A3 is godly!
Cept V-Akuma/Sakura. 60% Damage on full bar 
Game was too cartoony.
A3 is godly. Itās still being played in Japan.
Complaints about V-ism are silly, other than perhaps V-Akuma. So what if itās V-ism all day? That doesnāt make it a bad game. Doesnāt it even give rankings to the isms, anyway? In that case, why shouldnāt V-ism be the best? You should be rewarded for learning advanced shit.
IMO the thing that hurts this game the most is that it is NOT newbie friendly. It is one of the hardest games to learn to play well at a tournament-winning level. The learning curve is steep and a lot of the techniques you need to learn arenāt obvious at all.
Yeah, and Magz calling servbots and beating a monkey and a fuckin cactus is not.
You guys forgot about the New Alpha 3 that came out only in japan, that tweaked all the Ismsā¦ V-ism got 50% weaker, they made A and X-ism stronger to make all the Isms equal and fair.
-You couldnt gain meter w/ whiffing throws anymore.
-All rounds started you off w/ no meterā¦
Now do THOSE changes drastically make it the best A3 ever? Yes. 
Wow, I hadnāt heard about that one. Iāll look for it, but those seem like very good changes.
Starting With Meter. :-\
Sadly, the game āStreet Fighter Zero 3 Upperā was only released to arcades, no console ports were plannedā¦ Oh yea! They rehashed the game and put it onto the NAOMI boardā¦ thats why they did thatā¦ also w/ those changes aboveā¦
So think of it as a Updated version of the DC version of SFA3, even though the DC version was just too fact in comparison to the arcade version, alot of stuff wouldnt connect normallyā¦ I think they added more frames to alot of the moves.
PS1 is probably best near arcade portā¦ w/ the Exception of the Saturn versionā¦but I get slowdown when I play that game, kinda weird
V-ism is certainly the dominant ism in A3, but I donāt think it broke the game. It takes a lot more effort to use, therefore the rewards are greater. Iāve been working with Juni lately, and my hands are getting blistered. 
V-Sak is kinda lame, but thatās not necessarily new to anybody. Only Chun, Rose, Guy, Blanka, and Sim break the mold and perform better or just as well in other isms (there may be a few others).
Now we could argue crouch/walk canceling + V-ism broke a few thingsā¦
SFZ3 Upper failed in Japanese arcades, thatās why only the original Zero 3 is played in tourneys.
The PS1 version IS NOT the closest version, the closest version of A3 is the Saturn version, but that like all versions doesnāt have the gameplay 100% intact(Capcom still changed V-Ism properties and other stuff with it), although the Saturn version did have the shortest loading time, and it was the best looking out of all the home ports.
Saturn was weird, cuz it had slowdown on my saturn, dunno if that was safe o_O
What is this new version of Zero 3 in Japan that I hear about? It has a weakened V-ism and a stronger X-ism? And the matches start off with empty supers? Is this true? If it is then it is magnificent!
because infinites in mvc2 arent really infinites. u dizzy out at 50 or so hits and no one really gets chipped to death in mvc2 nowadays.
anyways to add
- retarded ass properties on normals
- retarded ass properties on specials. (fbs does no damage at full screen, and does more chip damage from full screen. flash kicks gets beaten out by retarded ass jump ins)
- broken v-isms
- crouch cancel infinites. this is one of the few games that you can juggle to 99 hits and run the timer down to 10 secs during the process and the opponent still doesnt die.
- shitty alpha counter and guard crush system
- shitty presentation.
- the biggest flaw: no true to the arcade port for the console versions
way to easy to guard crush, i also hate the juggle system ugghā¦
Lots of people hate Yun cause of his Genei Jin juggle, but in A3 everyone has V-ism, it gives kindof a broken balance to it, like XMvsSF
I canāt say I was a fan of the major system changes from A2 to A3. The counter hit system to this day is very distracting, as is the air recovery system. The damage is by and large too low (not counting X-Ism or CCs) and Iāve never been a fan of two-button throws. About the only things I like better about A3 than A2 are no more low CC tricks, the fact that the game actually accepts inputs during CC flash, and that people get floored more than they did in A2 (no retarted jab recovery roll).
So youāre saying you like crap games?!?..
V-ism only ruined A3 if you are a pussy.
Btw the difference between A3 infinites and MvC2 infinites is that it takes skill to do them, except maybe V-Cody and even then that is kind of tricky, to kill somebody with an infinite in that game you have to have pretty flawless execution because there is a very small window to not only get the set up for the infinite but also you have to crouch cancel the damn thing in a certain number of framesā¦not to mention not everybody even has one.
What people complain about that supposedly āruinedā A3 I find really funny because you can take any game by comparison now which has waaaaay worse things. CvS2 EASY A-groove combos, I mean come on Rolentoās 60-70% custom doesnt even require a joystick movement except to hit the super at the end. Bison paint the fence doesnāt even require full DPs you can do one then keep doing fireball motion repeatedly. Mvc2 ironman infinite is hella easy way to kill off one character. Cable can take out 2 at the same time by punishing you for hitting him with something. Sentinel hits you with Commando anti air and its GG if you donāt have a char that can escape unblockable. Yun can activate Genei Jin from full screen then rush in for free practically.
I donāt really care about any of those but how can people complain about shit that is way harder to pull off and just ignore things that do the exact same thing in other games. Any of the examples I listed do take some skill and its not like they give you a free win the same is with A3 anybody who thinks V-ism really ruined the game didnāt even attempt to get into the depths of the game. I gurantee you can teach anyone how to do every V-Akuma combo in the game but theyāll get walked on all day if they donāt know how to do anything else because its not for free at all considering you can get uppercutted, counter v-ed, and counter-supered out of it if you donāt pick your moments right. Hell, Ryu can throw out c.mk as bait and if you try to V him for it he can cancel it during your start up into an uppercut.
You are an A3 Scrub. No offense. If that was ever a true scenario that is some horrible competition who has no idea how to play. You act as if every character has an unblockable v-ism or even a useful chip damage V. There is so many inaccuracies in that post Iām not even going to get into it right now.
Itās only a matter of time before Apoc finds this thread. 
P.S. The Genei Jin bashing should just stop, Genei Jin is a hard technique to master, because if you canāt execute it properly then youāre going to get your ass handed to you. Itās not like itās CvS2ās ShoShoShoShoShoSho. :tdown: