I trust Capcom enough to make good background stages, as most don’t disappoint. I still love the Alpha 2 and 2nd Impact stages most of all. But I want them to get back to characters having their own stages and music. I remember for the first couple of weeks of playing Vanilla SF4, I thought Rufus’ stage was Drive-in at Night, Blanka was Inland Jungle, and El Fuerte was the ship stage… I just like it when characters have a stage and theme that reflect their personalities.
That’s one of the things I loved about SFA2, the character background stages were on point and done right.
I think it would be cool if they had an EVO like stage
You could have top players in the background and James Chen and Ultra David in front sitting at a table. I think it would be awesome.
What about a simple stage that has editable features similar to what is done with Xrd? Let them put player names/tournament name/tournament logo in and it displays them in-game.
Honda and Vega stages from SF2. and I want Claw scurrying up that chain link fence too.
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Oh and Ken’s stage from 2nd impact. Too damn Godlike
Sony is paying them so I hope they put in the effort for character specific stages. They should have enough money after all.
To be honest USF4 is not far from character (almost) specific stages
They just refused for whatever reason to link stage-character outside of rival battles, and wasted a lot of stages in generic/nonsense bullshit
No need crazy money, just a more focused art direction
I think the Evo stage idea is brilliant. Gotta have Justin Wong doing barrel rolls in the background, and if you Ultra your opponent into the corner, Marn infects them with the T-Virus.
I just hope we have a lot of stages in sfv. Too much copy and paste in 4. I can’t tell the difference between the two jungle stages nor the temple ones.
I would love to see 30-50 stages. Its one of the things I like.most in fighting games.
I’ve always been a fan of each character getting their own stage.
As much as I like it, I’m afraid the concept of one stage for each character has gone the way of the dodo. More effort is needed for each stage and there’s more characters than in the past. Accept it an move on. Better to have that effort concentrated on a good engine and actual game features.
Killer Instinct is having no issues with this…
i have no problems with interactive stages like the one we’ve seen already. what i would like is more stages that are interesting because of the scenery and not because what’s going on in the background to distract from the fight if that makes any sense. if i had to pick ones that i liked from sf4, i’d go with blanka’s stage, akuma/gouken’s stage and the boat stage. make the stage itself the point of interest, not an alarm going off or haggar chasing someone in the background.
i’d also like a return to a stage per character like sf2.
i’d like to see more comfy building stages"
and we are overdue of another balrog casino stage
YES. PS your name’s fohstick. that’s gfg.
I agree man. Aesthetically the best stage in any of SF’s. i agree with someone above though that the grass shouldn’t obscure the character’s feet…maybe mow the lawn in the front lol
But the thing is, in SF4 (with his HUGE cast) in most of cases you can already have one “fitting” stage for each character, even if 2-3 will share the same
If they just linked in arcade mode X char to X stage, for most of peoples will be ok
Also imho SF stages can benefit from killing exagerated time/$$$ consuming garish bullshit in favor of more simple and inspired designs, in that way they can do more stages in less time and money
There have been so many great designs in the past. With them putting some focus on stages again, by way of interactivity and special defeat animations (and tons of Sony money) I hope we see them become important again. I’d like a mix of returning stages, but also pushing the creativity and make brand new stages (that take the design philosophy from SF2, Alpha 2 and SF3). They should be varied and tied to a specific character. Just booting up the old games was so exciting because you got to really feel the differences in what corner of the globe you were in. Iconic Airforce base at one moment, Japanese Bathhouse, then Spanish cage battle and going head to head in Vegas? It was a dream! I wanna see that sense of awe again. As much as I liked SF4, I felt some of the stages were lacking.
I would like a Dhalsim stage set in India or just an India stage with a bunch of Hindu deity statues in the background.
The background music should be something like these two songs:
Pretty beautiful stage, my favorite from SF2:
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Another timeless classic, a night version would be ideal:
R.Mika’s stage from A3 was pretty decent for what it was:
I completely loved the location to Gen’s stage from A3:
This stage from X Men vs SF was amazing looking too:
As for new stages, i feel like something similar to any of these 2 would’ve been perfect for C.Viper in SF4:
