Dino Rex is about dinossaurs fighting to overthrow the government. It's ridiculous and I love it. Also blocking is holding down and not back, and triceratops is a charge character that has to hold back to charge. And in case of a draw, you can actually play a real fighting game, because the two tamers will actually fight and they're kinda like normal fighting game characters.
So let me get this straight, in Blandia they have this armor system to set it apart from other fighting games. They then proceed to make the two best characters the ones who DON'T HAVE ARMOR?!
Sadly "Frame Fighter"(a side mode in Warframe) is no longer in a playable state, assuming it ever was to begin with. Otherwise that easily takes my pick for worst fighting game. If you want to know why there are a handful of RU-vid videos that show what it was like.
Look I just like the concept that dinosaurs enslaved in combat have the sportsmanship to allow the other up and switch sides for the sake of competitive integrity.
@@emilior934 how can it rip off a game that doesn't come out until 2 years after it, and Primal Rage doesn't even have playable humans until the canceled sequel, which was made years later
Can't believe you didn't mention how Sudden Death works in Dino Rex. If the last bout of a match ends in a double KO (both dinos kill each other at the same time), then the *human warriors*, who usually run around at the bottom of the screen directing their dinos, have to fight it out in sudden death! There is like a whole second fighting game in this game, that almost never matters and that most players will never see outside of the arcade mode final boss (which forces it)!
I've never had a chance to play it, but I'm fascinated by Naughty Dog's attempt at a fighting game (back when they were only two people, mind you) Way of the Warrior for the 3DO, a very low-budget Mortal Kombat clone. They couldn't afford to hire a composer so they just licensed a White Zombie album for the soundtrack and the final boss was allegedly created by taking photos of a Jurassic Park toy from McDonald's. To its credit, it featured unique font for each character's name years before Guilty Gear, and it may have also been the proto-platform fighter by virtue of having stages with uneven floors and power-ups that fall from the sky.
I'm so glad you mentioned the Dickles thing because I noticed it immediately and found it wayyy too funny to enjoy alone. I needed to know someone else caught it too
I actually thought he put Primal Rage in the thumbnail and thought "ooh boy that's gonna piss people off", clicked to see if it was either that or just a game that looks like it.
I forget what the game was, but I remember seeing one that had no hitstun. That is to say, your opponent didn't flinch when you hit them. And this game was an anime fighter, so it had the expected combos as well. Just imagine that for a moment.
Holy cow Jurane's sprite proportions are all over the place. Even just in her idle stance her back arm looks JACKED, and her forearm in her spear hand goes to like 4-feet long.
Blandia was one of the games available in an Arcade back in the 90s in my hometown in Mexico. It was one of those games you can tell the owners got for cheap and couldn't get rid of later so they just keep it with no maintenance (by the last years, the cabinet had not art stickers and there were cigarette's burns on the controls) even if no one ever play it.
The RU-vidr Theory Fighter made a great video about double KOs (Named "The Problem with Double KOs in Fighting Games"), in it he showcases that Dino Rex actually has one of the coolest double KO systems. I won't spoil it because I want people to go watch it, it's a great video and it's only like 7 minutes long.
Be 14. Finally put your hands on the fighting game that was hyped by all vg magazines back in 1994 with such great reviews, pumping up your expectations through the roof. Well, except that game was RISE OF THE ROBOTS and if you know what I'm talking about, you can imagine how it felt. If not, please take a look. It may be the king in your next video
Say what you will about Dino Rex, but no game from 1992 could match the spectacle of those launching attacks that send your opponent flying for like 3 screens, destroying everything they go flying past. Shame about the entire rest of the game, though.
So Blandia appears to be a (spiritual) sequel to an obscure 1980's arcade cabinet published by Taito called "Gladiator" that featured Gurianos as the main character. It was a single player game that featured that same armor removal system. Levels were composed of weird side-scrolling sections followed by 1 v 1 boss battles that look a lot like Blandia's gameplay. Gladiator was definitely a weird game but was a pretty fun playthrough for its time.
And Gladiator has a boss called Irene, that is a precursor to Irriana from Blandia and she can get her chestplate removed. In Japan, her boobs are shown, full frontal
LOL JM saying, “I guess this is meant to be… suggestive…?” Bro, you don’t have to guess. It’s okay, we all had childhoods where we 🎉 to pixelated sexiness. You ain’t fooling me 😂
Nothing will ever beat Shaq Fu. I will give it to them for trying something new, but whatever it was, a fighting game is the very last thing it could have been.
Kung fu panda legendary showdown of legends was so hilariously broken We had to tell our buddy to stop using the goose because it was so broken then he figured out the alligator was stupid af too haha
Strip Fighter 2 for the Turbographix 16 is among my top 10 worst fighters for how unresponsive it is. Also, "Blandia" has a Laughable title, and so fitting as that's what it is: Bland.
