Best Modern Beat 'Em Up?
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It's Fight N Rage.
https://youtu.be/P2ujLI3FgQY
Fun combo system, many branching/secret paths and tons of neat little references to streets of rage and street fighter.
https://youtu.be/P2ujLI3FgQY
Fun combo system, many branching/secret paths and tons of neat little references to streets of rage and street fighter.
Do you count 3D games? Because I'd say Sengoku Basara 4 Sumeragi would be the best.
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Dude the genre is bigger and better than ever. Look above at Fight'N Rage. 99 Vidas. River City Ransom Underground. The Takeover. Streets of Fury.
The list goes on and on, there's tons of great side-scrolling beat-em-ups nowadays that are great.
Double Dragon Neon is a ton of fun and the writing is hilarious.
That bust is a bit... excessive, to say the least.
I think The TakeOver is worth a mention, even though we're coming up on 3 years in early access.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/418620/The_TakeOver/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/418620/The_TakeOver/
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I still need to play this, heard it's hard though.
That game will be released sometime next year from what I heard.
Those aren't modern capcom beat them ups tho. For reference, I'd like a game with some 3D characters of about Street Fighter 4 complexity in animation and modeling.
Is this game actually good? Just checked out the Steam page and it has mostly negative reviews. Never heard of it, but I'm always down for a good beat em up. That being said, between that gif and the steam reviews I can't tell if this post is trying to be ironic.
I echo the statements about Fight 'N Rage, it's a good take on the genre.
I also recently started playing Double Dragon Neon on XBLA and it's pretty slick, I didn't like the way it looked when it came out but it's actually pretty good considering.
As far as more adventure beat em ups go I think the Yakuza series constantly delivers. I've been playing the recent Judge Eyes and the combat is fantastic.
I also recently started playing Double Dragon Neon on XBLA and it's pretty slick, I didn't like the way it looked when it came out but it's actually pretty good considering.
As far as more adventure beat em ups go I think the Yakuza series constantly delivers. I've been playing the recent Judge Eyes and the combat is fantastic.
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Dang, I need to play these ones listed. I wonder about other beat em ups of today.
Quiet Man posts are all joking. It's a legitimate worst game of all time contender.
Also, I'll second all the Yakuza votes, but I feel like that's cheating, since those games have sort of pushed beyond "just" being a brawler.
Yup, actually really tough to even make it through the whole the campaign. I have yet to beat the game, but have played only for a couple hours. Enemies can drain your health bar super quick and juggle you in the air for massive damage. Was a wake up call after so many years of sailing through streets of rage games :-P
Fight'n Rage and Yakuza 0 (well, the entire series) are obvious choices. River City Ransom Underground is also quite good.
However, one of the best beat'm ups I have recently played would be "The friends of Ringo Ishikawa"
You are playing as a Japanese high school delinquent gang leader. There are bunch of mini games, interesting fighting system, and a pretty good story actually. It's a great and underrated game that everyone who loved stuff like OG River City Ransom games or Beat'm Ups with a story (kind of 16-bit Yakuza :P) would love.
There is training, school work, and time management. It's really an amazing game all coded by a single dev.
However, one of the best beat'm ups I have recently played would be "The friends of Ringo Ishikawa"
You are playing as a Japanese high school delinquent gang leader. There are bunch of mini games, interesting fighting system, and a pretty good story actually. It's a great and underrated game that everyone who loved stuff like OG River City Ransom games or Beat'm Ups with a story (kind of 16-bit Yakuza :P) would love.
There is training, school work, and time management. It's really an amazing game all coded by a single dev.
Fight'n Rage and Yakuza 0 (well, the entire series) are obvious choices. River City Ransom Underground is also quite good.
However, one of the best beat'm ups I have recently played would be "The friends of Ringo Ishikawa"
You are playing as a Japanese high school delinquent gang leader. There are bunch of mini games, interesting fighting system, and a pretty good story actually. It's a great and underrated game that everyone who loved stuff like OG River City Ransom games or Beat'm Ups with a story (kind of 16-bit Yakuza :P) would love.
There is training, school work, and time management. It's really an amazing game all coded by a single dev.
This one's coming to Switch next year.
Still haven't played Ringo, so I gotta go with Aces Wild and the already mentioned Fight'n'Rage.
Also, small shout out for the 2D chinese DMC-like Rain Blood:
Tough both Capcom bundles (Chronicles of Mystara and the recent Beat'em Up) also have some of the best games of all time in the genre - Shadow over Mystara, Battle Circuit. Shame AVP will probably never get a port.
Also, small shout out for the 2D chinese DMC-like Rain Blood:
Tough both Capcom bundles (Chronicles of Mystara and the recent Beat'em Up) also have some of the best games of all time in the genre - Shadow over Mystara, Battle Circuit. Shame AVP will probably never get a port.
And? The game is out. It's awesome. It's cheap. It can run in pretty much any sort of PC. Why wait?
Seriously folks, get it. Great, great game.
Aces Wild is IMO the most underrated indie game ever. It's fantastic.
Man, it would be so awesome if this gets the Switch port but Nintendo somehow rejected the dev request for the dev kit. What a bummer.
Dragon Crown and Castle Crashers are my choices. Not a fan of most games mentioned above... There's the Bud Spencer game but i never played it.
DD: Neon, Phantom Breaker Battlegrounds, and Dragon's Crown are all a bit older now but they're some of the more particularly fun modern beat em ups I can recall, though for the first two I definitely think a lot of it is lead by either music or aesthetics
Also Streets of Rage Remake is still one of the most fun ways to re-experience SoR, wish it was repackaged into a paid and branded experience like Sonic Mania was
Also Streets of Rage Remake is still one of the most fun ways to re-experience SoR, wish it was repackaged into a paid and branded experience like Sonic Mania was
It completely sucks how so few modern entries in the genre are arcade structured. I really can't get into stuff like Double Dragon Neon, Dragon's Crown, Scott Pilgrim, and Castle Crashers.
Fight n Rage seems good, though!
Fight n Rage seems good, though!
Thanks to the above I have added Fight N Rage to my wishlist. I did not care for DD Neon though.
Now that they've done Sonia Mania, why don't Sega just pay to release this properly?
Now that they've done Sonia Mania, why don't Sega just pay to release this properly?
Fight n Rage has been by far the best one I've played so far of the modern beat em ups. It depends what you want though, in some ways it's very old school as it doesn't add RPG lite elements like many others do but for me that's one reason I love it. It also just feels satisfying to play because of how easy it is to cancel special moves into each other.
Mother Russia Bleeds is great and available on pretty much every platform. Fight & Rage is fun but I remember I had some issue with it. Maybe difficulty?
Straight up, The Takeover is amazing! It's on PC for early access right now but pretty damn complete. It'll be out on Switch too, fairly soon, to my understanding.
Straight up, The Takeover is amazing! It's on PC for early access right now but pretty damn complete. It'll be out on Switch too, fairly soon, to my understanding.
Yakuza games?
I bought Mother Russia Bleeds expecting a cool game with a cool ost, but bounced back after a few levels. The game can be annoying as some hits don't register properly if you're not standing on the same level as the enemy (or I'm just crap at it ;)).
I bought Mother Russia Bleeds expecting a cool game with a cool ost, but bounced back after a few levels. The game can be annoying as some hits don't register properly if you're not standing on the same level as the enemy (or I'm just crap at it ;)).
It's this one here
Oh my god I need to play this.
Fight'n Rage and Yakuza 0 (well, the entire series) are obvious choices. River City Ransom Underground is also quite good.
However, one of the best beat'm ups I have recently played would be "The friends of Ringo Ishikawa"
You are playing as a Japanese high school delinquent gang leader. There are bunch of mini games, interesting fighting system, and a pretty good story actually. It's a great and underrated game that everyone who loved stuff like OG River City Ransom games or Beat'm Ups with a story (kind of 16-bit Yakuza :P) would love.
There is training, school work, and time management. It's really an amazing game all coded by a single dev.
Oh my god I need to play this.
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Nobody is putting that kind of work into old-school brawlers, but the various Musou/Warriors games and the Yakuza series/spinoffs have elements of what you're after mixed with other more modern/cross-genre elements.
Maybe it might be up your alley. I didn't care for it at all, but I did buy it because I tend to buy every new Beat 'em Up. It's fine, it just didn't knock my socks off.
