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Who is your favorite Fighting Game character?
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Hworang for me since Tekken 3. Dude is like glass cannon but has reach and combos that combine low and high, making him unpredictable.
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Nightmare from soul calibur
I recall playing SC2 in an arcade, and picking Nightmare just because he looked cool and beating a whole string of people, including other nightmares. Meaning from my very first exposure to SC and one of my earliest experiences with fighting games overall I liked Nightmare.
It wasn't until much later that I realized that Nightmare is obviously very heavily inspired by Guts from the manga Berserk (pictured on the lower right), but regardless not only is he cool, but there's a satisfying straightforward brutality to how he plays that matches up well with his overall characterization.
Later on in I think SC4 they split him and Siegfried off into separate characters, so Nightmare got a way more brutal moveset and Seigfried got a more tactical one, but they both wound up being characters I liked. Nightmare was still more satisfying though.
I recall playing SC2 in an arcade, and picking Nightmare just because he looked cool and beating a whole string of people, including other nightmares. Meaning from my very first exposure to SC and one of my earliest experiences with fighting games overall I liked Nightmare.
It wasn't until much later that I realized that Nightmare is obviously very heavily inspired by Guts from the manga Berserk (pictured on the lower right), but regardless not only is he cool, but there's a satisfying straightforward brutality to how he plays that matches up well with his overall characterization.
Later on in I think SC4 they split him and Siegfried off into separate characters, so Nightmare got a way more brutal moveset and Seigfried got a more tactical one, but they both wound up being characters I liked. Nightmare was still more satisfying though.
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There's so many good ones from the sprite era it's hard to choose. Chun-li, Makoto, Sakura... R.Mika('s ass), so many greats.
I really like Maki's movements in CVS.
I also likeTaki's Ivy's Tina's ballistics too.
I really like Maki's movements in CVS.
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Zasalamel from Soul Calibur and A.B.A from Guilty Gear.
Zasalamel because I like playing as him, A.B.A because I want to marry her.
Zasalamel because I like playing as him, A.B.A because I want to marry her.
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super mario man from smash brothers
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Actually never played Skullgirls, I heard it was interesting but it's just not my thing. I feel like am probably pretty much locked into my tastes at this point especially since I don't really even play games super often these days. I look at all the new fighters since the arcade scene vanished and nothing grabs me like it used to but maybe that's because I am not a kid anymore.
To me sitting down to play a fighting game will always be about drawing up the memories of movie theater arcades so vividly that I can smell the popcorn or remembering the nights in front of an SNK cabinet at CiCi's Pizza with my friends, or the first time I discovered Marvel vs. Capcom and it melted my tiny brain. I think since these new games can't really give me that maybe that is why I'm not too crazy about them I dunno.
Some of the art for them looks pretty cool though. Like the new GG stuff looks okay to me whereas the Street Fighter art hasn't appealed to me since 3S.
Oh man I remember getting the SF collection for Playstation and loving SFA2 Gold. I played the living shit out of that game. I was always a huge SNK fanboy so when I saw Dan for the first time he obviously reminded me of Robert and Ryo (who is my favorite karate guy ever). He even had Ryo's flying kicks! I thought he was awesome and always picked his orange gi costume. It wasn't till many years later I learned he was a legitimate joke character and although I think they made him way too goofy eventually I really do like him. Can't help it. Fighting with the handicap of him sucking is nice too because if you win you win hard :}
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I've always been dog shit at fighting games, and never really got into them. That said, I liked Yoshimitsu from Soul Calibur to the point where I actually sat down and learned how to play him just so I could piss people off with his shenanigans before killing them with his suicide move. Nothing beats the frustration on other people's faces when they realise I baited them into letting me show off a cool and worthless tech option.
Lizardman of Soul Calibur.
Killing people as a dinoman was so fun. Tried to recreate him in SC6 but it just wasn't the same.
Killing people as a dinoman was so fun. Tried to recreate him in SC6 but it just wasn't the same.
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I'm a huge fan of KOF, and call me what you will but my mains and favorites are Terry, Ryo, and Iori. Other than them, I really like Billy Kane, Vanessa, Angel, Vice & Mature, Rugal, Krizalid...
