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Why did belt scrollers just suddenly die out after 1994, /vr/?

>> No.3275105

>belt scrollers

But that's a side scroller beat'em'up.

>> No.3275108

>>3275085
>belt scroller
It's beat'em up, fag.

>> No.3275109

>>3275105
>side scroller beat'em'up.
No, that's a dash and punch.

>> No.3275110

>>3275085
Spike Out and God Hand are the evolution.

>> No.3275118

Meme scrollers

>> No.3275129

>>3275110
You can't play those multiplayer, though.

>> No.3275156

>>3275109
No, it's called path and punch

>> No.3275165

I call 'em shuffle n' scuffles.

real answer: 3D - 2D beatemups were an attempt at making 3D game spaces, so naturally the genre would turn to 3D environments once the tech progressed. Modern day beatemups are like DMC1-4, God of War, Dante's Inferno, and the like. Same concept and similar execution.

>> No.3275174

>>3275085
Because technology advanced to a point where developers could start creating different gaming experiences rather than wasting time on such simple/linear games.

Don't get me wrong, those old beat'em ups are still awesome to go back and play through emulation but it makes you realize that the main objectives of those games was for you to keep dumping quarters in the machine to advance.

Once you play them at home, you can literally run through them in less than an hour.

>> No.3275184

>>3275165
battle n' skidaddlers was a common term

>> No.3275186

>>3275085
The belt scroller meme doesn't even make sense, because most beat em ups were not belt scrollers.

>> No.3275193

>>3275085
>>3275105
>>3275108
>>3275109
>>3275118
>>3275156
>>3275165
>>3275184


i love this meme

>> No.3275196

>>3275193
I'm honestly really fucking tired of it. It's /b/ tier shit leaking onto /vr/.

>> No.3275201

>>3275196
Get mad. GET SO MAD IT DRIVES YOU MAD.

>> No.3275216

>>3275201
Fuck off Master Asia.

>> No.3275250

>>3275186
>most beat em ups were not belt scrollers
What? Name some that aren't. I know they exist but truly flat 2D ones are rare.

>> No.3275262

>why did x genre die off
>coincidentally at about the same time every other 2D video game genre died off
blah blah something about casuals and Halo

>> No.3275284

>>3275196
thats the point. the post was satirical

>> No.3275285

>>3275250
Comics Zone, nigga.

>> No.3275315

Because you keep calling beat 'em up games belt scrollers.

If you'd stop doing that, the genre would make a comeback.

>> No.3275317

>>3275315
I doubt that.

>> No.3275319

>>3275317
There's only one way to know for sure, anon.

>> No.3275324

We at least Dragon's Crown a couple years back, and it was superb.

>> No.3275437

>>3275105

If we keep repeating it over and over and over then eventually it will become a meme and we'll consider it funny.

>it's the 4chan way.

>> No.3275439

>>3275324
This! It pretty much ruined Golden Axe games. Sometimes I'll still want to play Chronicles of Mystaria though. Dragon's Crown was based off of that one.

Same thing for Scott Pilgrim the game. Any classic beat 'em up feels inferior now and I wish I was just playing that instead.

>> No.3275529

>>3275184
ramblin' rumblers

>> No.3275537
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3275537

>>3275324
>RPG/belt scroller

>> No.3275538

>>3275529
Beat n run

>> No.3275542

>>3275538
Canter n Clobberers

>> No.3275543

>>3275542
Boom n zoomers

>> No.3275545

>>3275543
Fighty to the Righties

>> No.3275547

>>3275543
Jumpkick simulators

>> No.3275548

>>3275547
Belt em ups

>> No.3275552

>>3275548
Assault and Battery/Fleeing the Scene of the Crime

>> No.3275554

>>3275552
Marching Melees

>> No.3275558

>>3275554
Jogging Jukers

>> No.3275560

>>3275558
Powerwalking pummelers

>> No.3275563

>>3275560
Trotty Trouncies

>> No.3275564

>>3275563
Skippy smackdowns

>> No.3275567

>>3275564
Wallopy walkies

>> No.3275574

>>3275567
Pacing Pretzelmakers

>> No.3275576

>not calling them Street Roamers

>> No.3275578

3D killed them

>> No.3275584

You talking BTGs, OP?

Dynamite Cop.

>> No.3275585

>>3275576
I prefer Martial Meanderers, myself.

>> No.3275586

>not calling them Jab & Jogs

>> No.3275589

>>3275085
>Why did belt scrollers just suddenly die out after 1994
You were born.

>> No.3275604

>>3275574
tooty fruity punch and shooty

>> No.3275613

>>3275604
Pacing pugilists

>> No.3275618

Slash 'n' Mashers

>> No.3275620

Guardians is the best beat em up.

>> No.3275631

>>3275620
I can't tell who's more annoying, the Bare Knuckle III fag or the Guardians fag.

>> No.3275635

Smash n Grabbers

>> No.3275642

>>3275174
>Once you play them at home, you can literally run through them in less than an hour.
You say that like it's a bad thing

>> No.3275652

>>3275174
>you can literally run through them in less than an hour
Do it without continuing.

>> No.3275654

>>3275174
>you can literally run through them in less than an hour.
Sure, after you spent countless amount of continues learning the game. Then you can sit down and beat it in one quick sitting.

>> No.3275671

>>3275174
It's not about the single credit-feeding playthrough, it's about the multi-hour journey to mastery.

>> No.3275673

>>3275250
>>3275285
Altered Beast.

>> No.3276285

>>3275635
Punch a Bunchers

>> No.3276296

Because arcades died.

Thats it.

>> No.3276340

sweaty gubber punch n walkie

>> No.3276349

>>3275085
>why did they advent of 3D kill a 2D genre?

>> No.3277048

>>3276340
Strolling donnybrook

>> No.3277064

Are people really interested in the actual discussions on these threads, or is all part of a overgrown meme to get "actshully it's called beat'em up" kind of responses?

>> No.3277075

>>3277064
>>couldn't think of anything so I'm gonna be a bitch ass nigga and do what bitch ass high as do, they bitch.

>> No.3277079

>>3277064
It's the Gackt poster trying to force a meme. He's also tried to force a "weird video game fetish" meme via Galaga.

>> No.3277085

3d killed the genre in too many ways (not enough hardware power, difficulty in getting gameplay working in a 3d environment, difficulty in getting multiplayer working with a 3d camera, and gameplay being either long with many upgrades to be a casual brawler, or too short and difficult for normies who don't bother playing a level twice if they get stuck).

God Hand is probably the best "modern" beatemup game, that also uses 3d.

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>>3277079

>> No.3277109
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>>3277092
Hello

>> No.3277118

>>3275105
Not if the game identifies as a point and click softcore visual novel with puzzles.

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3277124

Did you guys know CT is also a belt scroller?

>> No.3277132

>>3277124
But can I punch people in CT?

>> No.3277134

>>3277124
That's more of a donut scroller

>> No.3277136

>>3277124
>ever citing "the game who shall not be named"

It's like you want to get pissed on.

>> No.3277164

>>3277132
Robo & Ayla can fist and rocket punch people.
>>3277134
Donuts Plains in Mario World.
>>3277136
Black Omen is a tower.

>> No.3277175

>>3277164
>Black Omen is a tower.
no it's a fucking

>> No.3277178

They were called Donnybrook Simulators

>> No.3277192

>>3277109
>>3277092
reddit is down the hall to the left

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>>3277164
>Black Omen is a tower.

You take that back.