favourite Beat-Em Up series?

The Bollox

which beat-em up series is your favourite. for me it's probably Mortal Kombat. I was the first series I played. It can be annoying and also stupid the button combinations you need for the moves. MKII is the best one I have played by a country mile. I have played 1-4 (including UMK3 and MKT). I want to give Armageddon a bash, it looks great craic. Another reason I like MK over the rest is because the film conversion is the best out of all of them, leaving Annihilation out of it

so which is your favourite series? MK? Street Fighter? Tekken? Dead Or Alive? Killer Instinct? I'm sure there are more I am forgetting

Rabies

Voted for Street Fighter, but why no King of Fighters or anything else of that generation?

uberpixie

soul caliber?

virtua fighter?

i_am_dogboy

Choice between smash bros and soul blade for me, I think i'd have to pick smash bros...based almost solely on how cool kirby's voice is.

Creamy Goodness

street fighter for sure.

maybe soul caliber in second.

petes

Street Fighter. Ryu ftw.

K.O.Kiki

Choice between Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution & Super Smash Bros Melee.
VF for its gargantuan depth of play & "yomi" (reading the opponent's mind).
SSBM for its simplistic fun (yeah I know there's more to it, too...)

Vokes

I enjoyed Killer Instinct back in the day. But was it a series or was there a sequel?

Tekken series would be my favourite anyways.

Creamy Goodness

SofaKing wrote:

I enjoyed Killer Instinct back in the day. But was it a series or was there a sequel?

the one on the snes was great.

the n64 game though was pants.

Clover

Mortal Kombat would be my # 1 and i also liked dead or alive.

petes

SofaKing wrote:

I enjoyed Killer Instinct back in the day. But was it a series or was there a sequel?

Tekken series would be my favourite anyways.

I enjoyed Killer Instinct on the Snes. When I managed to get the 48 hit combo with Orchid I think I came in my trousers.

Retr0gamer

Street fighter for me. SF2 hasn't been bettered and SF3 is excellent. Virtua Fighter has always been brilliant and streets ahead of Tekken. Soul Calibur is great as well. Good for beginners but has enough depth for people who want to master it.

I hate Mortal Kombat. MK2 was good but there was so many better games at the time. Mk3 and onwards were complete disasters.

I think Samurai Showdown 2 is a forgotten classic.

i_am_dogboy

Retr0gamer wrote:

I think Samurai Showdown 2 is a forgotten classic.

Not forgotten with this one, I loved samurai showdown too, I regularly declare "victoly" inspired by this game

I'd like to point out tobal at this point, one of my favourite ps1 games, fantastic fighter with a really cool adventure type mode and I'd sort of forgetten about it earlier, shame square didn't go past tobal no.2-and the ****ers didn't even release that in europe. The robot was cool too.

rainbow kirby

Super Smash Bros

TheAlmightyArse

Super Smash Bros. Listen to Kirby say "PK fiyure" or "Valco bunch!" and disagree.

Holsten

Tekken all the way!

Retr0gamer

i_am_dogboy wrote:

Not forgotten with this one, I loved samurai showdown too, I regularly declare "victoly" inspired by this game

Ippon!

honru

Street Fighter. Hands down.

If ye wanted to go further, then the Capcom Vs. SNK series.

Steven

Virtua Fighter first, Street Fighter second.
The omission of both VF and SC makes this entire thread a farce

Pugsley

Definately Tekken, havent got VF4:Evo yet, going to order it this week though, looking forward to it. Street Fighter3 Third Strike is an excellent game though, Soul Caliber has its merits too, and SSBM is just damn fun to get 4 people around for.

Kold

Smash bros. It wins.

tman

Street Fighter, followed closely by Smash Brothers

Dooom

Mortal Kombat for me. Although Killer Instinct memories are coming back, what platform was that even on?

Creamy Goodness

Spike wrote:

Although Killer Instinct memories are coming back, what platform was that even on?

arcade
SNES
N64

that's it as far as i can remember.

Dooom

Ah SNES, that's the one I played. I think it was pretty cool, was like MK except pointy-er.

trout

for me the best beat-em-up of all time is soul calibur on the dreamcast ... how come it doesn't even make the list ?? surely shome misthake ??

Balfa

Steven wrote:

The omission of both VF and SC makes this entire thread a farce

Absolutely. And the omission of SSBM as well.

I would rank the soul calibur and street fighter games as my favourites.

Cravez

Add some king of fighters, a dash of street fighter and mix them together!

I liked both series and the capcom vs snk series was brilliant, im not a fan of 3D beat-em-up but soul caliber i find is the only one i like.

super_furry

Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting. I am unstopable with E. Honda.

jesus_thats_gre

Soul Calibur!! An awful selection in the poll by the way.

Darnell13

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

Soul Calibur!! An awful selection in the poll by the way.

I disagree. Street Fighter is there.

The rest are just making up the numbers!;)

Soul Calibur II is good, and Mortal Kombat was brilliant back in the day. It's prety horrible to play now, though esp MKII and MK3. I'm kinda interested in the newest one, though.

By the way, has anyone else played Mortal Kombat Advance on the GBA? Without doubt the worst game i've ever wasted money on (even the tenner i spent on it second hand). It's a disgrace.

Also I have very fond memories of Killer Instinct. I wonder does it hold up well. I think it might be on Wii's virtual console, so I might get it then.

Street Fighter head and shoulders above anything else. Hadoken and so on...