darkknightkryta said:
I hope you don't mind me snipping. I agree with your points. Alpha 3 at the arcades when it came out here was more or less people picking A-ism Akuma and abusing his hurricane kick and dragon punch combo. I didn't see any vs with the game though so I can't comment on the arcade version just saw the Akuma abuse against a CPU. I only really played the crap out of the PSX version cause that's all I had available (Didn't get a Dreamcast or Saturn until somewhat recently and even then I only ordered the titles from ebay a few days ago) so I didn't really see the V-ism stuff until recently when I went to go look it up and saw some tournament fights on youtube. From what I saw, it wasn't really too OP. Can be annoying, but it didn't look unmanageable. Hell I saw an A-ism Zangief player destroy all the V-ism fighters. Thing is; people really complain about the console ports of Alpha 3 because they neutered the V-ism stuff that you mention. I personally agree that no fighting game should have infinites. It's why Marvel vs Capcom 2 is the second worst fighting game I've played. So people complain about Alpha 3 for no reason and the logical thing to complain about; the V-ism brokeness, is what they trash the console ports for fixing. I honestly don't get the fighting game community sometimes. I guess the nostalgia goggles make people like Alpha 2 better for the community, I personally didn't see it cause Alpha 3 at its core is so much better. Somewhat as an aside, I still think Alpha 3 to this day, has the best presentation of any Capcom fighter. The countdown timer till the match starts, the visual aesthetics, the announcer, the fade ins and outs from battle (The ism logos inbetween matches), etc. I hope Street Fighter 5 can have that level of aesthetics, but it doesn't look like it. |
Yeah, fighting games players are the worst. I am one of them, I know the community as a whole pretty good and really, sometime they disgust me to play them. A lot of fighting game players defend their favorite game and spit on the others blindly. I am a third players but I know the problem with the game and I accept them. I wouldn't mind a little change or balance, but I know my fellow comrade of play would go in a rampage if that happens. They wan't the game to remain broken on every level...
We agree about the effort put in Alpha 3. The game is so polished, it is not even fair. The soundtrack make you want to fight, every characters feels alive ect... Plus the pixel are top-notch for a game that can run on psx.
