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fighting games might have died off
completely had they not been revived
back in 2008 but the good news is we now
live in an age of modern fighters that
are both approachable enough for
newcomers and competitive enough for the
pros but you know how we do it on these
top tens only the 10 best can make this
list
I'm nervous Nick for screwattack's top
10 modern fighting games number 10
everyone and their mother seems to have
their favorite comic book characters and
fighting games let you create your dream
matchups that's hardly ever been more
true than with injustice to pretty much
every major and sometimes not so major
DC hero and villain is here
unlike most fighters injustice 2 is
ridiculously customizable and I don't
just mean that you can deck out the
Joker to make him look like Batman this
game lets you customize their move sets
to injustice to does a lot of things
even better than its predecessor but I'm
not gonna lie to you guys
the main reason the sequel makes the top
10 is because I can finally play as the
Ninja Turtles in a modern fighting game
you can be Michelangelo and do what the
dev team ascribes as pizza cancels I
love it so much by the way what evil
ritual blood sacrifice do I need to make
to get another standalone TMNT fighting
game number 9 man it's such a shame what
happened to the Marvel vs. Capcom series
III get it Marvel Infinite may have had
a buttload of problems but come on it's
still deserve better than what it got
it's just too bad that there's not
another famous franchise with beloved
characters that can make an incredible
team-based fighting game which is what I
would say if I lived in a terrible
alternate reality where Dragon Ball
didn't exist
Dragonball Fighters is an absolute dream
come true a competitively balanced
gorgeously rendered fighting game done
by Arc System Works the best possible
studio for the job there's so much love
put into this game not just for the
fighting game players but for the
die-hard anime fans to almost every
single attack by every single character
is a reference to a memorable moment in
the anime or the movies are even just
single panels from the manga Dragonball
Fighters could have been higher but its
online modes are so unbearably laggy and
compared to Marvel vs. Capcom the
gameplay is pretty simplistic but even
at that that didn't stop it from
becoming the biggest fighting meme on
the market as I'm recording this top 10
just would requests for future updates
give my boy hit some real high and low
options please
I am dying out here number date leave it
to the big end to take any genre and put
their own distinct Nintendo spin on it
when it comes to fighters honors was an
interesting experiment but you know we
all know that smash is their Golden
Goose now smash ultimate is still three
months away from release as this top-10
is being made but until then super smash
brothers for Wii U is Nintendo's best
modern fighter
it's got faster paced gameplay compared
to brawl the biggest roster out of every
game on this list and is still the most
well balanced smash game ever made
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speaking of characters remember when
cloud was revealed how mind blowing was
that being a Smash Brothers game smash
Wii U also has the honor of being by far
the most fun party fighter to play with
upwards of eight people at once pack wit
screw attack wrap up almost every day
with a few group matches pair is nothing
better than wrap up a workweek and put
my friends and body bags with my ninja
frog you know when I'm not accidentally
killing my own self they call it the
Nick special I'm not kidding number
seven you know that incredible art style
that Dragonball Fighters has well guilty
gear xrd first the most recent update to
the series guilty gear xrd Rev 2 has the
most complete roster to date but then
again all guilty gears really been
missing since 2006 is biking comple this
characteristic all but no matter which
legs are your plan this is anime
fighting at some of its very best not
only does the combo system make it super
easy to jump in and start doing combos
but guilty gear boasts some of the
absolute most creative characters in any
fighting game out there l felt lets you
manually aim a sniper rifle anywhere you
want Faust throws random items on the
screen you can even be a man who fights
from a bed and is in fact named bed man
what even is his game I don't know
number 6
fighting games may be hard work to keep
balanced well but that didn't stop
leverage labs from creating the indie
hit Skullgirls between a beautiful
artwork and animation slick art deco
aesthetic and fearless fighter design
there's something here for every kind of
fighting game fan whether you like your
fighters 1v1 2v2 or 3d 3 skull girls has
you covered better yet this game lets
you mix and match those play styles as
much as you want
Plus unlike a lot of big-budget brawlers
skullgirls rocks gGPO netcode basically
that this means that even if you're in a
laggy online match there's not a crazy
annoying input delay to compensate
looking at new Dragon Ball it's 2008
date Skullgirls takes number six for all
of the passion footage everything from
the mechanics that remove unblockable
and infinite combos to the community
that raised over $75,000 in the Evo 2013
donation drive and still supports this
wonderful game today number five since
1990 to get over here has been the
battle cry of a generation much-loved -
MKX and all but Mortal Kombat otherwise
known as Mortal Kombat 9 is the ultimate
game for mk fans all of the classic
characters you could have possibly cared
about are all here except for me
whatever happened to meet for mocap
there are literally dozens of us
NetherRealm
anyway MK 9 completely reinvented Mortal
Kombat for a new age of fighting games
built for both the competitive and the
cashman X ray moves and new fatalities
crank the carnage up to 11 just like any
self-respecting Mortal Kombat fan
Vimanas
plus there's tag-team mode the hilarious
tester luck mode in a story mode that no
fighting game has beaten before or since
no matter what you looking for in a
fighting game Mortal Kombat 9 is one of
the most complete fighters you could
ever hope to buy
number four well obviously Marvel vs.
