Why The Street Fighter That (Almost) Killed Street Fighter Deserved To Come Back

13 responses to “Why The Street Fighter That (Almost) Killed Street Fighter Deserved To Come Back”

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   Greyson

   July 1, 2011 at 6:43 am

   Ridiculous. The idea that sf3 in some way damaged the street fighter name is nonsense. 3rd strike is my favorite sf and I know I’m not alone in that one.
   Sf3 was the game the die hards wanted after alpha/zero series went a bit casual.

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      SpeedRazor

      July 1, 2011 at 9:14 am

      Agreed. Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike is the best in the series, as far as i’m concerned.

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   2. 

      gman

      July 1, 2011 at 9:17 am

      Unfortunately its NOT about the die hard fans.

      It did almost kill the street fighter franchise but only because of the lack of familiar characters for the more casual fans to identify with (lets forget about the game mechanics for awhile).

      I think Capcom was bold in introducing a whole cast of characters like this because lets face it…nearly all fighters keep every single character with every iteration.

      I would prefer more companies do what Capcom did with 3rd Strike…but money talks, and street fighter popularity plummeted.

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         SpeedRazor

         July 1, 2011 at 10:13 am

         No, I don’t that’s what it was. It’s more the fact that Arcades became irrelevant and it just took them forever to make the decision to drop 2D sprites.

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   Muggins

   July 1, 2011 at 8:48 am

   Don’t leave us hanging! What did he tell you?

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3. 

   Palstran

   July 1, 2011 at 9:35 am

   I agree with Greyson.(My fav as well) I think they just didn’t know where to go after third strike. It was so well executed plus the EX 3D street fighters were pretty bad.

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4. 

   doubleDizz

   July 1, 2011 at 10:18 am

   Yea 3rd Strike was sick. Although I must admit I only ever used Ryu or Ken haha =P

   Would’ve loved to see this game get the 3D SFIV-style overhaul.

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5. 

   SOX

   July 1, 2011 at 10:40 am

   Someone mention 3rd Strike? Time to go watch the Wong vs Daigo fight for the 13 billionth time.

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6. 

   Treyze

   July 1, 2011 at 11:13 am

   Wow, this is a pretty unfair call. The death of the arcade and weakening of the SF franchise is far better associated with the rise of the console and the Tekken/3D fighter scene. King of Fighters pretty much died during that time as well but you can’t blame 3s for that.

   Lack of accessibility in terms of characters is legit as a commentary [particularly with the first two SF3 games, less so with the third], but also noteworthy is the fact the game did not ever receive a legitimate Western console release which was suicide with the PSX doing so well at the time [albeit incapable of emulating the game].

   That said it seems unlikely that 3s: Online is going to appeal to the masses, though given the nature of the content added to the game it is pretty clear that isn’t their market anyway.

   Shrugs, glib is glib.

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      N

      July 1, 2011 at 3:56 pm

      +1
      dead on, Treyze

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7. 

   sakata italian roast tomato and balsamic

   July 1, 2011 at 6:34 pm

   playing cross handed

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8. 

   whereswarren

   July 2, 2011 at 12:21 pm

   Playing that on dreamcast, right now! In SF4 i’ve tried to diversify somewhat- but in 3 I was / am the biggest ken whore, so soz… Nothing better than parrying into massive flaming super shoyryukens (wile constantly karachuckin them in the corner)

   So buying this.

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9. 

   The Dreaded Penis

   July 13, 2011 at 12:26 am

   What’s wrong with the ‘Alpha’ series? Absolutely nothing! “Street Fighter Alpha 2” is my favorite Street Fighter game.

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