I always hate hearing developers come out and say that they never got to create the game they truly wanted. Seems like this is not an issue for these fighting game devs…more power to them.
I don't know, I heard the Inflatality team were trying to make a golf game and it just kept turning into a wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tubeman fighting game, like it was cursed.
I mean he did just call Toribash the most innovative fighting game yet. It is hardly your fault after the master of fighting games himself has recommended something with such praise, that your games list is inflating.
I love how Warner Bros have fully embraced the Ultra-Instinct meme where Shaggy is concerned. It’s probably for the best that they’ve only set him at 1% power, though.
Write N' Fight missed an opportunity by making its entire roster male. You're telling me you wouldn't want to throw down as Mary Shelley or go to the Jane Austen arena where you smash your enemy into a polite afternoon tea?
@@philiphunn194 if I remember correctly she lived in a crypt and kept the calcified heart of her husband in her desk, I think it was even the cause of his death, after he died. Complete badass and totally, unquestionably Metal. 🤘
'Photo Dojo' is another strange one, a relic from the DSi days. The entire premise was that you struck various poses to take photos and then that would be made into a fighter representing yourself or your friends and family. I believe it had a PvP mode as well as a brawler-style mode where you cleared waves of enemies.
Write 'n' Fight is spectacularly close to an idea I had, making heroes and villains out of authors. Some of the evil names were as follows: Ernest Harmingway Jean Paul Slaughtre Stone Cold Jane Austen Virginia Werewoolf Edgar Allen Foe Hans Antichrist-ian Andersen Arson Welles I really should've written them all down. What irony.
Not forgetting renowned pugilists such as H. P. Hatecraft, William Brawler Yeats and Evelyn War. Appearing alongside notorious figures like Arthur Killer and I-sack'em Dinesen aka Karen Blitz-en.
The manga/anime Bungou Stray Dogs (Literary Stray Dogs) has done this concept as well, but they're definitely not the first. I'd be interested to see other similar takes on what I feel is becoming a genre, lol.
Also, just watched a Biographics video from Simon Whistler last night on Lord Byron. Put him as a villain, please. The way he treated his lovers, wives and children, especially one of his daughters, is abhorrent.
As a literature nerd, Write 'n' Fight has to be the funniest thing I've seen all day. That intro had me roaring. The sequel needs to be MATH WRATH! (*deep voice*) Scientists and mathematicians duke it out to prove not who's right... BUT WHO'S LEFT! (*lightning noises*)
@@jaded_gerManic I actually saw Stephen Hawking in my mind when I first thought of it... only he'd ditched his chair for a full mech suit. His head visible in this crazy glass dome on top of the thing, heh.
When you think of "Strange fighting game concepts." I think we can all agree that "Fighting with actual flatulence" is a bit of a low hanging fruit. Which is why the fact that "Eight Marbles" hasn't ever appeared on one of these lists is all the more baffling.
It's amazing to find out that Toribash is still a thing. I remember trying it out in like 2003, thinking "Wow, this is way too complicated for me" and not thinking about it for nearly 20 years until watching this video. EDIT: Apparently the game didn't come out until 2006 actually... weird.
I would like to add two titles to the list: Heavy metal: geomatrix (based off of the heavy metal magazine with a kick ass soundtrack full of licensed songs) Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. (or Biological Flying Robotic Enhanced Armored Killing Synthoids)
I see you even managed to unlock the secret character in "Write n' fight" the elusive 'reflection captures need to be rebuilt'. Never managed to unlock that one myself.
Clearly, Inflatality is the greatest game of all time. The real reason New Coke was discontinued wasn't the taste, it was because cans sprouted arms and legs and started attacking people. Here's an idea for a fighting game: panel shows. Just think of being able to have David Mitchell fight Jeremy Clarkson, or Frankie Boyle and Stephen Fry.
Surprised you didn't mention that Terrordrome - reign of the legends is a sequel. Although this one stars public domain/original characters, the previous game Terrodrome Rise of the Boogeymen, did not. It feature a ton of famous slasher/horror villains like Freddy, Jason, Pinhead and Chucky.
They seem to be sticking only to games that can legally be sold. I'd imagine they're just erring on the side of caution and steering completely clear of what could be seen as advertising something that infringes on so many copyrights.
@@highspotplays Not necessarily: the first of these lists includes Dong Dong Never Die, which includes Mario with Akuma's moveset, a plot based on Terminator 2, and more ripped and smushed together assets. Thank you, Chinese FGC!
@@mindwarp42 I mean, it's just a guess. And that video was released three years ago, so maybe OXbox has altered their stance on stuff like that. Again, just a guess.
