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[shmoglish]

*insert random game

Power Rangers:The Movie for Gb must be the first game with that "feature" i have encountered. Only have a "speedrun" here.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvyuU2kAwQ

Starts around 23:18

 

[RichiRamjag]

Gears 4 had one I believe

 

[Windu]

The old tmnt games are the first to come to mind.

 

[Jintor]

the half-life funicular is my fave

 

[i-Jest]

DMC3 had it

This comes to mind.

 

[OmegaDL50]

Come on this should have been the first post

It's specifically mentioned in the OP.

 

[Igama]

There was a Mickey Mouse game on the PS1 that I played when I was a kid, and it had this lol. Can't find a screenshot though.

 

[faint.]

A really early childhood memory I have playing this type of level for the first time is the "Tower of Orthanc" level from LOTR: The Two Towers. It's more of a "sit on a platform and endure 20 rounds of enemies" but the setup is very similar to that of an elevator scene.

I'd reply it over and over especially once I unlocked ultimate health and all that after beating the game. It was so much fun using fire arrows / swords to my heart content!

 

[Stranya]

This is it from GoW2 and is terrible what with having to turn a crank to get the bottom before the spikes from the ceiling coming down kill you whilst fighting off skeletons.

This part was sooooo bloody frustrating.

 

[shmoglish]

This part was sooooo bloody frustrating.

Jup. Can also remember the last Trial of the gods (or whatever it is called) in GoW 1

 

[Skilletor]

I'm pretty sure every beat-em-up ever has a segment like this. It's like...law.

 

[bjork]

There's a Sailor Moon Mega Drive game that has it, and it's awesome because you can just throw the guys through the glass and over the side repeatedly.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

Pretty much every 90's beatemup that's not set in a fantasy world.

 

[PIMPBYBLUD]

Aliens arcade

 

[Forerunner]

Fuck the Library.

 

[Mass Effect]

DMC3 had it

yep, this is what I came in to say

 

[Carnby]

Splatterhouse 2

 

[ViciousDS]

Fuck the Library.

The fucking flood elevator.......fuck that level on legendary

 

[Yoshimitsu126]

Surprisingly happened in NSMB games. Usually castle levels with spike balls, dry bones, and ice flower.

 

[Graphics Horse]

I'm pretty sure every beat-em-up ever has a segment like this. It's like...law.

pretty much

 

[Nocturnowl]

Shinobi 3 had one of these, with dudes also lurking in nearby vents.

I was also replaying Mario 3d land the other day and it used this trope in the first level of world 5 I think, desert cliff stage.

 

[GoodCoffeeJoey]

The shmup Einhander has a segemt where you traverse down an elavator shaft, but the elevator itself is above you. I deploys enemies and if it's destroyed a bunch of trash falls out of it.

 

[Luminaire]

Ninja Gaiden Sigmas Rachel Levels, I believe.

 

[Kamina]

Metroid Other M had such a sequence

 

[Nbz]

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

 

[BigPete]

Savant: ascent is a game built completely around this mechanic.

 

[Dunkley]

Final Fantasy XIV - Bahamuts Coil turn 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb_hDiiBOi4

Baelsar's Wall and the Aetherochemical Research Facility have segments like this too.

 

[socksfelloff]

It's a 90s beat-em-up trope. Every game in the genre had one!

 

[Sinistral89]

Uncharted 4 had atleast one. You are guarding the jeep. Kinda sucked...

 

[Complistic]

Halo and the Flood spring to mind.

 

[devonodev]

Elevators like these are the woorst.

I'm pretty sure this was about half of Sonic Heroes.

 

[majik13]

Halo 2 had several IIRC. Usually the elevator would be fairly large and even feature some cover, and flood would drop in

Came to post this as its the only one I can remeber off the top of my head.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

I recall distinctly in Resident Evil 4,in a section somewhat before your first and last battle w/ Salazar, there's such an elevator you take in which lots of enemies drop into it, which are backed up by crossbow snipers from the surroundings...one of the hardest sections of the game sometimes for me

 

[Plumpbiscuit]

Nobody mentioned MGS1?!

 

[Shang]

Castle Crashers, in the castle you need a sandwich to get into

 

[haystax]

Savant has to be the most appropriate answer. I meant the actual situation you described is like 80% of the game!
https://youtu.be/jYQ2BazFFEg

 

[MrCunningham]

Every 2D beat-em-up from the '80's and '90's?

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Nobody mentioned MGS1?!

Those are, like, the most chivalrous enemies ever.

They just stand next to him until he puzzles out that they're there, and even after he figures it out still have the decency to announce their presence. And then instead of just shooting him run around like clowns.

 

[AllEchse]

Halo 2 had several IIRC. Usually the elevator would be fairly large and even feature some cover, and flood would drop in on you.



There's one part where some invisible guards ambush you in an elevator.

After Halo 1 it felt like Halo 2 was elevator ambush the game.

It was like every encounter was that.

 

[mitch1971]

Darksiders has it too at some point in the Black Throne area.

Darksiders 2 had a similar 100 wave scenario where you are on a circular platform, not really an elevator, but....


Resi 5 had an elevator sequence, but enemies spawned around it, rather than on it.

 

[lazyguy]

I once had this happen in real life.
It was nuts.

 

[Playsage]

Tekken 7

 

[Nerrel]

Metroid Other M had such a sequence

Yep. You can say what you want about the game, but I really liked the utter weirdness of that boss design:

 

[antitrop]

One of the NES Ninja Turtles games, either 2 or 3. I think it was 3.

 

[calc84maniac]

Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds
Deadly Premonition
Xenoblade Chronicles

 

[balohna]

Came in this thread to post a few good examples, all of them got posted. Cool.

I think Halo 5 had something like this? Or maybe you were just on a stationary platform? I rembered not liking it though. Their horde levels weren't very good IMO.

 

[Wollan]

Half-Life 1 had one relatively early with head crabs but lasted merely ~60 seconds.

 

[SillyEskimo]

Warhammer 40k: Kill Team is an underrated twin stick shooter. At one point, you find yourself on an elevator fighting Tyranids that drop in over and over.

Very fun couch co op game!

 

[Noobcraft]

Came in this thread to post a few good examples, all of them got posted. Cool.

I think Halo 5 had something like this? Or maybe you were just on a stationary platform? I rembered not liking it though. Their horde levels weren't very good IMO.

Yes Halo 5 had one, it wasn't too difficult though because the elevator had tons of cover, weapons, and was huge.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Did watching Netflix's The Defenders inspire this thread?