7 Fighting Game Stages Much Deadlier Than The Fight Itself
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
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10:20 - Poor Nitara, I guess she forgot she had wings as she fell to her death. I wonder how many other characters that have died because they have forgotten that had an ability to easily avoid the death they experienced? 🤔
I'm sure it's only a matter of time until outsidexbox tells us.
In the latest Mortal Kombat, fatalities that reduce the opponent down to a skeleton still work on the Terminator.
In Soul Calibur 3 the true final boss, Night Terror, has wings and will fly back to the stage if knocked off. The only character able to do so in the whole series as far as I’m aware
Batwing Demons in Dark Souls. Never failed to hit my funny bone, we are even introduced to them being capable in flight, before we end up fighting them.
Not to mention a lot of the characters can teleport.
Dead or Alive has some super sketchy fighting stages, in DoA 6 you fight in a jurassic park knock off where a Pterodactyl can sweep in and grab you
*flashbacks to Jann Lee punching a dinosaur in the face in uuuuh... what was it? DoA3?*
Shit dude, DoA3 had you fighting in a park that had raptors freely running around the stage.
There's dojin scene here...
I just know it
The deadliest are probably DOA5's 'Scramble', where you start on a building site and can trigger a series of explosions that cause it to collapse, dumping your opponent into the middle of the resulting major traffic accident, and 'Hotzone', where you're in a literal warzone and stage hazards involve being rammed by an M1 Abrams, blown up with an RPG, or being used as an improvised missile to shoot down a helicopter gunship, earning the 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' achievement.
DOA characters survive falls that would turn those MK sissies into jam.
don't get me started on the vegas
one where cars will hit you.
Forgot to mention on that MK stage, BOTH players can get hit with that fall at the same time
They probably didn't so much "forget" as leave that detail out because it has literally nothing to do with the title of the video
@@micahnewby7964 looks at title, has deadly in it, detail is about damage to both fighters...yep comment holds up so it was forgotten.
@@gilbert8162
Me: looks at title, knows there's is only a pedantic technicality's difference between the deadliness inherent in killing one fighter versus killing two _and_ that leaving said pedantic technicality out still doesn't change the level of deadliness of the stage relative to the fight itself, (which is the subject of the video, not how many of the characters it's capable of killing simultaneously), realizes my criticism is valid, though I'll grant the unmade point that it's unnecessary
You are correct. The detail is about damage to both fighters. The *_video_* , however, is about stages deadlier than a fight. So at best, your little detail is superfluous. It certainly isn't necessary and adds nothing substantive; that's probably why it was left out
Do they fall on the same spike? :D
@@micahnewby7964 Well... if the stage is SOOO deadly it can leave no survivors? hmm......
Every time Andy does a list of fighting game things, from the batshit insane world that is nearly every fighting game ever, I am rarely happier.
5:40 They say Hwoarang left a bit of his soul in Antarctica.
...Wait, no, sorry, he left a bit of his _soles_ in Antarctica.
Always nice to see one of the fighting game lists that crop up when Andy is left unsupervised.
It's so tragic to me that Andy, presumably, isn't actually into Jojo. It has all the things he loves most. Vampires. Cowboys. Retro-flavored small town murder mysteries. In part 6 they even go to Disney!
How about Kunpaetku Shrine from Soulcalibur IV? You're surrounded by a ring of hungry lizardmen with comically oversized forks and knives. Even if you win the fight, good luck getting out of there in one piece.
You stand a good chance of getting out in one piece ........ after being swallowed and processed by the lizard-man's digestive tract.
Could be a whole list of Smash Bros. Stages.
Or gang beasts. Go Granny Murder!
Final Destination indeed.
*with tongue firmly in cheek* - No, because it's a list of _fighting_ game stages.
Like any of the F-Zero stages.
You know what makes Smash stages that much more dangerous? *THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN OSHA VIOLATIONS*
Soulcalibur 3 has a stage where you fight during a seige, all while trebuchets are constantly firing near the stage!
There's also a ship actively being hit by cannon fire and sinking in at least one of them.
@@BlandoGaming yep, the 5th game’s ship stage. Also, isn’t it strange how every game has a ship stage?
@@IamaPERSON That's the one! And yeah, it's kinda wierd when you think about it considering how unstable that would be. Any fight would instantly become so much more difficult.
@@BlandoGaming true. Btw, do you know any good DELL chrome book emulators? Specifically, one for an Xbox 360? I’m trying to play Soulcalibur 4 again, but I don’t have a 360 anymore.
