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.
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. 🤘
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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.)
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.
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.
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)?
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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"
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
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.
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.
How on earth did the makers of write n fight end up with a white Alexandre Dumas? How are you as a fan of classic literature screwing that up of all things? Also the game is terrible don't @me
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
They *say* they’re not making these fighting games up, but how can we be sure Oxbox isn’t secretly funding the kickstarters of indie fighting games??? If only to ensure this weird fighting games list cinematic universe continues to grow ever wider o_O It’s exactly the kind of diabolical plan Mad Scientist Jane would come up with!!
These fighting games just weird man 😂 hahahahahaha I can’t man. That inflate game 😂 OMG. Write and fight I can’t 😂. Fight of animals looks decent 😂. Toribash is really weird but innovate. Terridome looks decent. Now multiversus is so fun man and we got SSJ SHAGGY. Super drink bros looks decent but that’s weird lol.
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...
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.
There's zero reason why modded up, real whacky wild flailing inflatable balloon men aren't being built by stoners and fighting in a league like some limp version of battlebots. I'd watch it, and so would you.
There needs to be a sequel to the writer fighting game where you can fight as some of the greatest female writers of all time like Charlotte Bronte vs Jane Austin or agatha christie vs Mary Shelly
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.
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.
I don’t know if this has been made but I think a funny fighting game would be one where you fight as old US president’s but they don’t really fight they just argue about messed the country up and blame each other for the country’s ills
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
Hi I’d like to mention an online game on cartoon networks official website where they have a teen titans go fighting game where each character has a pet which fights for them it’s amazing especially when super dog is fighting pain bot or when robins batterang is fighting mammoths rip off wild kiote. It’s dumb and fits right on this list
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.
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.
Based on what we've seen so far, this list is far from being over
This wont end. And I love it.
I can't remember - has either Ballz or Clayfighter appeared? Both games I enjoyed way more than their reputations would suggest I would.
@@H0lyMoley ballz appeared on the first one I think. Clayfighter I cant remember
Eh part four then for clay fighter
Are we not going to talk about the mobile game that literally is about a story-heavy slap fest? Look up "Rose and Camellia"
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.
it's an issue for write n fight cos it doesn't fucking even work
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.
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?
Especially since Mary Shelley was metal as all hell. She’d be a whirlwind of destruction in a fight.
@@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. 🤘
@@TheSentinelStone I believe she also had… um… “relations” on her mum’s grave, too.
@@philiphunn194 that's a bit less metal but for her time period she was quite badass.
You're telling me I can't beat up JK Rowling as Dr. Seuss?
Every time Andy makes one of these, I feel my games list growing longer lol
Same
XD
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.
@@arjunsatheesh7609 Inflating like a "sky dancer", you mean? Lol 😆
@@dorabrooks76 Inflatality
Is that what you call it?
They should make a fighting game featuring Lovecraftian horrors and call it Enter the Dagon
Or even better:
Crawling Chaos, Hidden Dagon
I started writing a concept about that, covering roster, stages and story.
@@patheticplague9359 let me know when it is a game I would like to play that
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.
This idea is brilliant! Please make this happen 🙏
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.
If I owned a bookshop: I would find a way to make an arcade cabinet of this game and put it in the fiction section.
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*)
Okay that sounds amazing. Ada Lovelace vs Charles Babbage.... fight!
@@dallydaydream Albert Einstein vs Charles Darwin, or Nicola Tesla vs Alexander Graham Bell.
@@dallydaydream Madam Curie has joined the fight. Lol
Stephen Hawking and Leonardo DaVinci are the final boss in an Orstein & Smough situation. Someone, make it happen! 🤩
@@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.
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.
The first thing that came to mind was calling it Have I Got Bruise For You.
Sounds like old celebrity death match
If you see Crystal Pepsi walking towards you, just run.
@@kjb5128 They should revive that
I'm only playing this game if Richard Hammond and James May are also there and you can make the three of them brawl it out
Andy, I'm pretty sure the OxBox crew could make up a fighting game of their own.
Now I just want an Oxventure fighting game.
OxBoxingtra!
Hyped for OxBox X PS Access
@@shimozu92 With Ellen's finishing move as a Catality
@@shimozu92 not enough characters…now a side-scrolling beat’em-up on the other hand…
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.
