I don’t think should even bother with anything HD once SF4 comes out. SF4 will be their cash cow, and should be promoted fully. A better idea would be to put old properties, like the Vampire series, on SF4 engine.
No remake game is going to sell as well as SFII did anyway, with the POSSIBLE exception of A3 or a Marvel remake of some sort.
Also, there’s only so much of one genre casuals will lap up.
The best way to get the playerbase up- good games with casual appeal that can turn into long-term appeal. This is something SF4 does well, and something most other fighters do not.
I agree, the DS series should get the SF4 treatment. But seriously an HD project would not interfere with SF4 simply becuase it would take them a few years to get the art done, and SF4 is just around the corner. Well now that I think about it they should do a vampire savior remix and follow it up with a sequel with the SF4 style.
For online, a lot of SF games can be played through GGPO or 2DF… seriously.
The biggest appeal to me from a “remixed” game was the rebalancing (I liked the “buffs” and new properties/abilities given to some of my favorite characters), and attempt at improved netcode for online play on console (which is still much better than SF2:HF on XBLA). The graphical overhaul was nice but not as nearly good as most expected at the beginning of the project (including me).
For something like SF3 or Marvel vs Capcom 2, a graphical update to that degree is not important to me at all. Just give everybody some new toys to play with (some much more needed than others) and some better online code than the nightmare that was on the O.G Xbox and I’m happy.
… Plus I wouldn’t want to wait so long for a release. That shit was torture.:lol:
And getting more devoted people to play is as easy as releasing another Alpha 3 version. Right.
And I’m not sure I want Capcom to being doing well because of that. I’ve been pretty disappointed in them lately.
So, its not “Win/Win.” Obviously when you’re speaking of a under-appreciated title no-one bought in its heyday, re-releasing with different/better advertising or under the context people know what it all about a few years down the road increases its chances of success.
Lots of people were disgruntled when SSF II came out, seeing how it didn’t do much for the series, and the SF II upgrades were getting kinda silly. That was about the time when lots of players started to defect to MK or the SNK series, hurting the SF scene in the process.
Ah. So, Lantis…then what is your view on the matter? What do you think is the best Street Fighter title to throw our wages upon and encourage a bigger, though still dedicated scene?
I personally go SFA2 all the way for various reasons, but I’m interested in hearing some other opinions as well.
I personally think SF IV is just fine. It has all the original characters plus some new ones thrown in for the sake of originality, and some old faces for nostalgic value, and VOILA! Everyone is a happy camper…
I think the reason why ST was the game chosen to be “remixed” is because it is basically a game that everyone can relate to and that no one really “hates” with a valid reason. Take any other SF game, and someone is gonna probably have issues with it.
And even if Capcom decided to fiddle with the aforementioned stuff, purists would be like “It’s not fateful to the original!” and bitch about it to no end.
> Isn’t the only reason that VS and VS2 had edited character lists a matter of motherboard memory or some such junk?
Yup. Vampire Saviour maxed out the CPSII memory, so they couldn’t fit in any more characters. Hence why we got Vampire Hunter 2 and Vampire Saviour 2, which was really the same game with three characters missing from each game.
> All the characters together would be great. But let’s keep it to the VS modes, and not break it all asunder a la Hyper SFA.
They already did that with the Saturn version (the best version of VS to date). Though, you do know that Hyper VS (a.k.a. Vampire Chronicles) already exists, right?
I can agree with that. I remember having SF2ce while friends each had another SF2 installment then getting SSF2 while others jumped onto MK and SNK. :sad:
While I played SF3 (ng/2i) in arcades only, I played SFAs on consoles, and Marvels were ever. Today If I ask a casual player about SF3 they think I mean SFA3 (and that it’s before and after SF2)
incidentally my first real play of ST will be HD:sweat:
but if another HD were done. IMHO it shouldn’t have a SF in it.
DarkStalkers, while a great remix option, is better suited relaunching on SF4 engine.
I’ld lean on a VS volume compilation (ala SFAA) before a MvC2HD
Hell yeah. The Saturn version is good, but the Dreamcast version is god-like. No other Vampire game can compare to it, the compilation on PS2 included. As soon as I found one circulating on Play-Asia I snatched that shit up.
Hell, its so good its a promotional item; I think there were only like 500 of them made.
On the talk of New Darkstalkers in 3D… As much as it would be great to see this series continue, it would be kind of heartbreaking in a way to see it transition to 3D. It already was somewhat so with Street Fighter, but the Darkstalkers games were really underappreciated masterpieces of 2D animation.
I’d agree, but Street Fighter 4 moves so fluidly I would LOVE to see Darkstalkers on that basic engine. It looks so diffrent and more dynamic than any other fighter I’ve seen.
actually most of the animation in sf4 looks really fucking awkward and shitty lol. rose and gen look really great in the new video tho, i just wish the whole game could look like that
