As an old Contra and Metal Slug head, it scratched that itch. If y’all know of anything else in that wheelhouse, let me know.
Huntdown is the only EAR-like i'm aware of but in the R2RKMF side-scrolling tradition here's some i've read good things about:
GnG Resurrection <- game of the decade tierTanuki JusticeBlazing ChromeSteel AssaultShinobi Non Grata
these are all recent ones, if you're willing to dig into Arcade Archives titles or emulation there'll be much more
― chihuahuau, Monday, 4 March 2024 11:27 (one month ago) link
Awesome, thanks!
― circa1916, Monday, 4 March 2024 19:37 (one month ago) link
There's a new Contra game coming out this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pXSRjVS9IM
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 4 March 2024 23:38 (one month ago) link
one more since it's on a 90% off sale right now for PS4 and PC: Assault Suit Leynos (2015 remake)
I see the publisher's also slashed the price on the remake of Assault Suits Leynos (Target Earth), the predecessor to Assault Suits Valken/Cybernator—the doujin dev that made this remake is long dead, so once it's delisted, it's probably gone for good https://t.co/4rNvMP4cia— GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyu (@gosokkyu) March 4, 2024
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 01:05 (one month ago) link
Did you try Broforce? I played all the way through on coop and it was a mega blast - just a bucket load of action movie parodies.
― Ste, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 12:33 (one month ago) link
been playing a lot of In The Hunt, an Irem arcade game from 1993a scrolling submarine shooter, really beautiful pixel graphics which remind me a lot of Metal Slugalso it is HARD, boy was this was designed to munch coins!
https://i.imgur.com/JmplXzq.jpeg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:23 (one month ago) link
just looked up the wiki and
In the Hunt was designed by a group of Irem employees that would later go on to found Nazca Corporation, the creators of the Metal Slug series.
welp that explains that then
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:27 (one month ago) link
Good recs all, thx. Obv no shortage of this thing, been around forever, was just curious about new spins on it. Was wondering if there were any Streets of Rage 4’s of the genre that passed me by.Down with remakes and out-of-the-ordinary old stuff too. Assault Suit Leynos is completely new to me, playing it now and it’s wild. I dig it.Broforce is on Gamepass, grabbed it. I have played Into the Hunt and I remember it just kicking my ass.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 02:27 (one month ago) link
choice recent beat'em ups are Ninja Warriors Once Again, Fight n' Rage and Final Vendetta.
like everything else Tengo Project have been doing, NWOA is an improved remake of the SNES game; the other 2 are original indie games
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 12:07 (one month ago) link
fight n’ rage is a goat contender imo. the full package
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Thursday, 7 March 2024 16:00 (one month ago) link
trying to replace my full fat msg (apex) addiction with diet msg (balatro) instead. it has such a pleasing look - that was always one of my issues with slay the spire. amazing game but so ugly
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 9 March 2024 09:41 (one month ago) link
Fight n Rage is dope. Picked that up a while back, highly satisfying beat em up.I think I’m gonna pick up the Konami Contra and Castlevania collections today.
― circa1916, Saturday, 9 March 2024 18:41 (one month ago) link
minor PSA for the Contra collection: despite being by M2, the emulation of arcade Contra is slowdown-ridden and Super Contra is missing the intro voice acting; both issues are corrected in the Hamster releases
other than that caveat, the rest of m2's contra collection is superb as expected
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:25 (one month ago) link
New game from Moon Studios (who did Ori) is imminent, looks awesome. No Rest for the Wicked.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:26 (one month ago) link
Yeah that game looks extremely up my alley. It's technically early access, so IDK if I'm going to grab it now or wait (I'm probably gonna wait).
I beat SOTN finally! I almost gave up until I found a rare weapon drop that made the rest of the game trivial. It was a fun time! My hunger for old Metroidvanias persists, so now I'm hip-deep in Aria of Sorrow, which I'm not enjoying quite as much; mainly cuz it feels *way* too hard.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:39 (one month ago) link
Been many years, but I remember Aria of Sorrow being a top tier Castlevania game.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:09 (one month ago) link
is that the first gba one? that was the best one iirc
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link
I believe so. I used to have a combo cart with it and Harmony of Dissonance that I would play on my OG DS during train rides...20 years ago :'(
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:25 (one month ago) link
I never completed either of the og ones and never played the SNES one or Symphony, so playing Aria of Sorrow & Harmony of Dissonance on GBA felt like finally getting Castlevania.
I would rent C2 multiple times as a kid and it felt very mysterious and deep, proto-Dark Souls vibes, has there ever been a good remake/reissue?
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:20 (one month ago) link
Man I'm at the end of ffx and just hit a major "go out and grind" roadblock. Brutal.
