I was thinking awhile back ago about the next potential SF video game. I thought “hey wouldn’t it be cool to do it GTA style?” Kinda like this:
It starts out that Gouken is recently dead and Ryu is on the hunt of his killer. You walk all around the city (japan at first then the second level is an unnamed city where the tournament is held) trying to find clues to the murder. Along the way you get into street fights with nameless guys and here and there a minor sf character (ie.- Karen, birde, Adon…). He runs across guile and Chun-li on the hunt for bison and decide to help them with their hunt (but while your on your own hunt) and find yourself coming against bisons team (vega, balrog, sagat). Eventually you find out it was Akuma and lose to him. Then you are told to find him at the next tournament. So you head to the tournament.
Along the way you could stop in to participate in illegal cage matches against people like Fei Long (like in the anime) and others like Dhalsim and Blanka. You could do side missions where your chun-li or guile and have to defeat the dolls to get information as to where Charlie is held but you have to fight Shadow at the end to free him.
You have free roam of the cities but when you get into fights you go traditional 2-d fighting. You can learn your new techniques as you go too. What do you think?
hmm thats an interesting idea but why only have ryu as the main character?
perhaps you could play other characters as you go through the game i know you mention li and guile mini game maybe that should be part of the actual main game switching between characters.
Yea keeping the actually fighting 2d is a good idea kinda like alpha3 world tour mode but with an actually story going along with it.
Maybe the 3d part could be like shenmue, earning money in street fights etc.
yeah …
that’s exactly what i’m talking about … earning the extra money would be cool … you’d see ryu pull out the ol’ money sack … but i like the guile/chunli thing your talking about too … they are (the 3 of them) pretty much the main characters. I think this would be a fun game to play.
just had another idea …
… you could collect money to unlock things like moves, clothes, and cut scenes (like ryu finally washing his clothes). And with the Guile/ChunLi story … you could rise in rank in Interpol and US Forces. Try out a mini game where you have to out eat Honda in an Udon eating contest! Honda obviously packs it away but Ryu can cause some eveistation too. I can see all the little mini games that could be strewn across the levels. Dance out with DeeJay … or not…
Cool idea Irish Gamer. I woudl buy that game if it came out. Makes me wonder what Namco x Capcom will be like.
This reminds me a lot of the new Mortal Kombat. They have a mode almost exactly like this, where you go thru as some character and relive all the events from the previous games up until the current.
Really???
… They have a new MK? hmm must have missed the ads. I’ve had this thought in the back of my head ever since issue #3 of the comic came out. I cronically day dream that Capcom will call me up and want me to make this into a real game … (i know it’s not gonna happen but it’s a really nice dream).
Irish Gamer… really good idea!