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[The Hermit]

I'm hating this game more than ever. I mean, I so want this to look and play good but it seems impossible! I hate absolutely hate the new art direction they went for:

And the gameplay looks awful since there are no added frames what so ever... shit, give me SFIV right away.

I don´t get it... the white model looks much better than the blue one. I think this comparison shows the improvement actually.

 

[jett]

I don´t get it... the white model looks much better than the blue one. I think this comparison shows the improvement actually.

Uh, the white model was replaced with the other one.

 

[MirageDwarf]

comparison shots:

Nice. I added these in the op.

 

[drizzle]

http://blog.capcom.com/archives/1239

This first pic's background is totally squashed horizontally. Just look at the folks sitting on the table and at the sun. There must something wrong in the parallax scrolling in here. Also, the left side looks more compressed than the right side.

 

[The-Switcher]

I don´t get it... the white model looks much better than the blue one. I think this comparison shows the improvement actually.

Oh man... :lol

 

[Shogmaster]

They gotta de-saturate and lessen the contrast on the backgrounds. It's fighting with the foreground fighters way too much. Who the hell is the art director on this job? Fucking get with the program.

 

[zaccheus]

Uh, the white model was replaced with the other one.

no. look at the latest screenshots. theyre putting less detail into the sprites.

 

[The Hermit]

Uh, the white model was replaced with the other one.

Oh... ouch! :lol :lol

It looks more like the original though...

 

[Perdew]

Man, looking at the comparison shots, Fei Long and Zangief's stages look very, very nice now. It's just the people in the background being, more or less, just as detailed as the sprites (ugggh) makes it weird.

That was my problem with Guilty Gear, also, the backgrounds kind of hid the characters in a lot of instances.

 

[viewtiful_dru]

Hmm...sorry to nitpick, but could you shrink down the HD shots, and post them side-by-side with the original Turbo? That would give a better look of a comparison.

Wouldn't that be unfair to the HD shots then?

detail would be lost from shrinking

 

[kurahadol]

no. look at the latest screenshots. theyre putting less detail into the sprites.

heh, re-read his post. He said the white one WAS replaced by the blue one, not that it did replace.

 

[nib95]

comparison shots:

Wow, awesome upgrade.

 

[Sapiens]

 

[Tenbatsu]

Whats with that Akuma's arm??

 

[Sapiens]

http://i28.tinypic.com/29orjo7.jpg[IMG]
Whats with that Akuma's arm??[/QUOTE]


A cheap rush job.

 

[Yoshichan]

HD Ryu looks like he's taking drugs ffs!

 

[evilone]

I just wish they could get out more videos of the game in motion and from recent builds.

LOL I just wish they would get the game out before SF4 comes out. :lol :lol :lol

 

[kurahadol]

HD Ryu looks like he's taking drugs ffs!

I like the guy with the white shirt in the background, he's really kickin' out the jams.

 

[zaccheus]

oh god, i feel really bad for the guy doing this.. the animation is really off. he's gonna have to redo it :\

he probably thought this was going to be an easy trace project, but vector drawings are much less seamless than pixels.

 

[Dark Octave]

Whats with that Akuma's arm??

Ryu's head is slightly turned to the right, making him look uninterested in the fight. In the old one he's looking at his enemy.

 

[Yoshichan]

I like the guy with the white shirt in the background, he's really kickin' out the jams.

:lol

 

[Hunahan]

Hmm...sorry to nitpick, but could you shrink down the HD shots, and post them side-by-side with the original Turbo? That would give a better look of a comparison.

Although it really would have been more fair to increase the size of the old ones. No one's going to play the game on a TV this small, right.

But that would be too big to take in...

 

[kurahadol]

Ryu's head is slightly turned to the right, making him look uninterested in the fight. In the old one he's looking at his enemy.

I think he's scared of that giant purple peacock. There's something unsettling about that thing.

 

[The-Switcher]

Thanks!

 

[Crab Milk Mickey]

EDIT: damn you, Hunahan! :[

 

[SapientWolf]

I don't remember the original SSF looking nearly that bad. Maybe it looks a little different when you display it on an SDTV.

 

[Jim]

HD Ryu looks like he's taking drugs ffs!

