The best Beat'em up game ever .

[cloudvii]

what's ur fav beat'em up game ever ?

well the poll have the best games in every wide known series (by most ppl measurments not mine)

[Monkeybrains]

Soul Blade.
I haven't played either of the Soul Calibur's yet, but I voted SC2 anyway.
You should of put them as whole series's, rather than just one game from a series.

[cloudvii]

i put the best one of the , cause most of the time series have good games and bad ones (MK is a good example ) so putting the near best game of every series (well famous ones) was the solution .

virtua fighter and doa aren't in there, heh.

well, I only recently got SF3 third strike, which I find impressive (very fluent animation)....but I'm nor sure which I find the best... I think Capcom vs Snk 2.

..oh, you didnt include Guilty Gear either.

but you're bound to forget some anyway, there's just too many ...

also, many ppl consider the SF Alpha/Zero series to be better than SF3....
ah anyway, it's hard to make a proper poll...you ought to do it differently in fact...like make it a whole contest;
first a poll in which you choose the best game from each series, then let the end results compete against each other. winner gets a special screenshots thread on ngemu or something

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From the current choices, I choose Last Blade II. But you did miss alot of other games like samor said.

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[cloudvii]

well the poll had 10 entries only , so don't blame me ok .

and i also think alpha series r better than sf3 but most ppl don't .

and i choose the most playable series here in my arcade (most loved and played)

[psicomaniaco]

I voted for Garow.
But I wanna ask something: is Street Fighter 3 better than Street Fighter Alpha 3 in your opinion? 'Cause if I made this pool, Alpha 3 would be on the list, not SF3.

edit: Ok, don't answer this. I only read the other posts after posting this!

edit2: (I LOVE this Edit button!) This list is actually quite great. The only things I would change where the Street Fighter 3 and Teken Tag (Teken 4 is better in my opinion!).

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[Sephi]

DOA 2 !!
cos i only played tekken 3 and DOA and MVC age of new heroes and SC amd i like DOA the most I also played capcom vs SNK but didnt like it and some old SF games.

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[Kane]

Why you didn't do it based on series, I don't know, as SF3 although good is no way near as good as alpha 2 or Super SF2.
CvS2 got my vote for this one tho, but it was a damn close match with SC2

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[Rhombus]

Perhaps just semantics, but I always thought a "beat 'em up" game was more like a Double Dragon, Final Fight, or Streets of Rage type game. And that these games are usually just called "Fighting" games. Anyway, my favorite fighters are the SF Alpha series (with SFA3 being my favorite), and Samurai Showdown series (I like all of them - maybe 4 the best, but I'm not sure). I really like Rival Schools also, and Guilty Gear X.

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[Raziel]

I think "beat 'em all" is what you're referring to, Rhombus, as for me, I voted for Soul Calibur 2, that game is awesome

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[Kaiser Sigma]

Originally Posted by Rhombus

Perhaps just semantics, but I always thought a "beat 'em up" game was more like a Double Dragon, Final Fight, or Streets of Rage type game. And that these games are usually just called "Fighting" games. Anyway, my favorite fighters are the SF Alpha series (with SFA3 being my favorite), and Samurai Showdown series (I like all of them - maybe 4 the best, but I'm not sure). I really like Rival Schools also, and Guilty Gear X.

Actually where I live "Beat 'em up" stands for sidescrolling fighting games... SF, Tekken, DoA, SC, etc are plain fighting games IMO...
Favorite game ? Don't have one that stands on the top, my favorite ones though, would be SFA3 and SC/SC2...

[Rhombus]

Originally Posted by Kaiser Sigma

Actually where I live "Beat 'em up" stands for sidescrolling fighting games... SF, Tekken, DoA, SC, etc are plain fighting games IMO...

Um... that's EXACTLY what I already said. I said that the sidescrollers like Double Dragon, Final Fight, and Streets of Rage are called "beat 'em up" and that the games here on this poll are usually just called "fighting" games.

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[takwu]

I agree with Rhombus and Kaiser Sigma, "beat'em up" is the name for those one-on-many fighting games, traditionally side-scrolling, but not necessarily (there are 3D beat'em ups that are definitely the same genre). The 'em means many enemies at the same time. Obviously it originated from the term "shoot'em up".
The one-on-one fighting games are usually refered to as "fighting games" nowadays. I call them "duel games", but no one else does.
About the poll, if it's "best out of these" I would vote for Capcom VS SNK 2. But I'm not voting because there are too many better games not listed.
As many said, there are just too many popular games in this genre to do a poll like this. Even series would be too many, and too vague as some companies make intra-series references and characters and gameplay elements. I guess the best way is to divide them in companies, or in "fighting systems" in general. Or alternatively do a poll of the genre in a particular platform in a particular year.

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[cloudvii]

well for me i took the expression from a european tv channel called "game network" so don't blame me .

and lord kane the reason i used one game from a series not all the series is above in one of my posts .

and any way the poll asks 'bout the favourite game not the favourite series .

[Kane]

But that's purely your opinion. As I said, SF3 was although good, definately not the gem of hte series IMO.

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[Demigod]

Argh, no Street Fighter Alpha 3. I also loved Samurai Spirits 4 and that's not up there either. Out of the games listed there I guess my fav would be Garou (Darkstalkers 3 would be a close second).

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[cloudvii]

no it's not my opinion so read my posts again Lord kane . as i said that my fav sf is SF alpha . (well alpha 3)

and that poll is of my arcade players favs .

as posted before also .

[Kane]

put the best one of the , cause most of the time series have good games and bad ones (MK is a good example ) so putting the near best game of every series (well famous ones) was the solution .

Yet SF3 is blatently not the best, by anyone's opinion here, and it's far from the most famous. Hell I didn't even realise SF3 was out till I saw it in the bargain bin for the DC.

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[cloudvii]

well many did and thinks that they r the best (well , not me)

oh , and why don't u just check www.gamegen.com

to widen ur fighting knowledge .