the best fighting game? also best for any genre newbie?

[heime2003]

ive seen some of well known fighting games on steam, king of fighters, dead or alive 6, tekken 7, soul calibur 6, mortal kombat 11 to name a few. is this the best in the genre?

[Shurikn]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/577940/Killer_Instinct/

easy the most underrated but still top notch

[Patrick Wayne]

It sucks even in terms of numbers.
Losing to MK11 and Tekken 7 on consoles.
And that's when SF6 in it's peak (games have the most amount of players on release) vs old games on their last cycle.
Only good numbers on steam.

[Castyles]

Best fighting games ever, that are available on Steam, according to me:
-Street Fighter 6.
-Dead or Alive 5: Last Round.
-Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
-Samurai Shodown.

Make of that as you will.

[Judy]

引用自 Observer：

how can one know that? nobody plays all those games.
All I can say is that SF 6 is badly balanced

FAXXX

[The_Dybbuk_King]

引用自 Dank Sidious：

Bunch of casuals here pretending they are hot ♥♥♥♥, by name dropping SF4 of all games when they never played Super Turbo or even 3rd Strike.

It's just like people pretending to be hot ♥♥♥♥ for playing Xrd for 2 hours. Without realizing how babyfied all of that was compared to what came before. You guys probably think of a racing game when you hear Accent Core.

引用自 Dank Sidious：

引用自 ele：

That's 'cause SF was ass back then. Aside from a few versions playing MK or KI were better options.

MK? lol. MK was a meme even back then, Fatalities are the only reason they got any notice. I remember when real hard core true gamer bro champions of the world called SFIV casual crap, which it was and now you jesters pretend to be high and mighty for playing SFIV a little bit when you were toddlers.

This dude is a real one. He knows.

[Zeel Ara]

No such thing as a "best" fighting game. And whatever is best for a beginner is the one you think has the coolest roster and setting. No amount of game design will overcome whether or not you think the character is so cool that you want to be good at them.

Getting into fighting games means sitting down and playing. You can't think your way out of it. Play or don't play, anything else is masturbation.

[ShadowSplit]

No, I don't think so. Would argue that KI 2013 is way more newb friendly than this game because of its strong tutorial.

[ryu600RR]

the heck it even means when someone say best fighting game, if you mean by mechanics and battle direction, 3s, sf6, and rev2 are the best in my book, in that order
of those three, sf6 is probably most newbie friendly, with the lowest execution barrier from bottom to top tier players

some people mean best by packaging, content, community, genre defining influence, presentation, character inclusion, artistic style, whatever else, pick your poison

but you asked about fighting game specifically and newbie related

[Solarius Nash]

This one is the best fighting game ever if you remove the nostalgia goggles.

[Goofy Oomfie]

I don't know about best fighting game, as that is pretty much subjective; but it's definitely the best choice if you wanna hop into the genre. Not just because of accessibility options, but also because its roaring success means you will have many other newbies to play with, rather than jumping into a shark tank like in older or more niche games.

[Tr3m0r]

im an older gamer and played many of these games in their early iterations at the arcade decades back when they were a thing. I think most people overestimate their own skill and how "competitive" they actually are imho. Only a few people really can exploit a game's balance issues and whatnot at the highest level. It's somewhat similar with people who buy fast cars. Hardly anyone can truly appreciate the nuanced differences in some cars and none of them can do it without a track setting. FIghting games are similar.

Virtua Fighter series was a quite balanced and incredibly competitive game in the 90s and 00's. Mortal Kombat was always considered a casual game but I think MK 9 and beyond really brought it into a valid competitive series. I personally loved MK Deception and many games that are considered more causal. It's important to note that just because a game may be casual doesn't mean it is not competitive. Super Mario Smash brothers is a good example though I cannot really speak on that as I never got into the series. I was really good at Mortal Kombat 2 which was infinitely more competitive than MK1 but not near as competitive as SF or VF series. Any game that has competitive online players will always have a decent level of competition but the game may just be very imbalanced. Tekken was always considered casual compared to SF and Virtua Fighter but now Tekken is quite competitive at the professional level in modern day iterations.

I say all of this because I think as a "decent" overall fighting gamer, SF6 is one of my favorite fighting games. I don't even play ranked and just use battle hub but I know I am not very good at street fighter in general. People study and practice this game like they are studying for the MCAT and they aren't wrong for doing it because it is an incredibly deep and accurate fighting game with tons and tons of options that show the player just how deep the rabbit hole goes. FWIW.

[Definively Not Alchman]

i say that personally i find guilty gear strive more newbie friendly.

but the most newbie friendly thing you can get is other people to play against.
and currently this is the fighting game you can find people to play against in most parts of the planet.