What is your ONE favourite one v one fighting series?

[Team Andromeda]

I did mean Soul Edge too . Most prob the best looking Vs Fighter I saw at the time

[Leon Retro]

I did mean Soul Edge too . Most prob the best looking Vs Fighter I saw at the time

Yeah, it was truly incredible at the time of release. Also, a whole lot of fun to play. Great memories.

[dvdx2]

Yeah, it was truly incredible at the time of release. Also, a whole lot of fun to play. Great memories.

Remember my japanese import arriving at the door on release. Very special game. Remember being blown away by the intro and game music..

[randombs]

The Street Fighter series.

I can't pick a particular one because I like each for a different reason and what I play depends on my mood at the time but I like and have played almost all of them.

I've dabbled with others and even had lasting, sordid affairs with a few, but SF always welcomes me back with open arms. It's the only game series I cannot find any fault with.

[nakamura]

Soul Edge is a wonderful game. Still the best in the series before it became rather cheap and move much harder to avoid due to massive sweeping range.

[Pikate]

As a series Capcom vs. SNK gets my vote. Probably for very superficial reasons, I mostly love the background/stages of fighters of that era, not just in the CvsS games but SF3, MvsC2, KOF 98-01, Garou: MOTW, Last Blade 2... But CvsS and CvsS2 had amazing rosters, I could play as/against anyone and enjoy it which isn't something I can say about some of the freaks in any other fighter's roster. So yeah, as a series it burned briefly but ever so brightly at the golden age of fighters for me. It's also not tarnished by rougher efforts before it or disappointing installments after.

Don't get me wrong, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike plays better, I'm also a big fan of Alpha 3 and Street Fighter or KOF definitely have richer legacies but there's too many Street Fighter games that don't excite me, the first entry is rightly just resigned to the garbage bin of history/curiosity and I've never enjoyed Street Fighter II-era enteries (not sure if I'm too young or the console ports are just ****ty) and SFIV I spent a lot of time in but it's just too zany in a saturday morning cartoon style, it's not got the soul of those late 90s/early 00s fighters.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Too difficult to pick just one! So, in no particular order:

- Street Fighter Alpha/Zero series - a fabulous trilogy of 2D fighters, each one better than the last.
- Street Fighter 2 series - real golden age of 2D beat-em-ups, as far as I'm concerned, grew up on them sh1ts!
- Last Blade series - I was quite a Samurai Spirits/Shodown fan back in the day but the two Bakumatsu Roman games make them look like garbage imho.
- Orochi Saga-era King of Fighters ('94 to '98) is as good as KoF is ever likely to get imho.
- Pretty much anything in the "vs. Capcom" series bar possibly MvC 2 and MvC3/UMvC3 as by then it gets a bit stupid and ridiculous.

Honourable mentions have to go to:

- Tekken 2, 3 and Tag Tournament 1. Tekken at it's finest for me.
- Soul Edge/Blade and Soul Calibur 2. Again, the franchise has never bettered these games for me. The last Soul Calibur game proved hands down that the franchise really has jumped the shark.

[Asura]

As a series Capcom vs. SNK gets my vote.

To be fair, for all its problems, CvS2 is a game you could play for a decade and not get around to every character. The roster is huge. I played it nearly every evening for several hours for around 2 years after the PS2 launch.

Given, the balance is a bit all-over-the-place, but if you go in for pure fun-in-variety, you'll have a great time.

[speedlolita]

I love the ratio mechanic too.

I 1cc'd the game in Funland with a level 4 Ryu only. haha

[Pikate]

[speedlolita]

[BigDeadFreak]

All this talk is making me long for Capcom vs SNK 2, I loved that game on the Dreamcast. By the time it came out I'd played Street Fighter to death for so many years and was almost completely bored of it. That one game singlehandedly reignited my love for it and I was hooked. Such a shame that it never made it to the 360 as now I have no way of playing it.

It's hard to pick a favourite fighter overall but certainly as a series Street Fighter is unbeatable, in my opinion. These days I spend far more time on The King of Fighters '94, '96 and '98. I like them all for different reasons but the combination of beautifully drawn 2D art, brilliant music and stages with real atmosphere is captivating.

[Asura]

The backgrounds in that one were really creative. I like SFIV's, but I think CVS2's were better.

[speedlolita]

There is a working clock in one of MvC2s backgrounds. lol

[Pikate]

SFIVs were fine and everything but they don't blow me away like some of the early 00s Capcom or more so SNK ones. Last Blade 2, Mark of Wolves and KOF 98-01 take my breath away at times. SFV looks a lot better from what I've seen so far.