The best fighting game stages

Damn that last stage looks great!

I don’t play BB:CP, but watching streams it looks like it has some pretty awesome stages. Snowtown is really cool, imo.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/_cb20130317141421/blazblue/images/0/08/Snow_Town(Stage,_B).jpg

Yeah out of all the fighters i’ve play (pretty much all of them) that has to be my fave.
Helps it’s got my fave tune also it’s win win.
I like how even though it’s a shared stage i feels completely different to the fatal fury teams one, also how the time of day changes every couple of rounds, small touches like that help to immerse you into it.
Also the fact you got shit close up but you can see as far as the horizon.

Pity it’s for such a crappy game, but there was a hacked version which pretty much puts kof98 gameplay but with kof96 stages and music, which makes it a bit better to deal with

Rubys ship daytime and clocktower daytime

are you talking about mugen or there’s a hacked rom you can play with any emulator?, I never heard of something like this, I want it,lol

The apocalyptic theme in Tekken 6 (Fallen Colony, Jin’s stage with nukes going off outside, high roller’s club, Azazel’s loud AWWW AWWWW chants ) was neat.

you sure? I remember it doing the rounds a year or two years ago, its a Chinese hack, its a mash up of 96 98 with 2002 thrown in

its on kawaks only, its pretty much 96/98 with all the crap removed, ioris safe dp, Clark crap chin crap, I can’t remember I think some chracters even keep certain fruity 96 animations, like vice, but I might be wrong i know certain characters had new ones like yuri got some weird push move and krauser got an overhead and crappy new super.

I can sort you out if you can’t find it on the net, wont take long max size in 170 mb, it’s defiantly not mugen, i’ve played mugen and this hack in miles above anything i’ve seen or played on mugen

I remember now, anniversary edition it was called

However just looking around there seems to be a couple of versions, mine dont have the fruity new supers with terry and ryo

In fact ive just been playing, vice and mature keep there old 96 jumping cd’s and there hcf+k, ah yeah matures qcb+p feels just like 96 but hits everything else is 98, you get the general idea, they did a good job imo

that game may not feature the best stages, but they are certainly of the most relaxing and less eye distracting
background animation stays at minumum or zero, except few layers

such a stage is this

overall a fighter that is the least tiresome to play out of all the commercial fighters I played.

http://abload.de/img/meltyqgi9o.jpg

and of course

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/390/o8yf.gif

too badass

Hey, I like much this too!

So clear and blue… ___

On a somewhat related note. A2 Birdie stage is always good for some lolz. I mean, how many fighting games have stages set inside the men’s restroom (Honda’s SFII bath stage comes close, but there’s no one using it when you fight).

EDIT:
While I’m at it, I usually like it when stages have have variations based on different times of day.

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YO theses are the best stages and theme of those games.

SFA 2 - Guy’s Fight Fight stage
SFA 3 -Cammy’s Seaside stage
KOF XIII - Back Alley
TTT2 - Christmas
SFxT - Mastodon Chase

Its funny, most street scenes in fighting games I consider to be instant faves, mainly for the non-symmetrical appearance to them.

like that stage too. Cammy knows how to make tourism…

must be from Mykonos, though I think they merged the windmill and the church closer together. they are in different locations

I dunno i think alpha has to tie with samurai showdown as best strongest overall series for stages, so many good ones

But i’ll ruin everybodys day by showing one of the worst

Enjoy

Having a fight in the middle of a race isn’t such a bad idea since it allows for a setting with a very dynamic background. However setting it at turn 1 at Interlagos blocking off the racecars (all of which appear to be out of date at that) does not do the concept justice.

For a stage that did this kind of thing right, look no further than the Nairobi stage in CvS2 which had the rally cars flying over the players heads.

In game, it looks horrible. As a gif, it looks much better. Despite the gray colors, the stage looks pretty lively thanks to the spectators.

sf4 - overpass

i love the music and calm green atmosphere. mago has good taste in stages

Some of my favorites:

Les Vagas from Tatsunoko vs Capcom-

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/tatvscap4.jpg

I think this stage is called Columbia in KOF XI

Jungle Stage from Last Blade

Kazuya’s Stage in Tekken 2. Really trippy.

Ibuki’s Stage in 3S

I miss stages that belong to specific characters, they had so much personality imo.

The stages from SFIII and SF III 2nd impact.

3rd strikes stages were lacking in comparison.