I used to LOVE Guilty Gear and its characters, they were all very unique and interesting in design, concept, story, and their gameplay particularities. But at some point after the XX era, something happened. It all got really boring, really fast. Sure, the graphics since Xrd are pure sorcery, amazing stuff, but the designs and characters all became so dull. I think the last character I liked was ABA.
I blame BlazBlue. They did it with that generic anime style and they could never really get out of it.
One last thing: Smash isn't a fighting game
I used to LOVE Guilty Gear and its characters, they were all very unique and interesting in design, concept, story, and their gameplay particularities. But at some point after the XX era, something happened. It all got really boring, really fast. Sure, the graphics since Xrd are pure sorcery, amazing stuff, but the designs and characters all became so dull. I think the last character I liked was ABA.
I blame BlazBlue. They did it with that generic anime style and they could never really get out of it.
One last thing: Smash isn't a fighting game
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Soulcalibur (1-3, the rest doesn't exist to me) was the only FG i was really into, and while i was good with pretty much the whole roster i absolutely destroyed my friends with Mitsurugi. SC3 has my favourite moveset of his.
Esoteric choice:
Played it first at Sega World in London and only found out Akira is an actual girl in the PS1 release with her alt costume. Rival Schools had a great cast of characters in general and was tons of fun. Infuriating that they cut the RPG mode for the US and Pal PS1 release!
Fucking FEELS, man. Arcades didn't admit minors in my country so playing any beat 'em up or fighting game always conjures up memories of vacations i took as a youth. One of my earliest childhood memories is playing Violence Fight in an arcade in Rimini. I also remember the crushing disappointment when i turned 18 and was able to finally enter arcades in my hometown, only to find out that none had any vidya cabinets anymore, only gambling machines.
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Bridget avatars where you at
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Vega (Claw) has been my main since he was usable in champion edition and I was already fascinated by him when he was kicking my ass on base 2 as a boss.
He just exuded rule of cool in my kid brain with the mask, the claw and the tatoo as well as the whole clinging to the fence.
Gameplay wise he also clicked with me thanks to the constant aggression I could keep up with multiple chained dives. Zero 3 was the last time I played the fuck out of him. If I understand, 5 ruined my boy by taking away his charge motions.
After him, from pure dedication, May from Strive. The unga bunga plus sugar high just clicked.
Other series... I remember robo smoke very fondly in MK3 and Zappa in early guilty gear.
He just exuded rule of cool in my kid brain with the mask, the claw and the tatoo as well as the whole clinging to the fence.
Gameplay wise he also clicked with me thanks to the constant aggression I could keep up with multiple chained dives. Zero 3 was the last time I played the fuck out of him. If I understand, 5 ruined my boy by taking away his charge motions.
After him, from pure dedication, May from Strive. The unga bunga plus sugar high just clicked.
Other series... I remember robo smoke very fondly in MK3 and Zappa in early guilty gear.
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Mai, Chun Li, Cammy, Ivy, Tina and Christie because they're all total BAAAAABES!
Bridget is the only male character I feel the same way about.
Bridget is the only male character I feel the same way about.
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I actually didn't forget about Angel, just didn't want to make my list too bloated. She is wonderful. Still don't really understand why some of the art makes her pull those doofy looking faces sometimes, but yeah what a cool character.
Terry is one of my favs too for sure. The original Fatal Fury is one I played incessantly on SNES as well and I loved his move set and character design. I remember thinking he looked like a guy you'd see in a bar fight in a movie, and I liked that he was fighting in regular clothes and blue jeans...he and Cody were two of the first characters I can remember seeing who didn't really have a karate outfit or some outlandish costume and I loved those designs. I would have loved for Cody to have an alt Final Fight costume in SFA3
Anyway these days I boot up Arcade Fatal Fury on Retroarch/Fightcade so I can slap Geese around and listen to Tung Fu Rue's stage theme :] I love the day/evening/night transitions and rain it is such a gorgeous game if way less fun to play than Super Turbo for me.
The Real Bout Fatal Fury series, mainly RBFF Special, has some of the most beautiful spritework of any of the 1990s SNK fighters in my opinion. The KOF sprites seem like they were actually designed with scanlines in mind more than your average game, because KOF (especially 98 thru 2002 and 2003) look a million times better with a heavy scanline shader on Retroarch.
Completely agree with the blazeblue thing, not a huge fan of the heavy anime stuff.