GPX | 1,369 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Have yet to play SOR4, but seeing the demos on Youtube has got me wanting to give it a serious try. This thread has brought back some good nostalgia for me. I went through my old pic collections from another forum and found this, thought some of you guys might appreciate: Arguably 2 of Sega's best trilogies. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelin03 | 314 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 We played a bit of SOR4 last night. It's a great game. Going to be ordering the soundtrack on Bandcamp today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 I’m trying so hard to resist the physical version but I’m losing that battle. Streets of Rage 2 is one of my favorite Genesis games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarzombie | 924 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 On 5/1/2020 at 5:11 PM, Redmond said: My little dog Pockets. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 984 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Beat it last night. My God. This is the only game I've bought this year and I love it. Finding Easter eggs is great. Soundtrack is hit or miss. THAT boss battle was amazing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Play-Asia has a special edition up for pre-order, it comes with a bigger box, a poster, and a soundtrack. But the biggest draw for me is the fact that it’s set to ship July 30th. Think this is before or about on par with LRG’s estimated shipping time? I haven’t preordered from them in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Looks like Streets of Rage 4 is getting a standard physical release after all. Listings have shown up on Amazon and GameStop’s websites. I’m kind of relieved because I wanted the physical copy but I didn’t want to drop the money for it right now. A standard retail release allows me to wait instead of going with the limited prints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonebone | 1,307 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 For anyone on the fence with an Xbox... You can sign up for a $1 one month trial of Game Pass and it is included for free. That's what I did. Play it for a dollar then cancel the subscription at end of month. Really cheap alternative.. It's worth it too, plays just as good as SOR2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,809 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 SoR4 has gotten pretty glowing reviews thus far. Makes me wonder if Sega will be smart and commission other sequels. My list includes 1)Shining Force - at the very least, Sega should release the second and third volumes of Shining Force III to North America 2)Golden Axe - time for part four 3)Phantasy Star V - none of this online gunk! I want the real deal. Also, would love a remake of the original series 4)Landstalker/Dark Savior - remake them, give us a sequel, do both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 984 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 7 hours ago, jonebone said: For anyone on the fence with an Xbox... You can sign up for a $1 one month trial of Game Pass and it is included for free. That's what I did. Play it for a dollar then cancel the subscription at end of month. Really cheap alternative.. It's worth it too, plays just as good as SOR2. Would you buy the game, outright, or is it worth the one month only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 1 hour ago, avatar! said: SoR4 has gotten pretty glowing reviews thus far. Makes me wonder if Sega will be smart and commission other sequels. My list includes 1)Shining Force - at the very least, Sega should release the second and third volumes of Shining Force III to North America 2)Golden Axe - time for part four 3)Phantasy Star V - none of this online gunk! I want the real deal. Also, would love a remake of the original series 4)Landstalker/Dark Savior - remake them, give us a sequel, do both! Show me Shinobi 4! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,809 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 1 minute ago, The Strangest said: Show me Shinobi 4! I hope they would make it a 2-D action game as it should be! I loved the original arcade game, but man that was brutal! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 1 hour ago, avatar! said: SoR4 has gotten pretty glowing reviews thus far. Makes me wonder if Sega will be smart and commission other sequels. My list includes 1)Shining Force - at the very least, Sega should release the second and third volumes of Shining Force III to North America 2)Golden Axe - time for part four 3)Phantasy Star V - none of this online gunk! I want the real deal. Also, would love a remake of the original series 4)Landstalker/Dark Savior - remake them, give us a sequel, do both! Sega sent out a questionaire around the time they announced Panzer Dragoon and SOR4 asking people which games Sega games people play and (paraphrasing) would like to have new games of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,809 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 32 minutes ago, Californication said: Sega sent out a questionaire around the time they announced Panzer Dragoon and SOR4 asking people which games Sega games people play and (paraphrasing) would like to have new games of. Totally missed that. Do you have a link to the questionnaire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 16 minutes