Pit Fighter being a bad game is pure historical revisionism. It was always regarded as a masterpiece.
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>>12566071BasedI hate youtubers so much it's unreal.
>>12566071>1991There were no other games like it back then. It was popular in the arcades. The console ports weren't that great but it was one of, if not the, first fully digitized home console game.It has aged like absolute dog shit however. But that doesn't mean that it wasn't popular and enjoyed on release.
>>12566071Wait, Pit Fighter is considered a bad game now? When did this happen?
>>12566083Some e-celeb probably shit on it for clicks.
>>12566085obsessed
>>12566086With whomst? I don't even watch youtube.
>>12566071The Arcade game is properly rated as a janky and simplistic but fun game that was one of the first to use digitized actors (predating mortal kombat). It has aged badly but has a certain charm to it.The negative online discourse is mostly about the SNES version, which is basically impossible to beat because you have one life, no continues and your health does not even refill between matches so you have to beat the entire game with 1 health bar. The Genesis version had a normal, sane continue system so it got better reviews
>>12566071Game magazines were littered with paid reviews. This image doesn't prove the game wasn't kinda ass even on release
I remember seeing a Pit Fighter cabinet at my local video store as a kidProbably the first time I saw a game with digitized sprites, so I thought it was kinda neat, but the gameplay itself was pretty assBloodsport in vidya form it was not
>>12566081>>12566138>agedBut /vr/ told me that video games don't age?
>>12566206Only nostalgia autists think that. Some of us just like playing games that are fun. I could list off a hundred 8/16-bit games that I absolutely loved back in the day but have aged like bullshit, and I wouldn't feel bad about it because games to me are sources of fun more than they are memories that have to be protected.
>>12566146Doctor Dave never took bribes. He upheld ethics in game journalism 100%.
>>12566071>game is good because a magazine gave it a high ratingDamn, I guess Rise of the Robots is fucking amazing and calling it shit is pure historical revisionism
>>12566072FPBP. Close thread, ban OP.
>>12566146I wouldn't doubt it but it seemed more like they just gave good ratings to the games they thought the little retards would like despite being objectively shitty. These magazines were read primarily by 10-15 year old retards and they had to do things like that to placate them.But with GamePro in particular, if a game was overall fun enough they would often bump up the ratings for the controls and music even if they weren't great, so it wouldn't look like they were negging on a good game. Giving a 5.0 across the board really just meant "This is a good game" but the separate numbers didn't mean much.
>>12566223>Amiga versionThat's a whole other story from the console ports. Amiga fags had to eat whatever shit you gave them by that point.
>>12566221>that smilehe doesn't look very trustworthy...
>>12566071Gamepro has THE WORST grade inflation out of all the magazines though Gamefan could be bad sometimes too.
GamePreo didn't give Mortal Kombat Sub Zero Mythologies a perfect score. But they liked it enough to gibe it a 4/5... at least for the PSX game they did.
>>12566071gamepro rating system is the most reddit thing ever
>>12566264>Gamepro has THE WORST grade inflation out of all the magazines though Gamefan could be bad sometimes too.GameFan was one of the true pioneers of the 7/10 "shit sux" review score system. basically if you were a long term reader you had to continually adjust the scoring system in your head that anything below a 7 was considered to be terrible by them.
>>12566071nope. rented it when it was new. returned the stinking dogshit the same day for something else.
>>12566206Some age better than others. In the case of something like Pit Fighter, its primary appeal was the novelty of digitized actors, the gameplay was adequate but not super deep or engaging. But then Mortal Kombat came along and it did the same thing but with a bigger cast of more interesting characters and stages and finishing moves and superpowers and games like Pit Fighter kind of became immediately obsolete. It was an intermediate stage. Fun enough in its time but quickly surpassed and not so good you would want to revisit it instead of other games.
>>125662903DO is probably the only console where I think the phrase "poorly aged" applies. The particular early digitized art and actors look is just bad. Yes it is a unique aesthetic in 2026, but nobody today would rave over it like these guys did at the time.
>>12566071oh so its a good game then? you play it yourself, do you? you wouldnt be calling out people who get their opinion from youtubers by getting the opposite opinion from game journalists, would ya?
>>12566223Game journalists back in the 90's were just happy motherfuckers in general who wanted to say nice things about everything and everyone because it was a great time for the industry and magazines and they were getting to play vidya all day and make actual human wages and it was a pretty sweet deal for everyone. They didn't want to piss off companies who gave them advance copies and fed them news and bought ads so you had to really shit the bed to get a full blown negative review.Like >>12566229 said, you just took grade inflation into account and adjusted your expectations. A perfect score was good, good meant okay, middling scores meant "not good but they want to be polite" and if they actually shit on something then it was pure ass.
