Streets of Rage 4

Anthopants, the guy who's been cranking out SoR Mania no death clears, gives his opinion of SoR4.

(this is after losing half his hp to 3 knife Galsias rushing and juggling him, and a Donovan uppercutting him out of a jump kick with super armor that would have safely hit otherwise)

just now I noticed that Beyo and Riha in stage 8 are a reference to Beyoncé and Rihanna... then I googled Rihanna and snakes and   :


The hair with sidecut also seems to be Rihanna inspired

Coincidence?

in my SORR mod Battle for Rio 2 (2016) Rihanna is one of the bosses. I named her Rih instead of Riha: https://sorr.forumotion.net/t399p50-battle-for-rio-2#11562

bareknuckleroo wrote:Anthopants, the guy who's been cranking out SoR Mania no death clears, gives his opinion of SoR4.

(this is after losing half his hp to 3 knife Galsias rushing and juggling him, and a Donovan uppercutting him out of a jump kick with super armor that would have safely hit otherwise)

You know what? As much as I dislike this guy, I do agree with him and the reason I've been feeling so frustrated with SOR4: it's cheap and slow AF. Granted v5.1 ain't exactly the fairest AI, but it DOES have tools to manage crown controls faster... if only that fucking super armor thing would be gone, or breakable with other things than star moves (like weapons, perhaps? offensive blitzes?) or being exclusive only to boss characters, I'm sure the gameplay would be more enjoyable.

Fuck those Kuubos, the Bongos and the Karate guys!

Streets of Rage 4 - All Sprites & Textures extracted (Download)

Hi everyone I don't know if any one has posted this yet but a person called Yoni Arousement has a download with the SOR4 textures on youtube. It's just under 3GB but here are the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i440wPLqUYs

Light82 wrote:Streets of Rage 4 - All Sprites & Textures extracted (Download)

Thanks, ma friend!

Security wrote:Hey, i 'll gladly bite! What's this and where you can get it

A SOR4 mod in SORR-Maker is within reach but will not happen overnight. Firstly, a pixel artist with some real talent and LOTS of free time would have to recreate all SOR4 characters and backgrounds as pixels. Secondly, recreate all the character palettes - this one should be the easiest one. Thirdly, a SORR 5.2 update with major SORRMaker expansion would make things easier - two big things that come to mind:
- be able to replace weapon sprites in scenes, in the same way you can replace objects today. In SOR4 sometimes a breakable becomes a weapon, so this would allow such a thing.
- be able to add new playable characters or enemies (without having to resort to shady denoise hacks), not just their sprites but everything

If they wanna redeem themselves - on the character select screen there looks like enough spaces for 5 characters on the left and 9 on the right if they thought of DLC i'd think very carefully what they would plan but.

Needs a choice of music selects also you can't pick tracks.

Find a way too make the game 4 players online and it should always be Mania mode for 4 players.

Cross platform play

Certain characters need rebalancing

Add run or dash option 1 and option 2 roll or counter evade attack for SOR1 SOR2 SOR4 characters

Adult Skate mid 20's or something
Redo Max - Remake version for SOR4 and give him his air driver move
Rudra
Elle
Roo
Shiva 2
Mr X - remake version
1 of the police cops from the car assist as a legit character

Mr Y with added stuff
Mrs Y with added stuff

If anyone else can think of some add ons please chime in.....

Don Vecta wrote:

bareknuckleroo wrote:Anthopants, the guy who's been cranking out SoR Mania no death clears, gives his opinion of SoR4.

(this is after losing half his hp to 3 knife Galsias rushing and juggling him, and a Donovan uppercutting him out of a jump kick with super armor that would have safely hit otherwise)

You know what? As much as I dislike this guy, I do agree with him and the reason I've been feeling so frustrated with SOR4: it's cheap and slow AF. Granted v5.1 ain't exactly the fairest AI, but it DOES have tools to manage crown controls faster... if only that fucking super armor thing would be gone, or breakable with other things than star moves (like weapons, perhaps? offensive blitzes?) or being exclusive only to boss characters, I'm sure the gameplay would be more enjoyable.

Fuck those Kuubos, the Bongos and the Karate guys!

I wonder what the extent of his input was for the game.....because all those difficulty spikes and the general grading system have the stink of "Make it harder for MEEEEEEEEE" all over it.

