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Street Fighter II EX plus deluxe super washboard rex dynamo
17 years ago
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(copy pasta from my DA journal, because I don't have time for two rants, but this wants an audience.)
Okay, I have to rant.
First off, Hi everybody, yeah, s'been about a year, I dropped off the face of the earth here and on DA. Been busy. I'll elaborate in about a week, but for now, I have to bitch about Capcom.
I just became aware that "Street Fighter IV" (and I put the quote marks there for a reason) is going to have the four bosses from the original SFII, Including Bison, who is supposed to be -dead- in SFII.
This means that this game now consists of:
The eight characters from SFII
The four bosses from SFII (who are returning as initially unselectable, BTW)
A number of staged from SFII
3 new characters.
They have a dozen games to choose from, an extended canon that includes the final fight and saturday night slammasters games, and pretty much every culture in the world to draw inspiration from for new characters, and we get the original twelve fighters plus 3 newbies with absolutely no ties to the existing cast.
This is not a sequel. This is a REMAKE. We've got the original four bosses, the original eight selectable fighters, and how much do you want to bet everybody's going to have more or less the same story and pretty much the same endings as in SFII?
This is not Street Fighter IV.
This is Street fighter II 3D EX turbo retard deluxe super bonus round asterisk.
Thing is, I don't mind remakes. I don't mind spinoffs. But god-damn- it aggrivates the hell out of me when a company has the balls to try and pretend that either of those things constitute a -sequel-.
Street fighter ALPHA was more of a sequel than this is.
I realize SFII was the height of popularity for the series. But jesus christ. We've all played it. In fact, there's already a perfectly servicable remake of it coming out on Playstation Network and Xbox live arcade.
I'm willing to buy that. It doesn't try to call itself something it isn't.
Okay, I have to rant.
First off, Hi everybody, yeah, s'been about a year, I dropped off the face of the earth here and on DA. Been busy. I'll elaborate in about a week, but for now, I have to bitch about Capcom.
I just became aware that "Street Fighter IV" (and I put the quote marks there for a reason) is going to have the four bosses from the original SFII, Including Bison, who is supposed to be -dead- in SFII.
This means that this game now consists of:
The eight characters from SFII
The four bosses from SFII (who are returning as initially unselectable, BTW)
A number of staged from SFII
3 new characters.
They have a dozen games to choose from, an extended canon that includes the final fight and saturday night slammasters games, and pretty much every culture in the world to draw inspiration from for new characters, and we get the original twelve fighters plus 3 newbies with absolutely no ties to the existing cast.
This is not a sequel. This is a REMAKE. We've got the original four bosses, the original eight selectable fighters, and how much do you want to bet everybody's going to have more or less the same story and pretty much the same endings as in SFII?
This is not Street Fighter IV.
This is Street fighter II 3D EX turbo retard deluxe super bonus round asterisk.
Thing is, I don't mind remakes. I don't mind spinoffs. But god-damn- it aggrivates the hell out of me when a company has the balls to try and pretend that either of those things constitute a -sequel-.
Street fighter ALPHA was more of a sequel than this is.
I realize SFII was the height of popularity for the series. But jesus christ. We've all played it. In fact, there's already a perfectly servicable remake of it coming out on Playstation Network and Xbox live arcade.
I'm willing to buy that. It doesn't try to call itself something it isn't.
