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Dell_Zincht posted:Is it wrong opinions day today lol, SoR III's soundtrack is incredible. Yeah sometimes there's so much stuff going on at once it can be confusing to listen to and perhaps jarring in places but hell, how can you not like this track: I made it two levels in, so far it's complete gibberish, there's no theming, no moods, no hooks, it's just garbled farts, that's the impression I got from the first two levels, I mean, I'll push through if you like but it's really not appealing to me so far. I dunno I think they’re a big step down from the first two games tracks. Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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Al-Saqr posted:I made it two levels in, so far it's complete gibberish, there's no theming, no moods, no hooks, it's just garbled farts, that's the impression I got from the first two levels, I mean, I'll push through if you like but it's really not appealing to me so far. I dunno I think they’re a big step down from the first two games tracks. They're not as iconic as the first two, and there were definitely mixed opinions when the game first came out. I wasn't on board either initially. But as my music tastes developed I was able to appreciate what Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima had done with the soundtrack. Calling it "garbled farts" is missing the point entirely and it's pretty narrow minded, to be honest. There's a lot of good game in the third installment, it's just a bit too hard. And not hard in a fun, challenging way. More hard in a "gently caress you game" kind of way.
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Streets of Rage 3 is a game that's just kind of uncomfortable no matter what. If you play the Japanese Bare Knuckle 3 you get the intended experience but Ash an uncomfortable gay stereotype which... yeah. If you play the localization, Ash is cut from the game but there's also a bunch of boneheaded changes where enemies have inflated health, the plot is completely rewritten and doesn't make any sense, and some other balance changes were made pretty much for the worse, making it feel like a complete slog because Sega wanted to discourage video game rentals. As for the soundtrack, it's something that sounds better in remixes than on the Genesis itself I think. I do appreciate the mechanical techno mix but I don't think it comes across very well on the Genesis soundchip. To be honest it'd sound even worse on SNES so I think it was a musical style that just wasn't viable with the platforms at the time.
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Oh cool I didn't know Olivier Deriviere was the composer on this, he did some great work on Plague Tale: Innocence. SoR seems a little outside his usual wheelhouse but I'm looking forward to some sick ultraviolence tunes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3u-kvm7u6k That's my take on the SOR3 soundtrack as composed. The gameplay is ehh, it has a more annoying set of enemies than 2 but it isn't that much harder, i just think the characters are not nearly as powerful as 2's, especially Axel and Max. It just has 9-healthbar bosses on mania because that's fun, apparently.
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Streets of Rage 3 has some great songs, but there are a lot of them out there that either just sound like a bunch of noise jumbled together or just sound boring as hell. The song that plays in the construction site is boring as hell On the other hand, Dub Slash, the boss theme when you fight Mona and Lisa, and the City Hall/White House music are amazing. Also, I feel that the American version of Streets of Rage 3 is much much harder than 2. Enemy HP is inflated and a lot of the bosses do the annoying thing of running away from you when you try to approach them, and to make matters worse, you can't even finish the game on easy if you decided to go that route. blackguy32 fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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Al-Saqr posted:Oh poo poo, my brain completely mixed up between them you're right I must've lumped them all together in my memory hole. My bad. I couldve sword there was quite a bit of overlap. I think the reason why is that I've been listening to alot of remixes lately so they mustve swam all together in my brain. Is there no health bar/timer/etc? Or is this just some promo mode that de-clutters the game screen?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there no health bar/timer/etc? Or is this just some promo mode that de-clutters the game screen? This is the programmer showing off gameplay so he switched off the UI. They said that in the release build you'll have some control over home much clutter there is on the screen, so if you want you can remove things like combo-counters and such.
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exquisite tea posted:Oh cool I didn't know Olivier Deriviere was the composer on this, he did some great work on Plague Tale: Innocence. SoR seems a little outside his usual wheelhouse but I'm looking forward to some sick ultraviolence tunes. Without possible spoilers from track names: 17 tracks by Olivier Deriviere 5 tracks by Yuzo Koshiro 5 tracks by Motohiro Kawashima 2 tracks by Harumi Fujita 1 track each by Das Mortal, Groundislava, Keiji Yamagishi, Scattle, XL Middleton and Yoko Shimomura
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It took like 20 goddamn years but we finally got a "rally" mechanic for a beat 'em up i.e. being able to get back the health lost from special moves by hitting people or just not taking damage for a while. Honestly that's how it should have been because otherwise most people won't use them. Also really digging the juggling/wallbounce mechanics here, finally you can get creative about combos especially in multiplayer.
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I'm really struggling with PC or Switch on this one. On the one hand, I have some steambux and there will probably be cool mods for this on PC On the other hand, I can lay in bed with my Switch and play SOR4, arguably the best way to play.
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Panzeh posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3u-kvm7u6k Oh aren't you hilarious. Like I said, if you don't get it then fine I guess.
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DLC Inc posted:It took like 20 goddamn years but we finally got a "rally" mechanic for a beat 'em up i.e. being able to get back the health lost from special moves by hitting people or just not taking damage for a while. Honestly that's how it should have been because otherwise most people won't use them. Typically, in games where the player has hitstun, it's better to super joy than to take the full combo- it's pretty rare for beat em ups to have the super joy be really bad.
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In spite of the very dumb stereotyping, I would still recommend that anyone interested in Streets of Rage 3 should just play the fan-translated Bare Knuckle 3 instead because it's fun and Streets of Rage 3 is significantly less fun.
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This game allows you to unapologetically beat up cops. This game is gonna be great.
