What do you think of fighting games?

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Do you think they're fun or frustratingly hard?

(By fighting game I'm assuming that's the 2d style close combat usually melee, since I'm not too sure about all the genres in VGs)

I've never been attracted to just playing games like that. Theyre ok as a multiplayer kind of thing, but it all seems a bit *press x button continuously - win * or *alterenate x and square button, jump, win*. There isn't enough *cough* any*cough* story or anything other than combat in these games for me to be interested in playing them just because I can. Generally I would rather play a game with story, and travel between missions or goals or whatever, rather than fight x opponent - well done. Now, fight this opponent - well done.

Obviously I haven't played these games much, so do excuse me if it gets less like that after a bit of gameplay :/

I like the Dead or Alive series (I prefer the controls over Tekken and Virtua Fighter) and Soul Calibur, but I do think the fourth game of both series is too difficult unless one is on a mission to become a professional gamer...

That's something that made me afraid to play fighting games, that you had to be a "pro" to like it. I heard that the fighting game community hates casual gamers, which I guess I am since I only fight bots or friends. I had two friends come to my house over the summer, I destroyed them in UMVC3.

I know what you mean. I'm a bit of a button masher with fighting games as I don't tend to remember the move combinations all that well. Especially with the huge move sets most modern fighters have now. I do like the Blazblue series though as the games look and play great.

Last edited by Colinn on 15 Oct 2012, 6:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My friend told me about Blazeblue, he told me it's one of his favorite fighting games. I also want to get Persona 4 Arena, but I haven't beaten Persona 4 yet. I did watch the anime based off of it, so I guess I would understand what was going on (except for the Persona 3 characters).

Can you still play aka win with out trying Tekken simply my doing the squat and lower kick move ? When I discovered that trick it turned me off forever .....

I think I suck at them.

I can't seem to be able to do uppercut movement with a controller from the right to left side, it just isn't happening.
Would be easier with a joystick but sheesh they cost a lot.

I like watching pro-gamers play fighting games. But I don't have the time or skills to become really good at one.

That's the thing: with most genres, I can just sort of wing it and have a good time. But when I'm playing a fighting game, it always just makes me feel daunted by how much I don't understand. It's like I'm staring into a bottomless pit. I feel the same way about a lot of RTS games.

The only fighting games I've played that don't scare me with their "hardcoreness" are One Must Fall 2097 and Super Smash Bros.

I quite fervently play fighting games, and I button-mash all the time. I mostly suck at all my fighting games, but in a twist of fortune, so do my two cousins, with whom I grew up playing these games. We're all button-mashers and special move spammers, that's the way we always played. Never tried them fancy combos, way too complicated for us brawlers. All we cared about was throwing down. Come on, they're FIGHTING games, not THINKING games! We got chess for that!

I actually found my Capcom vs SNK 2 disc for the Gamecube, and I've been kicking AI butt left and right since.

Mortal Kombast, Street Fighter, DOA, Tekken, Killer Instinct, King Of Fighters, I've played and loved them all.

I've never gotten into 3D fighting games, but I used to play 2D fighting games for fun. I often played 2P with no one at the second controller because (in addition to getting too frustrated after repeatedly losing) I just wanted to see what all you could do in the game. That and it made a great substitute for punching furniture and other inanimate objects after having a bad day.

I enjoy them. Maybe too much in the past. I get so competitive about it when I sit down to play a fighting game online it can be several hours before i allow myself to shut it off again. When I recognized I was starting to obsess over it, I stopped playing against people online. For now, when I do play fighting games, my interest is primarily in learning combo strings and repeating them over and over in practice mode. King of Fighters XIII is particularly fun for that. The combo system in that is flexible enough that a certain base level understanding will allow you to create new combos spontaneously.

Haven't had the arcade stick out for a couple months now, though. Borderlands and XCOM have my attention at the moment.

CvS2 is my favorite.

I feel ashamed talking to someone who has made an art out of practicing combos, with my pitiful combo skills.

Who's your dream team? At present, my best 3 characters are Ryu, Joe, and Ryo Sakazaki, so I end up using them as my team of preference.

Oh, no particular favorite team. Hibiki was my favorite character to play in that game. Haven't played it in years.

Are gamers becoming to cynical and time poor to invest in "harder" games, because it's criminal this dumbing down of games trend we've been experiencing in recent years , Silent Hill. Resident Evil, Tomb Raider ,10 hrs for a Tomb Raider game (Legend) that's how long it should take to locate a cog and mount it! Far Cry 3 (looking that way) so many complaints like the "real time map" dumbed down in 3 where you pause and set the way point in the menu I admit the real time map took some getting used to but once their fantastic (just like the rest of the game) a real surprise coming from uber (the less ugly sister of Activision aka whoreAvision .)

Really at my local arcade I was smashed at Tekken 6 by a girl nearly 1/2 my age , I was kinda turned on to be honest