I hope for more stages like this and the beach, we have already a good number of stages with aesthetic “ruined” by the gameplay “compromise” even just in the form of color fog for the action to be readable
SFV already have fuckton of stages, counting Akuma’s and variants (xmas included) SFV stages are 22
Out of 22, almost all are nerfed/optimized for gameplay where 2 are, by capcom admission, made for aesthetic.
Mean still 20 avaible (number destined to grow), seem like a good variety
Ban the stage from tournaments if you need and move on lol
There are many gameplay-ready stages as you say, but the problem is that you can’t stop your online opponent from picking those other two, can you?
If you ban them from tournaments you are admitting that the stages are not fit for serious play. Then they shouldn’t technically be selectable online, at least on ranked match, just like omega mode wasn’t.
When they make a stage with a controversial, gameplay-affecting feature they should add a menu option to disable or tweak it: in these cases it would be an option for a gentler/straight flight path in Skies of Honor and an option for fully visible characters and items in Kanzuki Beach. Not hard to do. It would be in the options menu and only affect your display, not the opponent’s.
To be honest is just that i don’t consider online ranked the perfect competitive choice anyway, and even if i considered it the real deal, online imho got bigger problems than a bit problematic-but-still-viable stages
For how i see it go to real life tournament or show a bit of patience for occasional match on beach/plane… and tbh aside particular cases where there’s an advantage (like Necalli/Birdie on the beach?) if your opponent pick these stages he is’nt taking it so seriously either
I don’t see how. That would be a problem if it flashed surprisingly fast, or it flashed probably more than two-three times. Although, they should pull like what games do and give a warning somewhere before the opening of the game saying that the “game may show flashes” or whatever.
I’d love if there were a way to blacklist stages from online matches. Skies Honor and Frosty Boulevard are way too distracting. I absolutely appreciate them as works of art and I commend the artists (Kanzuki Beach as well). But Capcom’s design director or product manager needs to wake up and do some user testing before rolling these travesties out to the masses.
I’m glad I don’t see these in online matches often, but when I do… sad panda.
I’d like to add the stage with the bear to that list as well because holy shit the music on that level makes my ears bleed. It’s probably the worst music I’ve ever heard in a video game ever, especially the round transition sound. I’d take Indestructable or the training stage music from SF4 over that shit any day.
You can’t tell me you didn’t enjoy yourself like a schoolgirl being courted by the most handsome boy around when Indestructible played for the return of Street Fighter with SFIV.
Honestly I still dig Indestructible - it reminds me of Michael Jackson for one, and I think the character select version is totally a classic that could’ve taken the place of something from SFII.