The REAL Top 10 Fighting Games of All Time 

Its a shame though they didnt make it 60 characters in totall instead of 48 They could have easily added jedah demitri from capcom and ralf andy Clark from snk for examaple

So true...wish arcade1up would come out with the cabinet

@@terrybogars8933 They could've easily added Lilith too.

same here.

I am happy with my mugen so i can always play iori vs jedah

SF3 didn't "kill" the franchise that way, with quotation marks... literally it was the last SF for NINE YEARS. Which is huge for the biggest and most influential fg franchise in the 90s, and for an industry that worked with annual or biannual fg releases. Also no other famous franchise died like that, and some actually never died like Tekken. And other 90s 2d franchises never died like Guilty Gear and KOF. (And only if you want to force the argument so hard your own way, you could say "2d MK" died in the 90s and stayed dead for as much long, but that's laughable) Also that early death killed the future of cps3, making it kinda the Dreamcast of fg history: promising impressive next gen system with a tragic early death.

It was fighting game cancer. Plenty of people I know never even played it. I don't care how much revisionist history that was always beloved and good. I recently tried replaying it and still found it terrible as it's too sluggish and clunky. Like fighting underwater. The pro scene might have adopted it years later, but it put the franchise in a coma.

​@@Lastjustice Only these fgc massive capcom fans praise third strike i find it descent but nothing special.

@@moon-berserker8870 I just found every other version of Street Fighter (Barring SF 1) was more enjoyable for their time than any version of Street Fighter 3 ever was for me. Street Fighter Alpha 3 came out around the same time, and was easily one of the most amazing games in the series. I loved playing through World Tour mode and creating custom characters, and unlocking all the goodies fighting thru it. The Ism system and the custom character system gave so many layers to the game. Was it balanced? , probably not but was fun to see what crazy stuff you could do. It was one of my favorite games in the series, and probably one I played the most till SF 4 came along. I am not a huge fan of Street Fighter 5, but I still prefer it over 3. Some of the characters grew on me over time in SF 3, like Elena, Dudley and Alex, but at the time so many of them were characters I couldn't give a crap less about. Like Ryu , Ken and a bunch of freaks. SF 3 had so much going against it. Is it the worst fighting game ever..Absolutely not, but I found it to be a terrible Street fighter game compared to the standard of what greatness the series had otherwise achieve. If capcom had simply made it a new series as originally planned, I think it would been better received than being a SF 3. Capcom had put off making SF 3 for so long, as gampro had a joke of the count from sesame street trying get capcom to count to 3 as the executives couldn't do it.(They also had a parody for MK and Cookie monster trying show them the letter C existed.) There just was too much build up to a SF 3, and so when it finnally did happen after years of multiple SF 2 versions coming out, this was a massive let down. May be nothing could delivered the needed levels of hype to fullfill this much of a build up, but if any game could have...IT WAS NOT SF 3.

@@Lastjustice Cant wait to see mk 12 destroying sf 6 xD

Ahh yes then you experience vism infinites

@@blaire9524 🤓

If only the music was more similar to Alpha 2 it would definitely be the best SF game

@@blaire9524 yea only bad part of the game

@@humaneshadow300 v ism makes it bad also even without the infinites, there are a handful of characters that are good or better in aism

Same!

Just got on to fightcade and was surprised how popular it is, definitely most played game on there

@@minechaftgamer288 yea it seems to depend on the time of day which has more people in it

@@snax087 It's always 3S everytime I look. Right at the moment of typing this comment 3S has 732 people in the room and KoF2002 624. Which is pretty impressive for both those games TBH those two and KoF98 are pretty much holding fightcade up.

I agree with you best is 2002 new gen best is 13, 15 no longer feels like classic kof they changed it quite a bit

@@markhavick7115 Have you considered that it must have to do with your schedule pattern and region time? Because If you live in North America or any European country you probably don't match with the best time of the predominant regions that play old KOFs. But it matches with that of regions that play more Capcom fgs - and very few of SNK fgs and almost nothing of KOF particularly. Because SNK culture doesn't exist in North America and Europe.

Garou is one of the top way better than tekken and darkstalker easily

Don't forget about fatal fury real bout and fatal fury real bout special

The fact Capcom has barely used her in any crossovers is criminal.

Ironic, considering she's supposed to be a Dan-like joke character.

@@MagmaMKII Um… where’d you get that shit?

Isn't that the one everyone picks?

@@DANCERcow as their favorite Street Fighter?

