Never played games like Streets of rage, gunstar heroes or final fight growing up (never got the appeal and preferred "pure" platformers like Mario and Sonic).
Have these games aged well? Which are still worth playing and more importantly what is the best way to obtain them?
James Bell
Gunstar Heroes has probably aged better than Streets of Rage and Final Fight.
Brayden Gomez
Emulators of course, Streets of Rage 2 is among the best beat em ups of all time. Also almost everything made by Konami, and this quirky personal favorite.
Camden Gray
Yeah no.
Charles Collins
Thanks for quick replies. I guess I'm using a genesis emulator for the streets of rage trilogy and final fight right? What emulator is best?
Alexander Martinez
SOF2 is a much better game than Gunstar Heroes.
Blake Nguyen
Gunstar not final fight even
Camden Garcia
KEGA Fusion is what I use.
Jaxon Johnson
Kega Fusion, also make sure to play the Japanese of version of SOR3 (Bare Knuckle 3) Well sure if your plan is to play the Sega CD version. Otherwise, MAME for Final Fight.
Nolan Reed
The Sega CD version has much better music and sound effects than the arcade one.
Jayden Watson
The Dungeons & Dragons beat em ups are awesome X-Men Turtles in Time was incredible for its time Contra 3:The Ayy Lmao Wars is a must play. Check out Hard Corps too Guardian Heroes
Jeremiah Jenkins
Bare Knuckle 3 - genesis Streets of Rage Remake - PC Maximum Carnage - SNES The Shadow - SNES Captain Commando - Arcade Golden Axe - Arcade, Genesis Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder - Arcade
Emulate all of them. SoR Remake you'll need to search for, but I'm sure there's a torrent of it. The author's of it got C&Ded by Sega Europe so sadly they can't host it themselves.
True, but it's still slightly censored compared to the arcade version.
Daniel Edwards
play them on original hardware. also play die hard arcade, dynamite cop, and guardian heroes.
Jason Wood
Also check out the SNES or Arcade versions of Battletoads (NES is pretty much a different beast) Kick ass soundtrack too
D&D My nigger
Nicholas Martinez
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Camden Peterson
Nigger what are you doing? Why are you encouraging him to give to scalper kikes? Also, if he's just trying them out there's zero reason to waste money on original hardware.
Ayden Allen
Also check out the 1994 arcade Battletoads. It's hilariously grittier and the sprite art is gorgeous.
It's been brought up enough times in the thread that I think OP knows to play 2 as well as the uncucked version of 3.
Ian Sanchez
b-but muh accuracy
Henry Howard
The original hardware argument is a waste of time and time if OP is just looking to try out some games. If he really enjoys them, then he should get original hardware and flush hundreds of dollars down the drain.
Joseph Phillips
*time and money
Landon Richardson
Every fucking time. Emulate Alien Soldier.
Kevin Collins
With the fan translation patch.
Easton Sullivan
Are golden axe 2 and 3 worth getting too? WHat about shinobi games?
Way ahead of you fam.
Camden James
A prototype rom was leaked, but the game was actually never released.
Anthony Price
where did I say buy copies of these games?
Zachary Hughes
Golden Axe 3 is SHIT
Angel Wright
You are shit.
Ian Turner
Revenge of Death Adder rapes the Genesis games quality wise. I guess you could play 2 and 3 if you're a completionist. Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi 3 are amazing, play them.
Hence why I say emulate. Also, the game was fairly finished, the only problem is flickering with some of the enemy sprites.
Bentley Lopez
It is though, have you played it?
Anthony Edwards
When you implied it here: You think OP owns all the games being recommended to him, especially Saturn games?
Austin Russell
where did I say buy copies of these games you disingenuous faggot?
Daniel Diaz
Several times with different routes. It's way better than 1 and 2.
Brody Ward
disgust
Anthony Turner
LOL no, 2 is about as forgettable. Revenge of Death Adder is the only truly good Golden Axe.
Anthony Cruz
Is English your first language you stupid nigger?
Jackson Rogers
so I didn't say it, glad we can agree. How's it feel being a dishonest faggot?
Connor Stewart
So if OP doesn't own them on original hardware, how should he play these games?
Leo Long
burn a copy you idiot
Logan Phillips
You realize there's more to playing burned Saturn games than burning a CDR and throwing it in the console, right nigger?
Luke Perry
Are you retarded?
Samuel Diaz
oh fuck you have to remove 6 philips head screws oh fuck you have to take the lid off and tape down a metal switch oh fuck you have to put a real game in for a second oh fuck you have to remove it and put your burned copy in
god damn how hard, do you know how rare philips head screw drivers are? Fuck they cost like 200 bucks sealed on ebay. who has that money lying around?
Christopher Peterson
So this is the autism…of real hardware fags…wow
Jose James
Original hardware cucks everyone.
Eli King
Anyone besides me remember the Night Slashers arcade game?
Ian Price
I know right? screw drivers are just impossible to manage. I'd rather find a working bios file, make sure it's region correct, mount my disc images in a shitty virtual drive software or use the very much beta mednafen.
how do you faggots remember how to breathe
hey the dishonest retard is back, please learn a fucking thing or two about the dozen different ways to play copies on a saturn before talking about them. you also forgot you need a discontinued ========R@R@ L@@K @@@ SEGA SATURN MOD CHIP PLAYS BURNED GAMES!!!=========
oh wait you're a dumb nigger and have done no research into anything ever in your life like the cuckchanner you are
Noah Baker
Please go away.
