Fighting Game Central

[SuperSampleStar]

This was the very first Street Fighter game I ever owned. As a kid, I had a friend that had World Warrior on the SNES and him and I would try to see which one got to Dictator first. Eventually I got this to try it out myself and after reading the instruction manual, I stuck with Guile as my main (since in my tiny child mind charge moves were easier to do). Ever since then I've always considered SF2 as my #1 favorite fighting game. Regarding the official games, I choose Hyper Anniversary Edition as the best (even better than Super Turbo) because you can select all the different versions of each character. Unofficially though, my #1 recommendation is New Legacy - A Super Turbo hack that fixes everything and makes the game balanced and gives lower tier characters new tools at their disposal. My 2nd favorite Street Fighter game is Alpha 3, specifically MAX on the PSP. I consider it the definitive version of Alpha 3. You get all the characters including the home ports and GBA game, and it gives you so many different modes to play in. The last "newest" Street Fighter game I played was Ultra 4, and I remember liking it alot even though it was the beginning of the downfall of Street Fighter as a whole.

Other fighters I play:

• Garou MotW
• Karnov's Revenge
• Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty (Dark Legend - Suiko Enbu)
• the vs series starting with Marvel Super Heroes and ending with MvC2
• Capcom vs SNK 2
• Darkstalkers
• Tekken (1-3 specifically... haven't touched a new tekken since 5)
• Breaker's Revenge
• Rival Schools

I chill on FightCade2 from time to time, but compared to everyone else on there I'm complete garbage, so my Rankings are always in the D-C category. Highest I've ever gotten was B in Super Turbo.

 

[Octopus]

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This was the very first Street Fighter game I ever owned. As a kid, I had a friend that had World Warrior on the SNES and him and I would try to see which one got to Dictator first. Eventually I got this to try it out myself and after reading the instruction manual, I stuck with Guile as my main (since in my tiny child mind charge moves were easier to do). Ever since then I've always considered SF2 as my #1 favorite fighting game. Regarding the official games, I choose Hyper Anniversary Edition as the best (even better than Super Turbo) because you can select all the different versions of each character. Unofficially though, my #1 recommendation is New Legacy - A Super Turbo hack that fixes everything and makes the game balanced and gives lower tier characters new tools at their disposal. My 2nd favorite Street Fighter game is Alpha 3, specifically MAX on the PSP. I consider it the definitive version of Alpha 3. You get all the characters including the home ports and GBA game, and it gives you so many different modes to play in. The last "newest" Street Fighter game I played was Ultra 4, and I remember liking it alot even though it was the beginning of the downfall of Street Fighter as a whole.

Other fighters I play:

• Garou MotW
• Karnov's Revenge
• Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty (Dark Legend - Suiko Enbu)
• the vs series starting with Marvel Super Heroes and ending with MvC2
• Capcom vs SNK 2
• Darkstalkers
• Tekken (1-3 specifically... haven't touched a new tekken since 5)
• Breaker's Revenge
• Rival Schools

I chill on FightCade2 from time to time, but compared to everyone else on there I'm complete garbage, so my Rankings are always in the D-C category. Highest I've ever gotten was B in Super Turbo.

It's not about the ranking, it's about enjoying the game. I'll check out New Legacy for sure, I know very little about the hack scene.

 

[Ravl]

Strive is by far the best for beginners because, simply put, it's the easiest. It still has some depth going on but it's on the easier side.

+R is much more mechanically complex and has the biggest depth while Xrd is a middle point. Xrd was actually my first fighting game ever so it has to account for something.

On the other hand, Strive has some newbies while Xrd and +R is chockfull with veterans that are ready to kick ass. Also Xrd is kind of a Discord fighter

That's why I stick to this day to +R, Strive marked the point of no return for this series.
Also what do you mean by "Discord Fighter"?

 

[Kannibal]

I'm currently focusing on Capcom vs SNK 2 and Street Fighter III Third Strike. Since I've never actually sat down to practice optimal combos, I've been relying on findamentals and dumb hail mary luck to win. Now that I know where people get together, it's motivated me to get better.

