What is your favorite 2D tournament fighting game?

[The BB of C]

I meet a lot of people that prefer Mortal Kombat over Street Fighter. They just don't go on this forum

[bushido_man96]

Mortal Kombat was intense at the time, but the game itself has really died off in all the third version.. I mean I've never bothered to play any game past Mortal Kombat n64. It was great when they started out, but their story lines and characters were all ways more generic than other fighting games. Though still quite good I love Sub-zero and the guys to this day. Just love Street fighter far more. It always seems that MK died when fighting games died in popularity becuase their fan base was everyone the people that just loved the popular games of the time. for ST however their fan based was composed more like a cult-classic fan base. That's why it's still going today the fans back in the day are still the guys and girls playing it today.

that's just my take on it I could surely be wrong though.

Also for the record I was always a Ryu guy myself.

Your points have merit, I think. I think that once you got past the finishing moves of Mortal Kombat, its not as deep as SF2 is. I never liked the juggle combos from MK, either. I liked the SF2 combos a bit better. The only thing I don't care for on SF2 is that it seems like you can't start a combo without a jumping move first.