Any fighting video game fans and here on tapasitc!

[allenthomas]

Just looking to see if there are any fighting game fans like myself here on tapastic. If so what is your favorite fighting game and who are your favorite characters. Personally mine is Jin from Tekken and Scorpion from MK, (I've said this before but I named my main character of my comic after Scorpion)

A better question is if anyone is looking forward to Mortal Kombat X!

[Kittyfries]

Before I decided to do dedicate most of my time to school/webcomic. I participated in the Smash Bros Melee community for about 9 months! If I were to comeback, most of my friends would be able to body me since they continued on practicing and participating in tourneys without me.

[alakotila]

Personal favorite will always be Hwoarang from Tekken. Pretty good with Xiaoyu as well. Or … was. Dunno, haven't played too recently!

[getsuart]

I'm an occasional player of Tekken, but I take randomly characters to fight. Maybe a preference for Hwoarang, Leo, Jin and Law. Perfect for beginners level like me. Also a player of Soul Calibur, I like Ivy's and Siegfried's fight styles, maybe Siegfried is my main because of this. but then again, beginner level. Occasional player.

Smash bros is also a game I played a lot (I may have spend more hours in Melee than every other smashbros game), but I enjoy Smash bros Wii U. Love Robin, Little Mac and Wii Fit trainer. Wii Fit trainer is so strange to play but I find her funny. Oh and Mii, I've put characters from my story into it, they are so cute.
@Kittyfries I heard the smash bros melee community is still growing, it's amazing, after all those years ! Who was your main character ?

[UzukiCheverie]

i think there was another thread like this already lol either that or i'm having deja vu

I don't play a lot of Western-style fighers (ex. Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur, etc.) Daulton and I play a lot of Japanese arcade type games, like Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late and BlazBlue; which means crazy combos and some pretty intense fights.

[zelkats]

I think I need to be educated on this because I know very little about fighters. What makes Soul Calibur a western-style game even though it's an all Japanese production? O.o;

[allenthomas]

I also played with Hwoarang quite a bit, I can't believe I didn't mention him.

[EbonyKaze]

I think its the way it plays,where you need to memorize strings of combos to do specific moves unlike Japanese style fighters where you do commands,like Quarter circle forward or charge back two seconds then push forward, to perform your move at almost any give time whether it was a good idea or not.
Also the character designs are less outrageous and more realistic in the former so you can see your moves better when it gets intense,a least that's what I think.

[Kittyfries]

I mained Peach and I secondary Shiek :3

[zerobloodyrose]

Oh I use to play Dead or Alive, Soul Calibur and more. I like Ayane from DoA a lot, when I think about it her design has inspired me a lot. XD

[UzukiCheverie]

Pretty much. Mortal Kombat combos can look like A > B > Z > L > B > B > B, vs. combos in the games I mentioned, which can look like 2B > 6C > j.A > 621C, etc and takes a lot more to learn. That next to the visual style (Japanese arcade fighting games tend to be 2D hand drawn fighters with flowing movements, where Western style games are often 3D), and several other factors.

Basically, just because a game is produced by a Japanese company, doesn't mean it's done in Japanese style. Mortal Kombat is a prime example of this, where it's more of a Western style game, but by a Japanese company.

And then there's Smash Bros. Button mashing galore (although have you SEEN the professional tournament fights for Smash? holy shit it's impressive lol)

[zelkats]

I see.. Like I said, I don't play much fighters so I don't really know the difference in combo styles

Though, I think the 2D/3D style belonging to East or west thing is entirely subjective. Some Japanese games are stuck at (beautiful) 2D animation while others like Soul Calibur, Tekken, DoA have been doing 3D for a long, long time before 3D fighting games became a usual thing to be developed in the west. Virtual Fighter is also widely known as the first 3D fighter game. It's probably normal to equate 2D animated fighting games (without the use of photorealistic people turned into 16-bit pixels like in the good old days lol) with Japanese style because they're basically pioneers at that and they've not stopped developing them. But saying that Japanese arcade games tend not to be 3D is rather strange to me but perhaps it's applicable now since more 3D western fighting games are appearing. The only western fighting game I know that was noteworthy in the 90's was Mortal Kombat while many other Japanese games were thriving at that time. I wouldn't say that games like Soul Calibur was influenced by the west unless you're talking about recent changes to its newer games (I'm more familiar with SC 1, 2 and 3).

