Why was this game so culturally relevant in the 2000's? It was everywhere in the retro gaming scene back then. Every time I've tried to get into it I just don't get it. I'd much rather play Double Dragon. I guess mainstream audiences have always loved the idea of open world stuff.
>>12624024Bigger game with exploration >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Linear game
>>12624024I think it was just a good game that most people ignored because of the silly chibi graphics. But then with the internet people started to hear how popular the original was in Japan so they went back to check it out.
>>12624024>we made an incredibly boring, shallow, and repetitive beat em up>except now we also included jarpiggy grinding crap so you can farm the same hundreds of trash mobs over and over to spam through hundreds of dialogue boxes to buy a bunch of random bullshit foods that very slowly increase your stats by some unknown, minuscule, incremental amount>by the way every time you quit out, you must put in this 32-digit alphanumeric upper/lower password to continueOne of the biggest piece of shit games I've ever played in my entire life. The worst game I've played/beat this year by a mile.
>>12624024>culturally relevantnever wasyeah it was discussed as a le hidden gem on gamefaqs, that was about it. its a great game that is more than the sum of its parts
>>12624078hated that piece of shit toobtw you didnt beat contra unless it was a 1cc
>>12624024The rise of emulation and online humor communities/websites, a lot of which dealt with old videogames. A similar thing happened with Monster Party, where a largely forgotten game had a surge in popularity during the 2000s because its sheer absurdity (plus the mystery surrounding the unreleased original Japanese version) made it common fodder for videogame comedy sites.Basically, a new wave of nerds who grew up in the 80s and early 90s started to find their place on the internet, and wound up discussing games from their childhood, the good, the bad, and the ridiculous, with easy access to emulators and ROMs allowing even more people to check out these games and contribute to the discussion. It was renting a game that the kid on the playground won't shut up about expanded to massive scale.
>>12624098>1ccle wunseesee
RCR sucks fucking assBut Nekketsu Fighting Legend, thank god for that new translation, because this game is fucking amazing. 2v2 masterpiece that you wouldn't see until stuff like Def Jam Fight for New York. Even supports 2P in the campaign.
>>12624024In the 2000s, a lot of people were getting into emulators and the internet itself for the first time, so they got exposed to good NES games they missed. River City Ransom has a lot of appeal, and feels pretty unique among NES games. So it became popular among retro game fans.Scott Pilgrim also drew attention to it, since it had a bunch of references to the game.
>>12624024What exactly is so hard to understand about it? It was a unique game and people had fond memories of playing it.
>>12624629>>12624630Despite not liking RCR, RCR was the first game I remember being 'funny' and intentionally so. It's incredibly charming
>experiment with all the moves>find the broken move(s)>spam it/they/them >The EndEvery single Kunio game on Famicom
>>12624179>le creditsi beat 80 games a day on jewtube
>>12624024I played it back in the 90s and it was a neighborhood favorite. No body owned a copy though, on the rental store had it. I remember using the game genie for infinite money (and realizing 30 years later I wasted it because I had no idea what the items did).I can't answer specifically why the game was popular in the retro scene, but I can tell you that beat em ups with rpg elements are my jam and attract only patrician gamers.
Crying about grinding is extremely low IQ brown behavior. It shows zero discipline or determination. RCR is great.
>>12624851patrician shitters>>12625309design the game right. don't design the game so I have to design it for you. come on man. No RPG cheese, no leveling stat fuckery. Give it to me straight, bitch
>>12624024Gen Xers and older Millennials have a bizarre fondness for the beat 'em up genre, I guess because those games lasted a lot longer in the days where you didn't have limitless content at your fingertips. This genre basically has no appeal for anyone under the age of 30.
Memetroidvanias were at their peak of popularity in the early 00's, this action games stopped being about challenge and instead about """content""" (RPG elements and backtracking). So of course an old action game with free roaming and RPG elements would appeal to them too.
didn't have to do with that weird-arse flash animation set to daft punk from albinoblacksheep?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhPZV3-ibG4
>>12625327Better than RPGs at least
>>12625327They were games we played with friends in-person. To help you imagine it, consider the appeal of the modern "friendslop" genre, but offline and on the same screen.
>>12624078>best>slopshimaWay to let us know you have the shittiest taste ever, lmao
>>12626456The combat was fucking incredible on Lethal, especially the duels, some of the absolute best out of any open-world game or action game in general, and it never got stale. Upgrades were satisfying, Jin is a great character, the worldbuilding was top-notch, the overarching narrative was compelling, quests were mostly formulaic fetch quests but at least had interesting and unique plotlines/setups. Yes, it was a bit bloated and I did get burned out by the third island, and it uses way too many modern game tropes with extremely restrictive mission design and repetitive structure, but the combat alone was strong enough to carry, and I ended up really enjoying my time with it.But I just haven't played many top-tier games this year overall; even Tsushima wouldn't be in my Top 50 all-time.
>>12624629>Scott Pilgrim also drew attention to it, since it had a bunch of references to the game.Hobo With A Shotgun too.
>>12624024SeanbabyPractically all the nerd / gamer meme culture from the turn of the century has been lost to time
>>12624847Prove it, sambo.
>>12624026>Bigger game with explorationLiterally the only time where the game is not linear is when you have to go back to Sherman Park to defeat Blade
>>12626484No combat wasnt that good. It relied on cheese. The last boss was very gimmicky. It was a good game overall though, liked the vibes. It did stealth well
>>12624024Carried HARD in the early 2000s by a parody rom-hack called Pussy City Pimps that bloggers wrote articles about.
Wouldn't you like to know zoomie
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>>12624024I wouldn't know because I played it when it was new (in the US at least) and it was great for me then. It's like Secret of Mana - wonderful for kids, too sloppy and basic for adults (but still potentially fun if they're able to stoop to the game's level). Yeah it's repetitive, and the stats are dumb, and the items are mostly worthless fluff with a few stupidly overpowered ones mixed in. Try to become a twelve-year-old before playing it if you can. Unfortunately you can't. So play something for grownups instead. But yeah I don't know about the 2000s Internet popularity thing. Probably just some stupid misguided memey fad like almost anything else that happens online right?
