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Best and Worst Fighting Game Characters?
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Drilbit777
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Best: Erron Black, Morrigan, Q, Terry Bogard, Juri Han, Jin( Blazblue), Johnny Cage, Mai (KOF), Xianghua, Taki, Talim
Worst
retty much all the PS2 Mk new characters lol (aside from Kenshi and Nitara).
Worst
retty much all the PS2 Mk new characters lol (aside from Kenshi and Nitara).SmackAttack
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The Best. My main for two games in the series and I hope to see their return in the next Smash.
Drilbit777
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The Best. My main for two games in the series and I hope to see their return in the next Smash.
Hopefully so, sucks they got scrapped in smash 4 because of issues with the 3ds version.
Nope, this is Khameleon:
Same concept, but female.
My mistake but isn't the other one called Chameleon, just without the trademark K/C transposition? I believe the male one was in the Playstation version MK Trilogy and the female version was in the N64 version.
Regardless, awful character.
Lee Chaolan
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NipplesAndToes23
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What you got to be crazy because Ezio is one of the best characters in Soul Calibur V. Snake, Sonic (4), and Pac-Man are pretty decent as well.
Septimus Prime
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Best: Nu-13 from BlazBlue
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harriet the spy
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Best:
Second best:
Both from the under appreciated Last Blade II
Second best:
Both from the under appreciated Last Blade II
Best:
-Ryu/Ken from SF
-Iori andTerry Bogard from KoF
-Morrigan from DarkStalkers
-Amingo from MvsC2
-Heihachi and King from Tekken
-Fulgore from KI
-Faust and I-no from Guilty Gear
-Sub Zero and Johnny Cage from MK
Worst:
-Gill / Seth from SF 3 and 4. They're lame, bland and uninspired. Most horrible final bosses ever.
-Pichu. I still can't believe Sakurai used one character space for that shit.
-Reiko from MK4. Sure, everyone hates most of the new cast from MK4 to Armageddon, but a fucking Batman Forever Robin ripoff? Really?
-That annoying cat-lady from Tekken 7.
-Ryu/Ken from SF
-Iori andTerry Bogard from KoF
-Morrigan from DarkStalkers
-Amingo from MvsC2
-Heihachi and King from Tekken
-Fulgore from KI
-Faust and I-no from Guilty Gear
-Sub Zero and Johnny Cage from MK
Worst:
-Gill / Seth from SF 3 and 4. They're lame, bland and uninspired. Most horrible final bosses ever.
-Pichu. I still can't believe Sakurai used one character space for that shit.
-Reiko from MK4. Sure, everyone hates most of the new cast from MK4 to Armageddon, but a fucking Batman Forever Robin ripoff? Really?
-That annoying cat-lady from Tekken 7.
twothunder
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Best: Makoto
My avatar kinda gives it away, no?
Worst:
The obvious ones already mentioned. Rufus, El Fuerte
My avatar kinda gives it away, no?
Worst:
The obvious ones already mentioned. Rufus, El Fuerte
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Best: Q, Juri
Worst: Stryker
Worst: Stryker
Here's more about that topic than most people would ever want to read:
http://www.capcom-unity.com/bigmex/blog/2008/07/28/deconstructing_el_fuerte_part_1
http://www.capcom-unity.com/bigmex/blog/2008/07/29/deconstructing_el_fuerte_part_2
http://www.capcom-unity.com/bigmex/blog/2008/07/30/deconstructing_el_fuerte_part_3
http://www.capcom-unity.com/bigmex/blog/2008/07/31/deconstructing_el_fuerte_part_4
http://www.capcom-unity.com/bigmex/blog/2008/08/01/deconstructing_el_fuerte_final_part
As for personal favorites, I have many, but this man hasn't gotten enough acknowledgement in this thread:
Design-wise, everything about him means business, and he's got the scars to show he can survive some pretty rough stuff.
Story-wise, he's the neglected child of a German nobleman. His mother died when he was 15, so then his first order of business was to go all the way to Germany to confront his biological father. He was beaten by his younger half-brother and his superior training, which may have been a driving force behind his training under some of the more respected martial arts masters of his setting (or maybe like Bill from Kill Bill, he was driven to find father figures) although comparing his moves to those masters and their students, he found a way to use their principles but not their exact techniques to come up with a style of his own.
Professionally, he joined the police and manage to get himself promoted to commissioner, while running some shady deals on the side, which would eventually become his main business, but he never really let go of his focus on martial arts, having an arena to his name and organizing tournaments where he scouts for skilled people and techniques.
Somewhere along the line he managed to get married and have a kid, although in his own way he repeated his own history of parental neglect, whose resolution is complete because there's no Garou 2 (yet?) to tell us what's Rock's role in his final will.
Gameplay-wise he's particularly interesting, because he started out as a CPU boss with a simple but effective main technique - he could interrupt your attacks grabbing you out of them while keeping you away with projectiles, which in turn force you to try and attack him up close, which is risky.
