I've found that I prefer 2D fighters. 3D fighters tend to have too many moves for my taste, finicky and imprecise movement, and are too easy to spam/buttonmash. I played MVC3 for a while when it came out, but ultimately found it too broken and unbalanced.

Ive always liked Smash Bros. controls the best tho, I feel that move execution should be simple, consistant, and easily done under pressure, and allow the player to focus more on gameplay and tactics. I respect and admire those pro level guys that have have custom build arcade sticks and know all the combos, but I hate the only-partially-in-control feeling I get when I'm out of practice, the disadvantage I'm at using a controller, and having to think of what move I need/want to do, what it combos into, then remember what the input for it is, and then only actually have a 75% chance of actually doing the move I want, while all the time keeping track of the opponent and all the other normal variables involved.

 

[crazygameguy4ever]

Most recent fighting game haven't been that great (Marvel vs Capcom 3, Super SF 4) but Persona 4 Arena on PS3 was an awesome game, with the best story mode ever featured in a fighting game and i still like the original Marvel VS Capcom on PS1. Oh and the more recent Mortal Kombat from 2011 is fairly good too i guess.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, even though I think the series gameplay has been going down in quality.

 

[TheIronBang]

My favorites are KOF 13 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2. No doubt.

They are both highly skillfull games that are hard to play at high level and I like those games. I like challenges and it feels good beeing good at a game that takes skill.

Tekken isn't even all about juggles. It is actually about movement and knowing what to punish and when to out-footsie your opponent. So those players who think that just because they know one combo, they can win. They are wrong. If you are fighting a player who has good movement, good luck getting that hit while not getting punished. Plus, I love all the characters and story as well.

KOF 13 is another great game. I am enjoying it slightly more than tekken, simply because I recently got the game. The
combos are hard to do but very rewarding. It makes
you feel satisified. The hard ones anyway. (Sorry I have to write like this, ad is
blocking they way. :/) Again, I love the characters and the amount of depth. Short hop
mixups, hd cancels. Drive cancels. It is all great.

What I love most about these two games that you can pick any character you want and you
can still win at high level. Nowadays, not many games where you can do that.

Honorable mentions: Street Fighter Third Strike, Virtua Fighter 5 Showdown.

I used to like UMVC3 as well but I have faded away from that game. Everyone uses
the same characters. (Dr.Doom, Vergil, Magneto and maybe wolverines.) You don't see any other characters and if you do, they get destroyed. Because they aren't as good enough as the top tiers. Can't expect to win unless you don't use those characters. The only person who can win is Chris G, and the reason his team is so good is because it eliminates randomness, the main key to the game. Still hype at streams and tournaments though.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I also use Order Sol lol. We should do mirrors, my psn is Dreikoo and also I sub Slayer.



O-Sol combos are very nice even without charge, Gun blaze>JH>JD>JH>JD>Bandit Revolver does half life mid-screen against most chars.

I use Rock It > Bandit Revolver or Gunblade > Storm Viper combo. His reaction time, short animation delays for special attacks suits me just fine.

Generally speaking you wanna squeeeze the most out of your combos. Assuming that's a lvl 3 fire Rock it for example, you can do into jH >JD >jD >JD and THEN do Bandit revolver for an okizeme finish. The difference is a good 30% of life which can easilly make the difference between victory and defeat.