The fighting game character tournament 2k5

[Renegade]

Now that I've got some more free time on my hands, it's time for this years fighting game character tournament. Same as every year you put down 3 characters that you want to be in the tourney and I'll have them all in for next week. Just some guidelines:

 

-Don't waste your nomination for obvious characters since they will already be in there.

-The character must be of fighting game origin. The only exceptions to this are some of the snk characters since they didn't really star in many games before kof. So basically no nominations for wolverine, megaman, Cloud and the like.

 

Previous winners:

Ryu

Ken Masters

Iori Yagami

[CanadianGuitarist]

Sabrewulf from Killer Instinct.

Ken from SFII.

Can I get away with DK from the SmashBros. series? If not, Johnny Cage.

[Sandman9000]

Motherfucking Sagat and Gouki. They will win you little bitches.

[Open the Muggy Gate]

I gotta go with the most underrated character from Street Fighter, Vega and let' see... Jade, my best character on MK.

[Anya]

I've been getting into GG lately, so....

 

I-No

Ky

Johnny

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I second Ky, and also suggest Ibuki from SF3, though she won't make it past the first round.

[Use Your Illusion]

Zangief

 

I'm making it my mission to get Zangief way up there this year. I can't be the only guy who loves him.

[CanadianGuitarist]

Zangief

 

I'm making it my mission to get Zangief way up there this year. I can't be the only guy who loves him.

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I lost sleep over picking Ken over Zangief.

[Guest Joshua A. Norton]

Chipp Zanuff

Choi Bounge

Genjyuro Kibagami

[AndrewTS]

and also suggest Ibuki from SF3, though she won't make it past the first round.

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I don't think you need to second any votes. I'd give Ibuki one, though. Cute kunoichis =

 

My nominations:

 

Geese Howard - Might be an obvious choice, but sometimes bosses are forgotten. Awesome character design, very menacing presence, awesome moves (and often cheap as hell), and one of the greatest stage themes in a fighting game ever.

 

Lord Raptor/Zabel - if Darkstalkers had sucked, it's character designs would still be worth mentioning. First time I played the arcade game, I was drawn to this crazy-looking mofo. A heavy-metal shredding zombie mofo who can stab you with his own ribs, kick your ass and dance on your body, turn his limbs into chainsaw blades, and roll you up into a ball and slam dunk you. (Plus he's representing the Aussies, UYI.)

[AboveAverage484]

and also suggest Ibuki from SF3, though she won't make it past the first round.

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I don't think you need to second any votes. I'd give Ibuki one, though. Cute kunoichis =

 

My nominations:

 

Earthworm Jim (just about the only reason anyone would play Clayfighter 64. And since it's for the character, not the game, he squeezes by on a technicality)

 

Geese Howard - Might be an obvious choice, but sometimes bosses are forgotten. Awesome character design, very menacing presence, awesome moves (and often cheap as hell), and one of the greatest stage themes in a fighting game ever.

 

Lord Raptor/Zabel - if Darkstalkers had sucked, it's character designs would still be worth mentioning. First time I played the arcade game, I was drawn to this crazy-looking mofo. A heavy-metal shredding zombie mofo who can stab you with his own ribs, kick your ass and dance on your body, turn his limbs into chainsaw blades, and roll you up into a ball and slam dunk you. (Plus he's representing the Aussies, UYI.)

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Man, I forgot Earthworm Jim was in that game! That was a game that kinda sucked, but it was still decent enough as a time waster.

 

I don't play many fighting games so no nominations

[Special K]

Doh

 

Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear)

 

Daigo (Rival Schools)

 

Cammy (Street Fighter)

[Use Your Illusion]

You guys know who else is great? Zangief.

[Insane Bump Machine]

Baraka (MK)

 

Mitsurugi (SC)

 

I'll second Xiaoyu since Special K didn't read the rules and I want to have her in this.

[Guest JumpinJackFlash]

Baraka

Johnny Cage

Can Bobba Fett from that Star Wars fighting game count as my third?

[Reverb]

My 3 nominations:

- Cervantes (Soul Calibur)

- Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)

- Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury)

[Guest Coffey]

• Jago (Killer Instinct)
• Ukyo (Samurai Showdown)
• Kano (Mortal Kombat)

[jwpeer]

Voldo (SC)

Faust (Guilty Gear)

Baiken (Guilty Gear)

 

 

i like the crazy ones ;p

[tekcop]

Goro

 

Wolfe Hawkfield (Virtua Fighter wrestler)

[AndrewTS]

Didn't see that "fighting game origin" provision. In that case, instead of EWJ may I nominate Mike Haggar? Beat 'em ups are close to fighting games, and I seem to recall Guy in one of the previous ones. Plus he's in the Slam Master games, which were fighters of sorts and take place chronologically before FF.

[Anya]

It's funny how he's the mayor of the town and he just walks around and beats people up. He has the nice pants and that weird belt across his chest. I've always wondered what was up with that.

[AndrewTS]

That outfit he dons is his old wrestling gear, too.

 

And in a town filled with street punks who wield pipes and knives, the guy with the gun is king of the underworld.

[Special K]

That's deep. I hope that replaces 'in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king' in our lexicon.

[AndrewTS]

That's deep. I hope that replaces 'in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king' in our lexicon.

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That's 80's Beat 'Em Rule #45, with the provision that sometimes you might run across an enemy with a dinky pistol, in which case the boss will have a really friggin' huge gun.

[Special K]

Punisher sort of threw that one for a loop. A ton of enemies had guns, flamethrowers, etc, and you blew them away. Then the Kingpin comes along and kicks your ass with cigar smoke rings and bitchslaps.

[Guest JebusNassedar]

Zangief

 

I'm making it my mission to get Zangief way up there this year. I can't be the only guy who loves him.

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If you vote Hugo, I'll vote Zangief.

 

Aside from those two, Mr. Karate. Massive noses are teh best.

[tekcop]

Didn't see that "fighting game origin" provision.  In that case, instead of EWJ may I nominate Mike Haggar?  Beat 'em ups are close to fighting games, and I seem to recall Guy in one of the previous ones.  Plus he's in the Slam Master games, which were fighters of sorts and take place chronologically before FF.

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See... I was going to nominate him, but I didn't think Final Fight would count.

[AndrewTS]

Didn't see that "fighting game origin" provision.  In that case, instead of EWJ may I nominate Mike Haggar?  Beat 'em ups are close to fighting games, and I seem to recall Guy in one of the previous ones.  Plus he's in the Slam Master games, which were fighters of sorts and take place chronologically before FF.

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See... I was going to nominate him, but I didn't think Final Fight would count.

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The genres are closely related, FFi is from the creator of SF2, and originally FFi was going to be titled "Street Fighter II," so I think it should count.

[Carnival]

Scorpion - Mortal Kombat

 

Fulgore - Killer Instinct

 

Shaq - Shaq-Fu

[spman]

Shaquille O'Neil

 

Doink the Clown (Come on now, that Wrestlemania game was definitly a fighter, and NOT a wrestling game)

 

Rockman