Eternal Champions

[Anonymous No.975851]

Eternal Champions appreciation thread.

These finishing moves put Mortal Kombat to shame:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXicDGTXuss

[Anonymous No.975890]

Holy shiiiiit. Dat shit brutal yo. If only they weren't so damn slow.

[Anonymous No.975905]

>>975851
Damn, never got to play this as a kid but I remember reading about it and thinking it looked really cool. This shit is BRUTAL, thanks for posting.

I'm guessing this is the Sega CD version?

[Anonymous No.975935]

>>975905
Indeed. The Genesis version is barely on par with Killer Instinct's level of violence.

[Anonymous No.975942]

>>975851
>That clown fatality
Please game, have mercy on my sides!

It's a shame this game doesn't seem to have an arcade version. It would be glorious with better graphics/animations, sounds, music, and no loading time.

[Anonymous No.975949]

wasn't eternal champions a shitty on rails shmup?

[Anonymous No.975954]

>>975851
Loved this game, the most underrated fighting game ever.

[Anonymous No.975960]

Hilarious. That long fall through the multiple grinders was amazing.

[Anonymous No.976027]

>>975851

Jesus Christ,

This even puts some of MKs fatalities to shame.

Wish they were a bit faster though.

[Anonymous No.976034]

>>975851
>mfw that video doesn't have all the fatalities
Missing all of the ones from the unlockable characters (except one from the military guy).

[Anonymous No.976038]

>that one with the ticket booth girl

[Anonymous No.976060]

>>975851
>Because I couldn't find a screen shot of the character select with everyone unlocked, I took this one myself.

[Anonymous No.976079]

>>976060
Oh lawd. Do the animal characters all have sweet fatalities?

[Anonymous No.976082]

>>976060

How the fuck do you fight a rabid chihu?

[Anonymous No.976080]

>>976079
Sadly no...

[Anonymous No.976093]

>>975851
>other guy turns into an orb
>loading delay
what does it seem more eerie

[Anonymous No.976091]

>>976079
Another screen shot

[Anonymous No.976096]

>>976091
Another

[Anonymous No.976097]

>>976091
Another

[Anonymous No.976106]

>>976082
Low kick

[Anonymous No.976107]

>>976106
Whose level is that?

[Anonymous No.976108]

>>976106
That's right
The grim reaper is fighting a chihuahua in a McDonald's parking lot.

[Anonymous No.976117]

>>976108
Fuck, now I want a hamburger.

[Anonymous No.976119]

>>976107
This guy's, when you unlock him you also unlock his stage.

[Anonymous No.976132]

>>976119
>politician
>fighting style: dishonesty
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[Anonymous No.976141]

electro skeleton

[Anonymous No.976142]

>>976119
He's also a palette swap of Larcen, but it's ok he has his own move set and finishing move.

[Anonymous No.976151]

Shame that game got unfairly judged as another Street Fighter and MK clone when it came out.

[Anonymous No.976148]

>>976141

needs some 90's rave music right there

[Anonymous No.976160]

>>976148

i think Tim Follin's Time Trax title music would go awesome over it

[Anonymous No.976171]

>>976148
>90's rave music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNuWWBfUZr4&list=PLEoanQ-bdiPHs6Az4PEBINfhvww69udFs

This game had some awesome music too

[Anonymous No.976176]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MZk3wE-lA

Dat main theme.

[Anonymous No.976193]

>>976176
>Not posting the higher quality Sega CD music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMhz2sqF20&list=PL0DC50BC73F8EABC3

[Anonymous No.976289]

>>976151
It was certainly far superior than all the generic clones.

Apparently, this idiot thinks the game is subpar:
http://www.fightersgeneration.com/games/eternal-champions.html

[Anonymous No.976287]

http://www.fightersgeneration.com/games/eternal-champions.html

[Anonymous No.976310]

i only had the genesis version...

[Anonymous No.976318]

>>976193
That track is actually worse than the MD theme tune. Shit, so many MCD ports with CD Audio ended up having worse music.

>>976289
He is kind of right though. Outside the presentation (finishers, wealth of training modes, ingame readable bios, the entire backstory, etc), it plays AWFUL.

