Street Fighter Art Design

[hinch]

Hiku said:

I'd love to see 2D spites again like KOF 13.

Though I think they'd be worried the visuals would hinder its sales, so more realistically I think it'd be something like this.

Fei-Hung said:

I don't know why, but it seems to take longer to make these games too where other games pump out several games with equally as deep mechanics or more, whilst street fighter struggles. 

It's probably true that 3D would make the game take longer than 2D. But which games do you feel took longer?
I haven't compared the release dates, but Street Fighter 4 and 5 kept getting updates with new seasons, characters, mechanics, balance changes, etc every year or so. Which is similar to how they handled Street Fighter 2 with a lot of new version releases.

I don't think it will hinder sales at all. 3D cell shaded graphics have come a long way. 2D art style can be done in 3D to great effect. Look at what Arcsystem Works done 7 years ago

When you have a talented developer behind its amazing at how close 3D can come to 2D drawings and animation. Without the caveats, and advantages of using 3D models vs 2D drawn sprites.

I would play a new Street Figher with these visuals 100%. I'm actually turned off the art style of 4 onwards. Everyone just has overemphasized body proportions and its a weird middle ground of being cartoony, but not.