Colton Hughes
Tower of Doom Shadows Over Mystara
Pretty much the pinnacle of the genre, arcade only until they had some steam version put out. Haven't played that so won't speak of it, but they're amazing beat-em-ups and work pretty flawlessly with MAME and crap.
Ethan Price
Why
Nathan Hughes
Keep going.
Carson Ross
Because it's Capcom
Liam Jenkins
emufag safespace, I know
post some more uninformed retardation for me to correct
Christopher Peterson
Post some more redtext fuckups, >>>/cuckchan/
Adrian Lee
holy shit you're that stupid aren't you
Alexander Cooper
Keep going
Samuel Torres
get lost on the way from resetera?
Parker Gutierrez
I never did that
Gabriel Thompson
Elf tiddies
Carter Collins
my mistake
Charles Morgan
>>>/cuckchan/
Aiden Hill
They're still replayable even today so yes, unless you really don't like the genre then don't bother. Depends on what you mean by best. Cheapest way is pic related. If you are an original hardware only fag, then go scour for original hardware and carts.
Samuel Perry
This is good collection of megadrive/genesis games, also has little neat history bits about the games as well. SOR1 and 2 are also good on the 3ds, the 3d effect is nice.
Daniel Baker
I've always felt like the gameplay in the pseudo-3D dimetric beat 'em ups was really shallow and crappy. They typically have stiff controls and it's difficult to tell if you're on the proper plane your enemies are on.
Scrolling shooters on the other hand "hold up" real well. Go play Gradius II to experience a real game.
Alexander Ross
Nah.
Samuel Diaz
Step it up
Easton Cox
Sorry, I enjoy technically sound games.
Cameron Watson
Gradius, huh. I am more of a rtype man myself. So whats your opinion of gradius 4.
Ryder Bailey
the sound in this game is pretty technical though
Lincoln Evans
Sonic Blast Man II Spider-Man Separation Anxiety The Fall and Return of Superman Golden Axe Revenge of Shinobi Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time Motherfucking BATTLETOADS You already mentioned Streets of Rage Double Dragon I'd say so Emulate. I don't want to hear it; if you like original hardware, then fine, go do that. I can see the value in that, but I can also see the value in emulation. It essentially preserves all of the games of yesteryear for the indefinite future, and you can't hate on that.
Ayden Cook
Beat em ups i can recommend
Sega genesis
-Streets of rage 2 and 3 (only the japanese one (bare knuckle 3) since the localized version was gang raped by Sega USA
SNES
Final Fight 3 (don't bother with 2, its very boring)
The Rushing Beat Series, in USA Jaleco decided every game should NOT be part of the same series, so all the games have different titles. Don't bother with the first (Rival Turf)
Arcade (MAME, where the gold is)
-Cadillacs and Dinosaurs -The Punisher -Battle Circuit -Alien VS Predator -Violent storm -TMNT 4:Turtles in Time -Captain Commando -Dungeons and dragons shadow over mystara (it recently had a port to windows trough steam with the name Chronicles of Mystara) -Night Slashers, a pretty good game with horror elements.
As a bonus If you like Streets of rage , find Streets of rage remake, a big ass tribute to the trilogy that has element, enemies,playable characters, and stages from the 3 games plus some new content.
And if you like the genre and have a PS3, consider Dragon's Crown (or not, i think it's getting a ps4 version)
Liam Brown
Battletoads isn't exactly a Beat em up, specially the first game.
Revenge of Shinobi is more a platformer, and since we talk about shinobi, consider shinobi 3 too. for me it aged better too.
In my case i'd prefer Maxium Carnage over separation anxiety because Separation anxiety felt like it lasted forever… also those labirynth stages…
Parker Martin
is this suppose to be like one of those sort of riddles
Luke Williams
I've never heard that before. What would you call it, then?
Caleb Fisher
the Dark Souls of racing games
Jaxon Myers
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Jonathan Ortiz
You can also get them on the PSN store.
Isaiah Rogers
implying you played platformers but didn't enjoy them why even live?
Adam Miller
Awful game that only improved over Carnage by adding multiplayer. It's an inferior game every other way.
Jack Gray
Get some good reflexes, grandpa.
Grayson Kelly
good list but would recommend they play the superior SNES version of Turtles in Time and I would add, -Sengoku 3 -Bad Dudes -Gaia Crusaders -TMNT arcade
Isaac Kelly
The side scrolling shooters have aged better than most of the beatemups. Except Bare Knuckle 3 is still fantastic and basically the pinnacle of the genre. Sengoku 3 is pretty cool too.
The genesis plus GX core in retroarch. Because it has a hard gpu sync, shaders you can customise to your liking and a built in lowpass audio filter. Kega fusion is great but not quite as good. Final Fight has aged like milk, if you're going to play it just play it on mame. The MegaCD version has some neat arranged music but overall the arcade version plays and looks the best.
Ye
Wrong aspect ratio.
Landon Martin
The Punisher
Play that shit, seriously. Will give you extra hair on your chest just by watching the start screen.
Jayden Jenkins
2d sprites beats 3d CG models
Colton Reed
Streets of Rage 2 IS THE BEST beat 'em up of all time. alongside SoRremake
Hudson Garcia
Any of the Capcom beatemups: Captain Commando, both D&D games, The Punisher, Alien vs Predator