Maybe if it didn't have that retarded "need meter to do specials" thing, it would've been better. (you can taunt endlessly with that, and some moves work without meter, they just drain it - Slash has a forward+MP throw like that)

[Anonymous No.976321]

>>976318
But you gotta admit this track is fucking badass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww72JpoF4WA

[Anonymous No.976358]

>>976289
>super clunky
I've never played the Genesis version, and that must be what he's talking about because Eternal Champions on the Sega CD was fluid as fuck. Really, it's a 9/10 fighting game.

>>976318
>That track is actually worse
That sounds like your opinion man...

[Anonymous No.976535]

>>975851
shit made mk look like sunday school
i love breaking out the sega cd to play this game when people are at my place for a party.

i show them a few finishing moves and they freak out, wondering why they never heard of the game.

[Anonymous No.976559]

>>976142
i never noticed before, but is he supposed to be joe leiberman? this series also had a larcen spinoff game on the game gear.
there was gonna supposed

[Anonymous No.976563]

>>976535
Unlike over-the-top gore from games like BloodStorm (which can be fun). EC's gore is disturbing.

[Anonymous No.976675]

>>976563
I fucking love BloodStorm because of it's stage. Usually levels in fighting games are boring as hell, it's just a flat plane with a different background. But in this game the stages were interactive. You could jump in the background in the flying fortress, impale your opponent on ice picks in the snow world, and my favorite: break a part of the ceiling in the cave level which would fill a whole on the side of the stage; usually if you fall in that whole you would be instakilled, but if you broke the ceiling first you would safely land at the bottom where there was an entrance to a secret fight. So fucking cool, I wish more games did stuff like that.

Another cool thing: killing your enemy as a torso by squirting blood on them. Radical!

[Anonymous No.976701]

I'm always amazed at EC's sprite work. I see so many specialty sprites and tons of frames for those specialty sprites that are probably just used once and never again, and they're all animated really well with lots of frames. MK is very sprite-repetitive in comparison that uses the same positions, stances, etc. over and over again. Some real love and work went into this one.

[Anonymous No.976747]

>>976559
Yeah it was supposed to be Leiberman. His vendetta finisher is him turning into a mailman and "going Postal"

[Zer0 No.976749]

Loved the fatality's in this game..

[Anonymous No.976772]

>>976749
Not often do you see a game where a clown car can crush your opponent.

[Anonymous No.976806]

>>975851
Man, half of those fatalities look like they were inspired by "that kid" stories, it's the kind of stuff that sounded so cool but at the same time sounded so exaggerated and unrealistic that you knew it was bullshit.
Except here it's real, it's all real.

[Anonymous No.976834]

Holy fuck, some of those fatalities are the most gruesome and callous I've ever seen even to this day. Like that cowboy guy just shoots you in the fucking face, no questions asked. Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage, Killer Instinct? They got nothing on Eternal Champions.

I like the idea of Eternal Champions but frankly I think the game plays like ass. The spinoff games like Chicago Syndicate were even worse.

[Anonymous No.976987]

I loved this game as a kid I wanted an activator so badly.

[Anonymous No.976990]

>>976987
Dodged that bullet then, huh?

[Anonymous No.978663]

http://youtu.be/jXicDGTXuss?t=5m50s

>40 fucking seconds

[Anonymous No.978812]

>>976747
His stage fatality is getting impaled on the Washington Monument.

[Anonymous No.979439]

>HONK HONK HONK HONK
>GIANT SCARAB
>CLEANUP BOTS
>GODZILLA FOOT
>FISH IN THE DICK

This game looks way too well made to have simply fallen by the wayside. Was it because it was too violent? Or was it that it was traditional sprite art in an age where imported photos were the main game?

[Anonymous No.979450]

>>979439
I'm guessing those obscene load times had something to do with it.

[Anonymous No.979452]

>>979439
That and it was on the Sega CD, a bastard console.

[Anonymous No.979457]

>>979452
Alright that explains it perfectly.
Only thing I remember running smoothly on mine without any loading past the preload was Streets of Rage.

[Anonymous No.979487]

>>979439
Eternal Champions was a big deal on release and heavily marketed. at least I remember the Megadrive version was. But being released amidst a zillion other fighters at the time it has been relatively forgotten, and the fact it never had any sequels.

[Anonymous No.979575]

Just so there is no confusion I'll do a quick run down and review of these games.


