Favorite 2D Fighting Game Hero

[soulwolf]

Ryu (Street Fighter Series)
Alex (Street Fighter 3)
Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury Series)
Rock Howard (Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves)
Ryo Sakazaki (Art of Fighting Series)
Kyo Kusanagi (King of Fighters Series)
Haohmaru (Samurai Showdown Series)
Kaede (Last Blade Series)
Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear Series)
Jimmy Lee (Rage of the Dragons)

 

[[toj.cc]Phantom]

I liked Scorpion from Mortal Kombat 1.

(I think that is 2D even though they used real people in the game)

 

[soulwolf]

Sorry, but I got screwed up with my poll. I'll try to get it fixed though. Besides, I don't think Scorpion was the hero of the Mortal Kombat series. At least not until Deception (and I'm not even sure about that), but that was a 3D fighter.

 

[InnerPhyre]

Tie between Ryu and Sub Zero

 

[soulwolf]

It's just between the ones I have listed. So I'm just taking your vote for Ryu InnerPhyre.

 

[Tissue]

I'd have to say Ryu, though Mike Haggard would've been nice to have on that list.

 

[soulwolf]

I guess I should post my vote too. This is a really, really tough choice for me since I liked everyone one of them, but I think I'm going to have to go with Rock Howard. He's a mix of two of my favorite characters from Fatal Fury: Terry Bogard and Geese Howard (original hero and boss respectively).

 

[KOoo]

sol badguy is my fav out of the list but out of the guilty gear game potemkin is my hero heh

 

[MoonlessNight]

I really liked the shoulder rush action (among other things) of Jon Talbain/Gallon of the Darkstalkers/Vampire series. They could have made a werewolf character just be a brute with powerful attacks, but no real technique. Thankfully they made it so you can really do some nice tricks with his moves; and he's rather unique, he doesn't really fit into a standard fighter archetype (i.e. guy with lunging melee attacks and fireballs, or guy who moves slowly and has powerful throws). And the fluid animation of those games just endeared him to me all the more.

Of the Ryu/Ken/Dan/Akuma/etc. (especially when you consider spin-offs from other series) I always preferred Ken, simply because back in the day everyone preferred Ryu and I wanted to be different. But his improved dragon punch at the expense of weaker fireballs did fit my playing style. I will say, however, that Ken's whole backstory is horrible.

 

[Windmill]

I say.... young link! Honestly, super smash bros melee is basically a 2d game

 

[Studerlk]

Terry was SNKs Ryu and both charaters where awesome so KEN...

 

[philadiddle]

I'd have to go with scorpion, for coolness at the time.

Even older, the beast thing from street fighter, i forget his name.

 

[Kekkaku Ryuu]

Ukyo Tachibana from the Samurai Shodown games. He's a samurai with blue hair, and he has tuberculosis. I always play as him.

 

[atogen]

Iori and Kyo from king of fighters