General gaming discussion

Welcome to fighting games, where the reason you lost is because your opponent is using an overpowered character, using cheap moves or crappy developer hit boxes but it's never about your own ability.

You say cheap moves. Your opponent will tell you it's the only normal with recovery that means they won't get countered 🤣

Despite me thinking Mortal Kombat is a bit naff I do have to admire their focus on making a fun single player experience. SF6 is the only one that comes close lately and that seemed to be on response to MK. Every other games single player experience was bad AI and some single screen visual novel garbage between fights.

Its was also stupidly hard in the worst, badly designed GTA mission, way.

The internet: the storyline of Kingdom Hearts has deep lore and is peak fiction, up there with the greats of cinema and literature.

Peak Fiction:

I remember the CGI in the old PlayStation Tekken games being mind blowing, Namco might even have been ahead of Square Enix when it came to pre-rendering. They look awful quaint now although somehow look better than the PS2 mortal Kombat prerendered endings.

As for best roster, I do like Street Fighter 2 but not sure if it's nostalgia or just how iconic it is. There's a lot of personality in each of those characters.

Samurai Shodown 2 has a great roster as well. Very distinct characters that all play very differently from each other. They dropped some of the diff ones from SS1 and the new additions are excellent. The latest Samurai Shodown roster is equally excellent as well especially with the season passes. Even the cameos from other game series feel right at home. That game deserves more recognition but the Stadia launch really dulled it's impact.

Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves is another great roster of really fun characters that are all distinct and play very differently.

Always liked King of Fighters, despite the massive rosters they have a lot of different play styles and distinct characters. I'll got with kof 13 as my favourite as I'm most familiar with that and it has Mai.

Quite like Soul Calibur as well, especially soul Calibur 2 which has the perfect mix of distinctive characters. GameCube of course as Link was a perfect fit for the series.

MK1 and 2 despite my misgivings have a good cast as well. Way more iconic than later games and with the right ratio of edgy to silly.

Got the bad ending on the second campaign of Wizardry Variants Daphne. Must have over 30+ hours put into it now and despite being a F2P Gacha game it puts being a good game first. Honestly think it's the best dungeon crawler I've played since Etrian Odyssey.

All it needs are sea shanties and it's a classic.