beat-em-up bros ? are we back ? inb4 shill
>>722832507not with those character designs lmao
>>722832850>frog is uhhh wokethis is your mind on /pol/
watched streamer Elajjaz start the game and the first character you unlock/rescue was a pregnant black woman. I dont think its for me
>>722832507>non-sexualizednah I'm good
>>722832982this shit definitely has tumblr tier designs and ofc a black girl boss is your actual boss its gay without a doubt it is adventure time tier mostly and we all know what direction that show took in the end
>>722832507Bastion has had a disastrous effect on the gaming industry.
How many people bought streets of rage 4? or the castle crashers dlc? itll probably be good but to no fanfare
>>722832982obvious woke shit aside the designs are awful, like out of some cartoon network shit for kids. Compare them to picrel
>>722833116It's a fucking beat em up you clown niggerthere is no dialogue telling you the frog is non binary
>>722833193streets of rage 4 actually sold very well sega is doing another game themselves but im not sure we ever got concrete numbers
>>722833354nta but I won't risk my money to find out
>>722833158retard thinkingbastian looked the way it did bcs the people that made it were fags back then already they were justmore sh about it since they didnt have their success yet same with Hades. once it got them the cash flow they felt bold enough to make it way gayer in Hades 2 but to me a bunch of the designs in Hades 1 were already a deal breaker. i just got proven right. (once again)
>>722833343this shit makes me made like old FF box art. There used to be artistry in every aspect of these games but now everything is smoothed over and boring
>hire a black VA>"So what voices can you do?">"Generic hood rat and generic fake African accent."
>>722833436kinda insane how much semitic slop we would have to choke on without the japanese we really need to send them a statue of liberty style gift at the end of the century
>>722832507Sorry I'm non-buynary.
>>722833529I wonder why. Could it be because if there's no physical media then there's no need to make enticing art? Or maybe we just became dumber and unable to appreciate art? it's sad either way>>722833615let's hope they survive the brain rot. Capcom latest games have been pozzed and unbased
>>722832507what a bland looking motherfucker characters those are. 6 years old character design tier
>>722832507Female warrior is so "desexualized" that it just looks like a twink lol.
should I buy this if I want to be a better man?
The only black character is Wakanda? Big yikes and oof, my guy. Read the room.
>>722832507>$25>RogueliteAll that’s missing is Early Access
>>722832982those are bad character designs and your mind is so broken you immediately defended them from something anon didn't even say. get a hold of your life, anon, you aren't doing well.
>>722833743unfortunately you are right but it hasnt been looking to repulsive lately
>>722832850ngl, I'm not sold on anybody here. Dorf is alright I guess.
>>722834250They're decent. nothing like dragon's crown or golden axe but decent. definitely more tuned toward adult swim 200x gen.you seem to be the mindbroken one, dubbing everything that isn't tits out as propaganda. watch less synthetic grifter, my friend.
>>722833743>Could it be because if there's no physical media then there's no need to make enticing art?No. A game's steam page has to be as enticing as any box on a store shelf.>Or maybe we just became dumber and unable to appreciate art?I'll venture a guess that it's the following:1. Design by Corporate committee has destroyed adventurous, unique art (it's also killed atypical game genres with a unique vision, but that's a separate matter).2, Meritocracy is but a memory, and good art is shoved aside for people with the right opinions. And these people have golden parachutes into every new company when they inevitably collapse from no sales.Bonus:3. Art schools are a sham, and they just pass anybody a degree because they're in the business of collecting tuition, not upholding any level of quality of graduates.
You guys dont get it, its designed to appeal to the modern audience.
>>722835082Why does the fantasy setting have to fit our current context? do they not realize this will date the product?
>>722835082>characters had to have a classic vibe>but not really lolkek
>>722835156the trajectory of the future they are working towards will have groids occupying the very center of he public commons once they succeed they just retroactively change the past. goy golem future
>>722835156Don't you think all the 90s beat-em-ups aren't equally dated?
>>722832507Somehow they managed to make a wizard frog and a dwarf look uninteresting and inoffensive.I fucking hate this artstyle
>>722835657imo there's less of what was contemporary leaking into tower of doom or shadow over mysteria other then the characters kind of looking like theyre from the alpha series, but thats because its the same character artist, not a design goal of making the game "modern"
>>722835657honestly? not reallythese designs are timeless
>>722835701The art style is amazing, reminds me of the Hellboy comics. I think what you're complaining about is actually the character design, which for the main characters in the pic at least I agree.>>722835839>tower of doom or shadow over mysteriaThose 2 sure. But I was thinking more about SoR, Final Fight, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Turtles in Time, etc. All look like they came exactly from the era they came from.
>>722835839>Same character artistBengus didn't work on the D&D games. Those designs were Nishimura's.
>the dude with a sword is actually a womanWhy are these devs so hell bent on making everything lame and gay
>>722835994none of what you listed is fantasy. tolkien didnt concern himself with the happenings and taste of the mid 20th century UK wheb writing LOTR, which is why it remains timeless. If you creat a fantasy world but drench it in the tastes and culture of "current year" its not its own world seperate from ours but a time capsule of current tastes.
>>722835657no?they have timeless designs and still look great
>>722834782quite sad but I have to say, I agree with those 3 points you talk about
>>722836418elf is basically Deedlit, not that I'm complainingalso wasn't the thief's design based on some book cover? or maybe it was the other way around
>>722836648all of them are the same artists at capcom that did a mix of animu with western art in the 90s
>>722836319>its not its own world seperate from ours but a time capsule of current tastes.Same as Captain Commando which is 80s as fuck. I don't know why you're comparing things with LotR which is a book. Most games are a time capsule of current tastes.>>722836418That does look great but it also looks 90s as fuck. You know it does because no one does anything like that anymore, unfortunately.
>>722833436THAT'S a woman? Pass.
>>722836773Sakura looking like she let out a fart and the dude behind her sure has taken notice
Modern devs be like>yeah let us make an interesting concept and then divebomb straight into the culture war bullshit for no reason at all
>>722836648You're correct, thief was taken from a D&D novel cover
>>722836961The interesting concept is shitty treadmill meta progression with decent bmup gameplay? not very interesting
>>722836807Your ability to read is frighteningly terrible
>>722833436>contemporary playersIs the term "modern audience" passé?>frog>modern cultureI don't get it. Is he a representation of a Frenchman?
>>722832507Looks wokeEverything about gameplay looks shallow and sterileI'd rather play Golden Axe or Chronicles of Mystara again
>>722832507Sorry, it's designed for the modern audience aka not me, so I shan't be playing it.
>Super serious about sending the game to journos and streamers>Beat-em-upIsn't that an oxymoron? You're using this money to be a success but you pick a genre that cannot be a success.
>>722836418Always loved those D&D games.
>>722837281>Is the term "modern audience" passé?yesleftists always invent these terms, and when other people start noticing them, they change to something new while pretending the old term was invented by chuddiesfor example SJW, woke, DEI
It’s great and the elf is cute
>>722833756>6 years old character design tierYou give to little credit to childrenThey would draw edgy goredron menacing with spikes and lazer eyes which would have infinitely more soul than these tumblr rejectsWell maybe not 6 years old exactly but when my nephew was like 9 he drew exclusively shit like this when designing new cards for hearthstone and heroes for overwatch, everyone had metal arms, laser eyes, swords of doom and could summon death itself
>>722837542>It’s great and the elf is cuteDragon's Crown? yeah
gayming journos and ecelebs are shilling this just because its dotemuthis shit looks like all style no substance
>>722837457>you pick a genre that cannot be a success.It could be if they had attractive designs. DC sold a million copies at launch. It sold 300k in japan in the first week, which is more than GoT and almost three times as much as GoY.And that was a full priced game, not 25 bux.
>>722837668>all style
>>722837563We need your nephew making games. Could work kinda like those Axe Cop comics
>>722837668>no substanceCompared to other beat em ups? I can't see how
>>722832507Putting inb4 in the OP is cheating anon.
>>722832982Those were your words mongrel
>>722837789go play Dragon's Crown where every character controls on it's own different way and has many cool combos and then come back, or even better, don't
>>722837710dont lie to yourselfits stylized and looks flashybut its shit
We've been back since Shredder's Revenge. This one looks like ass tho
>>722837929>go play Dragon's CrownI play games on PC and Vanillaware is very explicit about not wanting PC players to play their games because they hate us or something, and I'm gonna respect their wishes considering there are many other developers out there that want me to play their games instead.
Demo was really fun.Will be looking to play full version in a month or two. Haven't finished Silksong yet
>>722833436>the dwarf is more subtle than a usual dwarfWhat did she mean by that?
>>722832507I'll wait for a sale. I already went with Hades 2 and I want Mina the Hollower a bit more.
