Favorite Arcade Fighting Game

[Morpheus XIII]

Originally posted by babybutt1985
If you think that the street fight 2 is the best fighter game then you are very mistaken. In the games MK and Street Fighter the original, the graphics were terrible and the sound wasn't the best either. The new versions of the games are very good, better sound, better graphics, just better over all.

Obviously, you are talking relative terms. You say that the originals have poor sound and graphics (both of which really aren't all that important when it comes to fun and playability), but in their day they were state of the art. Name any other fighter that was released during the same month the Street Fighter 2 arcade machine came out which had graphics that weren't "terrible". Just like today's amazing new SF and MK successors will become utter crap in the next few years. The point is, the original Street Fighter 2 in its time was a game so undisputably popular by avid gamers around the globe, that it is honored to this day. I'm not saying that I would rather be playing SF2 all day than any of the new games, but simply that SF2 is worth remembering as one of the best in the history of fighting games.

It's like Gran Turismo. GT3 is considered superior to its predecessors (it has better graphics, sound, and physics...well DUH, it's newer), but nothing set the standard like the original--do you remember when Gran Turismo first came out? There was so much commotion about how realistic the cars behaved, how they were in fact real cars with the right names, and how they could be tuned. Never before had there been a racing game which could allow a player to really get that detailed. Those aspects alone made the game stand out from the rest of the driving sim arena. Much in the same way, Street Fighter 2 set the standard with quick paced action combined with the all important (and relatively new at that time) joystick/button moves. Everything else that follows uses Capcom's same simple yet effective idea, but improves upon it with other flairs and eye/ear-candy.

Originality is what makes a game really note-worthy.