@@michaelwaynetucker I agree so much with you on this. I always thought that 2nd Impact was the superior game, other than the balance. The announcer, the character portraits during the fights, the sound effects, everything about it was way better. I wouldn't mind playing it again. But again, no one wants to play it and instead just plays 3rd Strike only.

it was aesthetically pleasing i agree but the OST was buns in comparison. but all these comments are just opinion, and thats mine

I agree with everything you said. Everything. It’s my number 2 overall of any type of game behind FF7. I spent literally hundreds of hours every night after school breaking sleep, playing hard defense because like you I sucked at combos. Learning how to high jump in and start with light attacks and break fighters down. Then meeting someone who made you look like you just started playing. Everything down to the music I loved. Greatest 2D fighter hands down

MK9 was hype as fuck. Posthumous MK games don't have the vintage charisma MK9 had

p4a would probably be in that 11-13 area, it's close!

Sorry but no on persona being in 10 top.. close but no

@@jmcrofts When I read the title of the videos "The Real", I immediately played the video. I'm glad you said in the intro that this is your own list and of course there's some bias. Because I think there is no "Real" list regarding the best fighting game. Like MVC2, I have stopped playing MVC games because this franchise then I resumed playing in MVC3 but many of my friends regards MVC2 is one of the best. Off topic though with John's comment.

As I respected your opinion but there are so many FGC players that even doesn't know that fighting game from persona franchise exists.

​@@luna_kits2345 MvC2 in some ways is the worst game in the series. It has the best roster obviously but the backgrounds are completely forgettable and the soundtrack could be nominated for worst fighting game soundtrack of all time. X-Men Vs. Street Fighter and CVSM 1 were better overall aesthetic packages. They had cool little hidden characters and gimmicks in them too.

Yeah X-Men Vs. Street Fighter is my favorite of the Capcom vs. Marvel series. It's drawback is it's small roster but the overall aesthetics of that game were the best imo. The whole thing just fit right. Capcom Vs. Marvel 2 had the best roster obviously but most of the stages were completely forgettable, I didn't like the 4 button system and the music was fuckin horrible. I mean the game Marvel Vs. Capcom and the music is this cheesy jazzy piano crap. I hated that Take Me For A Ride song so much I could barely turn the game on.

For me along with the Soul Calibur games it has a much more distinct style than most other 3D fighters. Games like Virtua Fighter, Dead or Alive and others all feel too similar to me.

@@VAFranky Dead or Alive has the counter system and tons of environmental interactions, the latter of which may be making its way into Tekken 8, at least. Virtua Fighter always seemed to be the one closest to "real" fighting.

Soul Calibur II is my favorite fighting game of all time, and was my introduction to the FGC.

Soul Calibur was every bit as technical as any Tekken out at that time. I've not played the newer entries in the series, I've only seen them a bit, but they largely look the same. VF4 and VF5 are perhaps the most technical 3D fighters ever made.

Playing Tekken with your friends is very different from going online and hitting those knowledge checks. On a basic level, the movement and attacks are actually much more intuitive than most other fighters. You don't need to learn motion inputs to have a full moveset, your attacks usually have good momentum to them so you don't need to learn tight poking ranges, and the stringd and juggles are easy, instead of having to learn what normal can special cancel into what / what juggle state is he in / does this otg? etc. It's kind of like Skullgirls, I would say. Very easy to control and start doing stuff, so it's a great game to pick up with friends, but in competitive that means there's six million ways to die. I also love Arcana Heart for that loose and free gameplay, but I would never try and take that online 😅

Ehgeiz was a blast, especially Quest mode. I spent a ton of time in both modes.

@@penismightier9278 remember the obnoxious menu sfx? Although again, killer ost for ehrgeiz. A brand new quest was great, what fighting game just randomly puts in a whole action RPG side game in ? Not to mention the beach mini games.

No one ever talks about Toshinden. Those games were great. And the stripped down 2D version on Gameboy was pretty hype too.

And it's pretty easy to do cool shit on fighterz. If you're a casual it's one of the most accesible 2D fighters out there, and at comp level, without counting some janky shit, you depend a lot on your reflexes and game sense.

From an aesthetic perspective, MvC2 is the worst game in the series. It has the best roster which is why it's the go to game in the series but the backgrounds are completely forgettable and the soundtrack could be nominated for worst fighting game soundtrack of all time. X-Men Vs. Street Fighter and CVSM 1 were more coherent aesthetic packages. They FELT right, MVSV 2 always felt more like a fan made mod than the actual game to me.

Quirky

the fact that he spent 1 hr talking about it deserves respect too

There are PC versions that are the most ideal way to play atm

It would be amazing, but in contrast to skull girls, FighterZ characters are not balanced to fight solo.

@@El_Chuchuca True, it's just a wish. Not like I ever thought there was a chance of it.

I'll make you one if you want. Power rangers just manages to squeeze into mine at number 10.