90s CAPCOM such a great studio
>such a great studio>posts one of the worst genres ever, which only had value in scamming children 40 years agosigh
>>729694836The D&D beat 'em ups in particular are some of the greatest games ever made. It's crazy how good those games are, probably because they insisted on having extra buttons for using items and shit in the arcade era when having that many buttons wasn't normal.
>>729695167>he got filtered by one of the easiest games in the genre
>>729695591He got filtered by arguably the most fair genre in arcades.>Multiple lives right off the bat>Full life recharges between every stage>Desperation moves so you don't get fucked by the AI>Plenty of life recharges throughout the stages>Usually there's weapons on the ground for additional damage.You got a lot of playtime per credit by picking a beat em up in the arcades.
>>729694836Unrelated but this artist just decided to release some game sprites inspired by this gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9K3R-CmStU
>>729696128Not only that you die in a beat em up you respawn instantly, not some checkpoint where you refight the boss with no powerups and get skullfucked out of your remaining lives.Beat em ups being considered quarter muncher is the absolute most brain dead ass fucking take ever.
>>729694836Capcom from the late 80s to the late 00s (from GnG/Final Fight/MM2 to DMC4/DR1/RE5, roughly) was an incredible company, just classic after classic (plus some forgotten games that are just as excellent) in several genres, ESPECIALLY beat-em-ups. I don't think any one company has a better lineup in the genre than Capcom by both quality and quantity, it's insane. Shadow Over Mystara alone is beyond what most of the genre has to offer to this day, including games directly pulling from it like Dragon's Crown & Absolum.I still think the RE Engine era has an edge on the Outsourcing era of the late 00s into the early 10s despite the latter having some great games too, but its biggest issue is that the company doesn't take even 10% as many risks as it used to and to be honest the risks they do take all seem to fail anyway which reinforces that (GnG Resurrection came and went despite being a great entry in the series, Kunitsu-Gami is their best game in over a decade and it didn't make waves at all).
>>729696782toaplan is the real mamba jamba with konami and data east too.most game companies at that time where great and the golden age of videogames just didn't had capcom greats but everything in between too.It wasn't just a golden period for a company but the entire medium, and that shouldn't be forgotten.
>>729696782>>729697084so capcom was as great as everything else really tho.
What do you guys think about the IGS PGM beat em ups?
>>729694836>>729695272If I remember correctly, TSR sent someone to sit with the capcom dev team to play a game of DND. They wanted to make sure a lot of the small details made it through like needing fire to kill trolls. Genuinely a better time for gaming of all kinds.
>>729694836It was beating 90s Konami and 90s Nintendo in platformers, and still fighting a good fight against 90s Square in RPGs. Gameplay was consistently perfect, the art direction that came with SF Alpha was incredible, the soundtracks were amazing, the games were fun.Me and my friends get excited to this day when we boot up a game and this appears:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaXV_tUCCtY>>729696782>dat picKINO Nishimura was the GOAT.
>>729700058>KINO Nishimura was the GOAT.She still is, just doesn't do as much. Her art was just as emblematic of Capcom as Akiman's and Bengus's were. They still have great artists there like Ikeno, Terio & my man Shinkiro but the loss of Nishimura & Akiman (and the deterioration of Bengus) is a real blow.
>>729700058>>729700778Nishimura is half the reason I played Code of Princess (the other half being ACE on the OST) and wow that game absolutely sucked ass but every single character design is a winner.
>>729700920Same feeling I had playing Dragon Marked for Death because of Nakayama... such a meh game.>>729700778I can't get into Capcom's art styles anymore, SFVI looks like a bootleg 2nd rate neogeo fightan, RE is cinematic slop, maybe I should try monster hunter but it looks tiresome.
>>729701469I actually don't mind SF6's aesthetics but I get you. GnG Resurrection, Kunitsugami, MH Stories 2&3, and Mega Man DO all have some nice artstyles at least. Pragmata's got some decent designs but it is mostly RE-style realism. Exoprimal's suits and dinos were all pretty cool.
Looking forward to Pragmata.>>729694836I don't understand how you're supposed to have fun with beat 'em ups.
>>729695591nta but is it really considered easy? guess I suck at it lol
>>729701702>Exoprimal'sI really wanted to like shooters, just so I could play this. It looks like unadultered fun, until I realize it's a shooter.>>729701775You choose a character and beat up some enemies, there's no secret anon.
>>729696782looks like Kenpachi.
>>729695167>failure of a generation>only talks out of his ass and cries about thingslolejust zip it next time loser.
>>729700778>They still have great artists there like IkenoNope, ran off with Itsuno after the DD2 debaclehttps://www.vgchartz.com/article/465580/lightspeed-japan-studio-hires-capcom-veterans/
>>729701919Is, ironically, a squishy wizard.
>>729694836These scrolling beat-em-ups had such snappy and tactile gameplay.Everyone else just didn't seem to have that.Those Three Kingdom games seemed janky and not the same. The SNK attempts weren't as good either.
>>729701912Some classes were straight melee with no shooting at all. I mained Roadblock who was just a big wide shield that he could sometimes use as a weapon and his ult was just a Zangief lariat that made a tornado which ragdolled all small dinos. Very fun, shame it came and went like it did.
