Tekken 3 was one of the games i most played on PS1 exactly because of how good single mode was. I spend hours of my childhood trying to unlock the secret characters (and i did)

SoulEdge single player was so much fun on PS1

I’ve spent sooooo much time playing Soul Calibur II by myself

HELL YES

I missed the times where fighting games catered to both the casual and competitive scenes. Now it solely focuses on the competitive side. Which is what made Tekken 7 and SFV a bit bland for me. Arc Sys games and Soul Calibur VI did this right.

Rap Z. Yes, precisely!

Becky C. That’s cool! I need to check that game out. Hear a lot about it but never played it.

Ngl this is why the fightan community to me are up there next to furries in terms of autism. Everything is competitive, nothing and nobody is allowed to be or have fun. Bro just sit down and play games for fun for once enjoy the lore like there's a reason devs go thru the process of like designing characters

Joklet Exactly.

A lot of people talk about it, actually.

It was great and unfortunately never replicated in any mainstream game.

The worst think is having to buy then for no reason I can understand why i have to buy then in sf5 (because they want you to buy then with real money its bullshit but at least has a reason) but why do i have to buy the characters in dissidia if i can't buy then with real money? Why not hide then in extra dungeons in the world map?

@@valletas having to buy characters with real money is a shitty way of making games and has no place in gaming, it's greedy and anti-consumer, one should not have to "understand" why they do it, they shouldn't be doing it in the first place....it's a failure in business.... this whole era of DLC is the worst, if you aren't having mountains of DLC hoisted on you it's in game stores or lootboxes and sometimes it's you pay for the game and have a in game store and have to buy DLC's making it highway robbery and it's crap like that that kills gaming....

@@darthXreven It sucks having to pay for characters but that's the reality of game design after the 7th gen. Costs are high and fighting games are niche. If you aren't Smash, Mortal Kombat, Tekken or Street Fighter, you're lucky to get a million in sales across all platforms.

@@lipailong2 meanwhile in the 90's KI stood up to MK and SF2 and did well in arcades and on a single console.... consider that, on SNES a bloody violent MK like game kinda beat MK on the SNES and even beat rival games on other platforms??? and MS thinks nobody remembers?? if we didn't remember the 90's SF4 wouldn;'t have been a thing last gen and Soul Calibur might have died out past PS2 same with Tekken.... if Sega dropped a virtua fighter now I'd buy it....if the business for it was acceptable that is wake up man, don't believe the company line, it's greed pure and simple and I won't have a part of it....

@@darthXreven Look at the numbers dude. Soul Calibur and Tekken damn near did die post-PS2. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Soul Calibur 5 sold a fraction of what their predecessors did, their sequels also have a noticeably smaller budget. As successful as Tekken 7 currently is, it's sold half as well as Tekken 3. The genre is not as popular as it was in the 90s.

And now you have to BUY the character to unlock him...Fuck this bullshit.

Yeah I feel the same. I kinda dislike staying in the past too much, but having to buy characters in modern fighters feels like a big step back from unlocking them in game.

I'm not sure it's fair to say buying replaced unlocking. DLC characters are something everyone would have loved in the old fighting game era. We even see some games including dlc and unlocks, like smash ultimate.

Great mode, a lot of content before the DLC era .

every fighting game ive ever own ive put 30hrs-80hrs because of the single player! not one fighting game ive ever own i played online for! if those games didnt have single player content i will pass on it without even looking twice.

@@thegamingspothd9557 you honestly missing out on most of the FG experience just focusing on that

yeah it's a great hole to go in.I also haven't actually played Bushido Blade yet, but I'm definitely going to. Never knew it had a story line though. People tend to only bring up how interesting the combat it is (which it is).

People really pretending older FG had that great of a single player

@@captainmega6310 well, opinions about their quality are subjective, but you can’t deny that they had much more single player content

@@SOBEKCrocodileGod actually by much, if you're lucky

Thanks!

I don't think it beats SoulCalibur 3 to be honest.

@@SeventhheavenDK you are probably right, like, i would argue the arc system works added a lot of single player stuff in its recent game barring BBTAG while most other companies stripped that kind of content away sadly.

thats sad that blazblue TAG doesnt have that many single player modes. like, all blaz blue game possess MANY different modes plus the two recent guilty gear aka, sign and revolution.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, ArcSys made Granblue Fantasy Versus and that game has a whole beat 'em up single player mode with bosses and RPG progression.

@@gbrincks Yeah, but I hate Granblue Fantasy, so no thinks.

@Simon Vermette I meant tower defense.

Clothing stopped being good in SC V (or Broken Destiny if it came out earlier). They focused too much on silly items and the only pieces that looked good were skin-tight ones, whereas in SC III the armor looked at least decent and not like the remnant of a ghost floating on the character 20 cm apart from their body. SC IV had good looking items with a half-decent fit overall. It had some stupid things but not a whole third of it as far as I remember.

That would explain a lot. On my old TV they would display normally when on PS2, and (tobal especially) would look REALLY sharp for PS1 standards.

GELTONZ DUDE!!!! You’re the first other person I’ve met who feels that way! SCVI’s creation sucks ass. SCV was amazing. I could literally make anything that came to mind. Loved that.

