The champions of third strike?

Classic Fighting Games Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
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Five reasons.

  1. No game has kept the kind of fanbase ST has kept. Even apart from fighting games, what other game from 1994 still gets regular, widespread, competitive play? Why this is, who knows, but given the eventual dropping of every other game, it’s unlikely 3S will have whatever this is.

  2. Third Strike’s tiers are becoming more and more top heavy, and that’ll turn people off. When the game first got popular, you could reasonably expect to win a major, high level tournament with any of Chun, Yun, Ken, Urien, Akuma, Dudley, Makoto, and Yang, and other characters could finish in high places. Then Chun, Yun, and Ken separated themselves from the pack, and while you’d see a Dudley, Makoto, or Urien win occasionally, it was rare, and the rest of the characters essentially never won anything. Now Chun and Yun have pulled away, and only Ken and to a lesser extent Makoto and Dudley are reasonable alternatives. There are anomalies, especially in single match or non-major tournaments, but this is largely true. I see no reason why it won’t get worse.

  3. The many people who started fighting games with Third Strike might realize that in fact Third Strike may not have been the ultimate in fighters.

  4. New players will no longer start with 3S as their first game. This is already happening to some extent, especially with Smash, GG, and some 3D fighters, but once SFHD comes out, and more seriously once SF4 comes out, Third Strike will have stopped being one of the top four or five grabbers for new players, and that’ll really hurt the scene’s chances for continuity.

  5. Um, hello, Street Fighter Four? Honestly, who here is going to be doing anything other than playing that game for the first year it comes out??

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Its true ST has it hardcore fans and players, it wont die because its the best OG SF game.

But we shall see if 3s will have that kinda lasting power, it has been around for longer than most ppl expected (especially the ones that never liked the game), but with SF4 coming out, it will be a real testament… who knows if SF4 is really good maybe ST will finally die too.

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If i could neg you for saying that ST should die, I would.

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LoL but u fucking hate that game

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What do you mean “who knows?” It’s the final revision of the first big fighting game ever made. Of course people still play it.

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To be on topic, I’ll pick Spellmaster J. He is the ultimate team player at 3S events. He usually knows exactly what to do after his teammate loses their match. He won two SBO events after all. 3S is meant to be played in teams anyways. 3-on-3 works the best but 2-on-2 tag team works fine as well. Actually, many fighting games (or games in general) works better in teams. That is what I think at least.

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I hope 3S never dies, I love that game

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I would agree that it may have trouble in staying power if the 2D fighting game genre was getting more games coming out that people were flocking to. I mean there are games like Arcana and Melty, but people don’t come out for that like they do 3S.

So it’d need something to replace it.

I figure what may become more of a problem in eight years or so is if consoles with good enough ports become rarer and rarer. I mean who knows if in eight years dreamcasts will be in good supply for Marvel?