PLAY BEAT 'EM UPSPLAY THEMPLAY THEM WITH FRIENDSPLAY THEM WITH STRANGERSPLAY THEM WITH THAT WEIRD GUY WHO SMOKES AT THE ARCADEPLAY THEM ALONEYOU'LL PLAY THEM ALONEPLAY AT HOMEON THE BOATIN THE CARPLAY BEAT 'EM UPS
"Claw-mounted gloves"?
I exclusively play hardcore games designed for hardcore gamers such as myself.
night slashers is breddy fun
>>729074772Why is Abadede so detailed?
The genre is oversaturated.
>>729075320With what?
>>729074772Bongo is a skinhead inspired
>>729075448With shit.
>>729075320>Played through Cosmic Invasion once>"That wasn't bad.">Go back to Streets of Rage 4 right afterSoR4 is the only one of these in years that just refuses to let me go, hundreds of hours.
>>729075547Nigga he Chinese
>>729075448licensed games
>>729075179I love the originalI almost want to buy the remake even though it kinda looks ugly
>>729074772I dunno, a lot of them just kinda suck. My baseline for a good beat em up is that you need something like D&D: Tower of Doom, where you have a shitton of moves and items and blocking and alternate paths and treasure rooms and optional bosses and all this other shiz to make the gameplay and your individual playthroughs both feel way more engaging.Instead, whenever I get recommended a beat em up, it's just the same old uber basic gameplay.
>>729074772>BEAT 'EM UPOk
>>729076137You and I have two completely different baselines then. Basic is good to me, but that doesn't mean lacking nuance or mechanical skill. Final Fight 1 is my gold standard. It's the Doom of the genre, every single beat 'em up that came after is derivative of it. Attack. Jump. Two buttons. No dodge. No parry. You have a desperation move that costs health. Final Fight is a perfect game. Every mistake has dire consequences. No enemy slot is wasted. The challenge and complexity comes from the enemy AI and how their behavior/attacks compliment each other when in groups, so you have shit like Poison who can jump out of infinites or Two-P who constantly weaves in and out of range. A big problem with beat em ups is that shitty ones can look good at a glance. If one of them likes to toss hordes of the same enemy at you then it's generally shit.
https://youtu.be/1KqJdtyXFEE?si=fL2SaNAM_fNZZtnYIs this a fetish?
>>729076723I really hate that women can commit murder and part of my brain goes "hey that's kinda hot". I really need to see a therapist.
GOAT'd
>>729077310Why? Get into BDSM. Or do both
>>729077275>Those statsWhy use Hina over Vita? She clearly is the superior choice.
>>729077541on the good timeline this game wasnt a flop and taught a bunch of boomer and gen x devs how to make a good combat system
>>729078481>He doesn't prioritize range over speed
>>729074772>Every Beatemup now is retro style or bamham combatGrim. We got spoiled with the PS2
>>729074772Forgetting someone?
>>729075320>>729075681Just like the 90s then. We're back home.
>>729076723There will never be another game like 6, for good and bad. The newer ones are trying to go back to the gunkata mix of 4-6 but to me it just doesn't work at all with the weightier, "realistic" RE Engine movement. Shame because a full-on beat em up RE in MT Framework with 6's mechanics could've been decent.
>>729075172I didnt hate this. No free heal between stages felt very rude.
>>729078863>Galsia in Streets of Rage 1>World-class boxer, master of the jab, runs at 120mph>Galsia in Streets of Rage 2>KNIIIIIIIIIIIFE!!
>>729079164It's better than I expected, but not as good as I had hoped. Salamander best girl.
>>729075681True
Turtles in Time is still better but I'm grateful for Shredder's RevengeCosmic Invasion was disappointing.
Play Fight'N Rage
i will not play Shit 'Em UpsBoring shallow gamesNo depth
Make the street sharks one already you fucking faggots at mattel, fuck you
Anyone try that one patreon porn beat em up?Onyx something.
>>729080248You just don't have a proper understanding of the genreMost modern action games aren't as skill-oriented, dynamic, or as complex as even the first Final Fight.
>>729080159Fight N' Rage is a shitposting game: people use it as a weapon to shit on popular beat'em ups like Streets of Rage 4 or the River City Girls games but no one has actually played it.
>>729080638I use SoR4 to shit on SoR4is Fight n' Rage actually good?
Actually tried Streets of Rage 3 for the first time. Played the Japanese version on Hard (which I think is like playing the American version in Normal). Didn't take many tries to 1cc, might do it again in Hardest. I like the system where your special move levels up as long as you don't lose lives, so you can turn the Grand Upper into a spinning shoryu. Music is weird, harsher and more industrial sounding. Was weird seeing levels in the daytime, I feel like SoR should always happen at night. Enemies smart enough to eat your health items if you leave them. Do not fucking play it if you get seizures, holy shit. Stage 2-2 is like a Porygon disco.
>>729080740No. That's why no one actually talks about it, or the only things people post about it is the female player character's bouncing breasts.
>>729081129We're talking about it now. It's pretty good. The sprites are good but a little too bouncy. That's not a tit joke, I mean there's a little vertex scaling squish which adds impact to moves. It doesn't look bad but it meshes oddly with the pixelated art, super-deformed art style. I've only beaten it with the bull furry.
I really like streets of rage 2 when using Max on Mania mode. Max has a good variety of useful moves and you can't simply jab everything to death. One disappointing thing is that a lot of enemies appear one-at-a-time, which means a slow and boring playstyle is very effective. Of course, you can simply choose to trigger more enemies and make the game more fun. My other complaint is that there aren't any parts where you can knock enemies off of ledges instead of depleting their HP.
>>729081129It's funny. I thought i just didn't get it since people kept shilling it here and i didn't like it enough to even finish the first stage. Everything feels weightless, and the screenshake feels like someone jingling keys in my face.
>>729081330Max's atomic drop is the single most satisfying move in any beat em up. The damage. The impact. The sound. Complete anal obliteration.
>Dudes make beat em up with ninja robots>Same team gets together twenty years later to remake it and add two new characters and one is a big titty sweater girlPlay Ninja Saviors: The Warriors Return
>>729075627Sor4Final vendettaFight n rageThe holy trinity of recent bumpsPlay absolum, it's not as good but it's good
>>729079893unfortunately true
>>729080356Yeah the gameplay is the weakest part of it unfortunately. You can tell the dev isn't a big fan of beatem up games.
Does anyone have a case for or against uppers?
>>729081460I agree, mainly because of the splash damage.
I am quite fond of Alien vs Predator.That is all.
>>729077275Yes but sadly this guys arnt isnt very good. The dragon is ok
>>729074772Dies Tekken 4's Tekken Force mode count? I played that today.
>>729087082Art*
>>729087223Yes and more fighting games should straight up just have a beat em up game mode, the genres are tied at the hip anyway
>>729084558it was pretty fun. i only stopped playing because i wanted to try a monk build in elden ring
Beat em ups are the best genre.
>>729074772For me it's Street of Fury EXAnd yes, sometimes I play as Nostalgia Critic
Is the steam version of double dragon neon any good? I played it a fucking decade ago and it was awesome.
>>729074772Will do! I'm going to play Venom & Spider-Man in Separation Anxiety, rescue Mary Jane and Black Cat, and get a threesome from them as a reward, exactly as the developers intended.
