What was the most influential fighting game after Street Fighter 2?
>>724423287Tekken, Melee or Guilty Gear.
>>724423583Also Mortal Kombat.
>>724423287Definitely Tekken 3. Not only was it the first "cool" 3D fighting game, it was so fuckin cool that nobody gave a crap about any other 3D fighting game ever again except for lone titles here and there. I don't count Soul Caliber because that was from the same company.
>>724423287>MechanicallyVirtua Fighter or Darkstalkers. VF became THE template for 3D games that everything was spun off from for over a decade, and DS is how we got to both MvC and Guilty Gear. If you count platform fighters and arena fighters then it's obviously Melee & Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm for those.>OverallMortal Kombat. It's the only IP other than Street Fighter and Tekken that any given person on the street might know and is iconic outside of its games just as much as within them. It popularized visual styles multiple times, was front and center in creating the ESRB, turned popular arcade myths real in sequels, and has been willing to just do shit more than any other major fighting game IP. Shame 90% of the games suck ass.
>>724424538Why would anyone ever count platform fighters. Otherwise agreed though, anon.
DoA 1 Ultimate
King of Fighters 94
>>724423583Melee is legendary in its own right but what did it really influence? Smash games after it weren't trying to imitate it and most other attempts at platform fighters are niche or failed.
>>724424538>Naruto Ultimate Ninja StormYou mean Tenkaichi Budokai, which NUNS ripped off.
>>724423287Samsho 2 is where supers came from, so probably that. It's not very well known or popular but that's not really the question.>DS is how we got to both MvC and Guilty GearMagic series combos actually came from Asuka 120%. (Which spawned all anime games)
>>724424962Nothing. Just a reference in Smiling Friends
>>724423287Smash obviously. Tons tried to copy it but it just doesn't work without iconic fun characters
Anyone saying anything else BUT Tekken 3 is a LARPing underage retard.Can't speak for ameriflaps, but if you owned a playstation in Europe, you owned Tekken 3, simple as.
>>724425757The rest of the world isn't as gay and retarded as Europe is
>>724425757Tekken 1-3 were identical except for 3D backgrounds in 3
>>724423287Guilty Gear made "anime fighting games" (where everyone can double-jump, airdash, and run) a thing. Dozens upon dozens of poverty fighters try to imitate it but can never duplicate it.
>>724428030 here, sorry OP, I misread your post; I thought you meant the next most influential 2D fighter. If 3D is allowed: As much as I vastly prefer Tekken, I gotta say Virtua Fighter 1, the granddaddy of all polygonal fighters.
>>724423287Art of Fighting 1 introduced dashing, taunting and the very first super.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAVlHdgSno
>>724428030Can you really chalk that up to Guilty Gear when Guilty Gear specifically was taking a shitton of influence from games like Darkstalkers. Like sure it's different to make it all a standard mechanic instead of varying from character to character, but still.
>>724423287Probably Virtua Fighter. It set the standards for 3D fighting games. Like why do they all need to have the RING OUT feature?
>>724428443Darkstalkers did it first, but Guilty Gear did it right.
>>724428683Asuka 120% did all that first, what are you talking about
>>724428683No, Darkstalkers did it first, Cyberbots did it right, Guilty Gear did it last
>>724423287smash bros
>>724423287In cultural impact in the west it's Mortal Kombat, no contest. Not only in popularity, but just consider it went as far as being the main culprit responsible for the creation of the ESRB, affecting every videogame ever made since. In the technical aspect probably Virtua Fighter, it was pretty much the SF2 for 3D and every 3D fighter ever made copied it, even though it has been dead and eclipsed for years.
>>724427836It didn't even have 3D backgrounds in the playstation port, which is how almost everyone played it. It succeeded because it looked cool as fuck, the characters were awesome, the sound effects and music kicked ass. It completely blew away the (frankly) lame presentation from Virtua Fighter and other 3D fighters. That's why it succeeded and was influential. It was so god damned cool that everyone else just gave up.
>>724423583>guilty gear LMAO >meleeIncorrect. Smash as a whole. >>724423583>Tekken Factually untrue. Many, MANY fightan devs have cited Virtua Fighter, specifically VF2 as a major inspiration for some of their games, and VF2 was so ambitious that the tech they used for the game actually helped the US' flight system or some shit and if I recall, either helped founded Nvidia or inspired the Nvidia guy to pursue his dreams. Pretty sure I'm getting that wrong but some autist will correct me.
>>724428580The ringout is great because you can get sudden surprise wins and losses, which raises the tension. It's one of the reasons Smash has been so successful, because you can lose at *any* time, not just when you've taken a certain amount of damage like other games. I love tekken but I wish the game was built with ringouts in mind.
>>724425757Consider the following: no one cares what a eurobong thinks. You guys have zero impact on the modern world culture.
>>724430129N
>>724423287KOF inspired Sakurai to make Smash.
>>724432804...INTENDO HIRE THIS MAN
>>724423287Virtua Fighter, easily.
>>724423287It's Smash Brothers albeit
>>724433684Nope, it's Virtua Fighter. Without VF, there would be no 3D fighting games. VF walked to Tekken could run.
>>724433684Far from it
>>724423287Basically anything SNK and Capcom was pushing considering these two were coming up with a lot of shit, but if you wanna keep it simple-Mortal Kombat was THAT popular, and its infamously the reason the ESRB exists-Tekken 3 was a big push for console-oriented fg-Asuka 102% is THE origin of the anime fighter, without it you would not see things like Guilty Gear happen-King of Fighters was a progrenitor of shoving a fuckton of characters into 1 game + team battle stuff-Super Smash Bros, i do not care how much people denounce smash bros as a fighting game series, this shit has influence even if you put the rosterfaggotry aside