 

[Octopus]

I'm currently focusing on Capcom vs SNK 2 and Street Fighter III Third Strike. Since I've never actually sat down to practice optimal combos, I've been relying on findamentals and dumb hail mary luck to win. Now that I know where people get together, it's motivated me to get better.

CvS2, my beloved. A great, utterly broken game. Fundamentals can carry you far for sure, but yeah you still need to learn some optimal combos for different situations. What characters have you been looking at in both of of those?

 

[tselinoyarsk]

1. Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus R (Steam)
Mains: Sol Badguy & Testament
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I'm not familiar with fighting games outside of smash bros melee, but I've been trying to learn this game on pcsx2. It's really fun, but I'm terrible at it haha.

 

[Kannibal]

CvS2, my beloved. A great, utterly broken game. Fundamentals can carry you far for sure, but yeah you still need to learn some optimal combos for different situations. What characters have you been looking at in both of of those?

When I first started playing CvS2 back in the day, I would cycle through Ken, Iori, Terry, and Kyo. Eventually, I've settled on Sagat, Haohmaru, and Ryo as my main team. Ryo is definitely one of the hardest characters to win with, but I am adamant about getting better with him.

In Third Strike, Alex was my immediate favorite so he's my main, but I also have Hugo, Dudley, and Ken so I have options to mess around with.

 

[Octopus]

When I first started playing CvS2 back in the day, I would cycle through Ken, Iori, Terry, and Kyo. Eventually, I've settled on Sagat, Haohmaru, and Ryo as my main team. Ryo is definitely one of the hardest characters to win with, but I am adamant about getting better with him.

In Third Strike, Alex was my immediate favorite so he's my main, but I also have Hugo, Dudley, and Ken so I have options to mess around with.

Hell yeah, Haohmaru was one of my favourites back in the day too before I even knew what SamSho was. Sagat is arguably the best (read: busted) character in the game next to Blanka and maybe Geese, so you picked well.

I've never been good at 3S, but I did main Dudley in SF4. Most of his tech carried forward from 3S, he plays pretty similar in both games. St.HK and cr.MP are your go to normals for combos, burn meter to EX machine gun blow as much as possible to get a juggle after with ducking upper or straight. Oh, and use the rose throw as much as possible on their wakeup for the emotional victory. Mix in your target combos, and throw the overhead F.HK out whenever you think they're going to blocking.

I don't know much about Alex, so can't help you there. All I know is how satisfying st.HK is to land, and the chops into DDT.

 

[Jade_Tyrant]

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This was the very first Street Fighter game I ever owned. As a kid, I had a friend that had World Warrior on the SNES and him and I would try to see which one got to Dictator first. Eventually I got this to try it out myself and after reading the instruction manual, I stuck with Guile as my main (since in my tiny child mind charge moves were easier to do). Ever since then I've always considered SF2 as my #1 favorite fighting game. Regarding the official games, I choose Hyper Anniversary Edition as the best (even better than Super Turbo) because you can select all the different versions of each character. Unofficially though, my #1 recommendation is New Legacy - A Super Turbo hack that fixes everything and makes the game balanced and gives lower tier characters new tools at their disposal. My 2nd favorite Street Fighter game is Alpha 3, specifically MAX on the PSP. I consider it the definitive version of Alpha 3. You get all the characters including the home ports and GBA game, and it gives you so many different modes to play in. The last "newest" Street Fighter game I played was Ultra 4, and I remember liking it alot even though it was the beginning of the downfall of Street Fighter as a whole.

Other fighters I play:

• Garou MotW
• Karnov's Revenge
• Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty (Dark Legend - Suiko Enbu)
• the vs series starting with Marvel Super Heroes and ending with MvC2
• Capcom vs SNK 2
• Darkstalkers
• Tekken (1-3 specifically... haven't touched a new tekken since 5)
• Breaker's Revenge
• Rival Schools

I chill on FightCade2 from time to time, but compared to everyone else on there I'm complete garbage, so my Rankings are always in the D-C category. Highest I've ever gotten was B in Super Turbo.

You play Garou? ive been really wanting to get good at it and want a coach or someone to play with? do you play on Fightcade?

 

[Kannibal]

Hell yeah, Haohmaru was one of my favourites back in the day too before I even knew what SamSho was. Sagat is arguably the best (read: busted) character in the game next to Blanka and maybe Geese, so you picked well.