Capcom had to show up on this list some
time even though Marvel Infinite plays
really well it would be a little wrong
to not give this spot to Ultimate Marvel
vs. Capcom 3 it's got a simple control
scheme endless combo creativity in a
fantastic roster with all kinds of
unique play styles this game was my
crack in 2011 but the only thing more
fun than playing Marvel 3ds might just
be watching us and that's not a bad fix
in fact it's pretty great ever since I
first saw it in motion Marvel vs. Capcom
3 has stood out as having the best
presentation of any game I've ever
played as comic-book style graphics the
amazing EDM soundtrack the announcer and
even the little bits of banter that
characters all share make umvc3 of
sliding in spectacle that has yet to be
topped in fact I'm just gonna let this
rain the piece of gameplay speak for
itself
I was so into the way this game looked
and sounded before release that I would
actually play it in the background like
Spotify while I was working yes a little
weird but the only other game I have
ever done that with is number three okay
so compared to the rest of the top half
of this list this one is a little bit
more underrated I've repeatedly admitted
on top tens that I am a die-hard ki fan
but even setting fanboy ism aside you
will hardly find a modern fighter with
the accessibility and depth of the 2013
revival of killer instinct it's free to
play it comes with a good tutorial mode
and combos are easier to do and break
then ever before but it all comes at the
level of competitive depth that stands
tall with the best of them once you
learn ki unique combo system throw in
some extremely creative character
designs plenty of single-player modes
the undisputed best online netcode ever
in a fighting game and personal opinion
feel free to fight me on this one of the
best soundtracks of the decade hey I
might be a killer instinct chill but I'm
a shill for great reasons okay and if
you ever see me playing it online invite
me to a patch and get a free whooping
I'm dead serious
that's my gamertag si nervous Nick send
me an invite loose pre-numbered
to Bandai Namco's flagship 3d fighting
series has had a couple of hits in the
modern age alone but it's Tekken 7 that
truly deserves number two this game
stays true to the classic Tekken
gameplay but like any current fighting
game it adds in a few new things to get
as many players hooked as possible for
the first time characters can activate
Rage Arts which are flashy and powerful
super moves that can bring epic
comebacks and for the casual fans who'd
rather just play purely for fun second
sevens got a pretty beefy story mode
minigames in the most absurd character
customizations ever you can mix our
novels come out of their hand
why plus it's got a lot of cool guest
characters like Akuma from Street
Fighter geese Howard from fatal fury
doctors from final fantasy 15
and apparently negan from the frickin
Walking Dead who's next
pinky Winky from tala Tommy's actually
tinky-winky would be a day one by for me
III would main team ki Winky its number
one it's attacking to put the game that
started the modern fighting in crazy
number one and maybe it would be if
Street Fighter 4 weren't so obviously
deserving of top honors and besides
number one technically belongs to the
final update Ultra Street Fighter 4
listen no fighting game is truly
balanced perfectly but Ultra Street
Fighter 4 is surprisingly even level
especially with the roster up of 44
characters speaking of webs there are
dozens of returning favorites from just
about every stage of Street Fighters
past plus some cool new characters to
boot but beyond just the roster the 4
series struck a balance between Street
Fighter 2 and 3 thanks to the game
changing focus attack it could do
everything from extend block strings and
combos to absorbing oncoming attacks
Street Fighter 4 takes number 1 not just
because it led the charge for every
modern fighting game that's come out
since all these years later
it truly is still the greatest of them
all
it's compared to Street Fighter 5 and
I'll take I'll take for any day
for our secret number 11 it's really a
shame that the King of Fighters 14
didn't keep the same amazing sprite work
of previous games but when it plays
better than ever it's hard to complain
too much you get three different kinds
of supers to match on wakeup
look at mine r2 and jutsu