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[MagiusNecros]

Soul Calibur III was even better and Broken Destiny version of Soul Calibur IV was decent enough. The obsession with Soul Calibur II never ceases to amaze me. It is like Soul Calibur on Dreamcast but with more filler content and looser, less responsive controls and less balanced characters.

I dunno what it is but SC2 just feel's so good to play and I got Soul Break down to a science. Also felt it was more balanced. SC3 just felt wrong.

Can't comment on Tekken Tag since I like both Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag.

Can't say I cared about 6 7, or 8.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Never play them for more than a week indeed. Most of them are way too generic, hitting buttons until the bar at the bottom fills up then throw the super and repeat. Even combos are like press the same button again and again, or press these buttons time and again.the Killer Instinct way of discovering combos by having some logic behind. And I prefer having 100% of action time, not being interrupted by those 5-10 second CGI cuts showing stupid things like bashing the opponent with a motorcycle or sending them to the sky for a free fall. But if they continue adding CGI it means players like it.

 

[DavidGzz]

I had a multi years love affair with Street Fighter 2 as a kid. From arcades to Super NES. I played Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 and Killer Instinct for many months. But yeah, these days I play for a week or two. Still don't regret buying MK1. It was fun for a time. If a game lasts me a week, I'm happy. Money isn't as hard to come by as when I was a kid and gamers are WAY more plentiful so it's only natural to love on faster.

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

I do one Arcade mode run per day, then go do something else. I do it with every fighting game. Soul Calibur, Guilty Gear, whatever.

I adore fighting games, but I rarely play them for more then 1 hour. I'm not a online player either, so there's that too.

I boot up KOF 99, pick Blue Mary for example, beat or attempt to beat Arcade mode with her, then that's it.

 

[Bernardougf]

I just abandoned fight games... they became too complex for my taste ... always loved the older SF and MK ... too much combos and moves and things hidden behind paywalls and cryptcs ... dont care.

 

[NeverYouMind]

I dunno what it is but SC2 just feel's so good to play and I got Soul Break down to a science. Also felt it was more balanced. SC3 just felt wrong.

Do you mean guard break? Also, how can it be balanced when Xianghua is broken and Yun Seong is trash tier regardless of stage? Soul Calibur III felt like the original Soul Calibur mixed with Soul Edge content and more to me. Granted just frames and soul charge exclusive moves could be a bit annoying to pull off at first.

As I understand it the early North America release of Soul Calibur III is buggy but the European and Japanese versions are more polished. Granted, there were some mad lads at 8WayRun that ported the limited release Arcade Edition improvements to the console version and that is the version I replay.

 

[Fbh]

I don't really buy them anymore because sadly I have no one to play them with locally. And online multiplayer is too unreliable where I live for something like a fighting game.

 

[//DEVIL//]

I play dragon ball fighterZ to this day. Same with killer instinct.

Tekken 8 with friends and online

Didn’t bother with street fighter because story mode sucks and I don’t like what they have as a story mode ( even though I like the commentary during fights )

Oh and my main is Bison and he is no longer there so the game is dead to me

 

[Celcius]

I don't really put as many hours into them as I used to buy I still enjoy them when I do play them.
Playing online just isn't the same as local multiplayer back in the day for me. I mainly enjoy arcade mode and story modes.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Do you mean guard break? Also, how can it be balanced when Xianghua is broken and Yun Seong is trash tier regardless of stage? Soul Calibur III felt like the original Soul Calibur mixed with Soul Edge content and more to me. Granted just frames and soul charge exclusive moves could be a bit annoying to pull off at first.

As I understand it the early North America release of Soul Calibur III is buggy but the European and Japanese versions are more polished. Granted, there were some mad lads at 8WayRun that ported the limited release Arcade Edition improvements to the console version and that is the version I replay.

Only played the early release. So maybe the Arcade version might have given a better impression.

 

[ChoosableOne]

It seems they are generally liked here. But it can be considered normal on a niche platform related to games. After all, there is an active fg community of 30-35 thousand people on Steam, so it seems like 100 of them are coming from here Thanks for the replies!

 

[Soodanim]

Any fighting game I've ever played has been treated the same way as when I first got Tekken 2 on PS1. I play through the story/arcade mode to unlock everything, then play until I'm bored. That takes more than a week. I don't play multiplayer.

This has normally been a decent strategy, but I did fuck up when I got Smash on Wii U. It was my first Smash since Melee and I just assumed it would have a similar Adventure mode. Turned out it didn't, and as such the game barely got touched. What a waste of money. You what they say about when you assume...

