Sean and Ibuki are retarded in 2nd impact but that’s not the real reason…
The simple reason is just that they were just on the Dreamcast and in arcades.
Street Fighter III : 3S not only got the Online Edition re - release but back in the day it was released on xbox and ps2. For most people it’s the only version of Street Fighter III they’ve ever known.
To add onto what Frosty mentioned, early versions of SF3 weren’t popular simply because people didn’t really play them. They were extremely poor-received by the public-at-large when it released in the arcades, and so a lot of people didn’t bother playing it.
On the other hand, 3S was played by a lot of people here in the States, especially after that Daigo parry video was released in 2003 or 2004. So people started playing on 3s and they loved it. Never bothered going backwards in the series and playing older versions of SF3 that nobody liked or played.
3s naturally is more polished then the previous 2, and thats why for competitive reasons, but 2i is a really fun game to play, and you can play it on ggpo now, which is dope as fuck for casual fun.
mvc1 had a tournament run, but there was no way the game was going to exist vs mvc2. mvc2 added so much more to the game in general, that even the basic level of casual fun is 20 times higher in mvc2 then mvc1. the infinites in mvc1 take a bit of dexterity, arent really that necessary, and are overall not a huge issue in the game in comparison to mvc2, unless your counting ggpo keyboard monsters, and they dont count.
mvc2 is a hot mess. i wouldnt say it took anything and made anything better. it took stuff and piled it on top of other stuff, added in a way to get out of infinites, which dont matter because resets in that game are pray to god and hope he likes you when it comes to blocking. i dont wanna shy away from the original topic too much, but mvc2 was great for some things, but dont feed to deeply into the hype. mvc2 is one of the top 5 least thought out competitve games to date. horrendous nerfs to past characters that prevented some from easily being high b to a tier and competitively viable, weak imagination on the new cast of characters, never fixed guard breaks, made it 3v3 with unlimited assist that recharge to be used in like 1 second after usage, creating just a mess of an environment to play in and just a screen full of shit, etc…
but anyways, 2i is pretty fun to play, but competitively you wouldnt choose it over 3s ever, but its still playable, and sometimes japan will do throw back random tournies for it. ng, ive played recently a little bit a couple months back, and its okay, but there is absolutely no reason to play it at all. i feel you sometimes that im like, it would be fun to see a few lesser played older games get some shine in an exhibition at big tournies, just for shits and giggles. but we’re barely good at 3s imo, so that would probably be a horrible set of exhibition matches unless japan came. lol. we all still remember the 3s exhibitions from last year. oh lawd
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I said Super. Vanilla and AE got that treatment, but the Super characters didn’t.
Well, I meant it more as a general guideline, and this rule extends beyond just the SF4 series.
Elena and Twelve suck in 3s.
One thing I liked to mess around with in 2i is the widescreen mode, which extends the playfield quite a bit.
Unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to display properly in any emulator anymore.
And Remy
nitpicking - Elena was in NG
Also 3s did introduce Chun and Makoto aka “the baddest bitches”
Funny thing is that Makoto hentai didn’t take off until Super SF4. But that’s another topic.
Which is sad, because tomboys need love too
3s is the polished version of the series huh? Why is it that it until the third version of a Street Fighter games that it has some semblance of ‘balance’ and ‘polish’?
Because they’ve had time to fine-tune it and polish it? This is generally why sequels, good sequels, always feel like a refined version of the original. You cut off the fat and polish up the good parts. Fine-tuning a fighting takes a LOT of time, play testing, and constant minor adjustments. This cannot be done easily during the development cycle of the original game, since much of that time is spent actually developing the game and meeting deadlines. That and you can’t possibly match the amount of play testing that happens on launch day of a fighting game. That first day alone easily amounts to more time than the play testers had done during its alpha and beta phases of development.
Isn’t that like asking why no one plays vanilla MVC3 or some older version of SF4?
Someone post the Ibuki videos.
3S is polished and amazing. Why would I eat a taco without meat when I have a stronger preference for tacos with meat? That’s the logic behind shying away from 2I. It’s just not as good.
there aren’t many older games in a series that are chosen over the most recent.
generally the most current version is played because it fixes stuff that was detrimental to the experience in previous games.
There is only a few games that this not happen too ST, Zero 2, Zero 3, Vampire Savior,and KoF98. I could be forgetting a couple.
yeah i was thinking vsavior and alpha 2.