Fighting Game Sub-Genres 

Bro if you just stylize and polish your visual editing game up, you'll blow up like Leon Massey, you were in my recommended so just wait :)

Guess it was pretty hard to put KOF in a category. That's understandable with it being both neutral based like SF and mixup fast paced like guilty gear and anime fighters in general.

This man covered platform fighters without mentioning “smash” once. Quite commendable.

It really sucks that 3D Arena Fighters don't get any respect and are looked upon as lazy cash grabs. My theory is because there are more bad 3D Arena Fighters than there are good ones, as well as the bad ones make alot more money then they're competent counterparts therefore incentivizing these companies to barely try still make the same garbage for example Jump Force and the one punch Man game are bad 3D Arena Fighters that come off the top of my head, Meanwhile the well made ones only recent gotten good, games like Ninja Storm 4, ones Justice 2, Kill la Kill if, and hopefully the new Demon Slayer game are good examples of developers actually trying and not trying to cash in on a popular franchise.

Rivals is sick, my favorite fighting game. The devs have been talking about possibly getting rollback in the game this year.

I've played Arcana Hearts 3 on the 360 before knowing about the loli fest that it actually is, guess im going to hell.

"The horny one." Pretty much sums it up.

so glad u banished arena fighters to the shadow realm

1:20 Traditional footsies based fighters | You'll like this if you are over 30 2:37 3D fighters | If you play these you probably have a PhD 3:55 Airdasher fighters (Anime fighters) | Games where none cares about the over convoluted lore. 6:23 Versus Fighters | My favorite genre personally, If Footsie based Fighters are like a respectful martial arts duel, Versus Fighters are the dirty street brawls where anything goes. We pride ourselves on skipping neutral as much as possible and employing only the most degenerate of strategies to gain the edge. It's the closest you are gonna get to an action game/fighting game hybrid. 8:43 Platform Fighters | The only fighting game genre people are not sure is a fighting game or not xD 10:07 Lethal League | Honestly it's a brand new concept and unknown territory, could have potential but we'll see.

I've never been more happy to have somebody in my recommended, your style is charming as fuck

“It’ll be classed as garbage” had me dying 😂

If there's one thing I learned through buying and playing all sorts of fighting games over the last couple of years it's that I hate links. I loved Guilty Gear, Skullgirls and Killer Instinct while I bounced right off Street Fighter and King of Fighters. Anyway wouldn't stuff like Bushido Blade and Hellish Quart be a separate category?

This leaves me wondering where the later Touhou fighting games would go. Now, the first three, Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Hisoutensoku, would more easily fall somewhere between 2D and anime fighters (I'm probably not well-enough versed in fighting games to be able to fully make a judgment on where in that range, but would guess the latter due to the existence of an air dash?) - though they can be quite a bit more projectile-focused, what with characters having buttons for "melee" "light shot" and "heavy shot" instead of the usual assortment of melee attacks that usually only produce projectiles with special commands. Hopeless Masquerade, Urban Legend in Limbo, and Antinomy of Common Flowers are fairly similar in many ways too, but have this added element of being fully _aerial_ fighters. There is no ground, there is no crouching, there's just flight, essentially jumping above _or below_ the default height. I guess part of it also overlaps with platform fighters, with the extra emphasis on positioning and less complex inputs for moves. Wonder if "aerial fighter" could constitute its own subgenre, or if this is too close to those aforementioned ones?

0:15 THANK YOU! I feel like that plot was originally created to stray from the "cliché" purely happy ending romance movie but now its so overdone i feel its the new cliché in itself. And whats worse is the movie and its watchers thinks they're better or more "high-brow" than they're happy ending counterparts because nowadays sadder=better. Like hell can I not just watch a movie about two people falling in love anymore

This brings up a couple questions: Do wrestling games count as a sub-genre of fighting game? How about beat 'em ups? or (maybe being a stretch) Hack 'n Slash games?

Great mix of comedy and information, keep doing what you’re doing man you’re going places

Most 3d arena fighters aren't that good but I do think dismissing the entire thing isn't right well most are shit but my hero's one justice does seem to be kinda good at the very least and gundam vs is probably the best 3d arena anime fighter in existence i think those two elevate it enough to where the genre is like meeh but god damn was the naruto ultimate vs series bad

Pokken is definitely my favorite Fighter, even if the 3D part of it comes more from arena fighters than its namesake it also handles that much better than all of the arena fighters I've played, it then transitions into a 2D phase which much more like traditional Fighters, taking a bit of inspiration from both Tekken and Street Fighter, making it well balanced with a good level of depth and accessibility.

