If the Street Fighter series wants to survive should it go back to 2D???

[Gizmo_Duck]

But wait…

Street Fighter 5's sales are now less than 1 million copies away from Street Fighter 2's almost 30-year-old record

Literally the 2nd best selling game in the series

 

[parallax]

2021 and sf5 is still sum mid tier shyt

They need to forget about street fighter and bring Rival Schools/Project Justice and Power Stone back

What are they gonna do?

 

[CarltonJunior]

But wait…

Street Fighter 5's sales are now less than 1 million copies away from Street Fighter 2's almost 30-year-old record

Literally the 2nd best selling game in the series

This has more to do with the long lifespan of the game tbh and the fact that gaming has changed a lot since back then, digital gaming probably has created a lot of re-purchases.

Like for me I've bought SF5 like 3 times already basically. Bought it for PS4 at launch, bought champion edition and then when I got a gaming PC I bought it for that. I'm sure a lot of avid players have similar experiences.

 

[BlackMajik]

What are they gonna do?

I don't know what they gonna do but I know what Capcom needs to do

Like I said bring back Rival Schools and Power Stone. Both of them games is better than SF5

 

[the_FUTURE]

Luke will probably look a lot cleaner with a new model style for SF6. He's supposed to be the face of the next installment, well you wouldn't get that impression off his SF5 model.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

This has more to do with the long lifespan of the game tbh and the fact that gaming has changed a lot since back then, digital gaming probably has created a lot of re-purchases.

Like for me I've bought SF5 like 3 times already basically. Bought it for PS4 at launch, bought champion edition and then when I got a gaming PC I bought it for that. I'm sure a lot of avid players have similar experiences.

either way it sold 5.5 mil, the fact that street fighter is damn near 30 years old and is only on its 5th entry kind of makes long lifespans its thing. Even if we count the Alpha series its still only 8 entries. 7 if we're not counting 1

 

[Jone2three45]

Arc system works has made capcom look like amateurs

They’ve taken the anime aesthetic using the unreal engine and have put out hit after hit using it

meanwhile ryu and and chun li continue getting bulkier and uglier

Agreed. Oro looks like a bulky mess as well compared to his SF3 sprite.

Look at this video, which is more artistically pleasing to the eye?

 

[BlackMajik]

Agreed. Oro looks like a bulky mess as well compared to his SF3 sprite.

Look at this video, which is more artistically pleasing to the eye?

 

[Master Teacher]

This has more to do with the long lifespan of the game tbh and the fact that gaming has changed a lot since back then, digital gaming probably has created a lot of re-purchases.

Like for me I've bought SF5 like 3 times already basically. Bought it for PS4 at launch, bought champion edition and then when I got a gaming PC I bought it for that. I'm sure a lot of avid players have similar experiences.

Street Fighter IV had a much longer life span like 8 years of support

and was Xbox and PS4, and V did better

people will always complain about street fighter no matter what they do to the game

 

[CarltonJunior]

Street Fighter IV had a much longer life span like 8 years of support

and was Xbox and PS4, and V did better

people will always complain about street fighter no matter what they do to the game

Well, not much longer. SF4's last update was in 2014 and it came out in 2009. SF5 came out in 2016 and it's last update is (hopefully) this year.

I still feel it has more to do with console gaming growing as a whole and repurchasing. Plus the fighting game culture/esports in general has grown massively.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

So is street fighter doomed or not?

 

[Master Teacher]

Well, not much longer. SF4's last update was in 2014 and it came out in 2009. SF5 came out in 2016 and it's last update is (hopefully) this year.

I still feel it has more to do with console gaming growing as a whole and repurchasing. Plus the fighting game culture/esports in general has grown massively.

Street Fighter IV was on Xbox, PS3, and PC and V still out sold it in less time

Street Fighter has always been a game that lasted years

They just made bunch of versions of Street Fighter II

Street fighter II
Street Fighter II Championship Edition
Street fighter II Hyper fighting
Super Street Fighter II
and Super Street fighter II Turbo

they had to make nerfs and buffs in whole now games to balance it out back then, now you can just download the update and add characters in DLC

Street Fighter III even though purist say its the best in the series, was a low point for the series, arcades were dying, and street fighter was losing popularity after the popular alpha series and vs series

Street Fighter IV restored the tournament scene and brought fighting games back up into Esports and made EVO a bigger thing than what it was

so V being more popular than IV is an accomplisment

 

[Don Mack]

Luke will probably look a lot cleaner with a new model style for SF6. He's supposed to be the face of the next installment, well you wouldn't get that impression off his SF5 model.

If Luke’s design was better he’d probably have a better reaction. Some of his moves look interesting. We’ll see if he fares better than Alex did for SF3

 

[Return of the Jedi]

So is street fighter doomed or not?

Never “doomed”.

I know I’m two years late to this thread topic, but Street Fighter V’s issues were all related to gameplay, not graphics. I would love a hand-drawn 2D style, but that wouldn’t “save” Street Fighter.

 

[Batsute]

Agreed. Oro looks like a bulky mess as well compared to his SF3 sprite.

Look at this video, which is more artistically pleasing to the eye?

You can’t be serious to compare 3D to 2D. They’re inherently to different mediums and serve two different purposes in animations.

Unless Capcom is making a new Darkstalkers those squash and stretch animations don’t work in modern 3D fighters. Go look at Kazuya’s spin kick and tell me that doesn’t look busted.