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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 22, 2014 23:06:36 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/onemustfall/onemustfall.htmThere were a bunch of Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat clones during the mid-90s, and One Must Fall 2097 was one of the better ones, since it actually controlled well, looked decent, had some great music, and an original concept (fighting robots). I honestly haven't played it since those days, though I never knew about its martial arts oriented predecessor nor its Battlegrounds sequel.
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Jun 23, 2014 7:50:05 GMT -5
I still have (very slim) hopes of one day snagging a boxed copy of Battlegrounds. I used to frequent the forums of the guys that made this game, Diversions Entertainment (Same name as here, if anybody else posted there back at the tail end of the 90s), back when they had an active site at www.omf.com (Sadly, the site is long since gone). It was actually quite fun when the community got together to make custom tournaments. I'm sure you can find the two OMF community tournies floating around the web. Sadly, my PC wasn't up to snuff for Battlegrounds when it came out. By the time it was, the Aussie distributors had gone out of business I can recall being upset that the Flail, my fav HAR, never made it into the sequel as well (Apparently it was too difficult to get it looking and animating well)
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Post by TheChosen on Jun 23, 2014 20:02:23 GMT -5
Sweet! Even sweeter is to finally read about the sequel. Only time I've checked that out was a review from old game mag and it wasn't positive at all.
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Post by wxbryant on Jun 23, 2014 22:40:30 GMT -5
Some time back in, I think, 1997 or so, my family bought a new computer and we had gotten a cheapo "500 Games" disc with it that had a whole bunch of shareware/freeware games on it. One of the included games was the original One Must Fall. I tried playing it once and can sum up the experience as follows.
READYPOWPOWPOWYOULOSEPOWPOWPOWYOULOSE
For whatever reason, that particular game ran WAY too fast and the game would always be over in roughly three seconds as soon as I loaded it. Just that one, though. I don't remember having much trouble with others I tried from that disc.
I spent a lot of time with the shareware version of 2097 back in "the day," though. I enjoyed it greatly. I remember even figuring out a way to add custom portraits for created pilots. May have to dabble with that again one of these days now that it's freeware.
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Post by TheChosen on Jun 24, 2014 1:18:59 GMT -5
You can actually set up the speed from the settings and its very fast in default, for whatever reason (hardware reasons perhaps?). It took me years to realize that.
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Post by drpepperfan on Jun 28, 2014 6:55:48 GMT -5
Doing some googling, I found out that 3 Jazz Jackrabbit characters appear in One Must Fall 2097: Jazz Jackrabbit, Eva Earlong and Devan Shell. I see a screenshot of Jazz was included in the article, but that kinda seems like it's worthy of a special mention of it's own.
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Post by PooshhMao on Jun 28, 2014 8:33:49 GMT -5
I honestly thought this was supremely average, it just stood out because there weren't many fighting games (less so quality ones) on DOS. The robots looked awful (especially compared to Rise of The Robots, which came before OMF, though played MUCH worse)
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Post by Weasel on Jun 28, 2014 13:05:27 GMT -5
Honestly, OMF's biggest draw is Tournament Mode, because you rarely see a fighting game combined with an RPG in such a way.
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Post by Bobinator on Jun 28, 2014 13:23:35 GMT -5
I'd say it's noteworthy for having online play and anti-infinite systems.
You know, in 1994.
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Post by zerker on Jun 28, 2014 17:29:26 GMT -5
I still have (very slim) hopes of one day snagging a boxed copy of Battlegrounds. Sorry man. I HAD a boxed copy, but I gave it away years ago. Now, if you had a time machine...
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Jun 28, 2014 23:00:34 GMT -5
Heh, its all good man, I don't really try very hard. Its the sort of thing where I checked Ebay or whatever once in a blue moon drpepperfan: They show up in the tournaments when you use a destruction on certain opponents. I recall one was that Jazz (He was listed as "Jazzy") would even have a revenge fight if you used a destruction on Eva Earlong (In the last tournament, the world one, I believe this happened) PooshhMao: The main thing about OMF is that back in the day PC gamers really didn't have access to high quality Fighting Games, and the shareware version of OMF was a game you could get either free or generally very cheap. Also, back in when OMF came out, it did look good (Still looks good, IMO, but that's a matter of personal taste). I find it amusing you mention Rise of the Robots, because I think demonstrates just how OMF:2097 was superior: Gameplay will ALWAYS trump graphics. That's a reason why you'll find quite a few people around here willing to defend OMF:2097, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find any hardcore fans of Rise
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Post by alphex on Jul 4, 2014 14:09:33 GMT -5
A couple of typos: "Super Super Fighter II" should "Super Street Fighter II Turbo". "Similar her brother" should be "Similar TO her brother".
I remember loving the shareware version that came with Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (it actually was included on the Jazz 1 CD that ALSO came with the game).
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Post by opaopa on Jul 6, 2014 18:57:26 GMT -5
Really great write up. I still play through the Tournament Mode of One Must Fall 2097 at least once a year. It was one of my favorite games growing up. The robots are admittedly a little silly looking but I used to think they were awesome. The soundtrack is still pretty killer today.
I was one of the testers on Battlegrounds (Still have my boxed copy with my name in the credits). It had quite the lively community and we were all optimistic it was going to be great. Then it came out. While not the worst game I ever played once people quickly learned how to juggle their opponents infinitely it became really unfriendly to newbies.
I give Mr. Elam credit for trying to do something interesting with such a small team and small budget but it probably would have been better if he had played it save and just made his original "OMF 2" which was going to be another 2D fighter before he canned it in favor of Battlegrounds.
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Post by Allie on Jul 7, 2014 18:24:48 GMT -5
Heh, its all good man, I don't really try very hard. Its the sort of thing where I checked Ebay or whatever once in a blue moon drpepperfan: They show up in the tournaments when you use a destruction on certain opponents. I recall one was that Jazz (He was listed as "Jazzy") would even have a revenge fight if you used a destruction on Eva Earlong (In the last tournament, the world one, I believe this happened) PooshhMao: The main thing about OMF is that back in the day PC gamers really didn't have access to high quality Fighting Games, and the shareware version of OMF was a game you could get either free or generally very cheap. Also, back in when OMF came out, it did look good (Still looks good, IMO, but that's a matter of personal taste). I find it amusing you mention Rise of the Robots, because I think demonstrates just how OMF:2097 was superior: Gameplay will ALWAYS trump graphics. That's a reason why you'll find quite a few people around here willing to defend OMF:2097, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find any hardcore fans of Rise Pretty much. Around the time that I first came across OMF, the only PC fighting game that I had at that point was Metal and Lace.
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Post by jorpho on Jul 7, 2014 23:03:51 GMT -5
There are a bunch that come to mind:
FX Fighter (came out the following year; no one ever seems to talk about that one) Rise of the Robots (the less said, the better) Tongue of the Fatman/Mondu's Fight Palace (ditto) Ultimate Body Blows (and its Amiga predecessors) and maybe Samurai Shodown 2/Fatal Fury 3?
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