 

[NeverYouMind]

This has normally been a decent strategy, but I did fuck up when I got Smash on Wii U. It was my first Smash since Melee and I just assumed it would have a similar Adventure mode. Turned out it didn't, and as such the game barely got touched. What a waste of money. You what they say about when you assume...

The problem is that Smash Bros. isn't a fighting game. It is a party 2D platform brawler.

 

[Robb]

Only Smash Bros., and only locally. But if Nintendo ever manages to actually make the online component great I’d play it way more.

 

[BattleScar]

The amount of fun you get out of fighting games is far too dependent on how much time you put into them in my opinion.

 

[Fake]

Is not even fun seeing people fightning with all those automatic combos. I normally stick with old fightning games like Last Blade 2, Garou, SF4 and Guilty Gear.

 

[VulcanRaven]

I don't play them much. I do have a lot of nostalgia for the early Mortal Kombat games, Tekken 3 and Tag Tournament but I was never good at them. They are fun with friends.

 

[SportsFan581]

I still have SF2 installed today and have owned it on many platforms. Since it's like 30 some years old, that's not too bad. Current one I'm using is that Capcom arcade version on Steam.

 

[EverydayBeast]

How about fighting force? It delivers and was light years ahead of tekken and mortal kombat.

 

[ChoosableOne]

I ended up buying SF6 despite starting a thread like this. I took a break as soon as I learned Luke. But since I spent a lot of money this time, I'll come back to it. It's an interesting cycle for me.

 

[Closer]

Bruh I'm playing Alpha 3 and Super Turbo to this day, and just finished downloading Ultra 4 to have some fun playing Gouken.

 

[SHA]

Not a hater but I'm done with genres that pushes you to the edge like fighting games.

 

[SHA]

I'm Ryu level 21, how about y'all?

 

[kazuyamishima]

I’ve been playing on and off Marvel vs Capcom 2 since it launched.

It’s so broken that is perfectly balanced.

 

[Damien Crowley]

Yesterday I tinkered a bit with the PCSX2-Emulator and ended up rushing through the Arcade Modes of Tekken 4 and 5 back to back. I am in a lovehateship with 8 and just do the Invasion stuff from MK1 when the season resets for the silly costumes... Weirdly I did not pull the trigger on SF6 still...

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Was hyped to finally get into a Street Fighter game. Played SF6 non stop for about a week. Then it felt like every match was the same. Get the opponent into the corner and whoever had their combo memorized the best wins.

Was hyped to play a modern Tekken after last playing Tekken 2 20 years ago. Played T8 non stop for a week. Started playing Granblue Fantasy and never touched Tekken again.

Luckily both games were bought physically and I recovered my costs. I don’t even think it’s a fighting game issue for me. Any game that goes on forever (literally) and requires constant play is no longer something of interest to me. My days of spending 1000 hours on Overwatch and Apex Legends were my swan song.

 

[SF Kosmo]

I like playing them when there are enough fellow scrubs for me to have fun, but after a few weeks I can't keep up and I just get my face rocked.

If there's some good single player content I might last a bit longer. Street Fighter 6 and Dragon Ball FighterZ held my interest longer than most.

 

[GreetingsMortal]

I have like 200+ hours in all the modern games.

Cus I’m not a bitch

 

[NeverYouMind]

I like playing them when there are enough fellow scrubs for me to have fun, but after a few weeks I can't keep up and I just get my face rocked.

I've been scrubbing it up with Claudio in Tekken 8 after Lidia update and both ranked and quick match have many players mashing still. The new fighting pass is also neat. Not because of amazing unlocks, but because casually playing online has fun progression system and even gives you a piece of the in-game currency for micro store junk in case they ever release anything worth getting (with very little time investment).

 

[Hudo]

Neo Turf Masters and Windjammers are my fighting games.

I do have a deep appreciation for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, though.

 

[Deerock71]

Call me prejudiced, but those games were always designed to suck quarters out of my pockets when I was a kid. Fuck fighting games!

 

[NeverYouMind]

Call me prejudiced, but those games were always designed to suck quarters out of my pockets when I was a kid. Fuck fighting games!

I always played the cabinets in doctor's offices with free play and console releases...

 

[Nemesisuuu]

Yes, I can play them - for like 15 minutes.

Mortal Kombat story mode and krypt is another thing, one of rare instances of fighting game that I play for longer. But that also is something along lines - I'll play Mortal Kombat 9 and then I've had enough of the genre for another 10 years.

Wu-Tang: Taste The Pain on PS1 was also quite fun with multitap.

On the other hand Tekken, Street Fighter etc. is definition of boredom for me. It's just not for me.