A whole bunch of new Street Fighter IV shots

All naysayers will be eating their words imo. This looks absolutely AMAZING!! Thank god for Capcom, they're one of the only companies that really consider art/style an important aspect of their games and those are really the games that appeal to me nowadays (games with lots of polish and character).

I love how it's a throwback to the best/most popular fighting game in history. All the old favourites such as stages and characters return plus we'll be getting a bevy of new ones with this amazing new art style that's never been seen before. I'm a hardcore streetfighter nut, I used to play part 1 back in the arcades all the way up to the alpha 3 (III, 2nd impact & 3rd strike had on DC so never played on arcades) and I really can't see how they could've done this any better. I was really hoping for a 2d style with heaps of animation but like the director said it's all been done before, 3rd strike had such smooth animations they said there was no way they could improve on it. I would've been happy with the same animations/graphics as 3rd strike but just with different stages and different characters (but with some awesome oldskool ones returning) but this new direction they have taken is just too awesome imo. There is no way I could've anticipated the look of this new style, it's like hybrid cel-shaded 3d but presented in 2d and it looks abolutely incredible!! Just look at the colours and detail in that chun-li stage and compare that to the old chun-li stage! Hell even compare it to the new chun-li stage (from 3rd strike) there is sooooo much detail there and it's looks a little bit more gritty and real but somehow still maintaining that classic street fighter look.

I cannot wait for this, Capcom are the best.







The differences are so incredible the old games almost look crap!

So instead of just bumping up the resolution Capcom have actually upgraded the engine the game runs on. This game will run in 720p atleast cuz it's on 360/Ps3 so you've got your resolution there, who knows what other things this engine might contain....like physics based bonus stages etc.

Graphical upgrades are way more important than resolutions. Resolutions don't mean anything to me really, for ages I played my 360 on an SD tv and then when I switched to HD I couldn't see what all the fuss was about. The lines were sharper and that's about it. I used to play Guilty Gear 2 quite a bit but I didn't think it was that far ahead of Street Fighter, infact animations were better on Street Fighter it was just the resolutions that were good on Guilty Gear....and all that did was make the lines sharper which made the characters more defined....that doesn't make the game look better artistically. I've never seen a game that looks like Street Fighter 4....ever....and that's something worth praising.

Hey trust me I love 2d more than anyone else I know but polygons in a 2d environment when done properly crap all over sprite based games. I've got every single street fighter game that's been released on the home consoles and i've never seen (or ever imagined) it would look that gritty and real but still maintaining the classic look/feel. It looks absolutely amazing imo....and like Dracusis said....wait till you see it in motion. 3d engines also allow for way better effects like lighting, shadows and particles etc....stuff that would look quite basic/cheap in 2d can really do wonders and create lots of atmosphere in 3d.

Seriously look at how bland that pic is compared to the bevy of detail in the SF4 pic...imo the alleyway in the background of SF4's Chunli stage has way more detail than the whole of Remake Ken's stage.....if you read my whole post you will see I mention 3d engines are capable of way more graphical effects like smoke, dirt, lighting, shadows and bump/normal mapping....stuff that gives graphics so much more depth than simple sprites. Look at the awesome particle effects that get kicked up when projectiles are fired. That look/detail just wouldn't be possible with sprites.



Higher resolution really is not a graphical upgrade....e.g. playing a ps2 on av cables and then playing it on component doesn't make the graphics any better....it makes it clearer....that's it.

See what you're failing to acknowledge is the director has already said that if the game were to be made in 2d that it really wouldn't be much of an engine upgrade, the resolution would improve but the animations would remain the same and that's not a huge graphical upgrade. Look at 3rd strike those backgrounds are packed chock-a-block with detail but one look at the 3d screenshot and you have depth of field, shadowing, particles, all that stuff combined looks way better than any amount of detail you can pack onto a 2d image.

Castle Crashers pushing new heights? LOL! You do realise that game looks exactly like and is made by the same company as Alien Homenid? Who's graphics were designed on Java? Just because something has an attractive style doesn't mean it's pushing any boundaries. Games like Okami and Viewtuiful joe are the ones that push boundaries and so will Street Fighter 4.....Odin Sphere as attractive as it is does not do anything new...therefore does not push a damn thing.

Also Udon art sucks, i'll take Capcom's anyday.