I agree. That looked promising to me.
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Video of cancelled Streets of Rage leaks, developed at Ruffian (Crackdown 2).
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I agree. That looked promising to me.
Oh you mean like Batman: Arkham City? Or Assassin's Creed? Or any other game with multiple enemies at once?
These games wouldn't last on their combat alone. Neither would Sleeping Dogs.
It was but I always wanted them to take another shot with this franchise. Some good ideas and characters in there.
SeanNoonan
Member
It's a shame we didn't show more. We had a really awesome fixed/spline based camera system with scope to have pure side scrolling levels that would smoothly blend into more typical modern action environments. There were solid plans and systems in place.
Again, it's a shame.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Reminds me a lot of Final Fight Streetwise.
Let the Final Fight vs. Streets of Rage battle begin!
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
I'm usually positive and open to 3D remakes of childhood favourites, but looking at that footage I'm kinda glad this never materialised.
CrunchyFrog
Member
Exactly what I thought, though they'd need to add way more combos and deepen the combat a bit.
Aww, that's sad to hear, sounded promising. Was that the reason you moved away from Ruffian? I kinda missed the news you left anyway.
Video of actually released (faithful!) Streets of Rage remake :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2WjhuWPhE
ViewtifulJC
Banned
After Streets of Rage Remake, I never felt the need for another SoR game. It seems like the ultimate version, with all the best ideas from each game(the police call from SoR1, the dash/dynamic pace of combat/meter gauge from SoR3, all the levels from the respective games including some new ones); I really do think it's the best 2d beat'em'up I've ever played.
Mr. X is dead, everybody went on about their lives, it's a great game, The End
Mr. X is dead, everybody went on about their lives, it's a great game, The End
NinjaBoiX
Member
I recently replayed SoR2, and I forgot how fundamentally broken those types of games are.
Having to step a few pixels up or down for your fists to connect is so fucking awkward. I mean, it's still fun to play in a nostalgia kind of way, but it's hot garbage by today's standards.
Some things just don't age well!
Take the same thing, make it more colorful, less gritty, and even more 80s/90s, and I would've been onboard. Especially if it was 2+ players. No voice acting either. Just character noises.
I'm sure the gameplay would've been infinitely refined over what was shown. I just would've liked to see a little more character, and less darkness and grit.
This doesn't seem like it's very difficult to do right, and then sell on PSN/XBLA.
I'm sure the gameplay would've been infinitely refined over what was shown. I just would've liked to see a little more character, and less darkness and grit.
This doesn't seem like it's very difficult to do right, and then sell on PSN/XBLA.
artorias the abysswalker
Member
After Streets of Rage Remake, I never felt the need for another SoR game. It seems like the ultimate version, with all the best ideas from each game(the police call from SoR1, the dash/dynamic pace of combat/meter gauge from SoR3, all the levels from the respective games including some new ones); I really do think it's the best 2d beat'em'up I've ever played.
Mr. X is dead, everybody went on about their lives, it's a great game, The End
is this thing playable yet/again? i remember not being able to dl and play it because of legal issues or some such....and change?
Vorg
Banned
After Streets of Rage Remake, I never felt the need for another SoR game. It seems like the ultimate version, with all the best ideas from each game(the police call from SoR1, the dash/dynamic pace of combat/meter gauge from SoR3, all the levels from the respective games including some new ones); I really do think it's the best 2d beat'em'up I've ever played.
Mr. X is dead, everybody went on about their lives, it's a great game, The End
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
And it gives it an arcadey feeling, in my opinion it looks really good to be a prealpha.
abstract alien
Member
Looked decent. I mean it's an unfinished project so yeah.
Looks great for pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha stuff, especially by an extremely small team in 2 months, but I don't like the way the combat was going. The hits didn't seem to have a lot of impact, and it looked kind of floaty and way too fast.
Some or even most of that could be put down to the fact it's mega early work done very quickly, but it's the sort of thing that should be nailed from day 1. SoR combat has a really chunky, paced feel to it that this demo didn't seem to have.
Also not sure about the camera perspective. I think the camera needs to be angled more from the side to get that belt-scroller feel, even in 3D.
God, I dunno, one day we'll get a modern SoR that isn't a fangame...
Some or even most of that could be put down to the fact it's mega early work done very quickly, but it's the sort of thing that should be nailed from day 1. SoR combat has a really chunky, paced feel to it that this demo didn't seem to have.
Also not sure about the camera perspective. I think the camera needs to be angled more from the side to get that belt-scroller feel, even in 3D.
God, I dunno, one day we'll get a modern SoR that isn't a fangame...
artorias the abysswalker
Member
it's up there for me, along with....that little game in your avatar (great pic by the way)
Soodanim
Gold Member
If something under the name Streets if Rage 4 was ever released, I would very much hope that it was 2D with sprites.
Streets of Rage 2 HD Remix would be amazing, although it would never happen. Sega don't seem to be that smart. Even a straight port of Streets of Rage Remake (which the poor bastards worked on for the best part of a decade before Sega decided to change their minds from "Go ahead" to "No, take it down" would have been fantastic.
Streets of Rage 2 HD Remix would be amazing, although it would never happen. Sega don't seem to be that smart. Even a straight port of Streets of Rage Remake (which the poor bastards worked on for the best part of a decade before Sega decided to change their minds from "Go ahead" to "No, take it down" would have been fantastic.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Crazily, it looks like a HD version of Fighting Force.......lol
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
The characters looked like garbage.
Host Samurai
Member
Sega needs to get SoR Remake on XBLA/PSN. Its one of the best beat em up I have ever played and its loaded to the top with content. I would pay $60 for it and I already have the game installed on my OG Xbox and PC.
