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Everything posted by Hydro Thunder
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Had a surprisingly engaging experience playing the original Halo on the original Xbox last night. Roped me in for a few hours - still incredible fun. Such perfect music, controls, dramatics.
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This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.
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Pointless mental gymnastics... Which is truly better, Streets of Rage 4 or Streets of Rage Remake? Leaning towards SoRR...but not by much Also recommend against playing a bunch of one, then the other...since SoR4 changed up the button layout to fit new style controllers, vs the old Genesis 6-button arcade pad.
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The recent TMNT Shredder Streets of Rage 2 Genesis hack is INSANE. Just imagining how our faces would have looked to see a Genesis running animation like this back in the day. I'm not even a huge TMNT guy, but this is just amazing work.
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I know it's almost ten years old now...but Double Dragon Neon is just one of the best brawlers ever made. It's funny, has great enemies, stages, combat... Clearly a labor of love and full of humor and great action. And with a killer ending, just terrific. Oh, and how many brawlers are 3 plus hours long to beat?? Class of its own in that way.
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All of that is probably true, but I actually found myself thinking that it seemed to bring the Double Dragon gameplay slightly forward while adding in an almost toxic preservation of the worst elements of 80s culture. Turned it up to "Neon" with runaway sexist stereotypes and problems solved with violence. I mean, it IS a videogame, so I wasn't expecting anything else, but it just sorta hit me across the face in a weird way, and I didn't want to play it anymore.
Still, I have it on my list to play later. Maybe my timing was wrong or something.
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It's hard to argue against the "worst elements of 80s culture" comments, really. But it seems to take everything that it does very lightly, at least? Like, the opening part with the violent attack on Marian is clearly a throwback to the original game. Which is laughably (??), horrifically sexist and violent. Like a lot of "street fightin'" movies and such from the time. And agreed, nearly all brawlers / beat 'em ups are exactly this, solve everything with a roundhouse kick. But yes, it's a video game - what fun would it be to instead simulate instituting policies that reduce poverty and crime through rehabilitation, funding, education and the like?
I guess I didn't note a whole ton of sexism that wasn't already in the original games or common in other brawlers. And the ending is truly epic (and gives some redemption to Marian, heh heh heh). I'd say give it a shot due to the humor, stages, and combat mechanics. And if it slaps you in the face in the ways you mention, let it go.