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| Iron D 1837th Post
 
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|  "Rarely talked about Fighting games: part 1"
, posted Fri 14 Jun 15:49
In my "rarely talked about fighting games" series, I will create threads dedicated to the discussion of fighting games that are...well...rarely talked about.
Our first edition will focus on X-men: Children of the Atom. Look forward to discussions on Marvel Super Heroes, Real Bout: Fatal Fury 2, Street Fighter Alpha 1, and many others in the future.
Now, on the subject, I'll say that even today, X-men: CotA is STILL among my favorite fighting games ever. It's the first fighting game I've ever beaten, and I learned how to do most of the common place special move commands with this game. It holds a special place in my heart.
The last boss fight with Magneto is, IMO, the most satisfying, dramatic, and climatic last boss fight EVER. The intro, the music, and Magneto's voice (in CotA, he has his voice from the cartoon. Capcom changed his voice in Marvel Super Heroes, though, and he's had that voice ever since. Inferior, I say.) made for one heck of a battle. It was HECKA hard too, definitely on par with any "god" boss, if not tougher than most.
The pre-last boss bout with Juggernaut was pretty cool too. The background was awesome. I loved when Juggernaut would pull that steal beam out of the foreground and use it as a weapon. I wish he would regain that move somehow...
Um...let the discussion continue...
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| whitesword 868th Post
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| "Re(1):Rarely talked about Fighting games: par" , posted Fri 14 Jun 18:12
CotA gets some serious style points from me even though I never got into it. One of my favorite parts were the X-abilities like Storm's wind, those made it very unique and I would love to see a new, all X-Men fighting game from Capcom.
The backgrounds were also spoonloads of fun, from the Danger Room, to the beach, I just loved them!
And of course Magneto, one of the most vicious bosses I've ever seen, he's probably the only boss character who can completely control the pace of the match, you couldn't create any chances for attack, you had to wait for'em...at least that how I remember it!
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| RackPacker
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| "I smell a potential spam" , posted Sat 15 Jun 03:48
quote:
In my "rarely talked about fighting games" series, I will create threads dedicated to the discussion of fighting games that are...well...rarely talked about.
Our first edition will focus on X-men: Children of the Atom. Look forward to discussions on Marvel Super Heroes, Real Bout: Fatal Fury 2, Street Fighter Alpha 1, and many others in the future.
Now, on the subject, I'll say that even today, X-men: CotA is STILL among my favorite fighting games ever. It's the first fighting game I've ever beaten, and I learned how to do most of the common place special move commands with this game. It holds a special place in my heart.
The last boss fight with Magneto is, IMO, the most satisfying, dramatic, and climatic last boss fight EVER. The intro, the music, and Magneto's voice (in CotA, he has his voice from the cartoon. Capcom changed his voice in Marvel Super Heroes, though, and he's had that voice ever since. Inferior, I say.) made for one heck of a battle. It was HECKA hard too, definitely on par with any "god" boss, if not tougher than most.
The pre-last boss bout with Juggernaut was pretty cool too. The background was awesome. I loved when Juggernaut would pull that steal beam out of the foreground and use it as a weapon. I wish he would regain that move somehow...
Um...let the discussion continue...
Are you trying to spam?
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| Hungrywolf 1045th Post
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| "Re(1):I smell a potential spam" , posted Sat 15 Jun 07:20
quote:
In my "rarely talked about fighting games" series, I will create threads dedicated to the discussion of fighting games that are...well...rarely talked about.
Our first edition will focus on X-men: Children of the Atom. Look forward to discussions on Marvel Super Heroes, Real Bout: Fatal Fury 2, Street Fighter Alpha 1, and many others in the future.
Now, on the subject, I'll say that even today, X-men: CotA is STILL among my favorite fighting games ever. It's the first fighting game I've ever beaten, and I learned how to do most of the common place special move commands with this game. It holds a special place in my heart.
The last boss fight with Magneto is, IMO, the most satisfying, dramatic, and climatic last boss fight EVER. The intro, the music, and Magneto's voice (in CotA, he has his voice from the cartoon. Capcom changed his voice in Marvel Super Heroes, though, and he's had that voice ever since. Inferior, I say.) made for one heck of a battle. It was HECKA hard too, definitely on par with any "god" boss, if not tougher than most.
The pre-last boss bout with Juggernaut was pretty cool too. The background was awesome. I loved when Juggernaut would pull that steal beam out of the foreground and use it as a weapon. I wish he would regain that move somehow...
Um...let the discussion continue...
Are you trying to spam?
Um, how is that spam?
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| Ultima 262th Post
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| "Re(1):Rarely talked about Fighting games: par" , posted Tue 18 Jun 04:29
Note: I wanted to post this yesterday, but there were some complications, so I'm posting it today. If anyone has already said some of the stuff I say, I apologize for being redundant.
quote:
Our first edition will focus on X-men: Children of the Atom. Look forward to discussions on Marvel Super Heroes, Real Bout: Fatal Fury 2, Street Fighter Alpha 1, and many others in the future.
COTA/MSH:
I didn't see COTA until loooong after Marvel vs. SF. I think it might have been okay for the time, but the engine is archaic and stiff, with too many features not well thought out or implemented at the time. Marvel Superheroes was a VAST improvement from COTA. Much more refined, fluid, and has no (?) ToD combos. It has a few infinites, but only Spider-Man's are really abusive (which doesn't matter much since Spider-Man himself is abusive). MSH is easily one of Capcom's best games.
