This week on Zero Punctuation, Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Fighting games and music have a long and storied history together. Here are five of the best fighting game stage themes throughout video game history.
Tekken Tag Tournament 1 Arcade OST - Nina Williams
Street Fighter 2 - Ken stage, Ryu Stage, Vega (Claw), and Guile
Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Karin theme
Tekken 3 Arcade OST - Hidden Characters Theme
Super Street Fighter 2 - Fei Long CPS1 version (found on Hyper SF2 A.E.)
Tekken 2 Arcade OST - Kazuya and Devil theme
Marvel vs Capcom 1 - Strider Theme, Ryu, and Roll
Should be some tunes from the first Mortal Kombat in any list tbh.
I really like the use of Mozart’s Dies Irae in Wolfgang Krausers stage in Fatal Fury 2.
Developers should always strive to make their products as balanced and fair as possible. Sometimes, video games feature a incredibly overpowered characters that just break the game.
You may have head of The 7 Deadly Sins in Christianity, but what about The 7 Deadly Sins of Game Design? Jason Capp is here to break it down.
Ya, find three items, kill three mini bosses, go to three dungeons. Things of three is a tired video game sweet spot number.
For me, it's collect-a-thons. They weren't fun in Donkey Kong or Banjo and Kazooie and they still aren't fun now. Why create these wonderfully oversized, detailed worlds if you are going to just supplement gameplay with ambiguous item fetch-quests.
There are exceptions, of course, But by and large, it just shows laziness on the part of the developer.
Good article, by the way!
Yeah. It is funny some of the design decisions made by developers. Another one that irks me is unskippable cutscenes, especially after you die after the cutscene and are forced to rewatch the unskippable cutscene AGAIN. I mean, who thinks that a great idea?! haha
how about not allowing cutscene skipping
that's flat out inexcusable in any game in the last 10 years
this comments are demanding a "The 4 Horsemen of The Apocalypse of Game Design Flaws" sequel
He deserves all the press he gets. hes the only reviewer i trust.
I understand more things get under his skin then mine and alot of hes demeaning comments are for amusment, but when you look at the core of his reviews, they are made up of very knowledgible and insightful notions.
And more often then not, i find my self thinking (that is so true).
LOL!!
another excellent review, i wish this guy pumped the funnies out more often that one day a week
I dont consider myself a fanboy of Nintendo or any company... But i do enjoy playing Smash bros.. And yes its true its not for everybody... especially ZP since he enjoys single player games a little bit more
I love him cause he's the only other person who will say that Nintendo whoring of their stable of characters OVER AND OVER AND OVER again is just gay
I often think this guy is a bit of a jerk, I thought his reviews of Uncharted and Burnout were awful.However, I agree with this review entirely, very funny and very true.
I never liked fighting games at all, none of them!