/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9649639
Funny you mention Racdym since they also made Heaven's Gate which had some interesting stage designs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTpD8MG0RA8

>>9649639
I've been playing the hell out of pic related, which might be known among several /vr/ anons out there, but not to the public at large, for rather obvious reasons. A.V.G. 2 might not be the most innovative title, but its competent enough to be an enjoyable game for what it is. And I'm gonna get into Evil Zone soon, or rather its Japanese version: Ereztzvaju. How the fuck are you supposed to pronounce that title?

Not obscure but a great, solid 3D fighting game made don't produced by those but by Konami.
It was made by Raizing/8ing and they still make great fighting games (DNF Duel it's their latest)

>>9649803
Why japanese version?

>>9649841
>Why japanese version?
The US release is censored (Erel's outfit, among other things) and several songs are missing/replaced because of copyright reasons.

The Zero Divide series,
robots that fight in virtual space, games play like Virtua Fighter. Also the games have some of the best fighting music you've ever heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS7blpvvbrw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7OUNiDlBXY

>>9649639
>I find it somewhat melancholic, that in such a character-driven genre there are many games where some developer put his heart into a character look, story and moveset to be ultimately forgotten, even though the game may be fine overall, just not prominent enough.
Fighting genre lives and dies with the community. It's a sad fate but it's the one they chose when they decided not to bother with proper SP modes. I've been playing a old fighting games lately and there's not much to do in them these days. Old DoA games are still a lot of fun to play today but after 3-4 hours with each one you just run out of SP content

>>9649803
Evil Zone is a lot of fun, I think you'll probably enjoy it

>>9649639
I'm so glad Fightcade is a thing, being able to play games like Toy Fighter, Rabbit and Martial Master online is just so fucking neat.
>>9649909
There is a small playerbase for DoA2 on Fightcade.

>>9649639
FX Fighter for MS-DOS.
>>9649956
>small
That's an euphemism.

One Must Fall played well enough, it also had some unusual things (in fightans,at least) such a character upgrade system or a TV news report about each of your fights. It had some interesting techno tracks too.

>>9649852
>Akihito Ohkawa's only credits as a composer are these two games
feelsbadman

This was in a small convenience store in Seattle’s Central District. Used to play it after church. It was the only place I ever saw it.

The Gouketsuji Ichizoku / Power Instinct series. They need to either port the latest entry to Steam or make a new 3d entry.

>>9650587
>They need to either port the latest entry to Steam or make a new 3d entry.
No they don't.

I once played a fighting game in the hallway of a Vietnamese semi-strip-mall that was entirely in Chinese, which I can't read, but had very, very good pixel art similar to Guilty Gear in quality. This was in the early-to-mid 00s.
I would guess the game was Taiwanese-made but I have no idea what it was nor how to find it again. How's /that/ for a forgotten fighting game?

>>9650639
>How's /that/ for a forgotten fighting game?
I mean all we know from that description is that YOU completely forgot what the hell that game was. Could be popular for all we know

>>9650651
Derp. I forgot to describe the game itself!
Had a mediaeval theme to it. It was similar to both Knights of Valour games in look, but a fighting game rather than beat-em-up, Western mediaeval setting rather than Chinese and much larger sprites.
Only character I remember well was an enormous knight in, like, full metal armour.

>>9650667
>>9650651
>>9650639
Oh shit. Just looked it up and there are many MANY more KoV games than I knew. Eleven total, five main series. Well shit, I only played 1&2, lol. Thought that was all there was.

asuka 120

>>9650560
>The China Vampire and the Egyptian Gal got a Boxer, Claw & Dictator situation

>>9650185
Best fighting game that was a computer exclusive. That's not saying much since others were trash but it did have cool ideas like the upgrading of your fighters and the stats being shared by robots and pilots alike. Stage hazards were a thing I first saw done there, and the music was great.

Slap Happy Rhythm Busters is a very nice fighting game. Very solid and fluid gameplay with a lot of systems and combos. The cel-shaded presentation screams Dreamcast to me, it would've done gret in that system.


>>9649639
Used to play Critical Blow a lot back in the day. Racdym can do no wrong in my eyes.

>>9649803
I've been championing Advanced VG2 for decades, it's legit one of the best 2D fighters on the system. It's broken as fuck once you understand the combo system, but oh man it's so much fun. It's a shame such great game is hidden behind a "girl fighter", more people would've given it a shot ortherwise. Or probably they tried the first one, which is a piece of shit, and never bothered with the series again.

