Forgotten/Overlooked/Hidden Gem Fighting Games

[Anonymous No.6949182]

Tekken, Street Fighter or Soul Calibur not allowed.

[Anonymous No.6949185]

[Anonymous No.6949219]

Still one of my favorite fighting games of all time.

[Anonymous No.6949241]

[Anonymous No.6949251]

>>6949182
Ehrgeiz

[Anonymous No.6949292]

>>6949251
Never heard of it. But using a semi related German word somehow screams Dreamcast or Saturn fighter to me.

[Anonymous No.6949293]

>>6949182

[Anonymous No.6949317]

>>6949182
good luck playing that with that shit controller

[Anonymous No.6949318]

Not sure if it holds up, but I played a lot of it.

[Anonymous No.6949320]

>>6949182

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[Anonymous No.6949327]

Pic related is the only fighting game I ever got gud at. The finishing moves are impossible though.

[Anonymous No.6949329]

Arina was cute!

[Anonymous No.6949343]

I want a new Power Instinct so badly.

[Anonymous No.6949349]

>>6949318
I fucked up

[Anonymous No.6949375]

>>6949182
forgotten by zoomers like you maybe, CvS2 is constanly cited as one of the greatest fighting games of all time

[Anonymous No.6949403]

>>6949182
>CvS2
>ported to every single 6th gen console of the time
>Forgotten/Overlooked/Hidden Gem
kys zoomer tard.

[Anonymous No.6949408]

>>6949320
Nigger read the subject of thread.

[Anonymous No.6949409]

>>6949292
So close

[Anonymous No.6949516]

>>6949408

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[Anonymous No.6949543]

>>6949375
Are you retarded?
I started the thread.
>hurr you zoomer maybe forgets these, durr
Takes one to know one. But wrong faggot.

[Anonymous No.6949558]

Still hurts that it's gone and probably never coming back

[Anonymous No.6949564]

>>6949343
Power Instinct is the Ranma 1/2 of faitans, a fucking farse.

[Anonymous No.6949573]

This game is pretty forgotten, but it's easy to understand why. Had an interesting fighting mechanic. I swear someone at Midway was inspired by Faraha from this game when designing Kitana in Deadly Alliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-MHpz6yjTc

[Anonymous No.6949574]

>>6949516
Also not forgotten you stupid nigger.
>>6949543
Are you illiterate? CvS2 is not a fucking overlooked, forgotten, or hidden gem game. It was played in tournaments for years and ported to literally every 6th gen console you dumbshit.

[Anonymous No.6949583]

[Anonymous No.6949745]

>>6949574

[Anonymous No.6949784]

>>6949745
Yes, you are le ebin troll who makes seethe by posting the exact opposite of what the thread is about. cope XD

[Anonymous No.6949795]

Pretty rare, most don't know about it.

[Anonymous No.6949823]

>>6949293
Wow art look fucking awesome

[Anonymous No.6949831]

Try to find one single game that came out before this one that had cel shading.
You can't.

[Anonymous No.6949836]

Destrega

[Anonymous No.6949854]

>>6949182
CvS 2 was incredibly popular when it came out dude.

[Anonymous No.6949890]

>>6949784

[Anonymous No.6949907]

This is the real obscure shit.

[Anonymous No.6950008]

>>6949831
But there's no cel shading in this. Actually, the game has no shading at all, just like Megaman Legends.

[Anonymous No.6950012]

[Anonymous No.6950015]

Rare forgotten gem comin through

[Anonymous No.6950023]

Move over, Wakufags. The superior Sunsoft fighting game is here.

[Anonymous No.6950051]

[Anonymous No.6950075]

A true gem

[Anonymous No.6950083]

>>6949182
>overlooked/forgotten
Yeah, because it was an unbalanced piece of shit and forgotten by the FGC.
>Hidden Gem
This was in no way a hidden gem, you dumb faggot.