@@BlandoGaming sorry for the random comment
One missed stage was when in tekken 7 a highly promoted and marketed stage was a literal volcano. Like legit a volcano ish area that actually crumbles halfway thtough the fight causing a stage transition from walled to infinite. Its breaking at least 2 rules of fighting.
As if that wasn't insane enough, there's two. Granted, its not a crumbling mess like the other but there is still that clearly bright lava around so at best I'd say its only marginally safer and that margin is about as thin as a sheet of paper.
Street Fighter 4's volcano stage always struck me as particularly perilous.
The SF crew definitely should bring marshmallows, chocolate bars, and graham crackers next time to make s'mores
Can't forget the crumbling laboratory, a stage that falls apart as you fight, causing explosions and fires. Oh, and it's the hideout for Seth, the game's main antagonist.
But the music tho.
There's also fighting on the wings of Rashid's plane in SFV.
@@tcchipSkies of Honor was covered in a previous video
LOVE Power Stone 2 ! They don't stop fighting even for aliens!
I always loved the stage announcer's reaction to that development.
Amazed that Andy avoided any Matrix references when describing the subway fight from Def Jam. I thought it was…inevitable
The Tekken one at 5:03 reminds me of a kendo camp I was at years ago in the town where I went to university in northern Sweden. We did exercises outside in -20°C/-4°F with bare feet.
But WHY?
@@BJGvideos It's called "kangeiko", a traditional sort of training done in mid-winter to basically improve the toughness (mental and physical) of practitioners. We did it barefoot because, well, that's how kendo (and most other Japanese martial arts) is done. 😁
@@wwklnd Dang.
@@BJGvideos It was a ton of fun, tbh! Bunch of people from other parts of the world that are less cold immediately ran into the saunas to heat up a bit after, haha.
Power Stone 2 was hella fun. That free fall fight was certainly surprising the first time I saw it
Well, Sean Paul definitely likes the other side of love, but I don't think he'll like the fall on the other side of that window.
My favorite understated but ludicrously dangerous fighting arena in fighting games is still the Savanna stage in Street Fighter IV where the characters do battle right smack dab in the middle of a pod of hippos. Hippos being incorrigible murder-panzers in animal form with a psychotic hatred for all non-hippo life, when the game was current I always used to joke that SFIV had a stage in front of an active volcano but the seemingly idyllic savannah area was still an even more unwise place to fight.
Still waiting for the special move where you sit down and talk with your opponent, come to some understanding, and both walk away satisfied, if not happy.
then you sucker punch them from behind yeah that'd be cool
Aren’t those what Mortal Kombat Friendships are?
@@GurrenPrime Kinda? But you do still have to beat the person almost to death first for those...
@@BlandoGaming True, but it would kinda break the game to skip the entire fight. I think Undertale is the only game that made a sensible passive fight mode.
The first 2/3 Persona games also let you negotiate with the demons and potentially completely talk your way out of every fight.
There's a move in one of the Guilty Gears where your fatality misses the opponent, but then they're like "You know what, that was too close, I'm calling it quits."
Def jam FFNY is one of my all time favorite classics. So happy to see it mentioned here. See if you can squeeze Kingsleys Adventure (PS1) into one of your videos please!
Seeing power stone get some love just made my day! Although I feel an honourable mention should go to the Indiana Jones stage, where you run from a boulder whilst fighting people, and sometimes on-top of skateboards
In super smash bros melee, one of the stages is Brinstar Depths. The fighters compete on a platform suspended in the air with nothing to catch them if they fall and periodically Kraid will appear to swipe at the platform with his claws causing it to rotate.
Never disappointed when I get a notification that tells me Andy is covering some fighting game crazy. It's one of my favourite things.
The Clock Tower of Castlevania Judgement. It's a serious challenge to complete a match WITHOUT someone falling off the gears or 'accidentally' destroying them beneath your feet. Fitting for a stage that is usually extremely dangerous in the platforming games and even some of the Metroidvanias.
For my money, the most dangerous Smash stage is easily Orbital Gate Assault from Smash Wiiu. There are multplie stages that have you fighting on top of spaceships midflight, but this is the only one where those ships are in the middle of a massive space battle. And you even jump off the ship at one point to ride on top of a flying missile.
It's interesting to me just how many Mortal Kombat stages would qualify. Especially when you get to the 3D era and environmental hazards come into play, it's quite the dangerous place. Can't forget that in Deception you get an arena that's a nice tranquil beach half the time, but then suddenly it's nighttime and those peaceful waters you were driven into before now have deadly piranha in them.
10:20 - If only Nitara had some way to escape that unplanned fall...
