Was VF the game that made you a fan?

If not, then what was the first fighting game you ever played that got you into the fighting genre?

 

SF2:WW

 

Karate Champ or Yie Are Kung Fu! I don't remember which I played first, but I was a kid when I first saw it show up in the arcade and I was hooked from then on.

 

Probably yakf, wasnt in the arcade though I think it was on someones c64

Also hkm which was like a clone of sf1 almost i think made by us gold.

I remember staring at ads for the original sf in the backs of computer game magazines thinking it looked bad ass and wishing the game stores around me had it. When I finally played it I fell in love.

Then there was sf2 and there was no going back ever.

 

SF2 and MK(1).

 

SF 2 se on Genesis started my obsession with Tekken (1 to TTT), VF (2 to 4), and SF 2 . Also played Soul Blade/Calibur and MK 3 but they can't touch the above 3

 

Well the first fighting game I played would probably be MK II on the Genesis. I played a few casually (Street Fighter Alpha 3 & Tekken 3 [never liked Tekken though]) but I never found one that I thought had enough strategy. Soul Calibur impressed me alot as my cousin had a DC so I got a good taste of it but it wasn't until I got VF4 when I found a fighting game that I thought was truely strategic. VF4 got me into the arcade scene as well.

 

Definitely SF2. I played all those other older games like Karate Champ and the original Street Fighter, but those games weren't addicting to the point where I was going to the arcades or gas station everday to practice and get better. MK1 and 2 were also both played heavily as well, but SF2 was still the first.

VF1 was the first polygon game that got me hooked on 3D games, though. Tobal and Tekken were good too and I enjoyed them as well, but VF was always the better series, IMO, and Evo is the best fighting game ever.

 

I dunno, I never liked VF1. Yes it started it all but Toshinden and Tekken are the two major games that put 3D fighters on the videogame map. VF1 deserves props for being the first but I never considered it to be a great fighting game.

 

The first fighting game for me has to be Fighting Masters on the old Mega Drive.

 

My first versus fighting game was SF2:Turbo.
I was superhooked. And then I got MK1.

And the rest is history...

 

Virtua fighter 2 in the arcade I used to play as shun and get my ass kicked. I thought he was cool because he was a drunken fighter.

 

Same here, Shun and Lion are the two characters that got me interested in the game.

 

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I dunno, I never liked VF1. Yes it started it all but Toshinden and Tekken are the two major games that put 3D fighters on the videogame map. VF1 deserves props for being the first but I never considered it to be a great fighting game.

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OMG, VF1 runs circles around Toshinden and the first Tekken (IMO). Those two games were good for about a month or two, then it was just painful playing them. Vf1 was good all the way up till VF2 for me. I admit I didn't care for VF when it first came out, but once it hit Saturn and I was looking for a new game to play, VF fit the bill nicely and it just got better and better, even months later. It stood the test of time and that's what I look for in a game.

 

I have to agree with Oni on this one. VF1 I played and thought it was ok, but I didn't really get into it. I bought Battle Arena Toshinden on the launch day of PSX and played it a lot. Very fun, but not very deep. Tekken I bought on it's launch day for PSX at a friends recommendation (Never came out in local arcades) and it was absolutely great. Not too long ago I broke out VF1 (Saturn), BAT (PSX), and Tekken 1 (PSX) and played them. Then I realized that compared to Virtua Fighter 4 Evo and Tekken Tag they are complete garbage. They were good for their time, but they are horrible now.

 

VF1 made me a fan, but I wasn't that interested in fighting games at the time.

I'd have to say karate champ was the very first fighting game I touched. It's a classic. 2 joysticks per player + no buttons = perfection!! /versus/images/graemlins/wink.gif

SF2 was probably the first fighting game that I played seriously. Too bad things went downhill after SF2 turbo.

 

For me it was definitely Soul Calibur. Anyone else here itchy to play Soul Calibur II? I can't decide which console to get it for - XBox gives you the Spawn fighter and either PS2 or GC gives you the link fighter. I forget what the third extra is.

 

Street Fighter 2 Turbo: The new Challengers



I remember having huge SNES parties for SF when I was in school, and when our local arcade scored TWO machines for it, nearly everyone would pour quarters down the machine.

That and MK1 were the only fighting games that I ever enjoyed besides the VF series.

Imo, VF1 was good for its time, but got ripped off and outdated quickly. Sega made VF2 for the sautrn which my friend bought and played alot of. Dural + UnderWater stage = /versus/images/graemlins/grin.gif

But as for the rest of VF, I stopped playing console and arcade games because of Starcraft (which will always be better than VF any day).

When VF3 came out, no one liked it over SC and the other SF crap. I never owned a DC so I never played VF3 or Tb.

When VF4 came out, the reviews were crazy in Japan of the arcade version, they wrote about it like it was a cure for cancer. I bought the Japanses PS2 version the day it came out, now I have Evo and both joysticks and play a shitload of VF.

Even though I have always enjoyed fighting games, nothing will amount to the countless hours of Kumite, Quest, Versus, and VF.Net fighting I have done over the past year.

 

Re: SC2

I got the Japanese PS2 one and I like it. The main reason is the control. On the GC demo it looks blurry and somewhat nicer but the Cube controller sucks. If I had to decide one, I'd pick the PS2 version. I don't own an Xbrick, so I really can't compare the other two to that.

Heiachi(sp) is ok, I don't mind him. I do like the PS2 SC2 sticks and for fighting games the PS2 pad is pretty nice too. My only complaint is they won't let me unlock lizardman.

 

Karate Champ was probably my first. MK was very diversionary, nice time waster. VF1 was where everything got super serious.

I'm still waiting for a karate champ remake with the same control scheme.

GE