Best fighting game for the Xbox?

There really aren't a whole lot of good Xbox fighters, they've all been listed here.

DOA3, MK: DA, Soul Calibur 2, and CvS2. That's pretty much it.

But...you want to know what the ultimate party game is? Mod that box and play some 4 player Simpsons or TMNT arcade... fun fun shit, it never gets old, and everyone loves to play it.

DoA3 and Soul Calibur..thats it.

For the record, CVS2 has the worst netcode of all time. I felt like I was playing Doom over Battle.net.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2!!!

Nods to CvS2 and Soul Calibur--but seriously, Dead or Alive is pretty bad (reversals are ridiculously over-powered) and Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is down-right terrible. Even still, both DoA and MKDA are better than Tao Feng...

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Dead or Alive is pretty bad (reversals are ridiculously over-powered)

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Which is why you reverse the reversal and everything is good.

Theres two games that you suck at while bashing it.

Get Soul Calibur II if you have a soul... that still burns...

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Originally Posted by Sl1p

Which is why you reverse the reversal and everything is good.

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If that was possible in Dead or Alive you'd have a point... But as far as I know it's not--it wasn't possible in DoA1 or 2, and in the hour or so I spent with DoA3 it didn't come up (and briefly searching online, I didn't see anything that said you could counter a counter).

The whole counter system in the Dead or Alive games makes the game play wayyyy too defensively. It's ridiculous that a simple counter can take 25% health.

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If that was possible in Dead or Alive you'd have a point... But as far as I know it's not--it wasn't possible in DoA1 or 2, and in the hour or so I spent with DoA3 it didn't come up (and briefly searching online, I didn't see anything that said you could counter a counter).

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The whole OHH and AHH over DOA1 was over the fact that you could counter-counters which was relatively easy to do back then. I still remember PSM going ape shit over that fact alone. DoA2 and 3 it's dependent on the counter but its still possible. This is funny, because I remember bitching about Tekken 2 and how Nina and Paul players were unfairly balanced since they could counter the bejesus out of people. Then I used my head and got around it. For as easy as it is to counter stuff in DoA, there are several ways around it. Using counter-resistant moves for preasure, throwing often to get the person on offense and just plain mixing up your attacks, you know like every other fighting game ever made.

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Originally Posted by Sl1p

Using counter-resistant moves for preasure, throwing often to get the person on offense and just plain mixing up your attacks, you know like every other fighting game ever made.

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None of those are reversing the reversal (as was discussed above), that's strategy. One's a move while the other's a thought process. DOA3 is RPS: Attacks counter throws, throws counter reversals, reversals counter attacks.

[edit] For clarity's sake.

Buy a ps2 and virtual fighter 4 if you want realism. The throw escapes look too amazing to miss out. Conversly, i think it was doa that had directional throws that could not be broken? That alone is not looked highly opon in a 2d fighter.

I like SCII the best out of those.

Except for the fakness.