Beat 'Em Ups/Fighting Games

[Aulayna]

If you're partial to playing Beat 'Em Ups and raging at losing to button mashers - unite here!

Which series is your favourite? Are you a Tekken fan? A Street Fighter diehard? A Tits or Ass... I mean Dead or Alive junkine? Or perhaps are you partial to a bit of weapon based combat with Soul Calibur?

For me I adore the older Soul Calibur games with modes like Edge Master and Weapon Master and the weird Map based one in SC3. It's a shame they really gutted most of those features in SC4/5 :/

[Del Murder]

Fighting games are beat 'em ups? Aren't they just fighting games?

When I think beat 'em ups I think of games like Final Fight, Double Dragon, and many old arcade classics like X-Men, TMNT or the Simpsons game. My favorite in that regard is probably the old TMNT arcade game, which was released on the NES as TMNT 2. Golden Axe is also a great one.

[Slothy]

What Del said is correct. Fighting games be fighting games and beat 'em ups be the likes of Double Dragon, Final Fight, etc.

Luckily I like both. Spent most of my allowance one time beating that X-Men arcade game. On the fighting game end I love a good fighting game. Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo is always amazing, and Soul Calibur 2 is the best 3D fighting game ever. Though I like more casual fare like the recent Mortal Kombat reboot and Marvel Vs. Capcom 2.

[Jowy]

V-22, do you have MvC2 on XBLA per chance? I haven't had a good match in a long time. Both genres are extremely fun! Like most adults in our age group, I've blown my fair share of Chuck-E-Cheese tokens and quarters on TMNT, X-Men, and The Simpsons arcade games. And I still find myself plunking quarters in the four player Turtles in Time machine downtown. I'm much more partial to console beat-em-ups though; Playing lots of Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Castle Crashers (XBLA let's do this, guys!) lately. One day I'll beat River City Ransom and Battletoads via bro-op too.

In terms of fighters though, Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus is my game of choice. Main Millia Rage, alt Jam Kuradoberi. A lot of people have recommended BlazBlue Continuum Shift: EXTEND as something new to try but I've heard mixed reviews and that it isn't as complex and fast-paced as GGXX: AC+; the game's broken me from playing slower fighters like MK and SFIV. The only 3D fighter I'm into is Soul Cally 2. I liked Talim being hilariously broken.

[Mirage]

But some fighting games have beat-em-ups inside of them!

I like Soul Calibur a lot, but it's sort of a dead series. Other than that, I play tekken casually, but I think I am a bit above casual skill-wise, although not a lot. I also play Dead or Alive now and then.

[Del Murder]

But some fighting games have beat-em-ups inside of them!

That's true. Kicking the crap out of a car was one of the fondest memories I had of the original SFII.

[Jowy]

But some fighting games have beat-em-ups inside of them!

That's true. Kicking the crap out of a car was one of the fondest memories I had of the original SFII.

TEST YOUR MIGHT in Mortal Kombat was a fun little distraction.

[Slothy]

V-22, do you have MvC2 on XBLA per chance? I haven't had a good match in a long time.

Don't have a 360 I'm afraid. I also don't have it on my PS3 though so I haven't gotten to play online. When I play MvC2 it's the old school way: on a Dreamcast.

[Mirage]

There was also the devil inside in T5 and scenario campaign in T6.

[Jowy]

V-22, do you have MvC2 on XBLA per chance? I haven't had a good match in a long time.

Don't have a 360 I'm afraid. I also don't have it on my PS3 though so I haven't gotten to play online. When I play MvC2 it's the old school way: on a Dreamcast.

The DC version is the most true to the arcade without the slowdown, so jealous. I skipped school for two days to unlock all of the characters back in 02. Good times. They just give you them all in the XBLA/PS3 version at least.

[Formalhaut]

Ugh. When it comes to fighting games, I have absolutely no skill in executing like a 5-10 button combination. Seriously, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is like the only fighting game I could play because the controls are so simple. I still suck

As for beat em' ups, does Dynasty Warriors count at all? I admit it's more stab them up, but hey, semantics. I played the smurf out of that game when I was younger.

[TrollHunter]

Ive played so much SO MUCH scott pilgrim. Back when my best friend visited me from NC we were up all night destroying SP.

On the fighting end i've played a crap-ton of SC2,3 and 4. I play 3 mostly, and my favorite character is talim. Tonfa/tuifa are just awesome weapons and her fighting style is so fun to use ^^

I got really good on wifi SC4 with talim... But alas i dont enjoy that game nearly as much. I aerial kicked my brother off levels so many times, its such a hilarious combo xD

I need to find sc2 again...


EDIT: oh, and ive played too many naruto fighting games to count. Such stupidly fun fighting games.

[Slothy]

While the competitive gamer in me is happy they just give them all to you now, the teenager in me is a bit disappointed since he spent all of that time unlocking them all.

[Depression Moon]

I'm a Tekken main. I had played in a couple of tournaments in 6. Lost badly the 1st time due to not knowing the rules beforehand. The 2nd time I placed 3rd. I also played in a couple for Skullgirls and got my ass handed to me by Master CJ.

I was getting into SF4 a bit too, but quit after I no longer had internet so there was no way for me to practice. I loved SC 1 & 2 SC3 was kinda bad. Liked Chronicles of the Sword, but the gameplay took a fall. Haven't played 4 heard it was bad, played 5 and it's pretty good, just mad that Sophitia and Kilik were made into mime characters.

I would like to go back to them and if I did I would probably play Tekken Tag 2, Skullgirls, and Injustice. Haven't played Injustice, but it looks fun.As for beat-em ups I like Super Double Dragon, and Scott Pilgrim vs the World the most.

T6 Scenario and T5 Devil Within were ass. T3 and 4 Tekken Force mode were ok.

[Mirage]

It's not sophitia it's an evil being taking her form to mess with sophitia's kids' heads!