Jeff Buckland reports:
''While the arcade machines behind me kept three separate matches of Street Fighter IV going and people swarmed around the setup, I decided to pick up a fighting stick and sit down to try Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix on the Xbox 360. It's an interesting idea, one that hasn't really been tried yet in reviving classic gaming: keep the gameplay so exactly the same that you're not allowed to change almost anything about the game, and instead just work on the audiovisual presentation so much that it looks like a modern game.
And maybe it's just the genre, or maybe it's the cycle of going more complex and then back down to more simplistic (something fighting games have done a couple of times over the years), but with the success of games on Xbox Live Arcade, people have finally found their peace with a two-dimensional game played in a three-dimensional world. Of course, that's not even a correct description of HD Remix, but for one to be acceptable to today's gamers, then a fully 2D game but with HD graphics is not a big leap.
Capcom pulled together new artists to completely redraw all of the backgrounds, interface, menus, and most importantly, characters in the classic Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Everything is still hand-drawn and it works nicely together as the game runs very smoothly, although you will quickly find that this arcade-perfect port is so accurate that it correctly simulates the slowdowns on the original arcade version of the game. The gameplay is entirely identical down to each frame of animation, making for an impressive experience that's easy to pick up for veteran players but feels really fresh after a session of more modern games.''
Warp Zoned writes:
"Street Fighter II: The World Warrior wasn’t the first fighting game ever released, but it single-handedly helped shape the genre for decades to come."
I played street fighter 2 for years on my SNES even after I got my N64. It was just relaxing the way you could beat the snot out of such iconic characters.
Great news for all PS3 fans (blasphemyyyyyyyy, how can a PC gaming site talk about PS3 fans, how, HOW, HOOOOOOWWWWW) as RPCS3 is making a lot of progress. Since the launch of a Patreon campaign, its author has been working hard on it and it appears that its latest version can run a couple of games.
well it's not almost playable but very interesting. probably like a year or 2 from being fully playable
Carl Williams writes, "If you are reading this then you are probably a fan of retro games. Just taking a stab in the dark there. Well, we just found out that Capcom, one of the better retro supporting companies out there, has this package with Humble Bundle full of Playstation 3 and Playstation 4 games. You better hurry and grab this one because time is running out."
I have to agree. I wish companies would do more porting of their previous digital only games such as Final Fight Double Impact over to the PS4. I want to get a Playstation but 3 seems on the way out and 4 is still too new for a lot of what I am interested in.
I wish they would port their full classic line brawlers from the 90s. Man, they made some good games back then.
Napalm, check out their PSP Reloaded and Remixed collections. Great value for the money and full of their core retro games. I am not sure what consoles they released those collections on but I am sure PS3 and Xbox 360 were in there.
Well, we know that is not going to happen anytime soon, at least not till people stop buying PS3 games and such. Sad. I wish it was backwards compatible too- I would buy a PS4 immediately if it worked with at least the digital stuff from the PS3.
I wish Sony would get the licenses for all the classic arcade games from the 80s and 90s for the PS4.. I dont see why they wouldnt want to make money? I miss those brawlers like xmen, tmnt, etc.. So many great games people are forced to play on mame
The problem with that idea is that a lot of those companies are now defunct and no one really knows who owns the rights to what game. Then in cases like X-Men, it is multiple companies involved (the engine would be Konami's while the actual X-Men license would be Marvel's) and sometimes none of the companies involved are interested in working together again for whatever reason.
I wish it would happen too though.
