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Which PSX belt scroller aged the most poorly?

>> No.4791051

>belt scroller

Get the fuck out.

>> No.4791058

>>4791021
Fuck there was a really early PS1 beltscroller that was later ported to Saturn can't remember the name but it was meh

>> No.4791059

>belt scroller

>> No.4791061

Weren't belt scrollers dead and forgotten by the time PSX came out anyways?

>> No.4791065

>>4791061
Their last commercial swan song from CAPCOM was Battle Circuit in 1997 shame because that game is simply not my style.

>> No.4791070

>>4791061
Too bad, look at Battle Circuit, now that's some cool stuff
I guess credit feeders weren't wowed with them anymore after seeing polygonal games on consoles and maybe their profitability depended on them.

>> No.4791071

>>4791021
Final fight fury is pretty dated but it was less of a belt scroller and more of a scootstroller

>> No.4791076

>>4791058
Nekketsu Oyako that was its name also it didn't age it was just whatever
>Developer Tecnosoft
What the fuck?

>> No.4791084
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>>4791070
Yeah I dunno... I was bored with them from the get go for the most part. They're like fighting games with everything interesting sucked out.

>> No.4791085

>>4791076
What is it with cool shooter developers making crappy beat 'em ups (Knuckle Bash and Toaplan)? I guess just a way to make a quick buck on a booming genre.

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4791089

>aged

>> No.4791090

I'm confused, are belt scrollers 2D platformers, or 2D beat-em-ups?

>> No.4791091

>>4791084
The appeal is different, what with having to crowd control enemies coming from every corner. And knowing you, they are less predictable than some other genres thanks to RNG in the AI and the like.

>> No.4791092

>>4791085
I guess they were trying to branch out same applies to 2D fighters
Look at Psikyo's Battle K Road and IREM's Superior Soldiers

>> No.4791097

>>4791092
>I guess they were trying to branch out
Yeah, but that doesn't explain the shittyness. Toaplan made Snow Bros and that game is good. Same with Irem, they had stuff like Ninja Spirit.

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>>4791090
It can be both.
Tomba isn't one, though.

>> No.4791106

>>4791090
2D sidescrolling games where you can move left right up down and jump
Isometric view over a conveyer belt that moves or moves intermittently
It's the Japanese term for the game type, normally it's called beatemup in English but that doesn't always mean z-axis movement which a belt scroller requires

>> No.4791123

>>4791106
So... Kirby 64 is in the belt scroller genre but super mario bros. is in a different genre?

Holy shit it now makes sense why they have adamantly refused to change 2D Mario to be actually good like the western Donkey Kong games.

>> No.4791131

>>4791123
isn't Kirby 64 a side-scroller though? Does it have z-axis?

>> No.4791151

>>4791091
Well ai in fighters is worthless as well anyways so it was comparing a single player to a multiplayer genre really. I do get the appeal they just always bored me.

Comix Zone is cool but that's kinda different.

>> No.4791156

>>4791151
Comix Zone is more of an adventure point and click-style game with action controls.

>> No.4791183

>>4791156
I wouldn't really call it point and click, but it is very different.

>> No.4791205

>>4791058
Bug probably

>> No.4791210

>>4791156
Comix Zone is a sadistic trial and error puzzle game that requires obtuse skill based button inputs to avoid dying about 30 times a level.

>> No.4791268

>>4791123
Checked the jp wiki and watched a let's play, Kirby 64 is an "action game / similar to a traditional side-scroll action game"
Kirby seems to be unable to be freely moved in the z axis direction, which a belt scroller requires. It doesn't mater if enemies can move in this direction or if the screen sometimes moves this way, it requires free movement along 2 horizontal axes plus jumping to be a belt scroll action game according to the Japanese wiki definition

>> No.4791274

>>4791205
Uhh, have you ever played bug? Its a 2.75D platformer

>> No.4791280

>>4791274
It's actually a Pacmanvania

>> No.4791309

>>4791280
Technically pacman takes place on a Möbius strip because you can warp from one side of the screen to another, if you count the different levels it actually becomes a stratified Klein bottle
so it's a stratified Klein bottle predation modeling Saṃsāra simulator

>> No.4791324

>>4791280
Kek, yeah that works

>> No.4791331

>>4791309
Incidentally the hungry ghosts are 餓鬼 who want to eat the pellets but their throats are too small
Unable to quell their desires, they persisting the unending cycle of the Preta, where life and death lose all significance and become only a periodic amplification of their suffering

>> No.4791340

>>4791021
I would really prefer if you would be quiet pal...

>> No.4791501

>>4791340
YUMMY

>> No.4792501

I know almost 20 people did this already but
>belt scroller

Besides this didn't age poorly you fag. It's still fairly unique.

>> No.4792506

>>4791210
Wow you suck

>> No.4792560

>belt-scroller

>> No.4792587

>>4792501
>It's still fairly unique.
That's why it's aged, it's not a samey open world

>> No.4792602

belt scroller will never happen

fuck off samefag