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[Mdk7]

Those SNK 2D stages are INSANE.
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[jackissocool]

no one posting SvC Chaos stages? let me fix that!

These are really just incredible. Wow.

 

[Palculator]

Came to post this. Good job!

 

[Spikematic]

SNK with that godly spritework. Such a shame we don't see that sort of quality anymore.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Anyone posted anakaris and pyron's stages from vamire hunter yet? On mobile so cant check :v

I don't think so, let me post it for you!

I realized they reused this in Capcom Fifhting Evolution

 

[13randO]

Easily one of my favourites. Not a fan of the game, but throw dinosaurs into the background and I'm in.

 

[gelf]

Zable/Lord Raptors stage from Darkstakers.

I really wanted to find a gif version of this with the ghosts in the background that are completely missing from this pic but I cant find one.

 

[DrFunk]

I love the curved perspective tricks in SF3:NG:

especially the transition in Elena's stage

 

[21XX]

Not a great picture, but I love love love the snow stage in the first Tekken Tag. I get a flood of so many good memories just from seeing it.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Neo Geo thread? Neo Geo thread.

Pretty much.

Edit: And shout outs to Street Fighter Zero 2, particularly the Australia (Sagat vs Ryu match) and Venezuela (Nash vs Vega match) stages, and pretty much all of Street Fighter III: New Generation.

 

[HyperCubed4]

Primal Rage backgrounds captured the post-apocalyptic setting quite well

Oh, so you're the other guy who bought Primal Rage. I thought you were just a myth.

Yeah, I totally agree. The backgrounds, while not nearly SNK quality, were quite good. The character models helped with that quite a bit.

 

[Raptomex]

Its exclusion for Smash 4 on Wii U is saddening.

I agree 100%

 

[KidA Seven]

E. Honda's Bath House from Street Fighter II

I wish this is remade for SFV. That and the Sagat stage from SF2.

Does anyone else mourn the fact that most fighting games today, especially street fighter, don't have a stage per character? I know it's because stages today are pretty elaborate and it's not cost to effective to have those stages, but to me a character's... well, character... is his or her stage and accompanying theme song. Playing the CPU means traveling to each character's "home" and getting a glimpse of them and their character. Having characters with no stage to me feels like having half-finished characters.

Yes. I love each character getting their own stage. I wish SFV had this, however I understand why they don't do that. It's unfortunate.

 

[Ragnorok64]

Easily one of my favourites. Not a fan of the game, but throw dinosaurs into the background and I'm in.

You're kidding right?

 

[DR2K]

Where true love is made of course.

You mean tuna and bacon?

 

[KidA Seven]

The bad thing is that ever since Ono has been in charge, SF has had a lot of silly characters in the background doing silly things. In the older stages, no matter who was in the background, they did not try to steal the attention away from the fight. I hope the dlc stages in SFV try to decrease the amount of silliness going on in the background.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Yeah SNK stages are really amazing.

Hell even XIII had some funny ones

 

[BKatastrophe]

Yeah SNK stages are really amazing.

Hell even XIII had some funny ones

 

[ResidentDante]

I love the curved perspective tricks in SF3:NG:

It's so beautiful!!

 

[breakfuss]

Street Fighter Alpha 3. Shin Bison's stage.

Yep, came to post this. God I miss the Alpha series.

 

[entremet]

Love the little dude playing in the background. Godly OST too.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Also this must be the most dangerous place to fight. (KoF98 China stage)

 

[Flysquare]

Soul Calibur 3 Lost Cathedral

Maybe a bit too flashy for some but it's a nice setting for a final battle.

Soul Calibur 3 graphical enhancements really rely on how much better than 2 the stages were...

 

[Scotia]

 

[Serpens007]

I've always liked the simple concept of Mortal Kombat's The Pit I

Two fighters battling in a small bridge above a deadly pit. It's so great.


It reminds me of the Devil's Toilet in Dragon Ball

 

[BKatastrophe]

Soul Calibur 3 Lost Cathedral

Maybe a bit too flashy for some but it's a nice setting for a final battle.

Soul Calibur 3 graphical enhancements really rely on how much better than 2 the stages were...

SC3 had some of the best stages in the series: