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Post by bonesnapdeez on Oct 21, 2018 9:48:34 GMT -5
Not much! Hence my lack of posts so far here. My tastes are pretty mainstream. I like Street Fighter II and the SNK Neo Geo classics. Also, some Mortal Kombat (mainly against a second player, as I find the CPU to be brutal). I also have a soft spot for those games starring cutesy anime girls. Asuka 120% and so on. Generally speaking though, this is not my genre. I'm not naturally good at fighters, nor do I like to "practice" video game skills. I'm lazy, basically.
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Post by anayo on Oct 21, 2018 10:30:52 GMT -5
anayo
The lycanthrope series you're talking about is Bloody Roar, I think. Primal Fury is the subtitle to the Gamecube version, but there's BR 3 and 4 on the PS2. I haven't played them a ton so I can't speak on their depth, but they're very fluid and the feel is nice. I hope you'll check them out. Doh! Isn't Primal Fury that one from Midway with the digitized dinosaurs? I think it came out around 1994 at the height of the Mortal Kombat craze.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Oct 21, 2018 12:21:23 GMT -5
Primal Rage
Begin in the arcades. Got a bunch of ports that nobody asked for or wanted. My brother and I had it on PC. It ran like balls and played like shit.
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Post by anayo on Oct 21, 2018 12:36:56 GMT -5
Primal RageBegin in the arcades. Got a bunch of ports that nobody asked for or wanted. My brother and I had it on PC. It ran like balls and played like shit. Yeah I don't really remember it from when it was contemporary. I had to learn about it from retro gaming sites as a teenager. It always struck me as something that would have blown everyone's minds in the 90's only to age like milk before the decade was even over with.
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Post by toei on Oct 21, 2018 13:56:21 GMT -5
You could eat humans to replenish a bit of health, IIRC (Primal Rage). We actually did think it was pretty cool when I was a kid, but that was 100% because of the giant gorillas and monsters. It's really bad. In my mind I associate it with Clay Fighter; one of those crappy '90s Western fighters with attitude that seemed cool when I was too young to be demanding about gameplay. Witness the clunk (and that horrible, horrible music):
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Post by anayo on Oct 21, 2018 15:14:00 GMT -5
toeiDon't forget about Ballz.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 21, 2018 15:17:31 GMT -5
Clay Fighter is a guilty pleasure of mine, I rented it a LOT for some reason. I really don't know why but I played it a lot back in the day. I also thought it was cool how one of the N64 games had Earthworm Jim and Boogerman in there, I guess there was some IP connections. I always liked using the green blob guy usually though. I used to be able to legitimately beat these games, but nowadays I have no idea how since they definitely do seem awful and clunky haha, think I get stuck on the second fight (Helga? oh Pumpkin face).
Here's a weird one I played once, rented it I believe:
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Post by anayo on Oct 21, 2018 15:35:53 GMT -5
XeogredVR Troopers was one of my first Sega Genesis games! I'm not crazy about it now, but I loved it as a 5 year old.
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Post by toei on Oct 21, 2018 15:57:03 GMT -5
For some reason I'd never heard of VR Troopers. I'd seen the name, but I didn't know it was a fighting game at all. Judging from the video, it's at least a little smoother and faster than Clay Fighter or Primal Rage. I'll give it a spin later. I rented Ballz once, I think, and while it seemed impressive (and the characters reminded me of Vectorman), I don't remember it having much of a popular impact compared to those other two series I mentioned, at least not where I lived. Primal Rage and Clay Fighter were actually big for a short while, and got some real marketing. Like Rise of the Robots, which was received as outright trash even then but still ended up on every console in the world (there's even an Amiga CD32 version!)
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 21, 2018 16:15:57 GMT -5
Yeah, Clay Fighter seems right in line with that "90's attitude" era and I just remember Blockbuster being loaded with copies... nobody else wanted them probably.
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