THE FIGHTING GAME FEVER! (NOT SWINE FLU RELATED)
Welcome to my Blog folks,It's a rather pleasant rainy Sunday afternoon here in dear old England, I've had a quite delicious sunday roast and I watched me some Formula One. Nothing out of the usual and that's for the best, but today much of my thoughts have been taken up with the wonderful genre of the beat-em up. This classic and much beloved genre of videogames, as seen quite a resurgence of late with titles such as Street Fighter IV bringing fighting games back to the forefront of gamers minds. Now I shall be the first to admit that compare to most, I'm rather poor at fighting games. But I have always been fond of them, even if I usually find myself at the end of a heavy beating when I take my skills online. But this reawakening of the genre as also reawoken my interests in the many franchises available.
I'm not the biggest Street Fighter fan, while I've always appreciated it's generalized few of being the best fighting franchise in existance. That doesn't mean I have to be massively fond of the franchise, I own a few Street Fighter games including the latest entry. But it's a series which as never pressed my buttons and one that as never truly captured my imagination. While I don't personally have a favourite fighting game franchise, the first true fighting game I fell in love with was Soul Blade on the Playstation One. Soul Blade (or Soul Edge as it was known in the US) was a wonderful fighter that of course began the Soul Calibur series, but even I have developed my needs from a fighting game and require something a little bit more nowadays. I did enjoy the latest Soul Calibur game though, but I have found myself more and more interested in the wonders of the 2D fighter.
When talking about 2D, I'm mostly speaking of it in graphical terms rather then the platform of battle. Afterall Street Fighter 4 is a 2D fighter with 3D graphics, but I'm talking about 2D graphical fighters such as King of Fighters, Guilty Gear and BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. There's actually quite the fine collection out there and more then enough to please even the most dedicated fighting game fan. I shan't act like I know everything about fighting games, infact compared to even some of you on Giantbomb I know very little. But you don't need to know everything to appreciate a good fighting game and everyone as their different tastes. It's because of this that I have never really had the ultimate fighting experience with Street Fighter, it's usually games such as King of Fighters that I've felt more at home with. Character design is of course also key and while the Street Fighter cast are irreplaceable, they simply don't excite me.
Some of you may judge me for saying such a thing, but that's fine. To truly start enjoying fighting games (especially online) you need to realize that there are much better players then you out there, some of you are simply stunning to play against and know a hell of a lot more then me. Anyway, so my thoughts have been very much on the latest beat-em ups to hit the market. This afternoon I bought an asian version of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger as it's one of the few fighting games to really excite me and my needs, for one I adore the unique style the game as and having played a short spell of it, I enjoy it's gameplay. But there is more to get excited about, as next week we lucky Xbox 360 and PS3 owners get to play us some Marvel vs Capcom 2 for XBLA and PSN. I've just bought me some Microsoft points to make sure I had enough for this truly special title, even though it's one of the fighting games I truly suck at the most. But what a fighting game it is.
Thanks for Reading,
Joseph Bayliss (TrueEnglishGent)
(Twitter: JosephBayliss)
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