Which fighting game you think has the best animation?

[Graphic]

3rd Strike, KOFXIII and Skullgirls.
Honorable mention goes to Killer Instinct.

[petran79]

dont know about animation, but regarding resolution for handdrawn images, Battle Beast must have been probably the best for 1995.
640x480 resolution.

it was the only good thing about that game btw. I dont remember any other arcade or console fighter featuring that high design quality. most were pixellated. Even the Last Blade. Not till the PS2 era, especially with Arcsys games, would fighters have such hi-res drawn images,

Finally almost 20 years later, Skullgirls reach the same resolution but also with fluid animation.

[BB_Hoody]

dont know about animation, but regarding resolution for handdrawn images, Battle Beast must have been probably the best for 1995.
640x480 resolution.

it was the only good thing about that game btw. I dont remember any other arcade or console fighter featuring that high design quality. most were pixellated. Even the Last Blade. Not till the PS2 era, especially with Arcsys games, would fighters have such hi-res drawn images,

Finally almost 20 years later, Skullgirls reach the same resolution but also with fluid animation.

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/198892-battle-beast-windows-screenshot-sparky-s-dead-s.jpg

Definitly gotta give Skullgirls credit for that. I said it before but I’ll say it again, it’s almost like watching a Chuck Jones cartoon. Honestly as much as I love Darkstalkers animation, Skullgirls is the new standard for 2D fighting game sprites. I would love to see Darkstalkers sprites look that smooth and detailed.

[kedawa]

I actually find that 3D fighters have worse animation than they used to. There’s more going on with cloth and hair and whatnot, and there’s just more animation in general, but the movement itself is stiff and unnatural. I’m thinking specifically about VF5, Soul Calibur V, and Tekken 6. The previous games in those series looked more natural to me, especially in the case of VF4 versus VF5.

[BB_Hoody]

I actually find that 3D fighters have worse animation than they used to. There’s more going on with cloth and hair and whatnot, and there’s just more animation in general, but the movement itself is stiff and unnatural. I’m thinking specifically about VF5, Soul Calibur V, and Tekken 6. The previous games in those series looked more natural to me, especially in the case of VF4 versus VF5.

Hmm really. I guess by the visuals Virtua Fighter 5 just looked good animation wise. I’m not very big on 3D fighters. Could you give some examples for why you feel older 3D fighters animated better?

[AsteriskBlue]

I do like the look of SC2 much more than 4 or 5. The general art style is better in my opinion.

In VF5 I really like Jean Kujo. His moves all look much more natural (and more painful) to me than any of the other characters. There are moves he shares with characters in other 3D games and they just look better when Jean does it.

[OrochiDemon]

This thread got me to want to check out Darkstalkers series. Vampire Hunter’s Saturn opening is so gorgeous! Really shows how much 2D graphics can age better than 3D graphics.

[d3v]

the game is bad in so many ways
i think that the biggest problem is that mikez actually thinks that mvc2 was a good game, so when he decided to make a “revision” leaving outside the bullshit it was left with a dry game with really dumb shit on it, most of it by his design choices because he took away the bullshit that made mvc2 fun
he promised a fast game full of resets but we have a boring slow as molasses game full of tods and long combos
add the character designs that turn away anyone who could be curious about the game, is no wonder why barely anyone plays it

We must be playing different games because the latest updated version of Skullgirls: Encore is very much based on resets and not ToDs.

I actually find that 3D fighters have worse animation than they used to. There’s more going on with cloth and hair and whatnot, and there’s just more animation in general, but the movement itself is stiff and unnatural. I’m thinking specifically about VF5, Soul Calibur V, and Tekken 6. The previous games in those series looked more natural to me, especially in the case of VF4 versus VF5.

I it’s that, for the most part, alot of those animations are take straight up from the older games but applied to newer graphics engines with alot of smoother animating stuff around them (cloth, etc.) making the stiffness more noticeable.

[Missing_Person]

3S and Skullgirls for 2D. I actually really like 3S’s different hitstun animations that allow for a couple of different states. They really didn’t skimp on the art there. Skullgirls, well, that’s a lot of animation done the old fashioned way, so props for the dedication to make the most frame perfect fighter on the market.

VF5 for 3D animation. That game is just so fluid.

[d3v]

dont know about animation, but regarding resolution for handdrawn images, Battle Beast must have been probably the best for 1995.
640x480 resolution.

it was the only good thing about that game btw. I dont remember any other arcade or console fighter featuring that high design quality. most were pixellated. Even the Last Blade. Not till the PS2 era, especially with Arcsys games, would fighters have such hi-res drawn images,

Finally almost 20 years later, Skullgirls reach the same resolution but also with fluid animation.

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/198892-battle-beast-windows-screenshot-sparky-s-dead-s.jpg

Arcade hardware at the time couldn’t support that kind of resolution, so no one was making anything like that.

[phoenixnl]

Finally almost 20 years later, Skullgirls reach the same resolution but also with fluid animation.

Well Skullgirls is higher res than 480p, it’s 720p. Guilty Gear X was already 480p (which is arguably still much later than 1996, but you know).

[d3v]

Finally almost 20 years later, Skullgirls reach the same resolution but also with fluid animation.

Well Skullgirls is higher res than 480p, it’s 720p. Guilty Gear X was already 480p (which is arguably still much later than 1996, but you know).

Skullgirls sprites are actually drawn at the equivalent of 2x 1080p. What the game displays on consoles is quite downscaled (the HUD itself is done in vector). PC version can do even higher resolutions without any pixelation.

[hubcapsignstop]

3S animation is hypnotizing. I wish I liked the fighting engine better.

Always wanted to see Red Earth in person. Maybe another Capcom rerelease/remix?

[Omnigear]

WTF skullgirls… get ya eyes checked >_<

says best animation , not most frames…

[BB_Hoody]

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[petran79]

Finally almost 20 years later, Skullgirls reach the same resolution but also with fluid animation.

Well Skullgirls is higher res than 480p, it’s 720p. Guilty Gear X was already 480p (which is arguably still much later than 1996, but you know).

GGX would have looked better at computer monitors (PC and Dreamcast version mainly).
problem was that the native arcade port was made with analogue arcade monitors in mind, while Battle Beast was a PC exclusive, hence images had less pixelation.

[FluffyM]

KOFXIII

[Finkledoodoo]

DOA series boob physics.

[DangerOnTheRanger]

For 2D:

1. 3rd Strike
2. Skullgirls
3. Melty Blood
4. KoF XIII
5. Darkstalkers

Can’t really comment too much on 3D but I like Soul Calibur’s animation a lot.

[NickRocks]

i know people love the squash and stretch shit but for me i like the rigid quick sharp movements of KOF13. MvC1 also gets my vote for venoms pushblock animation alone, shame they removed it in 2