>>722837818im trying to talk about a game for a change here ill do anything
>>722838157probably that it's a dwarf without toxic male traits like cursing or drinking mead
>>722833436Don't care. The real thing to be worried about in that interview is that they gave everyone in the game a run because the art team are shitters who don't like beat 'em ups
>>722837668We played the demo, retard. It's pretty technical compared to dumb button master like their TMNT
>>722833436I genuinely can't tell the elf is supposed to be a woman and the masked guy with a prosthetic leg is supposed to be a ninja rogue.
>All this bitching about the charactersWhat the fuck is up with you today? I don't see any issues there.>It boils down to "NOOOO ITS BAD BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ANIME GIRLS WITH BIG BOOBIES"Ah, makes sense. Guess modern /v/ would also despise Battletoads. They'd bitch about the game being difficult as well, because modern /v/ermin hate anything with depth or challenge.
>>722838314>elf"woman">masked guythey/them robot
>>722838314The elf is an androgynous woman. The masked "guy" I think is a woman too but I only played them once in the demo so I'm not sure. Frog and dwarf are men.
>>722837789If the only beat em up you played was Shredder's Revenge I can see how you'd think that
>>722838395I'm not spending my money on ugly shit, simple as
>>722837710Scott Pilgrim BROKE modern gamedev
>>722838464You gonna explain why it's "ugly shit" or noAny response without value will translate to "they're not moeblobs".
>>722832507>a promising beat em up from SoR4 devs comes out>muh pregnant negress>muh pronouns>muh artstyle>muh dragon crown cowtitsSorry OP, this board is too far gone. Anyone who cares about the actual game is playing it right now. I got it too, waiting for my bro to come back from vacation to coop
>OMG SAARS THIS LOOKS SO UGLY AND WOKE AND TRANNIES WHY DOES THIS NOT HAVE ANY TITTIES OMG IS THIS FOR KIDS?!Nuke modern /v/.
>>722838532Not him but the pregnant mother is ugly and the main characters are bland. That's it, the rest of the game I think looks great, but main characters not being appealing is a big issue.
>>722838395>Guess modern /v/ would also despise BattletoadsIndeed, modern /v/ despises modern Battletoads, partly because they've made the Dark Queen a flat tranny with man hands.
>>722838532I don't like the bright blue beard. The screenshots have normal looking places so him and the elf just look off.
>>722834764Hey man if you want to bait post you have to make it more subtle
>>722838670>blandBecause? They're not moeblobs?
Does whiffing 3 jabs still make you do that dogshit homing attack?
>>722838735the people that have done this must be some form of demonic anus bacteria dressed in human skin there is no way for me to explain this in any other way
>>722832982It really is. I un-wishlisted, same as for Eternal Strands doing the same thing. I'm tired.How can you be at this level of knowing what something cool is, and then intentionally toning down characters and twisting them to be unappealing? Too much dev time lost to not achieving your full potential, I'm tired. Gaming was never like this 15 years ago, even 10 years ago, where I have to scry each game before buying to avoid these character design decisions.
>>722838195No you you’re not. If you wanted to talk you would have actually said something about the game, instead of just “bros we back????”
>>722838532characters have no appeal whatsoever. They are ugly. And no I don't need moeshit to think something's appealing. Just go and look at this to have an idea of what an appealing character means >>722833343
>>722838532As if there's only 2 art styles. Why about Castlevania, Metal Slug or Katana Zero?GTFO with your strawman.
>>722838612I'm sorry, but you're part of the issue of gaming coming to this state for accepting things like this just because it's wrapped in a attractive package.
>>722838960i said that the character designs is gay and repulsive but i still want to support beat em ups im watching reviews right now and to say anything substantive about the gameplay i actually have to play it myself
>>722838894>Eternal StrandsNever heard of it, looks cool.
>>722838894You should just focus on if the game is good or not. The new digimon game has body types but nothing else that I would call woke. Game is good
>woketard schizoing about anime girls againI will not buy your game, you should shill it on resetera and reddit instead
>>722833343>>722833529Admittedly some of that was absolutely a >old music and movies were great, because we can pick from the best of the best examples of the time situation. I mean, old FF like pictured there is literally Yoshitaka Amano made. There were plenty of knock off JRPGs that didn't have nearly that degree of artistry. >>722835984>>722836418I think they look great, but they're obviously not "timeless". They're very much of the anime designs at the time. Its kinda like how JP devs looked at Wizardry and Ultima and then kinda took things their own way. I mean, kinda like... you want a recent game example? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYTB1EvvoOwGame appears worthwhile by the way (the biggest criticisms on the aesthetic is that its TOO accurate to the anime series, having clips between levels etc. Tech wise, supposedly some of the bugs have been worked out in patches since launch; this reminds me to pick it up on next sale) , but its obvious that the anime style of Space Adventure Cobra is informed by the 70s/80s. Look at the hairstyle, one of the bad guys is named Crystal Bowie in a completely unobscured reference etc. Now this didn't mean that the guy making this necessarily decide he wanted to appeal to modern audiences and styles, but it was just sort of of the time what the artist thought looked cool. It also ensures that tits are on full display and the protag even has an exploding cigar he smokes and throws at enemies which clearly isn't a thing for 'modern audiences' at all, but like many creatives are inspired by their time like >all the edgy, gothy heroes of the 90s/early 2000s without specifically thinking >If the guy with a spiked wristband and Hot Topic strappy baggy pants doesn't buy it, our game will fail! Quick like melt the skin off the protag and just give him a skull head to the XTREME which, the latter always looks like a Poochie the Rockin Dog style of pandering bullshit.
>>722839164>row row fight da powerKeep going lil bro, not like your screeching on an anonymous forum or le voting with your wallet ever mattered. Or else gaming wouldn't "come to this state", right?
>>722839425No, I understand you, but I need to have standards. Otherwise this will just go on. Maybe the pool is forever polluted. Maybe I am fighting against an avalanche. Anyway, you enjoy, I'll just look to Marvel Cosmic Invasion and hope for the best. Somehow the Digimon game doesn't interest me besides the body types. I was expecting more stylish action (though I know it's turn-based).
>>722839326I know, that's what ticked me off the more. Same character bland non-binary style.
the game already plateaued with less than half the players of sor4
>>722839794With the recent Ubisoft cancelling news, who knows...
>>722839798>I'll just look to Marvel Cosmic Invasion and hope for the best.You mean the game where you play as the space lesbian Quasar from the Annihilation comics run? Being anti-woke and buying anything Marvel is weird.
>>722832507I fucking hate this new push by wokies to make Dwarves lame hippies or whatever the fuck
>>722839906anon I hate woke shit as much as the next anon but I think you should wait at least until the weekend
>>722838141>VanillawareThey don't hate us, they're just afraid that they don't know how to port right and that means either>They give up the chance to make an entirely new game by instead putting their whole tiny studio on porting it in house and they don't really know much about that or >someone else ports it and they're afraid that the someone else, no matter how fucking capable like goddamn SEGA, will fuck it up and ruin things somehow. Its a completely head up ass fear that's holding them back especially as they keep playing>Small studio, we can't afford to take the time off development to port something, we need everything to sell bigtime cards, when releasing both current and upcoming games on PC would mean a HUGE continual cash infusion for the studio.
>>722839906>chart tranny finally shows upkek took you long enough
>>722839798I wonder what makes giant corporations like Bandai Namco add body-types instead of normal genders. Is someone forcing them or is it just the inclusivity stuff they always talk about that has now spread to Japan as well
>>722839906Too early to call (unfortunately)
>>722833436>"We subverted classic tropes with classic tropes!"...hooray?
>>722839798>I'll just look to Marvel Cosmic Invasion and hope for the bestlolIt's the same publisher and has Black Panther for no fucking reason.>>722840015>They don't hate us, they're just afraid that they don't know how to port right and that means eitherNo, they do. Kamitani specifically said he would never release his games on PC because he doesn't want people digging into the files and figuring out how their games are made.
Play Lost Castle 2
>>722840031Because it's better for customization. If I want my female character to have a manly body or if I want my male character to have a girly body I can. Because they're body types and not genders or sexes.
>>722840198>chibishit>early accessno
>>722840198ching chong nip nong
>>722840198Looks cute but>early access
>>722839995Ehh, can't win 'em all or one would need to leave gaming nowadays entirely. Plus not much issue with sexual orientation, just the removal of genders/non-binary stuff.
>>722832982no way, anon.i'm not even a great artist but my blue person is way better
>>722839951You can thank orange nigger for that
>>722840250it's good in rpgs
>>722840471uh, the original file wasn't upside down, the fuck?
>>722840146That quote was long before the >we don't know how to port and have to spend time doing it ourselvesdiscourse becoming central as I recall, especially once people already 'found out' how the console games were made, modded etc. Almost all of his older titles have been modded and I'm pretty sure even Unicorn Overlord has been now. This would be an even more foolish reason not to release things on PC as he can just put Denuvo on the goddamn thing and feel better about it if necessary given how SEGA seems to have some sort of old era contract with that company in that they remove Denuvo from some titles and leave it on other ones that (were it the normal monthly fee) would never, ever be able to justify the expense.
>>722840273>>722840306Eh, they did already make one successful game. Wait through the EA if you want but pick up the original lost Castle for cheap on sale .
