STREET FIGHTER 4!!

http://www.insertcredit.com/archives/news/022008/chinpol.jpg

That's Japanese for PENIIIIIIIIIIS because Ryu is staring at what appears ot be Chun-Li's wicked-hueg cack.

I always knew Chin-Li has a secret...

I think I will wait until they release Ultra Street Fighter IV: Champions' Fifth Kick before I play it (when they balance almost every character except Ryu and add more characters in, or something)

no sprites no cred

OMG

lol it's not fully 3d tho, it just looks 3d

(more pics: http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1213478_1124.html)

Dhalsim looks AMAZING.

Best quote about this game was when the guy form GayGamer was on the 1UP podcast and he saw the Chun-Li picture and asked really earnestly "is this what guys are into now?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IuPwIKQ1s

Sprites would be cooler but this looks okay.

what more is thre to do with sprites though? Guilty Gear XX has taken that about as far as it can go.

^ kinda true, but what does making it 3d really add, esp if the fighting is still 2d? i think it just obfuscates clean gameplay for the sake of looking flashy.

i mean this looks good and of course i'll give it a try because it is street fighter, i'm just stubborn.

man do you know how hard it is to make a sprite game these days? sprite artists are a dying breed and you need to draw every part of the animation vs. getting a programmer to make a procedure of the animation for the 3d model to follow.

i mean, KOF switched to 3d and i'm 99% sure that it was due to the rising costs of sprite game making (and why virtually every game with sprites these days recycles its sprites-- morrigan in CVS2 is the most awful example of this, it looks like they just grabbed darkstalkers 1 pics and blew them up).

But, if you want wicked-ass spritey goodness, coming out is (not making this up) Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Which all the sprites by the guys who drew this:

http://fightingstreet.com/folders/downloadsfolder/UdonSFIIwp.jpg

of course i am not a hardcore 2d dude, my friends are, so this is all based on stuff they've said and i've half-listened to while they debate the usefulness of parries and "kara throws" blurggghh

i just feel like if Street Fighter 4 was sprite-based, even with beautifully animated hi-def sprites a la Guilty Gear XX (#/Slash/Reload/Accent Core) it would just feel like another installment of SF3 and not TOTALLY BRAND NEW. This new graphic style kind of takes the game in a brand new direction and reintroduces the series. They can keep the sprites for CvS3 and MvC3.

As long as they redraw said sprites, i will barf if i see another 15-year-old sprite in the next MVCVS game!

haha ok ssf2thdr looks rad, and will m is right about sprite artists disappearing although maybe understating the difficulty of creating and scripting 3d models as nice as the ones here.

i'll stfu and go play ggxx and 3s

also yea morrigan cvs2 sprite = lolz

i don't mean to make it sound easy to do; but, it is easier to find people who CAN do it

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/__icsFiles/artimage/2008/02/01/pc_fc_n_gn/darusimu04.jpg
rip tynan

are his cheeks stretching out, like all dhalsim-yoga style?! if so that's totally awes.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

wauuuu

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/__icsFiles/artimage/2008/02/01/pc_fc_n_gn/zan02.jpg

You gotta admit, going 3D makes snuggling up in Zangief's manchest look a lot more enticing. I just hope he still has the teal underwear costume as an available clothing option.

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/__icsFiles/artimage/2008/02/01/pc_fc_n_gn/zan02.jpg

Eh. Doesn't look cool.

Oops, meant this one:

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/__icsFiles/artimage/2008/02/04/pc_fc_n_gn/kuri02.jpg

lol at Choad-Li

This game is going to fucking RULE.

Definitely not that inspired. Where do the Street Fighter EX games fit into this, anyway? Aren't they an example of SF "going 2.5D?" They had some boring-ass character designs, too, but also some totally great ones (Doctrine Dark and Skullomania were TOO COOL)

omg what if they do this to Darkstalkers

Oh apparnetly they are not canon and those games weren't even capcom-made. Well I'll take Skullomania over that broad any day :/

xp I so doubt they'll do this to darkstalkers. more like that they'll do this to "capcom vs itself turbo: ouroboros fifth remix"

DO NOT RAIN ON MY PARADE MOTHERFUCKER

3D Hsien-Ko!

