Is Street Fighter IV going to be in 3D?

The art style for that short trailer reminded me a lot of Okami art style.

It might play like 2D but maybe use that Okami styled 3D models?

Either way, I'm not too fond of the idea of Street Fighter going 3D. We've already saw what happens when that happens.

Shh...mentioning Street Fighter 3D is blasphemy! :P

Kidding aside, I did think about how SF2 would translate with cell-shaded graphics. With technology these days, cell-shading is better than ever...even a last-gen game, Rouge Galaxy and the Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen series was impressive. Next-gen cell shading would look as good as the Appleseed movie.

So if Capcom goes with cell-shaded characters, it may be impressive if they pull it off, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING compares to good ol` traditional 2D animation when it comes to SF.

If it's 3D...I won't hype this or look forward to it as much. I'll still be curious to play it because I love Street Fighter, but it will definitely take away that Street Fighter feel for sure.

On a related note, King of Fighters XII will be high-res animated sprites, kind of like Guilty Gear. So if a smaller company like SNK Playmore is going all out, why not Capcom?

The look of the game might be nice, but once a game goes 3D, the controls and feel of the game changes completely.

I can never think of playing Street Fighter in 3D. It was really terrible first time around and it just won't feel the game.

If they pull it off, fine that's great. However, until I see it work I'll constantly doubt it will be good.

Nah, I don't think it's going to be a 3D game. The graphics might be polygonal, but the game itself... I don't think so.nopalversion

That alone is bad enough.

Street Fighter EX wasn't exactly a 3D game. It was Street Fighter with 3D character models. Look how that worked out.

[QUOTE="nopalversion"]Nah, I don't think it's going to be a 3D game. The graphics might be polygonal, but the game itself... I don't think so.TriangleHard

That alone is bad enough.

Street Fighter EX wasn't exactly a 3D game. It was Street Fighter with 3D character models. Look how that worked out.

Not saying a 3D SF would work, but just wanted to point out that some 3D fighters had some good brawling with cool hit detection and animated moves. The Naruto Clash of Ninja series (Gegitou Ninja Taisen in Japan), was a good example of 3D cell-shading characters with really good fighting mechanics, even though the combat was simplistic.

THe SF EX series was just pretty bad. I thought the original Rival Schools for the PS1 captured the SF2 fighting "oomph" more than EX ever did, frantic, with a lot of energy, and fast. It was also more fun...but Project Justice was terrible, slow, and lacked energy, like EX.

I surely hope it isn't 3D. I say to Capcom, stick with what sells and that's 2D in this case.

So many fans of the SF series would be rather upset to long await this game and get some 3D game that just doesn't cut it. I mean, I have no doubt that Capcom could pull off something great with a 3D setting, but it just isn't SF.

I think they will spoil us with Streetfigher like always , they will release SF4 with the same art style we saw with the debut trailer which will be great, then after a while they will do alpha 4 in full 2D, 4th strike 2D also and EX 4 in full 3D which also will be great, I don't know why people complain about EX 3, it was great game.HAZE-Unit

It wasn't terrible, but those darn crossed-eyes thatSakura had was disturbing. :P

SFEX is underrated. There are a lot of good things about the games...I don't know why people hate them so much. Sometimes I wonder if people actually played the EX games. You can do a lot worse, trust me. Rival Schools and Project Justice are also good, so Capcom is capable of making a good 3D fighter. I like my 2D fighters as much as anyone, but we should be prepared for the possibility of the next game being 3D (or "2.5D"). I'm sure Capcom is aware of the importance of SF4, and I'm confident they'll have the right people on the team.King9999

I agree, I really enjoyed EX2, even though it couldn't compete with the years of refining that 2D Street Fighter has undergone. This is why I don't think that the latest part of the main franchise will be played in 3D.

[QUOTE="King9999"]SFEX is underrated. There are a lot of good things about the games...I don't know why people hate them so much. Sometimes I wonder if people actually played the EX games. You can do a lot worse, trust me. Rival Schools and Project Justice are also good, so Capcom is capable of making a good 3D fighter. I like my 2D fighters as much as anyone, but we should be prepared for the possibility of the next game being 3D (or "2.5D"). I'm sure Capcom is aware of the importance of SF4, and I'm confident they'll have the right people on the team.nopalversion

I agree, I really enjoyed EX2, even though it couldn't compete with the years of refining that 2D Street Fighter has undergone. This is why I don't think that the latest part of the main franchise will be played in 3D.

