Vote on the worst beat em up for Neo Geo

[HeavyMachineGoob]

Wasn't sure if 8Man should count...

Also not sure if Spinmaster and Top Hunter should count, those are more about jumping and obstacles.

 

[StevenK]

Why the negativity of late, goob?

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

Because neo-geo.com runs on negativity

 

[Neo Alec]

8man, ffs...

 

[Johnny16Bit]

How come Ashita no Joe isn't 100% ?

 

[Neo Alec]

How come Ashita no Joe isn't 100% ?

I didn't vote for it because there's an argument it doesn't belong on the list. The stages barely exist. It's mostly boss fights and broken AI. It's not a very interesting poll with it included.

 

[Ajax]

Every game on this list is bad, I'm sorry to say.

 

[neo_mao]

Every game on this list is bad, I'm sorry to say.

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[Neo Alec]

I've always had a soft spot for King of the Monsters 2. Why's it bad? The final stage?

Sengoku 2 used to be unimpeachable. Seems like the tides have turned against it.

 

[Ajax]

Every game on this list feels like it was developed by people that don’t play games.

Common enemies in Sengoku 3 take like a minute to defeat. Pure, unadulterated tedium.

Sengoku 2 is the best game on this list. Burning Fight is fun for the backgrounds, I guess, but it’s a pretty crappy game.

 

[Fygee]

Anyone that thinks Sengoku 3 or Burning Fight is worse than Legend of Success Joe is either trolling or needs their head examined.

If we take the obvious stinker out of the equation though, I have to give the nod to Burning Fight. It's pretty ok the first few stages, but once it starts throwing a bunch of Duffys and mini-bosses/bosses with a fuck ton of health at you, it gets tedious as all hell.

Sengoku 3 just needs a mod to speed the game up and lower the amount of time enemies stay on the ground, and it would be fantastic.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

I’ll say it again: Mutation Nation is vastly underrated.

 

[famicommander]

Almost all of those games are horrible.

Mutation Nation and Robo Army are okay. I don't remember ever playing Ninja Combat. The rest are trash.

 

[Fygee]

I’ll say it again: Mutation Nation is vastly underrated.

Agreed. Between that and Sengoku 1 and 2, it's the one I go back to play the most. It was weird and a lot of fun. Shame they never made any sequels.

The final boss and that brain head boss with the floating rocks were super lame though. Only bad things about it.

 

[Neo Alec]

Almost all of those games are horrible.

Mutation Nation and Robo Army are okay. I don't remember ever playing Ninja Combat. The rest are trash.

Sengoku 2?

I want to know why people turned on Sengoku 2. Was it all just posers back in the day trying to be hardcore?

 

[famicommander]

Sengoku 2?

I want to know why people turned on Sengoku 2. Was it all just posers back in the day trying to be hardcore?

The only good thing about Sengoku 2 is that it doesn't suck as hard as Sengoku.

 

[Fritz]

The only good thing about Sengoku 2 is that it doesn't suck as hard as Sengoku.

You play Hotel Mario on the cdi. Never talk negatively about Sengoku 2 again.

 

[famicommander]

You play Hotel Mario on the cdi. Never talk negatively about Sengoku 2 again.

Hotel Mario is fun. In the same way that the original Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and Donkey Kong Jr are fun.

 

[Fygee]

Sengoku 2?

I want to know why people turned on Sengoku 2. Was it all just posers back in the day trying to be hardcore?

I don't get this either.

IMO Sengoku 1 and 2 are the best beat-em ups on the system. I'm particularly partial to Sengoku 1 as it was the first Neo game I ever played.

 

[HellioN]

Sengoku 3 just needs a mod to speed the game up and lower the amount of time enemies stay on the ground, and it would be fantastic.

Sengoku 3 needs to be faster, shorter, and the baddies less of an abuse sponge.
Mutation Nation is the best BEU on the NEO•GEO otherwise.
Kinda weird because this whole genre really seems like one that the NG should excel in.

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

I've always had a soft spot for King of the Monsters 2. Why's it bad? The final stage?

Sengoku 2 used to be unimpeachable. Seems like the tides have turned against it.

Yes it's the final stage that kills KOTM2. Without a doubt the worst slog ever. A full boss rush of everything fought previously, plus the final boss that takes a week and 99 credits to defeat.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Beat em ups on the Neo Geo should have been a no brainer. What a perfect system for them. But nope, they were (at best) mediocre, and more times than not, usually garbage. I remember buying Mutation Nation without even playing it back in the day. What I received was a huge disappointment. What a turd.

 

[city41]

Sengoku 3 by a mile. Since it was such a late release it should have been way, way better. It was so monotonous and dull. Almost all other beat em ups on the system get at least a little pass due to them being such early games.

 

[yagamikun]

Sengoku 2 is easily tops for me, followed closely by Mutation Nation. Sengoku 2 is just bonkers in its setting and variety. An easy win for game night, especially with friends not into games.

SNK & ADK stretched themselves a little too thin trying to pump out a smattering of games in the early days trying to support their new hardware, but quality control on most of these earlier releases was shit. Hit stun and player feedback? What's that? Lol

These games get no free pass for being "early" Neo games from me. The genre was well established and generously iterated upon by 1990. Games like Final Fight and the original TMNT were both out a year before the MVS even launched.

 

[LoneSage]

Beat em ups on the Neo Geo should have been a no brainer. What a perfect system for them. But nope, they were (at best) mediocre, and more times than not, usually garbage. I remember buying Mutation Nation without even playing it back in the day. What I received was a huge disappointment. What a turd.

The woman boss with multiple arms, well her tits bounce. That was nice at least.