Final Fight SNES series vs Streets of Rage series

...because we needed this one, didn't we? Let's compare the greatest beat'em up series ever to Final Fight!
Note: we're only talking SNES Final Fight games. By them I mean Final Fight SNES, Final Fight Guy, Final Fight 2-3.

Streets of Rage is by far the better series with three VERY different games. Final Fight 2 + 3 however are fantastic games as well.

I think the Final fight 1,2 & 3 on SNES sucks donkey balls!

they're boring as sin to play...I was trying them again yesterday and got bored after 5 minutes, even Co-op couldn't save it.

The Haggar design is absolute shite, levels are bland as are the baddies...blurgh.

However I love Final Fight CD and the SNES sequels are a far cry from that quality.

Streets of rage however has interesting stages, great music, vertical scrolling (be it plays a very small part) and as a whole just looks better I think which is an excellent concidering the palette limitations and just seems to work better and Bare Knuckle 3 is gaming bliss!

I do love Final Fight for its interesting boss fights, mid level gimmicks and large sprites and weapons blah blah which is sequels just seem to loose.

The Streets of Rage games have more of everything that make beat-em ups great. More enemies on screen with more animation, more moves that actually add to the strategy, multiplayer, diverse level designs with music accompaniment that adds to the experience, and the hardest difficulties cause some people to go insane from all of the enemies on screen as opposed to just longer enemy energy bars.

If the Streets of Rage games didn't exist, I would be inclined to believe the modern popular opinion that beat-em ups were all shallow button mashers.

Hey guess what? I voted for Streets of Rage. It is clearly the better series. Honestly this poll is just pointless. You're comparing a sub-par series on one system to another that dominated. If you're trying to match the controversy from the other poll, you won't see me being a hypocrite with my stance here. I know what is and is not the better game, unlike some of the Sega fanboys on the other poll.

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Originally Posted by Firebrandx

Hey guess what? I voted for Streets of Rage. It is clearly the better series. Honestly this poll is just pointless. You're comparing a sub-par series on one system to another that dominated. If you're trying to match the controversy from the other poll, you won't see me being a hypocrite with my stance here. I know what is and is not the better game, unlike some of the Sega fanboys on the other poll.

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Agreed. This is almost like having a Mario vs. Sonic debate.

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Originally Posted by Firebrandx

Hey guess what? I voted for Streets of Rage. It is clearly the better series. Honestly this poll is just pointless. You're comparing a sub-par series on one system to another that dominated. If you're trying to match the controversy from the other poll, you won't see me being a hypocrite with my stance here. I know what is and is not the better game, unlike some of the Sega fanboys on the other poll.

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These "something Genesis" vs "something similar, but SNES" threads look like new old trend here, so why not?

I don't think the "popularity" of the Final Fight SNES series on more mainstream forums can be understated.

Streets of Rage, no contest. Streets of Rage 2 was the best

Final Fight is boring and slow. It has nothing going for it. The music is bland, the graphics are bland, the characters are bland, and so on.
Okay, SoR is also kind of boring (same genre after all) but at least it's fast (SoR 3), has kick ass music and awesome characters. Yeah, subjective, I know.

As far as I'm concerned the first Final Fight was crippled on SNES (a sentiment that often throws me into long winded arguments in general gaming forums) I haven't played enough of the other SNES Final Fights to gather an opinion about them.

I've run into this sort of poll many times in the past on other gaming forums, Final Fight (SNES) pretty much always wins it by a decent margin.

I feel that Final Fight 3 was a pretty good game, but it pales in comparison with the more heavy hitting SOR2.

SoR by a long shot. Everything about it is more interesting than FF. I got FF on Sega CD a few months ago (can't speak for the SNES version) and it has got to be one of the cheapest, most frustrating beat em ups I've played. I can normally get to stage 5 on SoR 1 and 2 without dying once on normal mode, but I can't get through stage 2 on FFCD on easy mode without using a continue. A lot of the enemies are cheap and have attacks that are really hard to avoid. It's less enjoyable.

I loved the arcade Final Fight, and the SNES port was decent for the time (we often didn't get 1:1 arcade ports at the time). But SOR was just so much more fun (and new) when it came out. If the SNES port was near identical of the arcade version, this might have been a tougher decision. But it's not. And SOR1 (being my favorite one in the series) is a blast to play. SOR got my vote.

Neither, they both serve their purpose well.