I've never been good at 3S, but I did main Dudley in SF4. Most of his tech carried forward from 3S, he plays pretty similar in both games. St.HK and cr.MP are your go to normals for combos, burn meter to EX machine gun blow as much as possible to get a juggle after with ducking upper or straight. Oh, and use the rose throw as much as possible on their wakeup for the emotional victory. Mix in your target combos, and throw the overhead F.HK out whenever you think they're going to blocking.

I don't know much about Alex, so can't help you there. All I know is how satisfying st.HK is to land, and the chops into DDT.

Haohmaru has my favorite pokes. Sagat lets me play retarded against people of equal skill or lower but my playstyle becomes easier to read after a match or two.

Dudley has my favorite juggle when you launch with cr.HK (I think) and follow up with a machine gun blow. For Alex, I try to play hard ready and throw stomp or DDT.

 

[Octopus]

Haohmaru has my favorite pokes. Sagat lets me play retarded against people of equal skill or lower but my playstyle becomes easier to read after a match or two.

Dudley has my favorite juggle when you launch with cr.HK (I think) and follow up with a machine gun blow. For Alex, I try to play hard ready and throw stomp or DDT.

Yeah, Dudley's cr.HK is the launcher leg flip thing which definitely isn't a legal boxing move but whatever. Off of cr.HK, you can also do ducking upper into Super 1 or 3 for a pretty big damage cash out if you have the meter. I'm not sure in 3S, but in SF4 you could get multiple cr.HK juggle hits in the corner which was always funny looking.

 

[Kannibal]

Yeah, Dudley's cr.HK is the launcher leg flip thing which definitely isn't a legal boxing move but whatever. Off of cr.HK, you can also do ducking upper into Super 1 or 3 for a pretty big damage cash out if you have the meter. I'm not sure in 3S, but in SF4 you could get multiple cr.HK juggle hits in the corner which was always funny looking.

I need to try Dudley in USFIV again. I seem to remember he could duck fireballs in it.

 

[Octopus]

I need to try Dudley in USFIV again. I seem to remember he could duck fireballs in it.

Ducking goes under fireballs, yeah, meaning you can even punish it depending on the distance and specific character with ducking upper or straight after. His Rolling Thunder ultra in it also goes under fireballs and lands from about 3/4 of screen away so it gets pretty spooky throwing a fireball at him unless you're Sagat (low Tiger shot) or situationally Guile. I'm biased of course since I mentioned earlier he's one of my SF4 mains, but I think he's one of the funnest characters in the game hands down; he just has so much stuff to mess around with.

 

[Kannibal]

Ducking goes under fireballs, yeah, meaning you can even punish it depending on the distance and specific character with ducking upper or straight after. His Rolling Thunder ultra in it also goes under fireballs and lands from about 3/4 of screen away so it gets pretty spooky throwing a fireball at him unless you're Sagat (low Tiger shot) or situationally Guile. I'm biased of course since I mentioned earlier he's one of my SF4 mains, but I think he's one of the funnest characters in the game hands down; he just has so much stuff to mess around with.

I think it's funny because Dudley almost became my main in Super Street Fighter IV, but eventually I settled into Sagat. What platform do you play on? I currently only have it on PC Steam and was wondering if you wanted to do a few rounds or something.

 

[Octopus]

I think it's funny because Dudley almost became my main in Super Street Fighter IV, but eventually I settled into Sagat. What platform do you play on? I currently only have it on PC Steam and was wondering if you wanted to do a few rounds or something.

I never even knew there was a Steam release for Ultra. If it's on sale sometime I'll pick it up for sure for some games, I haven't played SF4 in way too long.

 

[Kannibal]

I'm practicing with Ryo and Haohmaru in CVS2 following the combos from this website, and they are simple but do a lot of damage.

https://wiki.supercombo.gg/w/Capcom_vs_SNK_2/Haohmaru/Combos

 

[stealthRUSH]

Fighting games has been my favorite genre ever since I was a kid, still play them today. I like many classic 2D fighting games from Fatal Fury, Street Fighter series especially. For 3D fighting games it would have to be Virtua Fighter. Some semi-modern fighting games like Guilty Gear, and Capcom's Vs. series are also my favorite. I'm not keen on Arena fighters, Platform fighters, or SSB series. Besides Power Stone series and a few off-shoot games I don't play them.

