I love Virtua Fighter. I had a Sega Saturn and spent many hours on VF2. Wolf and Kage were my main characters.

What puts me off fighters these days though (I have said this in another thread as well) is I find I need to get an arcade stick as well because standard controllers just don't feel up to the task.

Never liked fighting games the only one I've ever played was a Dragon Ball Z one

Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2 and Tekken 2 are probably my all time favourites. Most satisfying moments were learning to pull off a dragon punch, a spinning pile-driver and a surf board.

Playing the latest Mortal Kombat just now.

How is the latest?

I spent countless hours mastering the full move list of yoshimitsu and voldo (soul calibur) and Goh (Virtua fighter)

Super Smash bros. Brawl is alright

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Soul Caliber 2 was absolute beast

Yeah it was. And actually the more time I'm giving SCV the better it gets. Creation is immense. It just takes a bit of time to adjust to all of the slight adjustments made to fighters over the years.

Killer Instinct Arcade is still the Best Fighting game ever released!!! The SNES versions was almost as Good Then Mortal Kombat Trilogy is the 3rd Best IMO

I remember when killer instinct came out. I thought games could never look any better.

Virtua Fighter is the only game I ever finished in the arcade.

Street Fighter Alpha 3, Mortal Kombat 2 and Killer Instinct were my favourite. I loved the fact that back in the days, you somehow had to figure out how to do the fatalities in Mortal Kombat 2 or find out from a friend as there was no Internet to check them up on and it wasn't mentioned in the guide provided. Good times.

Good point. It's all a bit too easy now isn't it? That could be said for all mainstream games now though.

haha yea I remember the days of Buying Games mags for Tips & Cheats and free gifts like SF 2 Iron on t-shirt designs etc great times indeed

Tekken 2 was great. Those ridiculously high jumps you could do, not to mention the satisfaction of unlocking kazuya as a playable character

Street Fighter 2 was the first fighter i ever played and still ranks as one of the best. Back then there was a strategy to fighting games, now it is all about button mashing

Nonsense. Virtua Fighter is much more strategic than Street Fighter ever has been.

Tekken is the grandad of all button mashers. Yu could literally win a round with one combo.

It takes a certain degree of practice to master a combo though. I remember in virtua fighter you could just tap l1 to do a throw move.

Street Fighter 2 is probably the best fighter for me. I dont play games anymore so don't really know what is out there these days.

There is a very limited number of moves in Street Fighter 2. The strategy is more down to reaction time more than anything else. If you look around the world there are serious tournaments involving Virtua Fighter as it is seen as one the most well balanced and deep fighting games ever. Not to mention most will play with an arcade pad. So L1 to throw isnt a problem.

It may take some practice to master those combos in Tekken obviously but all a fight turns into is a player trying to out combo the other fighter instead of looking to get other advantages such as positioning, baiting, countering, and knowing the full array of moves for all situations. I just find Virtua Fighter more of a simulation even with all of its over exaggerated jumps and such.

I'm still hooked on Double Dragon I & II. No kidding. Love these old games. Street Fighter II plus edition was also a glorious one. Hat Trick (aye, a footie game) was supreme as well as violent: the fat ref was totally stupid and fell down so you could hit your opponents. Top-notch game as well.