Street Fighter HD Remix Launches With Fan-Made Soundtrack 44
djpretzel writes "OC ReMix just released a free download of our official soundtrack to Capcom's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. While video game companies have worked with fans in the past, HD Remix is the first major video game with a completely fan-made soundtrack. More than twenty gamers from around the world contributed remixes of the original Street Fighter games' music for inclusion in the updated game, in styles including jazz, hip-hop, reggaeton, spaghetti western, garage rock, big beat and electronica. MP3s and a torrent (also including FLAC) are available at OCReMix."
Well I'm not going to buy it.. (Score:3, Funny)
Personally, I'm holding out for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Imax YouTube Remix Extreme Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition. (But only after the first patch is released, because we all know that first versions suck.)
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Thanks for showing me what true cleverness is.
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Wait for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Imax YouTube Remix Extreme Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition 2010 it's much better then Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Imax YouTube Remix Extreme Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition 2009
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One of the greatest community efforts in gaming (Score:5, Informative)
Capcom really outdid the competition with this game. Taking an idea from a hardcore fan, David Sirlin (who produced Capcom Classics Collection and some other stuff for Capcom), to take Street Fighter 2 and update the game with 1080p graphics and new rebalanced moves was something the entire fighting game community wanted like crazy and no surprise the game has come out fantastically. This is easily a sleeper for best game of 2008 on any platform.
Capcom hired not just OCRemix to do the soundtrack, but they hired UDON Comics (guys who drew SF comics previously), and David Sirlin (a tournament level SF player) to oversee and rebalance the entire game, and they had fans play test the game constantly in local matches in California, and had a beta test for the 360 version to test the net code. And speaking of net code, Capcom consulted the creator of GGPO (a man who also help found the EVOLUTION Fighting Game tournaments) to smooth out the online component of ST:HD Remix. This was basically an all star effort of Street Fighter fans and Capcom to produce something that would appeal to the most rabid hardcore fighting game enthusiast.
Street Fighter came out in 1987 (SF2 in 1991)...and two decades later the brand is strong as ever because the hardcore fans kept the momentum alive all of these years. And Capcom recognized the overwhelming support from the hardcore faithful and geared the entire game (HD Remix) to the hardcore audience.
Put some major points on the board for Capcom this week, some other studios should be paying attention, in fact ALL studios should open their eyes up and start moving back to the hardcore fan.
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No offence, as I'm quite happy with the update. But taking an existing offering, updating it slightly for new technology, and re-releasing it seems to have been Capcom's modern plan since the launch of the Xbox 360. It also describes exactly what they did to drive Street Fighter into the ground.
I give them lots of credit for creating a modern re-release of a classic franchise, even if it is to draw up interest before a new iteration (ala Bionic Commando). Hopefully they will have learned their lesson abo
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"Might I suggest Strider for the next treatment?"
Might you? You have to ask if you're allowed to have an idea that awesome?
Tell the world! Spam the forums! Run around naked with a giant sign that... ok scratch that last one, but I do second that idea.
At the very least, I would like if they moved passed SFII and did SFIII. That one had a really nice mechanics and art. Telling off Mortal Kombat vs D.C. by making another Marvel Vs. Capcom would be pretty cool too. Though now I'm sinking back into their tre
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I wouldn't bet on them doing something of this level again. Development went way over initial costs and time. The end product is totally worth it, but this game got off to a rocky start because they didn't realize they'd have to completely rebuild the game from the ground up.
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I'll point out that Street Fighter 4 is coming out soon.
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Best game of 2008? So, you're trying to tell me that taking an almost 20 year game and slapping some higher res artwork and new music into it makes it a better game than Smash Bros. Brawl, GTA4, MGS4, Burnout Paradise, Sins of a Solar Empire, Disgaea 3, Universe at War, Army of Two, Condemned 2, ET: Quake Wars, R6 Vegas 2, Penny Arcade episodes 1 or 2, Rock Band 2, UT3, Battlefield: Bad Company, Dragon Quest V, Soul Calibur IV, Fatal Frame 4, Tales of Vesperia, Spore, Crysis Warhead, Saints Row 2, Dead Spac
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The reason right out of the gate that ST:HD Remix separates itself from the pack this year is that it was a community wide effort between Capcom and the most loyal and devoted Street Fighter fans to produce a game that the community wanted above all else.
In addition to having new music and art the game is fully playable online using the excellent latency compensating GGPO, and is completely rebalanced, this game took a long time to develop because of that.
With your premise of a game being an update making
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Just take one look at Nintendo's emphasis on producing softcore games that have an extremely casual appeal to them. Sure they make a lot of money because children play them, but for adults, the games fail to be intellectually satisfying.
Sorry, are we talking about SF here, or what?
