Fighting Game Fan Thread - General Discussion Forum

CanisWolfred · 2010-02-18T08:35:08+00:00

Post about your favorite fighting games, your first experiences with Fighting games, and the like. My first fighting game was probably Clayfighters. I had a lot of fun with it playing with my bro, although it was obviously broken. After that I played Mortal Kombat, which pretty much turned me off fighting games for years...yeah, it was that bad.:P It wasn't until I heard about Samurai Shodown that I ever expressed any interest in the genre again, and just my luck, that summer I went to a hotel that happened to have a surprising classic: The King of Fighters '94. While the game was fun, and I did spend about half my snack money on it, it seemed that it was way too difficult to get into for the uninitiated. But it did give me the taste I need to begin pursuing a good entry-level game in the genre. I started with the obvious choice - Soul Calibur II for the GCN, which I found on sale at a rental store. My brother and I played the hell out of it, but it seemed that no matter how much I practiced, I never really seemed to get any better. It was, as many people have mentioned, a button-masher, and in the end, I yearned for something more. On a whim, I decided to spend the points I had gotten for F-Zero X on Super Street Fighter II, and that's where things finally started turning around. I was hooked: I played it for hours, either in the practice mode or in the singleplayer, trying to conquer my next foe. It was amazingly fun and accessible, yet incredibly intricate, I couldn't believe a game would ever be this much fun! I never got to the point where I mastered every character, or any character for that matter, but the lessons it taught me were invaluable. SFII was my key to the entire Fighting genre, and I'll never forget it. Afterwards, I went on to play tons of other fighting games, due in large part to MAME. I played all the best games, from the rest of the Street Fighter series, to KOF, Samurai Shodown, Darkstalkers, the VS. Series, and so much more. I think I had almost a hundred different roms at one point. Of course, I don't play any of them anymore, since I vowed to stop pirating such fantastic games. KOF was the one that Hooked me the most, and it's still one of my favorite series, even more than Street Fighter. Yet so far, I only have two games that aren't on MAME, and I never really play any of them, since one of them has a really cheap and annoying boss, while the other I played so much on MAME that I can't quite get into it anymore.(plus, it's on the 360, which I don't have access to).:( I definitely plan on changing that attitude soon, though. Anyways, enough about me, lets here your story.:) Or just post about your faves, what good ones are coming out, etc.

Topic: Fighting Game Fan Thread

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StarBoy91
Tue 18th Jan 2011

@Bell - Primal Rage? That's the only fighting game which you described that comes to mind. I only played it once or twice; both on the MegaDrive console when I was little and the arcade original on Midway Arcade Treasures 2.

[Edited Tue 18th Jan 2011 by StarBoy91]

To each their own

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Joeynator3000
Tue 18th Jan 2011

Googles name, lol Yup, that's it. xD

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