Best Fighting game of all time...

The question i want answered is this.

How come Soul Calibur 1 is amazing, and the rest are just plain horrible?
Adrian_Cloud

Soul Caliber for dreamcast. A great fighting game has to have great characters, cool moves, be easy enough to pick up and play right off, but hard enough to require some skill to do complex moves and have a decent story. Soul Caliber not only looked awesome at the time, but still has the best characters of any fighting game to date. The characters also had weapons, which made for some badass moves like when Ivy's sword exploded and then came back together or when Yoshimitsu used his sword to fly with like a helicopter. SC>>>alllawsonboy

Noone can easily beat Tekken series for 3D and SF for 2D. Sometimes it comes down to tastes but at the end we all know whos the boss. Both series can be casual games and in the same time pretty competitive hardcore ones. Thousand of tournaments, even internationals each year. And a big arcade community like no other especially in Asia and in some countries in Europe.

I must agree that SC is a great 3D fighting game. But since it got weapons and all... cant say fighting..more like swordfighting.I remember many magazines saying back then that SC cant be compared with Tekken since it got weapons. But i think nowdays noones bothers .

virtua on!!!!!!!!ninjaxams

I loved that game! I used to play it all the time at the arcade and on my Saturn.

[QUOTE="ninjaxams"]virtua on!!!!!!!!Renegade_Fury

I loved that game! I used to play it all the time at the arcade and on my Saturn.

3D: Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution

Honorable mention: Tekken 3: Tag Tournament

2D: Street Fighter II: Turbo

Honorable mention: Mortal Kombat 3: Trilogy

Street Fighter II

lol, who's heard of Tekken 3? 3rd Strike? Shaq Fu?

til this day, i'm pretty sure 99.9% has played SFII

the other 0.01% are the people who mentioned those other games..

Street Fighter II

lol, who's heard of Tekken 3? 3rd Strike? Shaq Fu?

til this day, i'm pretty sure 99.9% has played SFII

the other 0.01% are the people who mentioned those other games..

SHuN_G0Ku

Yes, because it's utterly impossible for people with different opinion to exist.

here are my top five

Soul CAlibur 2

Tekken 5

SUPER SMASH BRAWL

MARVEL VS CAPCOM

MORTAL KOMBAT ARMAGEDOM

Marvel vs. Capcom IIAljosa23

Fixed.

Super Smash Bros. N64.

Hands Down.

Old School Arcade baby

Capcom vs SNK!!!!!!!!!!

Tekken 3 it's not the highest rated fighter for nothingEPaul

If you're talkin' gamerankings I think Soul Calibur is above it

Street Fighter III: Third Strikemajadamus

^this

Old School Arcade baby

Capcom vs SNK!!!!!!!!!!

Memoryitis

i prefer CvsS2 then the first one and SNkvsCapcom is a crap game lol

Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves

Personal favorite would have to be something like either Soul Calibur, Narutimate or Super Smash.

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchreview.asp?reviewid=240871

Best. Game. Ever!

man I can't decide lol I love so many fighters

Mortal kombat trilogy

Street Fighter 2

DOA2

DOA4

Soul Calibur

Tekken 3

Smash Bros. Melee

Capcom vs. SNK 2

are all great in my book

Wow, I can't believe I forgot another one: Killer Instinct Gold, pretty much executed hyper fighting better than any other fighter I've played(Well, regarding combos. Killer combos, Ultra combos etc).

As it stands:
1. Killer Instinct Gold(2)
1. Marvel Vs. Capcom 2
1. Mortal Kombat 3
3. Smash Brothers Melee.

I don't give a second place because there is a large difference between number 1s and number 3 for me:)

If we're talking about a traditional fighter, I would say Soul Caliber.

I consider Brawl a "beat 'em up" but if that's included then I pick Brawl. What a superb game. :)

Marvel vs. Capcom.Aljosa23

i prefer the second one, but they are both great games.

Soul Caliber for dreamcast. A great fighting game has to have great characters, cool moves, be easy enough to pick up and play right off, but hard enough to require some skill to do complex moves and have a decent story. Soul Caliber not only looked awesome at the time, but still has the best characters of any fighting game to date. The characters also had weapons, which made for some badass moves like when Ivy's sword exploded and then came back together or when Yoshimitsu used his sword to fly with like a helicopter. SC>>>alllawsonboy

I was gonna say the same thing. 2 thumbs up! (And my Taki can kick your ASS!) :-)

one word, one number

tekken 3

thegoldenpoo

BOOooo.

While I do like the Soul Calibur series a lot, (I mean, Cervantes is frikkin' awesome) it was the kind of game where mindless button mashing was far too effective. Sometimes if I played with strategy in mind i'd get creamed, only to play the same fight by cheesing the same move over and over and win spectacularly. Of course it's possible to get so good at the game that this doesn't matter but to be honest I still think Tekken and Virtua Fighter are the crowning glories of the fighting genre.

I'm still probably getting SCIV though, it looks amazing. :)

TheLordHimself

There is a lot of truth to what you said. I was a master at beating the computer on SC, played a button masher and got my ass kicked. But the more I played him, the more steadily I beat him.

The same thing happened with my number two choice: Virtua Fighter 2. I don't like the Tekken series at all.

Street fighter alpha 2

Street fighter 3rd strike

Super Smash brothers Brawl.

tekken 3 or soul calibur (DC)

i'm leaning more towards tekken 3 because of its characters and the cgi endings

soul calibur was great though

Tekken 3 it's not the highest rated fighter for nothingEPaul

Supported.

SSBB

[QUOTE="lawsonboy"]Soul Caliber for dreamcast. A great fighting game has to have great characters, cool moves, be easy enough to pick up and play right off, but hard enough to require some skill to do complex moves and have a decent story. Soul Caliber not only looked awesome at the time, but still has the best characters of any fighting game to date. The characters also had weapons, which made for some badass moves like when Ivy's sword exploded and then came back together or when Yoshimitsu used his sword to fly with like a helicopter. SC>>>allChinoJamesKeene

Hurrah, someone agree's with me! SC is abused as a button masher mostly but most poeple do not play it propperly, the game is a huge mind game. The newer games have sped up so some of this is lost since i can't react to 4 frame moves 95% of the time(goddamn cassandra!!!) but I still do not lose to noobs.

but I hope this discussion remains civil.

SC, Yes you can mash buttons but it very easy the learn the system. Not more than Smash bros. but easy none the less. Now when you start to master it, you can start to due beautiful things with it.(Especially with Cassandra, Apostrophe, and Ivy).

Strategy comes to play and you start reading your opponents movement. Yes, you can say that SC can be a button masher but think of it like a random person swinging a weapon. Do they really need to know what their doing to hurt someone? They only need to if their opponent knows how to fight very well. If you make the complain that it just a button masher, the truth is that you just need to build or rebuild you tactic.

Wow, I'm amazed at how civil this thread has been. Not even any flaming due to some mentioning Smash. High Fives for everyone!8)

As for me, I'm gonna give it to Smash Bros (mostly Brawl, but I do love Melee), Soul Calibur 2, and Mugen. Oh and I'll say Street Fighter III as well, although my experience with the game is somewhat...limited.