/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3034341]

https://tcrf.net/Streets_of_Rage_3

What went wrong?

[Anonymous No.3034347]

[Anonymous No.3034352]

>>3034347
It's stupid,they buffed up Blaze's stats in the character select screen so she's "as strong as axl" or something, but in game she stayed the same.

[Anonymous No.3034353]

>>3034347

>Axel
1. Knee (1 hit x 4 HP)
2. Knee (1 hit x 4 HP)

>Blaze
1: Knee (1 hit x 6 HP)
2: Knee (1 hit x 6 HP)

SOR3 is a cucked game.

[Anonymous No.3034357]

>Axel
1 hit x 16 HP, knockdown

>Blaze
1 hit x 32 HP, knockdown, slam

>Axel regular throw
1 hit x 24 HP, knockdown

>Blaze regular throw
1 hit x 28 HP, knockdown

>Axel back throw
1 hit x 28 HP, knockdown, slam

>Blaze back throw
1 hit x 32 HP, knockdown, slam

I refuse to play this SJW garbage.

[Anonymous No.3034367]

How come Axl's normal throw is a suplex but his back grab throw is a body slam

[Anonymous No.3034369]

>>3034367
How come you you intentionally misspelled Axel's nombre, hombre?

[Anonymous No.3034371]

>>3034347
>most perverted people wouldn't be turned on by an old man cyborg

[Anonymous No.3034374]

>>3034353
>>3034357
I don't actually mind them making her stronger, speed characters are kind of useless in belt punchers.

[Anonymous No.3034398]

>>3034353
>>3034357
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnismVeJc3c

[Anonymous No.3034412]

>>3034398
Pulling that infinite off should be hard as balls though.

[Anonymous No.3034415]

>>3034412
it's not, it can even be used on high HP tigers against a wall

the damage of axel's basic attacks and specials blows the other characters away

also, his forward special is around 120 frames of invincibility, and it's the strongest one in the game

he's not cucked, he's just not a blackbelt in judo

[Anonymous No.3034420]

>>3034374
Belt punchers? You mean beat 'em scrollers?

[Anonymous No.3034426]

>>3034347
What?
It isn't even a case where the female character is pink, so I don't understand.

[Anonymous No.3034428]

>>3034420
mfw noobs call walkie punchies "beat em ups"

[Anonymous No.3034437]

>>3034347
I'm legit going to try Bare Knuckle III out now. Axyl is my main man and I always thought the yellow looked like shit on him. That and the stupid kangaroo prevented me from playing too far into the game.

[Anonymous No.3034509]

>>3034341
>What went wrong?

They removed my husbando. No, I don't want to play as his kid brother.

And the censorship in SoR3 was retarded.

[Anonymous No.3034578]

>>3034428
Truly the language of a plebeian.
The correct term is "pugilistic perambulation"

[Anonymous No.3034586]

>>3034341
it tried to be a sequel to the best beat 'em up ever and that's an exercise in futility.

should've started on a 3D successor and came out with Streets of Rage 3D.

[Anonymous No.3034626]

>>3034341
Bare Knuckle 3 was too ambitious and ended up feeling extremely rushed, and SOR3 was a chopped up mutilated version of it.

To make it a good game, you'd need to redesign all the enemy drops, add more sub-bosses like what SOR2 had (SOR3 only has 10 type of generic punks, no sub bosses), give a full moveset to Zan, fix the sound effects, and maybe make the backgrounds as pretty and special effects-filled as SOR2 was.

Playing as Shiva was dope as all hell though. Shame his specials were botched (he was missing his standing A move, the spinning flame kick).

[Anonymous No.3034631]

>>3034341
Americans happened, Bare Knuckle III is just fine.

[Anonymous No.3034637]

BK3 was ok despite a few stages, the possibilities of fucking up everything with bad endings was neat too. SoR was fucked up, blame murrikans as always.

[Anonymous No.3034642]

>>3034578
No, it's "Boulevards of Belligerence".

