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Which is the best fighting series?

Street Fighter 35 43.21%
 
Tekken 17 20.99%
 
Soul Calibur 13 16.05%
 
Mortal Kombat 5 6.17%
 
Virtua Fighter 4 4.94%
 
BlazBlue 7 8.64%
 
Total:81
thekitchensink on 25 January 2010

This list needs more SUUUPER! SMMMAAAAASH! BRRRRROTHERSSSS!



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Spagoodle on 25 January 2010
Sephiroth357 said:
Spagoodle said:
Sephiroth357 said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Virtual Fighter with 2 votes and Tekken with 6... this thread makes me sad.

VF5 is the deepest and most well balanced fighter I have ever experienced. It has always been a underrated series, which is a shame.

I have never understood all the love Tekken gets. A poor mans VF in every aspect in my opinion, but to each their own.

To be honest I've never played a Virtua Fighter. I plan to pick up VF5 one of these days.

Don't bother. 5 is complete trash.

 

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Mortal Combat

If Mortal Combat is your type of fighter then you should stay away from VF5 or any VF game for that matter. Button mashing in a fighting game is dumb.

Aren't fighting games suppose to be buttom smashers, or am I wrong.

If you want to just pick it up and have some quick fun then sure why the hell not, but if a fighting game is a button masher there is no balance and it takes away any competitive experiece that could be had.



Thechalkblock on 25 January 2010
Spagoodle said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Virtual Fighter with 2 votes and Tekken with 6... this thread makes me sad.

VF5 is the deepest and most well balanced fighter I have ever experienced. It has always been a underrated series, which is a shame.

I have never understood all the love Tekken gets. A poor mans VF in every aspect in my opinion, but to each their own.

To be honest I've never played a Virtua Fighter. I plan to pick up VF5 one of these days.

You can find VF5 for like 20 bucks at any gamestop, totally worth the investment. I have to warn you the learning curve is steep, VF has never been and never will be a pick up and play fighting game. The single player is also pretty average/boring. If you take it online prepare to be dominated until you have figured things out. With all that said the game is so deep and rewarding when you start to master it, worth the effort if fighters are your kind of thing.

I like deep fighters. If you had to compare VF to any other fighter, which would it most resemble?



Sephiroth357 on 25 January 2010
Spagoodle said:
Sephiroth357 said:
Spagoodle said:
Sephiroth357 said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Virtual Fighter with 2 votes and Tekken with 6... this thread makes me sad.

VF5 is the deepest and most well balanced fighter I have ever experienced. It has always been a underrated series, which is a shame.

I have never understood all the love Tekken gets. A poor mans VF in every aspect in my opinion, but to each their own.

To be honest I've never played a Virtua Fighter. I plan to pick up VF5 one of these days.

Don't bother. 5 is complete trash.

 

OT

Mortal Combat

If Mortal Combat is your type of fighter then you should stay away from VF5 or any VF game for that matter. Button mashing in a fighting game is dumb.

Aren't fighting games suppose to be buttom smashers, or am I wrong.

If you want to just pick it up and have some quick fun then sure why the hell not, but if a fighting game is a button masher there is no balance and it takes away any competitive experiece that could be had.

Combos.




Spagoodle on 25 January 2010

More then combos sir, much more then combos. VF rocks a counter system that is individualized to the character, different stances, grabs, counter grabs, and a great block breaking system that is also unique to the character.

Yes it does have a lot of combos and really good ones at that, but VF is special for a whole lot of other reasons.



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Thechalkblock on 25 January 2010
thekitchensink said:
This list needs more SUUUPER! SMMMAAAAASH! BRRRRROTHERSSSS!

I am now manually tallying any other fighters people prefer that they post. So Super Smash Bros. is officially part of the list!



Onyxmeth on 25 January 2010
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Virtual Fighter with 2 votes and Tekken with 6... this thread makes me sad.

VF5 is the deepest and most well balanced fighter I have ever experienced. It has always been a underrated series, which is a shame.

I have never understood all the love Tekken gets. A poor mans VF in every aspect in my opinion, but to each their own.

To be honest I've never played a Virtua Fighter. I plan to pick up VF5 one of these days.

You can find VF5 for like 20 bucks at any gamestop, totally worth the investment. I have to warn you the learning curve is steep, VF has never been and never will be a pick up and play fighting game. The single player is also pretty average/boring. If you take it online prepare to be dominated until you have figured things out. With all that said the game is so deep and rewarding when you start to master it, worth the effort if fighters are your kind of thing.