>>722840198>Temu Castle CrashersNo thanks
Well, if you want to wait for another beat em up.. 10 more days or so until >Double Dragon Revive
>>722841390>men are giga chads showing off pecs>woman is an average woman off the streets dressed like a toddleryeah not buying
>>722841390That's literally Tekken 5 Asuka
>>722838735Two bee fare, the Dark Queen is probably the biggest "modern" downgrade I've seen from any design. Yes, I know there's plenty of other bad examples but dark queen really got shafted here.
>>722833436fucking subhuman game for modern subhuman audiences, PASS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShiPI-gPeAthey got mick gordon to do a track but it sounds kinda ass
>>722841390>chuds dead silent because gameplay looks like dogshitkek
>>722841976God you sound so brazilian it’s not even funny
>>722836319>Hellboy>not fantasyI see you're choosing to be retarded today.
>>722842102Gameplay looks ok, but this new Double Dragon looks visually like a game from 2 generations ago. I'm gonna check it out anyway but not expecting much.
>>722842143Im european and my grandfather was in the SS, you fucking SUBHUMAN, cope and seethe, brown faggot
>>722832507>WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE
>>722838612>Dragon crown cowtitsWHERE?
>>722832507Why are the colors so dark and dull?
this isn't a beat em up, it's a soulslike wearing the skin of a beat em up. beat em ups are fundamentally about positioning and footsies, this game has an iframe deflect and of course bosses have screen wide attacks to accommodate that. if you try to play without abusing iframe slop mechanics you'll eat shit. also, all the roguelite mechanics are purely statistical in nature and don't add any new dynamics to combat or ways to set up enemies for interesting stuff. it's just "this move you already had has fire damage added to it" wow, amazing.
>>722841390this shit looks as bad as neon, what the fuck were they thinking? revive my ass
>>722832507>BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY WE NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW
>>722842304It’s okay to be brown, Juan, no shame hereHope you get out of your favela one day and eat a lobster or something
>>722840306>>722840273I guarantee you that even as "early-access" it has more content than whatever this game OP posted has
>>722842808>muh contentI don't play unfinished games, simple as
>>722842532Xbox Live Arcade lookin ahh
Anyone playing it? Had a lot of fun with the demo and Im a 35 year old man who doesnt care about anything aside from gameplay
>>722832507looks gay and lame>inb4 shillpost gameplay otherwise you are a shill
>>722842465Fucking finally. It took forever for someone to talk about the actual gameplay
>>722842808Sure. Whenever it comes out I will look into it
>>722842304How's Argentina there, Hans Sanchez?
>>722836807>>722839752Morons. "Timeless" doesn't mean that it somehow doesn't have any elements of its time, it means that it can be fully appreciated outside of its original context, and remains appealing despite changes in taste or tech.
i never heard of this trash until today kys shill
>Hades style permanent stat upgrades to artificially extend runtime by starting you weakskipped
>>722842465>all the roguelite mechanics are purely statistical in nature and don't add any new dynamics to the combat or ways to set up enemies for interesting stuffI haven't played the game myself but from review footage it looks like there's more to it than that
>>722842465the normal items do that. Boss drops can actually change your moveset. Hopefully one day i will find someone that actually plays games on /v/
Holy shit. I've never been more convinced that /v/ doesn't play or like games. >>722842465>don't add any new dynamics to combat or ways to set up enemies for interesting stuff. it's just "this move you already had has fire damage added to it" wow, amazing.>>missed all the perks you can get in run that change how combat skills workYou guys are fags
>>722837710It is a style. It's just not a good one.
>>722842465You're a fucking retard. Dragon's Crown has iframes in it too with certain moves, are you saying it's not a beat'em up you fucking half wit shit dick retard cock gobbler?
>>722832507>4 characters, and they all have those duster jacket thingiesThis is supposed to be a brawler? It doesn't look like it shill-kun
These seems like a game I can pirate and it be like 800mb
>>722844270he clearly doesnt play any of the games mentioned in this thread. I always love when retards out themselves like that. In fact, i bet that if i were to say that the fighter in DC doesnt have a dodge and can only block 90% of the niggers here would take it and parrot whenever its convenient even though its a complete lie.
>>722838612
>>722844543what on gods earth did you even mean by this post? Are you a human being? Am i talking to chat gpt right now? The fuck
lolLMAO
>>722832507(((Who))) are beating up?
>>722832507devs really saw the battletoads reboot flop and thought "yeah lets do that exact thing again"
>>722841390>nuclear warwait what does a nuclear war have to do with Double Dragon?
>>722844685What if we are just two AI talking to each other? Should....should we kiss?
i fucking hate mick gordon so much. his djent turds are now infecting more games
>>722844784Chuds are beating up women right now and the frenchies endorse it in their game. Despicable.
>>722844910i guarantee you if i were an AI i still wouldnt be a flaming fag. Find someone else on this shithole to kiss.
>>722843995How retarded do you have to be to lock moves behind RNG in a roguelike?
>>722844716>yet another game with Debra Wilsonhow does she do it?
>>722841662Jesus fucking christ you'll whine about anything. Linda still looks like a dominatrix and Marian is conventionally attractive with tits and hips and ass. Linda is still a dominatrix wearing hotpants, bustier top, and a whip (I think she's a stage boss now from the looks of one of the updates. Lots of the named enemies were upgraded into bosses)>>722841730Can't be too upset about that.>>722842102You can be skeptical of the 3D graphics, but the gameplay looks as deep as a lot of arcsys titles tend to be. This was a video from early summer.https://youtu.be/FQLNW8CjmAEalso the last DD game, Double Dragon Gaiden was pretty solid overall both to play and the cartoonish aesthetic was different at the time, but it worked. >>722842532>>722843161So this is just graphics whoredom? They've used a lot of other artstyles over the years and people bitch no matter what (ie Neon too old 80s hurrr, Gaiden too cartoony hurrr) but the ones that actually play decently well is the only shit that matters at the end of the day. I don't give a crap if it looks like a PS2 game if it plays decently. Also its not "censored" or trying to "modern audiences" itself out of its 80s heritage so I'll wait to see how it plays. For all the butthurt about Absolem here being too new and tranny and censored and soi and everything else, you should be dropping to your knees for an "old looking" Double Dragon game if it turns out to play decently.
>>722844984I meant to type beat em up not rogue like FUCK
>>722842465You'll really hate this game>>722844878I know it sounds weird given the levels you go through and all the games afterwards but the first DD takes place in a post nuclear apocalypse, heavily inspired by Mad Max and Fist of the North Star.
>>722833436You can make a female warrior without turning them into a man. Wild Arms 4 did it years ago.
>>722832507An all male party? That is interesting usually modern games put a female into the party
>>722844969Btw, why would you get all upset over some shitty ass roguelike brawler? Do you think that's a genre to give a shit about? Are you over the age of 40 chasing that Final Fight high? Or maybe a big Streets of Rage 4 fan around 20 years old that's too scared to play fighting games? This genre has the depth of a puddle, at least go play the TMNT or Marvel superheroes ones instead of some neon indie looking tranny shit.
>>722832507didn't even know the two characters far left and second from the right are supposed to be female until i hear them talk.god, i miss the old days so much, bros
>>722844878Its the entire premise of double dragon?Nuclear war happened and gangs took over, Bimmy and Jimmy fight cause they kidnapped their friend Marian and basically free the town they live in the process.
>>722844878Its just part of a lore discussion on the update. The post apocalyptic world has been done in Double Dragon before to justify why Machine Gun Willy and a few others can basically run the entire city/country by a street gang, as well as the Fist of the North Star style clothing (Burnov wearing that sort of mask) and the like many of the enemies wear etc. Gaiden did something similar explaining how it wasn't just Willy and that Yakuza lady running areas, but the Egyptian inspired Anubis running a cult in a car junkyard etc. It isn't always a post apocalyptic setting in every game, but since the end of the 80s style >We're going to get Escape from New York / LA style future, or the USSR will nuke us, or The Warriors etc stuff its often used as a reference as to why there isn't some government to come in and deal with a street gang that two (possibly magic) martial artists and their friends can punch into submission. In short, don't think too much about it.
>>722844984So do you want the roguelite mechanics to actually change up combat or not
>>722833436>le first Dark Souls fireplace reference Why is every game like this
>>722845034>also the last DD game, Double Dragon Gaiden was pretty solidI understood that one was made by either one dude or at least a small team, and was just licensed. That is, it being good or not has nothing to do with this new DD.
>dark souls invented bonfiresthis thread is an asylum at this point
>>722845343>2 females>one of the males is a fat dude (cleric)>another is a short person (dwarf)woke
>>722845343ironically this is a lot more diverse with bodytypes and aesthetics without even trying to be diverse
>>722845270Damn anon you sound mad. I am glad you figured out that i am a 78 year old boomer that needs to have his "punchy" games, haha. I shall leave you to it now, try not to get yourself too worked up.
