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What is the worst fighting game ever made?

mr stroke said:
for some reason this genre has some of the worst crap


I would have to give it to the all time classic-

Rise of the Robots-

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zafl_68PfOo
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Oh my god focus groups :lol :lol :lol
 
vgachi57 said:
i remember Shaq Fu being pretty bad.
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You may also remember then, that it came with a CD Single which featured the most awesome line ever uttered in the pantheon of Hip Hop.

I'm a man-eater
Do I look like Hall and Oates?
...
...No.

Shit is brilliant right there. Jeru, Lateef & Saul Williams got nothing on Shaq.

This fact alone scientifically exempts it from being the worst fighting game ever made.
 
Freshmaker said:
The more I think about it, the more I know the true winner.

Urban Champion.
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Urban Champion was my first gaming disappointment. My friend was ranting and raving about this awesome game where you go around beating up people. He tells me it's Urban Champion. I whine and whine to my parents that I need Urban Champion. They relent and purchase it for me, and I found out the game is a piece of crap. Turns out my friend was thinking of River City Ransom.
 
Naked Prime said:
Martial Champions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3COemcjvts
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Have you ever actually played Martial Champion? It was actually a lot of fun back in the day. Nothing particularly broken about it, either - graphics were good for its time, controls were responsive, not especially unbalanced... calling it 'the worst fighting game ever made' is a joke. There are a lot of other games in this thread that are deserving of that 'honor' - Rise of the Robots and Bloodstorm in particular.
 
If we go by pre Street Fighter 2 - Than the worst I have personally played is probably the Urban Championship? (I think thats what its called) on NES

Post Street Fighter 2 - Maybe some shitty 3d N64 fighter that I forgot the name of.


Not going to lie but I liked Clayfighter, War Gods and found Time Killers amusing at the time. World Heroes, Art of Fighting and Tekken dont belong anywhere near this list :lol

Pit Fighter, Street Smart etc are not in the same genre as Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter etc so I cant count those.
 
goodness some of these games are horrible. The others are just american fighting games. :lol :lol

(bookmarked for top of page 4):lol
 
mr stroke said:
for some reason this genre has some of the worst crap


I would have to give it to the all time classic-

Rise of the Robots-

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zafl_68PfOo
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:lol I would have posted this too.
I remember renting it, and actually taking it back to the store and outright complaining, as a kid, that it was too horrible.
They took pity on me and let me exchange it!

EDIT: Oh, and to all you War Gods haters: fuck you!
 
o.o holy shit. um... not sure what I'm thinking of could top any of those that I'm seeing on this list LMAO :lol :lol
 
Ferrio said:
Urban Champion was my first gaming disappointment. My friend was ranting and raving about this awesome game where you go around beating up people. He tells me it's Urban Champion. I whine and whine to my parents that I need Urban Champion. They relent and purchase it for me, and I found out the game is a piece of crap. Turns out my friend was thinking of River City Ransom.
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Oooooooouch. That is quite a downgrade :lol
 
All you guys mentioning Urban Champion NES are motherf**kers. I LOVED that game as a kid!

I haven't played it since I was 8. You guys are probably right, and I'm sure it sucks ass. I just don't want to admit it
 
J Tourettes said:
Five pages and no Ka Ge Ki on the Sega Megadrive?

It also has the distinction of being the worst game with best cover:

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Man, I remember beating that game in half an hour and almost crying that Mum was gonna kill me for making her buy it. :lol :lol :lol

"Eehhhhh, he's not baaaaaad"

gamergirly said:
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You fail. So hard.
 
Adam Prime said:
All you guys mentioning Urban Champion NES are motherf**kers. I LOVED that game as a kid!

I haven't played it since I was 8. You guys are probably right, and I'm sure it sucks ass. I just don't want to admit it
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It's great if you love an never ending game of rock paper scissors. (Though going by the usual "fighting games need to be totally revamped for easy access!" threads, it was the pinnacle of fighter design which not even Smash could hope to top...)
 
TunaLover said:
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Try to beat this:
-Clunky movements
-Just one background
-Poor framerate
-Awful graphics
-Three fighters to select to
-Broken moveset
-Unbalanced
-Boring challenge bonus
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All you guys saying Pit Fighter, can pucker up and kiss the ass.

I heard it was pretty bad on SNES (so you get the pass TunaLover), but on the Genesis and arcade it remains one of my all time favorites.

Pit Fighter Defense Force says:

It has multiple backgrounds...they just all look the same, which are warehouse type environments. It makes sense with the gritty underground style of the game. It even has a stage with cars to jump on.