Picked up Lisa in the most recent humble bundle. Lotta fun earthbound/undertale like rpg, but sad. high recommend
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:22 (one month ago) link
When I see clips of games or series I've never played, like Final Fantasy or Yakuza or Metal Gear Solid, I have no idea what the f is going on.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:56 (one month ago) link
I'm like that with clips of mobile gacha games, it's a foreign country to me
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:58 (one month ago) link
you've never played a ff yakuza or mgs!!!!!
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:04 (one month ago) link
You can't be playing far cry 3 (or anything by ubisoft) when y!ou haven't touched any of those series No more western-developed video games this year, only Japanese. They really own the sphere.
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:08 (one month ago) link
had to buy another copy of balatro for my dog since she’s not getting walked anymore
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:12 (one month ago) link
xpost Ha! I'm not a fan of anime or anime designs, and I have an aversion to giant swords. But I do own Yakuza 0, maybe I will play that in 2024.
What's funny is I *have* played some of these characters in Super Smash Bros. but I had no idea who they were.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:14 (one month ago) link
Me either! But you're not getting any of that in any of those series (okay maybe a touch in FF, but there's so much variation there, there's a FF game for anyone).
I'd recommend MGS, it's the most western-gaming adjacent of the bunch, but yakuza 0 is a great trip.
xp lol
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:15 (one month ago) link
|||||||| if you like balatro, high recommend Luck be a Landlord. Deckbuilder in the casino except its pokies instead of poker. It's such a beautiful little time drain, great great great game
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:18 (one month ago) link
yeah, of those series only ff ever has anything to do with anime, but my instinct tells me that jic’s instinct to avoid them will turn out to have been correct
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:20 (one month ago) link
too each their own (except mgs, that's for everyone)
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:57 (one month ago) link
oh i love them, i'm basing that on his video game opinions that i've read
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 13 March 2024 00:20 (one month ago) link
Hold up MGS is all about mechs, which is an enormous genre within anime (of course anime as a term beyond "animated stuff from Japan" is reductive and useless).
Also I've decided I really don't like most Japanese media, with FF7 Remake being the straw that broke my back, because everything about it missed me on basically every level.
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 01:43 (one month ago) link
I wouldn't say MGS is about mechs. It'd be like saying Far Cry 3 is about tigers. They're a small backdrop, far down on the list of things I think of when I think of MGS
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:10 (one month ago) link
I think MGS2 is in the top 5 best videogames ever
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:11 (one month ago) link
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also this is me
― gbx, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:54 (one month ago) link
hope you guys are holding up okay
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:04 (one month ago) link
MGS is basically mecha as chekov’s gunand in the meantime you’ll get multi-generational spycraft machinations that change the politics of the world and create extra-governmental mercenary corps and work with weirdos with names like Revolver Ocelot and field voice calls from people who may or may not be real
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:40 (one month ago) link
There was a Dunkey video about the Metal Gear series that had iirc ... the President of the US in a mech or something? Anyway, seemed pretty silly, I assume/hope intentionally. They're remaking some Metal Gear game, right? I'll play that, unless it turns out to be terrible.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:20 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLiLRVeaZA
(Apparently this is accurate!!)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:21 (one month ago) link
Entirely accurate.
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:29 (one month ago) link
But seriously, the mgs story shines despite its million twists and turns. It has serious things to say about the control of media and its relation to politics, the military-industrial process etc. etc. It marries its game play with its stories and ideas with cohesion. It's fun, it's silly, it has more philosophical depth than you'll find in any other AAA video game (someone prove me wrong). Just brilliant stuff
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:43 (one month ago) link
2 being the highlight of it all imo, but 1 and 3 following on its coattails
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:44 (one month ago) link
You have to cut through a lot of OTT schlock to get at anything meaty IMO, which hasn't aged well for me, but I've also soured a lot on Kojima since MGS4.
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:49 (one month ago) link
Of course, but thats part of the charm. Yeah I haven't liked anything post mgs4 too
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:51 (one month ago) link
Mgs1-4 is just an incredible run of games tho
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:52 (one month ago) link
MGS4 was a huge shark jump for me, I can't remember if I even enjoyed the gameplay because I thought the story was overwrought stupidity even by Kojima standards. Skipped 5 as a result, and gave up on Death Standing after a couple hours because I had no more patience (also, it's a boring game).
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 13:58 (one month ago) link
I have "Death Stranding," and I'll get to it eventually, but I am afraid, because so far everything I know of Kojima makes hims games seem like they've been mistranslated into nonsense at every step except that he did it on purpose.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 14:00 (one month ago) link
Lol Josh
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 14:05 (one month ago) link
MGS V was pretty cool imo. I still need to go back and play 3 and 4. I was at a dark point in my life and missed out.
Might wait to see if the 3 remake/remaster is any good
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 15:38 (one month ago) link
Oh, I also played one of the PSP games a fair bit but that was iirc in collaboration with Kojima and not directly produced by him
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 15:39 (one month ago) link