Video: Here's An Extended Look At The Streets Of Rage 4 'Mr. X Nightmare' DLC

I wonder when they will finally release this DLC...

I still want a Roo dlc

Why don't they make a fighting game? On the real I AM going to get this.

All that we need now is a release date.

Nice. Literally just got the base game today.

Tht Shiva looks OP as hell.. wonder if there's gonna be new stages too

Can’t wait. Super excited. Hurry up.

Wouldn’t it have been great if they hadn’t revealed the new characters until the DLC launched!

I still wonder if there are still a few more surprises left in the dlc.... Excited for them to work on Golden Axe next. That game could use a modern paint job. Nostalgia is way kinder than it deserves.

Really looking forward to this. Can't wait

@LeonAlistair The reveal trailer showed some new areas, but it's not clear if they're true levels or rather arenas.

We also see Blaze entering a portal and a visual of Dr Zan working some controls while Blaze, Axel, Cherry & Floyd seem to be sleeping and hooked up to Zan's machines. This might suggest that the heroes are literally in a dream/nightmare, so that might also have an effect on how the levels are stitched together.

Didn't they announce this DLC like 3 months ago?

I finished the base game, was fun but very short, did the game in under 10 hours.

Imo a for a game to merit its cost, it needs to be £1 for 1 hour.

So a £50 game has to give me 50 hours of gameplay or it doesn't merit its cost.

Unfortunately this game, as fun as it was, never merited its cost.

@Razer this game costs £22.49, I've played for more than 20 hours, probably even 30 hours, so it's more than fine.

@Razer "£50" What the hell are you talking about?
The game cost $24.99 at launch and was made by an indie developer.

This isn't a triple AAA game and not even most games that cost £50 have 50 hours worth of content. Such a weird thing to say.

@russell-marlow that was an example.

I was using £50 as an example, if a game costs £50 it has to equate to 50 hours of gameplay.

I never actually said this game costs £50 but my guess is that you didn't read everything i posted and assumed you knew what i was saying.

But you know what they say about people who make assumptions 🤣🤣

@Whitestrider thats you, good for you.

I beat the game in under 10 hours and got everything i needed from it in under 10 hours.

The game cost £20.

So not worth it for me, but good for you that you managed to get 30 hours of gameplay.

But for me, it was a dud.

Like Ori And The Blind Forest, cost £30, completed it in under 20. Fun game but not worth the cost.

@Whitestrider to give an example of the other side.

Hades cost me £22 and I've sunk over 100 hours into it.

So Hades is more than worth it, in fact i would pay £50 for a game like Hades.

@Razer I put over 100 hours into SoR4 - there's enough different things to achieve to keep you going that long, beyond just seeing the end credits. Maybe just not your type of game?

@basswitch i enjoy these types of games but it's really a one and done for me, after i beat the game once I'm not interested in dipping back in.

I mean how many times did you beat the game in 100 hours? Because I'm sure you must have beaten it a good few times if you have 100 hours clocked.

@Razer Well, I keep coming back to beat individual stages at all dificulty levels, to get an S-ranking for them. You have to chain your attacks without getting hit (and spare your star moves) to get it. A bit obsesive, but getting into that 'zone' feels great. Beating story-mode with different characters also unlocks stuff. And there's a boss-rush mode that I just today tried for the first time

@basswitch yeah i dunno i don't really go after getting everything for the sake of just having it.

I mean in RPG games i do that, because finding new rare stuff upgrades my characters and makes me more powerful.

Like for example, Mario Odyssey was a huge waste of money for me, i didn't really care about getting all the moons just for the sake of having them.

I wasn't getting any tangible benefit from doing that so i just didn't bother. So i spent 15 hours on Mario Odyssey and i hear people are able to spend 150 hours on Odyssey, which i can't even fathom.

I guess this is in the same vein. I mean i wouldn't of bothered unlocking all the characters on Smash if it wasn't for that cheat lol.

@Razer I hear you. I normally don't have that drive either. But this game clicked for me. I grew up playing parts 1 & 2 to death, so I knew what I was signing up for.

@Razer The way you implied it made me believe you don't buy many low profile games like indie games and digital-only games. So no, I can clearly see what you wrote, but it seemed like you implied that you don't buy lower priced games.

@russell-marlow no i definitely do, i own all the best indie games actually or at least a good few of them.

But games, regardless of Indie or AAA have to be worth the money i spend on them otherwise i can't justify having spent that money.

For me justification is 1 hour for £1. I have to be able to get 1 hour of gameplay for every £1 i spend. This is minimum.

A £50 game would need to give me at least 50 hours of gameplay.

If i spend £50 on a game and beat it in under 40 hours i would consider that overpriced.

it's not that the game is bad, but the game would then be overpriced for the content thats available

An example of this would be Astral Chain, while a great game, it lacked content, i beat it in 30 hours, great game overall, I'd definitely consider buying a sequel. But not worth the £45 price tag.

But how you view games as worth it or not is subjective and everyone has their own way of calculating that.

