Scrolling Beatemups

Crayfish · April 6, 2009, 1:54pm

The sor project looks pretty amazing, its a streets of rage remake, with redrawn art and tons of new moves and features:
http://www.bombergames.net/sorr_project/

Couple of channels with a Oriental Legend 2 videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kanewin
http://www.youtube.com/user/samlamisme

Rikidozan · April 23, 2009, 2:20am

SOR2 has always been my favorite beat 'em up. Recently I’ve been playing some Denjin Makai II/ Guardians with my brother and I’ve beginning to love this game. I can’t really make up my mind, but both games kick so much butt.

Denjin Makai II/ Guardians just has an incredible depth and lots of unique characters, I prefer playing as Grapplers so I stick to Tulks in this one. His Frankensteiner is insane and he has 2 projectile attacks aswell (not counting the universal projectile attack). Also P. Belva is freaking insane. This game has a combo counter and diversity among the characters and juggling is just beautiful.

Hot Blooded Family (Thermal Blood - Parent Child) - Nekketsu Oyako is pretty cool aswell, but SOR2 and DMII takes the crown.

JuNo · April 23, 2009, 9:09am

alien vs predator and battletoads the best!

FlyMike · April 25, 2009, 7:50pm

Alien vs Predator was one of the sickest beat em ups of all time.

Tea · May 21, 2009, 7:29am

Aces Wild, baby!

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Crayfish · June 28, 2009, 12:27am

Looks cool Tea!

The Korean online scroller I had linked to a while back is headed to PC in english!!

Lebowsk1 · July 2, 2009, 3:51am

Hello! :karate:

Lebowsk1 · July 2, 2009, 6:08am

I don’t play online games much yet so I’m not really sure how this works, but I applied to be a tester for the ‘closed beta’ and the only options for nationality were USA and Canada.

I’m in the UK. Does this mean I won’t be able to play it when it’s released?!?

Say it aint so man…

M.D · July 2, 2009, 6:53am

RockTakane:

I wanted to comment on the SoR2 talk, but first I’ll mention a bunch of my favorite beat-em-ups.

Peacekeepers (Rushing Beat 3/Shura/Syura or whatever)
Brawl Brothers (RBeat 2)
SoR3!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I like 3 best, so maybe I am the one smoking crack?
SoR2 on GAMEGEAR!!! I thought the change to the music tracks sounded cool, you could do all attacks w/o losing health but you had to be fast w/ 2-button pad inputs, as a tradeoff. I thought it was FUN!
DD2 and DD3 on NES
Ninja Warriors on SNES (only version I played…)
Guardian Heroes (I only played a little and found the game REALLY tough)
Fighting Force (again: what am I smoking? I think the moves are pretty cool for what seem to be realistic attacks)

I’ll post more later as I remember.

I like The Peacekeepers for the same reason that someone said he liked Final Fight 3: all the different paths you could take, although it’s WAYYYYYYYYYYYY too easy, though I don’t feel that’s the point.

Final Fight 3 was fun; mostly cos of the moves, but I found it to be too easy/short and there was less exploring you could do, as opposed to Peacekeepers.

Final Fight CD was pretty easy but fun, and Final Fight on snes got easy enough that I could beat the game starting out w/ only 1 life (no extra lives).

'NOW THEN: as for SoR2, maybe Axel is just best for beginners, cos ALLLLLLLLLL you really have to do is beat EVERYthing w/ Grand Upper’s invincibility, and just be sure no one’s left standing nearby to punish you upon recovery.

My biggest question is WHYYYYYYYY do ppl like SoR2 better than SoR3!!! Is it cos the series/genre in general seemed stale by then? I’ll never understand. I’ll explain why I prefer 3, but 2’s ok, I guess…!!! WHY do I wind up fighting the bosses again, near the end!!! That seems like a CHEAP way to try to enhance the dif of the game, when Mania mode’s hard enough w/o it

DIFFICULTY: 2 has Mania mode, which is NUTS, and that’s cool, but I didn’t enjoy the crazy speed/challenge at that point.

Music: the music’s better–sure.

NOW I will list the reasons (in no order of priority) for why I prefer 3…

MOVES: new moves in terms of offense but also defense. You could do specials that could sorta be “powered up” to 3 levels over time, but you could also do them ANY time w/ a 6-button pad. Blaze’s lvl-3 was AWEsome. You could even do SPECIALS w/ WEAPONS. You could dash/run, and even ROLL up and down to dodge attacks, which mighta been really useful, though I admit I never use them Blaze is TOO fun in this game, haha.

I like Zan better than Max. I thought Max would have a cool grapple attack like Haggar’s SPD in FF2, but they were so BASIC-looking to me…no finesse/flashiness!