>>722845505>>722845530I havent played Double Dragon since the Snes days, i didnt know it had a lore beyond ''they kidnapped your GF go rescue her''
>>722845963at least you can tell them apart.can't say the same about absolum, except for the dwarf guy
>>722845963I know you jest (sure hope so) but it's common for priests to be fat, since they had way more to eat than most of the populace
>>722846149yes, the absolum frog is too similar to the robot
>>722832507meanwhile, in dragon's crown
Thos game is SO fun oh my I have fun with cobmo system and visualsSupport game
>>722832507Woke trash. Fuck off
>>722832507looks like style over substance
>>722846292now that's a videogame
Is it woke?
>>722833343Keep in mind these were arcade cabinets competing against other beat'm ups in the same room. Looking good or cool was not enough, they had to be outstanding.Absolum has different pressures and none of them is to be cool, which is a staple of the genre.
>>722846803see >>722833029 >>722833436
>>722834063Have you tried to be yourself and pirate it?
THEYWON
>>722847106>make wokeshit game>your sale are shit>but at least you get high critic scores
>>722837054This is what they toke away from us.
>>722847106>it's woke garbage>journos praise itnothing new
>>722847106Now show me the sales numbers
>>722845802I think most of them are kinda developed that way, but ArcSys has a good reputation for beat em ups overall and has handled everything from the whole Kunio related series to other fighters. Same with DotEmu for instance who got SoR4 as I recall and..maybe the TMNT Shredder's Revenge? I don't remember who got Scott Pilgrim (Ubi published it but not sure about development). >>722846067Yeah they kinda sorta do. It varies a bit between games but its general world building rather than core stuff. Kinda like why Willy's classic Double Dragon fortress looks like an ancient ruin, and Double Dragon 3 had Sacred Stones including sending you to Egypt to fight mummies aetc. Also I'm kind of just glad that they're still letting your girlfriend/childhood friend get kidnapped as that is a major 'starting point' for many games in the series>>722846292and if someone could get this onto PC/Steam officially, we'd be talking. Hell, if Vanillaware could port >Odin Sphere Leifthrasir >Muramasa Rebirth>Dragon's Crown Pro>13 Sentinels Aegis Rim>Unicorn Overlord to PC they'd probably be set for their next 12 projects financially; doubly so if they made each game a "definitive edition" or added some new content at launch or afterward.
>>722838395Nigga, compare this to other beat'm ups. Not even the classics, look at SoR4 (ironically, Guard Crush co-created that one too). Absolum only has nice backgrounds but character designs are objectively its biggest flaw.
>>722833029>pregnant black womanIf its the same one in the demo, that's not the one that you play as. That's basically the NPC that is some sort of gaia / tree of life figure who keeps rebirthing you into to the game when you die roguelite style. The actual playable ones are a bit annoying to me from the designs but the gaia figure wasn't a problem for me.
>>722838651Final Fight was for kids and it was so spicy they had to censor West versions.
>>722847106>finally a beat em up with depthreminder that to these people "depth" means binary mechanics like iframe dodges/parries aka shallow solutions for everything and attaching bigger damage numbers via number go up modifiers
>>722844270dragon's crown isn't designed around iframes. same way dark souls 1 wasn't designed around iframes. hence the part where I talked about how the game forced collisions of hitboxes in order to make you use iframes.
Just play Double Dragon Gaiden if you're interested in a beat-em-up. It does the tag gameplay a lot better than Marvel Cosmic Invasion too.
>>722843591according to the roadmap they should be finished by Januarywishlist it
>>722848232and it also has a bunch of shitty character designs
There's some beat-em-up event on Steam now. and this glorious thing is upcoming. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3764970/Mexican_Ninja/If its even slightly decent to play its going to cause untold amounts of CULTURAL APPROPRIATION whines. I can only hope this is made by some Mexican guy who's basically the same type who would come up with pic related so there can be no bitching about it.
>>722848351Doesn't look shitty to me. It even has all the DD3 characters.
>>722848497>>722848232Yeah, they do a very good job with them. The dev has been doing free DLC to enable lots of new playable characters. I kinda wish they'd add some new or varied stages, or the ability to play as bosses and playing as a boss means the stage will be changed/run by someone different. Still they've done more than enough in adding tons of other content so I can't be too pissed
>>722845981same with skyrim. there are both female and male necromancers and warriors and the game is from a time before wokeness mind virus
>>722847106>PC GAMER
>>722848232Very weak game. For a game that wants to be a roguelike the run variety is insanely poor. Just 4 stages is simply mental. Survival mode sucks too.
>>722833436Someone should have told them that their "modern culture" is quickly going out the door as people come back to reality. Peak woke was maybe 7-8 years ago, it's just been on a downhill trend since then as the ideology doesn't stand up to reality.
>that butti will now pirate your game
>>722849413>prosthetic legcome on...
still the best beat'em up game
>>722837680A genre with 1 victory is the same as seeing Pizza Tower and saying platformers are viable. 90% of these will underperform and anyone who is doing this for money should really know netter.
>>722849641fortunately these devs are doing it to push an agenda, not to make money
>>722849413>1 character has a nice ass>it's a they/them robotcan't win 'em all I guess
>>722848497i mean the ingame sprites. remember unlocking that samurai chick and then seeing the model ad she has that fucking jacket with shoulder pads that makes her look like a triangle.gaiden is definitely one of the better releases lately but it still pissed me off
>>722849413this looks like fucking steven universe or something, also the ninja should be in a wheelchair
>>722844716I swear I've seen that hairstyle before but I can't put my finger on it.
>>722849603>play this game it's super good dude>alright, does it have great gameplay, or level design, or an intriguing narrative?>uuuhhhh... it's good because le SEX dude? don't you love SEX dude?
>>722849884Fight n rage is pretty fun though.
>>722832507I like the gameplay well enough from the demo but the design and setting are a big turn off. The Dark Elf should've been a dude probably. I thought she was at first. Also your Zordon being a giant pregnant woman made my eyes roll out of my head.
>>722849884it has great gameplay and sprite work though, also has different paths you can take to beat the game
>>722849884its good bcs the combat actually asks something of you. there is also a lot of unlockables and varying routes for replayability.it offers way more than the average beat em up
Any other RPG beat-em-ups like this and Young Souls and Towerborne? Weapons armors and builds would be best.
Downloading. Haven't tried the game yet, not even the demo. But it looks awesome. Looking forward to trying it out.
>>722849884Yeah actually it's on the top 3 greatest beat'm ups ever made. I'm not being hyperbolic.
>>722849641>a genre with 1 victoryShredder's Revenge sold over 1 million copies within the first weekStreets of Rage 4 sold 2.5 million copies within the first year
>>722837710That is like, the Platonic Ideal dwarf though, apart from his hair being blue>looks pissed>huge fists>big blunderbuss strapped to his back
>>722850190not really. but there is a very decent 3d beat em up for the ps2 that went under the radar called "Crimson Tears" its by the guy that made power stone and even the first virtua fighter. it plays very well but there are no real builds. just weapons that you can invest into and the moveset that you can unlock further. the levels/dungeons are nothing special but you can juice out quite a bit of playtime out of it. the main girl has the most elaborate move set. https://youtu.be/VDkP4QZku-0?t=971
>>722850254You wouldn't pirate a car.You wouldn't pirate a woman.You wouldn't pirate electricity.But somehow pirating media is ok?
>>722849985>>722850176>>722850179>>722850286Alright, I looked deeper and it does seem to have more substance than the average coomerbait posted here. Sorry, you can never tell what kind of dogshit is being shilled solely because it makes someone's cock hard.
>>722849884>>play this game it's super good dude>>alright, does it have great gameplay, or level design, or an intriguing narrative?>>uuuhhhh... it's good because le CHUDS btfo! don't you want to btfo CHUDS dude?
>>722847160>Good game releases >Prejudiced retards make up arbitrary reasons as to why it's woke
>>722850450>You wouldn't piratesays who? also yes, it is ok.
>>722850639
>>722850190There's Rotwood, haven't tried it myself tho
I'm gonna sound like a sensitive/exaggerating snowflake but the goddess character's voice (that you unfortunately hear a lot) made me refund.whether the game pushes any politics/tries to be for a modern audience or whatever aside, this accent is simply unlistenable to me. I cannot stand it.
>>722850567unlock the easy mode if you get filtered. its only 40 coins. the game is not easy if you dont crowd control properly and use your uppercut well
>>722850935Have you tried not being sensitive?
>>722847106Without evan looking, this guy is 0% qualified to appraise a beat em up.
Halp. Which one?
>>722850315>Streets of Rage 4 sold 2.5 million copies within the first yearit didn't, stop parroting misinfothe word they used was "downloads", not sold - that shit was on game pass day one and that's where i played it
>>722849716Is it a they/them? I figured it was some sort of construct/artificer magic robot, but I thought it was a woman and it has a very feminine voice. The dwarf and frog are obviously dudes with male voices, so even by their own stupidity I'd expect them to have 2 females , the dark elf warrior and the construct ninja rogue thing.
