Thread 12037617

3D fighting games peaked during the 6th gen

>wanted to get into kof for a long time
>grabbed 97 on steam because it was on sale for dirt cheap
>going through arcade mode with every team
>just got the sacred treasures team ending
Holy fucking kinooo

>>12037650
97 has the worst music and backgrounds

>>12037669
97 barely has music. Stages are alright. The ring girls were something i wish we saw more of

>>12037638
>Soul Calibur 2
geez, man… maybe I’m just a miserable retard now. Back then I thought SC2 was awesome for including a token mascot from the console it was released on but looking back on it now… Link is the only one that makes sense. Why they’d choose Spawn for the Xbox’s mascot out of all people? And for the PS2 why Heihachi Mishima (the whole thing of Soul Calibur was fighters with a Sword/Weapon) the only guy without one. Also Yoshimitsu has always been in both Tekken & Soul Calibur so that should’ve been your guy right there.

I wonder who would’ve been the Dreamcast’s Mascot if it saw the sequel

>>12037669
>>12037682
Yeah, it's weird how the music is tied to specific characters, and like half of them don't have any, but I already knew that going in. I really appreciate the effort they put into the story thought, even with the Engrish

>>12037705
According to legend, the PS2 was originally supposed to have Cloud Strife and the Xbox was supposed to have Kasumi from DoA, but the parent companies for both said "no".

As for your spoiler: I think Sakura Shinguji from Sakura Wars would've been a contender, or at the very least that's who I'd choose if I were the one calling the shots.

>>12037705
>Link is the only one that makes sense.
No he doesn't.
>But sword
He doesn't fit the tone and style of SouCalibur at all. Having a sword doesn't mean you match everything else that has sword.

>>12037705
Ironically I was a huge Zeldafag when it came out and first played the game on GC but I wouldn't care if Link was removed from the game

I'm too good to fight my friends, but I'm not good enough to play professionally. This is the worst way to be if you're into fighters.

>>12037759
>I'm too good to fight my friends, but I'm not good enough to play professionally
Same. It sucks

Fuck you I like it.

I kind of stopped playing fighting games so much lately but I still do an arcade ladder playthrough of Tekken 2 occasionally.

>>12037816
I can't do any online games at all.

One thing I always liked was cool intro sequences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtF80UCgarY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP3FE2nW6oA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCxHed_f59o

>>12037859
I don't think anything will ever surpass the Soul Blade intro

I can't get into Virtua Fighter for some reason

gonna cross post this with the music thread but the training theme in doa4 is really good and so is zero hour which is the charater select screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAwh8ziSf3w

>>12037705
xbox should have been ryu from ninja gaiden honestly but because hes in DOA idk if they would have done it. it would have been kino though they could have given him an entirely different moveset. ps2 idk who it could have been im sure theres a lot. kratos comes to mind but i never played his games and didnt think they looked interesting. hotsuma from shinobi would have been cool.

>>12037912
That still relies a lot on tecmo. So if Kasumi was out, Ryo wuldn't fare much better. Heihachi was easy because Namco owned both games, and Link is first party. Spawn was weird but they had Todd do some character design so it made some sense since he was in the office but also why was he doing character design at all? this was well past a point were people stopped caring about spawn.

>>12037934
1:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oou3IudIoC0 tailor made for you

>>12037682
Please post more of these bitches.

>>12037732
I don’t think you’ve played Soul Calibur at all, dude.

>>12037886
what is halo doing in dead or alive? what's next? are they going to add metroid?

heihachi was god tier in sc2

CHICKEN

>>12038487
fuck, I wish every fighting game had this mode. Best feature.

>>12037638
I loved cardinal syn on the PS1 tho. Some people would say that tekken 3 on the PS1 was peak even mortal combat on the PC in 1993 .Also consider way of the exploding fist on the spectrum. The PS2 was great too though, Virtual Figher, Soulcaliber, DOA, streetfighter. IMO they kept improving on the 7th gen though.

Hell I even enjoyed masters of terris kasi. 'FIGHT'. What you need for fightig games more than anything else is someone else for same room play.

>>12037705
>Link is the only one that makes sense
Maybe the whole concept of a console mascot character was shit to begin with? Muh special joint marketing bullshit.

>>12038442
>Dude all magical fantasy settings are the same
Nintendies....

I 'member when they were called beat 'em ups.

>>12038850
Whole Europe call them that way.

>>12038926
Impossible - anons have repeatedly told me nobody called them that.

Thoughts?

>>12038969
Trust me, everybody called beat em up from 1990 to 2007

I have all britichs, french and spanish magazines calling them that way

Also we called doom games: shoot em up

if I posted the first two pages I might as well post the remaining two.

A pretty good game ruined by meta-faggotry and immature man-children.

>>12039049
forgot pic

>>12037682
>The ring girls were something i wish we saw more of
Not with all that filtering.

Fuck it i'll post other games from this book.

>>12039268
I will say though I have no idea how good these games are. I've only played 3 beat em ups in my life; demo for tekken 2, tekken 1 which I rage quit and then DOA 2 which I also rage quit. It was then I decided this genre isn't for me and haven ever gone back.

>>12038994
idk but dinos are cool.


>>12039273

>>12039276
However we all know Rise 2 is a veritable classic right?

>>12039308
Now i'm not saying I fapped to nina williams back in the day, but i'm not say I didn't either....

>>12038850
Beat 'em ups are orignally side scrollers like double dragon or renegade where its one or several player charachers against a horde including multiple enemies at at time that evolve on to stuff like dmc and spartan total warrior. Fighting games are two players opposing each other on screen either 2 player or player Vs machine in a few knock oout bouts until a winner as way of the exploding fist or Tekken 3 etc. They are not the same genre and never were

>>12038802
Cram it, poofter!

>>12039316
Hey I was around at the time and they were never viewed as the same thing, dispite what your mag says. Beat em ups is two player at all were calways collaborative and agsinst multiple opponents, fighting games as were always one on one and if 2 player competitive.

>>12039314
Existing evidence says otherwise, such as these pages and what >>12039010 posted.

>>12039316
Last page.

>>12039314
>>12039320
Nobody called it the psx either right?

>>12039321
Nta but this image >>12039010 has fighting games under the "Lucha" (fight) label

>>12037731
>Cloud Strife
See? why the fuck didn’t they use him? That makes perfect sense. I can’t believe how bad Namco fumbled the ball right there.

Same thing with >>12037912 . Ryu would have been another win.

ultimately, for me, it's still RBS.
the best fighting game ever made

>>12039321
Thanks for posting

Technically related to this thread which is enough of an excuse for me. Back when fun wasn't verboten you'd get things like this: people challenging the strategy mag writers to see who was better.

1/2

>>12040375
2/2

>>12039314
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10600101/#10600101

>>12037836
Tekken 2 is absolute low poly kino

>>12040709
obvious shoop is obvious

>>12040786
>Low poly low poly
I wish this term did not proliferate as much as it did during the 10s, Tekken 2 is anything other than "low poly" for its hardware. If you had simply expressed "polygonal kino" there'd have been nothing amiss.

>>12040858
Yeah a shop, try to timetravel to 1999 and stop the UK to publish that magazine, good luck with that

>>12037638
I agree, but SoulCalibur peaked one entry later.

Nobody remembers bloody roar or rival schools.

>>12041204
I do.

>>12041192
>mp4
lmao, are you the guy who only does 4A A A as Sophitia?

I call them "Beat 'im ups" because you're just beating one dude

>>12042123
What about tekken tag tournament then huh? CHECKMATE atheists.