The best fighting game stages

Street Fighter 3rd Strike - Africa. (I love the music there)
BlazBlue CT - Halloween (Love the roses on the floor)
BlazeBlue CS - Tsubaki’s area (I like the colors and the music)
Capcom vs SNK 2 - Training Stage (With the running beep music)
Fighting Vipers - Skyscraper (It was fun to knock someones ass through that glass)
Virtua Fighter 2 - Dural’s Stage (Underwater battle? Hell yeah!)
Virtua Fighter 3 - Lion’s Stage (Gotta love the mansion)
Virtua Fighter 4 - Akira’s Stage (The one where the time of day changed every match)
Virtua Fighter 5R - Wolf’s Stage (Badass Blizzard)

CvS2 - Osaka Stadium Final Battle Stage

Anything from…

MSH (especially Wolvie’s stage)
SFIII
Tekken 4
CVS1
AOF
AOF2
Garou
RBS
MVC1

Tekken 3- Yoshimitsu and Paul
Tekken 4- Iron Cage and Hon-Maru
Tekken 5- Dragon’s Nest and Ground Zero (w/o tornadoes)
Tekken 6- Sheep and lightning stages
CvS1- All of em!
SFA3- Sagat, Bison, and Shin Akuma’s stages
KOF 96- Chizuru’s stage
more on the way.

Battle Arena Tonshinden 2 - Eiji’s stage. Fighting on an arena so high up in the mountains that the clouds are passing by. The music was badass for that stage too with a great saxaphone solo.

Every stage in Virtua Fighter 5

Last Blade 2 - Burning building, Cemetary, and that stage where it looked like a war was fought with wolves in it.

Tekken 5 - Dragons nest, Moonlit wilderness.

Tekken 6 - Mystical Forest

SF Alpha 2 - Sakuras stage. Great music. Also loved the fact that there was a guy in his house playing videogames like no tomorow.

SF Alpha 3 - Too many stages to list.

Gaouru - Gato’s stage, Gatos sister stage fogot her name, Rocks stage.

Gah, too many fighting game stages to list. I could still go on and on listing games and stages.

The Living Forest from MK is by far one of the most memorable fighting game stages of all time.

That forest stage in DOA3.
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I loved that stage.

Otherwise pretty much any stage with snow in any 3d fighter and I’m fucking there. I’m a sucker for those “desolate” stages.

I was already beat to the Boss team’s stage in KOF '96…KOF used to have some of the best stages.

All Fatal Fury stages except MOTW. They had so much life…

Alpha 2’s Australian stage was the shit too.

All stages from Marvel Super Heroes.

That African stage from SF EX 2 was pretty badass. Serengeti+night=instant classic.

There really is too many to name for me as I play a LOT of shit.

Tekken 6 - Yodelfunk stages, Fountain stage, Flooded/burning cars/chaos stage, Highroller’s Club, etc
Tekken 5:DR - Pretty much all of the new stages
Tekken 5 - Ground Zero (w/o tornadoes)
Tekken 4 - Lab stage; Parking lot
Tekken Tag - Unknown stage; Hwoarang’s stage
Tekken 3 - Xiaoyu’s stage
CvS1 - Paopao Cafe
CvS2 - Shanghai
MBAC - Rooftop stage (Blue/Red moon)
MBAA - Sacchin’s stage at nightfall
Blazblue - Tager’s stage
3s - Dudley’s stage
DOA4 - Kyoto in Bloom, Mansion stage, UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ stage
DOA3 - Insert any stage here
DOA2 - Tengu’s stage
SF4 - Seth’s stage
SSF4 - That new lab stage
KOFMIRA - Caged stage
Akatsuki BK - Wei’s stage
GG - Ino’s stage, Millia’s stage, ABA’s stage, May’s stage, etc etc
DOA4 - Kyoto in Bloom, Mansion Stage, UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ stage
DOA3 - Insert any stage here
DOA2 - Tengu’s stage

I know this is necro posting, but it is probably better than making a new thread for the exact same topic. Vega stage from SF2

Besides the beautiful artistic aesthetics, the stage actually plays a roll in gameplay…this way back in 1991! Vega can climb the cage…he becomes part of the background, essentially unhittable until he flies off to come down with a claw dive or Izuna drop. Home field advantage actually means something for him!

Ryu stage from SFA2

Fetus of god from Vampire Savior (Jedah’s stage)

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Fetus Of God ^ ^ ^ ^

Guy stage Alpha 2

Gato stage Garou

KOF13

My favorite is Dee Jay’s stage (Port Antonio) in Alpha 3 Upper.

You guys need to link to actual full art for these stages.

MvC2 stages:

Ive never had a chance to play Upper yet, what is the best system to play it on? Can it be played on Mame or otherwise?

I really like any “arena” based stages where you get to fight in front of a large audience.

So stages like Osaka Arena (CvS2), the Arena from Tekken 4…those are usually my favorite locales.

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I would say Dreamcast or PSP and no it won’t run on mame unless you have a beffy computer as Upper was on Naomi hardware.

If you want to play it so badly.

Yun/Yang stage from Third Strike. London from KOFXIII. Cosmic Elevator from SFxT.

always loved this

Best stage ever