[Anonymous No.6950094]

>>6950075
Why the hell didn't NA get this? I ordered a burned copy through some backwater site. You can fight Chocobos and shit. Shit was nuts.

[Anonymous No.6950114]

>>6950023
Nice bait but nobody actually believes that (except for Roomi being top tier character design)

[Anonymous No.6950120]

>>6950094
Supposedly Tobal 1 didn't sell all that well in the US despite having FFVII bundled with it. It's possible Tobal 2 was going to be standalone and not have any game bundled and as a result Square didn't want to risk releasing it. Had they waited a couple of more years they could've promoted it as having artwork by Akira Toriyama as DBZ had become huge in the US by 1999.

[Anonymous No.6950126]

>>6950094
No idea why but yea this peace of work has Toriyama character design, 3d sidestepping with grabs galore, over 200 playable characters which you unlock in story mode. To this day one of my favorite fighter games.

[Anonymous No.6950129]

>>6949182
I don't mean to shit on fighting games but they're just as bad as Madden when it comes to releasing the same fucking game every year only with mountain dew tier subtitles like alpha hyper extreme millenium edition etc.
Like there's about 13 different version of Street Fighter 2 and 20 different Capcom vs.... games out there.
How the hell do you know which ones are actually good and which ones are just cash grabs?

Samurai Spirits II is the best fighter btw.

[Anonymous No.6950131]

>>6950120
>having FFVII bundled with it
I forgot all about that. Take me back, anon.
But yeah I can see what you're saying. It was kind of a whatsit game, especially with no connection to a previous series or anything. It definitely could've been a late PSX era hit.

[Anonymous No.6950139]

>>6950129
>I don't mean to shit on fighting games but they're just as bad as Madden when it comes to releasing the same fucking game every year only with mountain dew tier subtitles like alpha hyper extreme millenium edition etc.
Good point which is kind of SNK realized with the King of Fighters series, they kept the fans entertained with small incremental rooster updates and silly anime storylines giving the games a personality of their own like an on going narrative instead of feeling like a version 1.5 software patch.
Even to this day the KOF96-97 Orochi saga is still one of their most memorable moments that gets referenced or outright copied in every snk fighter story mode ever since.

[Anonymous No.6950326]

>>6949182
SNK's answer to Street Fighter 3.

[Anonymous No.6950402]

I'm not enough of a competitive player to know if this is technically a good FG or not, but my waifu's in it.

[Anonymous No.6950408]

>>6949182
The first Capcom vs. SNK game.

[Anonymous No.6950443]

>>6949403
its not good tho

[Anonymous No.6950485]

>>6949574
Are you retarded?
Curb your autistic rage you faggot.

[Anonymous No.6950505]

>>6949574
>illiterate
You are one to speak and should read the title again:
>OVERLOOKED
I just wanted a fighting game thread that doesn't devolve into yet another Tekken/StreetFighter/.... thread you dumb nigger.

[Anonymous No.6950523]

2 was the best one

I miss fighters that weren't made for esports tournament shit

[Anonymous No.6950550]

i really like to play groove on fight, unfortunate can't run the sega saturn version, who is miles better than the arcade, had extra characters and arranged soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.6950613]

>>6949583
>2d wrestling made in the street fighter engine/by street fighter devs
I never knew I needed such a thing. Sounds glorious.

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[Anonymous No.6951106]

>>6949182
Gundam Battle Assault 2 and Digimon Rumble Arena come to mind

[Anonymous No.6951125]

This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3I5ebnEsqQ
While the first game was more like a wrestling game, the sequel became a pretty unique street fighting game, like what Pit Fighter should be.

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[Anonymous No.6951612]

>>6950613
It was. Too bad the sequel wasn't and they never made a third one.

[Anonymous No.6951631]

>>6949558
Dangerously based

[Anonymous No.6951636]

>>6951612
The sequel's tight as fuck, mate, and it's the game that actually fits that description. Slam Masters is more like the Wrestlemania arcade game. Ring of Destruction is Street Fighter-ish.