We were consulted about the inner working of Streets of Rage 2 and that's really about it outside of myself contributing ideas for a couple of the characters and little easter eggs. Antho didn't really extend as much input because he didn't want to get in the way of their overall vision.

As for the game itself, it's not perfect. I don't enjoy certain instances of armor, the difficulties could use some serious tweaking and better enemy placement, I do not like the retro characters/OST at all and I'm almost certain Shiva and Max would have been unlockables had they not put time and effort into half baked versions of the former characters. That being said I still enjoy the game and it seems to me the divide here is based on whether or not you're willing to unlearn everything and adjust to the game itself, no different than having to change up between playing any of the games in the series and especially remake.

I wasn't on board for the lack of dashing and rolling but after extensively playing the game and learning most of the main cast (still gotta give cherry a good run) I don't really miss the mechanics, I really just want more offensive options, maybe something other than star moves to break through armor. At the moment Floyd McJax is my go to, he's fairly unique to zan and max and brings a lot of fun stuff to the table (also leaves room for Max and Zan to be dlc without overlap).

I'm interested in what the future has in store for the game, I think with some tweaks it can become something amazing but even as is I find myself enjoying it just the same as the other games in the series.

Mr.Din I agree the difficulties need tweaking since the Xbox patch I can't even get S on easy with Shiva it also took away all my S ranks on hard.

The Xbox version came out with a earlier build than what was supposed to be launched. The patch recently brought it up to speed with the rest. The ranking system is strange though, I picked up S ranks a couple of times not really thinking I would, other times I'd get an A thinking I would get an S lol.

There's going to be a balance patch coming soon apparently.

So here's hoping they get rid of that bloody Super Armour on Big Ben eh?

Or patch in being able to actually use defensive specials for defense. https://m.twitch.tv/clip/HelpfulArbitraryFoxDBstyle

bareknuckleroo wrote:https://m.twitch.tv/clip/HelpfulArbitraryFoxDBstyle

This game honestly

bareknuckleroo wrote:Or patch in being able to actually use defensive specials for defense. https://m.twitch.tv/clip/HelpfulArbitraryFoxDBstyle

This so much. When Estel does the triple-attack, and the kickboxers do those triple-kicks (plus the Dylans with their flying ones), you should be able to break out of them with a special. I also like the idea of ricocheting thrown weapons with a defensive special. This would be incredibly handy for Stage 10.

Should go the same with breaking out of Barney and Max's grabs too.

You can already break out of Max's grab. Taser Cop on the other hand is basically shin akuma in disguise, funny enough his Shun Taser Satsu is also weak to a well timed neutral jump.

We should at least be able to star move out of situations like that or air recovery like a certain grandmaster does.

bareknuckleroo wrote:Or patch in being able to actually use defensive specials for defense. https://m.twitch.tv/clip/HelpfulArbitraryFoxDBstyle

Imagine if it was SOR2 or SORR and you're surrounded by Galsia-2 guys and a trucker with infinite jabs, lol. I mean, the purpose of the special since its conception in Final Fight was to get rid of being mobbed, a move that can interrupt the hit stun so you can get out from there. Specials in SOR4 are just fancy offensive moves for combos and that's it.

bareknuckleroo wrote:Or patch in being able to actually use defensive specials for defense. https://m.twitch.tv/clip/HelpfulArbitraryFoxDBstyle

How do you download your own clips i can't find out how it's done.

+ does anyone know about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiUt-YKFO7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqymMIlbTSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVu5tbdUuEs

A balance patch update is currently in testing phase before public release.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StreetsofRage/comments/gxb9pj/shinkensou_demoing_test_version_with_axel_buffs/

Anthopants is live going through the changes: https://www.twitch.tv/anthopants

Edit: Stream video - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/643826394
Should start around 1:24:27. He switches back to the previous build later on.

Yeah i was in there listening too him and thought boy it's time too go.

Thanks for the list.

- great review finally

A lil more details on this topic :
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/246602-streets-of-rage-4/78748427

If true, game might have gotten much better. Can't wait to test it out.

Keep in mind this patch is still subject to changes. The recent version I tested last night removed the ability to air special out of hitstun so now it's just something you can do on the ground.