I’ll try to keep this short this time.
I’m sure most of you saw the Street Fighter IV teaser trailer. I’m sure many of you said “Wow, this looks really awesome” to themselves. I know I did, but after watching it a second and a third time this silent, but booming voice inside my head said, “Think about it... it’s 3D, the game will probably be 3D as well - 3D Street Fighter. It has been done before, remember?” I scratched my head, because I always though that I was a relatively sane person, but the voice in my head seemed to be contradicting this presumption… but never mind that. The voice was right. Capcom tried to make a 3D SF before and created the EX series, which were, to put it mildly, worse that watching Alone in the Dark – the movie while eating an ice-cream sundae with mayonnaise through the whole damn thing. I decided to wait for some gameplay movies, or at least in-game screenshots. Well, I shouldn’t have.
The first movie shows Ryu and Ken fighting on some market street. The graphics are stylized to look like a drawing, but are in fact 3D. It’s not cell-shading, but it’s close. Now, from what I have written you probably think it can’t be too bad, right? Wrong! Even though the backgrounds look quite nice (and I’m using a meaningless “nice” here for a reason) the characters look like cheep-ass, “made in china” action figures. They look plastic, the animation is barely decent (for today’s standards at least) and both Ken and Ryu look like shaved monkeys. This is a profanation of the series, a PROFANATION, damn it! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… deep breath…
I believe it to be the final sign, that 2D games are dead. After the release of Odin Sphere (Have you seen this game?! It’s absolutely beautiful.) and Capcom remaking Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo into real HD, I though there is still hope – that in the time of really powerful hardware we’ll see 2D games with stunning graphics and animation that is fluid as molten butter. Unfortunately it seems that the only place we will be able to find 2D games are XBL Arcade and Playstation Network and those will be either HD versions of some really old games, or stuff that started out on a Flash website.
I must say, this makes me truly sad. For me 2D games were always more inspiring that all that polygon pulp. Street Fighter, Broken Sword (Sleeping Dragon and The Angel of Death are great games, but they lack that specific mood the first two had), the first Rayman, Saga Frontier 2… I’m gonna really miss 2D gaming.
I’m sure most of you saw the Street Fighter IV teaser trailer. I’m sure many of you said “Wow, this looks really awesome” to themselves. I know I did, but after watching it a second and a third time this silent, but booming voice inside my head said, “Think about it... it’s 3D, the game will probably be 3D as well - 3D Street Fighter. It has been done before, remember?” I scratched my head, because I always though that I was a relatively sane person, but the voice in my head seemed to be contradicting this presumption… but never mind that. The voice was right. Capcom tried to make a 3D SF before and created the EX series, which were, to put it mildly, worse that watching Alone in the Dark – the movie while eating an ice-cream sundae with mayonnaise through the whole damn thing. I decided to wait for some gameplay movies, or at least in-game screenshots. Well, I shouldn’t have.
The first movie shows Ryu and Ken fighting on some market street. The graphics are stylized to look like a drawing, but are in fact 3D. It’s not cell-shading, but it’s close. Now, from what I have written you probably think it can’t be too bad, right? Wrong! Even though the backgrounds look quite nice (and I’m using a meaningless “nice” here for a reason) the characters look like cheep-ass, “made in china” action figures. They look plastic, the animation is barely decent (for today’s standards at least) and both Ken and Ryu look like shaved monkeys. This is a profanation of the series, a PROFANATION, damn it! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… deep breath…
I believe it to be the final sign, that 2D games are dead. After the release of Odin Sphere (Have you seen this game?! It’s absolutely beautiful.) and Capcom remaking Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo into real HD, I though there is still hope – that in the time of really powerful hardware we’ll see 2D games with stunning graphics and animation that is fluid as molten butter. Unfortunately it seems that the only place we will be able to find 2D games are XBL Arcade and Playstation Network and those will be either HD versions of some really old games, or stuff that started out on a Flash website.
I must say, this makes me truly sad. For me 2D games were always more inspiring that all that polygon pulp. Street Fighter, Broken Sword (Sleeping Dragon and The Angel of Death are great games, but they lack that specific mood the first two had), the first Rayman, Saga Frontier 2… I’m gonna really miss 2D gaming.
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