Most Overrated Fighting Game Series

[Gezora]

I think we can all agree that Halo reigns king in the Most Overrated FPS department. But what about fighting games?

My personal vote goes for Virtua Fighter. Oft touted as "the greatest 3D fighter ever", I found the whole series almost unplayable, and I have found many who agree with me.

It was the learning curve. Far too steep for the casual gamer, and elitists who championed the series looked down and mocked those who treated it more like homework than anything fun (myself included). Flame me at your leisure.

What say you?

[DemonicDrPhil]

MvC2, Kof 2002, Kof 2001

although the last one probably is more worst game material more than most overrated.

[GalFord]

VF is hardly overrated, if anything it's not rated at all in the mainstream because it's not exactly a 'pick up and play' type of game.  For me, Tekken was overrated... but that's mainly due to it gaining lots of updates and characters, but the engine remains nigh-on exactly the same regardless.

Saying that though, I'm not knocking Tekken... I loved Tekken 3, and slowly got into T5, but it was a definate 'instant favourite' here in the UK with the launch of the various PlayStations

[Spirit_Moon]

Tekken, i really hate that game.

[Arthur]

Dead or Alive. And it's not all that high-rated to begin with.

[Snake]

DOA, definately

DOA3 especially was an absolute pile of broken shit. Sup COUNTERING EVERY MOVE?!

yeah DOA is the most overrated pile. IMO the series is the Halo3 of fighting games

[Cybaster]

MVC2 for 2D fighters. OMG big number of characters.

Definitely DOA for 3D fighters.
Virtua Fighter is not overrated IMO, it's even underrated, because people would rather have fun in 5 minutes rather than training hours to master a single character (which is somehow understandable if you don't have much time to train).

IMO, Virtua Fighter is to KOF what Tekken is to CVS (and what DOA is to MVC2).

[Bastard Mami]

yeah, doa might seem overrated except for the fact that hardly anybody accepts it as a good fighting game; maybe it is just an oversold game? imo, mortal kombat is the most overrated fighting game ever, followed closely by ki.

[Aeyon]

Haha....what I may say now is risky but i'm just putting my opinion across.
I think Street fighter is over rated... simply because it lacks what kof has AWESOME desperation moves. Sure big Hadouken's are great but against combo specials its nothing. It lacks a good range of characters and by saying that I mean the new ones. The original characters from street fighter are great!
That is all.

[mugenxero]

DOA and Mortal Kombat are definitely up there.

At my school we have a free "Ultra-cade" machine, street fighters 2 Champions edition is the most used thing on there *almost half in thanks to me >.>* but some people insist mortal Kombat is better. The funny part is I don't play mortal Kombat and I still beat those jokers since MK1 you can use the same general strategy with every character as if they were the same!

[SpliTT]

I still beat those jokers since MK1 you can use the same general strategy with every character as if they were the same!

mk1 was made by 2 people!

[mugenxero]

just 1 person on mugen can make over the course of some time more varied characters and thats without digitization technique stuff =p

[GaryCXJk]

Technically just an action game, but Super Smash Bros. series.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I love Super Smash Bros., I'll be first in line to buy this game, but after three games, the revolutionary thing wears off. Not even a Final Smash can save the game from that.

[Captain Storm]

Easily Mortal Kombat.  3 awful 3d games in a row and still manages to top the charts.

[Arthur]

Technically just an action game, but Super Smash Bros. series.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I love Super Smash Bros., I'll be first in line to buy this game, but after three games, the revolutionary thing wears off. Not even a Final Smash can save the game from that.

Must... try... not... to... argue... opinion...

[S.D.]

Smash Bros, Tekken, VIrtua Fighter.

[Robert The Small]

Tekken, and Smash Bro's.

Both are fun, don't get me wrong, but both aren't the greatest games ever, and neither should be played competitively, due to how crazy the tiers are.

[[(_sourlucas_)]>]

Haha....what I may say now is risky but i'm just putting my opinion across.
I think Street fighter is over rated... simply because it lacks what kof has AWESOME desperation moves. Sure big Hadouken's are great but against combo specials its nothing. It lacks a good range of characters and by saying that I mean the new ones. The original characters from street fighter are great!
That is all.

Without the street fighter series, there would be no sane people around 

[mugenxero]

Haha....what I may say now is risky but i'm just putting my opinion across.
I think Street fighter is over rated... simply because it lacks what kof has AWESOME desperation moves. Sure big Hadouken's are great but against combo specials its nothing. It lacks a good range of characters and by saying that I mean the new ones. The original characters from street fighter are great!
That is all.

Without the street fighter series, there would be no sane people around 

I'd have killed them all 

[walt]

Virtua Fighter.

And KOF 2002 because it was ugleh (or how I like to call it - KOF 98 EX PLUS)