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Been able to pick up a game, play it for 10 minutes, and put it down, is well a game to me. having to load up a game, spent 10 minutes working out where i was, then another 10 minutes working out where i was going, is more like work, and if i've only got 10-20 minutes of free time, well
a game is for fun, and well this rates a hell of alot higher then most, because frankly, it's 90%+ action gameplay, most other games would be lucky to be 10% these days, at least they look good right?
If you ever enjoyed Street Fighter (Score:5, Interesting)
Then you owe it to yourself to pick this up. The graphics are absolutely phenomenal; it's literally like playing an HD cartoon. All of the tweaks to update the game have resulted in a massively improved Street Fighter that still retains all of the fun of the old versions. Online play is phenomenally good; I see a tiny bit of stutter at the beginning of a match, and outside of that I might as well be placing my quarter next to the TV to signal that I've got next.
If you ever think you and your friends might want to sit down and play a few games of SF for old times' sake, then you should have this version. It's just that well done, and the price is very reasonable.
Just beware the online community: if you think you're good at Street Fighter, there are some people on there who will quickly set you right.
Here's hoping (Score:2)
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is there going to be a PC version of SFIV? I only saw ps3 and xbox360 versions. seeing as i have neither of those, but i do have a pc...
oh please tell me you are not toying with my emotions.
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*cough* [ign.com] *cough* [wikipedia.org]
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How is the frame count for animations on this? Did they up the amount as well, or did they stick to the same frame count for animations and only raise the resolution?
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I care! (Score:1)
I care too (Score:2, Interesting)
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Funny example. I really wish Valve would do something like this with Counterstrike.
Theres so much potential still left in that old game, and such a huge community willing to meet it.. yet instead we're stuck with a dwindling away game or an update that left so much to be desired.
Please valve, at least give us the 1.6 sourcecode and maybe accept a few patches that come your way. The "people will use it to cheat" excuse falls flat when people can already cheat just as well without it.
Street Fighter Story (Score:2)
As someone who played SF2 religiously as a kid, I grew up and never played many of the later iterations of the series, nor have I watched all the Japanese anime series. Many of the characters I keep hearing about, I know nothing about.
Is there a good source to read up on the apparent Street Fighter canon?
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Am I alone? (Score:3, Informative)
The new "HD" graphics aren't THAT great. (They look more like cleaned-up 2xsupersai-scaled versions of the original, and...no new frames?) The game feels like it's locked on a high super-turbo mode. And is the sound MONO? (It only comes out of my center speaker.)
I still think NeoGeo had the best 2D fighting games, HD or no...
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I wonder if moderators seriously read the moderator guidelines nowadays. There is a line that says "attempts to moderate up more than down." The parent said nothing that deserves to be marked as flamebait.
I don't own the game, but I too noticed that there was no increase in the frame rate. Something to remember, soniCron88, there is only so much you can upgrade before the game isn't Street Fighter 2 anymore. Keeping the frame rate low is probably the largest reason it doesn't feel like Street Fighter
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Thanks for that little piece of info. Why in the crap did they use a blurring algorithm instead of something like 2xsupersai or nothing at all!? Blurring is the half-assed middle road. ::hurl::
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I'm just being picky. I wish more developers would try to implement better filters in their retro games. It feels like emulation technology on consoles is about 5 to 10 years behind what is available on PCs. It wouldn't surprise me if the blurriness of the sprites is from a built in hardware anti-aliasing algorithm for textures.
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Regarding the older games in the series: they always had a turbo slider, so you could change the speed of the game. Oh well...
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Regarding the older games in the series: they always had a turbo slider, so you could change the speed of the game. Oh well...
Both the original and the HD remix version of the game does in fact have that slider. The line from the GP,
As for the game feeling like it's locked on a high super-turbo mode....I think that falls in with the territory of calling it a remix.
was a load of nonsense. Behold, factual information rather than vague conjecture!
14) Game speed. The game speeds match the arcade version of the game, but this is confusing so bear with me. In SF HD Remix, speed 3 is the default and is intended for tournament play and online play. It's the same speed as Japanese arcade speed 3, which is also known as US arcade speed 2. You don't really have to understand what's going on with all that, just play at the default speed 3 and be happy that it matches the arcade.
Furthermore, there is a speed 0 in there for the hardcore players. On all speeds except 0, the game uses its own system of dropping frames in order to increase speed (we didn't touch this, the arcade version did it too). This does affect whether some combos are possible/impossible. Speed 0 is slow, but it will let combo masters and makers of combo videos take frame-dropping out of the equation when they are trying to figure out which crazy combos are possible.
This information is straight from http://www.sirlin.net/articles/street-fighter-hd-remix-features.html [sirlin.net] . Sirlin was the lead designer for the game. So it doesn't get much more definitive than that.
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