If you block Jurane's unblockable, the spell hits one time and it does NOT make any damage. They can still set up an infinite and win if they have the life advantage though.
I have a soft spot for shaq fu. It was so cool to me as a kid, just a random baskeballer kicked into another dimension where he fights mummies and demons and shit. Yes, as a non-american non-sports guy, Shaq was just a random basketballer to me. Shaq, one of the most recognizable players ever lmao. Also, since I was just trash in every fighting game, I didn't see much difference between shaq fu and mortal kombat lol
You didnt mention that after beating your opponent for the 1st round on Strip Fighter II you get a little cutscene of her in underwear; after winning 2nd round you see the same thing but with her without any clothes.
The worst fighter I know of is Heavy Nova. It is on the genesis. The main problem is that of the four characters, two are palette swaps, and only one of those two can block (which is just holding down in this game btw). The other two instead just become fully invincible when they crouch, which obviously is a problem, but also the timer is almost 8 minutes long.
I never played Blandia, but after looking at this I immediately realized that this game is a sequel to Gladiator from 1986. When I was a little kid, Gladiator looked cool because it had large, appealing sprites for its time and fun mechanics. Blandia doesn't look as fun to play. My vote for worst fighter is Slaughter Sport for the Genesis, though I heard that the original PC game (Mondu's Fight Palace/Tongue of the Fatman) had more going on for it. Hippodrome is another bad one, though it had some kooky characters to play against and I ended up beating it because there weren't a lot of choices at the batting cage arcade where my brother practiced.
what about kandidatos, the fighting game where you play as brazilian politicians, it's hilariously bad in every conceivable way Also battle of guardians which is a nft fighting game, where every character in the game plays pretty much exactly the same because there's no special moves, and if you want to be able to use supers (which are all just autocombos) you have to buy an nft of a better character, it's actually awful
Oh god, you reminded me of playing Super Strip Fighter IV with friends in college. I only remember maining the Hakan knock-off girl. The oil noises were really gross haha. There's apparently a 5 on Steam.
I played a fighting game on dreamcast as a kid and i never seen it on any youtube video and still cant find what it is. All i remember is it was a 3d game that you could move in every direction you are floating in a sphere and i think it was persona characters in it. Im not sure just remember some anime dude with glasses that looked like a persona character...anyone have any idea of what im talking about..
Man, I knew of Dino Rex because dinosaurs (though the comment section taught me it's WILD double K.O system) and I knew of Strip Fighter because of horny... but I had NOT heard or seen Blandia before today. And it doesn't even seem THAT bland! The armor system and swords and sandals-style is not what I think of when I think of a generic fighting game, so I am baffled a fighting game who, even if it's in a bad way, would stick out as much as this one does.
Got a bad fighting game for ya that I don't think you've covered: Doomsday Warrior for the SNES. I remember thinking this was cool a shit back in the day, but also kinda hating it. Having refreshed my memory, it actually kinda lives up to my recollection! It's definitely bad, though.
I came in 5th place in Dino Rex for Vortex Gallery. It's got issues for sure and you definitely have to meet it where it is, but unironically I love that game. It's got some cool things going on like kara cancels and i think it would be p decent if it was given more dev time to polish it up
Of course no one plays Strip Fighter II competitively. The community as a whole decided that Super Strip Fighter 2 Turbo was the more balanced experience.
One of the worst fighters I’ve played is Gundam EX Revue. It’s like a jank unbalanced version of SF2. You could stun loop the opponent with the fencer Gundam’s stand jab into down jab over and over. When you won it said “you victory”
Hey Punk Are You Tuff E Nuff has got to be the worst game I played in recent memory. By default it's got a 4 character roster, 2 of which are head swaps of each other. It's got some truly bizarre inputs, like a charge forward to down-back motion for one move. And I am fully convinced that combos are not possible in that game, as far as I can tell the game is just coded to where you cannot take damage while in hit stun. And finally, to expand the roster you have to input a cheat code, and even then you can only use the unlocked characters in VS mode. It's also very clear these characters aren't even fully complete, as some of them don't even have attacks assigned to certain buttons. Just for the kicker, this game came out the same year as TMNT Tournament Fighter so there's that.
oh that's on the switch SNES rental thing, yeah. *in* the game it's just called tuff enuff. I didn't know there were special moves, but that didnt really stop me from winning.
yup that's where I played it, I just used the ninja girl because she has a charge back projectile like Guile and I won by cheesing and poking, also her flash kick doesn't have i-frames as far as I can tell
For me it's Windy x Windam on the DS. I mean, you don't expect much from a fighting game on the DS of all things but the fact that was an actual commercial product is baffling to me.
I had fun with Ballz 3D on the 3DO as a kid. The Director's Cut was actually better than the SNES/Genesis original...at least that's what my nostalgia tells me. I played the 16-bit version as an adult, and see why it gets so much hate. But on the 3DO...it's gotta' be at least a decent game. Playable, if nothing else! lol