>>12566290Gamefan’s scores made more sense when you realize they ran a chain of game stores. I have an issue from 1994 where nothing scores below an 80. Even shit like Clayfighter 2. Great mag though. Shame about Nick Rox
>>12566304I have 1CC'd Pit Fighter every day for the past 30 years. The game is just that good.
>>12566071Pit-Fighter was jank trash and Pit Fighting seems to have no actual history and almost like it was a hallucination of pathological liar Frank Dux.
>>12566398This nigga lives in Hell.
>>12566071Nahh it was a kusoge always even if you defend it will always be shit.Is similar to praising mortal kombat despite béing a bad game.Americans always have made shitty games.
>>12566197>Bloodsport in vidya form it was notit was close enough for me when I was a kid. It even has a playable character that is essentially van damme. This game was as close as you could get to playing a van damme movie back then and for me that was enough
>>12566071This kind of thing is why I didn't read Gamepro. Even back then I knew their scores were paid for.
>>12566071Tranny Smith!Du Dun Du Dun DunTranny Smith!
>>12566426>Americans always have made shitty games.Nah man, Americans made Doom. American PC games were amazing. Console games were more of a mixed bag, but I still loved Road Rash 2 and Earthworm Jim.
>>12566071The coin-op was passable, the home conversions were all horrific. No reputable publication of the day gave it high marks. You're either deluded, or retarded.
>>12566197I saw lots of them in various places as a kid. I never played one though, because it looked boring. To this day I have never played the game. So I cannot comment on its quality.
>>12566330>Gamefan’s scores made more sense when you realize they ran a chain of game stores. I have an issue from 1994 where nothing scores below an 80. Even shit like Clayfighter 2. Great mag though. Shame about Nick Roxyeah, that is kind of true. Dave Halversion started Die Hard Gamers Club which appeared in the back paged on EGM in like... 1990-1992. Die Hard Gamers Club specialized in importing Japanese games and products. I dunno what happened with EGM. But it caused Halverson to create Die Hard Game Fan magazine, which would always give a 2-4 page spread to DHGC, but leave room open for other retailers. But Halversion did sell of DHGC or some shit. Some other company called GameCave took their place. But yeah, Die Hard game fan would highlight Japanese imports sold in the DHGC section. It made them an interesting magazine. I feel like Gamefan was one of the first real magazines to hype the PS1 console. At least in North America, anyway. They would get their hands on the Japanese imports early and rave about them back in 1994 and early 1995 before the US launches. They were blown away with the PS1 because it felt like it came out of nowhere. While the Sega Saturn was more of an expected hype. They did cover the original E3's.
>>12566701The magazine Hardcore Gamer Magazine was a weird attempt to revive the GameFan style. It was produced by a mash up of ex GameFan editors who worked for the magazine between 1992 and 1998, and people who came from a gaming message board called TheNextLevel. It did last from 2005 to 2010. So 5 year run. About as long as the original GameFan. Even the old artist returned.
>>12566071>straight 5'sWell, it's a certified perfect classic. It's over.
>>12566089This board is now firmly in the pro e-celeb camp, you aren’t allowed to criticize them at all. As we’ve gotten more and more zoomer refugees from /v/ they’ve been trying to force mold the board culture to be pro e-celeb now, this is the result. Any sort of criticism is “obsessed” now.
Kind of impressive that Walmart has been producing their own game magazine for over a decade now.
>>12568024Holy schizo
>>12568374https://archive.org/search?query=Walmart+GameCenter&tab=all
>>12566701A classic...
The greatest RPG nobody has ever played in North America and other parts of the globe because of small print runs. Never released as an emulation or ported anywhere else... Just "take out word for it".
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Plumbers Don't Wear Ties... was it really a 1/10?
Super Mario World
>>12568732Vs. Sonic the Hedgehog
Mortal Kombat SNES
>>12568749Genesis/ MD
>>12568701Virtua Fighter Remix reviews
>>1256876332x vs jaguar
>>12566138Correct post.
>>12566071the arcade is funthe port is definitely notthe port is fucked
>>12566295>primary appeal was the noveltyYep, this is a good way to describe "aging poorly" to concrete thinkers who seethe when people say that a game has "aged poorly." Its relevance was heavily boosted by novelty and/or some sort of technical achievement, despite the fundamentals being mediocre, while future games overshadowed its technical achievements and took what was once novel and rehashed it until it became commonplace (or basically just did everything it did, but better). Mortal Kombat took the concept of digitized people engaged in hand to hand combat, but added better art direction, stronger character design, a cool story, and better gameplay to make something that people would want to play today despite it being over 30 years old. Can't really say the same for Pit Fighter
>>12566071>historical revisionismOP is a liar. Plenty of print mags back in the day ripped the genesis port to shreds. Besides GamePro sucked ass.
>>12568378Not an argument zoomer faggot
