So I've been thinking of making this thread for a couple of days now due to the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection finally adding these games to a console other than the Dreamcast, but after Capcom put out their final retrospective video on the Street Fighter III series I decided to go through with it.
Street Fighter III: New Generation and Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact are now just over 20 years old (both games released in 1997), but the use of Capcom's CPS3 hardware resulted in one of the most beautiful and staggeringly good looking games of the 2D era, if not all time. People often talk about how Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is the pinnacle of 2D fighting games in terms of its graphics, but if you ask me that honour still goes to, and always will go to, its two predecessors. The aim of this thread is not to argue about which ___ is better than ___, it's to admire these gorgeous games and appreciate the good old days of 2D fighting games. That being said, let's start off by looking at the stages themselves. At this point I'm going to let the pictures do the talking, so sit back and enjoy some 90s fighting game goodness:
Gill's 2nd Impact Stage
Elena's 2nd Impact Stage
Ryu and Ken's New Generation Stage
Alex's New Generation Stage
Alex's 2nd Impact Stage
Yun and Yang's New Generation and 2nd Impact Stage
Hugo's 2nd Impact Stage
Ken's 2nd Impact Stage
Gill's New Generation Stage
Necro's 2nd Impact Stage
Ibuki's New Generation and 2nd Impact Stage
Urien's 2nd Impact Stage
Sean's New Generation Stage
There are even more stages from these games, but now that we've seen some of these stages from a distance, let's look at a couple of the awesome intros and transitions that some of these stages have:
Yun's intro in New Generation
Akuma's intro in 2nd Impact
Elena's stage transition in New Generation (and 2nd Impact)
Now let's look at the details in the backgrounds of some of these stages:
Some Thugs in Dudley's New Generation and 2nd Impact Stage
Some Drunkards in Hugo's 2nd Impact Stage
Some Spectators in Elena's New Generation Stage
Some Spectators in Ryu and Ken's New Generation Stage
A Pedestrian that can be sometimes seen in Alex's New Generation Stage
The Christmas lights in Sean's New Generation Stage
An confused man in Yun's New Generation Stage...
...who becomes angry and sobs when items are broken during the fight!
Some Pedestrians that cower over the might of Sean Matsuda in his 2nd Impact Stage
That's all I can find for now but if anyone has anymore examples to post from these awesome games then by all means feel free to post them! I really think New Generation and 2nd Impact deserve more love and with the 30th Anniversary Collection it has the chance to be appreciated more!
Street Fighter III: New Generation and Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact are now just over 20 years old (both games released in 1997), but the use of Capcom's CPS3 hardware resulted in one of the most beautiful and staggeringly good looking games of the 2D era, if not all time. People often talk about how Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is the pinnacle of 2D fighting games in terms of its graphics, but if you ask me that honour still goes to, and always will go to, its two predecessors. The aim of this thread is not to argue about which ___ is better than ___, it's to admire these gorgeous games and appreciate the good old days of 2D fighting games. That being said, let's start off by looking at the stages themselves. At this point I'm going to let the pictures do the talking, so sit back and enjoy some 90s fighting game goodness:
Gill's 2nd Impact Stage
Elena's 2nd Impact Stage
Ryu and Ken's New Generation Stage
Alex's New Generation Stage
Alex's 2nd Impact Stage
Yun and Yang's New Generation and 2nd Impact Stage
Hugo's 2nd Impact Stage
Ken's 2nd Impact Stage
Gill's New Generation Stage
Necro's 2nd Impact Stage
Ibuki's New Generation and 2nd Impact Stage
Urien's 2nd Impact Stage
Sean's New Generation Stage
There are even more stages from these games, but now that we've seen some of these stages from a distance, let's look at a couple of the awesome intros and transitions that some of these stages have:
Yun's intro in New Generation
Akuma's intro in 2nd Impact
Elena's stage transition in New Generation (and 2nd Impact)
Now let's look at the details in the backgrounds of some of these stages:
Some Thugs in Dudley's New Generation and 2nd Impact Stage
Some Drunkards in Hugo's 2nd Impact Stage
Some Spectators in Elena's New Generation Stage
Some Spectators in Ryu and Ken's New Generation Stage
A Pedestrian that can be sometimes seen in Alex's New Generation Stage
The Christmas lights in Sean's New Generation Stage
An confused man in Yun's New Generation Stage...
...who becomes angry and sobs when items are broken during the fight!
Some Pedestrians that cower over the might of Sean Matsuda in his 2nd Impact Stage
That's all I can find for now but if anyone has anymore examples to post from these awesome games then by all means feel free to post them! I really think New Generation and 2nd Impact deserve more love and with the 30th Anniversary Collection it has the chance to be appreciated more!
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