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Favourite Sega Saturn Fighting Game?
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So many great memories of Saturn fighters, despite never owning a Saturn myself. Would spend some summers in Isfahan, and a kid I knew there had a PC with a pirate copy of Last Bronx installed (I was psyched to play it after seeing adverts in my Spider-Man comics). I'd never seen tonka before and thought they were so cool.
In the summer of '99 as i was getting hyped for the Dreamcast i was in Manchester, England, and a friend of mine had a PlayStation and a Saturn. We ended up spending nearly all our time on the Saturn, playing King of Fighters '95 with the 4MB memory expansion cartridge and Virtua Fighter 2 until I had callouses on my thumbs for months afterwards.
In the summer of '99 as i was getting hyped for the Dreamcast i was in Manchester, England, and a friend of mine had a PlayStation and a Saturn. We ended up spending nearly all our time on the Saturn, playing King of Fighters '95 with the 4MB memory expansion cartridge and Virtua Fighter 2 until I had callouses on my thumbs for months afterwards.
I've never seen this before and I unironically love the look of it.
I'm happy to see plenty of Last Bronk appreciation here. The thing I loved about that game wa how meaty the impacts were, when you did a leg sweep on somebody it really did feel like you were kicking somebody's legs out from under them. The "thwack" sounds were awesome.
Honestly it doesn't look bad, there are lots of 3D backgrounds and there is a fair bit of 2D animation. It's just nothing outstanding when it comes to gameplay or design, no memorable characters and by the number mechanics.
Don't get me wrong, it is not Primal Rage bad or Kasumi Ninja bad, more like Battle Arena Toshinden average.
Good lord, it took 45 posts to get here? Anyway, Vampire Saviour easily.
Today, I'd say Fighters Megamix. There are better ways to play most of the games that were ported.
At the time, I think I'd either go with Virtua Fighter 2 or Vampire Savior. It's a tough call.
At the time, I think I'd either go with Virtua Fighter 2 or Vampire Savior. It's a tough call.
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Didn't know this existed, wild! I actually have a Game Boy game based on the same anime that I bought used at a... k-mart??? in the 90s.
FMM also had music from VF3. I think it was Sega's "this is kinda VF3 for y'all but not so enjoy!"
Oh man I love my Saturn and it was almost exclusively a fighting game machine.
X-Men Vs Street Fighter and KoF 97 hold my fondest memories. I imported them at great cost, as well as Vampire Saviour and Pocket Fighter.
X-Men Vs Street Fighter and KoF 97 hold my fondest memories. I imported them at great cost, as well as Vampire Saviour and Pocket Fighter.
It would be X-Men vs Street Fighter as that is like one of my most fav fighting games ever in general! But I never really got that import on Saturn until well after my main days playing the system so the truth would be:
2D: X-Men Children of the Atom
3D: Figthers Megamix
2D: X-Men Children of the Atom
3D: Figthers Megamix
My favorite one has changed over the decades, so probably I'd pick FMM or SFA 2 Gold today. Here is what I recently wrote about Megamix , it really holds up and to me is as fun as ever. http://www.sega-16.com/2018/07/fighters-megamix/
Waxing on a bit, a lot of these Saturn fighters were incredibly exciting when they were released. Seeing VF at home , and then VF Remix, was incredible. I love the high definition SOUND in these 2 games. As soon as VF boots up to the character screen, you can feel the Sega arcade goodness because of that music.
Then VF2 hit and it seemed to be on a more powerful console in comparison! Wow, buttery smooth animation and fantastic fast gameplay. We played this for hours , days, weeks and never got sick of it.
But the 2D Capcom SF Alpha games were also so exciting because (gasp!), arcade perfect! I loved Alpha 2. I also had the two VS games which were mind blowing with the 4Mb cart.
And ... Saturn controller was the best!
Waxing on a bit, a lot of these Saturn fighters were incredibly exciting when they were released. Seeing VF at home , and then VF Remix, was incredible. I love the high definition SOUND in these 2 games. As soon as VF boots up to the character screen, you can feel the Sega arcade goodness because of that music.
Then VF2 hit and it seemed to be on a more powerful console in comparison! Wow, buttery smooth animation and fantastic fast gameplay. We played this for hours , days, weeks and never got sick of it.
But the 2D Capcom SF Alpha games were also so exciting because (gasp!), arcade perfect! I loved Alpha 2. I also had the two VS games which were mind blowing with the 4Mb cart.
And ... Saturn controller was the best!
So many good choices. This one's a little unconventional, but Virtual On takes it for me. With Twin Sticks of course
Sad we never had Fighters Megamix. Didn't that game have movesets from VF 3?
I remember such a game where the energy bars were candlesticks. Maybe that? Can't remember the name though.
I never knew there was a classic fighting game with a fucking Nascar as a playable fighter. I want a Saturn just to play this shit. Fighters Megamix looks bad ass. Thank you this thread.
Japanese Saturn release of Fighting Vipers trumps all other regions because...
Here's another Japanese oddity D-Xhird.
It features a lighting/shader system with a gourad shaded look and a character that had a transparent polygonal skirt, which is probably achieved with a half color sample blend. Generally transparencies are hard to pull off in 3D on the Saturn.
Never seen this outside of Japan
Edit - Reading up on it, the game is apparently terrible and made by the same team who made BA:Toshinden
It features a lighting/shader system with a gourad shaded look and a character that had a transparent polygonal skirt, which is probably achieved with a half color sample blend. Generally transparencies are hard to pull off in 3D on the Saturn.
Never seen this outside of Japan
Edit - Reading up on it, the game is apparently terrible and made by the same team who made BA:Toshinden
Oh, right it's based off an Anime. That explains the late 80s/mid 90s style.
Apparently it also had a Game Gear RPG/Fighter
I might as well resurrect these old pics from their graves..
They didn't have to, but it allowed them arcade perfect animations.
I very recently got to play several fighters on the Saturn, I quite liked Last Bronx which I had never heard about before. I had been wanting to try Fighting Vipers ever since I saw the ad on tv as a kid, but I really don't get what's good about it ? Movesets are limited and not very interesting, and the characters are among the most distasteful I've seen in a 3D fighter...
Fighters Megamix seemed cool but I didn't spend much time with it. From what little I played, it looked like VF2 and FV smashed together, but I know there's more to it.
I played Marvel Super Heroes as well which looked and played pretty nice, and from what I read it's supposedly one of the best Marvel fighters, so I'm a bit surprised to not see it mentioned here (unless I missed it).
I'll be honest, VF2 hasn't aged well for me at all (it was the very first 3D game I played as a kid and had later gotten it on PC so I knew about it already). I have no interest in playing it now.
Fighters Megamix seemed cool but I didn't spend much time with it. From what little I played, it looked like VF2 and FV smashed together, but I know there's more to it.
I played Marvel Super Heroes as well which looked and played pretty nice, and from what I read it's supposedly one of the best Marvel fighters, so I'm a bit surprised to not see it mentioned here (unless I missed it).
I'll be honest, VF2 hasn't aged well for me at all (it was the very first 3D game I played as a kid and had later gotten it on PC so I knew about it already). I have no interest in playing it now.
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I like how they totally anticipated you playing that long, too, because you still are unlocking characters 80+ hours into the game.
SF vs X-Men ! My friends and I would play that game for entire weekends. Having a competent tag fighter on a home console was just unbelievable at the time.