If she's too dazed, she can't react.
Yea if only she had some sort of flight device to help her…
@@thestrugglesoflife5516 again, the principle is that they're too dazed to react
Aaaah, falling cliffs. I remember accidentally winning one of the boss fights in arcade mode by both of us falling off but my opponent landing a tiny second before I did. Somehow I ended up as the winner.
oh, so it's not a draw?
@@marhawkman303 No, since it registered my opponent falling off a tiny bit before I did, so technically I won, but the animation still played for both of us getting impaled, it was hilarious.
@@darklord884 hunh, feels like an oversight by the developers. :D
@@marhawkman303 It has been a while, so maybe they later fixed it, but it was funny as hell. Especially since I was getting my ass kicked that time so the fall saved me.
In a similar vein to Iron Man easily escaping, Nitara could have simply used her wings to fly away and not gotten impaled up the butt.
Another one from Melee, the Corneria stage was particulary violent in this version with members of team Starfox constantly bombarding Mcloud's plane with laser barrages, it was not uncommon to complete the stage in adventure mode with the opposition killed by friendly fire.
There's an Easter egg where if you're playing as Fox or Falco you can call in a strike and they'll go absolutely ham on the place.
Smash Bros has very many questionable stages that dissecting it further, I can see it being in Mortal Kombat
Can you do a video titled 7 times your best friend or friend was a boss or the final boss? Five suggestions for this list is Riku from Kingdom Hearts Pixy from Ace Combat 0 The Belkan War, any Undertale character, Gunther from Fire Emblem Fates Revelation, and Edelgard,Dimitri, and/or Claude (depending on the route you choice) from Fire Emblem Three Houses.
And either Final Fantasy Tactics or Tactics Ogre
Also technically infamous 2 evil ending where you “fight” zeke
Also Yakuza
Xenoblade Chronicles, an enemy is your thought dead love intrest
For Fire Emblem 3 houses, I think Rhea would be better as she isn't your friend-turned-enemy in Silver Snow but your legit friend who you spent the last few hours trying to save
I think the stages from "Eternal champions" should be in this considering the characters in the game don't have "fatalities", instead each stage has a location specific fatality
My personal favorite is _The Adrian_ At Sea from Soul Calibur 3. You're fighting in the midst of a stormy sea where spirals of seawater are shooting into the clouds, and _half_ of your ship is missing. There are mere seconds to go before the wreckage sinks, and no where to flee to. But you also _really_ need to beat this other guy in a swordfight.
I like the active volcano from that game (don't remember the name), also quite a safe place to duke it out.
Killer Instinct has some deadly stages like:
The Demolition Stage of TJ Combo and the bridge like stage of Thunder, with the tornado in the back.
One Must Fall had funny stages ... being attacked by fighter jets regulary, or a stage where you could smash your opponent through the floor to get to another stage with another opponent ( and there even was a third floor beneath )
Came here to mention OMF! My pick for deadliest stage would be the appropriately-named Danger Room, which features giant spikes that periodically slide out from the rear wall to stab whichever combatant is foolish enough to be standing in the way. And let's not forget that the robots fighting in these arenas are 90+ feet tall, so those are some BIG spikes...
0:10 I have played this game so many times, this is the first time i noticed that Scorpion has 4 legs, 2 rib cages 2 sculls and way too many bones. This explains why you can hit him so many times, and he just shrug it off :D
Honorable mention to Mustafar!
Oh, yes. Although in the original LEGO game they do "call a truce")
The best part about the Jojo one is that's essentially what the actual episode was like
Given who it is holding the Mortal Kombat Tournaments (Either Shang Tsung or Shao Kahn), I get the feeling the hazards where kinda intentional.
Also: While Def Jam Vendetta had that Subway, lets not forgot that Mortal Kombat 3 did it first (Also complete with your opponent being absolutely mowed down by a train should you finish them by knocking them down there, although its slightly more over-the-top).
It’s a shame that they didn’t try to put Poké Floats in Smash Ultimate! It would’ve been interesting to see how that would’ve looked in HD!
Watching the winged woman fight, I was thinking they should have had her wings more animated. Those look sharp and could be weapons, especially in a situation where a fist counts as a weapon and one is fighting for their life. Instead it's like a pair of little flags or something, stiff and a little janky, while basically being stapled onto the back rather than part of the person.
Killer Instinct on SNES, Sky stage. It was TINY and literally any hit with knockback/down/up, which is almost all hits, could cause ringout.
Surprised you went with the fairly stable floats from smash instead of the active race track or maybe the brimstar stage.
