My first contact with Street Fighter II consisted of playing it on my friend's Amiga during his birthday when I was more or less 12 years old. I played Dhalsim (reasoning that long arms and legs would help me win), and I lost (the winner chose Blanka and was just repeatedly pressing fire). It was one of the greatest computer games I have known for a long time - it had beautiful graphics, interesting characters, great gameplay (even if a little unbalanced - take Dhalsim for example...).
I had played the numerous variants of the game later on : crappy PC port, then cool PC Turbo version, some arcade machines (on one of them Ryu's fireball would fire FIVE fireballs at one, dunno what weirdo tweaked it), then Zero/Alpha series, the last one on my PSP.
I was excited when I learnt that the game is going to be redone in HD (High Definition) meaning high resolution sprites, more animation frames and essentially the same gameplay. I was even more excited that the guys doing the graphics are going to be studio Udon that I know as the creators of SFII comics and also from watching art of some of their artists on DeviantArt. But my scepticism kept me from getting my hopes up too much - it is so easy to spoil
Just recently I saw full screens and I think they look gorgeous. Of course, the final verdict can only be made based on the final product, but so far the screens look both great and surprisingly faithful to the original game.
Indeed, Street Fighter II has gone a long way...
The interesting fact is that already the whole process of converting and redrawing the characters into HD was causing quite some controversy. Capcom never replied to this and as far as I know. Personally, I like new looks and feel a little ambiguous about possible art copying. Anyhow, seeing screenshots of the new version flooded me with memories of playing it as a kid, which felt almost like re-reading a good book after years and finding out that it is still as good as before (I wanted to put some metaphor about women, but it would be risky and inaccurate, so I gave up).
On a side note, this reminds me that some time ago I have stumbled upon (probably via Kotaku) a very funny series of movies called Street Fighter : The Later Years - it's hilarious, especially if you are a fan of the series (like me).
As always, I intended to write a short note about the new HD version Street Fighter II and I ended up mentioning all sort of SFII-related stuff that came to my mind. At least I hope you could find out something interesting in it.
I had played the numerous variants of the game later on : crappy PC port, then cool PC Turbo version, some arcade machines (on one of them Ryu's fireball would fire FIVE fireballs at one, dunno what weirdo tweaked it), then Zero/Alpha series, the last one on my PSP.
I was excited when I learnt that the game is going to be redone in HD (High Definition) meaning high resolution sprites, more animation frames and essentially the same gameplay. I was even more excited that the guys doing the graphics are going to be studio Udon that I know as the creators of SFII comics and also from watching art of some of their artists on DeviantArt. But my scepticism kept me from getting my hopes up too much - it is so easy to spoil
Just recently I saw full screens and I think they look gorgeous. Of course, the final verdict can only be made based on the final product, but so far the screens look both great and surprisingly faithful to the original game.
Indeed, Street Fighter II has gone a long way...The interesting fact is that already the whole process of converting and redrawing the characters into HD was causing quite some controversy. Capcom never replied to this and as far as I know. Personally, I like new looks and feel a little ambiguous about possible art copying. Anyhow, seeing screenshots of the new version flooded me with memories of playing it as a kid, which felt almost like re-reading a good book after years and finding out that it is still as good as before (I wanted to put some metaphor about women, but it would be risky and inaccurate, so I gave up).
On a side note, this reminds me that some time ago I have stumbled upon (probably via Kotaku) a very funny series of movies called Street Fighter : The Later Years - it's hilarious, especially if you are a fan of the series (like me).
As always, I intended to write a short note about the new HD version Street Fighter II and I ended up mentioning all sort of SFII-related stuff that came to my mind. At least I hope you could find out something interesting in it.
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I missed this bit - but if you are a fan of the series then why don't you f.... play it at all? :P
Cheers (sorry I couldn't resist :P_
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