[Anonymous No.6951693]

I heard this pic related made sand niggers seethings over an one specific stage map in the game.

[Anonymous No.6951702]

Damn fine title you should play if you ever stumble across it at a Japanese arcade.

Play Fighting EX Layer. Arika puts their heart into making quality titles.

[Anonymous No.6951792]

Here's one hidden gem that gets overlooked way too often.

[Anonymous No.6951956]

>>6951792
based
but for me, its tekken 2

[Anonymous No.6951962]

Super Robot Spirits, spinoff of Super Robot Wars.

[Anonymous No.6951967]

[Anonymous No.6951971]

>>6951956
Same here, actually.

[Anonymous No.6952003]

for me its NGBC. such a fun, polished gem. its always baffling to me how much love was poured into this whereas just a couple years prior, they did their SNK vs Capcom which was such a drab, lifeless affair that felt like they didn't care about it at all when that would have been far more likely to succeed had it gotten the love the Capcom Vs SNK games did

>>6951198
>>6949329
based

[Anonymous No.6952089]

there is nothing obscure about cvs2, i take it you're very very very new to fighting games and play them against the cpu on easy

[Anonymous No.6952172]

>no fighting vipers
>no last bronx
>no destrega
>no tech rommancer
>no rival schools
>no cardinal syn

come on, /vr/! I thought you liked videogames and were better than /v/.

[Anonymous No.6952191]

>>6952172
Here's a deep cut for you.

[Anonymous No.6952280]

>>6952172
>Rival Schools
absolute peak 90s Capcom character design. i hope Akira being in SFV is a potential paving the way for a new Rival Schools and not my other fear that it instead just means SF is going to continue absorbing Rival Schools like it has Final Fight so theres no need for risking a sequel when you can just put Batsu and Shoma in Street Fighter 6 next

[Anonymous No.6952393]

>>6949836
>>6952172
Absolute eyelet. But yeah destrega deserve way more praise

[Anonymous No.6952514]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcMMI96Kkfs

Favorite older Dragon Ball Z game desu. Captured the manga's look so well.

[Anonymous No.6953113]

>>6951792
great game but this is like one of the top selling PSX games same goes for Rom downloads

[Anonymous No.6953136]

>>6952172
>no rival schools
It's not obscure in the slightest. In fact Street Fighter V is getting Akira.

[Anonymous No.6953240]

>>6949182
This post has been paid for by /heem/

[Anonymous No.6953251]

>>6953136
People these days consider Darkstalkers obscure, and it was way bigger than Rival Schools ever was.

[Anonymous No.6953261]

>>6953251
Who are these people? Because they sure as shit aren't people who touch fighting games and go on and on and on about them.

[Anonymous No.6953280]

>>6952514
Love this shit, need to get my PS2 back

[Anonymous No.6953312]

>>6953113

[Anonymous No.6953413]

Simple as.

[Anonymous No.6953470]

>>6953136
The hardcore FG fan might know of Rival Schools but many FG fans post SF4 probably don't know of a series that hasn't had a game in 20 years.

[Anonymous No.6953491]

>>6951693
Yes. It might even be the same chant they used for the fire temple in Zelda: OoT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WU1SLwUDDw&list=PL6E09CBA1D33B67A6&index=16

I find the soundtrack pretty nice even though the game itself is pretty meh.

[Anonymous No.6953496]

>>6953491
That sample was on a widely-used sample CD back in the day, that's why it shows up in so many game soundtracks.

[Anonymous No.6953497]

>>6949182
The gamecube version of CvS2 removed roll cancels since Capcom never intended them to be a thing, it's shit.

[Anonymous No.6953523]

Surprised this hasn't be posted yet. The second one is bit more of a party game but i like it as well.

