SNK was better than Capcom, just gonna say it. Games require more finesse, character designs have more edge and coolness (you want to play as more people than ryu/ken/guile), the graphics were usually a bit rougher but a sign of a poser gamer is caring about graphics, so I kind of like it.

>>11788735 (OP)
>Games require more finesse
the dread

>>11788735 (OP)
Casuals avoid it while they flock to Capcom so I like it more than in the past

>>11788769
Can't do it can ya

>>11788735 (OP)
SNK games in Japan were historically aimed at casuals: less balanced and competitive, more cosplay friendly. Cosplayers were the main SNK audience back in the Neo Geo days.

>>11788735 (OP)
Clearly Capcom got something right with their character designs since they’re so iconic despite most of them just being national stereotypes

>>11788790
Lol if you think any of the big capcom competitive scene games are balanced, you don't play, or don't play with high enough levels to know about the tier lists. The secret of actually playing fighting games high level is you learn there is no such thing as balance. And no, SNK games are way harder to be good at, period.

>>11788797
I don't like how Capcom fighters are mostly weird and bulky shapes. Call it autism but I only want to play as relatively normal shaped characters, so 70% of the Darkstalkers roster is off the table for me.

>>11788797
Only SFII cast is iconic, and that's because it was the first fighting game as we know the genre. Tekken is just as popular but most people can't name many characters/they get parodied in media less. SFII has the advantage of being the first to blow, and MK the second, so those characters are not just highly remembered but also homaged in pop culture a lot. Notice how no SF character after II has become iconic in any way, nobody who isn't a big fan knows who Alex, Charlie, or Abel is.

>>11788802
>if you think
That's not my opinion, that's common knowledge. Go read old interviews, Gamest articles and jap guide books.

>>11788819
>game journos!
No I play games for real I don't need second hand opinions from biased journos like some fan of the fandom latecomer

>>11788812
Yeah, I think I get what you mean
Like you’re playing with some crazy ass Mugen roster

>>11788837
>biased journos
>he doesn't know that Gamest magazine articles and game-specific guides by the same publisher were written by hardcore arcade players, some of the best in Japan

>>11788849
>Japanese gamers can't be biased
They're the most autistic players, just listen to Daigo or whoever wax poetic about how he plays Ryu because it's an artistic expression of his soul or whatever the fuck. Just because I play fighting games doesn't mean I'm a weaaboo who gives a shit about Japan. And yeah, even if you're a player, you can still be blindly biased toward the brand you decided to dedicate all your attention to.

>>11788735 (OP)
It wasn't but it's okay to have a preference.

>>11788817
>Notice how no SF character after II has become iconic in any way
Counterpoint.

>>11788960
Yeah but that's because of porn, the other guy is right, as a guy that doesn't cares about fighting games I have no idea who Charlie and Abel are

>>11789007
The fuck are you doing in this thread?

>>11788735 (OP)

Team SNK here too. A shame the 2000s was the last time when they were their original selves before going bankrupt.

>>11788735 (OP)
KOF 98 was a better game than SFA3.
KOF 2002 was a better game than CVS2.

I still prefer Capcom.

>>11788735 (OP)
I like them both, you console warring faggots are all retarded try hards and weeby subhumans

>>11789505
>KOF 2002
That was Eolith, wasn't it? SNK was ded

>>11788735 (OP)
SNK games always had the better BGM

>>11789505
No SNK game is better than SFA2 though.

>>11788735 (OP)
I guess if fighting games are the only genre you care about maybe it's a competition?

>>11788735 (OP)
>you want to play as more people than ryu/ken/guile

huh

>>11790046
SFA2 and 3rd Strike

>>11788817
>Notice how no SF character after II has become iconic in any way
I disagree, maybe you'd have a case for this in the late 90's, but
>Sakura
>Yun
>Makoto
>Dudley
>Q
>Karin
>R. Mika
>Hugo
>Juri(Not retro)
>Luke(Not retro)
Are all pretty well known now outside of street fighter's base.

>>11790074
You're only right about Sakura. No one knows any of those others.

>>11789505
>KOF 98 was a better game than SFA3.
I wouldn't go that far

>implying anyone knows SNK characters that are not Terry or Mai

>>11790074
Iconic means that even people who don't play the games know who they are, out of all of those maybe Sakura could ring a bell. Even if you never touched a fighting game, you know who Ryu and Chun Li, same goes for the rest of the world warriors even if you don't know their games, in SNK, the only ones I knew were Terry, Mai and Iori, but I'm kinda cheating with the last because he looked like a total psycho and passing though the arcade machines demos and seeing his gameplay made a big impression on me.

>>11790115
Ironically, Terry became more famous in more recent times, back in the 00s, SNK = Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami

>>11789505
2002UM>98>XIII>XI>The rest.
XII and 2001 were dogshit, comparing them to the capcom games is a matter of preference, but IMO, the top 3 kof games are better than most sf games other than 3rd strike and I would put CVS2 almost on par with XIII

>>11791374
I think that was true back in the 90s, but kids today don't know any of that. Like, I've had conversations with people that play games and have no idea who Ryu is. It sounds insane to me, but they were too young to remember SF at the height of it's glory.

Now probably most people know Ryu as "the karate guy from Smash"

>>11788812
Capcom only went full on freakshow with SF3 due to Ono's big hand and feet fetish but ill take Capcom comic book / manga style character designs over SNK's lame ass metrosexual fashionistas that all blend.

>>11788812
>>11788735 (OP)
>>11791438
Member when Ono ripped off Iori Yagami?

>>11788735 (OP)
most SNK characters look like regular dudes off the street, which probably isn't great for memorable character design

>>11791382
This is actually true, or at least I remember it this way.

>>11791448
It works for me, cool but not completely off the rails. But I must admit that Vega is the coolest character ever made in a fighting game.

This is the worst place to talk about SNK objectively because SNK was big everywhere besides the US,making something like SNK vs Capcom an obvious crossover goldmine as much as pitting Capcom against Marvel, another recognizably popular franchise with characters punching each other.
Meanwhile no one outside of the US ever gave a flying fuck about Mortal Kombat, but that's the second best known fighting game series in the US after Street Fighter.

>>11791483
i'd actually put mortal kombat at #1

ask your grandpa about fighting games and that's probably the only one he can come up with, they play the Mortal Kombat movie on cable all the time

>>11788817
>>11791374
You are underestimating how huge Street Fighter IV was, how that resparked and created a lot of people's interest in fighting games again, and how characters that first appeared in Alpha or III are considered mainstays to them because they appeared in that roster.
I know normies and zoomers who know who Elena is, which was way less likely even a year before IV came out. Same for R Mika and fucking Dudley. Sakura was always kinda memorable.

>>11791486
>i'd actually put mortal kombat at #1
True, when people parody fighting games here, FATALITY and FINISH HIM always come up as much as fireballs

Is it true that Art of Fighting/Fatal Fury/whichever one was it/ was made by the guy who made Street Fighter 1? SNK poached him from Capcom before they started on SF2, right
Or was my leg being pulled

I like both, but character design wise can't day Snk is winning this. For someone that plays casually most people will look rhe fucking same. Kyo? Kensou? That dude from the Orochi team? Shingo? Then the faggotrybof Benimaru and his ilk. And engrish didn't help in early days (hilarious as it was).

>>11788735 (OP)
I don't really care about their other games, but SNK made Samurai Shodown and The Last Blade so that's enough for me to take their side. No Capcom fightan is as good as SS/TLB to me.