pierrot wrote:Fighting games seem to be a bit of a dead topic on these boards, but I was playing through some arcade modes not too long ago, and have been watching a few tournament matches of older games.
So to feed a bit of discussion on fighting games, what five 2D games are going with you when you leave?
I had to limit it to 2D fighting games, because it was too stressful for me otherwise. I'll get to my picks in a separate post.
I lost interest in fighters years ago mostly because the genre seems to exclusively target competitive gamers now. It's all about ranked matches online and real life tournaments. These companies don't care about people who mostly play games for the single player experience. It's basically a tournament genre. I stopped caring once I realized that I was no longer the target audience.
I went through a phase many years ago when I was into fighters though, right around the time they initially became popular, and it was mostly the 2d ones. The ones I really like were:
Darkstalkers 3/Vampire Savior
X-Men vs Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat II
Red Earth
Street Fighter 2 - I love the simplicity of this one, compared to all of its overly complicated successors.
I'd throw in Battle Arena Toshinden 2 and Rival Schools if we added 3d fighters, maybe Tekken 3 as well
EDIT: If I could take any 2d, fighting game, soundtrack to my grave, it'd probably be any of the Guilty Gear games.