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DOUBLE DRAGON SERIES Anonymous Thu May 5 10:27:55 2022 No.8879127 [Reply] [Original]

Is it the greatest beat em up series of all time? Which is your favorite in the series?

The best in the series hands down is Double Dragon 3: The Sacred Stones.

What I have always wondered is WHY does Double Dragon 3 on NES have such a bad rep among retro gamers? Is it just because AVGN shit on it? Technos' direct involvement with this title makes up for the terrible quality of the arcade game. While the NES version is based loosely on the arcade game, it deviates from the progenitor in a positive way. With the entire DD trilogy on the NES, Technos had generally corrected the mistakes of the arcade counterparts (where they existed) and added additional features to entice console gamers. Except for the lack of a two-player mode in the first game, Technos went up to bat and hit a home run three times in a row on Nintendo's first console. Not only does Double Dragon 3: The Sacred Stones prove to be the best version of the game on any console, it also proves to be the BEST Double Dragon game in the entire series.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 10:33:36 2022 No.8879136 File: 15 KB, 190x266, Z(34).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8879127 >Is it the greatest beat em up series of all time? no

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 10:35:02 2022 No.8879143 >>8879127 The character names are wrong. Why is the password so long?

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Anonymous Thu May 5 10:36:39 2022 No.8879145

>>8879127
>Is it the greatest beat em up series of all time?

It's iconic for the genre, but not even close to being to the greatest

> Which is your favorite in the series?

As a kid, I played III a lot. (Well, i just used skip levels trick to rush through the game most of the time, but I also played it seriously).
As an adult, I really like first one for NES.
There's something kino about it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 10:39:50 2022 No.8879152 >>8879127 >3 Literally, what were they thinking? Any dev interviews about this game?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 10:47:15 2022 No.8879165 >>8879136 Double Dragon absolutely trounces Streets of Rage series and Final Fight series

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Anonymous Thu May 5 10:51:54 2022 No.8879176

>>8879152
Not sure but it is usually recognized as the first game in history to have microtransactions as we know them today. You are offered upgrades to your stats, weapons and extra lives in a shop between some stages that you can only obtain by inserting quarters to purchase the items. You have to literally pay real money for the in game shit just like modern microtransactions. There is no other way to earn them. The home ports that actually kept the shop added in game coins to collect from enemies to purchase items.

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Anonymous Thu May 5 10:54:53 2022 No.8879183

>>8879152
The original arcade version of Double Dragon III wasn't developed by Technos. It was a developer that had never worked on the series before which is why it's so much different. Technos did do the NES port and tried to fix alot of the shitty stuff in the arcade version with mixed results.

Unfortunately the game is shit on by fans today mostly because of the US port. It was made way harder (probably to keep people from beating it on a weekend rental). You get like one life and no continues in the US version.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 10:54:55 2022 No.8879184 >>8879176 Really? Because I swear I recall the Genesis port taking your in-game credits used for continues as the cost for extra power-ups.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 10:57:20 2022 No.8879187 >>8879183 >You get like one life and no continues in the US version. No, that's in the Japan original as well.

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Anonymous Thu May 5 10:58:47 2022 No.8879190

>>8879184
I think you're correct. In fact I think the only version that added coins was the Gameboy version. My mistake.

But the arcade version only took real money which is crazy but also seems like something other companies would have added in their games to make more money. I'm kind of surprised we didn't see more arcade games with stuff like that to be honest.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 10:59:48 2022 No.8879192 >>8879187 The Famicom version? I've always heard it was easier. Do enemies have less health or do less damage in the Famicom version?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 11:01:37 2022 No.8879196 Is that Double Dragon 4 game that is made in the NES style that came out a few years ago worth playing? Also is the Double Dragon V fighting game good? Never even knew about it as a kid.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 11:04:31 2022 No.8879203 >>8879192 According to TCRF, the playable cast gets a little more HP and there's less enemies to fight in each scene.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 11:05:00 2022 No.8879205 >>8879203 Ah

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 11:12:35 2022 No.8879218 >>8879165 kek sure

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 11:13:17 2022 No.8879219 >>8879205 And DD3 does give exactly ONE continue in both versions, which is awarded when you reach Stage 4.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 11:18:42 2022 No.8879231 >>8879196 Nah, both suck

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 17:15:52 2022 No.8880186 >>8879136 Streets of Reddit

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 17:17:25 2022 No.8880193 >>8879143 Double Dragon never had a password system.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 17:17:50 2022 No.8880194 >>8879196 DD4 sucks yeah. I bought it and I don't think I even finished it. If you stay in the bottom side of the screen it's a safe zone and you can't be hurt. Enough said.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 17:18:15 2022 No.8880202 OI ERE'S YER DOOBLE DRAGON M8 THAT'LL BE 12 BOB PLUS YER VIDYA LOISCENCE MATE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOikNErJUN8

