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[JimboM12]

i've always had a foot into fighting games but i've never really been into them the way im into simulators and strategy games or rpgs.

but recently with my changed diet and intent to pick up some basic martial arts to get myself in shape, i've been playing them a little harder.

i've only got ultra street fighter 2: the final challengers for my switch at the moment but i ran across a link to a nice mugen someone posted: https://twitter.com/TruBlackLegChef/status/927543913556127744

so i've come to share the love and talk about fighting games, boxing games (i want another fight night but ea would make it microtransaction heavy), or even wrestling games

[KittyTac]

Do arena fighters count? If yes, I can recommed Stick Fight: The Game.

[JimboM12]

Do arena fighters count? If yes, I can recommed Stick Fight: The Game.

arena fighters do count as well, i do enjoy a good super smash bros. my fav was snake, the craziest and most awesome crossover ever. he had some of the best area control methods and was pretty decent at grappling

[Salmeuk]

I never played as a child, but made some friends who were really into the MvC line of games. I can now appreciate a well-executed finishing combo.

I also love putting on saltybets for my drunk friends. Watching two innocuous anime-girls absolutely murder one another will never get old.

[ShinQuickMan]

I used to participate in US tourneys for Guilty Gear XX Slash/Accent Core some time back. Don't really do much playing nowadays, though I do somewhat keep up with news on 2D fighters that pique my interest (or contempt, admittedly), and can enjoy a good match of such every now and again.

[LoSboccacc]

If arena fight count: little fighter ii is a solid game and the free for all arena is hella fun

[Nighthawk]

Do arena fighters count? If yes, I can recommed Stick Fight: The Game.

This game. This is a game that's too ridiculous and random to take seriously, but actually has some really solid mechanics behind all the stupid that make it feel competitive.

[MrRoboto75]

I used to participate in US tourneys for Guilty Gear XX Slash/Accent Core some time back. Don't really do much playing nowadays, though I do somewhat keep up with news on 2D fighters that pique my interest (or contempt, admittedly), and can enjoy a good match of such every now and again.

I always look at GG in the store but I always pass on it because I'm never certain whatever version I'm looking at is the latest one or not.  Much like ultra street fighter II turbo arcade rainbow edition: the final changers & knuckles, featuring dante from devil may cry.

[JimboM12]

I used to participate in US tourneys for Guilty Gear XX Slash/Accent Core some time back. Don't really do much playing nowadays, though I do somewhat keep up with news on 2D fighters that pique my interest (or contempt, admittedly), and can enjoy a good match of such every now and again.

i was never really into anime fighters but i did hear the guilty gears aren't so bad for it. i'll look into a few games from the series, hopefully xmas sales drive alot of the games on sale

[Flying Carcass]

I used to participate in US tourneys for Guilty Gear XX Slash/Accent Core some time back. Don't really do much playing nowadays, though I do somewhat keep up with news on 2D fighters that pique my interest (or contempt, admittedly), and can enjoy a good match of such every now and again.

I always look at GG in the store but I always pass on it because I'm never certain whatever version I'm looking at is the latest one or not.  Much like ultra street fighter II turbo arcade rainbow edition: the final changers & knuckles, featuring dante from devil may cry.

Most current Guilty Gear is Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator with the Rev 2 expansion.

[IronTomato]

I play Ultra Street Fighter 4 and Mortal Kombat X.

Also, Dragon Ball FighterZ is coming out in January and looks pretty gud.

[Vibe]

I play Guilty Gear (Rev2) here and there but never invested enough time to get properly decent at it. Takes a lot of time to get even remotely decent at GG

Excited for DBFZ in January, though I never played 3v3 before, so not sure if I'll even like the format. Wondering if SFV will get any better with Arcade Edition coming out as well.

[Robsoie]

When i was still young and kicking, i liked this genre a lot, but getting older and older i moved to other interest in the gaming genre.
But i still have fond memories of my favorites.

The two first fighting games i ever played were on my old amstrad :
Yie Ar Kung Fu
I still remember the music. I think what made me like this game is that some of the moves the player character was able to do were coming directly from an old Jackie Chan kung fu movie that i had watched a bit before getting this game (doing a split while making a double hand chop to the enemy balls).

