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disolitude on 25 July 2010
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KylieDog said:
disolitude said:
Parasitic said:

For some reason I always thought Third Strike didn't feel very Steet-Fighter'ish. It was probably the parry'ing system and lack of classic characters that kinda killed it for me.

The only reason it wasn't very well received and probably why you didn't like it...is because its not beginner freindly.


Parasitics reasons are why I dislike SFIII also, the abandoning of almost every single character was major fail move imo, I wasn't a fan of parrying either, I like the Focus system of SFIV a lot better.

 

Also I am in the UK and over here the only places to play it were Dreamcast (which no one owned) and original Xbox (which no one owned), arcades are dead here.

I can see someone not appreciating them dropping majority of the cast as they only Ryu, Ken, Chun li and Akuma from the original roster in 3rd strike. I for one played SF2 and SF2 T on the Snes, the SF2 Championship and SSF2 on genesis, then SFA1 and SFA2 on Saturn. I was getting tired of the same strategies and characters hence SF3 felt like a breath of fresh air.

I loved parrying as it was a milisecond decision move. Another option you can use if you think you got the other guy figured out... Focus attack is cool but it has to be applied as a special move and it ads to the slowness of the SF4 series...Thats my main gripe with SF4, its very slow and full of these showey cinematic super moves which totally kill the gameplay tempo. Otherwise its a perfect mash up of SF 2 and 3 at the core.

I believe SF3 was available on PS2 as well...it just wasnt online.