First there is Eternal Champions for the Sega Genesis which came out in 1993. It's a meh tier fighting. The controls were kind of clunky and you had to use up meter to use the special moves, which made them hard to implement an kind of impractical. The game did have some interesting modes and cool as hell finishing moves. There are 9 playable characters in the game plus a boss character. Each character has their own stage and each stage has it's own finisher called an Overkill (except for the boss's stage).

6.5/10 has potential


Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side came out in 1995 for the Sega CD, and is a sequel/upgrade to EC. It's an awesome trier fighting game. The controls are much smoother, and each character has new special moves and only some of them use meter (and those that do use less of your meter), so combos and implementing special moves are more practical (pretty much fixing what was wrong with the first game). There are now 4 new characters plus 12 unlockable characters (5 joke animal characters and the final boss plus 2 that are different moves sets of the pre-boss (who was the boss of EC)). 5 new stages and 3 new unlockable stages. Each stage now has 2 finishing moves, the Overkill from EC and a new Sudden Death (except for the 2 boss stages (which can't be played at in other game modes besides the main Contest mode)). Each character (except for the animals and bosses) has a finisher they can do to their opponents called a Vendetta. Every character that isn't unlockable has Cinekill finishing move that can be done to them that's a 3d cut scene. On top of that the music is a higher quality and it has neat 3d cut scenes.

8.5/10 lost gem

[Anonymous No.979608]

>>979575
>part 2

In 1995 they released a spin off called Chicago Syndicate on the Game Gear. It's a crap trier beat em up. In this game you play as Larcen from both EC and EC:CDS. It's boring and repetitive with only like two types if enemies. You can do a couple of different move that reminisce of the other games, but for some unknown reason you can't face left (at lest you have a backwards punch)

2.5/10 seriously why can't I face left


The final installment to this series is another spin off called X-perts. It came out in 1996 for the Sega Genesis. It's a shit tier beat em up. In this game you play as 3 characters who you switch back and fourth from. You play as Shadow (from EC and EC:CDS) and 2 new characters. The game is very slow paced for a beat em up and just really awkward and you just have a few basic moves. The game is at least different from most beat em ups in that you're fighting your way to different objectives on different floors of one big building, but it gets very monotonous. There are only a few types of enemies (like 3 I think). You can do a finishing move or a interrogation move with each character that I've never done and hear it doesn't work right anyway.

2/10 going out with a whimper

[Anonymous No.979635]

>>979439
People judged it as a typical Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat clone when it came out.

[Anonymous No.979680]

>>979575
>>979608
neat.
I remember seeing ads for X-perts, and how a Genesis game was being released well into the Saturn's lifespan. I feel old.

[Anonymous No.981102]

Here's a complete video of all the Vendettas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJk0Mpl3Ic

Sudden Deaths and Overkills for hidden characters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF_vFa79VSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNDP9_jUz8

[Anonymous No.981169]

>>979575
>you had to use up meter to use the special moves, which made them hard to implement an kind of impractical.
Nigga never played Art of Fighting.

[Anonymous No.982054]

>>981169
No but I've played EC on the Genesis. You might not think it be like it is, but it do.

[Anonymous No.983101]

>>975935
>The Genesis version is barely on par with Killer Instinct's level of violence.
>qcf+punch
>30 minute 5000 hit combo
No amount of violence makes a difference 459,645,092,348 hits into a match.

[Anonymous No.984548]

>>976289
the only think that does kinda suck is that the genesis version uses the dreaded GEMS sound driver, and that the way to have the "completed" version of the game is by having a SEGA CD.

[Anonymous No.984684]

Fighter rankings.

God-tier
>Chin Wo
>Trident
>Shadow
>Jetta
>Dawson
>Blade
>Slash
Mid-tier
>Xavier
>Thanatos
>Midnight
>Senator
>Larcen
>Riptide
>Blast
Low-tier:
>Raven
>Ramses III
>R.A.X.
>Hooter
>Slither
Shit-tier:
>Zuni
>Crispy

[Anonymous No.984880]

>>982054
I'm just saying it's an interesting thing to do with a fighting game.
Not every game is about MUH FIREBALLS, you know.

[Anonymous No.986118]

The animal fighters are awesome!