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ORIGINAL: y2cave
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ORIGINAL: the anomaly
Agreed regarding the development of the characters in Street Fighter to an extent. Yet again you have to think that there are not really that many verions of the story as they kept remaking games.
The story so far goes Street Fighter, Street Fighter Aplha series, Street Fighter 2 series, Street Fighter 3 series and now Street Fighter 4. So despite there being so many versions (Alpha 1-3, Turbo, Super. Hyper etc) the games have all been set in these 4 time periods well now 5 and to be honest there has not been that much of a time gap between them in the actual story.
The characters have all changed though. During 3 they made a lot of big changes but they did not get a good reaction. So for the next few versions of SF3 they added a lot of the old cast back who were not present in the first SF3. It looks like with SF4 they are just giving the fans what they want. Though I was surprised with the roster as I can not see how this story follows on from SF3.
Good point about the actual chronology of the series. The remake factor though was always a bone of contention for me - I can' t have been the only person who felt like we were getting work-in-progress versions of the games Capcom were striving to make, until we finally got definitive versions, e.g. SFII Championship Edition (with Super SFII Turbo a close runner-up), SFA3, and SFIII Third Strike.
I do think more could have been made of the real-time gaps between incarnations. I always found it kinda snippy that, for all the times Capcom tried to take the piss out of SNK, it was SNK who were progressing the characters year on year, as if the characters themselves had been training and developing since the last year, while Capcom seemed content just to add more unnecessary counters and special strikes.
If I can turf them out and scan them in, I might post my concept sketches for Hadou Master Ryu. No promises, though, hahaha!
True. I really just lost track of SF for quite a while during the aplha stages. I played them but never owned any. There just seemed to be so many. You could probaly compare the SF games to football games like FIFA and PRO Evo. Releasing a game every year that is every so slightly better each time. Where as in SF case I do wish there was a bigger gap so they could make big improvements. Though I guess their way had it's advantages.
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ORIGINAL: LEEJGM
It doesn't. SF4 is set between SF2 and SF3.
I think I heard that awhile back but forgot!  Cheers for that anyway. It does just back up y2caves point and my own. Why not continue the story of SF3? Why add more confusion by calling the game SF4? Why not SF2 somthing or the other... It just goes to show that people want a lot of the same in some regards. I have to admit SF would not be the same without my favourite characters. Though I really think they should/could have continued the story. Even if characters are not part of the story they could put them in the VS mode. Like they have done with the character of Gouken in this new game. I am pretty sure in the actual story he is long dead. Yet they have added him to the game as a bonus character.
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