>>722849790Nigger afro? Yeah, you've seen it a lot, dumbass
>>722851440bloodstained
How is co-op? How deep is the battle system?I'm realy on the fence with the whole roguelite stuff, but if fights are satisfying and you can comboautism I'll pick it up with a friend.
>>722851440Wait, they made Bloodstained 2?Is it any good?
>>722851730That's second game for their retro throwback spin-off. It's not a sequel for original 2.5D Bloodstained (which is also being made now).
>>722851543Afro? Yes. Afro with spikes? Not so much.
>>722851440Unironically bloodstained, ninja gaiden is a mid metroidvania and absolum just released, they'll probably add a bunch of content down the line. Curse of the moon 2 for that price is a steal and content complete. If you really want to play absolum, pirate it and maybe buy it down the line if they keep adding things and updating it. Ninja gaiden is not even worth pirating. This is coming from someone that enjoyed blasphemous and ninja gaiden 1,2,3
>>722850878Been meaning to try it myself, as I think its dev or published by Klei and pretty much all they make is solid. >>722851440Bloodstained Curse of the moon 2 is ultra cheap so pick that up, its the best deal and its great if you want a Classicvania Between the other two, I can only say that Ragebound is fucking GREAT but its also incredibly, incredibly difficult if you intend to S-rank levels. They also have a Hard Mode which has a different ending/extra level, and adds new enemy variants and placements, bosses have new attacks etc. Some things are a little tedious and it could use a patch , but its definitely worthwhile. Also the end of the Hard Mode DEFINITELY hints towards either a DLC expansion or another game in the works, but its very, very well crafted.
>>722851876Need more that one opinion from an anon about Ragebound.
>>722851845She's a literal tree of life/gaia style character (I'm not sure if she's one, or if she has separate 'sisters' that are different from her) but just like with the perpetual pregnancy it seems like its how you are resetting the timeline or whatever the fuck to give the roguelike revival, so the thorn spike design makes sense considering her role. At leat this is what I remember from the demo.
>>722851440all 3 suck
>>722851440fk bloodstained. get order of ecclesia instead. i only played the first game but it was very mid
>>722852192Already have Dominus Collection.
Okay anons, decided to do a compromise.
>>722851876>mid metroidvania You're talking out your ass or thinking of something completely different. Ragebound is not a metroidvania. Shinobi Art of Vengeance is more like a metroidvania (kinda sorta, its still broken up into levels) but it too is good in its own way. I've not finished it though like I have Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, but Ragebound is definitely just a platformer and there is no metroidvania back and forth. >>722852192>>722852332Curse of the Moon 2 and Order of Eccesia are two entirely different genres. OoE is Metroidvania/Igavania, Curse of the Moon 1 and 2 are "classicvania" in the style of Rondo of Blood or Castlevania 3 (the latter most heavily inspired with the multiple characters etc). Bloodstained Ritual of the Night is the Igavania "main" game (though it has other types of alternate modes and campaigns) but Curse of the Moon are NESgraphic style spinoff titles in Classicvania style. Also if you want another game that's currently on sale and is between the two, look at Infernax. Infernax is a "Simon's Quest"-like of sorts.
>>722832507looks like slop to me. what's the difference between this and every other game that looks the same?
>>722852560>he didn’t have hexen or heretic before the rereleaseYou’re not worthy
>>722852640>Doesn't start the first word of a sentence with a capital letterFuck off, ESL.
>>722852776>first letter on greentext is a capital letterI can't even tell if people nowadays are messing around or just outing themselves. I will just assume the latter, in which case, kill yourself.
>>722850008>when the chud tried to impose heteronormative design on your homosexual queer ass
Alright, trying the game out now, /v/ros. Very excited for this. It really does look incredibly good.First screen and I'm laughing. No wonder it's woke. Sorry, chudbros. That just be how it is.
>>722850424>>722850878Thanks guys will look into these. Tears reminds me of the dungeon mode from Tobal and Ehrgeiz. Blast from the past.
>>722853207You first, Ratesh.
>>722853289Good accessibility features here. Might try out desaturated background later on.Also, the menu music is very good and it's playing in the background as I type this post. A very good first sign.
>each player on coop has its own difficulty settingsWish more games did this.
>>722853597Alright, so. Game looks fucking incredible. Animates like a dream. Plays very smoothly. Awesome intro (That makes the cool looking villain sound like he did nothing wrong, by the way).Sure seems like the combo system in this game is extremely generous. It's way more based on if you get hit than on needing to be time sensitive.My one nitpick right now is that you are forced with a tag along partner, which makes it seem like this game is ideal for co-op and kind of nerfed single player. Not a fan of that.
>>722854205it's an intro, you're gonna be alone after that
>>722840000It's insane how hair tech gives us more detailed but more fake looking hair and beards every year
>>722849413Why do they always have to do this tokenism shitAre they just brainwashed now?
>>722853289>>722853597>>722854205lmao nice try mr. marketeer, but I'm not buying your slop>looks fucking incredibleno. Picrel does.
>>722832507>A new Beat-em-up!>I FUCKING LOVE BEAT EM UPS!>Literally just replayed Charlie Murder with a bud about a month ago.>Rogue-LiteI FUCKING HATE YOU! IF I COULD GO BACK IN TIME TO 1980 AND MURDER THE TWO FAGGOTS WHO MADE THE GAME ROGUE ID GLEEFULLY LIVE A LIFE OF ETERNAL SERVITUDE TO A THREE COCKED BARBED DEMON FROM HELL! GENOCIDE AND FLAGELLATE ALL INDIE DEVS WHO MAKE THESE FUCKING (((ROGUE-LIKE))) GAMES! THE OVERSATURATION IS CANCER!That aside the game looks alright. Might still try it.
>>722854806>posts unreadable diarrheanice one retard
>>722854562you are delusional. they worship groids and the disintegration of gender norms bcs they are dysgenic freaks 1 and in evolutionary competition with other freaks 2 so the propagation of this is serving them either way. lower standards and inject others with these memes while you maintain the aspects of gender dimorphism as much as you can. all leftoid behavior is modeled after the interactions that happen at the race to the bottom. you never reach the true bottom but you can always keep kicking downwards while calling your feet the dispensers of blessings and empathy.
>>722854806i love that everyone on /v/ claims to love DC. It always reminds me of the "earthbound fan excited to play earthbound for the first time". I should probably edit that image but it would only be relevant on certain threads i guess.>>722854936yeah its an unfortunate screenshot but i do agree with that anon, the game is pretty. I do also think that absolum looks fine though so i may have been dropped on the head as a baby.
>>722854205AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEENONONONO, I LOST ON THE FUCKING TUTORIAL.My autism can't handle that. I'm sure there must be a really cool cutscene where you die another way if you beat this boss. I have to delete my save file and try again. It's the only way. I'll get the proper rogue shit started after I beat this the right way.>>722854353Ah, good.>>722854806That game is 12 years old, bruh. And it never came out on Steam. Fuck Vanillaware >:^(
>>722855176pretty sure most people dont beat the boss. I myself screwed the pooch too.
>>722854806What the fuck am i looking at?It’s ugly as fuck
>>722854562Bro fantasy is by far the most generic wrote genre this side of actual technical manuals. You should welcome every effort for shit to not at least look like temu lord of the rings.
>>722855116I hope you aren't implyign that nobody has played DC because that game is not just amazing but also sold quite well>>722855176>revived by Debra WilsonI'd rather stay down
I saw an interview where they just plainly stated 'a female warrior, but non sexualized'that was their design templateI wouldn't even click to decide if I'm going to pirate it or not
>>722855365i am saying that DC is the poser pick to make it seem like you are into specific games. All dragons crown threads are, without fail, 50+ posts with variations of "why hasnt vanillaware ported this to pc???". Dare you to go on one of those threads and ask anons their favorite stage/character/whatever and you wont get even a reply because no one actually plays it and only knows it exists because of the art.
>>722855479Non sexualized just means she doesn’t have massive boobs on display like in vanillaslop games
>>722832507>rogueliteThe only reason why this game even gets players. They should just make number go up random upgrade games illegal. All they do is produce slop where gameplay becomes secondary.
>>722855632thats what I said
>>722840031Considering every company started doing it out of the blue at about the same time without any reason, you can safely assume it's forced>>722840250Retards like this are safe to ignore, you've seen their empty arguments over and over
>>722855627dunno man, I don't see DC threads so often to comment on that. I'd love to get a PC port since I already sold my PS4 a long time ago, so wanting a port doesn't mean not having played the game.Best boss is a toss between the evil eye and the red dragon both in gameplay and music, although I love the design of the chimera in this game. Dunno about my fav stage but the one I dislike the most is that one where you have to rescue some ladies from vampires, got boring quickly on subsequent replays
>>722855852I just always see that as excuses, i played the thing on RPCS3 myself and it ran fine. I genuinely dont think i ever saw someone saying good things about the dragon. I like the arena and how you need to "run away" from it but i think my pick would probably be the archdemon. Either him or the bunny. When i didnt see a mage on the Absolum demo i was kinda hoping they would just straight up copy wizard from DC. I think he might be my favorite beat'em up character.
