Fighting Game Nostalgia

[Anonymous No.8258873]

Question: Do fighting game characters have their own stages in newer games? I remember the older ones did it all the time, and it added such a layer of atmosphere, going to a particular character's stage, and facing them on their own turf, listening to "their" music.

[Anonymous No.8258912]

It never made sense to me that a game called Street Fighter had more private property than street stages

[Anonymous No.8259093]

>>8258873
Last good fighting game was 3rd strike. After that it was just half assed, recyled, dlc infested shit.

[Anonymous No.8259108]

>>8258873
I feel, with my completely uneducated opinion, that older games in general would feature levels to bolster the character designs. It's easier to want to play as Sumo Santa in Clayfighters after you've seen his Santa House and looked at a couple of his elves.

[Anonymous No.8259139]

>>8259093
3rd strike makes a bunch of characters share stages

[Anonymous No.8259152]

>>8259093
>last good game was 3rd Strike
>game with unfinished and broken characters is the last good one


yeah, lets ignore that only 6 characters are entirely viable in competitive play. And worst, no one watches tournaments of this acclaimed classic because it pretty much turns into top 8 being nothing but Chuns, Yuns, or Kens.

This is why the only hype "tournament" is the Co-op cup which is 3-man team tourney with single elimination and no prize money.

Yes, clearly the last good fighting game.

[Anonymous No.8259159]

>>8259152
>competitive play
Welcome to another reason modern fighting games are fucking shit, it's all about "competitive" dickwaving contest "pay me money to be good at vidya" bullshit.

[Anonymous No.8259164]

>>8259093
That's a funny way of saying Alpha 2/Accent Core + R/2002 UM/Armageddon.

[Anonymous No.8259170]

>>8259093
Based. 3rd strike is perfect. I dunno why eveeyone gotta switch fighting games every single time people shit out a new one. Everyone should just plsy 3s forever

[Anonymous No.8259173]

>>8259152
nobody fucking cares about tournaments lol

[Anonymous No.8259174]

>>8258873
One fighting game that did this particularly well was Art of Fighting 1 on the SNES

the soundtrack is phenomenal despite the game being ball-busting hard and the CPU was a cheating sack of shit.

But the OST is insanely underrated and is far superior to the Arcade version.


https://youtu.be/qJ88yXEqOU0
https://youtu.be/qV00iIKenG4
https://youtu.be/QjGL1sBSlWU

[Anonymous No.8259182]

>>8259159
fighting games have always been competitive you colossal retard

back in '93 you would definitely be pissed if you lost cuz it cost money to fuckin play

its faggots like you who would make "house rules" and have them plastered on the cabs

>"no throws"
>"no picking X character"

you kill the fun of the game because you can't GIT GUD

let a player play, fuck you

[Anonymous No.8259198]

>>8259182
>confusing actual normal gameplay with FUCKING CANCEROUS COMPETITIVE TOURNAMENTS
Just give it up, kid. You're not smart enough to post here.

[Anonymous No.8259210]

>>8259159
>modern fighting games are fucking shit

stfu casual scum

you can't even fathom how easy modern fighting games are today because they cater to shit scrubs like you

yet you praise old fighting games not knowing how retarded difficult they were or how incredibly unforgiving they are to new players.

You talk all that good shit about these old games, but the moment anyone who knows they shit comes up to say anything

>"WAAHHH COMPETATIVE FAGS RUIN EVERYTHING!"""

the fact that you can't fathom people liking a genre so much that they take the time to actually learn the mechanics behind the game

oh no! how dare they!

[Anonymous No.8259236]

>>8259198
throws in SF2 are done by simply being near your opponent and pressing a Fierce Attack. Some can throw from a Strong attack.

And yet people would frown upon them because they did absurd damage.

>normal gameplay
stay away and shoot projectiles?

WAAAAAHH HE'S SPAMMING!!!

get close and punish them for blocking

DUDE STOP THROWING ME!!

30+ years and shit hasn't change

[Anonymous No.8259253]

That's the one thing I dislike about Tekken, that there aren't character theme songs.

