/v/ - Video Games

>>16103195

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs will forever be the best. Best gameplay, best items, best difficulty curve.

>>16103195

Dragon's Crown demonstrated you can still make a profit from the genre, but it's a niche genre and Vanillaware will never make another game.

I've yet to play Bud Spencer & Terence Hill game.

Not sure if worst but the one I hated the most was that one where the players turned into flamboyant werewolves/werelions/minotaurs.

>>16103219

Punisher was bestest.

SAY YOUR PRAYERS

>>16104018

Nig was my main because speed is always the best attribute.

>>16104227

>I've yet to play Bud Spencer & Terence Hill game.

My nigga

the ninja kids is fun

and captain commando

>>16103195

Dynamite dux was fun, I liked the artstyle.

>>16103219

>>16104227

These too

>>16103306

Sounds cool, is it still available to get?

>play streets of rage 2

>the last boss has a fucking gun

what the fuck is this bullshit and on top of that, where's my double dash, why do i have to play as a NIGGER to run

also the worst side scrolling eat em up is double dragons 4

>>16104227

The whore is faster and she can cancel many moves into her special and/or dash attack.

>>16110807

DD 4 was released unfinished. The japanese version is more tolerable for having extra soundtrack with good songs, and not having the bullshit of shared continues for 2 players.

Only ones I’ve ever played are the kunio gba remake and Turtles through time, both were good

Has anyone played the Rushing Beat trilogy on SNES? Preferably, the japanese versions.

>>16110915

Battle Circuit is an underrated game. Crapcom, when they were good, put that arcade engine to the best use with this game.

I never got the appeal of beat 'em ups, they always seemed like "mash buttons and feed credits to win" to me. What beat 'em up is the most fun and has the most interesting gameplay?

>What have you been playing?.

I'm always playing Kunio games

>What was your first?

Probably Final Fight or Alien Storm

>What is your favourite?

I don't think they can beat River City Ransom

>What's the worst you ever played

Double Dragon Neon

>>16110935

Because Crapcom. No other explanation.

Play as her, and you will see. She is the most broken character in the game. You can easily 1cc with her.

>>16110807

Only now i figured out that you are talking about that Arksys DD 4 game. My bad.

The fact that they used the NES graphics just for the nostalgia bait made me avoid it.

>>16110939

It depends on what you find fun in the genre. The fast paced ones are my favorites:

-Cadillacs and Dinossaurs

-Battle Circuit

-Armored Warriors

-Aliens vs Predator

-Streets of Rage 3

-Alien Storm (technically a beat´em up)

There are unique ones such as Final Fight 3 and rushing Beat 3, with their branching paths and different levels and endings depending on paths chosen (in the case of RB 3).

There is also the D&D Shadow Over Mystara, that is basically an arcade RPG mixed with beat 'em up mechanics, with it's many secrets, weapons, magic, etc. As well as there is dungeon Magic, which is basically a Diablo lite for arcade, with a beat 'em up mechanic instead of point and click.

>>16103195

>first

Some arcade game I don't really remember.

>favorite

I guess Little Fighter 2.

>>16110938

Rushing beat is alright. I enjoyed the second one the best with Lord J, the third one was a bit different but still good.

>>16110964

I was into the series from the start, because i liked how the first game had unique moments, like a level inside a bus, a boss that you could take his sword from him and use it against him (still a new thing at the time), and the ikari mechaninc. And of course, the soundtrack that stood out to me as much as the Streets of Rage one.

Then, with RB 2, i really liked the whole lot of secret moves and faster gameplay.

RB 3 is my favorite though. The gameplay is perfected, and the replay value lasts a lot with all the different paths, endings and playable characters, including the secret ones, with their own endings. It stood out to me at the time how much content the game had.

So why arent there more beat em ups out there, especially now that its easier than ever to make a game and the whole retro craze. can indies only make 2D 2deep4u platformers?

>>16103195

SEGA make a DDUX 2.

>>16112035

>that gif

Holy shit that is great.

>>16112154

You mean like putting out a remake of a relatively lesser known 25-year old side-scrolling beat 'em up for the SNES?

Has there been a "manga style" beat 'em up in the vein of Comix Zone?

>>16112452

I used to beat the Capcom D&D games (both ToD and SoM) with a friend on one credit each. It wasn't that hard, specially when abusing broken mechanics (like invulerability while a spell is being cast).

>>16112530

>Beating Tower of Doom & Shadows over Mystara with one credit

Sounds impossible, I'll have to check a longplay on that.