[QUOTE="nopalversion"]Nah, I don't think it's going to be a 3D game. The graphics might be polygonal, but the game itself... I don't think so.TriangleHard

That alone is bad enough.

Street Fighter EX wasn't exactly a 3D game. It was Street Fighter with 3D character models. Look how that worked out.

It's funny how in saying all this people forget SF3 which played very differently from the others in feel and pacing yet is still an accepted part of the series because of it's 2d-ness, when in reality it could well have (and probably should've) been another series altogether. Maybe you guys should start looking more at how the game plays rather than something as superficial as perspective. 3d fighters play differently generally from 2d fighters, but not necessarily.

SFEX is underrated. There are a lot of good things about the games...I don't know why people hate them so much. Sometimes I wonder if people actually played the EX games. You can do a lot worse, trust me. Rival Schools and Project Justice are also good, so Capcom is capable of making a good 3D fighter. I like my 2D fighters as much as anyone, but we should be prepared for the possibility of the next game being 3D (or "2.5D"). I'm sure Capcom is aware of the importance of SF4, and I'm confident they'll have the right people on the team.King9999

The community hates what doesn't hold up competitively. There, it's all been said in one sentence. Any game we complain about, if the developer would go back, upgrade it, fix the balancing, etc...we'd shut up about it. It's that simple.

No offense but I think I'd wish for SFIV to not even exist.Gunraidan

I want it, but only if it's done right.

I'm glad Street Fighter 4 will be 3D b/c I want it to be FULL 3D. For those of you who don't know, GameSpot has Street Fighter IV classified as 3D Fighting. Anyway, less than 24 hours ago, I would have been COMPLETELY against 3D Street Fighter, but what I saw someone say early this morning made me do a 180. Capcom did not develop the EX series in Street Fighter. That was some new development team so that means Capcom does not suck at 3D fighting. Then he posted two videos of a game that showed that Street Fighter's combat can be done PERFECTLY 3D and that Capcom has already mastered doing 3D fighters. Here are the two videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qT7T04R6Xww

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sauV0XFR8Wo

Rival Schools shows that Capcom can definitely have Street Fighter IV in 3D and keep all of its traditional gameplaywhile giving it the potential it needs to go to the next level. Plus, in full 3D, intense hit detection and beautiful yet gritty painting esque animation that has blood and mud getting splatter all over when you smash someone in the face and morewill make the $tyle of the trailer more possible than ever.

I'm glad Street Fighter 4 will be 3D b/c I want it to be FULL 3D. For those of you who don't know, GameSpot has Street Fighter IV classified as 3D Fighting. Anyway, less than 24 hours ago, I would have been COMPLETELY against 3D Street Fighter, but what I saw someone say early this morning made me do a 180. Capcom did not develop the EX series in Street Fighter. That was some new development team so that means Capcom does not suck at 3D fighting. Then he posted two videos of a game that showed that Street Fighter's combat can be done PERFECTLY 3D and that Capcom has already mastered doing 3D fighters. Here are the two videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qT7T04R6Xww

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sauV0XFR8Wo

Rival Schools shows that Capcom can definitely have Street Fighter IV in 3D and keep all of its traditional gameplaywhile giving it the potential it needs to go to the next level. Plus, in full 3D, intense hit detection and beautiful yet gritty painting esque animation that has blood and mud getting splatter all over when you smash someone in the face and morewill make the $tyle of the trailer more possible than ever.gunswordfist

That's far from sufficient evidence. Rival Schools was more of a fan-type game than anything, and didn't have to live up to the same kind of technical standards that a Street Fighter game does.

Capcom has proven NOTHING on the 3D side, because they haven't so much as attempted a 3D fighter that would go on the same level as Street Fighter II/Alpha/III. Furthermore, since this is a Street Fighter game, there are more guidelines that have to be met, such as keeping it so consistent that players who have put significant time into II/Alpha/III over the years will reap the same significant benefits from that in IV as they did in the previous sequels.

[QUOTE="Gunraidan"]No offense but I think I'd wish for SFIV to not even exist.DarkCatalyst

I want it, but only if it's done right.

I was refering to if it was 3D.