[Anonymous No.3034669]

>>3034341

[Anonymous No.3034672]

>>3034642
>not roadie rock 'em sock 'em
faggots

[Anonymous No.3034674]

>>3034509

If you're going to be mad at SOR3 not having a playable Adam then you must be pissed at SOR2 since he wasn't playable there either.

[Anonymous No.3034678]

>>3034674
>i never paid attention to the story in SoR2

[Anonymous No.3034684]

>>3034669
>Every version after 2 has been worse
Pottery.

[Anonymous No.3034739]

>>3034347
Poor Ash got removed completely.

[Anonymous No.3034742]

>>3034739
Transphobic desu

[Anonymous No.3034757]

>>3034578
>>3034642
>>3034428
Alright already, sheesh.

[Anonymous No.3034768]

>>3034398
Holy shit what a glitchy game. How did this get past the beta testers? No wonder this game is considered the worst in the series

[Anonymous No.3034776]

Basically, it seems that SoR2 and SoR1 were the only games true to the vision of the developers.

SoR3

-censored to not offend women
-character colors changed to not offend women
-blaze's stats were enhanced because by that time Sega got cucked by American feminists
-woman character made stronger on purpose because SoR3 got cucked by American feminists

How can you sleep at night know ing yoru faveorite game is cucked to bolivian?

[Anonymous No.3034779]

How come Skate is black but Addam looks Mexican

[Anonymous No.3034781]

>>3034776
By not having SoR3 as my favorite game

[Anonymous No.3034793]

>>3034509
>Adam is your husbando
Fuck you! He's mine!!

[Anonymous No.3034794]

>>3034776
By playing the version that's from a culture superior to ours.

[Anonymous No.3034801]

>>3034776
>censored to not offend women

You got it all wrong, buddy. We had radfems in the '90s, but it was mostly the conservative / "family" groups throwing a fit over the portrayal of women in the media, and only because they didn't want America's youth corrupted by sinful temptations. Sex is bad, 'mkay?

Americans had some really puritanical views about sex up until the late '90s, and even now it's difficult for some networks and video game platforms to push things like LGBT characters or overtly sexual themes. Japan doesn't give a shit about suggestive content regardless of what audience it's aimed at, but overtly pornography content is another story entirely. They actually do have censorship laws over there.

[Anonymous No.3034815]

>>3034801
>Sex is bad, 'mkay?
How the fuck does boosting a character's strength has anything to do with sex?

[Anonymous No.3034827]

>>3034815
>How the fuck does boosting a character's strength has anything to do with sex?

It doesn't. I was referring to the changed costumes. The female opponents were given far more clothing in the English version, and Blaze's animations were tweaked to cover her nearly exposed crotch.

Changes like Blaze's stats being ostensibly beefed up probably were an effort to avoid offending female players, although I don't recall any (major) groups in the '90s making a big stink out of equality issues. Most of the protests against the portrayals of women in the media were directed at their sexualization, and were carried out by religious groups.

[Anonymous No.3034901]

>Streets of Rage 1
Rough around the edges but still a great game, perfect embodiment of 80's action movie, good music, great level design, art is gritty and contrasting which fits the theme of the game perfectly.

>Streets of Rage 2
Bright and colorful looks more like a 90's Saturday morning cartoon than an 80's action movie. Rushed out the door in under a year after SoR1 blatantly unfinished, some stages are missing bosses and enemies/bosses are copy pasted multiple times, level design is poor with most stages being nonsensical with the feeling they were just thrown in with no rhyme or reason just to fill a checklist, many features are missing such as 2 player team attacks, stage hazards, pitfalls, weapons, fat enemies can be thrown like normal etc. Combat is very slow and infinites are rampant, game is horribly unbalanced and extremely easy even on "mania" the game also has many game breaking glitches and exploits such as getting infinite lives and random crashes.