Withdrawal shivers

Amazing comparison BTW. Whoever did that spent way too much time on it.
I'm definitely buying it, but I think I may end up using the classic art and hope the online gameplay is solid.

 

[Yoshichan]

 

[Jamesfrom818]

This game really needs two different modes, one with the original frame counts and one with more frames so the movement doesn't look so herky jerky.

 

[ThirstyFly]

oh god, i feel really bad for the guy doing this.. the animation is really off. he's gonna have to redo it :\

he probably thought this was going to be an easy trace project, but vector drawings are much less seamless than pixels.

The artwork is not vector based, they're still bitmap/raster based sprites.

 

[The-Switcher]

Holy crap, lookit HD Ryu!

He actually has LESS detail!

 

[Jim]

This is a little more inline with the actual aspect ratio, since even though SSF2 is output at a weird resolution, it is still displayed in 4:3.

Both are closer to 4:3 here:

 

[EverSoTrendy]

This is what happens when you outsource art to shitty companies.

 

[Y2Kev]

The people eating at the dinner table in the last shot look so horrible :lol

The loss of detail from SD -> HD is stunning.

 

[Ryu1999]

Here's crackbone's simple edit of ryu idle animation, all he did was remove 1 or 2 offending frames

 

[Sapiens]

This is what you get when an inexperienced team of farmed out art school rejects try to improve a game that was originally made by a team comprised of 2D masters.


LOL.


Capcom, this should be free.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

damn i'd love to see Mortal Kombat 2 get the same treatment. Newly shot Hi-Res digitized sprites!

 

[The Hermit]

Dude. Like Kev said, the loss of detail is stunning.

But it just goes to show how classic SFII is. Just looking at those pics has me humming Ken's song.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY MIND!

 

[Jim]

Dude. Like Kev said, the loss of detail is stunning.

But it just goes to show how classic SFII is. Just looking at those pics has me humming Ken's song.

4096 colors on screen, with only 16 color per tile. Real artists.

 

[Teknoman]

Well next wednesday we should have the chance to test it out. Hopefully.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Here's crackbone's simple edit of ryu idle animation, all he did was remove 1 or 2 offending frames

The most offending frame is still there, its the one where his elbow just all of a sudden jerks out of position. There are many things about that idle that are wrong (I did 3 years of 2d animation), but that elbow is the worst offender.

 

[Perdew]

The most offending frame is still there, its the one where his elbow just all of a sudden jerks out of position. There are many things about that idle that are wrong (I did 3 years of 2d animation), but that elbow is the worst offender.

Yea, that left (his right) leg sticks out to me, the cloth is all over the place.

 

[Teknoman]

Thats why I want to see the game on my TV and in action. It may not even be noticeable in action.

 

[harSon]

Thats why I want to see the game on my TV and in action. It may not even be noticeable in action.

Theres a bunch of videos of the game in motion: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=street+fighter+2+hd&search_type=

 

[KurowaSan]

i see i'm already late but well, but now that i took them with 4:3 ratio fixed on the original version, at least i'm gonna post them :lol

As the vertical field of view of the HD version is smaller, instead of cropping, I just resized them maintaining their ratio.

 

[Dot50Cal]

Err.. Does noone else notice his foot behind his foot and the bar going with the other one? Is this a gif making error?

 

[DunpealD]

Err.. Does noone else notice his foot behind his foot and the bar going with the other one? Is this a gif making error?

The characters whole surrounding is distorted.

 

[KTallguy]

Err.. Does noone else notice his foot behind his foot and the bar going with the other one? Is this a gif making error?

Just an edit.

Yea, I hope they can clean this up and release it before SF4 is released :lol

 

[viewtiful_dru]

the reason why I didn't take shots in 4:3 is because the original resolution of the arcade version is 384 x 224, which, unless I'm mistaken, is much closer to 16:9 than 4:3.

BTW, concerning the gif of Ryu's idle stance, I don't think it can really be fixed since the animation was created for sprites in that rez, and larger sprites with the same animation will show the flaws more easily.

I personally dislike how some of the HD sprites look, and I don't think that the backgrounds mesh well with the sprites, but I am very interested in the rebalancing of the gameplay. Sucks what they did to T Hawk tho.

 

[OokieSpookie]

Has this been dated yet or is it still in the void?