/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7167960
F I L T E R E D

Its one of those games you play for ten minutes every few years, get a game over, then put it away for another few years.

>>7167960
WELCOME-TO-YOUR-DUM!

what's wrong with it? better than 90% of platformers out there

It's a fun arcade game that's good in short bursts

>>7167960
No, because everybody played the infinitely superior Golden Axe.

>>7168023
I don't think it qualifies as a platformer. It is more of a beat em up on a single plane, like Two Crude Dudes.

>>7167960
this is another game where you scroll right

I like his attack animations. Great unintentional comedy.

>>7168029
Arcade action games

>>7168037
No it autoscrolls

Yes. It was mind blowing to see when it came out.

It's just a kinda slow beat'em up with surreal environments and enemies and some unintendedly funny moments. Powering up your guy into a beastman with super powers was pretty fun.
Let's just say that after Sonic became the Mega Drive's pack in game it started to sell a lot more.

>>7168013
RISE FOM YO DWAYE

It's alright. Worth playing at least once but I am getting sick of it being included in Mega Drive compilations since there's so many better alternatives. Best video game comic ever.

>>7168176
Legitimately funny comic and the .BR in the source there also indicates the actual fanbase for this game, if OP was wondering..

imagine playing only the genesis/md version, and that's how you formed your opinion

>>7167960
Hello Tom

>>7168176
Based

>>7167960
I like using the cheat codes to switch which beast you turn into on each stage. Using the bear on level 2 is hard

>>7167960
Its just a tech demo for the Genesis, looks cool but the game sucks

What's not to like?
The game is simple and fun and has cool graphics.

>>7168429
This is the right way to look at it. It’s not some AAA top shelf experience, just a decent game to play every once in a while.

>>7167960
Yes

>>7167960

Yeah, of course. It was popular for a reason. It was fun, to the point, and very replay-able.

>>7168353

The bear is really only usable on his level or level 1.

Yes.

I prefer the PS2 remake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPvRI7FS9KI

To be fair I always get bored at the 3rd stage, also it filters me bad. Korone is playing at this moment.

>>7167967
It’s an arcade game, it was always meant as a 10 minute quarter ride. When they brought it to the genesis, it really is just that, you play it for 10 mins and put it away.

>>7168502

test

>>7167967
For me, it's one of those games you play for 30 minutes about twice a year, get a game over at the last boss or actually beat the game, then put it away for another few months.

>>7168353
This, combined with the level-select feature in the same cheat menu, is what let me practice enough as a kid with the Genesis version to be able to consistently beat the game now with normal settings. actually "easy" settings because I always give myself the most lives/health in the regular options menu before I start

Dragon was objectively the best beast form, in terms of usefulness ("coolness" subjective). Completely OP.
>Only form that can move at faster-than-walking speed in all 8 2D directions at will
>Has completely unique and cool standing sprite if/when you decide to touch the ground and stay still
>Can use a rapid-fire max-dmg surround-attack with functionally instant startup, instant cooldown, and no forced movement, which can easily wipe any boss in under 30 seconds, without the use of a "turbo"-equipped controller (bonus points for ear-bleeding sound effects)
>Has a cool lightning-bolt projectile on top of everything just because there's still another attack button to use
>Comes in vivid deep green (1p) and fucking gold or shit-brown if you wanna be a dick (2p)

>>7168517
Cave is notoriously fucked. If it weren't enough with the sheer number of insta-kill bottomless holes, the sanic ants that will drop in and bumrush you into said holes, the surprise (to the unaware) tortoises that will both cause knockback and turn you to stone, just so that even if you don't fall into the aforementioned holes while trying to mash your way out of stone, it then sets you up for those boxing demons to haymaker your ass into the holes anyways, they throw in a chicken-lizard near the end, just to remind you that there is no forwards low kick.
Easily the hardest level, Caves was notoriously designed to DEVOUR quarters for the arcade version.

>>7167960
I really like the Famicom port. It's fun and very playable despite the graphical limitations.

>>7168029
It has pits you can die in. It's a platformer.

And yes I like Altered Beast. It doesn't really have any flaws. Great sound, graphics, controls, story, pacing and the difficulty is just right. Only people who hate it are the ones who can't even beat it.

Super Nintendo wishes they were capable of putting out a game like Altered Beast.

>>7168752
I only played the Mega Drive version which I loved. Tell me, do you know what the Arcade version like?

Some of the best sound bytes of any game.
>power up
>welcome to your doom
>rise from the grave

Great nostalgia and quick to pop in and play these days, similar to a megaman game you know by heart

Altered Beast, very special. The older dangerous young men would be playing it in smokey video shops. Colorful violent fantasy game.

I liked it when I was a kid, but I have no interest in playing it as an adult. There were better system 16 games.

I think it was secretly a great pack-in game.
It's spectacular and short (and at least a little difficult) so you can be done with it quickly and have a ready appetite for more games.