Official fighting/brawling game thread

A thread to discuss everything we know and love about fighting games, or brawlers if you use that term too. (I've heard some games called both so let's not fight about the distinction between the two)

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Fighting games I have and love:

Bloody Roar 3
Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution
Soul Calibur II
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus
Super Smash Bros Melee
Super Smash Bros Brawl
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 1 and 2
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (This is technically my brother's but it's my PS3 lol)
Dragon Ball Z: Raging Blast 2 (Brother)
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (Brother)
Castlevania Judgment

Fighting games I've owned or played in the past but also love:

Super Street Fighter IV (Played at cousin's house)
Soul Calibur IV (Played at cousin's house)
Dragon Ball Z Budokai (Rented)
Naruto Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 (Played at cousin's house)
Bloody Roar 2 (Played at babysitter's house and also rented)
Bloody Roar: Primal Fury (Rented)
Digimon Rumble Arena (Previously owned)
Super Smash Bros (Previously owned)
Clay Fighter 64 (Rented)
Marvel vs Capcom 3 (Played at cousin's house)
Tekken 3 (Previously owned)

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To me, I don't care if a fighting game is as technical as Street Fighter and Guilty Gear or as simple as Super Smash Bros and the Naruto games, I love them all for what they are.

I really wanna play the BlazBlue games too but until I get a job I can't do that and it sucks. I also need to get a second PS3 controller so I can play with people offline too though, especially when I get the BlazBlue and Soul Calibur games.

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I'm not overly fond of character lists that aren't at least 15+ characters big (point in case: Bloody Roar 3's roster is too small imo but that game in general doesn't have enough features. Primal Fury was a much better game)

I mean, I can live with small rosters, they just aren't nearly as fun especially since I'm the type who hits "random" when I choose characters so I don't have to worry about overusing certain characters over others and can get good with pretty much all of them.

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Also, I'm a Brawl > Melee type person. As far as fighting games go, Melee and Brawl are both good enough for me. I'm not competitive player in any fighting game so I don't care about specifics that only competitive players know or care about. Plus as far as video games in general go, Brawl has maaaany more features to it, particularly Subspace Emissary, that make it better than Melee. I really hope in the next Super Smash Bros (I think it's gonna be either on Wii-U or 3DS, I don't remember all the rumors and news I've heard) has something similar to SSE because that was simply amazing execution.

I enjoyed brawl more, but melee was great as well. Brawl had Pit and online play for me. I think most people don't like the game because it is going at 100 miles an hour and it wasn't the easiest engine to exploit.

This gen I haven't been playing a ton of fighting titles. So far this gen I've only been a fan of Tekken 6 and Mortal Kombat. I didn't like Soul calibur 4 and I see why the online community was on it's death bed when I played the game.

In the past I liked games like SSB Melee, Killer Instinct, Street Fighter, MK, Tekken 2 \ Tekken 3 and clay fighters 64 lol. I'm sure there were more. That's all I can think of. Fighting games have changed for the worst in my opinion with the exception of a few. I think the devs are focusing more on graphics than anything else. The amount of lag experienced in fighting games is hilarious. Fighters that lag aren't fun at all.