Good lawd why did they hire Udon in the first place.
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Good lawd why did they hire Udon in the first place.
Zomba13
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Huh, bunch of weird differences between the versions. Like, good on them for cleaning up the sprites if you're forcing the zoomed in 16:9 view but then come background elements are static? Nice that they make the level and characters retro if you pick that option but the HUD stays HD?
It is nice that the HUD and character select stuff is more faithful to the original than in HD Remix. I didn't mind it in HD Remix but just thought it was odd.
The price will kill this though. And I guess the lack of D-pad in portable mode (I don't have a Switch yet and not used one but I just can't see me enjoying the buttons in place of a dpad).
It is nice that the HUD and character select stuff is more faithful to the original than in HD Remix. I didn't mind it in HD Remix but just thought it was odd.
The price will kill this though. And I guess the lack of D-pad in portable mode (I don't have a Switch yet and not used one but I just can't see me enjoying the buttons in place of a dpad).
Jonneh3003
Banned
Jonneh3003
Banned
I said it was a throw away mode earlier in the thread. I don't love it, the model is detailed is all.
That HD intro is trash and shows how the rest of the HD conversion lacks the quality of the original. The left arm is static, right arm uses a cheap rotation, clothes are static too, the full animation has less frames... it sucks
Original intro
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uY0KBMkvDyo
That's true, I was mainly looking at your 2nd and 3rd posts in the thread.
bumpkin
Member
Just watched the video... It's nice that they cleaned up the sprites, gave it the old style HUD (I always thought HDR's looked like amateur hour), and restored the original character portraits. The option to switch between classic or HD graphics and sounds are rad too. They might have had me because nostalgia's one hell of a drug.
The one thing I can't forgive is removing the background animations from Ryu and Ken's stages. Why were they removed? It doesn't make any sense other than "Capcom's gonna Capcom."
The one thing I can't forgive is removing the background animations from Ryu and Ken's stages. Why were they removed? It doesn't make any sense other than "Capcom's gonna Capcom."
Jonneh3003
Banned
The Super SF2 intro is def much better. It was simple and epic.
I'm not a fan of the Super Turbo intro personally. Even the original is goofy with all the cuts and the weird Cammy tongue thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyTPiR53aII
Vanillalite
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Saw the initial announcement and was like I'm in. Plus I'm not as super picky about art and animations as others. HD remix was fine for me.
Then I saw the gameplay and I was like hmmm seems slow, but whatever I'm still in.
Price came out and I'm like woah $40? Seems high, but maybe Capcom gonna go all out.
Then see the features and the half-assed attempt. Ugh...
Also see no difference in price physical/digital. Ugh...
See reviews like Capcom phoned this in. Ugh
STILL woke up today with the itch to get my Chun Li on.
DF drops truth bomb video on just how half-assed this really is. Back to ugh I should skip this on principal.
Then I saw the gameplay and I was like hmmm seems slow, but whatever I'm still in.
Price came out and I'm like woah $40? Seems high, but maybe Capcom gonna go all out.
Then see the features and the half-assed attempt. Ugh...
Also see no difference in price physical/digital. Ugh...
See reviews like Capcom phoned this in. Ugh
STILL woke up today with the itch to get my Chun Li on.
DF drops truth bomb video on just how half-assed this really is. Back to ugh I should skip this on principal.
shouamabane
Member
The only thing missing for me is the OG announcer.
Because you can't play those online?
Maybe, nobody knows.
If that's not the case, this is a shitload of wasted efforts. :lol
Futaleufu
Member
This is probably the most absurd change in the entire game.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Are you really using this excuse
even those ports of garou and last blade on PS4 , vita and PC have online and garou costs £12 on PSN
Dreamwriter
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I wouldn't be surprised if we got a patch fixing some of these issues. The lack of animating backgrounds, that has to be a bug/oversight, I can't think of any other reason for it - I mean, the background people are still animating, it's just big background elements aren't scrolling, that's not a performance issue. And adding audio options separating music and sound options would be pretty easy as well.
I'm sure we can all agree that USF2 is overpriced as fuck.
I mean, you can't defend that, there's just no way.
He/she's just mentioning that USF2 has online compared to the NEO-GEO ports, and that's true, also I think that they are locked to their MVS version, too.
It's nothing that warrants the enormous price of USF2 though, but it's still a point.
pete_clarf
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I ended up getting this, but paid $26.99 so I feel okay(ish) about it. GCU took it down to $31.99 and then I had a $5 reward to use too.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
I paid $25 for USFIV and that has like 2-3 times the content this has.
The Cowboy
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Any mention of the game not filling the switch's screen even in the new graphics?, It's understandable in the old graphics - but it shouldn't happen on the new ones.
Run Jump Stomp
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I know a lot of people are unhappy with the game. But I want it. I haven't played Street Fighter since I was in high school on the SNESl. I'm torn.
As I think we've all said to death, this would have been a perfectly acceptable £15-£20 title. But the fact that it's missing features and is a bit of a bizarre mishmash, particularly on the audio front, is just unacceptable.
Call me when Capcom ask £40 for a copy of Third Strike Online, I'll probably bite then...
Call me when Capcom ask £40 for a copy of Third Strike Online, I'll probably bite then...
sleepnaught
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Such a shame at that price point, even with a few things here and there I dont like about this release, I would've picked it up day 1 $15 or $20. $40 is just ridiculous for a decades old game. I hope it bombs and drops in price soon.
GitarooMan
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Seriously like people have said buy Garou for 8 bucks and thank yourself later
Can you filter out Violent Ken/Evil Ryu/Akuma? If not, fuck that lol
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
So it's a port of an old game. Glad we know that now, which weirdly everyone was acting blind about. Yes, the HUD changed a bit and yes the portraits are better, and yes they have two different sprites for Ken and Ryu as their own characters, but it's the same game.
Tizoc
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thepenguin55
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Now, I'm not a crazy person who thinks the HD Udon art is better than the the OG art (though I do appreciate Udon making Ken look more distinct from Ryu) but I am a crazy person who didn't hate Udon's art. Considering Udon never made sprites for a game before and never probably had to animate anything ever I think they did alright. While some of the shortcuts taken were the result of the making of the HD art for SF2 being a bit of a boondoggle for Capcom due to Udon's inexperience, many of the shortcuts taken were also the result of XBLA game size restrictions of that time.
Having said that, I wish whoever made the sprites for Ken, Ryu, Akuma and M. Bison in the CVS games made the HD SF2 visuals:
Bison and Ken in particular look so good! (NOTE: The above gifs aren't actually the best representations of the sprite animations in the CVS games. Youtube CVS)
sixteen-bit
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I wonder why DF didn't go into the ugly non-neighbor scaling in Classic mode. They mentioned them in their analysis of Blaster Master.
720p should be a clean 3X scale of 240p, but there's some aspect ratio correction that I assume messes with it. Classic mode should have had some kind of optional CRT shader or something to make it look a little nicer.
720p should be a clean 3X scale of 240p, but there's some aspect ratio correction that I assume messes with it. Classic mode should have had some kind of optional CRT shader or something to make it look a little nicer.