#Street fighter iii 3rd strike soundtrack series
Maybe dubstep’s (not brostep!) popularity in the UK, combined with the prominence of acts like The Prodigy, caused it? All in all, it’s a weird but fitting choice for the series that I can’t imagine in any other way. Surely, there’s a weird “drum & bass/trip-hop/jazzy” vibe to the whole affair, though I’m not sure what motivated that shift. It improved with age, even as the community found some character were, simply put, far and away from the rest (Chun-Li, Yun, Ken in that order, maybe Dudley).įurthermore, the aesthetics and music aged well. Before long, on both sides of the pond, Street Figther III became a stellar tournament level game in its own right. People kept playing, and discovering new things, and kept playing the game. This remains as true of 3rd Strike, although it took years upon years of high level competition to determine that. The first two game were horribly balanced, with some characters standing head and shoulders above others. I’m not counting the EX series those were Arika developed, and nobody likes them either! Also, they’re not in this collection, probably for that exact reason.Ī strange thing happened, though: people starting playing the game, rather than judging it. Capcom, as well, retired the franchise due to its under-performance. Even the 3rd version, 3rd Strike (a fitting name), failed to do any major business anywhere, and was quickly forgotten…by the mainstream. So it was that Street Fighter III’s two initial installments were generally ignored. On the other hand, brand loyalty means some concessions must be made in the marketplace.
From one standpoint, it’s a brilliant move that solidifies the uniqueness of a franchise’s evolution. Envisioning a “new start” for the series, every character from any previous games were taken out (excepting Ryu and Ken) in favor of a whole new cast. Thus, we have a perfect storm of complicated mechanics, bad cultural context, rising costs, long development cycles (Alpha 3 came out after the first two iteration of SFIII how weird is that?), and a game missing many favorite Street Fighter characters. Selectable Super Arts (only one of three!) certainly didn’t help. Imagine coming from previous games to Street Fighter III, and you can imagine the issue. Fireballs and ranged attacks add another wrinkle to the game, as high/low mixups could force a guess parry (can’t parry high and low at the same time). You can’t spam it, either, as it requires the player to put the stick back in neutral position before initiating another. Any and EVERY attack can be parried with enough practice – literally, you need to press forward the moment an attack hits your character to parry. No longer do projectile attacks controls space this turns Street Fighter into a close-combat guessing game requiring precise timing. It became such a boon that Capcom’s focus shifted from arcades to consoles – a good idea in their mind, certainly, but not a good omen for the Street Fighter series.Īdding a complex mechanics into the series – parrying – also changes the dynamics completely. Console games started by leeching off their arcade parents, but drew away once the money came calling easier games make more money, of course (even if RE itself remained rather hardcore in its implementation of limited supplies). On that note, it was much easier to make than animating, balancing, and creating an entirely new fighting game.
RE1 remains a hallmark in video games for creating the “survival horror” action subgenre, and many games followed in its wake.
Of course, the game aged better than the original Tekken or Virtua Fighter’s graphics, but this costly animation procedure lost Capcom boatloads of money with the series.Īt the same time, Capcom enjoyed renewed success with the recently created Resident Evil. I’d imagine creating one of the most powerful 2D processing arcade boards in history still doesn’t strike anyone as the best of decisions when the world loved seeing jaggy, pointy polygons jutting out all over the place. Arcades still flourished in America when the Alpha series came to prominence that wasn’t the case for 1999’s Street Fighter III: New Generation, which chose exquisite, beautiful hand-drawn animation over the 3D obsession of the day. Even in comparison to the Alpha series, Street Fighter III stood in an odd place.
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