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Soo many Street Fighter II Clones!
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This. Breakers Revenge shits on street fighter from great heights. YES INCLUDING THIRD STRIKE AND SF4 ver. whatever.
Come at me fighting GAF.
After the initial wave of SF2 clones, we also started getting the Mortal Kombat clones. And that was just reaching a whole new level of pure sleaze.
Most people probably already heard of the more infamous ones like Kasumi Ninja and Tattoo Assassins. But recently I was also introduced to a more obscure one called Survival Arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCzJ1ce06T0
Most people probably already heard of the more infamous ones like Kasumi Ninja and Tattoo Assassins. But recently I was also introduced to a more obscure one called Survival Arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCzJ1ce06T0
KaidoRacer7
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Jimnymebob
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Body Blows Galactic had some of my favourite character designs in fighting games. Puppet and Phantom were badass.
I'll throw out Elfmania for the Amiga
I'll throw out Elfmania for the Amiga
Oh, it's Power Instinct
I love how this series messed around with the cliches of the genre.
"Oh, so fighting game protagonists have to be fit guys in their 20s? OK then, here's an octagenarian female protagponist".
"Head/color swaps, you say? OK, the final boss will be her twin sister."
Nobody ever brings up the Goketsujis in discussions about female protagonists
MightyHedgehog
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It's refined and polished to the point of mirror-like perfection these days because of just so many sequels to so few one-on-one fighting games, but I gotta say that I think the 90s was the peak of the side-view fighter and that includes the 3D games since they operate in fundamentally the same way. So much variation compared to the last decade and a half even if a lot of it was directly inspired by the top successes in the genre, today's titles are even more narrow despite them being at the arguable zenith of their respective series. Melee-based games, in general, peaked in that decade.
Host Samurai
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I use to play so many of these games when I was a kid. Getting nostalgic now and might boot up some up tonight to re experience the cheese.
PSYGN
Member
Lol, wtf is that... looks like they have big head mode and the jumping animation is hilarious.
Jimnymebob
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Was there another Amiga fighter that looked like that? It looks familiar, but I'm sure I've never played that one.
Ultimate Body Blows was a huge update, but none of the Body Blows games are really very good. Fightin' Spirit is way, way better, but it's more of a Fatal Fury clone than Street Fighter Clone.
Shadow Warrior is probably the best fighting game on the Amiga, even if the art is bland.
If you think EC aged well, definitely check out it's much improved sequel on the Sega CD. It's to EC, what Super Street Fighter 2 was to SF2. So many more moves, fatalities, combos, and characters. Like 34 characters in the game. Really good for the time.
Fuckin Salamander, man! Lost so many quarters on that boss fight. I mained Goldor too.Oh, man, I have nothing but great memories for Martial Champions. I played that shit daily in the arcade. Goldor is overpowered, and Racheal is hot!
dark_prinny
Banned
You forgot Fatal Fury.
The same really with survival games after RE and hunting games after MH (made the transition to handhelds). Capcom has a knack for popularizing genres.
dcx4610
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I loved them all at the time which is strange because I have very little interest in fighting games today. They feel like they belonged to the arcade generation. I don't get enjoyment out of them unless I'm playing someone in person.
That said, I think World Heroes was probably the best clone. I was really happy when it came out on the SNES.
Looking at that picture makes me laugh how much of a copycat the game ended up being.
Ryu - Fei Long - Dhalsim - Bison - Vega - Chun Li - Blanka
Ken - Honda - Cammy - Zangief - ??? - Sagat - Balrog
That said, I think World Heroes was probably the best clone. I was really happy when it came out on the SNES.
Looking at that picture makes me laugh how much of a copycat the game ended up being.
Ryu - Fei Long - Dhalsim - Bison - Vega - Chun Li - Blanka
Ken - Honda - Cammy - Zangief - ??? - Sagat - Balrog
poopninjamvc3mk
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Sàmban;118312388 said:
I loved them all at the time which is strange because I have very little interest in fighting games today. They feel like they belonged to the arcade generation. I don't get enjoyment out of them unless I'm playing someone in person.