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RichterIX posted:In spite of the very dumb stereotyping, I would still recommend that anyone interested in Streets of Rage 3 should just play the fan-translated Bare Knuckle 3 instead because it's fun and Streets of Rage 3 is significantly less fun. I'm going to give this a shot. I haven't played the third game as much as the first two and this seems like the best way to do it. I just played SoRR last night for the first time in over a decade. Still made my mouth drop at how much stuff is in the game, like there's a shop drat forgot about that.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I'm really struggling with PC or Switch on this one. I pre-ordered a physical Switch copy of the game, and I dunno when that'll ship. So I guess I'll get the PC version around launch.
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Al-Saqr posted:vids Looks like the grab -> neutral attack now launches enemies more or less straight upwards for easy follow-ups. And they bounce off walls Dragon's Crown style for some sweet follow-up combos.
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People hating on SoR3 and its soundtrack, smdh If it's not to your taste that's one thing, but that soundtrack was groundbreaking, in ways that SoR2 wasn't and neither was SoR1. It's withstood the test of time very, very well because of it, and innovated a bunch of techniques (like the 'curated random' sound). Is it as mainstream as SoR2? No -- it didn't literally ape a massive pop hit, and its sound is much more aggressive on purpose. But what it does, it does to perfection. Super excited to finally get a fifth entry in the series! SoRR was basically as good as a fourth game, but it's been a long time since we saw a proper reinvention of the franchise. These next three days are gonna make for an absolutely eternal wait!
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Transient People posted:People hating on SoR3 and its soundtrack, smdh Someone else gets it! I thought I was going mad for a while there with my appreciation for III's soundtrack.
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So I'm playing some SoRR and for some reason I'm getting some problems with stuttering in fullscreen. Doesn't seem to matter what options I select beyond that, low quality, high, v-sync on or off, it's distracting though. 
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can't believe this comes out TOMORROW holy gently caress. I've been more excited for this game than any other this year.
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 GAME IS COMING OUT TOMORROW 12 MIDNIGHT or 10:00 REVIEWS ARE DROPPING TODAY GET HYPE YOU GUYS, STREETS OF RAGE 4 IS UPON US.  Here is the tweet:- https://twitter.com/lizardcube/status/1255498604908883968?s=20 Tweet detailing game features and options:- https://twitter.com/lizardcube/status/1255496737361461248?s=20 Yuzo Koshiro remix tweet:- https://twitter.com/yuzokoshiro/status/1255399050016428033?s=20 Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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Holy gently caress that drop at 50 seconds in to that Yuzo track with the strings. The boy is back. Also an actual stage select/arcade mode aside from the 12(!) stage game with 5 levels of difficulty, that sounds great. This is probably even more love put into a beat'emup than Double Dragon Neon, gently caress I'm even more hyped.
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DLC Inc posted:Holy gently caress that drop at 50 seconds in to that Yuzo track with the strings. The boy is back. Not gonna lie, those strings got me super good, that was a sick drop.
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Do we know what regions its releasing at midnight?
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In celebration for the imminent release here's a great mashup of SOR2 x The Shamen that I listen to every dang day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFUm8YmyXU
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First review is out from IGN:- https://youtu.be/SBDJRiIpgG8 7/10 Basically the reviewer complains The whole time about how this is too much of a faithful streets of rage game and not a complete reinvention of the series, which quite frankly is an insane expectation to have.
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https://kotaku.com/streets-of-rage-4-the-kotaku-review-1843156243 kotaku review is up complaints are some of the music and lack of 4 player online e; read the kotaku review its written by someone who is clearly a fan of the series and their history Jim Silly-Balls fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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Apr 29, 2020 15:21
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Apparently the Steam version supports Remote Play Together so that could be a solution for 4 player online?
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Aside from IGN (who the gently caress even reads them anymore) every review I've seen for this is positively glowing. The mad lads at Dotemu loving did it.
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Apr 29, 2020 15:44
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Is this gonna be on PC Gamepass too?
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I don’t have time to read the reviews yet but do any of them mention the Switch version? No lag or anything on it? Was the platform I was planning to buy it on but things can be hit or miss on it.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:https://kotaku.com/streets-of-rage-4-the-kotaku-review-1843156243 This is a much better and more insightful review than the IGN one by far.
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Social Animal posted:I don’t have time to read the reviews yet but do any of them mention the Switch version? No lag or anything on it? Was the platform I was planning to buy it on but things can be hit or miss on it. The Switch-specific review from Nintendo World gave it high praise and there's been no mention of anything negative for the Switch version. By all accounts seems like you don't lose anything with the Switch. https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/53617/streets-of-rage-4-switch-review
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Holy poo poo the game got a perfect 10/10 from eurogamer!!!! https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-04-29-streets-of-rage-4-review-beloved-beat-em-up-gets-the-sonic-mania-treatment Also most other reviews are glowing with praise!! https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2020/4/29/21240091/streets-of-rage-4-review-switch-pc-ps4-xbox-one loving awesome! Lizardcube/bitcrush/dotemu loving did it!!!! They brought back streets of rage to a blazing glory!!
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exquisite tea posted:Is this gonna be on PC Gamepass too? Looks like it?! https://twitter.com/Dotemu/status/1251414260636319745?s=20
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Al-Saqr posted:This is a much better and more insightful review than the IGN one by far. I think by virtue of it being a beat em up, some people are going to bounce hard off of it. See IGNs own review for Double Dragon Neon. Anyway it is good to see this getting good marks.
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DLC Inc posted:The Switch-specific review from Nintendo World gave it high praise and there's been no mention of anything negative for the Switch version. By all accounts seems like you don't lose anything with the Switch. That is great to hear thanks!
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IGN gonna IGN. I'll listen to what the real reviewers say.exquisite tea posted:Is this gonna be on PC Gamepass too? As someone who has never owned an XBox, I had no idea that PC Gamepass was a thing. I'm currently looking at the titles, and this is amazing. And it's only  a month? And I can play any of these games as long as my subscription is active?
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