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DF Retro: Final Fight - The Definitive Retrospective - Every Version Ever Made Tested
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SirTerry-T
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Also the perfect opportunity to bring one of the greatest Neogaf threads of all time back out of cold storage...
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Ever REALLY look at the Streets of Rage cover art?
It's like one of the craziest videogame covers ever: First of all, there's a lady being choked out of a window...as the building burns: Then you got this dude firing an automatic weapon at whatever: In the midst of all this mayhem, this shadowy mob encroaches with weapons...
Mobilemofo
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God I'd love a final fight 'blupoint' remake or another final fight for the Ps4.
SkylineRKR
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Sega CD version for life brehs.
namekuseijin
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a "franchise" whose only real good game is the original arcade. The SNES port and its "sequels" sucked big time because only 3 enemies could be on screen at any one time...
stranno
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Revenge probably featured the earliest example of x-ray attack ever seen on a fighting game, later popularized by Mortal Kombat. Well, technically Blanka's Electric Thunder did it first, but not quite the same thing.
It's easy to make fun of Final Fantasy Streetwise, for some reason, but I think that it is a genuinely good game under the hood. Graphics and gameplay are OK. My biggest complain is that it turns from a really cool Fight Club tribute into an amazingly weird apocalypse of religion, zombies and drugs.
The Playstation 2 version, as shown in the DF video, has many interlacing problems (probably due desynced interlacing) and some sort of dynamic resolution when action heats up. XBOX version doesnt have any of these problems but it has some glitches over Playstation 2. The fire extinguisher is totally broken on XBOX so the hardest part of the game, the Guy's Dojo, is even harder on XBOX.
Arcade mode of Streetwise is not that hard, imo, the punch-grab technique works perfectly fine. That video was my first ever try and I almost finished it.
It's easy to make fun of Final Fantasy Streetwise, for some reason, but I think that it is a genuinely good game under the hood. Graphics and gameplay are OK. My biggest complain is that it turns from a really cool Fight Club tribute into an amazingly weird apocalypse of religion, zombies and drugs.
The Playstation 2 version, as shown in the DF video, has many interlacing problems (probably due desynced interlacing) and some sort of dynamic resolution when action heats up. XBOX version doesnt have any of these problems but it has some glitches over Playstation 2. The fire extinguisher is totally broken on XBOX so the hardest part of the game, the Guy's Dojo, is even harder on XBOX.
Arcade mode of Streetwise is not that hard, imo, the punch-grab technique works perfectly fine. That video was my first ever try and I almost finished it.
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#Phonepunk#
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Great stuff! One of my earliest gaming memories was playing this at the bowling alley. I used to watch that intro over and over when I didn’t have money.
The large sprites were an immediate draw. Artwork in this game felt so next gen. imagine playing the first Street Fighter then this. Total game changer.
I didn’t know that the Charles Bronson movie was released in Japan as “Street Fighter” haha wow that rules.
The large sprites were an immediate draw. Artwork in this game felt so next gen. imagine playing the first Street Fighter then this. Total game changer.
I didn’t know that the Charles Bronson movie was released in Japan as “Street Fighter” haha wow that rules.
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SkylineRKR
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Revenge had a ton of potential in fact. It had a true final fight cast for starters, with OG Cody, Poison, El Gato etc. When I saw the first screenshots I thought this was Rival School with the FF cast and I was hyped. But the game was a dud. I even bought it, knowing it was shit. But it was a novelty, a Saturn game in 2k.
The controls are a mess, the hit detection and impact is whack, its not fun at all. Clearly developed by a team that no idea how to make a vs fighting game.
The controls are a mess, the hit detection and impact is whack, its not fun at all. Clearly developed by a team that no idea how to make a vs fighting game.
#Phonepunk#
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I’ve got this in the Capcom Beat Em Up bundle for the Switch. Will be interesting to see how it stacks up as a port...
Handy Fake
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First played this in the Arcades in the Trocadero in London when I was nine years old. 50p a fucking game, that was a king's ransom in 1989.
Was visiting a relation who worked for Microsoft at the time.
Was visiting a relation who worked for Microsoft at the time.
#Phonepunk#
Banned
Saturday Night Slam Masters! Woah I haven’t thought of that game in decades.
skneogaf
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I absolutely love final fight!
The graphics, gameplay and the the music is perfect.
I would like capcom to make a side scrolling brawler with the models and graphics of street fighter 5, I've always wanted and up to date graphics version.
I think tekken had something similar as a mode on one of the tekken games.
The graphics, gameplay and the the music is perfect.
I would like capcom to make a side scrolling brawler with the models and graphics of street fighter 5, I've always wanted and up to date graphics version.
I think tekken had something similar as a mode on one of the tekken games.
dacuk
Member
Yup
RydonStarLives
Member
Always good to see more DF Retro content. Loved the video
replicant-
Member
Great video. The intro and ending lol.
I truly would like the resurgence of the "beat em up" genre. Imagine if we got new entries for:
*Final Fight
*TMNT
*Power Rangers
*MK Shaolin Monks
*Robocop vs Terminator
The possibilities!
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Cravis
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Revenge probably featured the earliest example of x-ray attack ever seen on a fighting game, later popularized by Mortal Kombat. Well, technically Blanka's Electric Thunder did it first, but not quite the same thing.
It's easy to make fun of Final Fantasy Streetwise, for some reason, but I think that it is a genuinely good game under the hood. Graphics and gameplay are OK. My biggest complain is that it turns from a really cool Fight Club tribute into an amazingly weird apocalypse of religion, zombies and drugs.
The Playstation 2 version, as shown in the DF video, has many interlacing problems (probably due desynced interlacing) and some sort of dynamic resolution when action heats up. XBOX version doesnt have any of these problems but it has some glitches over Playstation 2. The fire extinguisher is totally broken on XBOX so the hardest part of the game, the Guy's Dojo, is even harder on XBOX.
Arcade mode of Streetwise is not that hard, imo, the punch-grab technique works perfectly fine. That video was my first ever try and I almost finished it.
I really enjoyed Streetwise too. Never got the hate. I couldn’t get past escaping the fire in Guy’s dojo. Solid fighting engine I thought.
Funny how there tried to be a resurgence in the genre in 05/06 with this, Beatdown, and Urban Reign.
NeoIkaruGAF
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I could only watch up to the FF2 part so far.
My experience with the franchise is very limited, so I was really impressed by how there’s basically no port that does true justice to the arcade original. The SNES ports are a travesty!
It’s always interesting to see how distinctive Capcom’s sequels looked in the mid 90s. Pick any Capcom game and its sequel from that period (Rescue Rangers 1 & 2, FF1 and 2, Megaman X 1 and 2) and the sequels have this very distinctive look with a lot of extra detail and color, making them way more cartoony than their originals.
My experience with the franchise is very limited, so I was really impressed by how there’s basically no port that does true justice to the arcade original. The SNES ports are a travesty!
It’s always interesting to see how distinctive Capcom’s sequels looked in the mid 90s. Pick any Capcom game and its sequel from that period (Rescue Rangers 1 & 2, FF1 and 2, Megaman X 1 and 2) and the sequels have this very distinctive look with a lot of extra detail and color, making them way more cartoony than their originals.
but that was a few years ago! Ah, rose colored nostalgia glasses 
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