Completely disregarding gameplay, which fighting game series

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>>3793439

This question is actually more difficult than I thought, there is no series I liked as a whole.

That said, I like the way Fatal Fury evolved as Mark of the Wolves. It was the most classy step for a franchise I ever saw. Fortunately, gameplay is as good as it looks.

Pic unrelated.

For me it's MK but thats mostly nostalgia at this point

Guilty Gear.

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Correct answer reporting for duty.

>>3793515
This is the only answer

>>3793537
That's not The Last Blade

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>>3793439
I for one like the simplicity and huge potential of the premise in Eternal Champions

Shame the actual game is so stupidly unenjoyable

>>3793619
i agree. great music, character design and concept. also the best animation for a fighter outside of capcom in my opinion. the multiplayer is fun, but the singleplayer ai is very frustrating to play against. i heard the sega cd version is much better but havent played it

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>>3793643
I have mixed feelings about Shadow's new dress, but the cranked-up violence in the CD version was pretty fun

>>3793619
>huge potential of the premise in Eternal Champions
But many western fighting games have the same premise, Time Warriors, Timeslaughter, Time Killers, Savage Warriors. And at least three have a caveman character with some stupid name like Thugg, Ug and Slash.

This is just a lazy way to justify bringing together warriors from different countries and origins.

>>3793439
I always loved street fighter Alpha's aesthetic and narrative, as well as the music being fantastic, particularly 2.

Purely on the setting, continuity and cast? Mortal Kombat.

Easily, Mortal Kombat.

Which is just as well, because almost everything else about the series is garbage.

Guilty Gear is probably the best overall. Cast is unique as fuck and well developed. Setting and continuity ditto. OST is just icing on the cake. Oozes charm.
SamSho and Last Blade stand out in terms of setting and ambience.
Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers is memorable at the very least and has lots of charm.
Never played the old MK's but 9 was a really pleasant surprise.
Regarding more classic fighters, I'd say SNK is a lot better than Capcom at this, maybe with Garou leading the pack, KoF tends to have too many characters for them to actually stick in your mind, even though individually they're usually better than SF's.
Alpha is the best from SF... still SF though... So yeah...

One Must Fall 2097

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Ribaru Scoors

Cyberbots

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>>3793836
You have great taste.

I kinda dislike asking it here, but maybe it will be relevant.

I recall there being some fighter on SNES, where one of the gimmicks is that characters had hard points on their bodies represented by bezels, and when the bezels lit up you were suppose to hit them to open the character up for proper damage, otherwise they fucked you up instead. This might have only been part of a training or alternate mode but I believe the main gameplay still incorporated it but hid the bezels.

I recall it having rather large sprites with the characters being bigger than what I would have expected from most fighting games of the period.

>>3793439
Street Fighter
King of Fighters
Samurai Shodown
Mortal Kombat

It basically boils down to those four. It's almost impossible to argue that any other series is as fleshed out in terms of characters/world-building/story.

If I had to pic one I'd probably go with Samurai Shodown. Almost unparalleled in terms of how much personality it has.

>>3794460
I'd argue World Heroes gets into that list if simply for the absurd characters.

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>>3794460
This, pretty much.

It would be hard to argue with Street Fighter being #1. But that's a tame pick, so I'll go with pic related.

Also: pour one out for Mondu's Fight Palace/Slaughter Sport, for having the worst setting, least continuity and most ridiculous characters. But the whole wagering-on-fights concept, along with other weird stuff that never appeared elsewhere, like buying drugs to use in-fights, sets it apart and could in theory have led to a much better game. The aesthetic is sort of perennially ugly, but the idea of Alien Bloodsport was (and still is) pretty imaginative.

>tfw weaponlord was pretty good too desu

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It is only one game, but the fighting cast is fucking awesome, same with the intro music. Shame about the rest of the game.

>>3793439
>>3793473
Which fighting game or belt scroller has the perkiest nipples?

>>3794652
DIO BEST LEAF

Darkstalkers is great for its approach that uses the theme of monsters as means to take advantage of the freedom and strengths of the medium of hand-drawn animation.

>>3794685
Soul Edge / Calibur series.

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>>3794685
I'm trying to decide between Voltage Fighter Gowkaizer, Asuka Burning and Variable Geo. Struggling for a belt scroller that is retro and has very perky nipples.

Do you have any further qualifications?

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>>3794729
>>3794750
Good ones. I was going to guess gowkaizer. The other qualification I'm interested in is what belt em up has the best butts. My vote is for arina in waku walk 7

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>>3793439

Disregarding rooster boy, Psychic Force is one of the few acceptable answers.