That said, I think World Heroes was probably the best clone. It played well and was different enough that it stood out from Street Fighter. I was really happy when it came out on the SNES.
Ha, actually ADK was sued by capcom because they alleged that World Heroes violated copyright claims on Street Fighter II. EDIT: Capcom lost, though, IIRC.
Fatal Fury is far and away the best quality "Street Fighter Clone" to the point where I'd say I like it actually more than the real SF2 series. There is a high quality FF game for virtually every SF game that exists. Like SF2'? Then get Fatal Fury Special. Like the Alpha series? Then try Real Bout.
The biggest gem in the series is Garou: Mark of the Wolves, which I feel is actually superior to Street Fighter 3: 3S. I'd say MotW is one of the finest 2D fighters of all time, actually.
I dunno if I'd call Art of Fighting or King of Fighters Street Fighter clones, personally. They're pretty different kinds of fighting games.
If Liefeld did the art for a fighting game, every character would be a divekick character.
Fatal Fury is an estranged brother series, not a clone - it was created by Takashi Nishiyama, who also created SF1, but did so at a different company.
Also, Every game in that series except for Garou tried to implement some form of 3D movement, which SF generally ignored throughout its entire history. Just about every other aspect of FF's gameplay was likely to change every couple of game or so, particularly the control scheme. It lives more on a consistent setting than on consistent gameplay.
IISANDERII
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Castef
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Eh, this list is not properly true, actually.
The true copycats in World Heroes where:
Hanzou -> Ryu
Fuuma -> Ken
Blocken -> Dhalsim
Muscle Power -> Zangief
The other fighters are quite different, in terms of moves.
Removing the 3D aspect from Garou made it a much better game. My favorite FF game, besides Garou of course, is either Fatal Fury Special or Real Bout Fatal Fury Special. I played sooooo much FFS when I got my Neo Geo, and similarly, I RBFFS was one of the first import Saturn titles I got back in the day, and I played the hell out of it, too.
It's crazy how far beyond Garou is from all those, though. I would do sick things for a sequel to that game. Shame Fatal Fury never had its "Street Fighter 4."
Just_myles
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Yeah pretty much as far as 'clones' are concerned, fighters history takes it. Even at the time. Everything else were just entries in to a growing genre, no need to call them clones.
I don't like what this implies.
Kreijooc said:
I don't like what this implies.
Irishmantis
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The only two i can think of, are Killer Instinct and Primal Rage what others where there?
Hmmm, clone this thread into an MK thread lol
A modern revival.
Oh man, so many. Eternal Champions was pretty much an MK clone. Then you had stuff like Time Killers in the arcades. Lots of really terrible home console fighters, too, like Katsumi Ninja on the Jaguar or Way of the Warrior on the 3DO (made by Naughty Dog). There is also Ultra Vortek on the Jaguar, which I won't lump with Katsumi Ninja or Way of the Warrior (because it's at least playable) but it's not really good.
MK clones tended to be poor games in general with a focus on gore. In that regard, Eternal Champions is probably the best MK clone ever.
This is all off the top of my head, there are lots, and lots, and lots of MK clones.
Imo many of the games in this thread are not SF2 clones, just post SF2 games, some of those have really little in common with SF2.
I agree, that was the best fighting game on amiga together with Fighting Spirits(i never understood the praise for the Elfmania).Iirc the main problem with Amiga fighting games was the standard joystick only having one button. There were 2 button joysticks and pads, but not everyone had them, so developers had to work with that absurd limit.
Another obscure fighter from the 90s was Shadow Fighter:
it's the first game I can remember made 100% in Italy (by a team of... 3 guys) that was actually published by an international company (Gremlin Interactive), and it was also pretty good.
FallingEdge
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World Hero's Perfect and Karnov's Revenge are legit. Mad fun games.
Black Door
Banned
3/4 of the World Heroes cast play nothing like Street Fighter characters. Ryoko=Chun-Li? Wut?
Lumpy Onion
Member
YES! One of the most satisfying and easy to play 2D fighters I've ever played. Loved how flashy the combos and specials were. Just all around damn enjoyable to play.