[Anonymous No.6953531]

this had an arcade release as well, there's a bunch of dumb broken things you can do but it's hella fun to watch and play.

there's a yearly 3 on 3 team tournament held in japan by the same guys that do
Cooperation Cup. the VODs are on the gamenewton twitch channel if you feel like checking it out

[Anonymous No.6953561]

>>6953470
I disagree. New players and casuals are all very familiar with Max's videos. They probably don't talk about it because they never played it, but it'd be disingenuous saying that they don't know about RS when the numbers are right there to back it up.

The OP topic is pretty contradictory too. There's not really a "hidden fighting game gem" because all of the good fighting games have strong communities backing them, powered by sheer autism and obsession. If you see something you've never heard of, played, or can even find supplementary resources for, then it's complete shit.

[Anonymous No.6953670]

>>6950485
No he's right, that was one of the worst games you could have picked given what the thread is supposed to be about.

[Anonymous No.6953674]

>>6953561
Who the fuck is Max and what does that have to do with anything?

[Anonymous No.6953773]

>>6949907
Aw shit, is that the guy from Strikers 1945? Based

[Anonymous No.6953776]

>>6953561
do you get up every morning and get on youtube every day to find retro youtubers nobody has heard of to feign outrage over? get a new fucking hobby anon that is depressing as shit

[Anonymous No.6953779]

I think the touhou fightan games are pretty neat. Don't really see em get discussed much

[Anonymous No.6953785]

>>6953674
>>6953776
>abloo bloo bloo!
You sure did prove me wrong. Do you cry like women in every argument you get destroyed in?

[Anonymous No.6953790]

>>6949907
There's supposed to be a new version. Where is it

[Anonymous No.6953865]

I used to toy around in eternal fighter zero some.
I'm not really into fighting games, but it featured lots of girls from a number of visual novels and got me into more of them so I'll always kind of like it on a certain level.

[Anonymous No.6953887]

>>6949241
Surprisingly decent port but now there is almost no damn reason to play it

[Anonymous No.6953923]

>>6953531
>No 2nd part
>Or a "complete" roster
Something that'll always bum me about about this title.

[Anonymous No.6954447]

this game is buttery smooth for a SNES title and really fun to play.

[Anonymous No.6954489]

>>6953785
no one is arguing with you, anon. we're mocking you

[Anonymous No.6954518]

>>6953531
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V3O9dDj4Ck

>>6953497
It also added SCs to P-Groove. I don't think EO ever got a fair shake regards to balance or competitive viability. People saw RCs were gone and wrote it off.

[Anonymous No.6954690]

>>6952514
>>6953280
Super DBZ da god

[Anonymous No.6954778]

>>6950550
and at the cost of cop tiddies.

[Anonymous No.6955959]

Super Butouden 3.
While not as good as 2, which is everyone's favorite, 3 is still pretty damn good and in some ways better than 2. It's severely underrated.

[Anonymous No.6955985]

Used to get into some pretty heated battles with friends on this one.

[Anonymous No.6956124]

KI2 is kind of a forgotten game and it's a shame because it's way more fun and balanced than the first iteration. Even the N64 port is fine considering is an early title.
For some reason the game was huge in my country we even had a local scene for years.

[Anonymous No.6956153]

this is the worst thread on fighting games ive ever seen on 4ch and i used to post on /fgg/

[Anonymous No.6956203]

>>6954518
>People saw RCs were gone and wrote it off
Roll cancels are a core aspect of how characters are played in every groove that has them. Blanka without RC electricity isn't Blanka, hence why you never see anyone use K-Blanka for example.

[Anonymous No.6956340]

>>6949836
>>6955985
Came to mention these two. Not only were they well done, but being primarily projectile based made them stand out from the many Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter clones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kfZINCnYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCGdBqb0_R8

[Anonymous No.6956617]

>>6956340
>>6955985
This was played at EVO Japan last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXCLaQ7kMbg

[Anonymous No.6956856]

That one obscure SNK tag fighter
>>6952003
Based Taste, NGBC is one my favorite games by SNK. It's a shame that no one talks about it.