True although Taz could just turn him into a giant walking cooked chicken and eat him
Right, my first thought when seeing this game, is do they really think Superman will have a chance again Shaggy! Lol
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.
This video starting starting with the wacky waveable inflatable armed tubes man is gold
*"...AND NOW I'M PASSING THIS COMMENT ON TO YOOOUUUU!!!!!"*
and they say there's no perfect game.
'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.
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.
Toribash is basically a rip off of fighter maker for the playstation 2
@@saulalessio2251 whats that one
could be ... THE MANDELA EFFECT!
@@saulalessio2251 Not really. Toribash is more of QWOP, but fighting game.
The only thing I imagine the real life HP Lovecraft would be doing in a fighting game is cowering in the corner.
Particularly if he had to face Dumas. He was 1/4 black.
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.
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 know the second one!
XD
Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. was fiiiiiiiiire!
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.
@Bjorn Arnesen I see a Dorkly reference, I tip my hat to a fellow man of culture.
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.
This makes the concept of Super Smash Brothers look downright tame!
Given that Multi-Versus is Super Smash with a different cast of characters, you're not exactly wrong.
The actual concept or the meta concept of that it's someone playing with toys?
@@BJGvideos Yes.
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
Could I just point out that Batman and Shaggy have met before in the old Scooby-Doo series?
there's also a newer movie from the Brave and the Bold era
Someone should tell whoever made Write n Fight that women write books too. I'd love to see George Eliot beating the crap out of Charlotte Brontë.
Enter: Jane Austin vs. Mary Shelly!
Mary: "Pride and Prejudice this, Janey!" (Unleashes her move *Frankensteins Eternal Regret of his Terrible Life Choices*)
What about Tolkien and cs Lewis
that's for the dlc..........also jane austen is too op it wouldn't be fair.
@@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.)
EMILY DICKINSON WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!!!
I want a bar full of arcade machines that only plays weird fighting games from Andy's lists.
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.
The trailer with the writers headbanging is so good! Makes me wanna punch the Dickens out of a Charles!👍
Y'know Andy, you could just create a new channel about weird games.
You could call it 'oddsidexbox'.
I can’t wait for Andy Farrant’s list feature of Andy Farrant’s 7 Best Fighting Games List Features, presented by Andy Farrant! 😜
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.
....That sounds amazing
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)?
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.
all hail Andy the Immortal, our dark lord
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 don't imagine Lovecraft to be all that good in a real fight. The man was scared of EVERYTHING. 🤣
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...
@@goranisacson2502 Ha! Yes!
Fighting games attract weirdness bevsuse it's hard to innovate the "two people beat each other up" formula.
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.
The fact that there are 3 lists of weird fighting games and likely bound to be more is worrying and insanely fun.
7:40 wait a minute, shouldn't Batman and Shaggy recognize each other? They've solved mysteries together!
3:00 Alexandre Dumas is a black man... You'd expect a minimal amount of research... well he's a mix but he still doesn't look like ron Swanson.
There's also a character just called "Latin American Author".
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
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"
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
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.
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.
The axe throw by dostojevski in the writing fighting game is a reference to crime and punishment, where the main characrer murders someone with an axr
Write n fight looks awesome lol. Love the Lovecraft level with Cthulhu chilling in the background.
How is Multiversus "wackier" than Smash? I mean, you can pair Mario with Solid Snake, Zephiroth... even Sonic.
Velma and Tom and Jerry vs Superman and Wonder Woman sounds a lot weirder than Link vs Seph, Samus vs Snake or Pitt vs Sonic.
I'm guessing the creators of Write N Fight didn't know that Alexandre Dumas was black (well, mixed-race), then
These lists should have a guest appearance from Matt McMuscles at this point.
How on earth did the makers of write n fight end up with a white Alexandre Dumas? How are you as a fan of classic literature screwing that up of all things?
Also the game is terrible don't @me
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
If there will be a part 4 of weird fighting games in the future... I wouldn't be surprised
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
Yes! Andy's weird list about fighting games strikes again.
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.
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.
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.
Toribash is so much fun - I played it a while ago, and while it's really tough to get the hang of, once you learn it, you are a beast.
