Bush Mackel

*sigh*

You know here’s no bigger Street Fighter fan than you’re boy, Bush Mackel. As a consequence my world has been pained with Street Fighter EX IV Street Fighter IV moving away from the under appreciated masterpiece that was Street Fighter III and me apparently being the only one that cares.

And recently I ponied up the 800 points for Commando 3 on XBLA to play the demo for *inhale* Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. *exale*

“They Are Who We Thought They Were”
When my friends were goin’ nutz when Capcom announced that SSFIITHD was coming to XBLA, I didn’t get it. I mean, I already had the game under a SF Collection disc on PS2 (or XBoX) – So what did I need this for? And after playing the game I can finally tell you…

I don’t.

The graphics are redrawn and that’s about it. Sure they look cleaner than the previous sprites but sorry, I’m not going to say that THAT even looks better! On the character selection screens I really enjoyed the old faces and during the matches if you look, you can tell that the graphics are more crisp and the hadoukens look all pretty but unless you’re looking, you won’t really notice. And if you do look, you won’t care. I kind of think of it like the backgrounds in Marvel vs Capcom 2… You know the nice looking 3D ones?… No gamer really cares about them. They care about the action in the foreground.

Now don’t get me wrong, I pretty much figured this is what I’d get and this is how I’d react. I’m just disappointed is all. I mean I know people are going to download the game at 1200 pts or however much it’s offered up for and Capcom is going to make money, but I can’t help but wonder what we’d have if Capcom *gasp* put this effort into developing a new IP.

Speaking of which, want to see something else original from Capcom? Well here you have it! Something that’s brand new and looks it too! MegaMan 9!