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CAPPOD/DS014~Darkstalkers-Hsien-Ko-Posters.jpg

Looks like shit, but I bet it plays great. A shame since I've been into Capcom's recent art direction, Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Okami and Resident Evil 4.

Okami is fucking gorgeous, though! It's sort of unfair to hold every game up to that one.

Street Fighter EX doesn't really count since Capcom didn't actually make those games (they just liscended out the SF brand).

I think Rival Schools is a better comparison maybe.

Rival Schools/Project Justice was so awesome. If only I could find mine..

It's difficult for me to tell from the static shots; are these things cel-shaded or something?

I kind of don't like what we've seen so far of the art, but I like what I've heard about a simplified control scheme, or going back to something closer to Street fighter II controls -because who has time to memorize 70+ moves for a character...

There was early video out a while ago, here I think...
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/16818
Somewhere they broke out the snippets too, but I can't find 'em, probably on youtube

oop - I see Jordan linked to the gameplay footage on youtube above (though gamevideos is obviously higher quality)...

that "whole screen impacted by the ah-yu-ken move" effect is gonna get very old very quickly

As long as it doesn't turn into Mortal Kombat during its "good" era (scare quotes b/c I hate 22 HITS / 70% DAMAGE combo bullshit) thne I'll be okay with this. I really need to try Rival Schools.

New character "Abel":

http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/14/abel4_2.jpg
http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/14/abel2_3.jpg

he sort of looks like Steve from Tekken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8_Gx3-_Xpk&

At least four more new videos from this show up on gamevideos.com - don't know how long until "somebody" asks 'em to take 'em down

http://gamevideos.com/video/id/17540 - Chun-li/ Crimson Viper Trailer

http://gamevideos.com/video/id/17543 - Crimson Viper Vs. Abel Gameplay

http://gamevideos.com/video/id/17544 - Ryu Vs. Honda (On Guile's stage.)

it looks like it plays too slow but that could just be because the people playing in those videos don't know how to play

This looks incredible now:

http://medialib.oxm.co.uk/screens/screenshot_3737.jpg
http://images.gamersyde.com/gallery/public/7963/1436_0035.jpg
http://medialib.oxm.co.uk/screens/screenshot_3698.jpg

I'm kind of iffy about the character roster (needs more Alpha and Third Strike characters, as well as some new characters.. it's too SF2: 3D) but I'm excited nonetheless.

Looks much better

looks the same to me.

i'm sure there are going to be more than just the 2 new characters. unlockables? unless maybe they're going to start it out with this roster and then wait for the SF4: Turbo/whatever editions to bring out more new ones.

i hope the gameplay will go back to basics and they will ditch all the stupid power meters and a-ism b-ism j-ism shit that put me off SF for years

i am not a hardcore 2d dude, my friends are, so this is all based on stuff they've said and i've half-listened to while they debate the usefulness of parries and "kara throws" blurggghh
Blurggghh indeed! Makes some of the conversations I have to endure sound...well no, I have to endure conversations pretty on par with this. I take back what I was about to say.

I hope my roommate buys this.

New Character EL FUERTE:

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/864/864547/street-fighter-iv-20080404100839239_640w.jpg
http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/864/864547/street-fighter-iv-20080404100842723_640w.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbewQKWf-Xs

And another new character named RUFUS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ljf8DK2gP4

http://img.jeuxvideo.fr/photo/01304194.jpg
http://img.jeuxvideo.fr/photo/01304182.jpg
http://img.jeuxvideo.fr/photo/01304204.jpg

Wicked.

(and why virtually every game with sprites these days recycles its sprites-- morrigan in CVS2 is the most awful example of this, it looks like they just grabbed darkstalkers 1 pics and blew them up).

But, if you want wicked-ass spritey goodness, coming out is (not making this up) Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix...

rumours around that the sprites in this were drawn too small and blown up; not that I'm bothered, it still looks gorgeous

anyway, yes, not long till this hits the consoles now

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/934/934208/street-fighter-iv-20081126034503933_640w.jpg

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/934/934208/street-fighter-iv-20081126034559948_640w.jpg

How I love Dan. Who's that standing on a leaf in the background?