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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:12AM (Unverified) said

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SF fanboy wet dream: check!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:16AM foxhound said

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*cue excited pig squeal*

Damnit, fans of fighting games like myself NEED good news like this!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 10:15AM heypaul said

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No kidding. I haven't been this excited for a video game since SFII came out for SNES. Oh, and I'm going to beat you all online. Ha!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 12:15PM Mike DPad said

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OMG! Start the countdown!

WTF has Ryu been eating? He looks huge!
... that's what she said.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 12:41PM Wonderflex said

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Online? Street Fighter is a frames game, I'm not so sure it will be online.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 12:44PM (Unverified) said

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Attention: tools above me. Reply is for replying to the original commentor - not for getting your comment near the top. No one cares about you anyways. Not even your mom. Thank you. Good day.
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Posted: Dec 7th 2007 7:48AM foxhound said

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I am replying to Bloo, because someone woke up cranky and didn't get their juice box & crackers at snacktime today.

Perhaps if he stops acting like a little tw-- it, he just might get a toffee for today's snacktime. :]
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:15AM (Unverified) said

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ONE OF THE GREATEST IMAGES I'VE SEEN...WELL IN A LONG TIME!

Capcom appears to have reinvented the 2D Fighter and I say. IT'S ABOUT FREAKIN TIME! Just like Capcom did in 92 with SFII. They're doing it again in 2008. I predict future fighters will start to copy this new 2D engine style. I'm so looking forward to this I could cry.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 8:33AM (Unverified) said

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Ummmmm, I really hate to be the person to break this to you. What Capcom is doing here has been effectionately referred to as 2.5D in the past. 3D world, 2D gameplay.

And I really don't thinkthis will start some new revolution in fighting games. After all, this idea has been toyed with many times in the past. Most recently with King of Fighters (Sorry, Guilty Gear 3 doesn't count... it's a brawler).

I mean, I'm hopeful for a good SF game as much as anyone else but King of Fighters 2006 is essentially KOF with 3D characters.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 9:51AM falcomadol said

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This single image has proven to me that Capcom "gets it" in terms of attempting to retain the artistic vision of the series though.

KOF's 2.5D incarnations have no appeal to me (and I'm a guy who has every KOF on MVS along with every Fatal Fury, and every Art of Fighting...)
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 10:25AM heypaul said

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I think you mean every ROM on Kawaks.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 3:59PM donalbane said

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I agree... when I saw that pic this mornin', my jaw dropped and I let loose an excited "FUCK YEAH!"
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:24AM (Unverified) said

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That looks really freaking cool! Way to go Capcom!

Now just make another Mega Man game and I'll truly love you again. And not another "X" or "Battle Network" game. Make it Mega Man 10.....or 9. I'm not sure if Rockman & Bass counts as 9.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:27AM (Unverified) said

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*Rockman & Forte/Mega Man & Bass

I mixed the American name with the Japanese one.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:50AM (Unverified) said

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They should continue the Rockman/Forte saga. Reinvent the sprites and just go until they run out of numbers for the sequels.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 9:10AM (Unverified) said

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Hey, I really like Megaman X!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 9:11AM (Unverified) said

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Hey, I really like Megaman X!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 10:13AM Crono141 said

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megaman 10 came out on the SNES, right before Megaman X.

And X was awesome. It just went overboard later in the series.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 10:53AM (Unverified) said

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"megaman 10 came out on the SNES,"

You're joking, right?
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 11:14AM Crono141 said

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No, look it up. Megaman 9 was the last Megaman game on the NES, and megaman 10 came out on the SNES, either shortly before or shortly after the X series began.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 11:39AM (Unverified) said

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You seriously need to get Megaman:Powered up! for the PSP,its so damn wicked.Maverik Hunter X was sweet,I know those are remakes but hell those are the best remakes of all time.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 11:56AM (Unverified) said

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Er... don't know where you're getting your information from, but the "Megaman 10" game you're referring to on the SNES is actually Megaman 7. Megaman 1-6 was on the NES. Megaman 8 is on the PSONE. There is no 10, and there isn't even a 9. (That's going by numerical order and not taking in the Megaman and Bass etc)
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 12:25PM Crono141 said

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Oh, you're right. My bad.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:14PM Shagittarius said

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LOL, Crono is such a worthless toolbag.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:29AM zuburi said

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There goes my dream of a super high-res/high-fps hand animated Street Fighter :( Graphics look great, but I thought the EX series was for 3D?

