Board 8 > Looking for a fighting game with specific criteria.

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I went to the arcade yesterday (side note: if you're around chicagoland, look up galloping ghost, as it is pretty much the awesomest arcade) and finally got to play a bunch of fighting games I'd wanted to try, and now I kinda wanna get into fighting games a bit. However, I have my own things I'm looking for.

-Right now, I only really have a PS2 and Xbox. That might change eventually, but unless PC or DS are better fighting game platforms than I realized, that's what we're working with. <_<
-Needs to be pretty easy to get into. I'd like to get past button-mashing, but have absolutely no desire to memorize anything more complicated than a hadouken and lack the manual dexterity to even pull that off every single time.
-Needs lots to do in single player. I pretty much never go online with consoles and don't have many hardcore gamer friends, and I don't really enjoy just training all day, so I need some mode that's more interesting than "fight eight guys then the boss." Something like SC's Weapon Master or the conquest thingy I saw in BlazBlue (although that seemed really short)
-Customization of any sort is a big plus. My ideal fighter has RPG elements, but I'd settle for a bunch of costumes and palettes.

I already have Soul Calibur 2-4, a couple SF, Tekken 3 and Tag, and Guilty Gear of some form. Any good options left? >_>

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MK9 seems to fit alot of those criterias.

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More Tekken?

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Street Fighter Alpha games, if those aren't the SF games you already have.

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PS2? Guilty Gear Accent Core+. Story mode with branching paths and survival mode with upgrades (although even regular GG survival is addictive).

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One Must Fall 2097 sounds like exactly what you want. It's a PC fighting game from the 90s with low execution requirements (you can do pretty much everything on a keyboard) and an extended single-player RPG-like Tournament Mode. It's abandonware nowadays, you can find it here: http://robyrt.coolserver.net/omf/omf2097.html

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Knowing for years now Thomas, I think you'd find Arcana Heart to be the greatest game ever >_>.

You can try KoF11

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These all sound like excellent choices. I shall search for them.

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Sounds like you don't really like fighting games

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I like screwing around with them. I'm never gonna get super serious about them in all likelihood, nor am I ever likely to make them my favorite genre, but I kinda like them and would like to get more into them.

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As far as fighting games with good single-player content go from that gen, yeah Guilty Gear's probably your best bet. Not my absolute favorite, but it seems like what you're looking for.

My absolute favorite from that gen would most likely be KOFXI, though.

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I went back and played blazblue and now I am sad I don't have a way to play it at home

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