I would agree that the following that have been mentioned aren't really Street Fighter Clones:
Ultimate Body Blows: Always seemed to have more in common with Art of Fighting
Shadow Fighter: Seemed more like a Ultimate Body Blows clone, lol. This is my favorite Amiga fighting game, though
One Must Fall 2097: Really it's own thing
Rise of the Robots: Also it's own thing. Also really awful.
Eternal Champions: Actually has much more in common with things like MK3 than anything else, with it's dial-a-combo system.
Fightin' Spirit: Definitely a Fatal Fury clone
FX Fighter: Really awful Virtua Fighter/Tohshinden clone
Fatal Fury: Even though I listed it, I would really call it Street Fighter's main competition than a clone. They both evolved from the same game, the first street fighter. More like a half-brother than anything else.
I also saw someone mention Samurai Shodown, and I disagree with that so hard. SS was a very, very different fighting game. It's also the second best fighting game mentioned in this topic, behind Garou.
EDIT: I played so many fighting games. I really got big into the genre in the 90's. Really great memories of going to the arcade and spending all my money on SamSho 2, King of Fighters 95, Super Street Fighter 2, and MK2/3. The golden era.
EDIT AGAIN: To contribute, while I wouldn't say One Must Fall 2097 is a Street Fighter Clone, the ORIGINAL One Must Fall definitely was:
Or at least half Street Fighter Clone, half IK+ clone.
I guess so, but Mortal Kombat 2 dealt with that very good.
As some trivia, just found out about this a few days ago.
Unfortunately it was cancelled. No details have surfaced.
That's the one I thought of.
Yes, it's freeware now. The IP was acquired by another company after a lawsuit.
Depends on what you're talking about. The 2-button version when played on an A500? Good changes, played very faithfully. The 1-button version when played on an A500 with a normal joystick, or on an A1200 all together? Awful, just awful. Holding directions and tapping the button multiple times to distinguish between inputs doesn't work well unless the game is designed around it. It felt good in Shadow Fighters, it felt odd in MK. Shaq Fu on the Amiga has the same control scheme.
I tolerate Shadow Fighters because it kinda reminds me of stuff like Virtua Fighter or Smash Bros, where pressing attack + a direction gives you different attacks. The "double tap the button for high punch" business in MK just gets confusing, especially in the heat of battle.
Part of the reason why Fightin Spirit is such a good Amiga fighter, beyond the graphics, is because it supports the 6-button CD32 control pad.
The worst fighting game on the Amiga, IMO, is the CD32 port of Super Turbo, the only other home console port beyond the Saturn, PSX, and 3DO. Awful, awful port. Plays like a slideshow.
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Martial Masters is a good one.
Unfortunately it was cancelled. No details have surfaced.
This reminds me that the box for Shadow Fighters has a sticker advertising an upcoming expansion pack that would add like 10 fighters or something, thereby making it the biggest fighting game ever at the time. Sounds like that was never released, either.
Castef
Banned
Heh, gameplay-Wise, MK2 was excellent.
Martial Masters is a good one.
Fast forward to the good stuff like this.
I played this game back in the mvc2 days, Monkey Boy was the shit.
InfiniteUnrest
Member
My favorite was Clay Fighters or whatever the clay fighting game was.
soul creator
Member
big shout out to Weaponlord and Clayfighter, apparently both developed by Visual Concepts, lol
Black Door
Banned
Martial Masters is a good one.
This is a really solid game, especially coming from the likes of IGS (whose otherwise claim to fame is those eh ROTK beat em ups)
Beerman462
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Ken Masters is not amused.
Tizoc
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Those sprites look cool.Let's not forget Golden Axe: The Duel.
On second thought, let's forget it.
Most people hate this because it's not Revenge of Death Adder. It's not bad, but there is really nothing special about it. It's as bog standard as they come.
Only played single button a1200 version. Maybe that`s why didn`t have any issues, but i seriously kicked ass at it. Combos and everything. My favorite fighting game.
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