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What influences your choice of fighting game characters?

Tiers! I pick the characters who are on top, all the time.
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2%
Design! I like characters who look cool/cute or those who stand out.
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36%
Moveset! I like characters that fit into certain archetypes (grappler/chargie/pixie etc) or who have an interesting playing style
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23%
Ease of use! I go for those characters who are easy to pick up (eg Ryo, Sol Badguy, Terry)
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9%
Popularity! I pick the characters everyone uses, or the characters no-one uses.
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4%
Other factor (please state)
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26%
 
Total votes: 47

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Post by Yamata-no-Orochi » Fri Feb 17, 2006 23:05

Josh, you're an idiot.

Anyway, I look for the cool badass characters. Iori is my faaaaaavorite, but that holds true in other characters too. Xion from Bloody Roar is another example...

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Post by 7d3j » Sat Feb 18, 2006 17:16

Ahh! Fellow Yagami fan eh.

Pardon me for DO laughing when they say his name backwards reads 'I'm a gay' though... :D

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Post by Yamata-no-Orochi » Sat Feb 18, 2006 18:37

XDD I never noticed that before! *Has to remember that*

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Post by Josh » Mon May 08, 2006 07:15

Yamata-no-Orochi wrote:Josh, you're an idiot.

Anyway, I look for the cool badass characters. Iori is my faaaaaavorite, but that holds true in other characters too. Xion from Bloody Roar is another example...
ho am i an idiot... the way b00bage isnt good for you.. scares me!

(lets laugh at him) rofl LMAO :LOL: :crazy:

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Post by SonicTempest » Mon May 08, 2006 07:54

Josh wrote:
Yamata-no-Orochi wrote:Josh, you're an idiot.

Anyway, I look for the cool badass characters. Iori is my faaaaaavorite, but that holds true in other characters too. Xion from Bloody Roar is another example...
ho am i an idiot... the way b00bage isnt good for you.. scares me!

(lets laugh at him) rofl LMAO :LOL: :crazy:
First and last warning - make stupid posts like that outside the Stupid Room and you will be permabanned.

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Post by Xion » Thu Jun 22, 2006 06:15

Character and story comes first.Second is design.Third is gameplay.

I hate a character with a crappy story or an egoistic,show off or pain in the butt,goody goody or of character.Story likewise is also important,a character who does something stupid in a story like always fighting for a girl or a stupid reason is not my idea of favourite.

Take for instance Yugo from Bloody Roar 4.He is just standing around knowing nothing and hes just aimed to chase Nagi which happens to be one of my favourite female character.Or Alba and Soiree in Mi2 whose competing for a Myrink is superly uberly rediculous.

Characters i like is Sol Badguy and Iori Yagami.They are cool,strong and charismatic,just plain bad ass with their own duty and always something complex and twist about in the character,their story is always trapped in a kind of delimma and confusion,wheres they suffer like crap.Second characters like Faust,Shen Woo,NVNQSR chaos,Warakia,Arucied.. Cute characters and interesting like Jam,Baiken,Emilia Rage.Pysco like Robo KY,Freeman,etc.

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Post by En Lee » Mon Jul 17, 2006 20:35

I go for characters who are easier to learn. For me, King, Benimaru, K', Kula, Ash & Vice +

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Post by kaijin » Tue Jul 25, 2006 14:22

Yeah, i go for Insane characters and Weirdos. Their playing style usually matches their look too.

Zappa (GGXX2)

Voldo( Soul Calibur(1, 2, 3)

Iori (Cant remember which game this guy's from) :D :LOL:

Gen An (Samurai Showdown 1)

Kusare Gedo( Samurai Showdown V)

you get the point....

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Post by Archedgar » Sun Oct 29, 2006 23:59

Voted design.

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Post by Shiny » Wed Nov 01, 2006 17:13

I like a cool/weird design. If they look cool enough, I'll learn a difficult moveset.

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Post by Gunsmith » Wed Nov 01, 2006 17:45

any kind of grappler WIN!

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Post by Vice Vecta » Wed Nov 01, 2006 18:19

1) Design and/or concept 2) Gameplay and movesets 3) Background and personal charisma.

Funny, I'm an anti-tier player all along, yet I have my sins like Kane in 2002.

Charas like Vice (evidently), Ramoncito, Billy Kane, Balrog (Vega), Mature, Dan Hibiki, Anna Williams, Bryan Fury, Dong Hwan, O. Chris, Ryuji Yamazaki, Robert, King, Slayer, Julia Chang, Baiken, Duck King, Juli, Mileena, Rick Stroud, Rob Python and whatnot are my type.


Oh yes, and I'm an anti-loli type charas. So Athenas, Momokos, Kulas, Hinakos and the sort are definitelly no-no's for me.

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Post by tappressholdrelease » Mon Nov 13, 2006 13:55

I like characters that look cool, but more inportantly they should have simple qcf/qcb/hcb/hcf moves instead of the riduculous 720 moves, the character's fighting style should fit my specific playing style. I don't like losing at the arcades, so I would rather use a dumb looking easy to use character, then a cool looking hard to master character. But it depends how much time I am prepared to spend on the game. Some characters look so cool that I am actually prepared to spend hours and hours to learn to use the char properly.

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Post by snowman_iml » Mon Nov 20, 2006 04:51

i choose characters that isn't used by anybody uses! Like in KoF 2003, I play Hinako 'coz players in my town doesn't go fro her! Well in fact, Hinako owns big time!!! I once sweeped a challenger just by using her! and get a perfect on Mukai!!!

So cute yet so dangerous!

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Post by Blake B » Sat Nov 25, 2006 01:42

I like characters with interesting personalities, like Terry Bogard or Kage-maru

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