>>3793439
I loved the presentation of KoF'99. really wish there was a fighting game where all characters wore leather and there was aggressive percussive music going on everywhere. I have a feeeling KoF '99 is a remake of Daraku Tenshi.

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All this time, not a single mention of Darkstalkers? Setting and characters aplenty.

>>3794781

Considering 99 had the project director of that doing design work, you're not half-wrong.

>>3794786
You missed two:
>>3793825
>Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers is memorable at the very least and has lots of charm.
>>3794715
>Darkstalkers is great for its approach that uses the theme of monsters as means to take advantage of the freedom and strengths of the medium of hand-drawn animation.

>>3794789
yeah, I was really surprised as hell when I learned that some KoF staple characters were based off of Daraku Tenshi characters but didn't read all the way into it. Now it makes sense.

Mortal Kombat by far, and not just because it's the only non-anime shit choice

>>3794786
No Chaos Tower anon?

>>3794793

DT was a pretty vivid game. Psikyo was always good at that. Not surprising the guy wanted to keep some of that with him when he moved ships.

It wasn't one of my favorite games by a long shot, but it sure as fuck is memorable and leaves an impression.

>>3794806
it's actually on my regular rotation when I'm on a MAME binge but there is definitely a lot to be desired for in the way of polish.

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>>3794790
Sorry this is what I get for phone posting at work. Saving my own images from prior posts and reposting between orders. But, yeah, Darkstalkers wins the argument every time.

>>3794802
Nope, never could afford a PSP until recently.

>>3793439
OP your pic is red hot, thanks for reminding me of one of my favourite faps of old.

>>3794843
Your pics are so comfy anon... Damn.

>>3793439
Art of Fighting / Fatal Fury.

Southtown is amazing.

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>>3794652

I really liked Fighting Masters for some reason. I enjoyed the music especially.

My favorite track from the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qJfNqAsc-M

The devs of that game later went on to create Cyber Brawl/Cosmic Carnage for the 32X.

>>3793439
i liked psychic force desu

>>3794460
>what is tekken
>what is virtua fighters megamix
>what is psychic force
>what is marvel vs capcom

>>3794453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnO9ga7j47o
sounds a lot like Hiryu No Ken

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>>3793846
Despite using one of the shittiest characters as the example, this no doubt.

It's a personal thing, of course, but when you play the evolution disk, every single character has a good story and you end up enjoying the whole rival schools setting.

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>>3795263
Thanks? I'm guessing you take comfort that despite my financial issues, I still choose to hang onto fond memories? Or it possible the comfort comes from being above my sad state of affairs.


>>3795457
This series does perk me up whenever anyone mentions it. I attribute that to good friends coming together in just even being willing to participate in the series (despite some being more adept at fighting games) with no pressure to excel. Everyone loves the series, and laments its disappearance. A crazy fun anime high school setting works great in a game.

>>3793439
Galaxy Fight.
it's cool as fuck and I love the look of the characters and art, the presentation is great

but it's pretty lame as a game and infinite size stages were a mistake

>>3794453
>>3795406
Ultimate Fighter was the name of the localized version of Hiryu no Ken S.

>>3796215
No anon, it's the packages, so well kept.

>>3796215
I remember.
Bully and sports teams a best.

>>3793439
The early samurai shodown games, especially the first one was a bomb, since no other fighting game till then dared to stray from the sf2 formular

>>3793439
Tekken or Mortal Kombat

>>3796215
I wish I knew better japanese to understand even more the dialogue in the evolution disk.
Even with the whole board game character creation on the dreamcast they did an amazing job. I remember being disappointed at first but then enjoying the hell out of it.

>>3793439
>settings, characters
Samurai Shodown, Mortal Kombat

>>3794781
Yeah, I like the late 90s pseudo-goth/cyberpunk/Blade/The Matrix thing going on in KOF'99.

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>>3793825
>KoF tends to have too many characters for them to actually stick in your mind, even though individually they're usually better than SF's.
KIM
KAPHWAN
/OURGUY/

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KoF for its sheer number of bright characters for every taste

>>3794729
this right here

>>3794843
Isnt that PSP collection with Sapphire on it already getting pricey? Patrician taste anon:)

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>>3797747
It was costly to me at around $31+shipping from Japan (bought it used) ... but I did not have an Arcade Card nor the money for an actual Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire. It is the only reason I got that game (no love for Galaxy Fraulien Yuna, maybe I will play those another time).


