I've never seen a shareware fighting game before. I've seen a shareware beat-em-up game, but never a fighting game. Wonder why they arn't very popular

ever play one must fall 2099? that game rocked. It was shareware too.

no I haven't actually, whats the url

One Must Fall :) I remember that... mmm... nostalgia.

I don't think that its just a lack of shareware fighting games, but a lack of fighting games for PC entirely... I can only think of a few over the years. I always wondered myself why this was..?? *shrug*

Probably because on the PC, its very unlikely people have game controllers and joysticks. The consoles would win in this department.

Originally posted by Dan MacDonald
ever play one must fall 2099? that game rocked. It was shareware too.

I find myself humbled before you and your god-like knowledge of shareware games.

And P.S., fighting games on PC's are almost never good. I love fighting games but I can't think of a good one I ever played on the PC, it doesn't seem like a very good platform for the genre.

even more unlikely than having a gamepad (with a decent number of buttons) on a PC is having TWO of them. which is what makes a fighting game fun. :^)

Originally posted by SPACENEEDLEEXCHANGE
even more unlikely than having a gamepad (with a decent number of buttons) on a PC is having TWO of them. which is what makes a fighting game fun. :^)

Ok, so you use the Q, W, E, R, A, S, D, Z, X, and C keys, while I use the U, I, O, P, J, K, L, ,, ., and / keys, it'll be fun!

most pc fighting game doesn't sell very well.

I've worked on a shareware fighting game a year ago,
the maker has since closed his websites due to poor sales and made the game a freeware.

you can still download a copy here and check it out
http://www.programmingcentral.com/mhuang/wof.zip

Wow, that's a flash back! One Must Fall was a great game. I see their remaking it now, too. Little Fighters (http://i.am/lf2) is another excellent shareware fighter!

Originally posted by Gmicek
I find myself humbled before you and your god-like knowledge of shareware games.


I pitacularly like how I was able to give an in-depth review of the entire game in just two sentances containing no more then 4 words apiece. Call it a gift ;)

The maker of one must fall is making another fighting game btw.

Cant remember the name, but it looks a bit like virtual on.

Might be ok.

Phil.

Originally posted by zoombapup
The maker of one must fall is making another fighting game btw.

Cant remember the name, but it looks a bit like virtual on.

Might be ok.

Phil.

Me wants One Must Fall - Battlegrounds (http://www.omf.com)
me saw all videos and interviews.
me REALLY WANTS!

OMF proved that you can make a great fighting game on PC.
I remember playing it a lot. I played that game MORE than Tekken 3 on PSX... and I've said all.
It was the first one to provide a RPG/Strategy point of view to fighting games. Surely that is the way to go in the future.
I remember also that its graphics were pretty awful... expecially the opponents portraits seems amateurish drawing :) but it was so fun that I didn't care much about the graphic aspect.

I know that was one of the shareare best-selling games of that year, if not the best one.

p.s. just to be precise, I think the name was "One Must Fall: 2097" not 2099 :D

Interesting enough, although fighting games aren't popular on the PC in US there are a lot of 2D fighters made in Japan. Check out the shop.himeya.com windows (non-adult...) section. Some of the games, like Melty Blood for example, are pretty good.

I think someone should make a "PC fighter," something like the Halo of fighting games, that has a control scheme that works really well on PC and appeals to PC gamers. Maybe the new OMF game will pull it off?