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Anonymous Thu May 5 17:20:04 2022 No.8880209

I still haven't beaten DD1 on NES. I always got filtered in the last stage. even if I grinded for moves in the early game. Any tip for that last stage?

and every time I try to bring myself to play DD3 I quit in the second stage. Goddamn fuck this game. The long ass dialogue and intro sequence also doesn't help.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 17:20:12 2022 No.8880212 >>8880186 thats where you came from

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Anonymous Thu May 5 17:30:46 2022 No.8880252

>>8879183
The Arcade version of Double Dragon 3 is kinda overhated. Everyone always whines about the whole "pay extra credits for extra moves and new characters" shit, but they actually removed that in the revised JP version in favor of a normal character select feature.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 17:32:42 2022 No.8880261 >>8880212 I just hate Streets of Reddit who always feel the need to hijack every belt-scroller thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 17:34:52 2022 No.8880268 >>8880261 but streets of rage is the best beats m up series

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 18:08:21 2022 No.8880337 >>8880268 Any of Capcom's CP System belt-scrollers are better than Streets of Rage 2.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 18:15:27 2022 No.8880349 >>8879196 DD4 sucks and DDV is one of the worst fighting games ever made, DDNeogeo is a good fighting game and the last good DD was Neon.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 18:21:47 2022 No.8880363 >>8880349 >and the last good DD was Neon. Double Dragon Neon would've been good if it wasn't for the gay-ass ironic tone.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 18:41:25 2022 No.8880405 >>8880337 they don't have kick ass house music and cool aesthetic

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 19:08:10 2022 No.8880465 >>8880405 Reddit

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 19:12:30 2022 No.8880476 >>8879127 >Double Dragon 3 3's the worst of the NES games by far. going from 2 to 3 is a massive disappointment. 2 is the only good one, and it is very good

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 19:25:40 2022 No.8880501 >>8880465 >0 arguments nice cope

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 20:01:31 2022 No.8880597 >>8880252 The game also plays like ass.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 21:33:00 2022 No.8880817 >>8879127 DD2 on the NES is the only good one our of the trilogy.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 21:50:23 2022 No.8880862 >>8880501 >reddit buzzwords nice argument, reddit

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 21:52:38 2022 No.8880870 >>8880465 >>8880862 >popular thing bad >contrarianism is... LE GOOD 4chan

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 21:57:08 2022 No.8880884 >>8879196 Everyone telling you DD4 on Steam sucks is wrong. It's fucking great. It literally is a redo/retake on DD1 and DD2, but on modern hardware.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 10:01:07 2022 No.8882337 >>8879127 PC Engine CD version of DD2 is supposedly fantastic but load-times give me allergies so I stick with NES.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 10:02:51 2022 No.8882345 >>8880862 kys, why are you so obsessed with reddit, do you actually like reddit?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 12:47:55 2022 No.8882862 File: 33 KB, 256x936, ddragoniipceoppan.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8882337 I never noticed them myself. But then again, I played the game on an emulator.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 20:56:56 2022 No.8884103 File: 30 KB, 256x239, Marian_revived.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8882862 PCE!Marian is cute.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 03:22:22 2022 No.8884924 File: 1.67 MB, 953x843, Screenshot from 2022-05-07 00-08-08.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No mention of the best Double Dragon game?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 03:23:51 2022 No.8884927 >>8884924 This cover is terrible.Their faces look all retarded, and there is no movement in the picture at all so instead of fighting it looks like they're doing some sort of gay modern dance.

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Anonymous Sat May 7 04:09:33 2022 No.8884969
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>>8884927
It's a traceover of a traceover. The cover artist traced over an in-game cutscene, which in turn was traced over a publicity still of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris from Return of the Dragon.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 05:01:38 2022 No.8885050 >>8880349 The only thing good about Neon is the music and specifically Mango Tango.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 05:25:02 2022 No.8885080 >>8885050 I kinda liked they made Skeletor a main villain. The BDSM chicks were hot too. It's a game which plays best with your bro. Just like other beat-em-ups, but some of them are also fine in solo playthrough.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 06:25:53 2022 No.8885152 double dragon was tits in the arcades. all the sequels and ports were kinda shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 13:10:22 2022 No.8885808 File: 235 KB, 1280x720, img_4285.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8884969 >Return of the Dragon Not the anon you are replying too.. I didn't know that it was taken from a Bruce lee movie, though not surprised either.

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Anonymous Sat May 7 13:23:39 2022 No.8885856
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>>8885152
Double Dragon II was the best one on both, arcades and NES, yet they might as well had been different games.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 13:40:18 2022 No.8885915 >>8880363 I didn't mind the 80s tone but it was a bit silly, I Kaufman's music carries the tone though. >>8884924 We never got DD Advance 2 and 3, what a shame.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 16:59:48 2022 No.8886413 I like Return of/Super Double Dragon despite its problems. The counter moves are cool and the music is great.