What's your fighting game series?
 

Why not?

Fighting games. Not everyone loves them or has the patience to master its characters, but it's a big genre regardless.

Street Fighter: The one that started the fighting craze. SF II remains fresh after all these years and I always go back to it. And unlike other series, it's not that tough to pick up and play, so it appeals to both casuals and hardcore players. It also has good characters. A great balance overall. My favorite after all these years.

Mortal Kombat: Pretty fun back in the day, but the classic games haven't aged so well and the violence seems mild compared to the games we have today. Gameplay wise it was quite behind Street Fighter, but didn't let down in the cool characters department. Also, the MK universe is cool as a whole. I like Street Fighter characters but don't care that much for their backstories, whilst MK characters have more interesting ones.

Tekken: A more technical fighter. A good game and all but I find it boring and all flash and no substance. Don't care for the characters either.

Virtua Fighter: Another technical fighter, but this one I like. Virtua Fighter 2 being one of my favorite fighting games of all time. In fact, the Saturn was full of great fighters.

King of Fighters: The closest fighting game to Street Fighter I've played. SNK's fighting series seems pretty similar to SF in terms of artwork and gameplay. The characters are also quite varied. Some are cool, others not so much, but overall a good mix.

Super Smash Bros.: The perfect game for any Nintendo fanboy such as myself. It's fun as hell to play both solo and co-op. The replay value is pretty high due to there being so many ways you can beat your opponents. Man, I must have spent hundreds of hours playing Melee back in the day. This game is a ****ing party, dude!

What about you? What is your favorite fighting game series?

Smash Bros. takes the #1 spot for me. The only fighter game I ever got into prior to that was TMNT Tournament Fighters for SNES & Killer Instinct at the laser tag joint. Not big on the genre outside of SSB, though I do play SF & MK's SNES installments from time to time.

Also, damn. Missed the word "favorite" in the title and now can't edit it. Oh well, people know what I mean.

Super Smash Bros for me. There's plenty to like about other fighting games, but I'm just not that GOOD at them. :lol:

The ones I'm the best at are SSB and Street Fighter.

Are you trying to take Ninjinister's spot as fighting game guy? Not happening.

My vote goes to Smash Brothers, also. Mortal Kombat would be second.

Nah man. While I do like fighting games, I'm far from being an expert at them. I've just been in a mood of playing them lately for an odd reason. Been playing Street Fighter II and Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO Millenium Fight lately again.

Mortal Kombat as a kid, then Soul Calibur as we moved into the Gamecube era. Of course I've played and loved every Smash series.

Street Fighter IV was my first Street Fighter, believe it or not, so I didn't get into that series until very late.

Well that's certainly curious. Usually people who grew up with the 16 bit generation have played both MK and SF at some point or another. Where you just not interested in SF as a kid or had other priorities at the time?

I was a kid and wasn't able to buy games without my parents money or whatever I got for my birthday/holidays. Mortal Kombat was what I got as a kid because of the blood/violence and the first movie.

By the time the N64 came out and I was a teen with my own money Street Fighter left Nintendo consoles so I had none to purchase.

And how did you convince your parents to buy you MK? My brother was able to convince our mom to buy him MK3 for Christmas back in the 90s and he was only 12 at the time. Then again our mom knows absolutely nothing about video games so she probably had no idea what kind of game it was.

My father bought me Mortal Kombat, he didn't care at all about the blood. I think I was only 9 or 10 when I got it too.

How good were you at MK? For some reason I've always been a lot worse at MK than I was at SF. I could cruise through the lowest difficulty levels in SF II, especially if I played with M. Bison or Ryu, but in MK games I even struggled at the Very Easy. I'd beat the first 3 opponents and then get my ass kicked by the 4th one. Also those challenges were a torture and I don't think I've ever gotten past Motaro in MK 3.

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Waay too close to chose one.

was leaning towards Mortal Kombat but then i saw Dragon Ball z, and that was like all i used to play. Loved them. so i'll say like a 5 way tie between

Mortal Kombat, Dragon balls z, street fighter, & tekken,

i really enjoy smash bros but honestly i've only played it a few times. So i'd throw it with my highly reccommended 2nd teir including Playstation All-stars, & Marvel vs Capcom.

if Cartoon Network Punchtime Xplosion had another game besides XL that'd be up there too. With MK DBZ SF & Tekken.

Oh man this discussion about MK and SF, I didn't get to play SF until later myself [but it was still SF II]. I had the Genesis Mortal Kombat when I was really young because it was a hand-me-down from one of my brothers. :lol: I played it a lot but I was so awful at it.

For more traditional fighting games though my favourite has to be Marvel vs Capcom. I've never played fighting games much, but every instalment in that series is great.

Oh, and since its on the poll and nobody else mentioned it, I love Killer Instinct.

I've definitely played more Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur than anything but I'm not really very good at any of them.

Marvel vs Capcom for me. It's got a huge character selection and you don't really need to be a hardcore gamer to have fun with it. The visuals are hands-down the best of the group.

King of Fighters. 98, 02, and XIII.

Street & Virtua Fighter on the podium.

Mortal Kombat for sure, I catch myself playing that game more than any other fighting game I own. I do not care much for the blood, but just each character and how different they are, fighting wise, really draws me further in with every new game that comes out.

If I had a 2nd choice, it would defiantly be Soul Caliber.