These days I'm playing The King of Fighters XV and Street Fighter 6. In SF6 my main is A.K.I. (1500MR). Before then my main was JP. Started using Manon on the side waiting for the release of Mai Shiranui. In KoF XV my team is Benimaru, Kukri, and either Kyo, Mary, or Krohnen. The rest I play online via Fightcade2.

My top 3:

- Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Mains: Remy, Necro. Secondaries: Twelve, Ibuki, Q, Alex, Oro, Elena)
- The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match (Mains: Kyo, Benimaru, Kula, Ramon, K9999/Nameless, Choi)
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (Mains: Vega, Decapre. Secondaries: El Fuerte, Dee Jay, Hakan)

The rest:

- The King of Fighters XV - Fatal Fury/Garou Mark of the Wolves - Guilty Gear X2 - Virtua Fighter 5 - Capcom vs. SNK 2 - Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3 - Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3

 

[Waffles]

Soul Calibur on Dreamcast, Under Night In-Birth on PS3 and Marvel vs Capcom on PSX for me.

 

[Kannibal]

I went to a big tournament in SoCal. Here are two pictures of my personal setup. And the best setup out of all of them!

This was my setup at the *Bring Your Own Console* area, with my vest protecting the CRT from the early afternoon sun.

This is the BEST setup at the BYOC area.

The Super Turbo tournament needed more MiSTer FPGA setups so I brought mine over from the BYOC area to where the ST tournament was happening.

 

[Sayo]

I've been playing the shit out of Arcana Heart 3 (latest version on Steam) and I must say it's really fun, I mostly use Weiss and Mei-Fang. Anyone else here plays it? I don't see much of a community for such a small title but would like to see more players.

I went to a big tournament in SoCal. Here are two pictures of my personal setup. And the best setup out of all of them!

This was my setup at the *Bring Your Own Console* area, with my vest protecting the CRT from the early afternoon sun.
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This is the BEST setup at the BYOC area.
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The Super Turbo tournament needed more MiSTer FPGA setups so I brought mine over from the BYOC area to where the ST tournament was happening.
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That's a cool little CRT

 

[Smiley Cat]

I've been playing the shit out of Arcana Heart 3 (latest version on Steam) and I must say it's really fun, I mostly use Weiss and Mei-Fang. Anyone else here plays it? I don't see much of a community for such a small title but would like to see more players.

I used to play one of the Arcana Heart games. I don't remember which one, but I played as "Petra Johanna Lagerkvist".

 

[Kannibal]

That's a cool little CRT

Thanks, that's a Sony KV-9PT50. I really wish I had the KV-9PT60 model. The only difference is that the 60 model is black.

 

[SuperSampleStar]

You play Garou? ive been really wanting to get good at it and want a coach or someone to play with? do you play on Fightcade?

Yea I'm on FightCade (under the same name as here), but i haven't been on it in a while. Last time i was on it was for CVS2 and MvC2, but the pros kept sweeping me, so now I just play single player on hardest difficulty just to hone my skills better.

Those two, Alpha 3, the other vs game (MSH, XMvsSF, MSHvsSF, & MvC1) and Rival Schools are the only fighters so far that I can beat completely on the hardest difficulty without continuing. I've been trying to do that with Darkstalkers (specicially 2 and 3) and I keep getting curbstomped by the CPU whom just constantly input reads me. And forget anything SNK or NeoGeo related. Tried to do that with Breaker's Revenge and got my ass handed to me on the 2nd stage.

 

[Sayo]

Thanks, that's a Sony KV-9PT50. I really wish I had the KV-9PT60 model. The only difference is that the 60 model is black.

Looks neat man, I want to have a setup like that.

 

[Octopus]

SF6 my main is A.K.I. (1500MR)

I actually enjoy playing the A.K.I matchup, though I know some people detest fighting her. She feels way more honest than half the other character's you encounter in ranked, at least. Probably helps that I'm usually playing Honda and I feel that's a pretty good matchup for him; Guile I think has it a little rougher, at least after her last buffs, when she got her actual working anti-fireball dive thing.