What fighter are you currently playing?

[mjmjr25]

Dead or Alive 2 - wow, this game is horrible. I never thought i'd dislike a DC fighter, then popped this thing in and yeah, beyond bad. Clunky, slow, disjointed, and all around ugly.

[hashiriya1]

Super Street Fighter IV Volt. It was well worth the introductory price. Everybody rage quits, but you don't play for stats, you play for fun.

[swiftzx]

Super Street Fighter IV Volt. It was well worth the introductory price. Everybody rage quits, but you don't play for stats, you play for fun.

Have you tried King of Fighters-i?

[the7k]

Super Street Fighter IV Volt. It was well worth the introductory price. Everybody rage quits, but you don't play for stats, you play for fun.

You should check out KOF-i - I hear it's actually pretty damn good. http://shoryuken.com/2011/07/06/king-of ... on-of-kof/

If I had an iPhone, I'd be all over it.

As for me, I played some MvC3 and SF3:TS last night. Will be playing a tournament for the both of them on Saturday, so I hope I can get my skill up to a respectable level.

[isiolia]

I've mostly been playing Blazblue CS on PS3, story mode n' such, since I didn't put much time into it when I bought it over the holidays. Trying to get acclimated to using a stick.

[hashiriya1]

Super Street Fighter IV Volt. It was well worth the introductory price. Everybody rage quits, but you don't play for stats, you play for fun.

Have you tried King of Fighters-i?

Not yet. I'll check it out.

[wip3outguy7]

I picked up Vampire Savior, Last Bronx, Pocket Fighter and Firepro Wrestling S: 6 Man Scramble for the Saturn last night.

I was looking forward to getting into Vampire Savior, but the game does not allow you to assign L or R to a standard punch or kick. The tototek adapter I am using remaps the buttons so that 'Roundhouse' is L. So I do without or swap the quick disconnects in the arcade stick.

So I settled into an hour of Pocket Fighter. Damn that game is fun. Mash mash mash mash... hold C. Release C, mash mash mash mash.

[mjmjr25]

^Pocket fighter is good good fun.

And I will be in for some KoFXII PS3 soon, my copy arrives Tuesday!

[wip3outguy7]

I got to play King of Fighters XIII last night.

so how is it compare to KOFXII?

I can't go back to XII after playing XIII. I'm sorry but... XII is the worst KOF, IMO. I fired up the demo after getting my InPin and I can't believe I paid a dollar per play at UFO to play that game. I guess it was novel at the time.

UFO has had KOF XIII since close to launch and I have played it off and on since then. I don't know if I could call it the best KOF ever, but it is probably the best fighting game to come out of SNK in 10 years. SNK basically scrapped all of the off the wall mechanics from XII and went back to an engine that feels very similar to KOF 2k2. XIII is '97 or '98 fast and the juggles can approach Tekken status. The input timing is just a hair more forgiving than it was in XIII's Neo Geo brethren, making the game easier to jump into.

I pray that the PS360 ports are solid. I have already set my $50 aside.

edit: I just checked UFO's site (I haven't been there in a couple of months) and XIII is gone. LOL, that makes sense. Now that people are actually playing it, they don't have it. Wow...

[Rurouni_Fencer]

King of Fighters 2006 (aka - KOF: Maximum Impact 2)

I didn't care much the first one. So crappy in many ways - even if it was entertaining for a few days of mindless, KOF 3D brawling. I picked up King of Fighters 2006 4 years ago at one of Gamestop's yearly sales for $15 NIB.

TOTALLY. FREAKIN'. AWESOME!

I know there are purists out there who say no 2D fighter ever makes a good showing in 3D, and I'll respect their opinions. But I just want to say they are really screwing themselves out of experiencing a really fun and surprisingly deep 2D/3D fighter. If Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition was Street Fighter EX w/ the SNK universe, then Maximum Impact 2/KoF 2006 is Rival Schools/Project Justice meets SNK universe.
The combos are quick, EX moves are awesome and familiar to the seasoned SNK veteran, and gameplay is easy to pick up and hard to master. There's 36 characters, each with a ton of different skins and costumes, (not counting a 2nd Kyo that plays as he did pre-KoF 98, and a 2nd Terry with his Garou move set.) Some interesting hidden and surprise characters are also unlockable.

The game, for the single-player gamer, is deep in that there are lots to unlock and collect, as far as colors and story backgrounds go. To fully unlock everything took me a good week and a half of steady playing back when I first got it! For the group-gamers - it's a great fighter to throw on for friends and have some mindless fun while drinking and shooting the shit. Anybody can pick the game up and play it, movesets are displayed within the pause menu for newcomers, and the load times, while still there, are fast enough to keep the pace chugging.

I'm a HUGE fighting game nut! And while I love playing 2D games, and usually despise 3D remakes (see: Samurai Shodown 64, Samurai Shodown Sen, KoF: Maximum Impact,) I still enjoy playing this game 4 years later! I would go so far as to even say that it's my favorite PS2 fighter! Do NOT make the mistake of discounting King of Fighters Maximum Impact 2, (King of Fighters 2006 in the US,) as a cheap and shallow 3D knockoff..
It's anything but!