/vr/ - Retro Games

Way of The Warrior hands down.
I was a fan of White Zombie, and like most kids at the time, I thought digitized sprites and MK-like violence was truly next gen gaming come to life. Even my biases couldn't save that miserable pile of shit.

>>6301264
I played with a keyboard for the extra 'fun'.
Also I've just noticed that there was a sequel to this game. What the fuck? Why?

>>6301287
>Also I've just noticed that there was a sequel to this game. What the fuck? Why?
Yeah I don't get it. It's already The Ultimate PC Fighting Game. No need for a sequel.

It just doesn't work.
At least it looks damn good for a 1995 Windows game.

>>6301274
>Chang Lopez vs Special Girl

>>6301264
Survival Arts

>>6301264
FIST

>>6301264
>Wtf?
>look it up on jewtube
>opening cinematic
>banging tokusatsu tune comes up
>MAJOR asian ass with a more than pornographic camera angle
It's too bad the game is one of the worst I've ever seen in my life, and that's saying a LOT coming from me.

>>6301264
I had never seen FMV and '''''anime''''' blended together in such a poor manner before. That stuff looks like a Toonstruck fighting game.

>>6301274
Same here... Soundtrack is what kept me goin.

Rise of the Robots was also a complete shitpile on the 3DO.

cho aniki for snes. funny ass game but its not very good

>>6301443
Definitely this, was the legit worst fighter I’d ever played

>>6301589
>nah bro
>32 MEG based cart
That crowns title went to Unholy Night.

inb4 some contrarian fuck ass says this was good

No shaq-fu yet?

>>6301264
Shadow: War of Succession without any doubt. It makes Way of the Warrior and Surivival Arts look good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHANbzGfULE

>>6301264
cool

>>6301589
Music by Briant May? The BRIAN MAY!?

>>6301629
Yes, but if I recall correctly they couldn't use the stuff he composed for the game for some legal reasons so in the end they just sampled some parts old stuff by him for the game's intro.

>>6301641
How dishonest

>>6301597
For as shit as Shaq-Fu is, its actually somewhat competent compared to the other games in this thread.
Shaq-Fu is a 5/10 where Rise of the Robots is like a 2/10.

>>6302052
There are tiers to this... RotR certainly sucks but it basically works. I think the real rock bottom may be 3DO/Jaguar exclusives where they didn't give a fuck AT ALL about anything but getting screenshots of digitized graphics into magazines

As far as something I've found in the wild, and actually tried I'll say Blood Warrior. A bizarre Japan-produced MK clone. They all do the same 3 fatalities (enemy explodes, enemy's head turns into red blob, enemy's upper half explodes). It's just really gnarly with some decent production qualities mixed with garbage.

>>6301641
>>6301647
Looking into it, it was only 2 songs: The Dark (which is the only Brain May song to appear in the game proper) and Resurrection (an instrumental version of which is apparently in the files and may have played in some versions like the CDi version?)
https://youtu.be/9r4LQ9ayHbc
According to this german interview, if Wikipedia is to be believed, then May did make a full soundtrack, but his record company delayed it so the devs had to have Richard Joseph compose a new one.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160219221741/http://www.eurogamer.de/articles/2016-02-08-die-schlechtesten-spiele-aller-zeiten-die-90er?page=14
https://youtu.be/9r4LQ9ayHbc

>>6302068
Given this: >>6301615 you're probably not wrong.

>>6301594
What the fuck happened to DBZ games in 5th gen?
After a few clunky attempts, they finally got some solid games with Super Butoden 2, Super Butoden 3 and Hyper Dimension.
Then they dropped the ball HARD with Shin Butoden, Ultimate Battle 22 and Final Bout. 3 games, all 3 of them abysmal.
Hyper Dimension came out in 1996, too. It could have been released in 5th gen systems.
It's a mystery to me.
At least we got DBZ Legends.

>>6302182
The SNES games all used pixel art, while with the 5th gen games they attempted to use animation cels scanned into the game because the hardware could now allow for it. And it looked awful. Dunno about Legends though, and didn't Final Bout look pretty decent for its time?