Oh yeah: COTA Magneto was a total bastard. It's one thing to be a hard boss, but it's another thing to be designed to break the damn rules of the game (what's with chaining 4 fierces in a row off an OTG?) and to be far superior to every other character. That fight was just not fun at ALL...
And finally, are you *Sure* COTA's Mags has a different voice to the other Mags? It sounds the same to me (the "EM Disruptor" and "Magnetic Tempest" lines sound identical), and it definitely doesn't sound like the old cartoon Mags' voice.
Also: To the person who said Saturn COTA was arcade perfect - HELL NO it wasn't. It was missing frames like *crazy*. I actually saw the Saturn version before I saw the arcade version, and without seening the arcade version I noticed how choppy the Saturn version was. To date, there has been no arcade-perfect port of COTA. The only way to play arcade-perfect COTA at home is through a CPSII emulator.
SFA1:
Gah. The bastard child of the Alphas. There's a reason why nobody talks about this game, and that's because it sucks.
Okay, longer story: The chain combos seemed like a good idea, but they really dumbed down the gameplay, and gave existence to crap like Guy's redizzy combos. It also had the Ken roll trap of doom (you die if you block, you die if you don't block). Aside from the abusive qualities, it was slow, dull, and too few characters. ON the upside, it had possibly the best version of Dan ever. Rah. =|
Real Bout:
Never played it. I dabbled a little in RB2, but the "classic" line system and the control scheme drove me away. As far as I'm concerned, the only good FF game is MOTW.
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| Hungrywolf 1051th Post
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| "Re(2):Rarely talked about Fighting games: par" , posted Tue 18 Jun 10:18
quote:
Note: I wanted to post this yesterday, but there were some complications, so I'm posting it today. If anyone has already said some of the stuff I say, I apologize for being redundant.
Our first edition will focus on X-men: Children of the Atom. Look forward to discussions on Marvel Super Heroes, Real Bout: Fatal Fury 2, Street Fighter Alpha 1, and many others in the future.
COTA/MSH:
I didn't see COTA until loooong after Marvel vs. SF. I think it might have been okay for the time, but the engine is archaic and stiff, with too many features not well thought out or implemented at the time. Marvel Superheroes was a VAST improvement from COTA. Much more refined, fluid, and has no (?) ToD combos. It has a few infinites, but only Spider-Man's are really abusive (which doesn't matter much since Spider-Man himself is abusive). MSH is easily one of Capcom's best games.
Oh yeah: COTA Magneto was a total bastard. It's one thing to be a hard boss, but it's another thing to be designed to break the damn rules of the game (what's with chaining 4 fierces in a row off an OTG?) and to be far superior to every other character. That fight was just not fun at ALL...
And finally, are you *Sure* COTA's Mags has a different voice to the other Mags? It sounds the same to me (the "EM Disruptor" and "Magnetic Tempest" lines sound identical), and it definitely doesn't sound like the old cartoon Mags' voice.
Also: To the person who said Saturn COTA was arcade perfect - HELL NO it wasn't. It was missing frames like *crazy*. I actually saw the Saturn version before I saw the arcade version, and without seening the arcade version I noticed how choppy the Saturn version was. To date, there has been no arcade-perfect port of COTA. The only way to play arcade-perfect COTA at home is through a CPSII emulator.
SFA1:
Gah. The bastard child of the Alphas. There's a reason why nobody talks about this game, and that's because it sucks.
Okay, longer story: The chain combos seemed like a good idea, but they really dumbed down the gameplay, and gave existence to crap like Guy's redizzy combos. It also had the Ken roll trap of doom (you die if you block, you die if you don't block). Aside from the abusive qualities, it was slow, dull, and too few characters. ON the upside, it had possibly the best version of Dan ever. Rah. =|
Real Bout:
Never played it. I dabbled a little in RB2, but the "classic" line system and the control scheme drove me away. As far as I'm concerned, the only good FF game is MOTW.
What the..? The only good Fatal Fury (Garou Densetsu) game is MOTW? Are you crazy? The real bout games are great, but outside of those, I actually like 2 and 3, and FFSpecial. I also like the first one, though its just because I'm a Fatal Fury fan, it's true the first game is not that great. I know it was just your opinion, but I think your opinion stinks. That's my opinion.
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| Iron D 1839th Post
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| "Uh, guys?" , posted Tue 18 Jun 23:29
You realize that I said that I'd get to many other games in future installments? Indeed, Kabuki Klash was at the top of my list. I was surprised to find it at my local arcade (though it's not there anymore), and I thought it would be cool to see who else here has played it, BUT that's a story for a future installment of "rarely talked about fighting games".
I must admit though, a lot of the games that were mentioned whenever someone started listing rare fighing games...I've never heard of them...
Oh, and about Magneto's voice, indeed that is the voice actor from the cartoon. I swear it is. In fact, when I played as Magneto in Marvel Super Heroes, one of the first things I noticed was his voice change. In Marvel Super Heroes and every game afterward that had Magneto in it, his voice was that serpent-like, raspy voice. But in CotA, his voice was deeper and more...what would be the proper word...regal, maybe?
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