Worst arcade style beat 'em ups

[Olls]

GTFO!
Metamorphic Force is awesome.

I agree with Gecko, almost all western beat em ups suck ass.

[sheath]

GTFO! ... almost all western beat em ups suck ass.

[Crackdown]

I like Cyborg Justice personally.

Double Dragon 3 is terrible though . . .

[Lastcallhall]

In spite of all the praise it gets, I find Renegade to be terribly overrated. Clumsy controls and a simplistic move set do not a good game make. Also, I'm not sure if it counts as a beat em up, but Ninja Gaiden on the arcade is also trash.

[sheath]

Awe, I love Ninja Gaiden in the Arcade, but yeah, it's pretty simplistic for a beat-em up. Has anybody played Crime Fighters? It's the quarter muncher of all beat-em ups, but at least you can get kicked in the nuts.

[DarkDragon]

I'd also like to add Batman Returns on SNES, it's slow simplistic combat and seriously lame driving scenes, and only three enemies at once makes it just as bad as the rest.

I was under the impression that game was consided to be good and got generally favorable reviews. I wouldnt say its among the best or worst its decent and somewhere in the middle.

I would probably say western beat em ups like Maximum Carnage and Death & Return of Superman are worse than most of the dime-a-dozen Japanese beat em ups like Burning Fight.

Yeah those 2 would be in my top 10 worst. They take repetitive pallet swamped enemies overload to a new level.

[DarkDragon]

Double Dragon 3 arcade sucks bad. The NES version on the other hand is awesome, IMO the best classic DD game.

AVGN hates DD 3 NES. He ranted about the obscene difficulty. If you use Game Genie/cheats its a more enjoyable game.

[cheaterdragon1]

The King of Dragons - A fighting game with no combos. WTF ? You end up doing the same attack over and over again. There's no variety on the magic attacks either. Level design, graphics, sprites are all nice but the gameplay is repetitive and all beat em ups get tedious but this one more so due to lack of variety in gameplay.

Hey thats one of my favorite SNES games!

[DanceroftheShadows]

mohoho

western beat em ups, isnt there a cow one?

[profholt82]

I've got to go with Bad Dudes for NES. While the cheesiness of it makes it almost worth playing, the insufferable controls and hit detection makes it an exercise in futility.

[Bastardcat]

I was under the impression that game was consided to be good and got generally favorable reviews. I wouldnt say its among the best or worst its decent and somewhere in the middle.

And how can anyone hate a game where you constantly beat up clowns?

[Txai]

western beat em ups, isnt there a cow one?

[Aarzak]

"Maximum Carnage" was a good game you.....spoony bards! The soundtrack was awesome (in the SNES version), the gameplay was solid and fun (if you knew how to find the secret rooms) and the locales were varied. Now "Separation Anxiety", the sequel, was a fuckin' turd that should be included in that category. If you thought that MC was repetitive and bland, then you haven't played enought SA brotha!

[DarkDragon]

This is slightly off topic, but are there any books out there about the rise and fall of the arcades ? If there isnt then someone should write one. I'm more interested in reading about when the decline started in the mid to late 90's but I'd be interested in the early 80's stuff as well when things started to take off.

I watched the G4 show about the arcades and I didnt like it because they said casual and average people couldn't get into SF II and MK the same way they got into the early Atari games because they were too hard for them to learn. However, they completely ignored the fact that the side scrolling beat em ups that help keep the arcade alive in the late 80s.-early 90's were great for casual people to get into and play and those games werent even mentioned on the show. It seemed like the show had a lot of bias because all the older guys who were around when the arcades took off during the Pac Man era, didnt seem to have much respect for the SF II/fighting game/beat em up era and they seemed to dissmiss it as not as successful as the early to mid 80s era. Maybe it wasnt I dont know but I remember it being very huge. TMNT was just as instrumental in "bringing back the arcades" as SF II was IMO.