>>6302182
Big 3D Leap/Leap from pixels.
Also, it did special intros before DBFZ
https://youtu.be/g5sf7gv-ylY

>>6302206
>and didn't Final Bout look pretty decent for its time?
No.

>>6302206
>>6302248
I wasn't even talking about the graphics though, the GAMEPLAY was fucked.
I don't get how they can go from Super Butoden 2/3, and then shit out something like UB22/Shin Butoden.
I can sort of give Final Bout a pass for being an early 3D fighting game, but there is no excuse for Shin/UB22.

>>6301294
I had this game, too. Absolutely awful.

>>6301264
Does Wrestling games count too? I never was a fan of the regular fighting games. The worst of this kind probably was the usual suspect of Rise of the Robots.

But when talking about westling games probably Zen Nihon Joshi Pro Wrestling: Queen of Queens for the PC-FX (All Japan Women Pro Wrestling: Queen of Queens) was the worst. Who in his right mind would get the idea that a fighting game only consisting of short FMV clips was a good idea?

>>6301264
There was a SNES fighter game I remember playing as a kid. The story went that a Goddess had a bunch of warriors and one went rogue and had to fight every other warrior. Presumably you fought the Goddess at the end but I never got to that point. The controls were pretty shitty. Your special move was like a filled power bar plus holding down some keys. At the time Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken and Virtua were in the arcades but this was a pretty shitty 2d game. Felt like an Amiga PC game for the SNES it was so bad. They came out with Killer Instinct like right after this too. Wish I could remember the name of it

>>6301274
>>6301615
Imagine the heartbreak back in the day of shelling out $700 for next-gen system just to play shit like this

>>6301294
I remember this, it came as a demo in PC Magazine probably. It was shareware. Not sure how well it played but it wasn't expecting to be good either.

I got this for christmas instead of Street Fighter II Turbo

>>6301264
Anyone remember the PC game where you fought as Chinese generals?

>>6302453
Sango Fighter

>>6302421
Seems cool in theory but terrible in execution obviously

>>6302465
Sweet, thanks! Yeah it didn't seem too bad looking but it probably would've sucked if it was for consoles too.

>>6302452
Uh oh, this looks like a furries game... Wtf were your parents thinking?

>>6301264
>>6301412
The women look hot at least

>>6302475
Back then, furries were an actual niche community that most people had no idea existed.
Anthro animal characters were liked by kids, and while some of them may have become furries later on, not all of us did.
I had a lot of crushes from anthro animal characters from cartoons when I was a toddler, and nowadays I'm the most boring type of normie who can only enjoy vanilla porn, and I hate furries.

>>6302484
same here

This shit was the worst.

Clayfighter 63 ⅓

>>6302443
Doomsday Warrior

>>6301615
Fun fact: despite the FINISH HIM prompt, they didn't actually bother to put fatalities in this game.

bloody roar was kinda shit 2bh

>>6301264

>>6302520
Wasn't it made by the same devs as Killer Instinct?

>>6302517
Nice thanks

>>6301264
The Bushido Blade games, I'm not sure how well they've aged but the concept of a fighting game where you can get 1shot seems kind of retarded

>>6302534
Not at all. Killer Instinct is a western game made by Rare, while Bloody Roar is a Japanese game developed by Eighting and published by Hudson/Konami.

>>6302490
That's a deep cut. CYBER GLADIATORS!
Yep, it sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwZP9kGxQzQ

terrible in ever aspect.

>>6301264
Third strike

Expect NO MERCY, straight from the dark age of demo CDs.
https://youtu.be/FEMbbu5BNAQ

>>6302068
>3DO/Jaguar exclusives where they didn't give a fuck AT ALL about anything but getting screenshots of digitized graphics into magazines
I've had fun going down that rabbit hole of games like you describe. Awful hunks of wonky garbage that only served to BLOW YOU AWAY with digitized sprites. I love exploring the world of terrible games that did nothing but attempt to capitalize on whatever popular trend was occuring at the time; in this case, digitized sprite fighting games.

