This x1000. The best action games feature tons of enemies that die in one hit so you're constantly making progress & exploding stuff Remember st.2 of Metal Slug 3? It sucks balls cos zombies take forever to die. At least it looked great though & wasn't 'small sprites in large empty space' blandness - ThreadSky

ohfivepro.bsky.social • 20 days ago

This x1000. The best action games feature tons of enemies that die in one hit so you're constantly making progress & exploding stuff

Remember st.2 of Metal Slug 3? It sucks balls cos zombies take forever to die. At least it looked great though & wasn't 'small sprites in large empty space' blandness

Reposted from H.K // デビル零

New Shinobi looks fun but if I'll be honest: I'm getting a little exhausted with new 2D platformers/action games being so heavily combo-melee-gameplay driven. Sometimes you just wanna smack a guy once with a sword to make him go away forever

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alvieao.bsky.social•19 days ago

It sounds like Shinobi 3DS (2011) all over again, due to the emphasis on combos and parrying fewer on-screen enemies in big, open empty spaces.

ohfivepro.bsky.social•19 days ago

I never played that one but it doesn't sound like I missed out on much

devilrei.bsky.social•20 days ago

Part of what makes playing Zero so fun in the Megaman X/Zero game is because using the saber skillfully is so high-damage and cuts through most enemies like butter in contrast to the typical “plink away by shooting lots of lemons” style. It’s fun to kill stuff fast

alsgaminglounge.bsky.social•20 days ago

Totally agree, as soon as I saw the health bars in that Shinobi trailer my eyes rolled. Just really unnecessary that the game needs combo. Fully expect boss encounters to be parry fests.

kaaboose.bsky.social•20 days ago

Or those godamn plants from whichever Metal Slug it was. I found all the ones after 3 pretty forgettable

tr909.bsky.social•20 days ago

excuse you, Stage 2 of Metal Slug 3 is a goddamn horror masterpiece

its Stage 5 that can fuck off

tr909.bsky.social•20 days ago

(im kidding around and get the point you're making + do actually agree, to be clear 😂 mostly kidding, anyway. Stage 5 *can* fuck off)

ohfivepro.bsky.social•20 days ago

the dumb thing is they could put in 4x as many enemies but give them 4x less health & the game would immediately improve as you'd be feeling like you're actually doing something other than just grinding away at a single basic enemy for an age

tr909.bsky.social•20 days ago

see, i don't necessarily MIND games built around enemies that have a lot of health, even when they're games of this sort of genre...

but also you are 100% right and the art of 'shit tons of 1HP enemies' is massively underrepresented in games today and that is a net negative

ohfivepro.bsky.social•20 days ago

it all comes down to game design. Alien Soldier has lots of enemies with lots of HP & people love it. Everyone likes a longer than average fight with a good boss or w/e. You just don't want every single basic enemy to be like a 1v1 fighting game

Basic enemies exist to be basic

ohfivepro.bsky.social•20 days ago

Super Shinobi 3 where every enemy turns into a random Tactics Ogre style fight where you need to level up for an hour before the fight begins. There's no saving & a death resets the whole stage. The boss is a chess grandmaster who takes hours to decide on his move😴
Yay action games

tr909.bsky.social•20 days ago

because as you highlight, who DOESN'T love carving through waves of enemies like a knife through warm butter? its exciting! its fun!

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