/vr/ - Retro Games

I never called them like that, for me, it was "street fighting", some of my friends called them urban champion-likes.

>>9298931
>frogposter with useless query
Discarded

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beat_up#English

>>9298941
You should know that people use frogs specifically to get disgruntled replies from people like you

>>9298931
It's just following the trend set by the names of earlier genres; shoot 'em ups, jump 'em ups, etc

>>9298931
"Im going to beat you up"
"He got beat up"
"That man is going to get beat up"

>>9298931
Janny hates frogposters. Say goodbye to this thread OP

>>9298953
Good for you

Beat up is a verb. Beat down is a noun.
Example: I went to the annual beat down to beat up nerds who ask stupid questions.

I've been thinking of these games as "yo contra el barrio" ever since someone shared on here that it's what they're called in their country.

>>9298961
>Im going to beat you down"
>"He got beat down"
>"That man is going to get beat down"

>>9299071
Nah, "beat up" sounds much more natural in all of those sentences.

>>9298931
>>9298961
>>9298960
>>9299071
>>9298979
but you fend off enemies so they should of been called beat em offs

>>9298931
For me? Beat 'Em Offs

>>9299086
That's what we call porn games around here anon

they're actually belt scrollers

>>9298931
should've been called "and then we smash his face with an iron"
smashiron for short

>>9299084
>>9299086
based beatemoffmind

>>9298931
I fucking love punchvanias

if shooters are shoot 'em ups and platformers are jump 'em ups,

what are puzzle games? think 'em ups?

>>9299115
stack em ups

I think that metroidvanias should instead be called multi-screen search 'em ups.

Fuck off, frog posting retard.

>>9299404
he may well be a frogposter, but i wouldn't say he's a retard
that's untrue and furthermore, rude :v

>>9299086
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