Favourite stories in fighting games ?

[ConanTheDestroyer]

Fighting games are not the place one looks to if they are looking for a game with great storytelling. But I am curious which fighting game stories you guys found to be your favourite or had a lot of fun with(even if they may not have been the most well written). I find myself really enjoying stories of a lot of SNK games like KOF, AOF, Fatal Fury, etc.

 

[Zarathusta]

Orochi saga in King of fighters.

 

[ATenderLad]

I don't think I could accuse any fighting game of strong storytelling, but the character backgrounds and details could suck me in. The shared SNK setting of King of Fighters in particular. If I had written, uh, anything growing up, it would have been fanfiction about Southtown. Probably a jump forward like Mark of the Wolves, with older Ryo filling in for Takuma as Mr. Karate, the Ikari's in town with some new cadets sussing out whatever arms dealer/mad scientist/world spirit was behind the upcoming martial arts tournament. Maybe Tung Fu Rue is finally getting too old, and has the secret to whatever bullshit turns him into a muscle monster ready on a scroll for whoever wins KOF, forcing Terry to compete and give up his rambling hobo lifestyle to be the new head of the Turtle Sch....sorry, Hakkyokuseiken.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Definitely Tekken, kangaroos and dinosaurs just made it so interesting (even the pandas)

 

[Aziamuth]

faust

 

[χKai]

Soul Calibur  too

 

[RashFaustinho]

Tekken 4 was probably the only time in that franchise where they were trying to make an actual enjoyable plot and not some generic over the top shounen cliche anime lol

 

[ConanTheDestroyer]

Tekken 4 was probably the only time in that franchise where they were trying to make an actual enjoyable plot and not some generic over the top shounen cliche anime lol

Loved the darker tone of Tekken 4. Not to mention it was probably the last time they took Paul seriously.

 

[GreatIso]

I've been meaning to get into the Tekken story, but so far i really liked the BB story and KoF from what i played, GG had a cool story too but it's a bit hard to find all the pieces of it. I think SF has a ton of cool character interactions too, but the story isn't as amazing.

 

[Boo Man]

Paul almost won the first King of iron fist tournament being beaten in the final stage by Kazuya.
the second tournament he was beaten again by Kazuya.
almost 20 years later in the third tournament Paul beat everyone including Ogre
so he returned home thinking he was victorious, but Ogre had transformed into True Ogre who was then defeated by Jin Kazama so Paul missed out on the win again.
In the fourth tournament Paul was eager to rematch Kazuya but was beaten early by Kuma so returned home humbled by his loss but determined to improve.
Paul has never actually won a tournament to this day but he is still one of the strongest characters and one of my favorites to play

 

[YousefYousef's icon]

I’m inclined to say tekken
DOA also

 

[Bonkers225]

Soul Blade/Soul Calibur

 

[gesihell]

Fighting games are not the place one looks to if they are looking for a game with great storytelling. But I am curious which fighting game stories you guys found to be your favourite or had a lot of fun with(even if they may not have been the most well written). I find myself really enjoying stories of a lot of SNK games like KOF, AOF, Fatal Fury, etc.

King I and King II from Tekken,
all the first King's backstory, then the second takes the title after King I's death. This drama gets better when Marduk joins the play, providing moments to better explore the personality of a man who wears a jaguar mask and growls.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I think that the whole story concept behind Under Night In-Birth is just brilliant.

 

[Zanardi]

Washizuka, Kaori and Mukuro connection in The Last Blade 2

 

[YousefYousef's icon]

I think that the whole story concept behind Under Night In-Birth is just brilliant.

Under night appreciation

 

[GreatIso]

I think that the whole story concept behind Under Night In-Birth is just brilliant.

I've been meaning to get on that, but it's a little hard to get to the story due to how you gotta get each game version i heard.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I've been meaning to get on that, but it's a little hard to get to the story due to how you gotta get each game version i heard.

It's a bit of work, but you can get a pretty good idea of the whole thing by beating the PS3 version with each character, which is surprisingly easy to do.

 

[Cu-Neo]

Blazblue in general

And the Orochi and N.E.S.T saga in KOF

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I've been meaning to get on that, but it's a little hard to get to the story due to how you gotta get each game version i heard.

As Waffles said. You can understand each character motivation on their arcade mode and some versions (exe late St onwards) has a chronicles mode that explains how the characters get into their arcade mode storylines.

 

[YousefYousef's icon]

Blazblue in general
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And the Orochi and N.E.S.T saga in KOF

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As Waffles said. You can understand each character motivation on their arcade mode and some versions (exe late St onwards) has a chronicles mode that explains how the characters get into their arcade mode storylines.

Blazblue is hilarious in general. The anime melts your brain.
Good ost tho

 

[Clippy]

Mortal Kombat. There's good reason the first movie is one of the few good video game adaptations.

 

[ConanTheDestroyer]

King I and King II from Tekken,
all the first King's backstory, then the second takes the title after King I's death. This drama gets better when Marduk joins the play, providing moments to better explore the personality of a man who wears a jaguar mask and growls.

The story with King and both of the King's relationship with Armor King was pretty good. Just a shame it seems to be going nowhere ever since the second Armor King entered the picture.

 

[RetroLaw]

Blazblue of course.

 

[tigg]

Killer Instinct(Arcade) Even though you don't really get any of the story until you beat it with a character.

 

[RetroLaw]

The story of th dirst Mortal Kombat games were sweet ("have a good day").

Starting with 9 it's less silly but I love it nonetheless.