I've heard you get a special score in Tower of Doom if you do that.

>>16113219

Looks like a Shinobi clone (Genesis was better than the arcade).

>>16110915

>Anyway, I put some time into Fight'n Rage and it's pretty good.

Can attest to that too, I've sunk over a hundred hour and I'm not done quite yet although I've already dealt with the hardest parts, although as other have said it's more like someone took mechanics, designs adn stage concepts wholesale from some of the classics and made a game out of that, it lacks something to make it it's own game, granted it plays wells and it's fun just if seeing stuff lifted wholesale from other games pisses you off don't touch it if you've played any SoR or Final Fight

Although now that I think about it it does require some fairly complex inputs and timings if you want to pull effective combos to deal with stuff in the game which is not really something you'd see in classic beat em ups at-least not as much nor as developed, the black belt training requirements really shows what the game expects you to master and if you think that's the hardest thing in the game you're dead fucking wrong.

Really the only fault is that the game expects you to do 8 endings for each chars and specific groupings of chars (bots are fun to play with though so that's nice if you can't find local coop partners since no online unless you use parsec/moonlight) and again for all 3 at once which gets a bit repetitive considering most endings are short and barely any different, survival / score attack / time attack are far more interesting as a whole especially when you get to play the completely busted bosses.

>some enemies are absolutely infuriating to fight

Seems to me like some enemies are meant to hard counter specific playable characters, but yeah fuck kickboxers in particular on harder difficulties those fuckers are insane

><don't really care for the graphical filters on it

You can disable all of them if you want

>>16114890

Death Machines (or is it Killer Machines?) is an underrated classic.

>>16110915

>Maybe Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds? It wasn't full-on bad but it just never clicked with me. I might give it another go eventually, but I would have to get it again since the PC version is never going to get the extras they added for the console release.

You probably didn't like it because you have to grind a lot to unlock all the moves for each girl some of them being pretty basic, like the double jump, and "phantom breaker", your super move, is locked as well, such a stupid decision, and if you focus entirely on unlocking those you'll hit a roadblock early on since the base stats won't do shit to stage 4+ enemies, the "tutorial" doesn't explain ANYTHING and the girl's base movesets are really bland except for the ninja's, give it another try with Nagi, you unlock her after beating the game, she's the not-renge look alike that wields a katana.

>I don't even remember what those extras were, though. I'm retarded.

An alternate soundtrack and 2 DLC characters, Frau and Kurisu from a shitty visual novel, they have awful movesets so you're not missing much, pretty sure you did get those extras in a update though, and if you're curious the switch/ps4 "Overdrive" rerelease offers nothing new compared to the ps3/360/vita releases, unless you count running at 1080p and with a slightly higher framerate an extra, it has all the DLC bundled in the base game though, but these days you can get the full game and DLC on a 7th gen console for less than $5, too bad it's dead on xbox, i'm missing a lot of trophies on that version.

>Also Fight'n Rage which I'm going to mention again when I get to the "shill a new one" part.

Now that it's on GOG and thus easy to pirate i'll give it a try, i hope it's good.

What's /v/'s thoughts on The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa? I've heard it's Kunio-kun like but with a bigger emphasis on the side-stuff, kinda like a school version of Yakuza/a different side of the coin of River City Rival Showdown.

>>16103195

>>What have you been playing?.

sailor moon

>>What was your first?

streets of rage

>>What is your favourite?

odin sphere

>>What's the worst you ever played

i dont know, maybe castle crashers?

>>16114890

This isn't Godfrey Ho, is it? It looks too clean to be Godfrey Ho

>>16113219

>>16112325

Fuck, I want to play that game so hard.

I beat the SNES game once every year (the Japanese version is better, as the US version censors the sexy redhead ninjas)

>>16116747

Never heard of it. got more info?

>>16116948

Their Wild Guns 2/remake added thumblr characters. You better not buy their Ninja warriors one. Wait and pirate.

>>16118502

>"characters"

It was just the Dyke Cowboy, who I still think has a fun design. I don't think it's necessarily SJW, as I've not seen Natsume/Taito doing stupid shit before (if they have, please tell me). It seems to me that her design was just something scrapped from the original game, and a wacky japanese thing in general. The Dog/Drone combo was fucking hilarious as well.

But yeah, wait and pirate as always. Blind confidence is always a stupid thing.

>>16116209

I really don't remember why I dropped it. I liked the hammer girl okay though. Could've sworn there was stuff exclusive to the consoles, though. I remember the PC version getting review bombed over it.

