Top 5 Fighting Games

[zero]

Be... Mortal Kombat Armageddon? It completely killed the series' trademark fatalities. MK2 is the best 2D, MKD is the best 3D.

Street Fighters are a tough call, Third Strike is awesome. But Capcom's best 2D fighter is Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

And Tekken 3 was definitely the best.

And do Brits have a different definition of fighting game? Streets of Rage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up. Tekken/VF/MK... those are fighting games.

And Kaney, if you need characters, go with Killer Instinct.

[Mick]

AHEM.

Steet Fighter 2 Turbo

Mortal Kombat 2

Tekken 3

That is all.

Maybe in Soviet Russia, you listed three games that aren't even the best of their series. Third Strike/Armageddon/T4 > your shitty choices.

They're classics, and as such, had the greatest impact on the series.

[Skummy]

I've always considered "fighting game" and "beat 'em up" to be synonymous, encompassing both side-scrolling beat 'em ups like Streets Of Rage and games like Tekken or Street Fighter.

I liked Mortal Kombat Armageddon, but the Fatality system is it's major flaw, that idea sucked. The Konquest mode or whatever it was called was far better than it could have got away with, Motor Kombat was a laugh, the Kreate mode was a bit shit, but a nice addition...it's a good game, but the lack of ridiculous trademark Fatalities lets it down on the Mortal Kombat front, because that's all we really care about there. I'd give the nod to MK Trilogy.

[VerbalPuke]

Bahaha, Ash.

It's a shame he was a shit character to use though. I always preferred Shiva as my unlockable character, he and Axel were a bad ass tandem when paired together.

[Riceman 4K]

Third Strike

Super Turbo

Alpha 3

Garou: Mark of the Wolves

Hokuto No Ken

KoF 98

Real Bout Fatal Fury 2

CvS2

MvC2

Guilty Gear: Accent Core

Tekken 5: DR

Virtua Fighter 5

Arcana Hearts

Soul Blade

Jojo Bizzare's Adventure

Project Justice

Last Blade 2

KoF XI

[Legend_Killer33]

Is Soul Blade the one with Cervantes? If so, you have to put that game in

[Scott McFly]

I'd go with Virtua Fighter, although you might want to throw Soul Edge/Calibur in there for completeness even though that makes six.

And to me a beat 'em up is Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc. I'd call Streets Of Rage a side-scrolling beat 'em up. A fighting game is harder to define, although I'd probably use it interchangably with beat 'em up.