Dude, you had me pretty hyped and then you kicked me in my balls.
"The only downside is that there is no online mode."
Shame Shame

I've got Dark Resurrection for the PSP and that has online (Though I won't use it.) as well as an assload more customization items. Plus, you get to customize Eddy and Mokujin as well as the three new (Well, two new and one returning) guys: Sergei Dragunov, Lili and armor King.
Well ,if you can connect the PSP to a PS3, you can get it for that...

Hmm, nice but the problem is I have neither PSP not PS3. I guess I'll be playing the CPU then.

I used to, but when I played 2 player mode, I did not really like the fighting system that much for some reason. I think it had like one or two broken characters I cannot remember

Alot of 3D fightings games in general are broken, only a few of them aren't like Tekken:DR and the original Soul Calibur, the most broken would probably be MKD, but even broken games can be fun at Legit high level play.

Thats why I think fighting games should have 2 versions (or online updates, but why do they when they can make you pay for it?) I mean think about it, soooo many fighting games (mostly 3d) are broken because of most of the stuff are not discovered until later in the game's release. I actually found it hard to believe that games like soul calibur 2-3 and Tekken 1-5 were broken, until some Tekken player told me all about that stuff, Soul Calibur is basically like MKD where its knockdown-wake up- 50-50.

The thing I did not really like about Tekken 5's system is there is no block button and you have to require a decent amount of skill to beat some button mashers (which I got mashed, but I still had like a win-lose type of game) and I just hate the fact that some hits overlap hits.

Sorry for going a little bit off topic, but I just had to let that out, 3D MK games are not the only broken fighting games out there.

-peace

Sorry, man.

You can probably use xlink kai for some online gaming.

What's xlink kai?

Tekken series finally goes online in Tekken 6 I believe Namco announced not too long back actually for PS 3.

Every fighter now has virtually gone or will be going online now.


SSBB should be interesting also.

Nowadays with the exception of some epic adventure games (ex. Ninja Gaiden) if the game is unplayable online its not worth getting imo.

I view it this way:
if it's multiplayer and has no online then its no good for me.

You can't say single player games are useless. Mario? Metroid?

Wow, i didn't realize there is only one more company that has taken their sweet ass time going online. I thought Nintendo was the worst but it looks like that award goes to Namco.

I agree with G_Roy and Pig.

Any multi-player BASED game without online is almost worthless. Or it would be after a couple of weeks and then you could go back to it sparingly over time (MKDA or Madden, example).

But single player games that happen to have multi-player are different. There's not many, but it applies to the few there are. And straight single-players are still great. Different but great. Resident Evil, Zelda, Mario, God of War, etc., are all great games that are so well done that they don't need multi-player. If they keep making games of that quality, they'll be alright without online.

The only thing for single-players would be updates and such that could be downloaded.

for example...I personally could not care less about HALO 3 multiplayer. It is almost the same exact thing with new weapons, and maps, and toys. After a while i just get bored of it.

But the campaign to me in Halo is almost more fun. And the challenge of legendary by yourself is what makes me what to buy it. I also love mario and games like that are just fun to play.

What is the newest fighter online on both systems? This might help me decide where my next system comes from.

Right now the games i like on next gen are COD4(awesome, and better than halo), Halo...dang i guess thats it. But i look forward with great anticipation to SF4 and MK8.

Yeah, you guys are right. A fighting game without online mode is pretty much worthless nowadays. Well, Virtua Fighter 5 for XBox 360 is going to be online but I have no XBox 360, I am saving my money for a PS3.

MKD is fun but there is almost no competition. I guess the only thing I can do for now is play Tekken 5 by myself, which is still fun just not nearly as much as against a human opponent, until sometime next year when I can finally buy a next gen console.

http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/

I think it only works on system link games though, I should have read that.

Have a DS dude? There's MKD puzzle kombat if you don't want to play UMK3.

@pighut, you're right most people have been bitching about Nintendo going online but they too are finally online so I'm siked and the DS/wii play great online! SSBB is going to be hot! Mario vs. Sonic hehe

Namco out of the fighters that have been here a while, is the last company to ok online play.

Halo is by far the most overrated shooter out there and will be dead to most hardcore shooter fans once cod4 and bad company come out. The auto aim alone kills this game not to mention that 80% of the people that got it are under the age of 17.

I thought tekken sucked. Even with dr online I can not get into is for same reason. So my ps3 still just holds down the papers. Dam having to put a fan behind my 360 to help keep it cool. Vf5 is far better then tekken and mk in my opinion. Just to bad the ps3 version does not have online.

Halo 3 is not overated,im selling my wii just to get a 360.halo3 is the best game out right now IMO and many others,and gta4 is coming out 4 the ps3 and 360....

Tekken 5 is kind of broken but still a decent game.