>enter Absolum thread>overrun by Dragon's Crown coomersMan I haven't played a more overrated game in a long time. I actually downloaded it to check out before Absolum. I spent 3 hours in it and couldn't take any more>the whole retarded game structure - do area - do area again because there's a side quest there now>the absolute nightmare of a UI>local coop is a disaster since you just sit there like a cuck when other people sort the equipment/accept quests/etc>hovering over everything like a retard to find treasure>piss easy gameplay with no adjustable difficultyThis shit reeks of trademark shitty japanese designBut hey big tits SEX SEX YES hehe grotesque proportions make feminists mad haha :)
>>722856189>i played the thing on RPCS3 myself and it ran fineyeah I'm sure, but wouldn't it be nice to have it on Steam with a fresh community of players for some sweet coop with randos?>I genuinely dont think i ever saw someone saying good things about the dragonreally? I love that, it's quite kino in presentation and I thought it was fun gameplay wise with the time limit adding to the challenge.Damn anon, now I want to replay it.
>>722849717literal one-man indie dev, prease undahstahnd.
>>722856270thats ok. I liked both. Try the mystara games, you might like it more.
>>722856270Mogs this tranny slop btw
>>722851454At least 500,000 of those are from Steam, even if that's all the game truly sold I'd consider that a huge success
>>722856342it would. But i dont think anyone deserves to eneter a thread to talk about a game and having "pORT WHEN" and the stupid Schrier lolicon print. It feels like fucking groundhog day.Replay it on RPCS3. I might have a savefile on a google drive somewhere if you want.
>>722856523sure, and i agree, but let's not pretend it sold gorillions it didn't
>>722848139>several characters have iframe mechanics built into their core moveset>N-NO IFRAMES WEREN'T ACCOUNTED FORShut the fuck up you goddamn cocksmoking fucktard shit for brains limp dick. You fucking woketards are a cancer on gaming. Screaming about woke like it's the fucking boogieman. Fuck off.
>have a chance to make their own dragons crown with blackjack and hookers>make the ugliest designs known to a man, with a clear agenda behind it they express in the interview
>>722855479>a female warrior, but non sexualizedAt this point, it's obvious the west is terrified of femininity. Feminism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
>>722856378That's actually exactly what I expected from Coomer's Crown since I did play both D&D games many times. Boy what a letdown
>>722856572>"pORT WHEN" and the stupid Schrier lolicon print. It feels like fucking groundhog daykek yeah, but if it serves as consolation ( it probably doesn't) most recurring threads on /v/ are like that, just people farming for (You)s and repeating the same shit as always>Replay it on RPCS3. I might have a savefile on a google drive somewhere if you want.that's very kind, but I think I'll play it on my Vita. I've only ever played the PS4 version with the orchestral OST and would love to check out the original one
>>722857337aight then, have a good one, anon.
>>722857471thanks!
Meanwhile, a random cheap beat'm up from ancient times:
>>722833436I honestly thought the elf was an effeminate man which is the easiest mistake to make when it comes to that race
>>722856480You’re the tranny here Pablo
>>722838272[citation needed]
>>722857624is ugly as fuck?
>>722855176Alright, third time is the charm. And I got more than I thought I would out of it. Not a cutscene but cool dialogue and some sort of metaprogression loot. I wonder if you could somehow beat the boss here. I'd love to see a youtube video of what happens if you do. No way in hell I'm trying it, though, even my autism has limits.Now onto the proper game, where I can't just load back up after I die.Great voice acting, by the way. To go along with the great soundtrack so far.
The demo was decent fun but the pregnant black goddess and gender neutral elf woman made me not want to play it idk why
>>722857783It looks better on original hardware.
>>722857814>drops straight on the dwarf and kills himfuck i laughed
>>722857127Feminine modest-looking armor is very cute.
>>722857845She’s not "gender neutral" it’s just a warrior with small tits
>>722858147westernized trash
>>722858184I literally thought it was a man based on the art, kek
>>722833436
>>722858093Reminds me a lot of when you play Baldurs Gate type games and you get to a boss that is clearly way higher level than you and it's programmed to always start off with some big fuck ass AoE move that does a shit ton of damage and wipes your party to quickly tell you "No, buddy, not high enough level yet"Sovl
>>722858273but muh immersion!!
>>722858558It looks like a gay guy, disgusting
>>722832507Well shit. The moment I told my friend about the game and considering it he instantly bought it so now I'm locked in with getting it. At least the combat looks very fluid.
>>722857814AI companion just walking around like a retard to get BTFO is the cherry on top
>>722858658this should have remote play. Then i could be a cheap bastard and force someone else to buy it and play with me.
>>722858830should have had*im restarted
Secret found. This soars the white man's imagination.
>>722859140those are the items that give you stuff from the elements you get. Genuinely felt like there were more.
>>722846817It wasn't that long ago that I realized that Eri and Fio were woment. played metal slug 20+ years ago
>>722833436Why even make the character a woman if she doesn't look like one? I thought it's just their gay take on a male drow.
>>722859218actually disregard that, i think those are the ones that do stuff WITHOUT element crap. The slingshot there increases projectile damage iirc
>the whole thread is /pol/ tourists and one anon actually playing the gamethe absolute state of this board
The party is too bland, skip
>>722859310There's two other rooms. I just showed the first one.>>722859326Wouldn't be shocked if half the people that posted ITT can't play this game cause they either don't know how to pirate or their PC is somehow 20 years old.
>>722832507>roguelite>clearly has gay baby-tier juggling mechanicsNah I'm good
>>722832850Pretty much this, the colours of the characters are all over the fucking place, there's no fucking harmony.Compare to >>722846817Compare to Don't Starve characters. There's cohesion. There's style. There's colors. Without them looking samey like in TMNT
>>722859326i mean, i got to the part right after the frog dude, died, and decided to take a break and check here. Theres probably at least some other anon playing this.
>>722859326Probably 60-70 percent of /v/ posters are Brazilians posting on gateway laptops that were airdropped into their favellas 30 years ago
>>722851440Bloodstained 2 by a mile. Ninja Gaiden is a far 2nd. Haven't played the DEI game.
>>722855851if it's forced could it be they are not allowed to sell to western markets without body-types?
>>722859956i am one of those, and i am also playing the videogamethanks for the laptop lads!
>>722859326Blame the devs and their shitty fucking designs. Even the frog looks gay somehow. I enjoyed SoR4 so I can imagine that the gameplay is probably alright but I don't have an interest in a game that deliberately looks ugly.
>>722832507Looks too homosexual coded.
>>722860181>i can't stop thinking about fags so blame devs for that
>>722859326>there was a meta thread earlier for the state of the board (apparently hiro allows one thread per board for this)>10 posts in a guy starts spamming cheese pizzaif you ever thought it couldn't be more over
This game is so fucking SOVLful. I kneel.>>722860550>apparently hiro allows one thread per board for thislol that was something he said once within the month of him being made the admin and I'm pretty sure he just meant it at that time, not as some sort of rule in perpetuity and for all boards. Either ways, whether he meant is irrelevant because he is completely absent and has no impact on this website.
>>722851531>but I thought it was a woman and it has a very feminine voice.It is. Because they/thems aren't an actual thing, it's just a label people (mostly women) give themselves to feel special.
Imagine if Guard Crush worked again with Lizardcube. We were robbed.
>>722859276The idea is >AHEM SHE DOES LOOK LIKE ONE YOU JUST DONT KNOW WHAT A WOMAN LOOKS LIKEand>OH SO SHE DOESNT HAVE HUGE TIT ARMOR SHE IS NOT A WOMAN HUH HUH HUH INCELI'm just not sure with the art style it really made her extremely androgynous. At very least I THINK she had a female voice to go with the name, but frankly they could have made any number of obviously-feminine-but-not-bikini-plate designs work. During the demo she used to have visible tits albeit small ones not sure if they're stil there or not or I'm misremembering (you could only see them sometimes when she moved in a way to move the cloaks aside) . Hell, all the women in BG3 were more obviously feminine (including Minthara, a dark elf) so it feels a bit like doing anything to make her appear feminine in build, attire, equipment etc. was seen to be a bad thing? As far as the artificer construct puppet thing that seems to be the 'other' one with the female name, some anon said it was a they/them despite the feminine voice but not sure how it comes out otherwise. The male characters seem to be the dwarf (but not as a dwarfy as a typical dwarf for some reason) and the frog - so the idea is no conventionally attractive fantasy leads either male or female? >>722855851>>722860090>>722840031Its not about being forced, its just a very small change that all the corpos wagered >either makes people love our games and post about how they feel so seen and good shit on social media even if we don't have to actually do anything about it except make a single fucking typed char change. over>the tiny amount of people who are salty about it will not use such a small reason to not buy the game AND they'll be ridiculed if they do plus social media seems that there are SO MANY PEOPLE waiting to throw money at us if we just do things that aren't problematic so lets do itThough to be serious its basically no work and a huge potential benefit, small potential detriment; not forced.
