Why did the beat em' up genre die?
Why did the beat em' up genre die?
Jaxon Hughes
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Luis Clark
Decline in 2D side-scrolling game development
Chase Barnes
Stagnation and a tough time transferring from arcades to consoles.
Levi Hernandez
You could say it turned into the 3d action games like DMC, the newer Ninja Gaiden, God Hand, etc. Dragon's Crown is a proper spritual successor to the Dungeon and Dragons and Golden Ax beat em up.
Aaron Johnson
>Dragon's Crown
I wish they would port it to Steam, I'd play the fuck out of it all over again.
Julian Carter
devil may cry 1 is the super mario 64 of beat em ups, the difference is 2d beat em ups didn't see a resurgence years later
Christopher Barnes
Turns out this is really hard to pull off in 3D.
Bentley Phillips
I literally buy 2D fighters just for the practice of chaining together combos against the NPCs and pretending I'm playing a really good BMP.
Most of my hours in SmUsh are spent doing this.
Ryder James
Because gameplay and some sweet music isn't enough for kids these days.
Huh, that's pretty much how I played Smash64 and Melee back in the day. Never really thought about it that way before.
Ryan Johnson
There is only so much you can do with the genre.
The greatest comedy duo did have their own beat em up game recently though
Gavin Ross
It just transitioned into 3d space
Playing DMC or Ninja Gaiden is more fun than playing 2d beat'em'ups
Kevin Moore
Why do people call belt scrollers "beam 'em up"?
Anthony Peterson
But it's been going strong ever since 2005
Kayden Brown
Aren't these games popular?
Leo Moore
Mega Man and Mario are belt scrollers but not BMPs
Luke Morgan
Afaik belt scrollers always have a downward tilt camera; Rock Man and Mario are side-view.
Andrew Foster
l appreciate the SF style inputs but fuck. MMO. Hate having a stamina bar to play.
Ryan Cox
Yeah, but I wasn't gonna let some stamina bar stop me from enjoying a nice beat em up. I do wish DFO was a (good) offline game instead. Well, I can only hope if it ever gets shut down, it somehow gets leak so people can make private servers for it.
Andrew Garcia
D&D: Shadow over Mystara was the pinnacle of the genre, prove me wrong.
Christopher Martin
No monk character.
Jackson Ramirez
You raise a good point.
A druid would've been rad, too.
Jose Lewis
Oic, good point. Carry on then.
Gabriel Sanders
It's pretty good, but I don't agree with the notion of there being a pinnacle because that implies it's the best and you shouldn't bother with others. Instead, I feel you should play a lot of them, for variety is the true pinnacle.
Parker Smith
Andrew Parker
I really never understood the appeal of doing combos and stuff, but I can say that I dislike Bayonetta and Devil May Cry for the same reason I dislike Beat 'em Ups so I guess the answer is people got the itch scratched by 3D games
Xavier Hall
One is because combos would keep you safe from enemies (if you got them all together). Two is because keeping enemies from doing anything is fun in itself.
William Rogers
Anyone else wish they would make a great in depth beat 'em up RPG with a unique character creator and not shit combat and no nickle and diming people with microtransactions? Yeah I am certainly not talking about that crappy Korean beat 'em up MMORPG beat 'em up here. Something a lot better with more class.
Juan Robinson
Should I buy the Capcom Beat Em Up Collection
Anthony Jenkins
No, just emulate them.
Wyatt Stewart
A new game in the Chronicles of Mystara series but with customizable feats/spells would be cool.
Luke Young
You mean Guardian fucking heroes
Thomas Turner
Because it fucking sucks.
Jordan Rodriguez
It didn't die. It became Musou.
Nicholas Carter
the annoying pause everytime someone casts a spell ruins it for me.
Nicholas Anderson
It's not really dead , more like sleeping.
Someone will make one One day and we will love it.
Jackson Collins
I wish it hadn't, it's the GOAT couch co-op genre along with fighting games.
Easton Cox
i really wish they weren't making Streets of Rage 4.
Noah Stewart
Wrong genre there my dude.
Robert Mitchell
Isn't gauntlet A 3d beat em up?
What about gang beasts?
Ian Clark
Gauntlet seems more like a top-down shooter with melee attacks. Isn't Gang Beasts a quirky fighting game?
Kayden Evans
Gauntlet is closer to a shooter than a beat em up.
David Wilson
There's a vs cpus mode in gang beasts that you fight against random little dudes while playing s level.
Ethan Young
Probably one of the better modern beat-em-ups I've played in a really long time.
Zachary Sullivan
I played it when it first came out and remember the enemies were rather annoying because they maintained a perfect distance from you so I had to run into them almost all the time or let them come to me and hit them before they could hit me.
Hunter Torres
Dumbass. That game would be considered a shmup
Matthew Cruz
This is why you don't button mash. When you know for a fact throw just an attack if they don't dodge then try to go in and do your usual combos. Also there's been a lot of hotfixes/balancing
Christian Howard
Did they hotfix the chasing and milk shit?
Nicholas Mitchell
These. By 6th gen, console dev kits barely even had support for 2D games anymore. It was strongly discouraged and a bitch to get working. People lost interest in 2D and wanted full 3D games.
Matthew Jenkins
But it went 3D too
Oliver Campbell
Super Double Dragon was my favorite
Benjamin Miller
It evolved into hack&slash.
John King
>reach bebop and rocksteady in TMNT
>have to endless jumpkick them to death
fuck all of this, this has sapped my will to play, divekicking everything to death is a bigger slog than sword of vermillion
Camden Rodriguez
Who here /hyped/ for Streets of Rage 4?
Alexander Price
I dunno but fight n rage was one of my best purchases this year
Angel Collins
It’s trash