I think the writer's game would be great just for finishing lines alone.
I miss the original Terrordrome but sadly there’s no way it could have official release on steam because of copyright.
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 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.
They *say* they’re not making these fighting games up, but how can we be sure Oxbox isn’t secretly funding the kickstarters of indie fighting games??? If only to ensure this weird fighting games list cinematic universe continues to grow ever wider o_O
It’s exactly the kind of diabolical plan Mad Scientist Jane would come up with!!
These fighting games just weird man 😂 hahahahahaha I can’t man. That inflate game 😂 OMG. Write and fight I can’t 😂. Fight of animals looks decent 😂. Toribash is really weird but innovate. Terridome looks decent. Now multiversus is so fun man and we got SSJ SHAGGY. Super drink bros looks decent but that’s weird lol.
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...
"Inflatality" 🤣 that name is epic
"Deflated" 💀🤣 the puns got me *slayed*
If you *don't* call them wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube-men (and we're passing the savings on to youuuuuuu) then reevaluate your life.
I don't call them anything, to be fair.
Great Video! *These fighting games look both strange and fun*
Lovecraft didn't even had the constitution for math. I wonder how he could keep up in a fight in a beat 'em up, maybe with the power of super-racism?
I used to play the original Terrordrome on my old laptop and I LOVED it!! It was so fun! Write n’ Fight looks really fun!
call me when Write N Fight lets me pit Agatha Christie against Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I'd say you can't make this up but you clearly can.
THEY couldn't. Someone much weirder than them had to do it.
Oh my god, I had completely forgotten about Toribash. I tried that like 15 years ago and just gave up after a while lol.
Has Cardinal Syn ever been mentioned on this channel? That game was over the top levels of gory and for a PS1 game was bordering on transgressive.
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.
There's zero reason why modded up, real whacky wild flailing inflatable balloon men aren't being built by stoners and fighting in a league like some limp version of battlebots. I'd watch it, and so would you.
Andy this list theme can never end and equally you never change; so funny
There needs to be a sequel to the writer fighting game where you can fight as some of the greatest female writers of all time like Charlotte Bronte vs Jane Austin or agatha christie vs Mary Shelly
maybe they can think about that when they make a version of the game that isn't a broken buggy mess
The literature themed fighting game just makes me want a Bungou Stray Dogs game. Anyone else?
I don’t know if the fact that there are some many weird fighters makes it weirder, or more common
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.
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.
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tubemen! Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tubemen! Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tubemen!
"This" is a mix between "The Thing" and "It". Pretty scary, actually. Its one of those moments where you think things can't get worse. And they does.
I don’t know if this has been made but I think a funny fighting game would be one where you fight as old US president’s but they don’t really fight they just argue about messed the country up and blame each other for the country’s ills
How about a game called Fly Punch Boom (yes that’s its actually name)? Its whole existence is basically one giant dig on how ridiculous anime gets.
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
Write & Fight's the best because it allows me to vicariously live out my dream of repeatedly beating the crap out of HP Lovecraft :)
Oh, man, I played Toribash *years* ago. Such a fun time, once you have somewhat of an idea of what you're doing.
I swear to god i nearly spitted out my coffee when i saw write and fight 😂😂😂 this is pure gold
Hi I’d like to mention an online game on cartoon networks official website where they have a teen titans go fighting game where each character has a pet which fights for them it’s amazing especially when super dog is fighting pain bot or when robins batterang is fighting mammoths rip off wild kiote. It’s dumb and fits right on this list
Another weird fighting games for you, The Black Heart, Bikini Karate Babes, Strip Fighter.
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.
Hey, it's only Fortnite level weird lol
Im sorry but HP lovecraft would be the absolute easiest person to beat ever.
They also don't have any female writers!? smh
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.
And I remember as a kid I thought the weirdest fighting game was Soul Calibur for having Voldo
Damn I love fighting games... I mean who don't? You guys can do this video 3 times already and probably more in no so far future
Write n' Fight looks interesting. Who wouldn't want to see their favorite authors headbanging and bashing each other's face in.
Hemmingway's special move is probably him unleashing a hoard of bulls at his opponent.
ok that wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man game looks cool, why am i only just learning about it just now.