I would absolutely love to see a new 3D Street Fighter game. These days, gamers look at the SF franchise as “nostalgia”. Even Mortal Kombat has a new, successful 3D fighter out for the next-gen systems! Capcom needs to show these bitches whats up!
If anyone has played the Naruto games for Gamecube, I think that is the BASE for what a new, 3D SF should be like. In my opinion, the Naruto games have the ULTIMATE simplistic 3D fighting engine (mainly the quick sidestepping, simple mechanics, and effective juggles). Just add some SF characters, some SF moves, and some rad-ass semi-cel shaded graphics and you got yourself a Street Fighter revitalization. They could even take it a step further by making it a semi-interactive game (obstacles like tables, cars, etc, in all the stages-- similar to power stone) and make it TRUE STREET fighting!
About the graphics-- I think they should do something truly new and unique. Like cel-shaded, but with crazy linewidths and proportions on the characters. Think of bengus’ artwork for the SF3:3rd Strike game. The stuff he did that looked like he did it with a sumi-brush. So that any angle or move your character was facing/doing, he would look like an awesome oldschool Capcom drawing. Could you imagine that kind of artstyle rendered in full 3D? I would crap myself.
In my opinion, that’s what Street Fighter REQUIRES to survive the next decade of insane gaming innovation. If I had any way of making this game a reality, I would so do it.
If you’re intrested in a true street fighting game, then Id suggest checking out Def Jam: Fight 4 NYwhich is very HEAVILY street fighting based/themed, and has a great level of interactivety in its levels and what not.
Rey, are you refering to graphics similar to Samurai Legend Musashi (Brave Fencer Musashi 2)??? Which I think look amazing, and are very unique compared to other cel-shaded graphics.
Hate to pick nits and I know in the grand scheme of things it’s not important, but Bengus didn’t do any art for the Street Fighter 3 series, you might be thinking of Kinu Nishimura or Ikeno. Bengus also had changed his name to CRMK by then also.
But with that said it’s a cool idea, I doubt it will ever happen, but a cool idea none the less.
TAS- Oh yes, that’s right! I’ve seen some pics of that new Musashi game. Yeah, that’s pretty close to what I’m thinking.
Diamond- Thanks for the correction. I think it may have been Kinu, then. Shit, im not sure… Oh man, no wait, it says AKIMAN right here on the freakin page (capcom design works, page 84). THAT is the style I’m refering to. I’m dumb :]
For those who have the CDW book, and are now looking at page 84… just check out ALEX’s stance. How the brush gets all thick around his arms. I could SO see a cel-shaded game in that style. Wow, makes me excited.
Since we’re already discussing it… If I had to pick a cast for this dream-game, it would definitely be mostly the cast from SF3:3. Probly a few new characters, but overall, I think SF3:3 had the best cast.
Oh, one of the new characters could be Mel Masters ;]
Also here’s short description of the graphics from Gamepot.
Oh and as far as doing the SF chars in a certain artists style Id love to see them portrayed in Edayan’s style. Edayan is most famous for his art and designs for the SFEX and Rival Schools series, as well as the kick ass art for SSF2T Revival for the GBA.
**Rey -**I know you’re busy, but in your free time try and bust out some more SF art, ie stuff for your site and what not, prefribly (sp?) SF stuff with your own spin on it, like you did for SF Beta and SF Zennith, that stuff of yours always seems so much cooler.
And off topic Rey, Im really looking foward to Shark Knife, also thought Cannon Busters looked tight, and sad to hear about what happend, but then again Id rather you be able to do stuff on your own like Shark Knife, which allows you more freedom, and since its all your own I imagine you’d be so much better at it then doing something that isnt yours and isnt done by you entirely.
believe it or not, you can have 3d looking cartonny characters. and infact streetfight was barely even cartoony, it’s depiction of characters is pretty realistic compared to most if you ask me. just look at the old school streetfighter and the drawing of the characters faces during there winning qoutes there drawn VERY realistic.
I know, I’ve played Project Justice, Power Stone, Spawn: In The Demon’s Hand, etc, etc.
That had nothing to do with what I was talkiing about.
Uhm no, look the SF1 character designs done by Bengus…
Now from then on ALL the character designs for EVERY SF game (aside from SF3) were based off that style, and or were drawn in a similar fashion.
But those arent the way the characters were designed to look now were they? Nor does that style look anything like Bengus or Akiman’s styles, and if that look was so great for the SF chars, how come it only showed up in SF2 and didnt continue in the SF series.
Also if you look at Shinkiro’s art who draws all the chars in a realistic style, they just dont look right, ie the SF char were NEVER designed to look realistic, instead they were designed to be very bright colorful and unique, just look at EVERY SF character design out there, and then if you look at the chars portrayed in realism, they look ugly and stupid, cause for one nobody in real life would be wearing the kinda stuff they wear so it looks extremely odd or ugly.
Also check out what Ryu looks like in SFEX3, nuff said.
I love the cel shading style Capcom used in Gio Gios Bizarre Adventure. Although this is very stylized to suit the Jojo world it shows that Capcom can produce beauitiful convincing Cel Shaded worlds.
I thought the cel-shading Capcom did on Jo Jo’s Bizzare Adventure 2, looked pretty horrendus, very flat dull colors, and the character models only had one layer of shading compared to something like Budokai 3 which has 2 layers, or Crimson Tears or Samurai Legend Musashi, which have predefined shading on the character models.
Not to mention all the chars in the game looked extremely gay, and there was no returning characters from the first Jo Jo game either which sucked.
Yes a lot of people probably share your view. I know i am in the minority but I still think it looks great. I love how it is just flat colours (although I do not think they are dull at all, but amazing!) and black lined details, it really looks like the comics come to life!
