I'm focusing on the 2D Beat 'em Ups because I don't even know if 3D Beat 'em Ups are still Beat 'em Ups anymore. Could you call God of War and the ripoffs/inspirations Beat 'em Ups? Are stylish character action games Beat 'em Ups? I have no idea. But I do know that the 2D stuff can be solidly defined as a Beat 'em Up.
Made this thread because I was replaying Golden Axe and was reminded at how bullshit hard Death Adder is in that game. Now in the arcade version the final boss Death Adder is fine. He's more than beatable without credit spamming. But the Genesis version added an extra level (complete with an extremely difficult instant death jump on top of that) where you fight the real Death Adder. And he has two Skeleton minions who cannot die. And the Skeletons are probably the hardest enemy in the entire game because they have high health, do tons of damage, and they love to attack first when you get in or do a random jump attack. And on top of all of this Death Adder will take away one unit of health every time he hits you, if he hits there's an extremely good chance he'll do an OTG attack (usually with the dragon) that is guaranteed to hit you and will take away an additional 1-2 units of health. Plus he has a homing electricity attack that's difficult to dodge, and if he hits you with that he'll probably summon the dragon for more damage. And sometimes he randomly summons the dragon anyway. And I should mention again, you have to fight him and 2 minion Skeletons who cannot die and they absolutely love to cock-block you when you're attacking Death Adder.
Pretty much the only chance you have of winning is to make it to the final boss with at least 2 continues and 6 lives and hope for the best.
* I'm obviously talking about Beat 'em ups not fighting games. I think dudes from England and Europe refer to fighting games as Beat 'em ups but I'm clearly talking about Beat 'em Ups. Please read before you post ffs.
Made this thread because I was replaying Golden Axe and was reminded at how bullshit hard Death Adder is in that game. Now in the arcade version the final boss Death Adder is fine. He's more than beatable without credit spamming. But the Genesis version added an extra level (complete with an extremely difficult instant death jump on top of that) where you fight the real Death Adder. And he has two Skeleton minions who cannot die. And the Skeletons are probably the hardest enemy in the entire game because they have high health, do tons of damage, and they love to attack first when you get in or do a random jump attack. And on top of all of this Death Adder will take away one unit of health every time he hits you, if he hits there's an extremely good chance he'll do an OTG attack (usually with the dragon) that is guaranteed to hit you and will take away an additional 1-2 units of health. Plus he has a homing electricity attack that's difficult to dodge, and if he hits you with that he'll probably summon the dragon for more damage. And sometimes he randomly summons the dragon anyway. And I should mention again, you have to fight him and 2 minion Skeletons who cannot die and they absolutely love to cock-block you when you're attacking Death Adder.
Pretty much the only chance you have of winning is to make it to the final boss with at least 2 continues and 6 lives and hope for the best.
* I'm obviously talking about Beat 'em ups not fighting games. I think dudes from England and Europe refer to fighting games as Beat 'em ups but I'm clearly talking about Beat 'em Ups. Please read before you post ffs.
