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During my one and a half month stint on this board I have read some posts (here, NGPC Forum, and Neo-Geo Hyper 64 Forum) concerning 2D fighters and 3D fighters. The overall attitude seems to be that 2D fighters are better. Do you really believe that? 2D fighters are great. Plus, there are more of them than 2D fighters. So if you go with the 2D platform you have a larger selection of games to choose from. That is all well and good, but after a while don't you just kind of tire of the playing pretty much the same thing? All 2D fighters are different in ways, but they all are same too. There are different moves, different combo systems, different characters, different backgrounds, different animations, etc... you could go on and on with the differences between 2D fighters. However, each one created steals just a little bit of the magic from a game previous to it. In a way it is sort of like automobiles. For example, (i do not own a Ford, & am not endorsing any of their products, I am just making a point) the Ford F-150 is built on a certain platform that was exclusive to only the F-series truck line, like the 250 and 350. However, when Ford decided to make a vehicle similar to the Chevy Tahoe, they used the F-series truck platform for the Ford Expedition SUV. Of course, the Expedition has a new look, new features, different seating capabilities, and so on and so on... but they are both built from the same platform. See how that is similar to 2D fighting games? If you don't, then I can't help you. That was the simplest explanation I could think of to make my point. So anyway, I love 2D fighters. I got SNK vs Capcom like many of you did for my Dreamcast. I got Street Fighter 3: Double Impact for my Sega. I know for sure I am getting KOF 2000 for Christmas. I also asked for Street Fighter 3: Third Strike for my Sega. So, if it isn't obvious, I like 2D fighters. But, I think 3D fighters are better than 2D fighters. That doesn't mean I won't play my 2D fighters I already own, and it doesn't mean I won't play KOF 2000 to death when I get it. It just means that in the future, when I am at the arcade and a new 2D fighter is there as well as a new 3D fighter, I will try the 3D fighter first. And when I go to Toys R US or some toy and electronic store to buy a new game, I will probably choose a 3D fighter over a 2D fighter, unless the 2D fighter happens to be spectacular. 3D fighers just seem more challenging, and they have the space for more than two fighters simultaneously battling it out. The screen doesn't get crowded when it is 3D and four people are playing all at once on the screen. In fact it is awesome! There is no slowdown either. Just a crazy, fast-paced everyone for themselves fight going on. If you haven't experienced this before, go to the arcades with three buddies and play a 3D four-player fighting game. Or if you have a Nintendo 64 rent Super Smash Brothers and invite over 3 friends. Or if you have Dreamcast rent Power Stone 1 or Power Stone 2 and invite your buds over for some pizza and a kick in the face. I guarantee you will have a good time. I don't personally have an N64 but my friend Clay does and I got to play this game last year sometime when I spent the night over at his house with two other guys named Chris and Garrett. Damn, this game was awesome with four people. One player the game kind of sucked. Even two player was kind of lame. But when you got three or four players at once, it gets to be a lot of fun. On the DC side, I prefer Power Stone 2. Yes, it is made by Capcom and I know many of you loathe that company, but Power Stone 2 is lots of fun with four players and the environment is totally interactive. You can grab boxes and hit your opponent in the head with it. If you pick a big dude to fight as you can lift the large poles out of the ground and swing them at the enemy. You can jump in the water and swim to the next submarine and jump in the cannon shooters seat and start blasting your opponents away or try to sink the submarine they are on. I know, it doesn't sound like your average fighting game. That is what makes it so cool. It isn't an average run-of-the-mill fighter. Its better. Now, for a one-player fighting game, 3D fighters aren't any better than 2D ones, in my opinion. But if you have friends (and who doesn't??) and you have extra controllers, or they have their own controllers, then a 3D fighting game is the way to go my friends. I have seen the kind of crazy, side-splitting action these 3D fighters possess. Its great. Give them a try and see for yourself. And if you come back after trying it and you say that it sucked, then that can mean only one thing, you must have gotten beat a lot by your friends. Cause everyone knows losing isn't fun... even in 4-player games!