ago, avatar! said: Totally missed that. Do you have a link to the questionnaire? No, sry. I think someone on NA posted a link to a website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamCuPS | 18 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Sega could leave their "retro department" in the hands of these people who made SoR 4 and the new Wonder Boy. They've been doing a good job, and Sega tends to forget their own classic games anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmond | 152 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Apparently SoR4 has sold over 100k on Steam in the first week. That seems pretty good to me ( granted idk much about production costs ) and I'd have to imagine it's done well on PS4/Switch as well, someone mentioned it was #2 on the eShop. Not sure how Game Pass pays out, but it's on there. Don't want to jinx it, but DLC is looking like a done deal. As for other forgotten (by) Sega franchises, Shinobi 4 would be cool to see and it wouldn't be that tough to tweak 3's gameplay a bit and get something really great. IIRC though the devs of SoR4 mentioned Golden Axe as another potential series they would like to try to tackle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamCuPS | 18 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 ^ Oh yep, and I really hope this game goes very well. We don't see many beateamups nowadays, even less great beatemups, so this game might even raise the bar for the genre by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartman | 195 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 On 5/8/2020 at 6:43 PM, avatar! said: SoR4 has gotten pretty glowing reviews thus far. Makes me wonder if Sega will be smart and commission other sequels. My list includes 1)Shining Force - at the very least, Sega should release the second and third volumes of Shining Force III to North America 2)Golden Axe - time for part four 3)Phantasy Star V - none of this online gunk! I want the real deal. Also, would love a remake of the original series 4)Landstalker/Dark Savior - remake them, give us a sequel, do both! Altough they insist on making these comic graphics wich i'd rather do without. Golden Axe in particular already is distinct and there's no need to modify that. They should pick up right at Revenge of Death Adder just like the NES Mega Man continued on with 5 sequels looking the same. Also i'd very much prefer if they kept previous characters i don't know why they neccessarily have to replace someone with his brother or uncle's best friend it doesn't add any value just detracts from the series as a cohesive experience. There's no need to write into the plot that X decades passed since last they are taking it upon themselves to pull this shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamCuPS | 18 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Well, I agree they should not use the cartoon style for every game, since different games will look better with other styles. Anyway, they still could do an Alex Kidd game with this approach, I think. For games like Shinobi, Golden Axe or Altered Beast, they could just update their original styles, without really changing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR | 519 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 On 5/8/2020 at 12:43 PM, avatar! said: SoR4 has gotten pretty glowing reviews thus far. Makes me wonder if Sega will be smart and commission other sequels. My list includes 1)Shining Force - at the very least, Sega should release the second and third volumes of Shining Force III to North America 2)Golden Axe - time for part four 3)Phantasy Star V - none of this online gunk! I want the real deal. Also, would love a remake of the original series 4)Landstalker/Dark Savior - remake them, give us a sequel, do both! I would only want Phantasy Star V if they brought back the original creators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trj22487 | 350 Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 I didn't notice until last night that you can go into the audio options and switch the soundtrack to the 'Retro Soundtrack' 16-bit Genesis style music and sound effects. Pretty awesome. I personally like the new soundtrack though, but I listen to a lot of synthwave and lo-fi music so that might be why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmond | 152 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 (edited) Heads up if you're playing this on Xbone, apparently it's an earlier version missing some important stuff ( I saw a review mention chaining combos is more difficult since the counter doesn't slow down between sections and you can't hit certain objects to add to the counter, also missing some audio/music transitions, among other things ). EDIT: Has been patched/updated now, all versions should be close to the same. Edited May 21, 2020 by Redmond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpoonMan Abrams X | 697 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 The soundtrack is too damn good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpoonMan Abrams X | 697 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Also looking up random Streets of Rage stuff online I discovered this game on Steam called "The Takeover" which is very clearly Streets of Rage & Final Fight inspired https://store.steampowered.com/app/418620/The_TakeOver/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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