Oh hell yeah, MK Armageddon as much as it's looked down on is absolutely packed with fun shit. I wish the newer games would bring back shit like Konquest, Puzzle, Chess, and Motor Kombat, as well as character creation.

the sp stuff in most of the mk games is really good,from the secrets you could get on the og mk games to the fucking chess mode from deception is the reason why the mk games are the most i have played out of any fighting game series edit: the def jam fighting games are also pretty good in this regard but they arent really traditional fighting games and more of wrestling games with xzibit

Nah, I've only played the first 3D graphics Mortal Kombat, and 2 weird ass spin off games. One was a game where you played as Jax, and the other was that sub zero platformer where I could never make it passed the first room lol.

@@thorhighheels wasnt that jax spin off called mk special forces,it was fucking trash,the epitomy of ps1 jank,ironically that piece of ps1 jank trash actually inspired a successor known as mk shaolin monks,the best way i can describe mksm is that its the ps2 mk games mixed in with power stone and the bouncer,its fucking weird and it has no right to be good at all and it also has coop,the only bad thing i really hate about it are the odd qte's,basically they are just rotating the stick for like 10 seconds and it really started to start damaging my skin and that actually happened so that's a memory

Character creation would be really cool.

That game had two story modes; the arcade story mode or the School Simulation mode that was in the Japanese version.

i shall do just that

I think you're the first to specifically call them "kino" though, so there's that lol

Battle of Z is trash, Super DBZ is pretty cool. It's like Budokai by way of Street Fighter. Also Chi Chi's a playable character.

Not always true. Many people do not want to be dragged into hand holding tutorials that you at times gotta slog through. Many people just wanna jump in and press buttons then figure stuff out. If they really really want to learn mechanics to git gud they would go to a tutorial mode and practice. A story mode has a main job, and that is be a good story in a fun game.

@@NovaBlazerZX Tekken used to do just that, not hand hold you at all and allow you to play instantly. That's exactly what I was going for with the previous post. It's the later, story-heavy Tekken campaigns that you have to slog through, that do all in their power to get in the way of your fun.

Both are good. I'm rebuilding my old ps1 fighting game collection. Once Ehrgeiz lands they're next! But not psychic force. I really didn't like that game.

I agree. I bought it for the FF7 characters, but I ended likkng the game a lot even the original characters from that game. But it really lacked 1p vs cpu.

That's so cool! I never knew any of that.

​@@thorhighheels just like you said around 13:50 how titles were seeking to reinvent the genre. Seems they were taking their own hand in dungeon rpgs too XD. Although, i'm gonna make a shout out to one game you definitely should try (but even more so it's sequel), Flying Dragon, it's sequel and twice as expanded game being SD Hiryu no Ken Densetsu. They are both on the 64, sadly the 2nd game never made it to america but I've done a big playthrough of it's story mode and some other stuff on my other channel Casual Combos. Sorry for the wall of text, uh....don't worry about reading it...just love this game a little too much, or experimental fighting games in general. Essentially, it's a Fighting Game RPG. You have dead or alive like combos and smash bros like special moves, it's all kept simple but you collect a lot of items that can be equipped or used which power up your character. And as you keep playing, opponents also come around with stronger gears which you have a chance at obtaining, and so on. It does get really insane and it's unbalance is also balanced in a very weird rpg esque manner but truly meant to be enjoyed as a fun experience rather than competitive, though there was an updated version of a 2nd fighting game from the playstation, Virtual Hiryu no Ken ported into the game that you can also play for yet another dead or alive-ish game with special moves and super moves you can cancel into. While the first game had extra unlockable super moves, the 2nd one just gave it all while using the story mode (retelling of hiryu no ken on NES) as a means to unlock the main character's final move and gain some sick goods. That game was actually balanced out to a degree in the way of having improved its engine to allow for sicker, longer combos and juggles, new moves, updates to every character (heck one character that sucked became the most deadly character), plenty of new characters and MORE crossovers from Super Chinese World (which you might know as Super Ninja Brothers), and a complete overhaul to items by adding upgradeable and level-able items via elemental spirits allowing not just greater stats, but special moves based on said elements starting with like, an uppercut for instance before turning into a projectile and then a full screen move and so on. Definitely worth trying X3. Jeez I am so sorry I went off about Hiryu no Ken on 64 but...it's definitely worth the look if you want a very awesome single player fighter. Sure, it gets a little repetitive here and there but it makes up for it with awesome unique characters, having items that even change the way you play (canceling into special moves, double jumps, etc), and having opponents that will piss you off with their gear setups (having ultra high defense or attack power, but that can be countered with them having a weak throw offense/defense or projectile offense/defense). You won't be disappointed....or you will I don't know.

This sounds like more or less exactly what I need. I shall buy this product with money.

But online came to live and everything went to shit.

Not really

It seems like my kind of shit though.

@DejaVoodooDoll Didn't Fighter's Megamix come out before MUGEN and Smash Bros though? Either way, that game always gets a free pass for coolness in my book, just because you can fight as the FREAKING CAR FROM DAYTONA!

@DejaVoodooDoll Did you forget Fighting Vipers exists

Weirdly enough though, the very first Dynasty Warriors was actually a fighting game haha