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>>722839425how about I focus my aim and shoot you in the head you freak?
>>722860823>>722860968meh, shinobi didn't look anywhere as good as sor4 so i consider that a fluke
>>722860751I don't really want to have the /pol/yp fight over the legitimacy of the definition, but my question was does the robot refer to itself in the game as a woman or as a they/them/it? If its the latter, that's disappointing if it isn't purely an artificer construct lacking self identity as the voice and body style appears to be feminine.
Oh FUCK, I thought these guys were on my side :^(Should have just let them go at each other.
>>722861048In terms of animation Shinobi was way ahead of SoR4. Too bad they didn't hire a level designer, what a waste of a great moveset.
Looks like ass i ain't buying it
>>722861127it refers as "us". I really did thought it was like you said, but so far i didnt see her saying something about lacking identity, or having multiple voices in her head.
>>722861157musashi was incredible, no doubtbut otherwise i found the art very forgettablejust like the whole game
>>722860395Turns out that if you make your game lame and gay people will think it's gay, yeah
>>72284319834 year-old boomer here and just finished playing 6+ hours of it.Got to Azra twice but didn't manage to beat him yet, having a lot of fun though.
>>722861286>UsOkay, that seems reasonable. If its got multiple voices or whatever other artificer shit going on as a construct, that seems decent enough.
I remember a thread we had maybe a month ago, some retard was pretending that SoR4 artstyle is so bad he didn't even recognize Max. So whatever the fuck you make, there's always at least one very vocal schizo that's gonna call it bad and relentlessly shitpost about it. I played a few hours and it's great, literally SoR4 with more tech and roguelike progression.
>>722832982doesn't have to becalarts is worse
Yeah, ok, I'm convinced at this point. This game fucking rules.I'm sorry, chudlads. You're taking the L here. Wokies get the W. Your culture war continues to ebb and flow.
First try btw. I consider this my redemption for how BTFO I got by the boss fight at the start.
>>722861890i mean, i dont think she refers that she is an amalgamation or anything. She is a bit weird since she and the blue woman refer to memories. Apparently they remember stuff from past lives to a certain degree, so maybe thats why she refers as a collective idk
>>722862192the game js honestly fine. My only real complaint is the mage dude being lame to play and the dwarf having a blue beard. Why in the name of fuck does a dwarf have a blue beard?
>>722862509It had alternative color schemes in the demo, if anything the full version should expand on it.
>>722833436>And the Rogue is a Roguelmaoing
>>722854562They genuinely believe that it's a good thing to do. Changing the tide in small steps, normalizing things most people don't really like (yet). Maybe they'll win eventually.
>>722862509Skins.
>>722862612yeah i am aware, but that sticks as its "canon" design for me. Its a bitch complain but really, it looks goofy, it should have been like thr 3rd alt color. Ill just shut up now.
Map is soulful as well, by the way.Imagine if I actually win the whole game first try, lads. Surely, I can do it :^)
>>722862351>endless juggle: the gamethese fags really took the worst gameplay aspect of streets 4 and turned it up to 11
>>722862824im curious, whats the best aspect of it?
>>722850358This, l played the demo only with him, because he was the only one that look acceptable, but l would 100% remove his rgb hair
>>722851947>incredibly, incredibly difficultMight be a retarded question... Probably is. But one controversial reviewer said that in Ragebound you can just "parry" enemies forever instead of fighting them basically skipping parts of the game. Is it true? Also what does it take to S-rank a level? Playing in a funny way or simply taking no damage?
>>722859140this art is good it doesnt need big booba mages. altough it would be even better with them.
>>722862397Well, maybe it will be more clear in time.
>>722832507>ugly playable characterspls tell me all enemies are big titted orcs?
>>722863203no, unfortunately your mother threatened to sue for using her image without royalties.
>>722863203 see >>722849413
>>722863258I was too lazy to google actual big titted orc jpeg
>>722832507Oh, now I remember this. This shit is beyond cringe. I love beat-em-ups but I couldn't stomach playing this shit.
I was able to hire a mercenary and also get a shitload of upgrades, feeling pretty invincible right now.>>722862824Juggling enemies is fun althougheverbeit. Now if the enemies start juggling me and taking off over half my HP in one combo, that will be another story. It's only ok when I do it.
>>722833343Shadow over Mystara. Now THERE was a good beat-em-up game. Tower of whatever was alright too.
Seeing this funded by the EU and pushing politics isn't surprising. However, how do people in Europe feel about their tax dollars being used for this? Are any anons in the thread from EU countries?
>>722833436They could of just said that first paragraph and shoved both of their legs in the mouth afterwards, why even say anything lmfao
>>722863706I dont think they are allowed to have a negative opinion because they literally live in police state
MEAT SHIELD NOOOOOOAh well, definitely worth the 50 gold.>>722863706I'm from Greece and this game is fucking awesome, so yeah, I'm feeling pretty good about it. Most of the shit that gets funded by these sort of committees are story games and Dustborn-tier slop.Although, with this and Menace, Europe is starting to do good. I've been hearing good things about the demo of that game too.
>>722863706yeah. I don't like it at all
>>722862998"parry", well no not really. Parrying is not a big mechanic, its more avoidance if anything. As far as skipping part of the game well.. you can run past enemies that's fine but it will affect your level, and there are always more than enough enemies there. You can't really skip parts of levels except for optional secrets and a very, very few >I am going to use the camera and perfect level positioning to get to an area a little bit early and save time where say.. there's a level where there you're hanging from giant mech hooks and one is slowly moving down diagonally over to the next part of the level. If you know the area, you can drop down at a certain point, bounce off of a few previously invisible bounce-capable active enemy/platforms heading left, and basically pick up 5- 10 seconds that you would otherwise ride all the way down diagonally to the right, and then start jumping and bouncing over to the left. Aside from that ther'es no skipping>S ranks They are tough. It requires, AT THE SAME TIME SAME RUN >Hit below the max time of completion>Kill above the required number of enemies>Get a combo chain of above the required numberNote this can be tough and require some VERY good knowledge of the level> There was more than one time that my chain would drop if I didn't know how to perfectly move through an area between killing one enemy, move into the next, and get the other enemy to spawn early to keep the combo. PLUS>Collect ALL the collectable Scarabs and SkullsThese are often hidden/side path style things, or need a special ability to get to them. Break down a cracked wall, do a special platforming challenge etc. >Do all 3 "Missions" per levelThese vary immensely from something like "Kill X number of enemies" to the really difficult stuff like "Beat the boss without being hit". So you have to do it all at once to get an S. Pic related is a breakdown . I forgot to hit the button to see the "required" time/kill/combo of each
>>722837281>I don't get it. Is he a representation of a Frenchman?Nah, that would actually be fun. Fun is unsafe and doesn't send the right message.
>>722862351>>722862192>>722861135YES, SLAY THE WHITE CISMALE CHUDS
>>722832507buy yourself an ad
>>722851623Co-op is essentially drop-in; the lowest story progress player is prioritized but you keep your own upgrades (Hearths, rituals, etc.)The combat system isn't particularly deep, you got your basic combo string your heavy attack, your blitz and special, you can dodge into attacks to deflect OR heavy attack to clash (smaller window but allows you to counterattack for big damage and is the only way to stagger special enemies).There's lots and lots of enemy types and throwables and the fun comes from the typical bmup trying to manage dealing with a bunch of different enemies with different behaviors at the same time.There isn't comboautism in the same way that there is with a fighting game or even SoR4/Wendigo Blue but comboing is important for regaining mana and exp so you will want to use your blitz/heavy to OTG enemies and bounce them against the wall a lot to have plenty of resources.
I fucking love how this game looks.Speaking of Europe, which country are these devs from, anyways?
Is this a dpad game or an analog game
>>722861135What happens if you kill all the humans before the goblins?
>>722863981Thanks for a detailed reply. I was going to grab this game anyway at least for it's visuals and, well, the fact that it's Ninja Gaiden but now I feel more confident that I'll enjoy it.
>>722864737France
>>722864737They are FrenchSame developers that did Streets of Rage 4
>>722864871they both attack you regardless of who you kill first
SOVL
>>722832507Looks like Sweet Baby Inc consulted on it (derogatory)
>>722865083>>722865109God DAMN. It has been a banner year for France, with this and Expedition 33 and Crown Gambit. That game is pretty decent, at least for one playthrough.Hell, I feel like the French have done some really remarkable shit in the past 15 years or so. You add in Furi and Sifu and they are clearly a force to be reckoned with on the Indie/AA side of things.Proud of you, frogs. I know I'd be bragposting about it nonstop if I were one of you.