>Streets of Rage 3
Return to its roots, more gritty and darker than SoR2, game-play and combat is the best it has ever been its fast fluid and has more depth than the other games, level design is also great with branching paths, multiple interactables, stage hazards. 2 player team attacks are back and fat enemies can no longer be thrown like regular enemies, most of the missing weapons from SoR2 also return. Bosses are all unique with interesting and unique mechanics making them very fun to fight against, the game has multiple hidden extra characters and bonuses and the game is very challenging. SoR3 actually pioneered a new genre of music

[Anonymous No.3034912]

>>3034347
They aren't "gender neutral" that shit dosent make any sense. they are just the P2 pallets for some reason the US version of the game set them do default.

I remember there being a code that let you swap them back.

[Anonymous No.3034916]

>>3034912
>In the Western version Axel, Blaze and Skate wear different costumes (so Axel is in yellow & black, Blaze is in silver etc.), and every fan of the game agrees that they are absolutely godawful. Sega's reasoning was that the new colour schemes were "gender neutral"...
http://www.soronline.net/sor3_info.htm

[Anonymous No.3034918]

>>3034912
>P2 pallets

idiot

[Anonymous No.3034929]

>>3034912
That's wrong, though, the article in the OP shows the correct P2 palettes, Blaze wears blue in the Japanese version.

[Anonymous No.3034930]

>>3034918
>Play as the same character

>Hold Down+C on controller 2 as you enter 2 PLAYER mode with controller 1.

IDIOT

[Anonymous No.3034941]

>>3034768
>No wonder this game is considered the worst in the series
You're thinking of SoR2
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[Anonymous No.3034953]

>>3034941
I can spam video links too.

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[Anonymous No.3034989]

>>3034953
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[Anonymous No.3035004]

>>3034989
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[Anonymous No.3035007]

>this autist again

[Anonymous No.3035013]

>>3034989
>>3035004
There we have it folks SoR2 has more glitches, case solved

[Anonymous No.3035017]

>>3035013
>more videos = more glitches
Wow, average SoR3fag logic.

[Anonymous No.3035020]

Reasons why Streets of Rage 2 is garbage in comparison to the other games in the series.

Lets begin with the meat of the game
>Combat
The combat in SOR2 is incredibly slow and unresponsive, theres huge delays on everything moving and attacking is not fluid, the super attacks in the game punish the player with huge chunk of health loss and are more or less completely useless outside of committing suicide unlike the other games which limit but dont punish the player for smart use of specials.

SOR2 also has no coop/team moves, throwing the other player in the other games resulted in a powerful special attack which was both fun and rewarding, also holding the other player from the back gave them access to new moves like a long range kick that could knock down multiple enemies and vault attacks, these are COMPLETELY missing from SOR2

Another feature missing from SOR2 is the Fatguys, a staple of the series while they have a sprite in game they simply function exactly like normal enemies and can be thrown normally with no repercussions.

>Level Design
Another huge flaw in SOR2 is the level design. Levels in SOR2 are nonsensical and completely unfitting for the games setting, "a pirate ship" "an alien hive" "a baseball field" its just stuff thrown together with no rhyme or reason.
Aesthetics is only the tip of the iceberg with SOR2 however, stages in SOR or extremely short with many bosses being copy pasted and reused over and over again from previous stages giving the game an overall unfinished feel, also once again the game removes series staples such stage hazards like pits, hazardous factory machines and others, and while the game has an excuse for lift stage it is completely impossible to actually throw someone over the side making it just another generic level.

>Music
While generally being praised as having good music what most people dont know is that all the music in SOR2 is entirely 100% stolen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x8xnkxUNkM

[Anonymous No.3035023]

Does anyone see Streets of Rage 3 in this list? I don't see Street of Rage 3 in this list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered_the_best

[Anonymous No.3035032]

>>3035023

>it's the last ranked game on the list

Probably had some pity votes, what a shit game.

[Anonymous No.3035037]

>>3035032
SoR 3 has even less. :^)

[Anonymous No.3035039]

Why do you faggots make a new thread about this exact same belt scroller every day?

[Anonymous No.3035043]

Just discovered the existence of and played Dukes Penthouse Paradise. Are there other maps like this? Explicitly intended to be lewd? I just want to drink beer and kill aliens while my dick is hard.