I know you didn't talk about plat-form fighters without talking about the Ultimate superior platform fighter Super Smash Bros that literally started the whole genre.

Fighting Games are really diverse and really have branched out in variety since the home consoles could match the arcade machines. Then there's weird hybrid fighters such as King Of Fighters with it's technical gameplay and in-depth jump arcs, Divekick where's there's quite literally two buttons and players die in one hit, Kill La Kill IF which is one of the few good Arena Fighters, Sonic The Fighters that's a 3D Fighter but plays like a 2D one with some interesting techniques involving walls, Sailor Moon S basically being (as a wise Core A Gaming once said) "Unregulated Waifu Cockfighting" and also made by Arc System Works funnily enough, Fatal Fury housing two different lanes to fight in, Wavejammers- . . .wait, is that even a fighting game? A sports game? Whatever, it's cool and something completely different just like Lethal League (tho sadly no music by the legend that is Hideki). Anyways fighting games are cool. There's something for everyone, from easy fighters like Fantasy Strike, Smash Ultimate & Dragon Ball Fighterz to more complex ones like Tekken, King Of Fighters & whatever a "Melee" is. You'll have fun so long as you find the right community and game & give them a chance.

I want to see a fighting game based on dark souls with a top-down perspective, beefy counters, and stamina/posture management

This is pretty damn cool, keep it and u will probably over 10,000 before February my guy. :)

Yes. Another masterpiece from you.

I really love Skullgirls and UMVC3, the only problem i see in the second are the infinites... They are kind of... N O T F U N N Y. But hey, that's just my opinion

I really wish there was a place where I could put my fingers into those by genre, sadly haven't found any list that does it until now

Underrated Channel. Wish u all the luck bro ❤❤❤

Where does KoF enters for you?

No mention of KOF was criminal. I feel like mentioning the biggest series would be more informational to people less knowledgable. "Oh so this the Guilty Gear/Tekken/KOF/Smash type of game, cool!" About Smash, that last segment might have gone over someone's head. Plus you won't be able to boycott nintendo ever, might as well support the community by not pretending it doesn't exist lol. Otherwise great video.

"It'll be classified as garbage" 😂😂😂😂😂 I wholeheartedly agree

such an underrated channel

The holy trinity of brits talking about fighting games is complete

Does anyone know what category For Honor would be in? I have a feeling it would be an arena fighter but there isn't any flying or anything like that.

Just getting started with fighting games on a more serious level. Also bought a fighting stick this week. So this video is very handy to get some basic info about fighting games. Anyone know where i could go to meet people in my region who also play fighting games? To get into the community...

Huh, I always thought versus fighters were 3v3 while 2v2 games were tag fighters. Or are tag fighters just versus fighters without assists like some of the KoF games? I also always called versus fighters "team" fighters... Is that just me?

Thank You for this video

how does lethal league work? is it like smash but with funny ball?

What subgenres are games like Garouden? And UFC franchise?

Ya may have brought up Marvel. But ya didn't bring up KOF.

Awesome video, but quick question: what's the "special to special cancel" game shown at 6m10s? Looks fantastic!

Just curious what subgenre is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle? Would it be classified as "garbage"? Haha. I don't think it's a standard anime fighter, it lacks airdashes and isn't completely 2d. I'd say it's kinda unique but... as much as I like it for the franchise... it kinda sucks as a fighter. I still have a hard time figuring out what genre it'd go into though.

I wouldn't call "anime" a subgenre cause eventually one comes along and plays nothing like the rest. "Airdashers" which they almost always have makes more sense

Can you classify Lethal League as a projectile fighter? I mean, you’re fighting with a projectile, but it’s also not technically part of a characters kit. And then, could arms be classified under this too? You have big ass arms which are like projectiles, but they also aren’t. Is projectile fighter even a sub genre?

I think leathal league is in the "Sports Fighter" with Windjammers

I'm very curious on where you would put KOF

Bro 0:11 I was using this background for one of my games...

You forgot about the greatest fighting game of all time....... Divekick.

There sure is a lack of SNK in this video.

so, frame links is basically buffering your input/"pre-ordering" the next move?

Was legit about to leave a thumbs down because you weren't mentioning marvel and the skull girls footage was rough.... BUT THEN YOU DROPPED THE BIG MAHVEL BABY AND I LEFT THAT DAYE THUMBS UP

insightful

6:08 Wait I'm out of the loop, what is that? It looks amazing.

finnaly some one out here realizes fighting games in itself is sub genre. theirs platformers ,arena fighters, musos, hack and slashes etc....

what was that game that you mentioned that we don't know if it has special to special canceling it looks dope?