Seems a lot of people here don't understand that this was a pre alpha concept thrown together in just two months time by a small team.
I think it could've evolved to something nice.
I really miss the ps2 days, where not every game had to be gigantic AAA and coast millions.
We might have gotten this in that generation.
I think it could've evolved to something nice.
I really miss the ps2 days, where not every game had to be gigantic AAA and coast millions.
We might have gotten this in that generation.
It was good, but a mere shadow of the original. The gunfights in Retribution rarely reach the insanity seen in the PS2 original. That cemetary gunfight was brilliant.
exmachina64
Banned
Never heard of Streets of Rage before. This prototype looks like it had potential. I probably would have ended up buying it.
SeanNoonan
Member
One of the reasons. I've been looking to move to Canada for a while, and Ubisoft seemed a good fit.
Watch Dogs will make up for losing SOR
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Looks like it had potential. Needed more enemies for sure.
Dude with knives, Jack or Brolento? :3
Eh, if this game would have turned out with one of those crazy "Next Gen" scripts full of F-bombs and swears-for-the-sake-of-it, then, glad they only got through prototype.
Crackdown 2's demo took Crackdown's story from "witty with an edge" to "sloppy written schlock" in an instant; enough for me to not want to continue the experience of one of my favorite early 360 games... would absolutely have hated to have seen a similiar fate to SoR.
So the character they show is a generic nobody with the words "Rage" on his butt. The first enemey is Over-tat'd baddy number 5000 (looking a lot like a Crackdown agent, but that's understandable). The fighting looks like the combat in an open world game, and none of the 2D-BEM inspiration seems to be involved in the movement at all, but at least the animation looks to have some character to it.
The Sega Arcade Intro and the Floating text ideas are the best parts of it.
Really, Streets of Rage Remake is pretty much the perfect example of how to make a "modern" BEM: The best ideas of what was had before, across all games, but just MORE of it. There's SO much that could be done with increasing interactivity with stages & with your co-op partners, and I STILL want a BEU with online multiplayer, where the enemies can be played by actual online people, to give us the smartest "A.I" gangs ever...
But instead, everyone who tries to make a "modern" BEM tries to fix the flat sides on an already circular tire. Stop trying to fix the tire, and instead, figure out hos to expand that 1 wheel vehicle into an 18 wheel'd behemoth.
Gotta congradulate Wayforward's Double Dragon Neon for being the best take at it so far.
Crackdown 2's demo took Crackdown's story from "witty with an edge" to "sloppy written schlock" in an instant; enough for me to not want to continue the experience of one of my favorite early 360 games... would absolutely have hated to have seen a similiar fate to SoR.
So the character they show is a generic nobody with the words "Rage" on his butt. The first enemey is Over-tat'd baddy number 5000 (looking a lot like a Crackdown agent, but that's understandable). The fighting looks like the combat in an open world game, and none of the 2D-BEM inspiration seems to be involved in the movement at all, but at least the animation looks to have some character to it.
The Sega Arcade Intro and the Floating text ideas are the best parts of it.
Really, Streets of Rage Remake is pretty much the perfect example of how to make a "modern" BEM: The best ideas of what was had before, across all games, but just MORE of it. There's SO much that could be done with increasing interactivity with stages & with your co-op partners, and I STILL want a BEU with online multiplayer, where the enemies can be played by actual online people, to give us the smartest "A.I" gangs ever...
But instead, everyone who tries to make a "modern" BEM tries to fix the flat sides on an already circular tire. Stop trying to fix the tire, and instead, figure out hos to expand that 1 wheel vehicle into an 18 wheel'd behemoth.
Gotta congradulate Wayforward's Double Dragon Neon for being the best take at it so far.
CamHostage
Member
Streets of Fire of Rage
Looked quite competent (Crackdown 2 did not attract me visually so the lighting on this caught me by surprise,) but getting to the heart of what made '90s brawlers so great and updating it is a curious challenge that rarely works out.
Looked quite competent (Crackdown 2 did not attract me visually so the lighting on this caught me by surprise,) but getting to the heart of what made '90s brawlers so great and updating it is a curious challenge that rarely works out.
Criminal Upper
Banned
Man, how many people pitched Sega a Streets of Rage reboot? Didn't GRIN also work on a reboot? And Sega shut all these down? They really don't a give a rats ass about this old IP.
To be fair, Final Fight was way more popular and prevelant on the beat em' up scene, and I'm not all surprised someone doesn't remember a copy-cat Genesis exclusive franchise.
To be fair, Final Fight was way more popular and prevelant on the beat em' up scene, and I'm not all surprised someone doesn't remember a copy-cat Genesis exclusive franchise.
Shadow Hog
Member
These aren't the right reactions.
You haven't played Streets of Rage yet? Man, are you in for a treat, then. Seriously, this is great stuff, especially the soundtrack. I'd been down on beat-em-ups beforehand, but a cursory playthrough of this game completely changed my opinion of the genre. It's on Wii VC, PSN (although I think that's a Backbone port) and XBLA (an M2 port compiling all three of the series, including regional variants, so you can even play the original, slightly-easier, much-darker version of Streets of Rage 3 if you want). Probably Steam, too (Backbone again I think). Readily available. Try it out!
computers putin'
Member
it looked like it could've been fun, but the music sucked balls; you can't release a Streets of Rage reboot and have the music suck when it was so good in the original games.
But Streets of Rage 2 was arguably the greatest side-scrolling beat-em-up ever
Dude, that video just reminded me about one of the greatest opening theme tunes ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXQzyVy9fYM