Tekken 5: DR is much better. One of the best 3D fighting games ever made in my opinion.

Online for DR is good. Much better than MK:A but still not good enough to play it competitively like off-line. I've been playing Tekken for years and years, and even though everyone is on the "online bandwagon", the truth is that it doesn't work for any fighting games just yet. No point in playing fighting games seriously when it is not under perfect conditions.

Yo, m2dave, so Tekken 5:DR is online? What console is that on?

I wouldn't say "all fighting games" but I do agree that most online play doesn't quite work as oppose to offline, MKA plays better offline compared to online obviously. MKD played pretty good I thought, but UMK3 plays near to flawlessly on the 360 anyway.

VF5 I'm not sure, but heard it lags a little bit. DOA4 plays better then DOAU but they also lag often. DOAU was worse then MKA online for xbox, it was that bad. One second your opponent is next to you, next far away...

I'm actually a little surprised that they didn't make Tekken 5 :DR and MK:U for the PSP online....

I actually played the new VF5 a little bit at my friends place last week, pretty fun game. I like it more then Tekken honestly, I never really got into Tekken. I tried though. MK, SF, DOA, SSB and VF a little I can play for hours though.

UMK3 for the DS I believe is the first really good fighting game to go online in the portable market.

BTW, dave Tekken 6 is indeed going online right? At least that's what I read a few months back that Namco planned on having T6 go online.

At this stage, all fighters are online. It's just the way to go right now with the arcade scene dead and such.

SSBB I'm curious about also.

For the PS3. Tekken 6 is confirmed to be online as well. VF 5 is online, too, but only for the X-Box 360. That kiddy game on the Wii will also be online.

MK:F, you need to understand that fighting games do not work online. It has to do with the loss of frames and the manner in which it affects move recoveries and combos. I told you about Sareena's f,f+1 and how punishable that move is off-line.

Competitive fighting gamers are advised to play off-line. Most of the time, the online is so different from the off-line that it almost seems like a different game. Different tier lists exist, too. It is a joke.

Yeah man I see what you're saying, especially with arcade fighting game like the early MK's, tekkens, SF etc. I'm just saying, with arcades obsolete now and nobody is going to want to travel for competition, online is everyones fast and only option.(depsite whether it plays well or not is a different story)

Times have changed and so have fighters in this respect(the competitive markert worldwide)Everyone has these consoles, arcades are dead...sadly and the tier lists are definitely different(no doubt due to lag and such) but there are some characters in some fighting games however that are also good/top tier both offline and online right?

I mean take Dairou and Noob online and offline in MKA. Noob seems pretty damn safe offline and online, but definitely more online no doubt. Dairou as you and I both know is awesome online/offline. Better online though I'd say, you agree? I'm curious about what you think about Dairou in MKA actually.

One could also make the argument of say these fighting games now made just for the consoles, couldn't they eventually perfect the frames in them to handle online play? I understand someones beef with an old MK, SF or Tekken game that originally was in the arcade then going online(it's just not originally meant for online play) but what about future games like say SF4, MK8, Tekken 6. These games will go straight to console, hopefully these games not yet out will be better online then the fighters out now online.

SSB online I have no idea how this will play but should be interesting given the different engine compared to other fighters.

MKF, times have changed. That is true. I still travel (at least within my state) to play Tekken. In my opinion, the day fighting games are played exclusively online is the day when fighting games will die. You can have the best server out there, the best console out there, and the best connection out there, but the truth is today's technology cannot give you a perfect connection. As fighters become deeper and deeper, a perfect connection is needed.

As for Dairou in MK:A, he is a lot weaker online. Not because he doesn't have the proper tools but because the laggy atmosphere kills his game. His game relies on turtling (which is hard to do online because of deep jump kick cancels that give ridiculous advantage), punishing (which is a non-issue online), and safety (which everyone has online, though, due to lag). His combos are also limited online (i.e., you cannot do 3,3 after the TS Drop). Off-line you can juggle with aerial cancels easily after any juggle starter. You can even catch players with AC's while your opponent is jumping at you, which results in ridiculous damage. Also, off-line the jump is a lot of smoother; it has more animation and "fluidity" to it that make anti-air attacks much, much simpler to land. I'm sure you may have anticipated some jumps and may have done wep. d+2 to catch them in the air only for it to get blocked. That is lag because the jumping frames have been cut. And finally, throws are punishable when ducked off-line, and since Dairou's game doesn't really involve using throws, that helps me immensly against others.

That is the deepest analysis I can give you, and as you can see, there are many factors. With all that said, I think he is a top 5 character off-line easily.

PS: The SSB series is not a fighting game. It's more like a party game. Don't listen to Nintendo fan boys. The PS2 and X-Box 360 have all the best fighting games already.