3rd December 2005, 1:52 PM
Xbox... King of Fighters 2002/2003 or (the upcoming I think) Samurai Shodown V, for SNK stuff (there's also SNK vs Capcom, but I didn't like that one as much...)... PS2 also has King of Fighters 2000/2001, but isn't getting SSV. There's a Japanese PS2 release of Last Blade 1 and 2 for PS2 in Japan, but no word of a US release... I hope it comes out though, Last Blade 2 is a truly fantastic (and quite complex) fighting game. The only US release was on Dreamcast... with white blood and no kills... (though a new release would probably be the same on that regard)
Anyway, there's also (all on PS2 and Xbox I think) Street Fighter Collection, or whatever it's name is, with Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Hyper Street Fighter 2 (a new version of SF2 that lets you play as any of the up-to-five versions of any of the characters...)... and of course Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Capcom vs SNK 2, from Capcom.
Guilty Gear... heard good things about those games, mostly. Only played one of the GG games once, though, but it seemed pretty good... not sure about depth, but it's certainly got great graphics and enough fun to satisfy a lot of people.
Anyway, if the question is 'which 2d fighting games are most complex', I don't know... Capcom vs SNK 2 has depth definitely, and lots of options... I've played that game a lot on GC (of course it helps that it's the one and only GC 2d fighting game, but if it was bad that wouldn't matter...). CvS2 is also great in multiplayer, if you can find someone to play against... the computer AI is as always not the same as playing against people. I know the Xbox version has Live, but don't know how many people actually still use it... As for SNK, Last Blade is deep... but I'm not sure how to quantify a Samurai Shodown or King of Fighters... and I can't really call them 'new' because the serieses have been around for a long time, of course. :) 'Classic fun fighting games' is more like it... but they've got to have good gameplay to keep people's intrest, because the Neo-Geo graphics sure won't... and I'd say that they do that, anyway.
I did get King of Fighters EX2 on GBA... good game, but those games are just better on a TV, and on a console with four face buttons (just like how Capcom fighting games are best on consoles with six face buttons), and while it supports multiplayer, being on GB it's tough to do... good game, in the traditional SNK style (that is, short but they make you want to play it repeatedly and it's quite hard), but fighting games without multiplayer just aren't the same...
Anyway, there's also (all on PS2 and Xbox I think) Street Fighter Collection, or whatever it's name is, with Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Hyper Street Fighter 2 (a new version of SF2 that lets you play as any of the up-to-five versions of any of the characters...)... and of course Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Capcom vs SNK 2, from Capcom.
Guilty Gear... heard good things about those games, mostly. Only played one of the GG games once, though, but it seemed pretty good... not sure about depth, but it's certainly got great graphics and enough fun to satisfy a lot of people.
Anyway, if the question is 'which 2d fighting games are most complex', I don't know... Capcom vs SNK 2 has depth definitely, and lots of options... I've played that game a lot on GC (of course it helps that it's the one and only GC 2d fighting game, but if it was bad that wouldn't matter...). CvS2 is also great in multiplayer, if you can find someone to play against... the computer AI is as always not the same as playing against people. I know the Xbox version has Live, but don't know how many people actually still use it... As for SNK, Last Blade is deep... but I'm not sure how to quantify a Samurai Shodown or King of Fighters... and I can't really call them 'new' because the serieses have been around for a long time, of course. :) 'Classic fun fighting games' is more like it... but they've got to have good gameplay to keep people's intrest, because the Neo-Geo graphics sure won't... and I'd say that they do that, anyway.
I did get King of Fighters EX2 on GBA... good game, but those games are just better on a TV, and on a console with four face buttons (just like how Capcom fighting games are best on consoles with six face buttons), and while it supports multiplayer, being on GB it's tough to do... good game, in the traditional SNK style (that is, short but they make you want to play it repeatedly and it's quite hard), but fighting games without multiplayer just aren't the same...
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