Way of the Exploding Fist
This one was very interesting because it wasn't arcadish , you had concepts of distance, priority, parry timing and etc.. that would be of course more developped in the genre later. Similarly to International Karate that came later, the game was borrowing a bit of the gameplay from the coin op game "Karate Champ" from Date East.

That said, my favorites for the time i spent in my "fighting game career" were :

Street Fighter 2 : World Warrior
While the updates of it (championship edition, turbo and etc...) were getting more content, the fact remains that i liked that original SF2 so much in coin op that this was the game that made me buy a super nintendo when they did a port on it.
Interesting note that this original SF2 was one of the few variant of SF2 in which the AI wasn't cheating as much as further updates of it (by cheating i mean reading the inputs you did in later versions of SF2, as in original SF2 it still cheated a bit, Guile superkick and Bison/Vega "human torching" say hello , all those charge type of move the AI was doing while walking forward)

Street Fighter 3:Third Strike
To me it was an incredible shock when i saw it in coin op, i had skipped following the franchise development for a while so the earlier SF3 or SF0 i wasn't much caring, so when i saw and played this itteration, wow, everything felt so perfected in every possible way , that parry system was fantastic, and what to say about the utterly amazing animations i couldn't imagine the tons of work the artists must have put into them.
My best friend at the time ever purchased a dreamcast that had a near perfect port of it, and was even better due to a secret page you could unlock that allowed you to edit lots of the gameplay to your liking.
Can't count how many duels we had there.

The King of Fighters 96
Ah memory of the capcom vs snk war between fighting game fans KOF was a most excellent serie that saw yearly new release, but of the big bunch of them , there's a title that saw me hooked the most in coin op : KOF 96
I'm not sure exactly why but to me it was just perfect in the teams, the atmosphere and that boss team that was really full of charisma, i never managed to appreciate any of the later release with those additions of charisma-less dozen characters that had design more and more silly, i think it showed that the developers and designers weren't the same.

Samurai Showdown
Sure, there had been several sequels and etc... that i liked (and some of the sequels brought some cool characters and gameplay change), but this first one made such a huge impact on me, the music, the ambiance, the over the top characters, everything was impressive, and he was probably one of the most balanced SNK last boss as more people were beating him down than other SNK games boss.
Still having fond memory of the Wan-Fu stage.
You can't imagine my smile when i discovered neogeo emulators years later and could rediscover those titles.

Tekken 3
This one i never knew it as a coin op, only discovered at a friend's playstation.
And wow, it was so much better than any of the past versions in every ways, it was visually amazing for a game of that era, and most characters were actually interesting to play.
I had specialised into Bryan , the guy that had those white hair, it was a character new to the serie, and it showed as his moves weren't as robotic animations as some of the characters there from the start.
Didn't followed the serie after that.

[ShinQuickMan]

i was never really into anime fighters but i did hear the guilty gears aren't so bad for it. i'll look into a few games from the series, hopefully xmas sales drive alot of the games on sale

If this were 2009, I woulda gone up in arms at someone calling my Guilty Gear XX games "not so bad", let alone an "anime fighter"! There's much I could gush on about "balance" and "character diversity" for both the XX and Xrd series, especially when compared to any fighters past and current. However, I can confirm the following:

I play Guilty Gear (Rev2) here and there but never invested enough time to get properly decent at it. Takes a lot of time to get even remotely decent at GG

This. Guilty Gear is a fairly demanding competitive game, requiring much tighter execution than is common in "air-dashers"/"anime fighters". If you're looking to get the most out of it, I'd only recommend  the game if you could appreciate such challenges, and if you could find a group of like minded players. Otherwise, you've only got the aesthetics to look forwards to.

Excited for DBFZ in January, though I never played 3v3 before, so not sure if I'll even like the format. Wondering if SFV will get any better with Arcade Edition coming out as well.

I'm really hoping DBFZ is a slam dunk, for Arc System Work's (devs for Guilty Gear) sake. They're the only game company I could trust nowadays to deliver a solid and progressive fighting game, casual audience be damned. Sorry if it sounds selfish, but I've a strong bias when it comes to what fighting games "should" play like, and the direction fighting games have gone in recent years.

[ShinQuickMan]

oops doublepost