INTERACTIVE levels: the train stage was cool cos you could get enemies to get hit by the train. I also liked the stage w/ the barrels and the wind affecting the speed of your enemies and yourself. You also got to beat up a bulldozer, which was cool in a weird way

Color schemes/designs/animations: this is mostly just about Axel and Blaze, but in the U.S. version, the colors were different. Axel wasn’t wearing a white t-shirt and blue jeans anymore: he’s NOT a Cody rip-off from Final Fight anymore!!! I thought Blaze’s ash-grey outfit looked cool, and that her old red outfit was a dull shade, but I’ll probably get flamed for this point, if nothing else! DOH Skate’s color scheme improved too, imHo, but no biggie. 'Also, some ppl said that Axel looked drunk in 3 with his fighting stance (HILARIOUS), but I also thought that was an improvement, since in 2, he simply bent his knees up and down as he stood in place, and it made him seem like a lego doll to me, or something (not convincing/realistic: even for a 2d cartoony game). He also SOUNDED drunk in 3, but at least he had the lower voice of a man, instead of “GRAND UPPUHHHHHHHH!” which wasn’t that much worse, though, really. I think both voices for that move sounded kinda garbled (Genesis sound quality anyone?), but 2 was even harder for me to understand. This point isn’t that big a deal, yet I included the most detail about it; HAH.

Those are the main reasons I find 3 more fun, but I’m SURE I’d like 2 more if 3never existed.

I’m with you on that front. It’s hard to play SOR2 after SOR3. I liked the music and all, but I spend more time listening to the music of SOR/BK2 then I do playing the game. The gameplay is a bit too stiff for me after playing SOR3. It’s also not as fast and as smooth as the 3rd game was. Smooth framerate, impressive graphics (well animated), and a serious deadly overtone is what made SOR3 a masterpiece. It may not have the best soundtrack, but it’s still a memorable game.

Crayfish · July 3, 2009, 12:56pm

Im sure u’ll be able to play the game when its released, but i dont think u’ll be able to take part in the closed beta if its region specific. They may do a second stage where they open it up to Euro territories too as many other recent betas. Its about them setting up the servers in different places i think…

aqualung · July 3, 2009, 2:15pm

ive heard from multiple sources that dungeon fighter online will be north american region only.

aka, ip block all outside this region.

playing the korean version is easy tho, and has no ip block

M.D · July 3, 2009, 9:19pm

d’ow!!!

Lebowsk1 · July 4, 2009, 1:48am

Ah man that’s ridiculous that I’ll be able to play the Korean version but not the English language version. That’s a joke, there must be some way around it. I really don’t want to have to muddle through all the kanji. Goddamnit I was looking forward to beating the crap out of gunners with a fighter.

aqualung · July 4, 2009, 3:22am

fighter is indeed fun! I had a grappler, but found fighting alot of class’s insanely hard. Very rewarding to play tho =D.

priest > In-fighter (not sure english name) is another very fun class. Think of boxer, with aoe buffs, and horizantal + vertical movement!

but honestly, i have played most of the character class’s, and I can say without a doubt, this is the best beat-em up ive ever played. not the most nostalgic by any means, but my god is it fun and worth the effort to get working.

Lebowsk1 · July 4, 2009, 6:17am

Well, I really, really hope that somehow I’ll be able to play the English language version. I know it’s not really about plot but every time I see a speech bubble come up and not know what the fuck it says, that’s going to be annoying.

Will go that way only if I have to. Love the look of this game. Fighter even has Blaze-style suplex haha.

Oh and on that note, to put all of my (overly) passionate defence of SoR2 Blaze to the test I’m gonna meet up with a relative who swears his Axel is top-tier (does well in Mania difficulty, apparently). Going to see how my Blaze can hang with that. Will post results here.

And will probably play more SoR3 too, interesting posts on that topic.

Jarv · July 26, 2009, 7:11am

Cadillacs.

and Dinosaurs.

SixMachine · July 26, 2009, 7:14am

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is awesome. Anyone play Denjin Makai 2. I haven’t explored the game that much (shitload of characters) but that blonde chick is beast.

I missed the sign up for the NA Dungeon Fighter closed Beta. Are any of you guys playing the korean version having a good time questing an stuff? Or do you wing it in where to go.

omega_terry · August 5, 2009, 2:05am

remember vendetta/crime fighters 2? 1st beatemup where you could kick people in the nuts…
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any success with the 1 coin final fight? it’s not impossible but highly unlikely. the arcade where i used to play this was set on the highest difficulty with 2 lives and some people were getting as far as stage 5 with one coin!!

there’s that section of the 5th stage with those guys that can block. they’re all over the place. eveyone usually died there.

BEWD · August 8, 2009, 8:02am

hey cray/lebowski, any tips to get past those goddamn twins in sor1? I can spam special on them the first time around, but in mr. x’s mansion they keep kicking my ass. =/

Marble · August 9, 2009, 2:17am

I one credit cleared Streets of Rage 2 the other day. Damn easy on defaults, I might go for it on a higher difficulty or with a different character (I used Axel).

But today I think I’ll go for TMNT: Hyperstone Heist. Should be pretty easy since boss 4 has no attacks of its own; it just throws mousers (worth a point each… infinite boss milking and heaps of free extends).

Edit: I got my Hyperstone Heist 1CC. The replay is uploading to youtube now. Btw all my beat 'em up videos are here http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3041F98C94B74CE5

I’ve seen some pretty awesome superplays of Final Fight. I’m not too good at it myself, but I think the trick is to jump backwards, past all the enemies, lock yourself in a corner and hit everyone with your infinite (unless you’re Haggar). This is a little harder to do in all the ports I’ve played because they don’t let you “jump past” most of the enemies.