I've searched Wikipedia and I've failed to find any Japanese company that has worked on a Mortal Kombat... Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough? D:

[EbonyKaze]

You have a great point,I think the only western fighters are actually the Netherealm games and Skullgirls,even Killer Instinct was English,however I think Capcom has taken an all to american way to make their games as of late,but another way they may be "Western oriented" could also be how the competitive scene treats them,just reading about EVO,Soul Calibur doesn't get much attention anymore but a Tekken , a Smash bros.,a Mortal Kombat and all the Capcom games always manage to have tournaments because they have large western appeal while the "Japanese arcade"style games
(mainly by Arc System Works)don't get the same support for being to anime-like,because I think if you show someone who doesn't know Namco Bandai and Tecmo were Japanese companies Soul Calibur or Dead Or Alive,it would take them awhile to say "this is Japanese,huh?",it happened to some of my friends.
(Not Tekken,that is so Japanese:] )

[UzukiCheverie]

You guys are missing the point - I'm talking about Western style, not actually made in Western culture.

And even then, Skull Girls is also done in a somewhat Japanese arcade style, just in regards to the fighting style and combo set up (art style though, it's definitely a bit closer to Western, a bit of both worlds really). The combo set up in Skull Girls is also based on the directional pad and button combinations, not just button combinations. (so it's hard as HELL to play it on a PC without a remote or joystick).

I see.. Like I said, I don't play much fighters so I don't really know the difference in combo styles

Pick up a copy of BlazBlue or Under Night In Birth or anything similar to that and play for a bit, you'll see the difference

[Alli]

I play Smashbros sometimes. I main Ike and Ganondorf at this point, but in brawl I was better with Zero Suit Samus. Before that I mostly only played Soul Calibur II where my main was Nightmare. The controls felt so natural compared to anything else I've played. Right now I really like Hyrule Warriors where I favor adult Midna, Ruto, Volga, and Link with the master sword. Also played a little Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper and had the most fun as Keiji Maeda.

[zelkats]

Western style...? I can't comment much about fighting style and combos but as for visual style, the Soul Calibur series still seems painfully Japanese to me, lol (not to mention I'm beginning to see some Korean mmorpg influences in it). As for the 3D models of the characters, sure, they're not the Square Enix standard many Japanese developers are aiming for, and they're are getting a little closer to realistic facial features (which is what many western art styles are built on). But other than that, the game isn't quite aesthetically western in my eyes. Again, this is all mostly subjective and I might just skew away from topic if I don't stop XD;; I was simply confused when you put SC and western together in the same sentence together, sorry lol

Oh man, I did try Blaz Blu at an arcade last year and played against my friend. I had no clue what I was doing, lol. It's probably something I need to buy for my own console because I can't afford frequent arcade visits 8D;

[UzukiCheverie]

Soul Caliber once had Darth Vader in it. That's really the only point I'm gonna make about it lol Then again, I haven't played SC in years, so if it's starting to show more of an Eastern style, then by all means.

[Spinester]

I used to play Soul Calibur and the Street Fighter series quite a bit. I really liked Lei Long on Soul Calibur, there's something super demoralizing about using nunchucks on your feet to kick someone in the face.

[EbonyKaze]

Soul Calibur was always pretty cool,the guest characters were nice but I never liked how the roster changed so much between games,so the create a character mode was a great idea.:)

[VermillionWorks]

I wish they'd make a new Power Stone or something like it...
...and this only partially counts since it's side-scrolling fighting, but I'm still waiting for a next-gen Streets of Rage. >.>