>>9649803
>And I'm gonna get into Evil Zone soon
Eretvaju is really fun. The rock / paper / scissors gameplay is very easy to learn and it leads to some intense matches when playing against other people. The one problem the game has is that every character plays almost the same, so when you learn one, you learn them all.Gameplay is still very unique so it doesn't really matter that much.

Also, god tier soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAw36arOfeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHYZy5aXw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GA9onbS67I

Narutimate Hero games on PS2 were unironically amazing games. But then about a hundred more Naruto fighting games came out and I don't think anyone today bothers playing Narutimate Hero games anymore. That era when they were amazingly popular now feels like a fever dream that never happened

>>9651003
Aren't those just Ultimate Ninja games which led to Storm games?

>>9649803
>spoiler
エルツヴァーユ

>>9650871
Yeah, Advanced VG2 is great.
I also enjoyed VG Max for PC : it's simpler with a 2-buttons scheme and chibi sprites, but it's well animated and simple fun. Kinda like Pocket Fighter.

Speaking of sequels people may have missed because of an awful first entry, Ningyou Tsukai 2 (sequel to the game localized as Metal & Lace) is also surprisingly decent.

>>9651594
>just Ultimate Ninja games
Yeah, but who plays them now? Everyone just plays Storm and acts as if it's a better version of the PS2 games whereas it's a completely different series with a very different style of gameplay.

Kakuto Chojin, the only fighting game that got banned, game has some nice visuals and banging soundtrack but it's most unique feature is that you have can select between to playing styles for each character that more or less is a simplified vs advanced one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwu1slnHaQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boCvhWq_oGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhs1YPTvho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WU1SLwUDDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB7ZeLO1zuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq5nJiW83LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzY39-2E67c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R7tqEBLudk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOk_WpbGN68

>>9650871
>I've been championing Advanced VG2 for decades
Based V.G. bro. Who do you main? I nearly always choose Yuka, Tamao or Kaori. My least favorties are Elirin, Kyoko (their moveset and combos seem hard to master for me) and Manami not only she's the weakest, but I also hate catgirls and in fact she's my regular punching bag in Practice Mode.
>It's broken as fuck once you understand the combo system
Yeah, I saw videos of people performing ludicrous infinites with Kaori and Kyoko. An advanced (no pun) player can push their opponent to the edge of the screen and whack them until they're done for. Some characters (Jun, especially) have very powerful, sometimes annoying OTGs.
>It's a shame such great game is hidden behind a "girl fighter", more people would've given it a shot ortherwise.
Heheh, this reminds me of one time when my brother visited my place and saw me playing this game. I thought he'd bitch that the game is a bishoujo fighter, but much to my surprise he sat down in front of the TV and wanted me to play against him. At first I was destroying him effortlessly, but then he figured out the mechanics and cheesed with Reimi's low kick and Hurricane Rose. Yeah, I know there are ways to defeat that character, but I'm not really good at fighters, in fact, A.V.G. 2 is the first fighting game I've ever played for longer than 5 minutes.
>Or probably they tried the first one, which is a piece of shit
Yeah, the first one is just... kinda average? It's not as fluid and I can't perform combos as easily as in the second game. Plus the opponent AI in single player is awfully cheap.

>>9652009
By the end I used the whole cast but I found that Chiho is probably the one I played the most. She having a "Genei Jin" that you can activate 3 times without dropping the combo was very fun to play around with. Kaori is insane yeah, she has a very basic infinite that anyone can pull off without much effort. Most of the cast is super broken, in a similar vein of how the Sailor Moon fighter is broken. It would be interesting the day Fightcade supports PS1 games, it could lead to a little resurgence once people find out about it (not expecting big numbers or anything, just a small dedicated fanbase).

>>9652127
I've tried to get into AVG2 but amateurish sprites and backgrounds put me off.

>>9652127
>It would be interesting the day Fightcade supports PS1 games
It's in the works, one of the devs behind Flycast Dojo is working on a fork of Duckstation with rollback that will be integrated into Fightcade like Dojo was.

i did some avg2 netplay through mednafen awhile back

>>9652127
>It would be interesting the day Fightcade supports PS1 games
Looking forward to that.
>She having a "Genei Jin" that you can activate 3 times without dropping the combo was very fun to play around with.
This and incredibly bullshit super that's virtually unavoidable. You can block it... if you can see it coming.

>>9652164
>amateurish
It's no Capcom or Konami production value, but to call them amateurish? C'mon anon. Plus the character designs were done by Takahiro Kimura, who was involved with some anime series, most notably Code Geass.

>>9651606
>エルツヴァーユ
I know how it's spelled in katakana, I asked for pronounciation, like you know - in IPA alphabet. What language is this word even?