gaming Favorite Fighting Games

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 42,202]

Round 1 FIGHT! Or, you know, thread activate. Yes, fighting games. A genre that I personally do not have a massive love towards. There are many people out there that are pure fighting game fanatics but I am not one of them. Even still, there are soooooo many fighting games that there are some that I really, really enjoy and can even be considered some of my favorite games ever.

 

So with so many of these games to choose form, let's pick our favorites! What your favorite games in the fighting genre?

 

My favorites are as follows:

1). Virtua Fighter 5: Possibly the greatest 3D fighter of all time.

2). Super Smash Bros 4. Fun, accessible, chaotic yet nerve-wrackingly precise, this is easily one of the most fun fighting series out there.

3. Bloody Roar 2. It is a shame that Activision buried this franchise because the first 2 were really solid games. Unique mechanics and a decently fun engine made this one stand out for me.

 

I was very close to putting the original Killer Instinct on here but honestly, looking back, that game pretty much ran on one gimmick and it hasn't aged well at all.

[reader8363 1,281]

hm, I would have to see soul caliburs, can't decide which one is better out of series, and blazblue calamity trigger

[Surprise 1,003]

Street Fighters, some that I used to play isn't my favorite. My main favorite one is Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. My two mains of the three is Hulk and Taskmaster and something about the game still brings hype to me

[ashi 261]

Street Fighter is probably the single best fighting game franchise ever; each revamp got ever closer to the elusive ideal of perfect balance, and each sequel adds new elements that you didn't even know you wanted (parrying, super combos), but suddenly couldn't live without once you got used to them. Add to that, great characters (even III, which is probably the weakest - with most of them being rehashes - still has some brilliant choices), and you've got dozens of wonderful games on your hands.

 

Personal highlights: Turbo Revival (GBA), Third Strike (Dreamcast) and Alpha 3 (also Dreamcast).

 

Mortal Kombat comes close, but I've always felt that it's lagged a bit behind.

 

Smash Bros is fun.

 

Virtua Fighter was great.

 

Dual Blades, a sword-fighting game for the GBA, was also much underrated (in my opinion).

[Megas 28,139]

Super Smash Bros in general has always been a favorite of mine. I also love the Capcom Vs series, with my notable favorites being MvC1, Tatsunoko Vs Capcom, and CvS2

[Vertigo_95 572]

Super Smash Bros is the main one for me, since I play competitively, but next on the line is Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat. 

[Denim&Venöm 20,481]

Dead or Alive 3. Oh the tournaments we'd have w/ that game. 

[ashi 261]

Dead or Alive 3. Oh the tournaments we'd have w/ that game. 

 

An acquaintance of mine in college literally only got each new DOA game to see how they'd improved the jiggling. 

[Denim&Venöm 20,481]

An acquaintance of mine in college literally only got each new DOA game to see how they'd improved the jiggling. 

Here's a tip: Go to settings. Adjust the age rating to 99+. See what happens. 

[KirbyFluttershy 2,524]

Super Smash Bros. has been a popular fighting game for me, but It's my all-time favorite. Pokken, not so much even though I've only played the demo a little on my own wii-u system and at certain stores and now I've played the retail at my friend's house, but I haven't made the game as my favorite yet.

[joanro 247]

Right now, it definitely has to be Street Fighter V. It revived my interest in fighting games and made me remember how much I loved Street Fighter II. Despite all the hate the game gets, I think it's pretty enjoyable fighting game compared to Street Fighter IV.

 

Another fighting game I really liked was Persona 4 Arena. Although, I'm not a fan of games like Blazblue and Guilty Gear(which are made by the same developer that made P4A), I enjoyed this game a lot. 

 

Last, but not least I would have to say Dead or Alive 2. I remember seeing this game in the arcades for the first time. I thought the stage transitions and stage interactions were pretty cool. It still one of the best looking games on the Dreamcast(right next to Soul Calibur). 

Edited September 16, 2016 by joanro

[Mutemutt 773]

I can only really say a favorite fighting game series and that would be BlazBlue.Persona 4 Arena wasn't bad either and I do like Arcana Heart as well. These are the top 3 fighting game series for me.

[cmarston1 5,964]

Super Smash Brothers has always been a gaming franchise that I have had attachment towards.

[Guest]

TEKKEN YO, THE AMOUNT OF NOSTALGIA THAT GAME BRINGS ME IS U N R E A L. I still remember beating random people as a young kid watching them get confused by how they just got beaten by a 9 year old, lmao.. I used to love that game, still do, but don't enjoy fighting games overall that much.

[Kenshiro 13,499]

My favorite fight game is M.U.G.E.N. which is made by me

[KatonRyu 1,036]

Super Smash Bros. is my favorite. I don't even care which one, but probably either Brawl or 4. I love the fast paced action and wide selection of characters, as well as the ability to pound some of my unfavorite characters into oblivion.

