Street fighter felt like it was going too far toward the cartoony with the Alpha series and the MvC series... the SF2 and SF3 seres were pretty good though...
Capcom vs SNK is a great 2D fighter though, as is Guilty Gear
I'm a big fan of the SNK fighters... KoF... Fatal Fury... Last Blade...
The SNK games seem much more grounded in the bad-ass fluid anime style... I just like how they look and play better than most of the Capcom fighters
Again the Capcom vs SNK and the Guilty Gear series IMO are two of the best 2D fighters around today
