The Top 5 Most Balanced Fighting Games? updated with results so far

i wasnt aware games packaged with the handcuff glitch were allowed on this list.

Only works if Raiden is playing against Elizabeth

Counter-picking should show that it’s not that balanced. A game where characters can compete with every other character would be balanced (even if the game is bland).

Gambit’s was so easy

A 6-4 counterpick isn’t something to whine over. In fact, it’s a good thing that the top tier has those one or two poorer matchups, it keeps those chars from getting too popular.

You can’t balance a game perfectly, and 6-4 isn’t that uphill.

Tom and jerry war of the wiskers was very balanced. However every charecter played excatly the same

BBCS2
S Makoto
A Noel, Hazama, Jin Litchi, Valkenhayn Carl Rachel, Taokaka
B Tsubaki, Lambda, Platinum Haku-Men, Mu-12Arakune, Ragna, Bang
C Tager
Arcadia July tier list

Order matters.
http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?11974-NETPLAYER-GENERAL-It-s-Summer-Bitches/page165

New page = obligatory post mentioning Vampire Savior.

How in the hell was 3S balanced…

But it also means its not balanced which is what this threads about. I’m not saying 6-4 is horrible, but if your counter picking to be top tier characters then that takes away from balance. Of course this doesn’t determine exactly how unbalanced/balanced the game is in relation to the other games.

and so the game becomes unwatchable. i hate to say it but Makoto mirrors have completely sucked the fun out of that game. that and Tager deserves better.

you over exaggerate makoto mirrors but haters gonna hate

Streets of Rage 3 Duel mode.

6-4 in ssf4? more like 7-3 or almost 8-2. most of it is pretty balanced, but there are some terrible match ups out there.

Well from playing on Xbox Live, I’d say HF has better balance than turbo, just because it is so easy to dizzy and throws do good damage + have big range, so anyone can win, though I find it pretty hard to put the hurt my friend’s Sim, his throw range in that game is no joke. I was a little kid when HF came out, and most of the good players in my area were in HS. I really liked Super Street Fighter 2, but it was dumb that it was slower than HF, so everyone switched to turbo when it came out and it was forgotten. The other thing that was fun about HF was that it came out before Capcom started nerfing grapplers really hard so Geif could bring some serious pain.

SRK has shown me that no game can be balanced, because someone, somewhere will find a way to break it.

Fuck that. Even Vampire Savior had some bad matchup. The point is, as long as there is character diversity (meaning different characters) there will be bad matchups. That, and having bad matchups doesn’t mean the game isn’t balanced.

The only way to get a game with 5:5 matchups across the board is to have only 2 characters, with one character being a perfect clone of the other.

Anybody but me find Accent Core and Blazblue ridiculously boring to watch?

it is way better then street fighter 4 it is like watching baseball. accent core and blazblue are like watching basketball or hockey.

The only fighters I can watch and not feel bored are Super Turbo and MvC2… Everything else sucks… but those two especially are just retarded to watch. They’re a lot of fun to play though.

just you, watching both games its damn fun, and play them is way better