 

Soul Calibur II and IV are also favorites of mine, mainly because I have a thing for swords.

 

Lastly, I played DOA 2 to death. I think it's one of the few games I've ever gotten 100% completion on.

[Steel Accord 6,660]

Super Smash Bros. . . . is NOT one I'm listing as a favorite. Those games are fun, don't get me wrong, but I see them more as crossover games than pure fighting games. Same goes for Marvel vs. Capcom. A fighting game just isn't a fighting game with the lingering knowledge that more than one of the characters probably doesn't posses ANY combative ability in their home games. (Looking at you Villager and Mr. Wright.) And the ones that do include people who would normally not engage in protracted hand to hand combat.

 

Bloody Roar: Primal Fury: One of my first fighting games and one that still has a great concept to it. Oftentimes in fighting games the main characters or at least some of them aren't just known to be exceptional fighters they're almost treated like walking tactical or strategic weapons. This is one of the times when that classification is entirely deserved. It's made quite clear in some cut scenes that Zoanthropes are extremely powerful and not all of them are exactly stable. So no wonder a bunch of them are fighting each other, there's nothing and no one else that could possibly pose a challenge to them. Gameplay wise, the multi-layered transformations are fun to pull on someone in between combos.

 

Soul Calibur IV: The best Soul Calibur game in my opinion. V had a lot of good in it and more good going for it but the story was hacked to pieces and boy does it show. This game, meanwhile, had one of the best rosters of the series' characters and the overall story of fighting game story #5, single mcguffin that everyone wants, the object in this case being a giant tower or what sits atop it; made the game almost feel like a Lord of the Rings version of Game of Death.

 

Injustice: Gods Among Us: I love superheroes and a fighting game starring a cast of them was something that made so much sense I'm surprised no one thought of it sooner. The gameplay even reinforced this with environmental weapons and features and the clash system which happens all the time in comics. The gameplay is fast and smooth and the story is a cool little elseworld.

 

The number 1 spot is a tie.

 

Mortal Kombat X: Hoooly shit what a way to inject new life into a grand old series! The new characters are fun and the veteran kombatants acquit themselves well. The story was what I think SC V was sort of going for, a passing of the torch story told through a world spanning mission to protect everything and everyone.

 

Killer Instinct: As someone who never played the original, I didn't have any particular love for the franchise. This game though really showed me a little of why people loved this game so much. Chaining together an insane number of combos is cathartic as all Hell but as for most of these things, it' really the characters that I adore. Everything about each of them is distinct, their fighting styles, their designs, their origins, and need I mention their themes as courtesy of Mick Gordon? The story, while not told with the narrative cohesion of MKX is sort of like Overwatch in that it's more glimpsed at but somewhat counter intuitively makes it more intriguing.

 

Street Fighter V: Gets an honorary mention because I haven't played it but it looks amazing.

[Mothra 780]

I remember playing Bloody Roar (I think it was the 2nd one?) Years ago, really hope I can get it again sometime soon, it must be at least over a decade ago I played it last, and it was just hours and hours of fun

[gamecubeguy214 2,514]

You know my answer to this. It is a fighting game that has PAC-MAN and it feels like you can actually move your character unlike other fighters I've touched before, like Street Fighter.

[Dynamo Pad 11,693]

My favorite fighting games would have to be:

 

- The Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm series

- Super Smash Bros.

[stripper 252]

It used to be Smash Bros Melee, but I'm done with FGs, especially that game

 

But if someone in person offered me to play a game of Guilty Gear Xrd or +R with them, I'd love to play a few games. They're good. Really good

[CaptainDoubloon 857]

Not a big fighting game fan but some fighting series I don't mind playing once in a great while is the Tekken series, the Bloody Roar series, Killer Instinct, and Super Smash Bros.

Edited October 5, 2016 by Sgamer

[Cash In 23,128]

The Super Smash Bros. franchise has been among one of my favourites for years, especially considering that I don't typically follow the fighting genre - save for a few exceptions. Any of the games in the series work for me, though some have definitely aged greater than others.

[Here No Longer 5,286]

Definitely goes to the Smash games. At least, most of them. Brawl is definitely a black sheep of the series for the unfun gameplay, the worst balancing in the series to date, and the lack of SEVERAL characters added in Melee... They did the same thing with Sm4sh when it came to Brawl characters but it wasn't nearly as bad about that. 

 

If I had to rank them it would look like this (I will rank Ult even though I haven't ACTUALLY played it and I will also count Crusade):

1. Ultimate

2. Wii U

3. Melee

4. N64

5. Crusade

6. Brawl

Edited October 3, 2019 by Angus Delaney

[TBD 17,274]

Super smash bros series, Marvel vs Capcom, and One Piece: Grand adventure.  I like fighting games but I’d eventually get bored of it after a year or less.