[Anonymous No.3035047]

>>3035023
>Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
LMAO, great list m8

I think we found the type of casual that thinks sor2 is good.

[Anonymous No.3035052]

>>3035047

CoD4 actually is a really good game though. Stop being a contrarian neckbearded.

[Anonymous No.3035054]

>>3035047
To bait this autist out, obviously.

>>3035047
>>3035032
>>3035020
>>3034989
>>3034941
>>3034912
>>3034901

Works like a charm.

[Anonymous No.3035056]

>>3034901
I loved the new bad endings they added. Really gave the game a lot of meaning, since if you mess up, you'll mess up the game.

[Anonymous No.3035058]

>>3035039
To bait this autist out, obviously.

>>3035047
>>3035032
>>3035020
>>3034989
>>3034941
>>3034912
>>3034901

Works like a charm.

[Anonymous No.3035061]

>>3035054
>>3035058
SOR2 baby going in full autistic butthurt damage control

[Anonymous No.3035068]

>>3034901
Accurate, the only people who think SoR2 is good are the people who have never played any of the other games in the series.

[Anonymous No.3035079]

>>3035076

[Anonymous No.3035323]

>>3034398
Really diggin the beat made by the sound of Axel's punches

[Anonymous No.3035356]

>>3035017
>Wow, average SoR3fag logic
There is an average sor3fag?

[Anonymous No.3035362]

Am I the only person that thinks 3 is the best beat em up of all time? I also think the ff games fucking suck. I have more red hot opinions if you want them.

[Anonymous No.3035374]

>>3035362
Mechanically SoR3 is a much better game, the only thing SoR2 has going for it is better music.

[Anonymous No.3035384]

>>3035374
And levels, and characters.

[Anonymous No.3035392]

>>3035384
Yeah SoR3 has better levels and characters too.

[Anonymous No.3035490]

>>3034341
BK3 is fine. Sega of America just butchered it.

[Anonymous No.3035579]

Streets of Rage tier list

>Characters:
SOR3 > SOR1 > SOR2

>Combat:
SOR3 > SOR1 > SOR2

>Level Design:
SOR3 > SOR1 > SOR2

>Bosses:
SOR3 > SOR1 > SOR2

>Weapons:
SOR1 > SOR3 > SOR2

>Music:
SOR1 > SOR2 > SOR3

>Extras:
SOR3 > SOR2 > SOR1

[Anonymous No.3035616]

>>3035579

i agree with about half of this, the other half is just bewildering

[Anonymous No.3035634]

>>3034341
Nothing you're just resorting to a stupid meme site to maintain your stupid memenion of a game you never played. Hey kid why don't you go fuck off to /v/ where they spout nothing but memes your precious e-celebs said mmmkay? Thanks!

[Anonymous No.3035668]

>>3035616
Looks pretty accurate to me, only thing id say was out of place was SoR1 characters being better than SoR2

[Anonymous No.3035671]

>>3034341
When I first got the game I really didn't like it that much, but the more I played it the more I came to appreciate it. The gameplay is a subtle reworking of Streets of Rage 2 that improves on its predecessor in almost every way - no easy task considering Streets of Rage 2's sublime gameplay. The new special bar makes the special move system perfect. The addition of a dash move for the characters and not just Skate makes the action less static. Other little touches, such as the fact you no longer drop your weapon when grabbing a punk, or the way that the charcters are now really different to play and require different strategies, will be appreciated by those (like me) who have played the series to death.

The new innovative levels, with interactive features are great fun as well. The introduction off features from Rage 1, such as alternate endings, team attacks and holes in the floor to dispose of enemies are also welcome bonuses. Also brilliant is the addition of inter-level cut scenes that actually give the game a (if quite improbable) plotline.

The gameplay itself is much faster; try playing this after playing Streets of Rage 1 or 2 - you will really feel the increase in speed. The graphics and animation are also superior to Streets of Rage 2. The difficulty problem has also been solved, as this game certainly cannot be walked through first time.