Battle Arena Toshinden had the stage where boss Gaia was located. While most of the fighters had stages set in castles, dojos, and other topical fighting arenas, Gaia's is some kind of spinning vortex with a giant checkered board for a platform. The how and why of said arena is never explained, and few like it ever showed up in the later entries of the series, presumably because the developers couldn't even explain what the heck Gaia's arena even was.
When i saw Wolverine's very old sprite and read the title, i sort of expected the savage land stage from X-men: CotA, a tropical paradise deep beneath the surface of the north pole where dinosaurs inhabit and would be very dangerous even for godlike mutants, and you can always see them roam around in the background of the stage
ooh yeah.. ok, Savage Land is in Antarctica, but otherwise you nailed that. :D
Apparently the floats in the PokeFloats aren't meant to be floats. The Japanese name for the stage is "Pokemon Subspace", implying that these are living, breathing giant Pokemon (which can evidently fly) that you're fighting on. I mean, many of them have facial animations, so that probably should've been a clue.
I was watching/listening to this while wapping Christmas presents and immediately stopped when I heard the old Marvel Super Heros game music and sounds 😳 i love that game and have sooo~ many memories playing it with my brother and cousin. Our favorite character to play was Shuma-gorath the tentacle dude lol Thanks for the nostalgia trip! ❤️
Street Fighter 4 Volcanic Rim and Skyscraper Under Construction. One involves a volcano erupting not too far away, along with cracks forming in the ground and most characters not wearing shoes. The other is just them standing on a suspended iron girder, over a pit that will certainly kill anyone who makes the plunge.
Yay. Andy talks about how completely wild fighting games are again. Because they absolutely are
There is a stage in cyberbots (fullmetal madness) that takes place on a space platform the is blowing up as the fight goes on you and you opponent are blown free and are forced to preform an atmospheric re-entry... thank god you are clad in your giant fighting robot...special mention to the stage in the same game that takes place at at the bottom of the ocean on a collapsing continental shelf where you end up in a lost underwater city.
There is also the the dark stalkers 3 stages one takes place at a 90 angel in the side of the skyscraper and another that takes place next the “fetus of a any evil god”
Fun Fact: the Falling Cliff stage actually originated from Mortal Kombat Deceptions which came out a few years before Mortal Kombat Armageddon. And like in Armageddon, It's as deadly as it looks with people falling off the side and all.
This video could have easily been MK stages alone.
Fun analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
7:44
Just the sounds alone give this game instant charm, not to mention it was also pretty friggin Awesome to play.
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A hidden gem of a game called The Outfoxies. Arcade game where everyone is an assassin and every stage is filled to the brim with hazards and weapons. I can't recommend this game enough. Matches can end with you being crushed by a building, hit by a train, eaten by sharks, stomped by elephants, die in a plane crash or die from a hard baguette hitting you in the face.
Honestly these stages kinda make the game have character.
You could honestly do an entire episode of this and use nothing but gang beast levels! That game has some serious stage hazards!
I miss powerstone, what a bloody great game. Going super saiyan as wangtang was awesome.
The vision of Luigi's corpse slamming into a fairground full of children was ..... savage! 😂
Clearly someone on the team has a major fear of heights~
Love how in Def Jam he gets smashed by a train and it immediately just says “KO.”
Thank you for the throw back games. This is my fav video in a long time. Sorry
Speaking of Smash, how about the F-zero or Starfox stages(take your pick) which take place either on an active f-zero race track, or on a ship flying through air/space battles.
Or Brinstar, which periodically dips the whole stage in acid/lava.
Blazblue has fights in a "cauldron" something that has been repeatedly shown to be basically a portal to hell of you fall in
The Awesome thing about Wolverine's stage is.. you CAN actually have a Winner without the Bridge collapsing. It just takes a lot of caution. 😅
Tchala be like "hold my super.powers, I gotta fight this guy on the edge of a waterfall while women with spears push us closer to the edge. I plan on using my secret strategy of being the main character."
One Must Fall 2097's spike room. Or maybe the desert stage where planes are constantly coming to fire off bullets at you?
Daaammn Def Jam FFNY that brings back some great memories 😁 I would love to see a remake that'd be sick af. Thank you for the nostalgia Andy ✌️😄
"Ostentatiously Dangerous" is my new favorite phrase.
I’ve never seen anyone talk about Power Stone 2. I love that game!!
Thank you for the video.
You should consider a personalized list video of 7 game mechanics we’re thankful for
I'm baffled that "in a volcano" from (name some Street Fighter) isn't on here. Also I've come to realise that alot of fighting games use essentially the same stages (e.g. Gang Beasts uses at least 2 of the stages here), so how about "7 stages in fighting games that keep reappearing somehow"?