@Razer Even if you don't want to do all the minor achievements, you should at the very least beat the game with every playable character. There are also retro stages and characters to unlock and try, as well as the Boss Rush Mode. Just playing through the main game once is barely cracking the amount of content the game has!

Beyond that, games like this are worth replaying whenever you can bring in another interested player for some local co-op play.

Absolutely love SOR4 and can't wait for the DLC, definitely hope there is some new stages in it. Don't know how many hours I've sunk into it, it's a lot, but ive unlocked all the characters and still play it from time to time. Grew up playing the original trilogy and they are among my all time favorites. I hope they make a SOR5 at some point.

@BulbasaurusRex lol thats just ridiculous.

"At the very least pointlessly sit there beating the game with different characters just because".

That gives me no tangible benefits outside of unlocking more pointless stuff.

See if i gained levels and got stronger, getting better gear along the way and fought harder bosses then that might give me incentive to replay it again and again.

Like Hades.

But it doesn't... so why should i?

@Razer for me it's the challenge of getting better at the game, and chasing high scores. Like any arcade game really.

Sin and Punishment 2 is another example, game can be finished in 5 hours, but finishing it on one credit while maximising your score, now that's a challenge that could lead to a play time of 100+ hours.

If you don't like the high score grind, that's fine, but this is what arcade games are built around. That one more run addictiveness. They're not RPGs where you gradually improve a character, they're action games where you learn to use the tools your given in the most efficient way possible.

@Wargoose yeah see i don't mind arcade type games and chasing high scores but not in games like this.

I prefer to do those things in racing games and fighting games. Not side scrolling beat em ups.

But it's just down to preference.

@Razer Okay, that's a somewhat stingy metric on how to view games, honestly. But assuming that's how you view most games, I imagine you play mostly RPGs because they tend to have longer hours compared to other action games or platformers.

@russell-marlow

RPGs are my favourite types of games, Zelda too. I like big open world experiences, but I'm also keen on Dark Souls style games too (Nioh, Sekiro... ect) for example

I like Indie games like Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Hades, Into The Breach ect...

I also racing games, fighting (Smash) and strategy games too... i do enjoy some FPS games too but has to be good, Doom was decent.

But no im not gonna sit there and complete a side scrolling game repeatedly just for the sake of having all the extras but no tangible benefit to my character.

@russell-marlow also in my honest opinion, from my perspective.

Its actually quite shallow to sit there and repeatedly complete a 10 hour game 8 or 9 times just for extra stuff that gives no tangible benefits.

Especially when there's better things you can spend your time doing...

If we're on the subject of being shallow...

@Razer Of course it gives you tangible benefits, simply because it's fun to see how the game plays differently with the different characters! These aren't mere palette swaps, you know! It's a much different experience each time you use a different character.

The same is true for the rest of the content with which you haven't bothered to try. Even if the unlockable retro characters are too similar, why wouldn't anyone who likes the game want to try out the unlockable retro stages, the challenge of Arcade Mode, and Boss Rush Mode at least once?! Part of completing a game is using all the content, not merely just unlocking it. Those are highly tangible benefits and not pointless at all! It's not like you're merely unlocking costumes or decorations but actual benefits to the gameplay.

Then there's still the co-op factor, as a beat-'em-up's biggest source of replay value is the fun you have replaying it alongside different partners.

@BulbasaurusRex so riddle me this.

Why did i like the game but i don't care about Rush Mode or extra characters or anything you just mentioned?

How can someone who liked the game (as a one a done)... not care about any of the stuff you just mentioned.

Riddle me that?

I'll give you a clue...

It rhymes with reference.

@Razer Well, it can't be "preference," since you do at least claim to like the game, therefore that preference should extend to the rest of the game's content.

It must be because you don't actually like playing the game very much. Either that, or you're insane.

Those are the only possible explanations, as any sane person who even somewhat likes playing the main story of a beat 'em up as one character has to like playing through the rest of the characters and other good content through simple logic. It can be someone's preference to not like something at all, but to truly like something but not want to continue with the rest of equally enjoyable but different parts of it makes absolutely zero sense. There's so such thing as liking something purely as a one-and-done unless it actually is a one-and done thing with no additional quality content, otherwise you never truly liked it in the first place.

I'm trying to remember an example of a game that I liked, but did not return to after beating it once - I can't.

I'm so excited to get back into this game. Nothing here is really surprising in regards to what I expected, but I'm very excited to play more of one of the best brawlers ever made.

@BulbasaurusRex i like the game.

But i don't like it enough to sit there repeatedly doing the same thing again and again with very little reward to show for it.

If you enjoy that type of shallow gaming experience then knock yourself out but don't sit there projecting your preference onto me.

Keep that to yourself.

Honestly i think it's quite silly to sit there completing a 10 hour game 9 times just for minor rewards.

So here let me project my preference on to you.

"It doesn't make sense to sit there doing that on a short game like SOR4 when you have so many other better more engaging games you can put time into"...