8:50 the Arya Stark pie gag gets a lot worse when you realize the reason pies are her gimmick is that one time where she killed two brothers, minced their flesh, baked them into a pie and then served said pie to the father of her victims.
Yeah they maybe should not have included that in a children's video game. Also it's weird seeing characters from TV shows made for adults included in children's media
All I ask out of fighting games is unique characters with their own fighting styles in a fun story and environment. Some went far and beyond those expectations. A damn fine list.
I recently saw a fighting game called Dino Rex, a dinosaur themed fighting game that came out 2 years before Primal Rage, and it looks like if you made a fighting game with those inflatable meme dino costumes.
3:30 Okay, so I'm not convinced that _Fight of Animals_ is not a highly niche fetish game of some sort. There are *_waaay_* to many wolfs, dogs and dolphins with six-packs for it *not* to be. The Egg-dog threw me off, however.
Terrordrome is a labor of love from the same people who made the first first Terrordrome, one of the best fangames ever that is pinning the likes of Jason Voorhees and Candyman against each other. These guys definitely deserve more love for continuing the development despite failing a Kickstarter campaign. Also yes, Slender Man is notoriously copyrighted by the original creator. He seems to tolerate Internet stuff, but everything beyond that requires licensing.
When I saw that reveal trailer for multiversus and got to the point of the Iron Giant saying Superman, I felt a symphony being played with my heart strings.
Terrordome first game was awesome! It had all your favorite scary creatures, monsters and characters from the movies, like Tallman and Chucky, and even Ash from Evil Dead. Sadly DMCA ruined that project too along with licenses.
I LOVE when Andy does these fighting game lists. grew up with SF2 Tekken2/3 and MK2/3 so ill always love fighters. these lists are so helpful at showing off less known and deserving games. I look forward to buying a few off this list to go with the fighters from list 1 and 2 that i have fun playing and will always be horrible at
Clown with a chainsaw is a pretty common horror trope so it makes sense though it reminds me a lot of the designs from killer klowns from outer space. Though the it reference is also there
There used to be a flash game called "Bible Fight". Which was quite literally a beat'em'up featuring characters from the holy book with some odd special moves based on their story or background. For example Noah was able to summon a stampede of animals to run his opponent over. If I remember correctly it was made by Adult Swim and was hosted at their site as well as on Kongregate. It was actually fun to play and very well made.
Have you guys had Ultra Fight da Kyanta 2 on your weird fighting games lists? I can't remember if you have, but it is absolutely insane and def deserves a mention. It's less so a bizarre concept and moreso one of those things where you look at it and go "I have no clue what's happening"
Maybe he's one of those comic relief characters who "fights" by cowering, whimpering and running whenever you press a button, but some unknowable entity spawns to attack in his place instead. They're keeping him safe... for later...
The soundtracks of these games are absolute bangers! Also, how about a similar list feature of weird dating simulators? Including titles as Purrfect Date, Hatoful Boyfriend, Angels with Scaly Wings, Boyfriend Dungeon...
This is a good list and I'm glad Super Drink Bros made it Here's some more potential suggestions -Famicom Fighters which is a fighting game which uses 8 bit sprites of nes characters -Cereal Killaz which everyone is a cereal mascot parody -ExploJudo which every grab is a one hit ko where you explode and there's a chainsaw alligator as the final boss -DreamMix TV world Fighters which is a crossover between Konami, Hudson soft and a Japanese toy company which has solid snake, Bomberman, Optimus prime and ty from beyblade -Bayani which the cast is made up of actual people from Filipino history -Toy Fighter which uses actual martial arts points instead of rounds and everyone is a toy
I do so love that the official Outsidexbox style guide has Frankenstein's monster referred to, consistently, as "a Frankenstein". Have to stop myself from commenting every time.
Wish you'd mentioned the original Terrordrome in the entry for the sequel. They were a LOT less squeamish about copyright, maybe cause they had no plans to charge for it. lol
Personally, when it comes to horror-themed fighting games, it's hard to go past The Black Heart. It was made in MUGEN, and playable characters include a lady made of spiders, a small child with way too many knives, and...a huge worm with teeth. Look it's a good game okay :P
The funny thing is that James Joyce and Hemingway used to drink together in Paris, reportedly Joyce would continually start fights with people and then call on the much younger Hemingway to come and finish them for him while he sat and finished his drink.
Toribash was legit awesome as soon as you figured out how to get some basic momentum and freestyle out of it. God knows what happened to the sequel that was supposed to happen.
