The joys of Fighters with friends

[Ack]

Hey guys, I know I'm late to the club, but yesterday was my first experience with the new Mortal Kombat. Some friends of my stepbrother's came by and brought it, so we had 2 on 2, with the losers passing the controllers between the 6 players.

Needless to say, it's been a long time(over a decade) since I played an MK game, so I had to relearn everything from scratch. But once I got into the swing of things, I proved myself to be one of the top competitors amongst the group...admittedly using Scorpion, who has hardly changed in 20 years.

Anyway, I had a great time going toe to toe with some guys who taught me the game, and it reminded me of my days in high school, playing endless Soul Calibur, Marvel Vs. Capcom, or Virtua Fighter matches for hours with friends, passing off if you lost or if you just felt tired of playing. When was the last time you guys did anything like this, and what were the games that you would play? What were the high points for you?

[Kevman]

The most popular games among my friends were Power Stone 1, Tekken 3, and Soul Calibur II. We would play for hours, take a break to go to Taco Bell/Dairy Queen/Applebees and continue for the rest of the night. The atmosphere of friends taking crap and cheering when major upsets or comebacks would happen is something online can't emulate.

[Sideroller]

hahaha, this sounds like my roommates and I. Playing MvC, Tekken, Soul Calibur, Smash Bros., and KOF and just passing the controllers around for hours. It is pretty fulfilling to go up against someone who's beaten you so many times and then whoop their ass repeatedly out of the blue.


I've also had the opportunity to play the newest Mortal Kombat, and although I didn't play it long enough to really get the hang of it, I didn't like it. I had never played Mortal Kombat before though. The controls just felt really clunky to me, like the person I was controlling was a tank or something. Wasn't my kind of fighter I guess.

[brunoafh]

I've had some great times with this as well. My most cherished fighter memories are probably going with friends to the arcade to play SF, MK, Darkstalkers, and even Primal Rage, but once my local arcade shut down we still had tons of fun with console ports.

I still have fun fighter nights with my friends and now a days even, and with the handicap feature a lot of fighters have now, even my gf who is horrible at fighters can play and hold her own. I've had too many SF IV, BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, and MvC 3 nights to count. Drinking with friends, passing the controller around, going online from time to time and trading off, talking trash, stuff like Kevman was saying. These are the reasons fighters are one of my favorite genres. They just provide a really great time, socially, that not many genres can.

The night that my one buddy beat one of the top ranked players in BlazBlue (#2 Carl Clover player on the US leaderboards) blackout drunk was too great for words. The neighbors probably heard us.

[o.pwuaioc]

I stopped playing fighters with friends after MKIII/Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Even today, I'm not that big on fighters, but it's been great playing HSFIIAE with sevin0seven or MK with my sister's boyfriend (while I was out in California). Now I only have one friend who plays Smash Bros, but it's only ok to me. I probably just need to learn it better.

Oh, and of course, whoever comes over for NYC/Tristate meetup, we're definitely busting out our Ballz.

[noiseredux]

this is why I've been so into the budget fightclub. I used to love this kind of thing with my friends when I was younger, but alas none of my current gamer friends live anywhere near me.

[retrosportsgamer]

this is why I've been so into the budget fightclub. I used to love this kind of thing with my friends when I was younger, but alas none of my current gamer friends live anywhere near me.

^

This.

Played a ton of Street Fighter II and the original MK back when originally released. Soul Caliber got a lot of run years later.

[chupon]

For me it was MK2 on SNES and Street Fighter Alpha 3 on PS1. Logged literally hundreds of hours on both with my buds.

Haven't been able to replicate the experience in 13+ years.

[retrosportsgamer]

We played a lot of Street Fighter EX + a also - which, apparently hasn't held up really well

[dsheinem]

this thread reminds me I still want to pick up the new MK. Is it weird playing it with the standard control pad/arcade stick button layout? I know there's that edition with the MK stick....