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The way you describe Bare Knuckle 3 makes it sound almost as good as Double Dragon Advance.What do you guys think?
The way you describe Bare Knuckle 3 makes it sound almost as good as Double Dragon Advance.What do you guys think?
*unzips, plops unit in mashed potatoes*
Yeah I don't either.
I love the passion with which people argue about their fave beat 'em ups. I know Kunai agrees with you wholeheartedly, he adores DDA.
I myself am an original arcade Final Fight man to the last. I love SoR2, DDA, etc, but Final Fight for me just takes the cake. I think it has the best character design, atmosphere, and play mechanics of any of the above-mentioned games, and really set the bar for all future games in the genre.
No one should ever mention the 'straight-to-video' accidents known as FF2 and 3.
They are abominations neither worthy of the SNES nor the Final Fight name.
I want to play Streetwise out of morbid curiosity.
I'm sure I'd have fun with it, in a dumb way.
He is right. Like Darth Vader at the end of Jedi: "Tell your sister, you were riiiiight..." I liked Double Dragon well enough at my local 7-11, and the first NES game was okay for a couple giggles... but really, Final Fight came out and I never looked back. Not once. Until the GBA game came out. And even then, I only picked it up on a whim. But holy shit is it incredible. It beats all my previous favorites like Final Fight 1 and Aliens vs. Predator pretty easily, which surprised the shit out of me.I love the passion with which people argue about their fave beat 'em ups. I know Kunai agrees with you wholeheartedly, he adores DDA.
It beats all my previous favorites like Final Fight 1 and Aliens vs. Predator pretty easily, which surprised the shit out of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifP-P1B83XI
You know what? It is. I wrestled with this for a while, but I finally had to admit that DDA is better than AvP. This is not something I say lightly or in any way joyfully.Alright you crazy SON OF A BITCH
DDA is awesome but NOT BETTER THAN AVP
Sorry street of rage 2 was and still is king of the console side scrollers, followed by part 1. Bare knuckles/SOR3 is garbage, even the homebrew remake is better than 3
AVP/DD2 are king in the arcade.
I never played 3, but after this thread inspired me to watch some gameplay videos on youtube, I have to agree that 3 at least looks worlds better than 2. Graphics look better, animation looks better. And SoR1 looks like it belongs to a different console.Next to BK3, Sor2 feels as dated as Sor1.
You're not the only one, man. I love Streets of Rage as much as the next guy, but graphically it's a joke that suffers from being limited by the Genesis hardware and has gameplay which is just the same as every other post-Final Fight beat-'em-up. I'm always willing to give credit to the guys who made the series, because they took what they had to work with and made it better than just about anyone else could; SOR/BK, just like the rest of the stand-out Genesis titles, made for a good gameplay experience.never really cared much for the bare knuckle series
i don't get the love it seems to be getting from some of you
You're not the only one, man. I love Streets of Rage as much as the next guy, but graphically it's a joke that suffers from being limited by the Genesis hardware and has gameplay which is just the same as every other post-Final Fight beat-'em-up. I'm always willing to give credit to the guys who made the series, because they took what they had to work with and made it better than just about anyone else could; SOR/BK, just like the rest of the stand-out Genesis titles, made for a good gameplay experience.
But comparing ANY SOR/BN game to, say, Final Fight CD, is a fucking joke. They were good games when either 1) one only had a Genesis; or 2) SNES beat-'em-ups still were being programmed to be exclusively single-player, but otherwise were merely "solid" games. Like comparing Ninja Combat to Metal Slug, something being of quality design and execution doesn't automatically make it somehow "superior" or "inferior," but once a game comes-out which clearly gets everything "right" or "almost right," then it's repeat-worthy.
Playable? Of course. Fun with friends? Hell yeah. Cool story and atmosphere? Most definitely. But SOR/BN games were never "best in class"...that is, unless you were a Genesis fanboy.
You're not the only one, man. I love Streets of Rage as much as the next guy, but graphically it's a joke
I got that from your post, and no, it wasn't directed at you, but the seemingly ridiculous amount of people who think that the SOR series is some kind of pinnacle of beat-'em-up gaming. Again, I've got no problem with respecting them as solid titles but c'mon, a look at much of the talk in this thread (particularly the idea that SOR2 is an epoch of sorts)...I don't know who in this thread you were trying to criticize, but the point was not to say Sor3/2 was best in class, but that one game in a series was better than the other.
mainman said:was and still is king of the console side scrollers, followed by part 1.
Mercenary X99 said:Bare Knuckle 2 is king of the wolf pack!...The whole idea that Bare Knuckle 2 can even be dethroned is simply absurd.
Spike Spiegel said:SOR2 is just amazing.