Via Purifico
Banned
I would double dip the shit out of this on console and steam and gift copies to friends.
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[April fools] Arika's Street Fighter EX characters return...
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SixMachine
Member
On Max's stream, he mentioned earlier ( someone told him but it could be unreliable) that Ono seems to be there. Is he actually there? If he is, is it just for support or is he actually going to do something.
Nah, it wasn't actually him.
SixMachine
Member
Ah, too bad. Even though a lot of people are on the Capcom hate train, if they just acted as a publisher it would be cool for Arika to have some backing like that and just handle the gameplay in an Arika like fashion.
Mr. Pointy
Member
EX4 would be my legit GOAT fighter for all years. They're not great games but I sunk such stupid hours into those games, that I can't help but love their jank.
The Lone Dragon
Member
Funny how old games always become everyone's favorite...only when they're old.
People absolutely HAAAAAAAATED the EX games 10+ years ago. I remember the disdain everyone had for these games on SRK in the 2000s.
Now, they create some shiny new models and place the EXACT SAME animations from TWENTY years ago in a demo, and the crowd goes wild, lol.
People absolutely HAAAAAAAATED the EX games 10+ years ago. I remember the disdain everyone had for these games on SRK in the 2000s.
Now, they create some shiny new models and place the EXACT SAME animations from TWENTY years ago in a demo, and the crowd goes wild, lol.
Leona Lewis
Banned
You don't know what you've got until it's gone. To say the FGC was spoiled for choice back then would be a gross understatement.
Plus SF fans in particular were fiercely defensive in the face of 3D fighters eating Capcom's lunch; they didn't want that shit becoming Street Fighter.
Via Purifico
Banned
Some of us actually liked them and the jank along with it. SRK isn't everyone.
Obviously there was some hatred but it was interesting.
IbukiLordSA
Member
Wait!! holy shit is this real because they are streaming and playing this shit right now, I need this in my life, holy crap it looks awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gla-yMayJ2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gla-yMayJ2M
Oh snap.
https://twitter.com/lupinko/status/848040831923609601
https://twitter.com/lupinko/status/848050102442672129
I really hope someone steps up to bat for this.
https://twitter.com/lupinko/status/848040831923609601
https://twitter.com/lupinko/status/848050102442672129
I really hope someone steps up to bat for this.
Via Purifico
Banned
I would back this.
Leona Lewis
Banned
I would need to see Pullum Purna's character model first.
the baddest bad bitch with the baddest stage theme
Via Purifico
Banned
I would need to see Pullum Purna's character model first.
the baddest bad bitch with the baddest stage theme
If she's not in the initial roster I would back a tier that adds her.
My ideal roster is basically everyone who appeared in the EX games.
OniBarubary
Banned
I would need to see Pullum Purna's character model first.
the baddest bad bitch with the baddest stage theme
YAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Neff
Member
EX is kind of the antithesis of the SRK/high level/tourney experience, but that's part of its appeal. In fact at high levels, it kind of de-evolves into a strategic stalemate with a lot of its match-ups. But what it lacks in strategic excellence, it makes up for it with technical excellence and flashy, satisfying, endlessly creative combos. And the music is the bomb.
Once people could get past the visuals, people realized the games themselves play pretty solidly. There's been a wealth of high-level footage from Japanese arcades like A-cho or Mikado in the last few years.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Graphics and art direction looks amazing but those animations....
SF EX games were the first fighting games I remember with combo trials. Might of been it's best feature.
But SRK...
Via Purifico
Banned
The soundtrack is amazing, I wish more fighters followed its lead and based the music around a live band.
And I never got this, lol, I always thought the games looked great. EX1 is of course blocky, but the character models looked much better in EX2.
snow in jamaica
Member
If nothing else, the music would be light years ahead of modern Capcom fighter music as long as Saso, Aihara, and Hosoe returned.
RoryDropkick
Member
That was like back in 2012 when I worked at a local game store here in SA, a bunch of people came down from Austin and were complaining that Arcade UFO had installed some "shitty frisbee game in the Neo Geo called Windjammers" or some shit like that. I couldn't roll my eyes hard enough.
We also got awesome 20th anniversary mugs too!
how did the game feel? Was it as fun as the videos look?
But Kickstarter is useless unless they seek Capcom's permission for Street Fighter, I don't think its appealing with just Arika characters.
I hope Sony do something similar marketing like Shenmue 3.
Yeah it's a lot of fun, it's more fighting layer than EX tho.
Nah, the Arika characters are appealing enough, we need moar Blair Dame.
Arika owns all the non-Capcom characters.
FinaruDensetsu
Member
I will kick-start anything with Skullomania.
The Lone Dragon
Member
Here's a list of Capcom best selling video games:
http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/finance/million.html
Do you see any SFEX games on there?
They weren't popular. Sorry.
I know this is GAF, but it IS possible to like SF5 AND be correct, lol.
I know Mikado very well. They play all sorts of obscure @$$ kuso games. That doesn't change the fact that SFEX games were not widely loved or celebrated...until now.
I should know, because I was usually the only one defending them back then.
Pretty sure there are no arcade numbers on there, which is where the games were actually popular.
I went to the arcade literally every day back then, and the EX games were played MUCH more consistently by arcade players than the sf3 series.
The Lone Dragon
Member
That's anecdotal evidence.
This was the PS1 era we're talking about. One of the most successful consoles in the history of video game consoles. The install base was massive.
If a game were really popular in the arcades, it would have sold well on consoles, too.
Even Alpha 3, a 2D game released when 2D games were dying managed to ship 1 million copies.
SFEX3 was a LAUNCH TITLE for the PS2...and it still couldn't ship a million.
Arika's creations were amazing and honestly I'd pay money to play a fighting game with just the EX cast.
Hokuto, Garuda, Skullomania, D. Dark, Blair and even Cracker Jack I had so much fun playing as.
Even the Shoto clones like Kairi and Allen Snider were a ton of fun too.
Now that I think about it, Arika really added a ton of characters to the EX games.....
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Blair
Kreygasm
Kreygasm
And I think it's super cool that people are more accepting of games nowadays that got overlooked for silly petty reasons. I'm also just trying to point out that there's a decent amount to respect about them as games, that there's a bit more to em than just charming jank and Skullomania, y'know?
Also I'm hoping there's no secret Namco licensing issues to potentially hold up characters from Fighting Layer, since some of the characters in that roster had way more interesting mechanics than a lot of the EX characters got to have.
Some of their later designs were pretty shit tho. Like Shadow Geist, Volcano Rosso and urgh Area
Volcano Rosso got hooves like an inhuman yo.
I personally really liked Shadowgeist. He was fun to play as well.