Anyway, to relate back to the thread topic. The Last Blade series just has this vibe about its environments/stages. Like a certain gravity to the moment to moment in fights at the stages. I think it may be attributed to the intros prior to matches or sometimes a bit of ambient noise before music fades in. Doesn't hurt that I enjoyed Rurouni Kenshin in '96 (which of course the author was inspired/influenced by Samurai Spirits a bit along with Marvel comics). Good seeing the SNK love here.

>>3794551
Weaponlord wins the award for "most squandered potential in a fighting game".

>>3795335
Virtua Fighter is lacking compared to any really great cast, and Marvel characters are from comics not video games.

>>3798037
imo it's more subtle

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>>3793439
>>3795293

I will always love Southtown, I wish we'd get another non KOF game just to take us back. Garou 2 AOF4 I don't care which.

How amazing with a SoR style beat em up be.

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>>3795457
>>3796215

There's just something warm about Rival Schools that I really can't describe.

>>3798679
Rival Schools makes me think Street Fighter Alpha crossed with Ace Attorney

>>3798769
yeah they crossed the line

>>3798769
Same artist as Ace Attorney and Street Fighter EX, Edayan.

>>3798034
How was it squandered?

>>3793439
Weapon lords

>>3793439
Wherever and whatever Geese is in

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The SFIII games gave the SF cast another dimension of personality through both the character art (the kinu nishimura stuff, not the shit you see if you're playing on a modern console), and through the fantastic sprite animations.

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>>3799519

>>3797635
He's a dirty gook so 5/10, too good for his country.

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I always felt like SF had a big issue with establishing a "world." I know it's the "World Warrior" and all that but every place you visit just feels really disconnected from each other. The London stage is just some random vaguely British scene, there's a non military field that, there's a bathhouse and a china street and there's no sense of where any of these places even are in their respective countries.

SNK's South Town though while not mapped out really built up the idea that you where going through the same city, there's a beach a seedy bar, a bridge and Geese tower.

Rival Schools built up and established a neighborhood. All the kids went to different schools but they where all close enough by to where they could interact and you could get a feel for what was in their city beyond schools, a drive in theater a mall the construction site. PJ even went to so far as to create an actual map.

That's the kind of shit I like seeing. Keeping the scale smaller really give the player more to grab onto and gives the setting more personality than just obligatory country stereotypes. It's not super deep but you can imagine the fighters visiting these places in their off time.

>>3799571
Interesting points anon.

>>3799571
I really wish more video game companies went back to that "MCU" version of interconnected video games like Capcom & SNK did. That shit was the coolest thing for me as a kid.

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>>3800262

It just really helped in making everything feel more real as if it was an actual place. Like you can imagine Terry and the gang walking over to Richard's bar one night to just have a few and shoot the shit.

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they where cheesy as fuck but I wish we got more Fatal Fury animes, and a garou one too.

>>3799571
That's how I felt when I saw SF The Animated Movie. It felt too disjointed.

>>3796253
man... this game is never talked about! I loved it, though. the sprites have this candy-like quality to their colors. I think they are just soothing to look at. and, being a casual fighting gamer, I thought the infinite stages were fine. I hate getting crammed into a corner

>>3799302
eh... the game was not fun? it was too technical and hard as crap. not that it should have been a wacky Capcom slapfest, but it could have been a little more forgiving. also, being released only on 16bit systems was pretty much a death sentence

>>3799523
HULKAMANIA'S RUNNIN' WILD, BROTHER!

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>>3793439
Bloody Roar

>>3794780

I do like how unrepentantly evil Wong is in those games. Great music throughout, as well.

>>3793515
Fucking this.

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Rage of the Dragons kind got a cool city thing going. Not quite as developed as South Town but it also didn't have as many games either

>>3796253
Sunsoft fighters look pretty good.

>>3793515
That's the gayest shit I've ever heard. The GG designs are dA OC tier.

>>3794780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6bUAP85oRU

First time I ever saw an anime intro in a game, blew my mind as I just bought the game knowing nothing about it

>>3793825
You overlooked OMF2097 for grim and serious kinda story with a smidgeon of cyberpunk.

And Sango Fighter for being rooted in classical stuff. Though that could be conceived as having being handled by Samurai Showdown and Last Blade, but SanF has the specific big literature thing.

Also, Master's of Terras Kasi takes the win a bit more objectively as publicly acclaimed cool, since it did after all piggyback on an established monster franchise.

>>3805514

I only ever got to play the second one on dreamcast