Ranking of Fighters
most scientific and factual ranking of every fighting game every made ranked by the only qualified fighting game scientist (FGS), Jeff Gerstmann, Jason Oestreicher, and FGS in training Ben Pack.
most scientific and factual ranking of every fighting game every made ranked by the only qualified fighting game scientist (FGS), Jeff Gerstmann, Jason Oestreicher, and FGS in training Ben Pack.
"Real talk that was really really fun" - Jason Oestreicher
"That game is a really good time" - Jeff Gerstmann
"I like most of these characters as much as I like tencount" - Jeff Gerstmann
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Dark Wake/Chaos Breaker
Soul Blade
Initial Ranking #9
"It does have kind of a wonky engine, on the plus side the weapon based combat was innovative and fresh and it feels good" - Jason Oestreicher
"It feel great, good solid movement, it still feels good" -Jeff Gerstmann
"You get to send your dog out to kill people, you get to hang from a bird, dancing bear, the king of fighters' lady is in it." - Jeff Gerstmann & Jason Oestreicher
Inital Ranking #1
TMNT Tournament Fighters
"Its got fun mechanics not just street fighter 2" - Jeff Gerstmann
"Its got a good sound test, its got stereo and mono sound, and its got codes for these bosses and high speed modes... fun combos, statue of liberty" - Jeff Gerstmann
Initial Ranking #2
"anime tastes good sometimes" - Jason Oestreicher
"Air blocking which is always fun" - Jeff Gerstmann & Jason Oestreicher
"What about bobby loggins, he's got knives, He's gonna take you to the danger zone knife style" - Jeff Gerstmann
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"It benefits from having half of its roster being not from fighting games, so that they could make those characters feel unique but also similar" - Ben Pack
"Svc chaos had the best guile sprite known to man" - Jason Oestreicher
Initial Ranking #12
"I would gas this game, it's not bad, it's totally serviceable I guess" - Jason Oestreicher
"I love the idea and the notion of those capcom characters getting kinda redrawn and updated in this snk style is kind of awesome, maybe with it being this late in the neo geo life cycle maybe snk's best may bot have been around to work on it." - Jeff Gerstmann
"It's too bad there aren't any other games where these two rosters come together, really if they could refine the concept it would work out a lot better... or maybe they just turn it into a card battler" - Jeff Gerstmann
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Double Dragon '95
"based on the other games we have played on this series we have started today battle arena toshinden 3 is the greatest fighting game of all time" - Jeff Gerstmann & Jason Oestreicher
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MMPR: The Fighting Edition
"It has at least 3 backgrounds" - Jeff Gerstmann
"It is perfectly average in every way" - Jeff Gerstmann
Initial Ranking #32
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"There is a chicken man" - Jason Oestreicher
"I do like the anime aspects of Tobal, Tobal is some would say the original anime fighter, back before they were bad" - Jeff Gerstmann
Initial Ranking #44
"This game has twenty thousand sisters" -Jason Oestreicher
"TWENTY THOUSAND SISTERS and maybe no brothers" - Ben Pack
Initial Ranking #36
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DOA 2 Ultimate
Initial Ranking #48
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"It really captured the feel of mortal kombat" - Jason Oestreicher
"Universal fart move, I think that is great, a really really smart move good for them" - Jason Oestreicher
"A lot of the characters had three fireballs when they really only needed two or one" - Jeff Gerstmann
Initial Ranking #7
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JL: Task Force
"I am glad it has mono sound because you don't need stereo to be a good person" - Jason Oestreicher
"It's got unlockable characters which are really just palate swaps of other characters... It has a character named Hoar" - Jeff Gerstmann
"Worst fighting game of all time" - Jeff Gerstmann & Jason Oestreicher
Initial Ranking #3
"we are gonna base it on the good version right...are you sure it wasn't tainted by anything else like maybe it was a different cart before this and it got programmed wrong...and it really had a jump button huh" - Jason Oestreicher
"The special moves come out weird, holding down the button letting go, like it just leads to you kinda getting stuffed over and over again, and the range on the normals feels really wierd" - Jeff Gerstmann
"I don't think I like this version at all" - Jason Oestreicher
"Again this is the only version" - Jeff Gerstmann
Initial Ranking #5
Power Moves
"holding a direction and an attack did not do anything, but I did like the simple moveset, holding one direction AND PUNCH KICK AT THE SAME TIME very easy to execute!" - Jason Oestreicher
"Warren is a beautiful man, I think he might even be better looking than tencount." - Jason Oestreicher
"I do like Warren, Innovative attacks, a spinning drop kick that just spins forever." - Jeff Gerstmann
Initial Ranking #5
Initial Ranking #68
DBZ: UB 22/27
"It feels bad, no sound test" - Ben Pack
"I will say that a handy cap, I did not get to try all of the buttons, but the ones that I did try felt awful" - Jason Oestreicher
"I think there was an issue with how the game felt, look and played" - Ben Pack
Initial Ranking #52
Sonic the Fighterz
"It's Functional" - Ben Pack
"The sound effects are terrible" - Jeff Gerstmann
Initial Ranking #56
"let's not call it polygonal but you know trying to do a 3d fighting game in an era where that is still a new and novel thing" -Jeff Gerstmann
"Ballz really brought a lot to the table, and then on the gameplay end it is one of the worst things you could do with a controller" Jeff Gerstmann
"But this is like legit I can not stress enough how bad this is to play and look at" -Ben Pack
Initial Ranking #59
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"Scientifically Samurai Showdown does not have fred durst in it" - Jeff Gerstmann
Initial Ranking #63
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