When he became playable, he retained this ability, meaning that a good Geese player had to be good at anticipating his opponent's actions.
His more famous super have notoriously complex commands in their original forms (which don't necessarily apply in some of his more recent appearances), which basically force you to put in some deliberate training to pull them off when you want/need them - his Raising Storm being in no small part an anti-air particularly invite s well-trained muscle memory, and his Deadly Rave make you input a command for every hit of its combo, unlike the Ryuuko Ranbu supers from the Art of fighting cast that preceded it, which require only a single initial input.
Geese is not a young man, although physically powerful - he put years into his training, and as a fearsome (CPU) opponent that show - if you wish to master Geese, you must embrace a Geese-like mindset of devotion to your training and of trying to read your opponents to the point where they fear even trying to attack you.
I don't think I'll bother to acknowledge bad characters with even a mention here, "no such thing as bad publicity" and all that.
ãInaba Residentã
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"one character space" lol
You are history's greatest monster!
antisoulless
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I liked this guy when I was a kid haha.
Couldn't disagree w/ the OP more about Gill. What's "blah" about a two toned glowing dude in a loincloth who looks like he stepped down from Mount Olympus and strikes with both fire and ice while mocking his opponents? That's blah?
And he has a resurrection, a meteor strike and some ultra-flashy, crazy ass cherubim super. On what planet does anyone call any of that "boring?" Maybe it doesn't fit Street Fighter or something, but uhhh... meteor strikes in fighting games are boring?
Anyway, my lists are as follows.
The worst:
-World Warriors (besides Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, claw and Sagat), especially boxer & Blanka
Dan
Fuerte (let's make an annoying lucha chef, good idea)
Rufus
Abel (literally the most boring character design in Street Fighter history)
Sodom
Hakkan
R.Mika (I used her a lot back then, but I was like 12. Now it's kinda cringeworthy)
Oni
Seth
Best:
Every character in KoF 2002 UM except for Clark
Hibiki (LB)
Setsuna (LB)
Yuki (LB)
Fernandez/Fernandeath (WW7)
Nakoruru
B. Jenett (Garou)
Kim Dong Hwan (Garou)
Rose
Q
Ibuki
Charlotte (SS)
Shizumaru (SS)
C. Viper
If I had to pick one each, the worst is Sodom and the best is Blue Mary.
And he has a resurrection, a meteor strike and some ultra-flashy, crazy ass cherubim super. On what planet does anyone call any of that "boring?" Maybe it doesn't fit Street Fighter or something, but uhhh... meteor strikes in fighting games are boring?
Anyway, my lists are as follows.
The worst:
-World Warriors (besides Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, claw and Sagat), especially boxer & Blanka
Dan
Fuerte (let's make an annoying lucha chef, good idea)
Rufus
Abel (literally the most boring character design in Street Fighter history)
Sodom
Hakkan
R.Mika (I used her a lot back then, but I was like 12. Now it's kinda cringeworthy)
Oni
Seth
Best:
Every character in KoF 2002 UM except for Clark
Hibiki (LB)
Setsuna (LB)
Yuki (LB)
Fernandez/Fernandeath (WW7)
Nakoruru
B. Jenett (Garou)
Kim Dong Hwan (Garou)
Rose
Q
Ibuki
Charlotte (SS)
Shizumaru (SS)
C. Viper
If I had to pick one each, the worst is Sodom and the best is Blue Mary.
They probably shouldn't have driven that excellent thing into the ground...
But I guess when a series no longer has any proper writers, the characters become 1/2 catchphrase and 1/2 pocket lint.
Yes. Hence my "same concept, but female" comment.
abstract alien
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Why exactly do people hate El Fuerte so much? I like him!
And just so you know, if some random capcom employee responsible for the character roster sees this post and Guy doesn't make it in SFV, I will find you...
Nocturno999
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Sorry, but check fanboys' wishlist for Street Fighter V. People want back awful characters that should stay buried.
evilromero
Member
The games were still fun. Deception had an awesome single player mode.
Everything you mentioned about him that makes you like him is generic Villain Design Schematic 101. Especially in Japan, and specifically fighting games. Nothing about him stands out. He's a boring one dimensional characters with the most basic of ability tropes (controlling fire and/or ice) all put into a cheesy naked diaper package. And as a Street Fighter character, it feels like a last minute the-game-is-coming-out-soon-we-need-a-villain-design. And resurrection is so dumb. You kick his ass and he just wakes up for free? No move input, just regular ol' meter?
Anyway it's just my opinion. I have never seen anyone defend Gill though.
And his whole two-toned thing is a gimmick to show off the power of the CPSIII hardware. So that kind of sums him up in a nutshell.
Lee Chaolan
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He quickly became the comic relief character which is too bad, but I've loved the character since Tekken 1 so I'll always stick with him.
PandaPedinte
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That was a long but very insightful read, thanks.
