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[Anonymous No.8523465]

Why wasn't this game considered to be Street Fighter III?

[Anonymous No.8523473]

there’s no 3 in the name. also it’s 3D and by a different developer

[Anonymous No.8523484]

Not made by Capcom.

[Anonymous No.8523486]

Because they wanted mainline Street Fighter to remain 2D.

[Anonymous No.8523509]

Love these games. I even liked Arika's new game too, but I wish they made the whole gougi thing opional.

[Anonymous No.8523510]

>>8523486
This. Capcom took an elegant solution when 3D became a hot ticket. Rather than transition their franchises to 3D and alienate people they built entirely new spinoffs. That's why Street Fighter EX and Mega Man Legends disappeared by the way. Their sole reason for existing was to be "Street Fighter in 3D" and "Mega Man in 3D." Once they served their purpose and the 3D-or-die marketing fad ended the spinoffs served no purpose.

[Anonymous No.8523516]

If you think about it, it was.

Becusse 4 is literally just EX 3. So EX 1+2 was really 3. And 3 was just some other shit. Like Street Fighter END or some shit

[Anonymous No.8523518]

>>8523484
But it was made by the same designer that worked on Street Fighter II: Akira Nishitani.

[Anonymous No.8523525]

>>8523473
>there’s no 3 in the name
But there could have been if Capcom wanted it that way.
>it’s 3D
so?
>by a different developer
Arika was a lot of ex-Capcom employees.
Street Fighter IV was made by Dimps, same situation.

[Anonymous No.8523530]

>>8523516
But there actually was a Street Fighter EX 3.
But I wonder how this game would have sold if it was Street Fighter V in the early PS2 days.

[Anonymous No.8523534]

>>8523525
>>it’s 3D
>so?
They wanted SF3 to be 2D. They debated whether to make it 2D or 3D, and settled on 2D because it was more expressive, The 3D concept became EX as a spinoff.

[Anonymous No.8523567]

Street Fighter (1987) is Street Fighter I
Fatal Fury (1991) is Street Fighter II
Street Fighter IV (2008) is Street Fighter III

Street Fighter II (1991) is The World Warrior
Street Fighter EX (1996) is The World Warrior II
Street Fighter EX 2 (1998) is The World Warrior III
Street Fighter EX 3 (2000) is The World Warrior IV

[Anonymous No.8523571]

Like nearly every 2d IP in the 5th gen "must be 3d" era, it wasn't good enough to be considered the mainline entry. In looks or gameplay or both

[Anonymous No.8523583]

>>8523567
This is suprisingly less confusing than the names/differences of the Darkstalkers games.

[Anonymous No.8523762]

>>8523571
Street Fighter EX + Alpha is a damned good game.

[Anonymous No.8523815]

>>8523516
You mean EX4 which was pretty much the Street Fighter IV

[Anonymous No.8523905]

>>8523762
I like SFEX+FL+FEXL but they never looked or played like mainline Street Fighter. And in 5th+6th gen it either wasn't technically possible and/or they didn't know how to do it

[Anonymous No.8523929]

Street Fighter Zero is the actual Street Fighter III.

[Anonymous No.8523934]

>>8523518
>>8523525
it wasn't Street Fighter III because Capcom didn't call it Street Fighter III

[Anonymous No.8523938]

>>8523929
Zero is Versus 1
COTA is Versus 2
MSH is Versus 3
XvSF is Versus 4
MSHvSF is Versus 5
MvC is Versus 6

[Anonymous No.8523947]

>>8523934
>the entire concept of this thread flying 100 miles above past this anon's head

[Anonymous No.8524058]

>>8523530
I bought and hated that. Only cost me a dollar or two, but having played nothing but SF 2 Turbo religiously up until that point it felt so wrong. Is it at all worth trying again?

[Anonymous No.8524080]

>>8523938
How the fuck is Zero, Vs 1?

[Anonymous No.8524217]

>>8524080
Chain combos.

[Anonymous No.8524230]

>>8523947
So this thread is asking why we haven't developed a collective headcanon where this splinter series is the actual SF3?

[Anonymous No.8524484]

>>8524217
Alpha came after Darkstalkers, CotA and Night Warriors, though. And development-wise, it started development after MSH. It only ended up being released before it because it was a smaller, quicker project.

[Anonymous No.8524509]

>>8524484
well, uhhhh....

[Anonymous No.8524534]

>>8523509
is that the game with terry bogard in it

[Anonymous No.8525424]

>>8523465
what is gouki-san doing over there?

[Anonymous No.8525426]

>>8523465
man, guile is really disgusted by that brown girl, he must really hate minorities

[Anonymous No.8525676]

>>8525426
either that or he hates being garrotted

[Anonymous No.8525685]

>>8523567
Based schizophrenic

[Anonymous No.8526391]

>>8523530
Probably not very well, street fighter was a dead brand at the time pretty much and people had moved on to newer fighter series that were 3D. Street fighter felt like a game from the past trying to be relevant. It wasn't until all the marketing of street fighter 4 that the brand became important again.