Fightbruary

[Pumpkin]

So sharky and I are going to fight. For a whole month! He left the toilet seat up one too many times and I just can't take it anymore.

Really though, we were planning to do a fighting game night. Then we realized that we have a lot of fighting games and so we decided to make it a fighting game weekend. But then we found even more fighting games in the vault and now we are making a whole month of it. We have 29 games. 3 of them we don't know if they will work, but we will try anyway. So this will be the thread for talking about all of the new and old fighting games, how we enjoyed them, and anything else. Feel free to participate and talk about the games and whatever.

1 - Mortal Kombat (SNES)
2 - Mortal Kombat II (SNES)
3 - Battle Arena Toshinden (PS1)
4 - Tekken 1, 2, and 3 (PS1)
5 - Soul Calibur II (PS2)
6 - Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore (PS2)
7 - Bloody Roar 3 (PS2)
8 - Tekken 4 (PS2)
9 - Virtua Fighter 4 (PS2)
10 - Soul Calibur III (PS2)
11 - Tekken 5 (PS2)
12 - NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (PS2)
13 - Guilty Gear X2 (PS2)
14 - Tekken Tag Tournament (PS2)
15 - Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (PS2)
16 - Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax (PS3)
17 - Soul Calibur IV (PS3)
18 - King of Fighters XIII (PS3)
19 - Tekken 6 (PS3)
20 - Aquapazza (PS3)
21 - Mortal Kombat (PS3)
22 - Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (PS3)
23 - Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PS3)
24 - Arcana Heart 3 Love Max (PS3)
25 - BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma (PS3)
26 - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (PS3)
27 - Injustice: Gods Among Us (PS3)
28 - Dragonball Xenoverse (PS3)
29 - Mortal Kombat X (PS4)

[Pumpkin]

February 1st - Mortal Kombat

So we started out with good ol' Mortal Kombat on the Super Nintendo. I'd never actually played the original, so this was pretty exciting! I am used to newer fighting games though, so it was a bit rough around the edges. It was hard for me to do combos and stuff and I found myself standing there punching erratically while Rayden (spelled Rayden in this game) sat there and watched me without a clue what to do. The uppercuts were very OP even back then, I see.



The cast of characters was small so I tried them all out. Since I was unable to effectively use any of them, they all felt pretty similar to me! I actually won a few rounds against sharky but he was the overall victor, which we expected. My first win was with Johnny Cage. It was funny playing the same character (Liu Kang) at one point because there was barely any noticeable difference at all!



Afterwards we tried to tackle story mode. I put it on super easy and I think (hope) that it didn't save the settings because we were getting our butts kicked in the third endurance round

[Colonel Angus]

MK I is excellent. I first played it on the arcade & had no idea of what I was doing. The game was so dark & fast, very different from Street Fighter II.

I had the game on the Game Gear then the Super Nintendo. I remember the GG version didn't have Kano (the Game Boy version lacked Johnny Cage). I enjoyed both versions.

I think you'll like MKII better, as it was a much more fluid game. MKI can come off as kinda stiff @ times.

[Pumpkin]

I had fun because it was like, let's face it, a piece of fighting game history! But it is certainly stiff and plain by today's standards. I have played II but it was a looooong time ago, so we'll see how it goes this time!

[Ayen]

You have my permission to call it Fightbruary if you want.

Mortal Kombat is awesome and I had a lot of fun going back to the first one last year. Kicked ass as Sonya! Shame the movie turned her into a damsel.

[Formalhaut]

Ah, it'd be great if we could see some of these intense fights.

[Pumpkin]

They weren't that intense :P

Pumpkin kicks and misses
sharky jumps and kicks Pumpkin in the face
Pumpkin attempts upercut
sharky kicks Pumpkin in the face

[Formalhaut]

You know, without context, I'd be really concerned as to the safety in your relationship.

[Ayen]

They weren't that intense :P

Pumpkin kicks and misses
sharky jumps and kicks Pumpkin in the face
Pumpkin attempts upercut
sharky kicks Pumpkin in the face

Sounds like you need a training montage.

[Bubba]

This is the most exciting thread of 2016 so far

I have MK1 & MK2 for the SNES and yeah the sequel is far superior. Not that the original is without its merits, I just feel the sequel is a better game due to the blood, guts, dismemberment and horrific deaths.

In fact, this is true for most games.

Bubba

Sickest Member - Summer Ciddies 2016

[Pumpkin]

February 2nd - Mortal Kombat II

So sharkson and I played some MK II tonight. It's more polished than the first and there were some nice background details. Jade popped up in the background at one point as well. The noises were annoying though, my goodness.



I did terribly the first half. Was getting my butt kicked left and right. But the second half it was closer to evenly matched and I won a good few games. He may have been taking it easy on me after I got sad when he got a perfect against me.



I was happy to see Mileena and Kitana, my two faves. I did indeed play this game when I was super little so it was kind of nostalgic. I suck with them though. But I could already see some of the characters coming in to their own and fighting less generically like in the first one! I was a bit sad to see Sonya gone because I was hoping there would be 3 ladies. But there were only 2 ;_; Overall there was a larger and better cast though

[Ayen]

Sonya and Kano were both abducted and can be seen imprisoned in the background on the final stage with Shao Kahn, so that's why they're not playable characters.

MKII is my favorite of the series and one of six games I played all the time on the Sega Genesis as a child. Reptile was my go to guy for a long time.

[Colonel Angus]

Sonya & Kano return as playables in MKIII. II had better gameplay & graphics than III, IMO.

But the best of the 2D era MKs was MK Trilogy. It kinda mixed the first III games, much like Armageddon mixed the 3D games.

[Bubba]

Mortal Kombat II was my favourite as well. So much more fluid a fighter. It was never on par with Street Fighter 2 but this definitely improved matters.

Sub Zero 4 Eva.

[Wolf Kanno]

MKII is still my favorite entry.

Your lack of any Street Fighter games is disheartening though...