I like deep fighters. If you had to compare VF to any other fighter, which would it most resemble?

Virtua Fighter doesn't really resemble anything. It's very unique. Every character has a unique fighting style, and they spend a lot of time balancing each game as best as they can, only adding 2 new characters per game. Each character is also grounded very closely to reality, and each resembles a real world fighting style. 

I suppose it would be closest to Dead or Alive, but it's a far superior series to it.



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Spagoodle on 25 January 2010
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Virtual Fighter with 2 votes and Tekken with 6... this thread makes me sad.

VF5 is the deepest and most well balanced fighter I have ever experienced. It has always been a underrated series, which is a shame.

I have never understood all the love Tekken gets. A poor mans VF in every aspect in my opinion, but to each their own.

To be honest I've never played a Virtua Fighter. I plan to pick up VF5 one of these days.

You can find VF5 for like 20 bucks at any gamestop, totally worth the investment. I have to warn you the learning curve is steep, VF has never been and never will be a pick up and play fighting game. The single player is also pretty average/boring. If you take it online prepare to be dominated until you have figured things out. With all that said the game is so deep and rewarding when you start to master it, worth the effort if fighters are your kind of thing.

I like deep fighters. If you had to compare VF to any other fighter, which would it most resemble?

Hrmm, thats a tough one. As much as VF fan boys like myself hate to admit it I have to say Tekken. Tekken is really the poor mans VF. VF is just better balanced and deeper, it also takes out a lot of the cheap super moves Tekken has. The style isn't as over the top as well.

edit: Listen to the guy above me he said it better. Every character in VF is pretty unique and you are rewarded for playing to its strengths more then any other fighting game. If you like that then you will like VF.



Thechalkblock on 25 January 2010
Onyxmeth said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Virtual Fighter with 2 votes and Tekken with 6... this thread makes me sad.

VF5 is the deepest and most well balanced fighter I have ever experienced. It has always been a underrated series, which is a shame.

I have never understood all the love Tekken gets. A poor mans VF in every aspect in my opinion, but to each their own.

To be honest I've never played a Virtua Fighter. I plan to pick up VF5 one of these days.

You can find VF5 for like 20 bucks at any gamestop, totally worth the investment. I have to warn you the learning curve is steep, VF has never been and never will be a pick up and play fighting game. The single player is also pretty average/boring. If you take it online prepare to be dominated until you have figured things out. With all that said the game is so deep and rewarding when you start to master it, worth the effort if fighters are your kind of thing.

I like deep fighters. If you had to compare VF to any other fighter, which would it most resemble?

Virtua Fighter doesn't really resemble anything. It's very unique. Every character has a unique fighting style, and they spend a lot of time balancing each game as best as they can, only adding 2 new characters per game. Each character is also grounded very closely to reality, and each resembles a real world fighting style. 

I suppose it would be closest to Dead or Alive, but it's a far superior series to it.

I'm interested in getting into the VF series now. Thanks for explaining it a bit to me. I assume VF5 would be a good place to start?



Thechalkblock on 25 January 2010
Spagoodle said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Thechalkblock said:
Spagoodle said:
Virtual Fighter with 2 votes and Tekken with 6... this thread makes me sad.

VF5 is the deepest and most well balanced fighter I have ever experienced. It has always been a underrated series, which is a shame.

I have never understood all the love Tekken gets. A poor mans VF in every aspect in my opinion, but to each their own.

To be honest I've never played a Virtua Fighter. I plan to pick up VF5 one of these days.

You can find VF5 for like 20 bucks at any gamestop, totally worth the investment. I have to warn you the learning curve is steep, VF has never been and never will be a pick up and play fighting game. The single player is also pretty average/boring. If you take it online prepare to be dominated until you have figured things out. With all that said the game is so deep and rewarding when you start to master it, worth the effort if fighters are your kind of thing.

I like deep fighters. If you had to compare VF to any other fighter, which would it most resemble?

Hrmm, thats a tough one. As much as VF fan boys like myself hate to admit it I have to say Tekken. Tekken is really the poor mans VF. VF is just better balanced and deeper, it also takes out a lot of the cheap super moves Tekken has. The style isn't as over the top as well.

edit: Listen to the guy above me he said it better. Every character in VF is pretty unique and you are rewarded for playing to its strengths more then any other fighting game. If you like that then you will like VF.

You and Onyxmeth have gotten me interested in trying out the VF series. Thanks for the information.