Games with the best combat system

[pezwarrior18]

after playing God of war and marvel ultimate alliance, seeing as i don't play video games that often i was wondering what other game have combat systems similar to these. and don't even mention games like champions of norrath where all you can do is level up and button mash.

[Thorlief]

Prince of Persia would be a good start

[Aelo]

Prince of Persia would be a good start

Seconded. The Devil May Cry series has a pretty cool combat system too, if you ask me...

[pezwarrior18]

cool, thanks.

[The Fury]

I like Kingdom Hearts for one reason, free thinking backup. Donald, Goofy and the extra characters come in handy alot.

[StoneGold]

Pong. Totally different.

[Young Avenger]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma

[(A)//(E)]

diablo 2/LoD (specifically pvp)

[jesse_custer]

God of War is in many ways a ripoff of Devil May Cry. So DMC.

[Xero Kaiser]

GoW is nothing like DMC

[jesse_custer]

Interesting thesis.

So you've never played either game.

[Leslie Lee III]

Interesting thesis.

So you've never played either game.

I've played both, they are nothing alike.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within had an awesome combat system. Unique, and very deep for the type of game it is. POP: SOT didn't have as deep a system, and the third one punished you for fighting.

[jesse_custer]

Devil Trigger = Rage of the Gods

The emphasis on stringing together incredibly long combos is the same. Additionally, both games have aerial combos and emphasize changing weapons mid-combo to create new moves.

Also, before DMC, 3D beat-em-ups were lacking fluidity in combat. DMC changed this, and God of War continues that tradition.

You're simply lying to yourself and everyone else if you say they're not very similar, or at the very least just similar.

[Xero Kaiser]

Interesting thesis.

So you've never played either game.
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Devil Trigger = Rage of the Gods

Wow.....no. DMC was hardly the first game to have some kind of "super mode".

Additionally, both games have aerial combos

Lots of games have air combos and juggles. I guess DMC's a ripoff of Guardian Heroes then?

and emphasize changing weapons mid-combo to create new moves.

Except you can't change weapons mid-attack in GoW

[Kid Kamikaze10]

Ouch.

That's messed up. I gotta try that some time.

[Spidey-kid1]

Hulk, Ultimate Destruction. Nuff' said.

[nervmeister]

From what I've heard, Ninja Gaiden trumps DMC and GOW in terms of combat system. But I've only played Sigma a little bit, so I cant be sure really.

[jesse_custer]

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[Shawn Hopkins]

One I thought was great, even if it could have used a little more polish, was the combat system from the first Buffy the Vampire Slayer game for Xbox. It had your standard combos and super combos and a combo meter that started playing the theme song if you were doing well, throws and projectile and other weapons, but because you were mostly fighting vampires it also had a lot of unique, interesting ways to dispose of your enemies. You could stake them, behead them, holy water them or set them on fire, or kill them with an arrow aimed by an interesting system where you listened for a heartbeat cue to know you were hitting the heart or with fire or holy water arrows, but you could also do things like throw them into a broken fence, a fireplace, or into sunlight. At one point, also, I threw a vial of holy water into a pool, which converted the pool to a big holy bath of death for vamps. I was surprised the game was well thought out enough to let me do that.

The second game, Chaos Bleeds, threw most of what made the combat in the first one good away. Decapitations were taken out and you could stake enemies with metal weapons, even in weird places like the leg.

[Xero Kaiser]

Red herring. I never said it was the first game to do that.


If you call it a DMC-ripoff, then you're saying it ripped elements directly from DMC. That's kinda what being a ripoff means.

Red herring again. The subject is the similarities between DMC and GoW, not whether there were games before DMC that had air combos.

Again, don't call it a DMC ripoff if it isn't taking something directly from DMC. Why isn't GoW a Panzer Bandit ripoff? Or a Star Ocean ripoff? Or a Bujingai ripoff? Spider-Man? Otogi? Ninja Gaiden? Sonic the Hedgehog? Bloody Roar? Guilty Gear? The things you pointed out are so basic and broad-sweeping that they include tons of games. Saying that something is a DMC ripoff because it's got long combos is no different than saying that two FPS games are exactly alike because they both have shotguns or that two fighting game are alike because they have super moves and chain combos.

If it was a ripoff of DMC it'd be ripping off the things that are exclusive to DMC like the style system

[I Must Break U]

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Wow.....no. DMC was hardly the first game to have some kind of "super mode".



Lots of games have air combos and juggles. I guess DMC's a ripoff of Guardian Heroes then?



Except you can't change weapons mid-attack in GoW

That is awesome! I totally like how you did that! You are officially my role model for one month!

[I Must Break U]

i dont think this qualifies as a combat system, but i love how the combat was handled in Indigo Prophecy

[Silliw 2]

I'm probably going to get into trouble for posting this, but I just had to comment on how bad Jesse Custer got served.

Give it up dude.

[StreetFighterRyu]

I think that Legacy of Kain series, (yes, all of them) God of War, and Shinobi for the ps2 have good combat systems. Oblivion has a decent combat system.

[pezwarrior18]

I've played both, they are nothing alike.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within had an awesome combat system. Unique, and very deep for the type of game it is. POP: SOT didn't have as deep a system, and the third one punished you for fighting.

thanks, i was thinking of getting one of those. now I know which one to get first.

[StreetFighterRyu]

Oh yeah. Defanitely Prince of Persia. I forgot about it. But yeah, it has a pretty awsome combat system.

[Jack]

I vote for the Ratchet and Clank games, for having the brilliant combat system of "lots of really big guns that do lots of different things, go have fun". :p

[I Must Break U]

There was this game for the ps2 called evil zone i thought the combat system in that was incredibly original. It was really fun too, the first 3 times you played to game.