If you are a PC gamer, or at least know one.... you would think that all we play are first-person shooters, MMOs, action-adventure, and strategy games. But no!, there are PC gamers out there (including console gamers) who actually enjoy playing a good fighting game on the PC even if its over a emulator. You should know, we don't hardly get any fighting games to the PC platform, no Tekken, no Virtua Fighter, no Soul Calibur, no King of Fighters etc.....
I honestly, would rather play Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix any day than puzzle fighter
There is one game that caught my attention to write this blog: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (X360)with the news that Capcom is going to release Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, Devil May Cry 4 and others to the PC, i thought SSF2T HD Remix was going to be released to the PC also, but there is no official release 
. So far only for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
You may think that fighting games may not work on the PC, well why not? is it because you think we have to play with the keyboard all the time? Well you can use almost any USB gamepad available on a PC including the Xbox 360 controller, even gamepads from past consoles with a special console gamepad to PC converter, while with a console you are stuck with playing with the specific gamepad available for the console. There are also Arcade Joysticks that work on a PC, online play is not a problem either.
Maybe fighting games won't sell on the PC, i say why not give it a try? I think there is a very big market here for fighting game enthusiasts into the PC side of it like emulators & Mugen (which are free).With Microsoft doing the 'Games for Windows' brand/franchise lately, in which several games get support for the Windows version of Xbox live! and support for the Xbox 360 controller, i don't see why this couldn't be possible. Almost everyone has a PC anyway. And with Windows XP (and Vista) getting better controllers and support every year, even players who don't like to play with keyboard can try these games. Also the fact that a lot of people play emulators and tournaments with each other using kaillera should proof there is some demand for fighters. Also home build engines like Mugen and freeware fighters from japan seem popular among a lot of gamers. Console gamers also have PC's these days. It's not one or the other anymore. And there are lots of people (like me), who don't want to have to buy an expensive new console just to play one game. Plus you only have to look the lengths people go to with M.U.G.E.N to see that there are people out there who really want to play fighting games on their PC. You might as well make some money out of that market?
Maybe it's more the fact that developers are 'scared' that the PC version will just be pirated. However maybe releasing this using steam,or along with an unique CD-key for network play (which i guess is one of the main reasons most people will want this game) will proof to work against piracy. Steam seems reliable for these things so i hope this comes out, and since Capcom landed a deal with Steam, why not bring it to the PC?
But alas, the PC isn't seen by many developers as a machine which can play fighters. It's a shame really, since there are a few PC fighters available that.....in my opinion did well, and were playable as good on a PC as on any console.
Here's a small list:
- Street Fighter: Alpha 1, 2, X-men: Children of the Atom
- SSF2T
- MK series
- Guilty Gear series
- Battle Arena: Toshinden
- Melty Blood
- Virtua Fighter 2
- Last Bronx
The Gametek/Capcom version of SSF2T back in the days (for ms-dos), which was more or less a perfect port of the game (same as the 3do version, but with cd audio music) and supported several 6 button controllers. Virtua Fighter 2 supported online play as well, and the graphics where superior from the Sega Saturn port. The PC can handle fighters and most of these games don't require a fast PC, so why not release it. Virtua Fighter 5 is another game that i really want ported to the PC, if you look at the arcade board that runs the game: Sega Lindbergh you can see that it has PC hardware specs, nowadays those specs are considered mid range, and of course, PC games will scale on lower end hardware by lowering the graphics. VF5 is being ported to the Xbox 360, bring it to the PC as well, if it does happen you might be able to play against Xbox360 players, with Games for Windows Live! It would be the perfect game for this. No tuning needed, since it's a limited set of moves and no balance or adjustments between mouse + keyboard for PC and a USB gamepad would be needed. Even Namco wants a piece of the PC gaming market, let us enjoy Soul calibur and Tekken games on the PC as well.
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike finally running on an official CPS3 Emulator, Youtube video
A few days back i played Street Fighter 3: Third Strike on the PC, it's embarrassing to say but i have never played this game, and alot of people wanted the game to be emulated. I loved playing fighting games on Arcades but nowadays you don't see enough players in arcades at all (where i live, all the local arcades where removed) sure i could have played this game years ago on a console, but i don't have the same passion for gaming that i had when i was a kid to get every gaming platform, and most of my friends don't like these games. I think fighting games would do good on PC's, i would definitely buy SSF2T HD Remix and others.
What do you think? would you like to see fighting games on the PC gaming platform?
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