>>16114869

I don't remember much about the filters or anything like that. The dobermen gave me the most trouble out of the enemies, I think. Been a while since I played because my controller went out and I can't be assed getting a new one.

>>16123545

>The dobermen gave me the most trouble out of the enemies

Those guys aren't too bad, just have to switch lanes until they give you an opening or git gud at parrying since they have some fairly predictable AI and the timing on their attack is fairly easy to read.

The hardest part is if you don't know you can aggro the last 3 before the final boss room individually by using the knives dropping from the others enemies that spawns.

The only reason to play these game is if they're lewd, because the gameplay is mindless shit.

>>16124496

Those guys with the big claws were kind of a pain too until I got the hang of lane switching. The dobermen are the ones I remember most, though.

Dynasty Warriors games are better and are actually beatable without a thousand shekels

>>16118557

Taito is fucking dead, they got ate up by Squeenix which is possed as fuck

Anyone got one of those recommended lists for beat em ups?

>>16110805

Only with google search since it got R&D'd.

>>16125020

>R&D

I meant to Cease and desist…C&D'd

>>16110805

yes

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ADagQR0pO6Gyjvc&cid=F74AE70F5C8E45C9&id=F74AE70F5C8E45C9%214592&parId=F74AE70F5C8E45C9%214591&action=locate

>>16103195

Does anyone like the NES Maker? Or nah?

>What have you been playing?

Just got Sengoku to run on my homemade MAME cabinet.

>What was your first?

Double Dragon 3 for NES and X-Men Arcade for Irl

>What is your favourite?

Die Hard Arcade

>What's the worst you ever played

Bad Dudes was unironically bad.

>>16124999

Punisher Arcade

Caddilacs and Dinosaurs arcade

I haven't played very many, outside of the early classics like River City Ransom and Turtles in Time, but I can say without a doubt the worst one I've ever picked up was Mother Russia Bleeds. It just felt so stiff and clunky, I put it down and never touched it again after about 3 levels.

>>16124985

>"Taito is fucking dead, they got ate up by Squeenix which is possed as fuck"

When I think that seeing good game companies from the past die or get pozzed/jewed couldn't hurt anymore, I realize I'm wrong

>>16126002

>started with Double Dragon 3

My condolences, anon. Good to see that you didn't give up after a beginning full of hardships and disappointment.

>>16124985

Isnt Taito just working on hardware these days?

Odin Sphere

ps2 or ps4? Read the name in the thread and I got the chills

Played it on ps2 originally, ps4 remake is worth or nah?

>>16136753

The PS3/4/VITA remake is worth it.

But avoid the VITA version, it runs about as bad as the PS2 US one.

If you really wanna play the PS2 version play the PAL one, it has PAL60 and much less slowdown overall but the remaster in classic mode is preferable if you can.

>>16110915

I hope the game has made enough of a profit to start thinking of a sequel. It's funny how Ricardo becomes a beast in multiplayer, you almost feel bad for lariating enemies and racking up points from exploded enemies. Though Gal is my favorite, if only for her big chibi titties, though they're all fun to play with. I hope a potential sequel adds 2-3 more characters, and I'm guessing it will add a furry chick (don't care/like furries, but I'll admit the furry Gal boss made my boner confused with her pained squeals and moans when she gets hit). The part I truly loathe but is a great rest is the rainy jungle part, do many enemies with a chicken waiting for you at the end. And then it keeps adding more enemies.

>>16137145

It's way too shallow. Still had fun with it, though.

>>16136765

That's not true, i've beaten the game on my Vita two times already and there's no significant slowdown, not even in the infamous gwendolyn vs odette fight that ran so slowly in the original (single digit framerates) it could crash your console, still i'd recommend the PS4 version over the Vita or PS3 as it looks much nicer and runs at a locked 60fps.

The PAL release doesn't fix the slowdown by the way, it only fixes the crash on said fight, iirc it also adds japanese voices and spanish/german/french subtitles.

>>16137145

It's about as fun as PS2 Odin Sphere, which means not much, i don't like the muscle girl protagonist either, same reason i haven't bothered with Dragon's Crown, i prefer girls built like momohime.

>>16142385

>i've beaten the game on my Vita two times already and there's no significant slowdown

Dips under 15 in the sewers an under 20 in a few other places @ stock so I'm calling bullshit on that, even lolicon isn't enough to keep over 30fps at all times

On top of that the framerate range is wider so the dips are far more noticeable.

>The PAL release doesn't fix the slowdown by the way

Wrong, it doesn't remove them but it does reduce it.