Idk about putting MK (at least in regards to X and 11) with all those other games because its """Neutral""" is so different that It's arguably closer to Guilty Gear Strive than Street Fighter. And the fact that links dont exist in MK (Also I'm aware that Strive wasn't out when this video was uploaded, Its just something I noticed)

Does KOF go in your Team Fighters category?

What is divekick?

i think the fact that you refered to it as arena fighting game shows that it isnt in the same subgenre as anime fighters

Lethal league would probably fit in the Sport fighting games like Windjammers

Holy shit he mentioned lethal league, FINALLY SOMEONE ACKNOWLEDGED ITS EXISTENCE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Btw u can walljump when ur in special fall in rivals

Tag fighters are a sub genre of vs ? How about KoF? Is it traditional 2d or vs? What about the simulators like ufc?

Do you watch MMA? That “I don’t blame you”! reminded me of Dana

Where does Killer Instinct fit in?

What game is it at 1:35? sorry voor askin and this video is pretty good

Ho yeah you don't need to remember combos. Behold my steev montage.

3:54 *SONUVABEEEECH!!*

Can you talk about games like wind jammers and fatal fury? They break the molds of traditional 2d fighting games

all aspects of gameplay that were placed as aspects of anime fighters exist in other older 2D games( Kof and Mvc2 for example). I still don't understand what defines the "AnimeFighters" subgenre, as it doesn't make sense to me because there doesn't seem to be any aspect that brings changes in gameplay that are unique to the so-called "anime fighters" . Fighting games are divided into 2 types which are 2D/2.5D and 3D, what we see after that are the sub-genres which are platform fighters that borrow aspects from platform games, arena fighters which would be a sub-genre of 3D fighters and tag fighters that may be a sub-genre because it brings changes in mechanics by switching characters mid-fight or calling in assists. Now tell me: WHICH ASPECTS OF THE GAME THAT UNIQUELY DEFINE AN ​​ANIME FIGHTER?!?!?!?!? Just aesthetics? Being from ArcSysWorks? Just kidding hehehe. I really don't know and wanted answers.

so, where does Pokken Tournament fall into?

What about beat em ups like Streets Of Rage and Final Fight?

6 months later after this video came out you said you would be streaming Lethal League but you aren't streaming it......... :')

what game is shown at 6:09?? anyone know?

What about boxing and mma games like UFC 4 and fight night? Would that be 3d fighting games

Holy shit this is good. Youre funny as fuck

hey arcana hearts is fun I don't care if the FBI comes to my house

footsies belongs in a weird subgenre that doesn't really fall under conventional systems: ONE-SHOT FIGHTING GAMES these are fighting games which are focused on looking for your opponent's mistakes in their defenses, and capitalizing on those mistakes. you're rewarded for this with a won round most often(? i don't know the sub-genre too well) there will be only 1 character everyone plays, or characters with very little variety unless the game's systems allows for variation in character design there are only 2 games that i know of that take this concept, being footsies (obviously) and divekick

what name of the game at 3:34

A bit of a nitpick but when you talk about games with canceling you say “any arcsys game” this could be confusing to someone as you mentioned how grandblue was a links game. Nothing major just smthing I noticed

Would wrestling games count as a subgenre of fighting game?

The only arena fighters I like are Pokken and Dissidia

Why does it feels like ultimate doesn't exist ...

isn't footsies actually 1d?

What's the blonde girl in the blue jacket on the thumbnail from

Ahem _For Honor_ I rest my case

It’s MAHVEL BABY!!!

6:11 what game is this pls tell

he maid a taipo at the itnro HAHAHAHAH

Combos matter in plataform fighters however you need to be cteative doing combos you can learn on the internet but you can also create some Edit: (i am not hating on you i am jus adding information to the video)

what would you classify Paint The Town Red and We Who Are About to Die as, these games are clearly fighting games. to me it just looks like your covering the one main genre for 10 minutes

Whats the game at 0:30

that rivals gameplay was painful to watch

What game is 6:09?

What’s the game at 6:10? Thank you

I didn't see any 3d fighting game in your video which is totally 3d some examples are Urban Reign, Absolver, Anarchy Reigns.

Ah3 is probably one of the most mechanically rich games out there, but holy hell the aesthetic turns people off fast.

Oh yeah, garbage is my favourite genre of films

is darkstalkers an anime game?

Yomi Hustlers 😢

If your reading this, Your thoughts on Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3

I don’t think that’s how you spell genre. BTW, great vid!