Street Fighter 3: Third Strike Online Edition

[Catalyst]

First Pic just showed up a little while ago, thanks to Ono's teasing.



You can see the old sprite along with a shot of Online Edition with the improved graphic filter.

[Ryu the Grappler]

The filter doesn't look very good, but as long as Sirlin, Udon, and Overclocked Remix stays away from this one, we'll be fine.

[susanismyalias]

If you can turn the filter off, nobody has anything to complain about.

[Deleted]

Yeah, hopefully you can turn it off. It looks like cataract vision otherwise.

[Deleted]

I never had the chance to play SFIII. Please don't let them screw this up like they did with Super Turbo...

[Joseph]

I take it I'm the only one around here who liked HD Remix? :-)

[Ryu the Grappler]

HD Remix should have been called "Street Fighter: The Comic Book: The Video Game". At least it would've been more honest, since it's basically the same design mentality that brought us the console version of Street Fighter: The Movie. They took the Super Turbo game system, but instead of replacing the original sprites and backgrounds with digitized imagery, they replaced them with badly traced wannabe manga art. Udon got some talented artists, but they should stick to drawing their licensed fan-fiction of a comic book instead of drawing sprites for video games.

[Ganelon]

I think HDR was a great concept based off one of the proven greatest games of all time (ST still being competitively played after 17 years) but was the victim of poor circumstances (middling art quality and endless delays that had SF4 stepping on its toes) and just didn't receive the support it needed (a solid online fanbase but most of which have little inclination to support the tourney scene).

And perhaps biggest of all, it fell victim to technical issues just as CCC2 did years earlier. It's awkward to play ST on HDR when there are 2-3 frames of extra lag on 360 and 4 extra frames on PS3.

As for 3SOE, scanlines would be nice too, although in today's environment, it seems too much to hope for. The main thing to avoid here would be to avoid input lag. If there are 3 frames on top of the arcade version (and PS3 versions often seem to have 1 additional frame of lag) then it won't be considered a competitively playable port by diehard fans.

[lanceboyle94]

Jun 2, 2011 15:37:35 GMT -5 Ryu the Grappler said:

The filter doesn't look very good, but as long as Sirlin, Udon, and Overclocked Remix stays away from this one, we'll be fine.

I agree with you. I don't want them butchering this SF.

Speaking of SSF2THDR, Guile's theme on that one sucked. Big time.

[MRSKELETON]

I

don't like the HD art filter, especially because Third Strike still has some of the best pixelart in a fighting game outside of Garou: Mark Of The Wolves

[Shellshock]

Ha ha ha ha ha parries via online play ha ha ha ha ha.

[MRSKELETON]

it worked on GGPO

[Lee]

Capcom keeps saying fans will be very excited about this port, but they are not adding any new fighters or fixing balancing issues. I keep hoping they have more up their sleeves than just a blurry filter effect. It could be worth my money if they added the stages from the original Street Fighter 3 and Double Impact along with their musical themes. It would also be nice to select between all three versions of fighters sorta like the last iteration of Street Fighter 2 in arcades.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed since Capcom said they put alot of money into this one, but I wouldn't be surprised if that money went into a stable online mode, graphical filters, and a UDON-made animated intro.

[Ryu the Grappler]

No! Why would they need to add new fighters? It's a re-release/port, not a new game.

I would've preferred a compilation of all three Street Fighter III games, perhaps with "Hyper Street Fighter III" mode where you can switch between all three games' character rosters, but a simple re-release of the last game is better than another "HD Remix".

Udon should keep their hands off games and stick to comic books.

[Lee]

A few new fighters would be cool, especially considering that none of the new Street Fighter 4 cast is in 3rd strike (which is technically the sequel to 4.) I'm not saying we need Seth or Hakan, but a sprite animated Rufus and Juri would be kinda badass.