fighting game experts of era, do you agree with the current ranking of fighters from giant bomb?

[Triple Da G.O.D!]

I'm really wondering if the scientists' complaints about how The King of Fighters '96 is playing is due to playing the PS4 ports.

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It was. They picked the worst port of 96 in history to play when they had access to the Arcade Archives version on the same system.

The Orochi Saga Collection on PS2 was horrible and emulated on PS4 did it no favors at all. For the record, the Wii version is a whole lot better though.

Taints the science when the best isn't being put forward to be judged in the name of science.

 

[Hella]

Only by judging it at its worst can you determine what is best.

That's just science.

 

[Avengers23]

Has the American anti-science, anti-intellectualism movement claimed another victim by shutting down Giant Bomb's fighting games lab and their exploration of science?

Or have they been conducting peer review to fix their Sonic the Fighters error?

 

[SteveWinwood]

Has the American anti-science, anti-intellectualism movement claimed another victim by shutting down Giant Bomb's fighting games lab and their exploration of science?

Or have they been conducting peer review to fix their Sonic the Fighters error?

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im sure they've been writing grants and waiting for the money to come in

that can take forever

 

[Deleted member 5359]

Has the American anti-science, anti-intellectualism movement claimed another victim by shutting down Giant Bomb's fighting games lab and their exploration of science?

Or have they been conducting peer review to fix their Sonic the Fighters error?

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they're prepping for E3.

 

[SteveWinwood]

thank you Teddified

 

[Avengers23]

thank you Teddified

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That's a jump start for the science in 2020.

 

[Flon]

I wonder if they'll play Ranma 1/2: Chougi Ranbu Hen since they played the others. That one is more of a Street Fighter II style fighter, with combos, cancels, charge characters, high-low block, dizzy etc.

It's probably the actual "good Ranma game" Jason talked about, but at the same time it's absolutely broken in not necessarily a fun way and horribly balanced. Still, fun to mess around in with friends.

 

[Mizeris Lutz Ether Lanai]

Reading back through all the rage posts in this thread is hilarious. There's a whole lot of people who need to be demoted to Pictochat or something until they learn how to internet.

 

[SteveWinwood]

I wonder if they'll play Ranma 1/2: Chougi Ranbu Hen since they played the others. That one is more of a Street Fighter II style fighter, with combos, cancels, charge characters, high-low block, dizzy etc.

It's probably the actual "good Ranma game" Jason talked about, but at the same time it's absolutely broken in not necessarily a fun way and horribly balanced.

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they just got a copy of *checks wikipedia* ranma 1/2: chounai gekitou hen in a mailbag so they might actually play that one

 

[SteveWinwood]

science never sleeps

people kept asking them to do street fighter ii so here you go

 

[yurr]

Wtf is this list? I need context lol

 

[Avengers23]

Wtf is this list? I need context lol

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It is a list of the greatest fighting games ever made determined by the scientific research headed by video game expert Jeff Gerstmann, producer Jason Oestreicher, and science intern Ben "Did you know that I'm very tall" Pack for Giant Bomb dot com, a Website about video games. It is a work in progress, and being a work of scientific research, it will be subject to peer review later.

 

[Bigg]

Wtf is this list? I need context lol

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Giant Bomb does a series called Ranking of Fighters where the hook is that they are going to review every fighting game ever made to make a definitive list of the best fighting games

It is extremely tongue-in-cheek and not taken seriously. The recurring joke is that they are making a list based on "science" when it's very obviously just their own personal preferences.

 

[Avengers23]

I would love to see Jeff, Ben, and Jason take on the funky bootlegs of Street Fighter II, like Rainbow Edition.

 

[Triple Da G.O.D!]

Shame that Toshinden 2 didn't get the true science it deserved.

It would've ranked higher scientifically if they would've played 2 Plus and played as the boss characters.

 

[SteveWinwood]