[Anonymous No.3035696]

>>3035579
>characters
Max is the best SOR character ever. SOR2 wins.

>combat
SOR3 feels like you're ice-skating and slapping people. There's no impact to your blows. Worst is that your combo comes out even if you don't hit anyone. That's the gayest shit ever.

>Level Design
SOR3 train level is tedious and boring. SOR3 disco level gives people seizures.

>Bosses
SOR3 bosses are retarded. SOR2 has the best bosses.

>Weapons
SOR3 weapons feel like your slabbing butter on people. SOR2 weapons let you feel every blow with that great THUNK sound effect.

>Music
SOR3 is the worst

>Extras
Pointless.

[Anonymous No.3035710]

>>3035696
>Max is the best SOR character ever.
Hell no Max was one of the worst, better only than Skate, SoR3 had a much better selection of characters especially with all the hidden characters.

>SOR3 feels like you're ice-skating and slapping people. There's no impact to your blows.
This is straight up bait

>SOR3 train level is tedious and boring
Better than anything in SOR2, not to mention all the other amazing levels in SOR3

>SOR3 bosses are retarded. SOR2 has the best bosses.
lolno SOR3 were absolute garbage, most of the time they just stand still and let you kill them, they have nothing interesting they might as well just be mooks, hell half the time they ARE just mooks.

>SOR3 weapons feel like your slabbing butter on people. SOR2 weapons let you feel every blow with that great THUNK sound effect.
Once again complete bait, weapons are garbage in SOR2 to the point where they are borderline useless, they deal next to no damage and grabbing an enemy makes you drop them

>Music
At-least SOR3 music wasn't stolen from other places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x8xnkxUNkM

[Anonymous No.3035712]

>>3035710
>lolno SOR3 were absolute garbage
i agree sor3 has bad jogability

[Anonymous No.3035718]

>>3035696
>SOR2 has the best bosses


I love SoR 2 but it was way too easy to get every boss stuck in a loop. Hell some of them can be stun locked by just pressing punch at the right rhythm.

[Anonymous No.3035725]

[Anonymous No.3035726]

>>3035725
where's the link to the results fuck face

[Anonymous No.3035729]

>>3035725
Strawpolls don't prove shit. All you gotta do is post one in an extremely biased thread and then claim that those results are that of the entire board.

[Anonymous No.3035730]

>>3035579

>Characters:
SOR3 = SOR2 > SOR1

largely comes down to preference between 2 and 3. 1 is the objective loser: only 3 characters, less than the other 2 installments, which all play the exact same with minor differences in speed and damage. personally i prefer max over zan as i believe he is a more fun and more complete character.

>Combat:
SOR3 = SOR2 > SOR1

again, this largely comes down to preference. while SOR3's combat is technically speaking more balanced and "fair" (to who? NPCs? who cares?), there is nothing wrong with SOR2's system, as it is both complex and enjoyable. SOR1's combat is far too simple to be on even ground with the sequels.

>Level Design:
SOR2 > SOR1 > SOR3

SOR3 level design is actually the least innovative and most boring of the trilogy. while graphically it is clearly the most impressive, in terms of enemy placement, pacing, and stage gimmicks, it is the least memorable in my opinion. SOR1 pioneered great gimmicks such as the bottomless pits, factory crushers, conveyor belts, and the staple elevator stage. SOR2 improves on much of what made SOR1 great, while staying away from the more annoying and tedious gimmicks that made some of SOR3 a chore: the railway sections, bulldozer, and rescue stage.

>Bosses:
SOR3 > SOR2 > SOR1

SOR3 hands down wins for creativity and variety here. each stage has at least one fun and unique boss, although it is hampered by lack of sub-bosses and the final boss of the game pales in comparison to the Mr. X encounter of SOR2.

>Weapons:
SOR1 > SOR3 > SOR2

SOR1 wins for having the most fun, brutal and downright fun weapons to use. why smashing a bottle over enemies' heads didn't make a return in the sequels is anyone's guess.

>Music:
SOR1 = SOR2 = SOR3

every game in the series has a fantastic soundtrack. rating entirely comes down to personal preference.