[Anonymous No.8259258]

>>8259152
>This is why the only hype "tournament" is the Co-op cup which is 3-man team tourney with single elimination and no prize money.
what kind of soulless loser shittalks cooperation cup. what the hell man. equating the quality of a game with the size of its esports payouts has got to be bait but take my reply anyways I guess

[Anonymous No.8259261]

Ignore the retard and discuss what you're playing on Fightcade 2 now that naomi and atomiswave stuff has rollback.

Been enjoying CvS2 and Akatsuki Blitzkampf.
>>8259258
He's an idiot but I think you misunderstood his comment, he only like co-op cup because it's purely a tourney done out of passion. For some reason that guy is assblasted about the fact that developers actually added depth to games so that even 25 years later so many of them have a legacy. He's in the darkstalkers thread too, guess he can't deal with playing other people.

[Anonymous No.8259275]

>>8259258
its the only way to make the game watchable

its not a burn on the tournament, but the game itself not being as entertaining to watch at its highest level of competitiveness. No one gives a fuck about a double elim bo5 tourney to see who is the best, because its a fuckin snore of a fuckin game.

so you settle for single-elim bo1 pokemon style team tourney, and hope to see some upsets, blow ups, and underdogs winnings. Cuz otherwise, u get nothing but Chun mirrors fishing for low short into super.

But yeah, lets just go with me having no soul, since that makes more sense.

[Anonymous No.8259291]

>>8258873
Since no one answered OPs question, it depends. There could be less stages than characters, so you could encounter 2 or more in the same stage, making it so that it's not their stage anymore, but certain characters will always appear in a particular stage. As for music, it's usually associated to the stage and not the character. Of course mini boss and boss fights are the exception. They always have their own stage and music.
>>8259253
Tekken 3 and Tag have them. Just search on youtube. Can't remember if 1 and 2 have music. All others have the song associated to the area they appear in. Like, in 4 you fight Hwoarang in the parking lot, so the theme for that stage plays, which makes it "his theme". All characters have an ending song associated to them.

[Anonymous No.8259310]

>>8259291
It's the same deal in Tekken 2. I think they may have reused a few songs from Tekken, but each character has their own stage and by extension their own song. i can't remember if every ending cinematic has a unique song but at least some of them are different

[Anonymous No.8259315]

>>8258912
it's called "street" fighting because there is basically no rules and everything is allowed, as opposed to boxing and other regulated combat forms.

[Anonymous No.8259335]

>>8259174
AoF is an underrated game that certainly has its problems, but also brought many innovations to the genre at the time, such as a story mode with cutscenes, battle damage visible on the characters during the fight, bonus stages that actually make your character stronger, power charging and functional taunts.
Don't know why you specified the SNES version though, it's a good port but I don't think it has anything the Neo Geo version doesn't have.

[Anonymous No.8259424]

>>8259093
>>8259170
>3rd strike is perfect.
>Everyone should just plsy 3s forever
Yikes.
>>8259152
>Broken characters
Double Yikes. All the best fighting games of all time are unbalanced. ST, Hyper Fighting, MvC2, CvS2.
>>8259198
Hate to break it to you zoom boy but pre internet EVERYONE knew Guile was busted in World Warrior.

[Anonymous No.8259426]

>>8258873
I know KoF14 has... this kinda? too many characters, so usually team captains get their own stage and music, some need to share themes or stages. some stages are unique iirc and not really tied to anyone.

[Anonymous No.8259596]

>>8259210
Some older games are less punishing than others. SF3 is a lot of fun even when youre losing. The game is so fluid and intuitive. Knocking down allows even the newest players to play wakeup mindgames that they can follow up with easy combos if they win. Feels good. Once I got good with akuma and makoto I started getting into some kind of flow where I just do things without even thinking. Anti air some jump and juggling the opponent feels so good.

The most punishing game Ive ever played was KOF98. Shit starts happening and I have no idea what to do. Also ST vs zangief, the fuckhuge range on that guy

[Anonymous No.8259609]

>>8259596
Do you like fighting games or games in general? It sounds like you want you're describing work rather than a game created for the person to have fun. I understand Daigo talking like that, because he makes a living from it. but i think you're just a normal guy, killing yourself for something like this is stupid

[Anonymous No.8259610]

>>8259335
Fewer frames and maybe different physics? There are ridiculous juggles combos from mk3 snes that are impossible in arcade

[Anonymous No.8260467]

>>8259596
really? I found 98 much more straightforward and intuitive.