SNES maybe, but the Genesis and arcade graphics were amazing for their day.

Pit Fighter is more similar to Final Fight than a traditional one on one Street Fighter style game. Therefore, three fighters to select from makes sense.

The moveset was great. Punch, kick, dodge, jump, jump kick, special move, pick up and throw.

The bonus challenge was great too. The three knockdown fights really made you approach your opponent differently from the regular battles. You really had to plan your attacks instead of just running in and every hit counted. Those fights were the most hair raising and stress inducing fights I've ever had from a fighter. It was much more fun than smashing the same car over and over or hitting some barrels. I loved Pit Fighter's challenge rounds.

There's nothing like punching a guy till he drops to his knees, running and grabbing a 2x4, cracking him in his head with it as he's getting up, knocking him into the rowdy crowd as they push him back into the fight and right into your double spin kick to finish him off. Or being backed into the crowd and having someone stab you in the back with a knife, causing you to attack the crowd, take the weapon they dropped and use it on your the guy you were originally fighting. Or how about axe kicking the living shit out of a downed opponent and having your partner slam a barrel on him before he can get up.

Pit Fighter is a great game and while we complain about it's 'choppy animation', let me remind you that this game came out back in 1991, with like eight realistic characters all fighting on screen at once, a scaling camera and a stage full of items and crowds to interact with.

Pit Fighter (Genesis and arcade) was a great game.
 
I've pretty much played every fighting game from the 80s to the 00s. But one game stands out to me as being not only bad, but borderline unplayable:

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The original Street Fighter game was atrocious. If you think some other fighting game is bad, try and track down Street Fighter and give it a go. You'll see what I mean.

AEGISX said:
gotta be street fighter 4, a very unbalanced shit
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inorite
 
All you people posting about Rise of the Robots OBVIOUSLY never played number 2- which took everything shitty about number one, and somehow made it worse.

Why I rented it when I obviously should have known better is a mystery that will forever remain unsolved.

I'm going to have to go find that wrestling game with Ultraseven in it though- that's pretty awesome. The ending even riffs on the TV show! I gotta find some youtube clips of that Dan guy to see if he makes Ultraman noises now!
 
Dark Octave said:
All you guys saying Pit Fighter, can pucker up and kiss the ass.

I heard it was pretty bad on SNES (so you get the pass TunaLover), but on the Genesis and arcade it remains one of my all time favorites.

Pit Fighter Defense Force says:

It has multiple backgrounds...they just all look the same, which are warehouse type environments. It makes sense with the gritty underground style of the game. It even has a stage with cars to jump on.
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The environmental interaction is actually quite useful too. You can beat up random hobos for knives and sticks. You can also set up severely damaging combos by throwing someone into a car and elbowing the crap outta them with Ty.

SNES maybe, but the Genesis and arcade graphics were amazing for their day.
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SNES version was total ass. The graphics were better, but they reworked the controls so that the game was unplayable. (They also decided that limiting your power move was a great idea. You only got it 3 times a match.)

The moveset was great. Punch, kick, dodge, jump, jump kick, special move, pick up and throw.
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You also had a few contextual moves. A down attack, back attacks, and in close attacks.

There's nothing like punching a guy till he drops to his knees, running and grabbing a 2x4, cracking him in his head with it as he's getting up, knocking him into the rowdy crowd as they push him back into the fight and right into your double spin kick to finish him off. Or being backed into the crowd and having someone stab you in the back with a knife, causing you to attack the crowd, take the weapon they dropped and use it on your the guy you were originally fighting. Or how about axe kicking the living shit out of a downed opponent and having your partner slam a barrel on him before he can get up.
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The only real problem with the game was that Kato sucked. His dodge was the only one that wasn't invulnerable, and his super attack took forever to complete.

Ty on the other hand was nearly broken. Mainly thinks to him having the fastest dodge and a really quick rear attack. Dodge, then elbow the crab out of the guy you just got behind. Unless someone intervened, the dude you caught was pretty much trapped until he fell down. Ty could also pin someone to the hood of a car indefinitely with his up close elbow strike.

Buzz couldn't do quite that much. He did have a few different throws and his dodge was decent tho.

Pit Fighter is a great game and while we complain about it's 'choppy animation', let me remind you that this game came out back in 1991, with like eight realistic characters all fighting on screen at once, a scaling camera and a stage full of items and crowds to interact with.

Pit Fighter (Genesis and arcade) was a great game.
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This.
 
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