By those standards, Marvel would be a terrible choice (considerably worse actually, seeing as it doesn't do much of anything to try teaching anyone how to play it). It also doesn't have the single-player campaign mode that OP wants.
Im not really a big fan. Im just recommending what i think are decent games and not retarded wastes of time. My metric is different from his though.
Marvel is not easy to learn. At all. That said, both it and Xrd R do allow for "press button, cool stuff happens" since they both have control modes for that. Even KoF XIV has single-button chains by default (movement options and speed make it a bit more advanced than the typical SF, but nothing especially cerebral).
All fighting game are fun and easy to play if you're playing with your friends and you're playing for fun. Going online is a different story. Considering what OP was looking for, KoF and GG are perfectly good recommendations. Not every scrub starts fighting games with Street Fighter. I started with Guilty Gear XX2 and it made me a huge fighting game fan.
SFV can be found for cheap at retail & you can earn a good chunk of the DLC with Fight Money.
Beautiful post. You'd think fighting games were as difficult to learn as quantum physics by some of the posts in here.
Were the videos you watched of high level players? You won't be playing like that or have to worry about those crazy combos unless you play online in one of the nonbeginners' room. If you're playing with your friends at equal skill level you'll have a good time. I would say it's combo crazy at higher skill levels but if you're playing casually the combos you'll use are not difficult to do. If you want to learn those crazy combos the challenge mode will teach you if you put in the time. Also if you're stuck in someone's combo you can just "Burst" out of it. Like I said before it's not that hard to play and have fun with Guilty Gear. To be good online is a whole other ball game.
Personally, I would recommend DoA5:LR over Tekken 7. In spite of liking Tekken, I'd say that it's a series that's largely impenetrable as far as 3D fighters go. LR, meanwhile, is much easier to get into, and does far more to explain the various mechanics to the player with its tutorial. It's by all means a solid fighter.Thanks for all the recommendations guys. Looks like I will be getting SFV because it is on sale at the moment in the EU PSN and apparently more scrub friendly than I thought.
I know it does not fit my single player criteria but it has the advantage that pretty much every friend of mine knows it.
Nearly decided for Guilty Gear but somehow the actual game looks different from what I remembered of the initial -Sign- reveal trailer.
It's pretty save to say that we all played at least Street Fighter before and know some basic special attacks like hadouken, sonic boom or so.
Never ld get into the DoA franchise
Tekken 7 seems like it might fit the criteria pretty well. I have played a lot Tag Tournament as a kid. It seems like the gameplay got even more focused on juggling or is it just my perception?
It's good to know that MK:X plays similar to Injustice though.
I was closed to pulling the trigger on Guilty Gear and started watching a youtube clip. Have to say I am not a fan of the character designs I saw and the gameplay seemed combo crazy?
Never ld get into the DoA franchise
In regards to DoA, that's fair. Some games click, some don't. As for GG, May is one of the sillier characters, by no means representative of the cast at large in spite of the roster being more unconventional. Ones like Sol and Ky represent what's more typical.
Yeah I'm a total scrub but I enjoy playing the series just learning the special moves and that's it. I played the Xrd tutorial and came across mechanics I just wrote off right away in terms of being viable for me to perform in a match. It didn't stop me enjoying the game one bit.