>Extras:
SOR3 > SOR2 > SOR1

each sequel adds more characters and more content. this one is a no-brainer.

[Anonymous No.3035750]

>>3035730
>SOR3 level design is actually the least innovative and most boring of the trilogy. while graphically it is clearly the most impressive, in terms of enemy placement, pacing, and stage gimmicks, it is the least memorable in my opinion
What the hell are you smoking SoR3 had outright by far the best stages, not only did they look amazing but you had real innovation and and hazards, take a look at the construction stage for example, it has pitfalls, falling barrels, multi directional scrolling and a fucking bulldozer chase. SoR2 by contrast and absolutely no stage hazards, no pits no nothing, even the lift stage you were unable to throw people over the side, stages were also random as fuck and dorky. SoR3 is the clear winner here.

[Anonymous No.3035756]

>>3035730
>SOR1 pioneered great gimmicks such as the bottomless pits, factory crushers, conveyor belts, and the staple elevator stage.
>SOR2 improves on much of what made SOR1 great
How?
SOR2 had none of that, the fact the game had no pits or crushers was a huge disappointment for me, SoR3 brought everything back and even expanded on it with trap rooms, gas, snare traps, etc, but as far as i can remember SoR2 had nothing like that.

[Anonymous No.3035774]

>>3034341
They took a game that's a tad too easy and made it hard in annoying, stupid ways.
Also, cut content for no good reason. Could have been remembered as the best if it didn't have such drastic, retarded changes.

>>3035710
>At-least SOR3 music wasn't stolen from other places
just about every clubby/rave sounding track in games from then had pretty clear influences like that
SOR3 didn't just because like 60-70% of it was randomly generated.

pretty interesting seeing just what songs the SOR2 tracks were based on though (and a couple of them, I should have made the connection earlier)
Max Man sounds absolutely nothing like This Sound Is For The Underground though (fucking love that song).

>>3035756
>SOR2 improves on much of what made SOR1 great
SOR2 has a really nice, solid engine compared to SOR1. It's got dumb shit like easy jab infinites, but the game plays a lot smoother overall than SOR1, and that's not just about the framerate.

SOR3 has ace stage design though.

[Anonymous No.3035781]

>>3035756

while you're right about the lack of crushers being a downside, i think the developers possibly felt (as i do) that pits made enemy kills too easy, especially in later stages where tough enemies have large amounts of health. taking that into consideration, the only thing good that is really missing from SOR2 is the crusher (which was also absent from SOR3). conveyors and the elevator were both there. the enemy variety and the sheer intensity of the SOR2 elevator sequences makes them the best in the series in my opinion. what SOR2 lacks in stage hazards it makes up for in good enemy placement and good enemy mob composition.

[Anonymous No.3035786]

>>3035781
Elevator in SoR2 is not even an elevator, you cant throw enemies over the side, its just a regular vertical scrolling stage.

[Anonymous No.3035790]

>>3035786
Elevator stages are my favourite. We get to see our belt scroller heroes come off the belt for a bit and do some elevator scrolling instead.

[Anonymous No.3035795]

>>3035786

i define elevator sequences more by their small area and large amount of enemies with limited movement space than by the ability to throw enemies off the side. there's 6 elevator sequences throughout the trilogy, only 2 of them actually include a pitfall.

[Anonymous No.3035938]

>>3035710
>max was one of the worst

by what measure?

[Anonymous No.3036403]

>>3034901
>SoR3 actually pioneered a new genre of music
sor3 pioneered destroit techno or/and industrial music?

[Anonymous No.3037813]

Streets of Rage 3 was my first entry into the series.

I was looking forward to trying out Streets of Rage 2 since everybody says it's better.

Not being able to run, roll, or run-attack sucks.

Weapons not having health bars is nice, but dropping your weapon every time you grapple somebody sucks.

Special attacks always eating a chunk of your health instead of having a reusable charger sucks.

[Anonymous No.3038115]

A whole SOR/BK thread, not a single Blaze panty shot.

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