likable characters, distinctive backgrounds, and easily recognizable music describe SFII. SFIII: Third Strike is a million times better, but the characters, backgrounds, and music are all pretty inferior by comparison.
There's not a single theme I can easily get in my head and it's hard to remember who's level is who's.
Street Fighter III (or it's improved iterations) was technically one of the best 2D fighters ever. but it sucked. it didn't capture the imagination of gamers everwhere like SFII did. I'd also say that's NOT because gaming had firmly shifted into 3D by 2007. 2D gaming was still going strong. Capcom didn't deliver compelling characters, story, backgrounds or music as SFII did. just IMO. laugh all you want.
its because of arcade culture going down the shitter, not the actual game itself. What other fighting game has "captured the imagination of gamers everywhere" since SFII anyway? I laugh because if you go to any major or minor tourney, 3s is pretty much the biggest game with the most competitors. It did its job. It provided a solid ass fighting system where people are still playing the shit out of it almost 10 years later.
its because of arcade culture going down the shitter, not the actual game itself. What other fighting game has "captured the imagination of gamers everywhere" since SFII anyway?
I'd completely agree here. In 1992-94, you could find a SF2 machine in any arcade in the US. By the time '97 rolled around, they were beginning to go into their decline, most either closing altogether or being filled with your typical Dave & Buster's crap. By the time 3rd Strike came around, -every- arcade within 45 miles around me had closed or converted to the D&B model.
We had three arcades in Athens my freshman year ('96) at OU. By the time I graduated in 2001, they were all closed. All we were left with was an UMK3 machine and World Cup Soccer pinball at the student union.
Even here in Columbus, the best arcade in town (The Flamingo on High Street, which was -busy as hell- in the mid 90s) had closed by '99.
its because of arcade culture going down the shitter, not the actual game itself. What other fighting game has "captured the imagination of gamers everywhere" since SFII anyway? I laugh because if you go to any major or minor tourney, 3s is pretty much the biggest game with the most competitors. It did its job. It provided a solid ass fighting system where people are still playing the shit out of it almost 10 years later.
Notice how DVDs are low def, yet show a lot more detail than say, a 320x224 image on the same SDTV? Higher resolution source will still improve a downsampled image.
Plus the detail takes away from the charm of 2D sprites.
Does anyone think there will be more wii related announcements?
I doubt it, if you look at Capcom's upcoming release schedule its definitely loaded up on Wii titles:
Wii:
Wii Love Golf
Devil Kings 2
Monster Hunter 3
Zack and Wiki (Buy it)
Umbrella Chronicles
Harvey Birdman: attorney at law
PS3:
Devil May Cry 4
RE:5
SF2:HD
360:
Devil May Cry 4
RE:5
SF2:HD
PS2:
Harvey Birdman
Devil Kings 2
Moto GP 07
DS:
Megaman ZX Advent
Phoenix Wright 3
PSP:
Harvey Birdman
As much as I'd love that Dead Phoenix to Kid Icarus thing, Okami, or the MM legends 3 on Wii, I think Capcom has blown its (admittedly wonderful) load already with Wii announcements. I bet its RE: PSP, and some new stuff for 360/PS3. And probably another dozen DS megaman titles.