Street Fighter was one of the last holdouts in the 2D fighting game genre.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 8:26AM (Unverified) said

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It was? I could have sworn Melty Blood, Arcana Heart, Guilty Gear, or several other 2D fighters were the last hold outs on 2D fighters.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 8:37AM zuburi said

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"one of the."
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 1:29PM (Unverified) said

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Me too, I wanted HD hand drawn 2D characters..oh well.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:31AM (Unverified) said

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Is that a Hadouken in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 9:04AM (Unverified) said

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There's defiantly something going on in his pants, by the look on his face I'm going for Hadoukun.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 10:40AM BigPhi84 said

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@ shockgamer,

O Fo Sho (or should I say, "Fo Shoryuken!"
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:43AM CaptainHairy said

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Thank you, Robo-Jebus, for your blessing this day, ye have brought us news of true Street Fighter gameplay in a 2.5D env... wait, you mean this is Joystiq and not Robo-Jebus?

Well, whatever. Cheers anywho.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 10:40AM Zoesch said

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2.75D

That bulge sticks out in its own dimension
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 6:51AM (Unverified) said

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*sigh*

2D? Really?
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:02AM bm111 said

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Ugh, god no.

Well, we all knew it wasn't going to be 2D. Still, this sucks. Goodbye beautiful lively animation, hello fucking plastic stiff 3D barbiedoll shit. Fuck you, Capcom.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:03AM bm111 said

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That wasn't meant to be a reply.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:51AM (Unverified) said

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You make it sound like this game is trying to look like Gears of War. I look at that picture and I see literally Street Fighter in 3d, not too realistic but not too cartoony/animeish/Alpha, just like 2 and 3.

Street Fighter 2 HD is all the sprite enthusiasts need. Otherwise, 1995 is -> That way.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:58AM (Unverified) said

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Apparently you people have misunderstood. I'm sighing because the game is in 2D and not fully blown 3D fighting like Virtua Fighter,Soul Calibur,Tekken,ect.

This just in; Capcom including free Pizza Hut cupons and VHS tapes of Wayne's World with game purchase.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 8:07AM Vegeta has a ps3 said

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I'm sorry but 2d is better than 3d in every way.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 8:13AM (Unverified) said

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@ Vegeta: Well, I think in terms of "dimensions," 3D is actually 1 better than 2D.

That's right. I went there.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 8:53AM (Unverified) said

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There is absolutely zero reason for Capcom to throw the baby out with the bathwater in Street Fighter's gameplay.

Giving the game 3d graphics is a concession to modern graphic tastes, in which 2d games today have a hard time catching a break on the friggin DS.

However there is no reason for Capcom to try to ape Tekken and Virtua Fighter, becoming the imitator instead of the leader. Tekken and Virtual Fighter fans would look down their nose at the game and Street Fighter fans would reject the game for slighting them.

It is much smarter to build upon 2 and 3 and guarantee the business of the series' installed fanbase(which will blow away Virtua Fighter's pathetic sales, BTW), rather than appeal to people who want Street Fighter to stop being Street Fighter.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 10:00AM falcomadol said

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I don't think that changing graphics techniques necessarily means that there will be a corresponding gameplay sacrifice though.

It's something that we're just going to have to wait and see as it emerges later.

SF2 didn't change it's core gameplay when it went from CPS to CPS-2 and SF3 didn't radically change the gameplay when they moved to CPS-3, nor did it change when they put SFA/Z3 on NAOMI.

Capcom has a good track record of starting a new series when they want to make significant gameplay changes (with the exception of the bastard EX games), so you have Rival Schools United by Fate and Power Stone in that solidly 3d realm. I don't believe that they're going to make the EX mistake again in the main Street Fighter franchise.

This change is IMHO more likely to be equivalent to the artistic style change from SF2 to SFA/Z. We don't need to be freaking out just yet.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 10:23AM Crono141 said

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Rival Schools is the perfect example of how Street Fighter could be successfully done in 3D.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 5:20PM bm111 said

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"Rival Schools is the perfect example of how Street Fighter could be successfully done in 3D."


The graphics are still 3D, they look like complete crap compared to something like SF3. That's the whole issue. There's this ONE franchise left with some great potential for beautiful 2D animation (which will always look superior to 3D animation IMO), and they just have to kill it. They just have to make it 3D, because EVERYTHING HAS TO BE 3D DON'T YOU GET IT, EVERYTHING EVERYTHING EVERYTHING!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:00AM (Unverified) said

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noooooooo
give me sprites ;_____;

To be honest I'm a bit of a fanboy when it comes to sprites....

Looks like its back to Melty Blood and Guilty Gear for my 2D sprite-ness~
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:02AM (Unverified) said

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Forgot to mention, even if it isn't 2D anymore that screenshot is quite awesome and it does look pretty
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:19AM velocitystrike said

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Just saw this on Kotaku - far too many "package" comments...
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 7:46AM (Unverified) said

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Raging boner get!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 9:59AM (Unverified) said

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You expected better from Kotaku?
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Posted: Dec 6th 2007 2:24PM (Unverified) said

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"Dispensing and erection!"
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