I'd say the Apocalypse stage from BlazBlue Central Fiction counts as a worst place to fight. No stage hazards or breakable floors though. Just that the monster that wiped majority of humanity is really really close.
When he described the Smash stage fighting on top of balloons of popular Pokes, I expected him to add a pithy 'and Squirtle', famous squirtle fan that he is haha
Ok I never played power stone but that free falling level from the ship was pretty dope !!!
Tekken 7 has a stage in an active volcano where the ground breaks away mid fight.
Double dragon for the Neo Geo has a fight on a biplane in a canyon where the loser falls off the plane.
Vampire Saviour has a physics defying fight on the side of a skyscraper and another in the fetus of God, which can't be hygienic
Also in Smash Bross you can fight on the racetrack of an ongoing Fzero race. Maybe those vehicles go so fast that the fighter don't even know they've been run over
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple contains a storage truck as a playable stage, and it's the most dangerous one I have seen in any fighting game. The fight happens on top of the truck that accelerates on the road, and if you lose the match by falllng off the truck first, prepare to get roadkilled and/or lose track of the winning fighter.
Power Stone 2 was So Fun with a couple friends to play with.
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Rocky Mountain was my favorite stage to fight on of any 2D stage in that era. I was so disappointed that later games from the MvC franchise didn't do more like that
Andy, we need more fighting game lists
5:08 "Now I'm no fighting expert..."
-- twenty-plus time five-star SIlent Assassin Agent 47
Damn, the several second struggle and screams of the MK fighter trying to get off the spike is why I can’t play those games … gore is one thing, but it’s the depiction of the suffering that makes my stomach churn.
These guys are filled with such fiery passion to dispatch their foes that they've neglected to notice environmental hazards
Andy and his contract mandeted fighting video games video of the month. Very Nice.
Ah Power Stone, absolute fucking brilliance we will never see again in the genre of zany platform fighting.
This whole list could of been smash bro stages. I mean Corneria has you riding on the back of fox's base ship. Big Blue gives you the chance of being run over by F Zero racers going somewhere around the speed of light
I love that Def Jam game so much
Very underrated Eternal Champions for the Sega Genesis had specific built in stage fatalities for each fighting arena. For example, on stage set in a circus would allow one fighter to knock another into a cage full of lions for a stage specific fatality.
Or in Washington DC where the victor is teleported out of there while the loser gets to experience a nuclear strike.
Half the stages in Inuyasha Feudal Combat. There's Naraku's stage with constant poison leaks, Kikyo's stage with dragons flying around, a rock platform stage you can fall from and a shrine stage that seems harmless until you hit the supporting beams enough to break them, the entire shrine falls on you and it's an instant K.O.
Smash has a Metroid themed set that flooded with lava periodically and if you’re outside tiny safe box it’s over.
And on the Falling Cliffs stage if both characters stand where it’s about to break away, they’ll both die.
Wow, that last one is brutal. Impaled then still struggling then dead? Very harsh. Love you all!
Also... you'd think Nitara would be able to fly having wings and all....
@@marhawkman303 no use in having hollow bones if your opponent breaks them.
I was hoping for pokefloats! I really miss that stage :(
Though not fighting games in the same sense, this reminds me of two other game settings. There is the sawmill in Team Fortress 2. The place that is the main focus of the round is on a small building with two giant, active saws in the floor with no safety devices. They are even in the way of the main entrances. Then there is my personal favorite, though much less popular: Skyscraper mode in Destruction Derby RAW (also Arenas). Imagine being in a fast car that can't turn or stop on a dime, while other drivers actively crash into you, within a very small area that is several dozen stories up. There are no barriers to stop you from falling off and your car is being damaged, likely reducing whatever safety features your car (might) have.
I would say devil jin probably has the ability to withstand low temperatures. It's weird fights take place in so many places in game though. In the anime it was in an arena.
Tekken 7 final stage, volcano area. Haha. That one is very dangerous to have a match. Also Scorpion's lair, one with the lava in the background.
Literally every stage in any Smash Bros. game that is an ACTIVE RACECOURSE. Between F Zero and MarioKart, someone is going to hit hit by a racecar going at Mach speeds.
there are 2 stages from the forgotten sega game called "Eternal Champions" that i would like to mention, Slash's stage AKA a completely erupted volcano with dinosaurs and a stage where a LITERAL NUKE is about to be launched on the stage
Shoutout to the Howie scream effect @3:29