>>722832507Ugh, I was so miffed I went and bought Dragon's Crown Pro and Bye Sweet Carole instead (same opening day come to find) and called it a day
>>722865047happy to help, anon. I think it was really worthwhile. Note that there are new costumes (with conversation portraits) for achieving objectives like >Finishing the game with any ranks>Collect 60 skulls (aka all of them) on both regular than hard mode >S rank every level on both regular, then again hard mode. Note this does count the secrt levels unlocked by finding the Scroll collectible in every level. >Complete the " super secret level" only available on hard mode Some are just pallet swaps, others have some more unique elements. Have fun, Anon and take your time! Oh apparently an update lets you start Hard Mode without beating the main game (I think you need to 'beat the first level boss" which is both a Mission and WAY harder than anything else at the time) , but some achievements and costume unlocks were kinda messed up as they expected you to do all normal mode first; not sure if that's fixed. Oh one important bit! After you complete level 1-2 I think, you'll be able to go to the "world map" and go back and re-run P-1, 1-1, 1-2. Don't do what I did and keep restarting the file because you don't 100% S rank everything and yet it moves you onto the next level automatically; it only happens in those first few levels.
>>722863981based anon giving actual details. The only question i have is if it is possible to play as Ryu. I thought it wasnt but you said something about costumes so maybe?
>>722863981Mork will be the first one to properly review and utterly destroy Absolum, he's the biggest fan of streets of rage 4 after all.
>>722865880 No, its not possible to play as Ryu...so far. Basically, most of it it takes place right when he's called away to go to America in the NES Ninja Gaiden Though its not impossible he could be playable in a future expansion or sequel. However, you can unlock the 'blue ninja w/hood' costume by finishing the game once with any rank There are also some other 'special' costumes you can unlock for harder stuff that are references to other TecmoKoei or GameKitchen properties
>>722858641>small shoulders>thin chin"MUST BE A DUUUUDEEE"
>>722832507I think the warrior is fully capable of being sexualized desu senpai
Honestly, I am kind of glad I lost decently early on just because I am really enjoying myself and I hope I can play this game for the next few months. I don't want it to end too soon.I guess the trick with that boss is that I'm gonna have to learn to parry his attacks, since dodging seems straight up impossible. Classic parryslop, I'm afraid. Dark Souls continues to exert its influence.
>>722866687Not until there's rule34 of them>>722866957You can dodge by jumping as well, good vs horizontal attacks
And that's all from me in terms of shill-webms. Just wanted to post some of the metaprogression. I appreciate unlocking a shitload of stuff for my second run. I probably had a better run than the average player.My goal right now is to beat The Underking with the Dwarf. A kino clash.1/2
>>722866563thats a shame. I do find amusing that they use the NES game happening as an "excuse" for that though. Thanks anon.>>722866687I genuinely think she is kinda cute. I guess im the weirdo here.
>>722865295Well, they didn’t, what now?
>>722866635Yes you gay faggot troonLooks like a man
>>7228672972/2
>>722849453Why is prosthetics a "woke" I swear I can't keep up with this shit anymore
>>722867504Thank you for actually talking about gameplay and not being a retardThat’s quite rare on /v/ these days
>>722863981>Came into this thread looking to laugh at the memes>Come out of it putting Ragebound in my wishlist (might just get it anyway since it's 20% off)Thanks anon, you unironically convinced me to check this one out. Wasn't feeling this game from what I saw but your genuine post made me interested to actually give it a shotI've been getting beat em up fatigue anyway as I've been playing lots of SoR4, FnR, Ninja Warriors, and one of my friends is really into that new TMNT one so I play that with him every now and then. I could use some ninja kino
>>722867504I appreciate you for actually posting webms. Feels like nobody does that anymore when shilling.
>>722867740If your friend likes the TMNT one have him check out the Marvel Cosmic Invasion demo.
>Opening literally states that mages caused a cataclysm with their magic>Every area in the game is torn to shreds with lore about how the cataclysm affected us>WOOOOW DUDE WHY ARE YOU OPPRESSING US WIZARDS? WE DINDU NUFFINThis Azra guy seems like a swell guy.
>>722863449>Enemy getting thrown off the cliffBased
>>722832982It's not even a political thing desu they're just ridiculously uninspired and generic.
>>722847981what are some beat em ups with depth then? every classic one i see is just degenerate jump kick spam
>>722865546>Clashes: 0>Deflects: 0>Dodges: 0git gud
>>722868072Yeah he already knows about that one, he hopes it's funHe was hyped for that Power Rangers beat em up but got bummed when he heard it was bad so he has his fingers crossed for the marvel one
>>722868162Azra did nothing wrong and is 100% in the right.
>>722832507Just bought the gameIs it as good as dreagon crown?
>>722867610They aren't always (obviously) but they can be, depending on the context and how it's implemented.Your character can have a cool prosthetic arm or something and it can be rad, but left in the hands of people that make stuff like Absolum it'll probably come off as lame checkbox bullshit. Disabilities have been DEI since long before the term was coined.
>>722833436the absolum state
>>722868162>>722868839If it weren't for the fact that the Mother is a black pregnant woman and Azra is a guy with a Sauron like helmet, I would genuinely assume this is the twist of the game. Halfway through you'd switch sides.
>>722832507Incredibly generic character designs-60% interestanyway what's this game about
>>722869056Dragons Crown but bland and roguelite
Is it any better than the demo, where you had a pathetically tiny moveset until beating boss, then a still pathetically tiny one after?
>>722832507LETS GOOOO
>>722869056ummm um.... it's.... ummm roguelite
>>722869174Movesets are overrated in beat em ups. And in fighting games, for that matter, though to a lesser extent.
CAN WE PLAY TOGETHER FRENS?!?!?
>>722869268This. Same with combos and "skill expression" it's a fucking beat em up not a competitive fighting game. Enough with that shitI'd rather just play Lost Castle 2
>>722869268based Balan Wonderworld chad
>>722869451Any game with a dolphin raping a chick can't be all bad, just saying
>>722832507Why did western comics stray away to this ugly shit anyway, up until the 90s Disney was up to par with manga/anime. Nowadays it just looks so ugly compared to the japanos and koreones
>>722868162i am not paying taxes to anyone. Fuck him.
>>722833029but where is the father? did he lock her up in order to escape?
>>722832507>nonsexualized warrior womanJapan does it better yet again
>>722869576She's pure sex though?
>>722868861i prefer dragons crown, but i amenjoying this one.
>>722869268It's like FPS fags that are too autistic about weapon selection>WOW ONLY ONE PISTOL?>ONLY ONE SHOTGUN?>ONLY ONE RIFLE?>ONLY ONE MELEE WEAPON?>AND NO BEE SHOOTER? NO PORTAL GUN? NO AKIMBO SMGS?>TRASH GAME
>>722869576for western devs, nonsexualized just means ugly
>>722832982it is woke, it makes me want to sex it
>>722869630Exactly
>>722869524
>>722832507beat em ups are a garbage genrerelic from the arcade era where games were either esoterically complex and player unfriendly, or shallow as a puddle because no one knew how to make good gamesmindless mashing where player input and decision making doesn't matter. could hook a beat em up to an auto hot key script and it'd be the same experience as playing it
>>722869835cool
>>722869691and realistic means a fat american women, it's really irritating as a non american since we don't have any fatties of that calibre here so it's wildy unrealistic for us
>>722869835Holy filtered
>>722869691attractive people are incompetent so it wouldnt be realistic for them to do the things in these gamesonly ugloids get er done
>>722869268Gonna take that as a no>>722869447Having more variety is fun. XXXY jump X is boring.>>722869179Entropy effect is fairly fun though, shame its DLC already costs nearly as much as the actual game
>>722869726I love these types
>>722869146>>722869215fuck me
>>722869835>beat em up>arcade era>esoterically complex
>>722870017If you insist
>>722869979The undercover gear was very tasteful as well
>>722846292>meanwhile, in dragon's crownI bought this game, and want my money back. It's fucking shit.
can i play with mouse and keyboard?
>>722870043Anon probably played Shadow over Mystara once and got confused by the menu system.
>>722870043>or shallow as a puddlebeat em ups are option Bthe genre that defines button masher
>>722870223I'm playing with keyboard and it plays well. Arrow keys plus z, x, etc. Classic emulator style controls.So, to answer your question, no. Mouse doesn't do shit.
>>722863917I want to play as Crimson Phalanx guy, he looks cool.
your shitty game is cracked btwomw to pirate it and make sure none of my friends waste their money on it
>>722871884it has already been paid by the EU government, not even the devs must care about piracy
>>722832507ugly slop lmao
>>722871884No shit, anon. >>722850254
>beat-em up looks like a cartoon network flash gameYawn>beat,em up looks like a fantasy painting or conan/old movie poster come aliveYep. Gaming time. Simple as. As such this is trash, same with castle crashers.
Castle Crashers is fine. This is pozzed as fuck
>>722870702what the helly>>722846292tell vanillaniggas to bring this shit to steam
>>722851876>ninja gaiden is a mid metroidvaniaThere is NOTHING Metroidvania about Ragebound, you're thinking of Shinobi.
>>722870694If you credit feed sure.
huuuuuuuuuuh can you beat the fist boss?!
