What's a guilty gear title that is good start for a newbie to the series?

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Also, does that title have a ps2 or xbox 360 version

[Wafer]

The XRD Revelator and SIGN would be the better for a newcomer to the series in terms of tutorials, mission and challenge mode to help you understand the series.

However the PS2 only has up to Accent Core Plus and the 360 only up to Accent Core+R. The 360 also has GG2 Overture, but it isn't a 2D fighting game.

Sadly XRD games are PS3-4-4.5 and Steam exclusively.

[Vassago Rain]

Rev is the newbie friendly one.
Accent core is for the hardcore.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Alright I'll wait for XRD Revelator to go on sale for pc play. But which Accent Core is good for just fun local play? I mean something me my brother can just play for fun.

Games we play well:
Persona 4 Arena (have problems with Shadow Labrys' specials)
Pokken Tournament(until I got sick of spammers and lag switchers)

Game we play for laughs
Rival School (Honestly we both have one or two moves we know how to pull off for each character, and we somehow one time pulled off some kind of reverse air throw.)

[Vassago Rain]

If you want to play local, you should also get Rev.

Accent core isn't only complicated, but also can't be played at HD resolution. Rather, it prompts borders, and then a small picture in the middle. X2 reloaded has been freeware for a billion years, and I think they also put it on steam for like very little money, if you don't want to hassle with the ancient CD-ROM version from 2003 and all the associated things.

Judging by your choice of games, Accent core probably isn't for you.

Rev and Sign also incorporate a billion single player features, tutorials, training modes, and Rev also walks you through every special and almost every useful combo for every character in the game, alongside teaching you system mechanics, so it's a good start to real fighting games. Not to mention the like 5~ hours of anime movie in Sign and 7~ in Rev.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Ok here's the catch. I don't have a Xbox one PS4/PS3, one they are still too expensive in the store where I live, and two there are not enough games on either that I like that I would feel comfortable paying that much money for. Also I don't really care about hd resolution, so that's not an issue for me. Plus I have too many old games for the previous Xbox 360 and Ps1-2 consoles, and the lack of backwards compatabilty is a no go.

Does the Accent Core games require playing through story mode to unlock characters? If so, at first I absolutely sucked at playing Persona 4 Arena at first cause my older brother; who gave it to me, only gave advice in the form of frame counting and other terms that make no sense to me. Then one day I decided to spend one hour each weekend just practicing each character getting their basic and specials down. Now I can complete Story and Arcade on normal now, and I'm going to try the hard ai to try to get the feel of it.

[Chimto]

AC does not require you to go through story mode to unlock characters. However story mode DOES unlock other contents such as new map, new color, and different version of one character (EX mode, Black, Gold) which is only used for fun purposes.

AC, though is not a newbie friendly, is still worth it while youre waiting for REV sales.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Hey that's what siblings are for! While I play my younger brother that's how we get good at games.

[Vassago Rain]

AC has more systems than KI, SF, KOF, the Xrd series, and MK combined. I recommend that you get the freeware version of reloaded, or purchase it legally for very little on steam, and if you like the flow and the flair of the series, you get Rev.

Xrd and Rev are essentially followups to reloaded, skipping the system bloat and additional stuff added in the accent core series.

[madmat335]

While I would also recommend Xrd Sign or Rev (because these games are just awesome), you might want to look at the Blazblue series, if you dont know it already. Blazblue is made by the same publisher as GG, it plays somewhat similarly and is definitely a lot of fun to play in local versus mode. The reason I bring it up is that there are XBOX360 versions of "Blazblue Calamity Trigger" (the 1st one) and "Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend" (the 2nd one) and that (compared to the GG games) the older Blazblue games are still pretty close to the latest ones. (The new ones pretty much look and play the same, but there are new characters, some new mechanics and lots of SInglePlayer content). If you can get them cheap they might be worth a look.

[Cpt. Moist Panties]

One thing I'll say is to not be scared to get your ass pounded.

I sucked ass at the game when I first started. I'm no tourney pro, but now I have a grip on the game and am far from being what I was previously. Also not being entirely new to fighters helps. Hell, emulate SFII and SFIII and just play them and get to know how fighters are.

[Yu Ryujin]

Fighters need to have a strong and hard ass as rock, its true. It's just a matter of how you accept victory and loss. Don' be afraid of loosing.

[mjordan79]

If you're new, just start with the most recent iteration. There is no point in playing old games. At the end of the day, it's the last game you have to learn. So start from it.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Ok thanks for all the advice guys.
I'm willing to put in the work to learn each character to figure out which guys me. Plus this sereies seems to have incorporated different styles of characters without projectile and move spamming being a winning strategy unlike Pokken Tournament.