They were doing pretty bad financially but it wasnt because of game sales. They made alot of investements in the japanese market that absolutely tanked.
if i was prem., i would rep you
Its pretty obvious that Capcom wont be making a whole “new” fighting game in the distant future, which i supose is fair enough, espicially with all the effort a company has to put in for a 2d fighting game.
BUT, i like the idea of updating Street Fighter 3, give it graphics and animation that is equal to the Guilty Gear Games, or bettern then it.
Another thing, add another 4 or so new charecters to the game, including new backgrounds with those new charecters.
And, if capcom actually feel like putting in an effort, every previous charecter can have a set of 2 extra moves.
This game gets released at the arcades, then a year or so it goes on the next gen consoles with perfect online play.
That will give capcom another 4 years to try and think of a new fighting game.
To me that is the least capcom can do with out putting to much effort in.
while capcom are making Street Fighter 3: Special Red Hat 4th edition,
they should make a secret character that, when chosen, cures cancer. :tdown:
Did anyone ever think that the reason the Street Fighter series has remained so popular is because of how Capcom didn’t churn out sequel after sequel?
Yes, they did upgrades of Street Fighter, but because SF2 was such a huge sucess, they were able to maintain interest in the series. We wouldn’t even have this thread if people still didn’t care about Capcom’s fighting games.
SNK on the other hand, chose to flood the market with their games, causing a loss of interest and poor sales. SNK vs Capcom hasn’t sold well at all and is like $15 new last I saw. Now, you can say that it’s because the rom was all over the net, or you can say that it’s because the game sucked. Either way, outside of the die hard fans, noone gives a crap about what SNK is doing, because they are the same game with a new label.
However, wether it’s tommorrow or 5 years from now, if STREET FIGHTER 4 hits, it will out sell every other fighter.
Also, as far as Street Fighter 2 rehashing goes, did Capcom really make that many rehashes? Lets count:
World Warrior
Champion Edition (Adds 4 new playable fighters)
Hyper (speeds the game up)
Super (Adds 5 new fighters, 4 playable and runs on CPS2 with more polished graphics)
Super Turbo (Adds Akuma playable, speeds up, new moves, and Super Combo Meter)
Now, if you go by SNK’s philosophy, they would have done the same, except they would have called them, STREET FIGHTER 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
When I saw the title of the thread I knew this guy registerd this month. Anyone else have that “feeling”?
Capcom don’t give a shit about fighting games and you shouldn’t either(to the thread starter). I’ve always been an AM2 fan anyways.
Yeah, I don’t play that many videogames nowadays. Too busy with work and hobbies, but I usually get into fighters. Like a damn fool I bought Capcom Fighting Evolution, and my eyes bleed…they BLEED. Horrid fuckin game. Am I the only one who notices that the backgrounds look like they were done by an orangatang with some water pastels?
You’re still an idiot.
Yea i did actually notice that too, also who the fuck wants to play as a Dinosaur that takes up half of the screen, and a fucking squid with a trident? Pathetic.
I saw that you have “death metal elite” in your avatar thing. So what you listen to? How about some Bloodbath, Destroyer 666, Malevolent Creation, God Dethroned, The Crown, Nile, Vader and the likes? Completely off topic and irrelevent much like of the rest of the crap that I post.
Speaking of that dinosaur piece of shit. You know the game is broke when a 10,000 pound huge dinosaur who can somehow speak english can be THROWN. I mean what the fuck? You would think that his only advantage would be that he is so fuckin big that he CAN’T be thrown, but apparently physics and logic don’t exist anymore. I just shook my head in disgrace when Urien proceeded to piledrive that piece of shit not once, but twice. Bitch deserved every minute of it.
Might as well go off-topic considering this thread is worthless…
To say nothing of their quality, some of those aren’t even death metal 
When I listen to death metal which isn’t much these days, I like (old) At The Gates, Suffocation, Atheist, Gorguts, Demilich, The Chasm, Morbid Angel, Arghoslent, etc etc. :tup:
two words for the person who made this thread…eat shit.
Put yourself in the shoes of a CapCom producer. You want to make money. For money, you need a successful game. For a game to succeed, you have to give people what they want. You go to the local arcade in Japan and see dozens–maybe hundreds–of players coming in and out playing the same old Street Fighter game without complaint.
But you were given this money to make a new game. You know what the people want. If you give them exactly what they want, then you’re just making the same game again (GGXX -> GGXX #R). In order to market this new game to a general audience, the new game has to have new features, better graphics, and a different character line-up. This leads to games like Street Fighter EX, Capcom Fighting Jam, and SNK VS CapCom…
They made new games and people didn’t like them as much as the old one’s. Lesson learned: stop making new games. That’s just my thought.
I’m not too keen on Death metal genre… but I think stratovarius is metal? Can someone recommend me music of similar style?
haven’t played CFJ but same could be said bout sakura throwning zangeif, or people throwing energy balls, or man beasts that can produce electricity, or people who can stretch their limbs, or sumos that can fly across the screen, etc. but i get what you mean, atleast big chars in mvc2 had a hit limit.
Stratovarius is good, but they would be considered part of the melodic/power metal genre. And to Obliterate i do like/listen all of those bands, but some of my favorites would have to be In Flames,At the Gates, Katatonia, Opeth, In Thy Dreams, Zyklon, Behemoth, Aborted, Dark Funeral, Burzum, Immolation, Deicide, Carcass, Necrophagist, Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel ect…
Dude, Capcom should well know, they would make a shit load of money if they made Street Fighter 4 with new character sprites, new stage backgrounds, bring back the oldschool music with with high quality sound, allow clothing customs on characters so people who find Ryu “boring” can stfu and dress him up like a Barbie so he doesn’t look so original, evolve the storyline from SFIII 3rd Strike and there you have it, and most importantly fix the fighting engine so it can feel different from SF2 and SF3 and yet still feel like it’s Street Fighter. If Capcom actually attempted this, well with just the name SF 4 would sell a shit load of copies alone, who the hell here would say that they wouldn’t want to SF 4 if it had all of these to offer, I certainly would buy…but wtf am I thinking, this will never happen.
I believe that if Capcom actually tried to attempt this, this would help give them a boost in the fighting game genre, I believe many of us have been waiting for something like this, and if it did come out, I sure many of us would go to support it, if it wasn’t the same old stuff, just my thought anyways.
I doubt you will see a quality 2D fighter from Capcom because the main guys left long ago (you people STILL can’t accept this). It’s like this:
*If Hideo Kojima left Konami, would they make a new, GOOD Metal Gear game?
*If Shigeru Miyamoto and Reggie left Nintendo, would they be doomed?
*If Nobuo Uematsu (can’t spell?) left Square Enix would you still hear decent music in FF games?
Anyways, Capcom has been doing this for a long time, so you should be used to it. It’s just that the fighting game workers are stuck in the year 2000 and have yet to truly put something out that’s BIG (CFE was a waste of time and really messed up Capcom’s reputation). Plus, they never advertised their stuff, so OF COURSE their fighters aren’t gonna sell. So unless you people work for Capcom and force them to make SF4 (or something NEW, like an original fighter of some sort), your dreams aren’t going to come true.
Plus, 2D fighters don’t sell anymore (you don’t see Gulty Gear making mega millions, do you?), so the companies think of them as a waste of time when they can be making the future of FPSs or RPGs instead.
Uematsu already did leave Square-Enix (although he still does freelance stuff for them), the music in the last few games wasn’t done exclusively by him either…in fact I think his contributions are generally considered to be some of the worst on those games.