Vega’s face look really fucked. Better than ken’s, but I really have no idea what capcom was thinking with his face design. It’s all square and squinty and…UGH
Yeah but the taunt is ruined anyway if you’re attacked. I at least wanna throw out a taunt to bait something when I can cancel it afterwards. Means then I can use taunts at close range. It’s what I’'d do with Juri. Taunt close range then cancel into counter. People stop pressing buttons when that happens a few times.
I wish the game were louder and more in your face.
Where’s my “LIVE AND LET DIE!” “THIS ONE’S GONNA BE A MATCH TO REMEMBER!” “THIS BATTLE. IS ABOUT. TO EXPLODE.”
The character select screen looks cool but the rest of the game is just so “oh don’t let me bother you”. Character portraits? Nah fuck that, here’s some outline shit in red or blue.
Vanilla SF4 had a great announcer then Super replaced that really hype mega phone guy who loves blood with… robot man who says the same lines?
Why do they keep toning it down? Turn it up to 11.
I LOVED the Vanilla SF4 announcer, but everyone seemed to despise him back in the day. It was a tie between the A3 announcer and him for my favorite announcer of all time, but they got rid of the guy for some weird reason. I even kept looking for old videos on YouTube to hear his voice again, but that was to no avail.
Anybody know where I can listen to yell “Ladies and gentlemen… THE ULTIMATE STREET FIGHTER!!!” and “There is no way out of that one OTHER THAN STRAIGHT DOWN!”
“LIVE AND LET DIE!” “THIS ONE’S GONNA BE A MATCH TO REMEMBER!”
Was something i loved for about one month.
After that it started striking straight at my brain, every fucking time. No thanks.
Also i like red-blue faces, are stylized since they’re part of the graphic like hp bars etc
Last but not last i’m glad they opted for 3d models instead artworks… quality artworks are cool but if my eyes must suffer stuff like SF3Online’s (Artgerm ones) or SF4, please nevah again
SSF4 announcer is still a bit annoying with shit he talks like “I’VE NEVER SEEN A COMBO THAT INTENSE!”, but at least he’s kinda more subtle and not shouting like a retard all the time
When you have a mirror match, you have no idea which color you are going to be. I think it is the opposite of what you would think… like with ken… I can’t remember how it is but you see p1 and 2 and the names are in red and blue respectively, so then you think, ok I’m gonna be blue ken, but then you end up red ken. It’s just a little thing, but watching the “come on, time to heat things up” “come on, time to heat things up” is pretty lame when you don’t even know which one you are going to be playing.
Also, as has been mentioned a lot, the clipping is pretty bad, or how Vega’s necklace is like floating around when he moves on the charactter select looks like he’s in an antigravity chamber.
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who thinks and feels this. But any one remember back in SFII, there was blood and sweat when you landed a heavy punch/kick to the face, and that if you landed a heavy punch/kick to the stomach, there would be vomit? I don’t know, part of me wishes that it would make a comeback. You get a rush when you do see the pixelated blood fly from the head, you actually see the damage. And i guess that’s what I would like to see. It’s fun to land combos, but I would also love to enjoy seeing the damaage I induced by landing the combo or landing a hard strike.
Or if anything, as the further down their health bar gets, we see some cosmetic changes to their skin, clothes, hair, etc. Like maybe bruises or cuts. Tatters on their clothes. if they were rolling on the ground or street, dirty them up. If Ken lands a fire hadoken, show some burns. I mean, having Chun-Li start up the match in her gorgeous blue qipao, only to still look the same after beeing tossed around, hit with a fire ball, beaten up, and knocked out just seems a little whimsical. At least show some character damage that shows the gritty side of Street Fighter, they are hurt, worn out, but the fight continues. The fighters persevere until it’s over.
Because as designer myself i find them straight shitty terrible
To be clear i’m NOT saying that i can do better
I’m saying a better and more qualified artist can.
Fuck, i will accept even sf4 trash artworks over sf3Online ones
Ironically even if i’m not a fan (read kinda hate) of the fuckSF2 chara design direction SF3 got, i have to admit that the original SF3 New Gen got by far the most beautiful and stylish and fitting with SF style artworks
Get Akiman, Ikeno, Bengus, Kinu… or somebody good and fitting as them.
If you can’t, i’m fine with 3D models as now
Just no Artgerm, his stuff feel like (high technical) fanarts and unfitting with SF style
I guess it was theyr attempt to do a lil step toward dat loud ignorant “too anime” crowd that was trendy during360 reign, as SL have a style that while not western sure as fuck don’t feel Japan
Tbh not a fan of SFV artworks as now,but are not disturbing ugly.
They look kinda weak as trying hard (thanks marketing and shitty internet i guess) to not be “too anime” or western… resulting a middle way with little soul/character
But at least is’nt SF3On level stuff, yay +1 for team Lesser Evil