The year is 2146. Water is a scarce resource. Gangs roam the crumbling cities of human civilization. Andy's found another seven weird fighting games for part 568 of this series.
Here's another one, recently out: Rumbleverse, a wrestling battle royale. I think it counts, since it features fighting game mechanics (blocking, normals, power moves, throws, specials, different archetypes). And it's weird.
Literally every new detail that Andy gave about the first game on the list made it sound even more awesome. How had I never before heard of Inflatality?
Awesome! Toribash was the first thing that came to my mind from "Weird Fighting Games" but I couldn't remember the name, I must have played it about 2008, I had no idea it was still a thing!
Enter: Jane Austin vs. Mary Shelly! Mary: "Pride and Prejudice this, Janey!" (Unleashes her move *Frankensteins Eternal Regret of his Terrible Life Choices*)
@@davisvoelzke8011 Tolkien was a WWI vet, seeing action during The Somme amongst other places. While, I imagine that E B Sledge could likely take him in a fight, given that Sledge spent 2 years on the front lines of the Pacific Theater of WWII, Tolkien would likely be a tough combatant. (Also, Sledge only wrote non fiction.)
You or Oxtra should do a list of the times video game characters were extremely relatable. My example is the protagonist in Far Cry 6 singing along (badly) to Livin la vida Loca on the radio.
toribash is legit kind of amazing to watch some of the competitions of people that really know what they're doing. some of the stuff they can pull off is legit insane.
The real crime is that Warner Bros apparently included everything in that water tower they keep the Animaniacs in... Except the Animaniacs themselves. Come on, how can you have a Warner Brothers fighting game and not play as one of the Warner Brothers (or the Warner Sister)?
I can't imagine the guy who didn't have the constitution for basic math would do very well in a fighting game. He's probably a glass cannon with a bunch of eldrich specials or something.
Another wacky fighting game you should add to your next video is Ragdoll Masters and its sequel Rubber Ninjas. You're fighting in either a square arena or a spherical arena (depending on the game) with very low gravity, and your only controls are the arrow keys. Those arrow keys, when pressed in the right combinations, can cause your character to do some pretty cool acrobatic maneuvers, but aside from that, there's a lot of flailing about. You can cheat the system by sticking your head in one of the upper corners in the first game, which is probably why the rooms were made spherical in the sequel.
Every time I happen on any reference to James Joyce it brings Christopher Fowler’s The Water Room to mind. A young Constable was dismayed he’d have to submit all his reports in longhand, because technology refused to work for one of his bosses. “But”, he complained to the Sergeant, “no one can read what I write”. “Never stopped James Joyce” she replied.
There is another version of Terrordrome out there, but it’s a lot less polished than this one looks, especially the cutscenes. It stars a bunch of classic slasher villains duking it out, including Freddy, two versions of Jason (Classic and Undead), Ash, Chucky, and some more obscure ones like Herbert West and the Tall Man.
I used to be very into Toribash, and I eventually manages to create a halfway decent approximation of Wing Chun! I did not know Terrordrome had a sequel coming out! I'm definitely checking that out!
For the last one, I'm reminded of some ditty that had the line, "7-Up picked him up and brought him to Dr Pepper." Can't remember the rest of it offhand, though.
I would argue if the idea is weird fighting games, „Oh…sir!“ would count. In that it is technically a game in which you fight 1v1, only that you fight with insults, including ones directly lifted from monthy python. And shadow warrior for some reason, including lo wang himself.
To be clear, Fight of Animals is the traditional 2D fighter you showed, and the platform fighter is Fight of Animals Arena. Pretty decent fun in either case though lol
honestly, one of the weird games i've played (and for some reason not seen again) is that wrestling/injustice game where your favorite wrestlers are now greek gods. You have to fight like in the mobile injustice 2 and mortal kombat
I again humbly submit the following: "Times you were told exactly who the big bad evil is and didn't notice" & "Everyday objects you opened and immediately wished you didnt".
I play MultiVersus a lot and since they are gonna be adding characters like Samurai Jack I don't plan on being bored anytime soon also the Iron Giant is a 🎶cheat code🎶 and hard af to ring out sometimes.
Have you ever included Ballz (3D) for the snes? It seemed like they made a physics engine and then abandoned any further development after losing a license to something
Terrordrome actually started life as a fighting game of various horror movie characters, like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Ash Williams and others. For obvious reasons, that one was shut down.
ok quick mention a game i remember playing in school was phylosofighters it's exactly what it sounds like a fighting game involving phylosophers much like write and fight, only it's 2d instead of 3d