>>6301594
This, holy shit final bout was fucking awful, man like what the hell?

>>6302593
>Psyclopps
Holy based. If I ever play an online multiplayer game again, that's gonna be my handle. "Psycl0pps"

>>6301264
Anyone remember this... "gem"?

unironically ggxx ac+r online

>>6302528
I think I played that, or something like it, on Sega Genesis. It was surprisingly addictive.

>>6302528
Eh, the original came out in 1990 so it's more of a primordial MK than anything

>>6301264
I can't tell if those are women or trannies, so my boner has taken the shape of a question mark.

>>6303109
while the netcode is atrocious by any reasonable standard i've had a couple semi-playable matches with people from the exact same region

>>6301294
Yeah. I remember loving how it looked back in the day, but those controls...

>>6301597
Not this meme.
Shaq-Fu ain't a King of Fighters or a Street Fighter, but it's perfectly fine. For a project built on the ego of a basketball player, a lot of effort went into making it a decent game and doesn't deserve it's tarnished reputation at all.

>>6302602
Was going to post this.
Such a cool concept, wish it had the game to follow up on it.

>>6301264
Had a Jaguar back in the day, and I kept playing Kasumi Ninja every day despite knowing it was crap. I think I even defended it and said it was better than MK a few times.

Once I got Doom and Wolfenstein on Jaguar I dropped that game like a fucking rock.

>>6301264
Mortal kombat 4
on the GBC

>>6303334
Shaq is an interesting case. As a fighting game it's mechanically horrendous, but it takes a lot of inspiration from cinematic platformers surprisingly. If you view it from that perspective it's not terrible, but it's one of the worst fighting games of all time for sure.

this might be the worst i've played
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F5RXUAoSX0

>>6303631
So this is where that mortified looking Shrek image comes from.

>>6301264
those God-awful Def Jam fighting games jesus christ

Heavy Nova aka Heavy Turd

>>6301615
I don’t know, this looks fun in a very dumb way, like a shitty drag racing version of a fighting game

granblue versus

Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport. I remember it being bad but I can't tell how bad it was from gameplay mechanics because the thing I remember the best was the motion sickness inducing camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOvZcdHy0z4

Evil Zone for Playstation but I also have a soft spot for it since it was one of the first games I bought w/ my own money earned at my first job.

>>6303629
>mechanically horrendous
Might have been a version specific case?
I remember playing, beating and even enjoying the Mega Drive version, though not Street Fighter, the controls didn't seem to have bothered me much at all. Granted, about two decades I did this, but still.
And yeah, that very "Europian" cinematic presentation actually makes it pretty unique in the genre. Definitely not warranted for a campaign bent on destroying every remaining copy because of "how shit it was".

>>6304706
were you perhaps playing a different game?
>though not Street Fighter
it is not in the same breath as that, mechanically it is similar to eternal champions which is another poor fighting game

>>6304875
>mechanically it is similar to eternal champions
no

>>6304883
my bad, I confused eternal champions with time killers

>>6302723
>Kasumi Ninja
>red paint splatters out of the other guy and stays for the remainder of the round
>the lifebar also drips blood
I love how audacious they had to be as the interest in MK-clones was waning. It's stupid and ridiculous.

>>6303147
>>6303164
The arcade version and the 16 bits ports are okay-ish, but that GB version is fucking atrocious.

>>6302723
>Kasumi Ninja

>>6302723
To this day I still can't believe a company like Naughty Dog, a company who only made mediocre to terrible games, managed to make something outstanding in Crash Bandicoot. At least Psygnosis was consistent in the past. Was Naughty Dog an employee laundering scheme, where Sony pumped in a bunch of their own developers into a random third party?

>>6304946
CHO NO MELSY

>>6304946
I was waiting for that as soon as I realized what name that was.

>>6302484
Good times when furry shits wasn't a thing

>>6302452
This game was better than Clayfighter.