>>729702198I remember maining Terminus on Paladins just because third person camera mode turned it into a hack'n'slash... first shooter I enjoyed playing with my friends for any reason besides socializing.
>>729702072I can only imagine how much better they must've felt in the arcade with its inherent low input delay and CRTs.
I only play arcade games now pretty much.Almost everything else just has so much downtime
>>729695167Its one of the best genres ever actually.
>>729700778Kinu stopped trying just like Bengus or whatever his name is
>>729695167>scamming childrenthis has to be baitspamming continue gets you to the end at least while in checkpoint games like gradius you could waste 200$ worth of coins and still not see credit rolls if you are shit at the game, which many childrens are
>>729703747Relatable. I like being able to just pick up a game and play it through for 30-60 minutes and not having to commit to a 50-hour experience where a third of that time is spent watching cutscenes or interacting with menus or whatever else.
90s Capcom thread? Let’s discuss the multitude of their best and experimental works from said decade
>>729694836many studios were great in the 90snamco had so many great games on the ps1
>>729704648I remember that DMC4 sold very well but it was a failure in capcom eyes because they were after COD numbers. Fucking retards, kill all suits
>>729704648>leaving out breath of fire 3fuck you too
>>729705383>fighting gamesnvm, jumped the gun
>>729705136Klonoa seemed to foresee how the ethereal dreamy nature of psx graphics would feel later, they nailed that.>>729704648Gem Fighter coming with the Rival Schools demo was such a treat. Their JJBA is probably still the best game based on that franchise, and that story mode made it look like devs were having fun, I particularly like that one-off shmup minigame for the Lovers, it was fun to control both Hierophant and Chariot.
>>729695167But enough about fighting games.
>>729704648I liked puzzle fighter. too bad the game was flawed>defending incurs a huge penalty, which encourages turtling and relying on counter gems (see below)>gay counter gem comeback mechanic. just bury some crash gems and dump 5 pairs of gems anywhere to run the counter down. boom, free 30+ gem comeback>some characters were downright trash (ryu, chun li, and felicia sucked the most by a long shot as they gave opponents free comebacks)>game starves you of 1 color between diamonds. good luck guessing which>diamond forced down your throat forces you to pop one color. say goodbye to your 6+ chainthen they added Y mode (basically, a columns clone), which rewarded people for not playing the game and spamming free combos from counter gems (it's a tad hard for an intermediate player to bury opponents in 1 combo without counter gem cheese. counters came out nearly instantly too thanks to hard drop)finally, there was Z mode, which was good in theory, but the controls were seriously fucked (when dealing with power gems, you often didn't know which button swaps gems horizontally and which one vertically. it depended on the side the gems to swap were on (left/right, up/down), leading to wasted crash gems and unwated power gems due to inconsistent rotation behavior)
>>729704648Rival schools was so good. So was power stone
>>729694836you can play this kind of games with your friends online using fightcade
>>729707326Project Justice is a Top 5 Capcom game to me. Love that game to death. I'd pay a non-consumer-friendly pricetag for a full translation of the extra console modes that we didn't get over here.
>>729707326too bad rival schools is basically infinite central. one mistake and you lose a round
>>729695167Beat 'em ups/brawlers/belt scrollers are skill-based and nuanced action games that deserve respect and admiration. If you didn't 1cc it then you didn't beat it.
>>729694836How do i play this game?
>>729709889>play metamorphic force>your HP ticks down as time passesyeah no that's bullshit
>>729710305Blame America. Jap version had a normal healthbar
The only thing I hated about DnD is if you were playing Multiplayer and everyone else picks Magic User or Cleric>Me, the chad Fighter of the group>Ready for any fight >Get into literally any encounter>Swing my sword>MAGIC MISSLE>HOLD PERSON>FIREBALL>CONTINUAL LIGHT >Swing about to connect>MAGIC MISSILE>STICK TO SNAKES>ICE STORM>CURE SERIOUS WOUNDS>Enemy dead before it connects>Repeat the process
>>729696782They just have no talent, the entire industry is suffering from this all of the big names are old as fuck and on the verge of retiring with nobody to replace them
>>729695167Having friends is great, anon. You should be less of a bitch and get some.
OLD GOODNEW BAD
>>729695167FPBPboring ass button masher 'fun with friends' genre
>>729695167>>729713762samefag
>>729711062>chad fighter>cries like a bitch about being cucked by his gigachad superiors, the magic user and clericlmao
>>729715841it's not just the cucking, it's all the freeze frames adding insult to injury
>>729709889where can I play this without purchasing 40€ worth of other marvel slop alongside it
>>729718917downloading the rom and emulating it, like any self-respecting individualor if you're a lazy bastard, have your browser do it for you:https://archive.org/details/arcade_punisher
Many things start out "great"... then they become (((popular))).
>>729705752That game's single player content was INSANE>>spot the anomaly with The Sun>>side-scrolling action against Geb>>D'arby's drop the coin gameThis is all on top of the base game, unlockable character art, and the timeless ROAD ROLLER DA meme.