[Anonymous No.8260653]

>>8259609
if you spent as much time playing fighting games as you did making terrible posts, you'd be a match for that anon
sweep into low/overhead/throw mix-up is zero effort. button into special move combos take a few minutes to learn, total in your entire life. juggling after that can be a bit more specific but not so bad that you can't learn it while fighting another person.

[Anonymous No.8260703]

HELP anyone has a CPS2 emu with every rom? I wanna reexperience Capcom arcade

[Anonymous No.8261757]

>>8258873
>>8259093
>>8259152
I prefer Andrei Ryu to Andrei Ken...

[Anonymous No.8262091]

>>8261757
Gouken: "Rieu! What do you see beyond your frets?"

[Anonymous No.8262514]

[Anonymous No.8262516]

>>8262514
lol this stage is now censored for current releases.

[Anonymous No.8262621]

>>8259291
They did have them, but they dropped it.
It's not like Street Fighter, where every character has a specific theme song.

[Anonymous No.8262840]

>>8262516
How so?

[Anonymous No.8262843]

>>8262840
Rising sun removed from background. You can see it in the picture, the mural just turns red now

[Anonymous No.8262846]

>>8259174
The one thing in that pic that looks out of place is the coffee maker. If that weren't there I'd say the pic was from the 90s.

[Anonymous No.8262847]

>>8262843
That's retarded. Probably offended the chinese.

[Anonymous No.8263059]

>>8259261
Friends were playing Project Justice the other day. I'm not thee biggest Rival Schools fan but that game is cool. I wanna play Power Stone again but I also hope one day FC2 figures out how to get 4 Player working so I can play Power Stone 2 how god intended.

[Anonymous No.8263118]

>>8259424
MvC2 is a kusoge, ask ANY good player in Japan.

[Anonymous No.8263991]

>>8263118
>ask ANY good player in Japan.
>Tokido: MvC2 is shit
>Also Tokido: SF5 is the best version of street fighter ever!
I don't know why the japs dislike it, might be a cope for not being any good at it but if you played marvel for yourself you would see that its good.

[Anonymous No.8264023]

>>8262516
>>8262843
>>8262847
There's also this.

[Anonymous No.8264027]

>>8264023
Wowee

[Anonymous No.8264029]

There has never been a good fighting game that wasn't consideted kusoge by people, the fact of the matter is balance doesn't matter as much as people think.

[Anonymous No.8264054]

>>8264029
mvc2 isn't just unbalanced. there's characters with easy infinites and they aren't even top tier because an infinite isn't enough. you need to be able to chip kill from full screen

[Anonymous No.8264061]

>>8264029
all fighting games are kusoge, but some fighting games are more kusoge than others.

[Anonymous No.8264079]

>>8264054
Apart from Sentinel corner infinites I doubt 99% of /vr/ could even do Ironman/Warmachines into super.

[Anonymous No.8264550]

>>8263059
>I'm not thee

Why are you talking like Thor?

[Anonymous No.8265260]

>>8264550
He's going to Valhalla you pleb.

[Anonymous No.8265279]

Waku Waku 7 is, personally, the perfect fighting game, or at least very close to it. If I ever had the resources I'd have an original fightan made very similarly to it.

>>8264079
I always wondered, were Sentinels always jobbers in Marvel comics and cartoons, or was it just the cartoon? Even so, how did Capcom manage to make one of the flimsiest characters into one of the strongest ones?

[Anonymous No.8265308]

>>8265279
Believe it or not Sent was seen as big and slow on release and it didn't help everyone was playing Cable at the time. Over time players discovered his unblockable, fast fly, unfly and how amazing his assists were.
>cartoons
Definitely, apart from Nimrod they got their ass handed to them in almost every scene.

[Anonymous No.8265507]

>>8265279
>were Sentinels always jobbers
they're generic robots who exist only to try to kill popular named characters
of course they're jobbers

[Anonymous No.8265864]

>>8265507
>they're generic robots
But at times they were the size of buildings. They really got no respect especially when Jubilee was taking them out.

[Anonymous No.8265906]

>>8259093
You didn't like KoF XII and XI?

Nest looking fighting games ever made