That's okay, half of the Tekken cast has become comic relief. I'm just waiting for the series to hit rock bottom in terms of characterization.
Whaaa?? You better watch your mouth and apologize to the queen of Fighting Games.
The absolute WORST fighting game character in my opinion is Rufus.
J
Jotamide
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Best: Margaret (P4AU), Jam Kuradoberi (GGXX), Slayer (GGXX), Baiken (GGXX)
Worst: Ash Crimson (KOF)
Worst: Ash Crimson (KOF)
The Best. My main for two games in the series and I hope to see their return in the next Smash.
Hey, they got far enough along to have leftover data in the 3DS version, were apparently finished in the Wii U version, and there's always the Ballot. If the Ice Climbers do well in that poll, even if they're not the winners, they might find a compromise that makes them work in the 3DS version, like have them run at 30 FPS, or even 8-Bit sprites! Granted, they might just call it a day on them, but there's always a chance.
Second best:
Both from the under appreciated Last Blade II
Hibiki! That's the "worst character" I was forgetting the name of. I just hated how she played in Capcom Vs. SNK 2. The more I think about it, she's not as bad as I remember, I just hated her controls in that game, so she's probably fine overall. Plus, I just remembered that the Masked Horndog from Backyard Wrestling's a thing, though, so she looks fantastic in comparison.
Also all of this Peacock/Pichu hate, man...
Sure, he's gimmicky and I'd never put him on my "best" list. I just don't know about boring/blah, I've played a lot of fighters but don't recall any bad guys with that look or moveset. What holds him back IMO is the lack of a real story. He just showed up one day as the villain who replaced dictator, in some greco-roman looking place with lava tides.
Off top half of the villains from the SNK-verse resemble him, and there are others. Some come after Gill, but he's just a kind of mega-villain trope that has existed in comics, manga and anime for decades.
Orochi
Magaki
Ignz
Felden
Dio/Neo Dio
Saiki
And in terms of non-games;
Stone Men (Gill looks just like Santana before he turns blue/red)
Laocorn Gaudeamus (from the Fatal Fury film)
Broly
Satan (Devilman)
Hades (Saint Seiya)
Archanfel (Guyver)
Several HnK villains
Gill just fits an "Overlord/Big Bad" hybrid trope. The lighter, long flowing hair is common. Especially in anime. The "god-like" power/abilities is another. Being a sculpted (and sometimes naked) being when it's serious time is another. Kind of like weight shedding in Dragon Ball, but for a more dramatic "who needs clothes when I am a god" effect. And then what's his motivation? We know little to nothing about him or his brother (who IMO is a better character with what little we know of him). He's just the SFIII end-game. The Four Devas/Grand Masters are way more interesting.
Hours Left
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I'll just post some of my favs, no sense focusing on negative stuff...
Best!
-Nagare, Hayato, Roy, Daigo, Yurika (Rival Schools)
-Charlie, Eagle, Alex, Abel, Rose (Street Fighter)
-Gunloc, Biff, El Stingray, Scorpion, Rip Saber (Saturday Night Slam Masters)
-Demitri, Donovan, Rikuo, Q-Bee, Marionette (Darkstalkers)
-Miguel, Lars, Lee, King, Tiger (Tekken)
-Hwang, Rock, ZWEI, Siegfried, Maxi (SoulCalibur)
-Bang, Azrael, Relius, Litchi, Kagura (BlazBlue)
-Bayman, Leon, Jann Lee, Hayate, Kokoro (Dead or Alive)
-Clark, Smart Chang, Original Zero, Tizoc, Maxima (The King of Fighters)
-Andrew, Yoshitora, Sieger, Nakoruru, Haohmaru (Samurai Shodown)
I could keep going but I'll stop there...
Best!
-Nagare, Hayato, Roy, Daigo, Yurika (Rival Schools)
-Charlie, Eagle, Alex, Abel, Rose (Street Fighter)
-Gunloc, Biff, El Stingray, Scorpion, Rip Saber (Saturday Night Slam Masters)
-Demitri, Donovan, Rikuo, Q-Bee, Marionette (Darkstalkers)
-Miguel, Lars, Lee, King, Tiger (Tekken)
-Hwang, Rock, ZWEI, Siegfried, Maxi (SoulCalibur)
-Bang, Azrael, Relius, Litchi, Kagura (BlazBlue)
-Bayman, Leon, Jann Lee, Hayate, Kokoro (Dead or Alive)
-Clark, Smart Chang, Original Zero, Tizoc, Maxima (The King of Fighters)
-Andrew, Yoshitora, Sieger, Nakoruru, Haohmaru (Samurai Shodown)
I could keep going but I'll stop there...
Septimus Prime
Member
I kind of liked that, even though he's the boss, Gill had no malicious intent or any real motivation for fighting everyone. He gets to be the boss simply because he's just this dude who's so much stronger than everyone else. Also, he bought Dudley's car and refuses to sell it back, making Dudley fight him for it.