The specific way it was executed left alot to be desired, but the idea of martial arts fighting to the death in front of an active volcano is a pretty badass concept.
This shit right here. Not to mention the Background music was perfect.
Capcom vs. SNK Pro Alley Stage. The most endearing aspect is the shadow effect on the back wall that is magnified by the spot/search light. Always found it to be a neat effect.
3rd strike elena’s stage. Yun and Yang’s first stage with Master Roshi in the background. Akuma’s stage with the training dummies everywhere
elena’s stage in sf3 new gen/2nd impact is one of my favorites.
gen’s stage in sfa2.
eddie’s stage in ggxxac.
most of the stages in sf3 newgen/2nd impact i really liked.
Nearly every single one from the SF2 series, but Dee Jay’s, Zangief’s, Cammy’s and Claw’s are some personal favorites
Again, nearly every single one from Samurai Shodown 2, with a few favorites being Charlotte’s stage, the one with the cuttable bamboo and the rye field one are sweet too (forgot whose stage these are)
Alpha 2 Charlie’s, with the hovering VTOL and soundtrack from a time when Capcom’s composers didn’t suck ass
Alpha 3’s raining meadow with the Shadaloo skull in the sky (alternatively the Juni/Juli orange sky version) is cool
Tizoc’s, Gato’s and Dong Hwan’s from MOTW
The one in which you fight walking on a skyscraper wall from Vampire Savior
The 2D Mortal Kombat games have a bunch of cool/atmospheric ones too (especially MK2 imo)
I personally think SFIII stages TOOK a big dip as the series went on which doesn’t make sense. In NG, Ibuki’s stage has her fellow ninjas animating in the background with the time of day changing every round. Elena’s had the thing where the stage fell down into a festival type thing after the first, Sean’s had the people celebrating Christmas, etc. SFIII DI lost some of these animations but added more stages in compensation. I don’t know what happened with 3S…they just looked bland and darkened in comparison, not to mention some characters (Ken, Alex / Sean/Oro) sharing stages. How did this happen?
Also Soul Calibur has had great stages and graphics throughout the series, I even admit this for SCIII and IV which I hate and everyone knows to be total pieces of crap. Too bad they didn’t keep the subtle and cool looks of the characters after that as well; with making every girl’s breast D cup and up and the costumes for everyone looking like stuff rejected from some fashion show.
CvS2 - London
ST - England
T6 - High Roller’s Club
ST - Ken, Cammy, Guile
SFA - Guy, Ryu
SFA2 - Ken, Birdie, Dan
SFA3 - M.Bison, Cammy, Rolento
SF3:NG - Ryu, Elena, Dudley
SF3:2i - Hugo, Yang
SF3:3s - Twelve, Ken, Alex, Akuma, Urien
Tekken 4 - Rooftop stage
Virtua Fighter 3 - Lau
Virtua Fighter 4: EVO - Kage
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MvC2: River and Clock Tower stages
CvS2: London stage
Naruto GNT4: Roof Tower and Valley of the End stages
TvC: Les Vagas and Mall stages
mainly for the bgm lol.
I can’t believe no one has said this one yet.
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Alpha 2 has some of my favorite stages.
pretty much all stages in MSH (great music too) and the same for Tekken 4.
Virtua Fighter 4: Wolf/Kage
Virtua Fighter 5: Wolf(?)
Seriously, Kage’s just had BA bgm, as did Wolf’s, but fighting in the underground cage like that was awesome. I could think of some more, but yeah, those are a couple of my favs.
uhhhhh. Look at KOF 95. I doubt you played it.
I wont share my fave SF/SNK but i’ll show some love for MK:
MK1
The Pit
Goro’s Lair
MKII
Deadpool
The Tower (w the moving clouds in the background)
Living Forrest
MK3/UMK3
The Temple
Subway
Bell Tower
Soul Chamber
Graveyard
Hell
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American version of TVC I’m gonna have to say the spaceship that’s under attack and then they repel the aliens, only because it has a bad ass techno song to it that I swear sounds like another techno song.
And I’m very partial to Ryu’s rooftop stage in vanilla SF2.
Sean’s New Generation stage
CVS2 Ring stage
KOF94 Italy (dopest beat I’ve ever heard in a fighting game)
FF3 Honfu’s stage
SFA3 Deejay’s stage
SSF2 Cammy’s stage
SFEX Guile’s stage
SFEX2+ Irene (goddess of freedom stage)
KOF99 Krizalid stage
SF4 Cruise Ship Stern
Darkstalkers Fetus of God.
And pretty much everything from super Gem Fighter…
while i like stages by themselves, i usually also take into consideration the music as well.
my favorite stages are prolly
-may/johnny’s airship from GG + may’s theme
-sheep stage + music from t6
-that casino stage from t6
id also like to mention that any overly red stage sucks imo. this includes elena’s 3s stage and that volcano stage in sf4.
I love this stage. The kid in the background is just funny to me. He’s playing a video game, its supposed to imply he’s playing SF I think. When you win or lose, he cheer or gets mad lol. I remember it used to be a joke on ggpo if you lose in front of the kid.
also, the VS stage where the characters are fighting on the side of a building is probably the best spin on the 2d stage.