The best fighting game among the 16-bit consoles (Neo Geo excluded)

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Originally Posted by Orchid87

Actually I am kinda surprised that noone agrees with me on Gundam Wing :?

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

Either Gundam W Endless Duel (SNES) or Yu Yu Hakusho (MD).

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Originally Posted by agostinhobaroners

^ Care to explain? Not to troll you, but you seem to have some interesting knowledge about games, so I'd like to hear your opinion.

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I like it for a couple reasons. Nostalgia aside it is a pretty excellent fighting game loaded with gore and wacky hidden characters. A lot of people find it to be really hard and quit playing it before they get the hang of it, but once you get a feel for it the game-play becomes pretty awesome. It has a lot of different finishers as well as the ability to do instant kills etc.

The franchise pretty much fell off the face of the earth which is a shame, I would have loved to see a sequel. A lot of fighting games came out trying to copy off of popular games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, but they usually were pretty lame with a few exceptions. EC definitely falls in that category, but the game designers probably really thought they were making a street fighter/MK killer. It has the feel of both MK and street fighter but it isn't a blatant knock off and it stays original. And most importantly it came out for SEGA, and there isn't a better version of it on the SNES for once.

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Originally Posted by NeoVamp

Eternal Champions.

Well.. engine wise, it just feels good to play,
Shame the CPU is so unfair though, but 2 players is cool.

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Has to be my favorite fighter. I beat that game a coupl eof times very hard.

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Originally Posted by Baloo

Eternal Champions. So much more original than most of the other watered down fighting game ports of the 16-bit era, especially story and character-wise. Much more of a Western style compared to the same gimmicks from Capcom and SNK. And Mortal Kombat's fighting system was always junk, and the ports were probably some of the worst ever!

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SNK had a LOT of original material but it was decidedly Japanese or at least a Japanese view of an American Theme. It is really hard to be more original then the Samurai Shodown series and I doubt you could create better gameplay unless you bring up The Last Blade which is such a delicate fighter.

Story and character-wise, few series are as original as Tengai Makyou/Far East Of Eden. Which aped Samurai Spirit's gameplay for its Neo Geo entry.

That Gundam Wing game has the best graphics Ive seen on the SNES aside from the ACM games.

It's certainly UMK3 on Sega Genesis or Super Street Fighter 2 on Sega Genesis with turbo stars.

UMK3 is less buggy than the SNES variant, and SSF2 is more complete and uncensored than the SNES variant as well, in voice effects, sprite frames, etc.