MrAngryFace said:
Half the characters are straight rips from previous games,
Half? Don't you mean ALL the characters?
I like how they changed a face or two and fucked up Demitri's sprite as well.
You can hate on SvC Chaos all you want, but at least SNK/Playmore took the time to create new sprites and added animation to older characters, making all the sprites at least look like they belonged in the same game together.
MrAngryFace said:
the high quality characters seem downgraded to match the shitty ones. The roster is largely dumb. The backgrounds are just fucking bizzare.
I like most of the backgrounds okay, but hate the stupid "cube fighting" background in training mode. With the roster, it seems like Capcom was going for characters you wouldn't normally expect to see featured, but they still managed to throw in Ryu/Chun-Li/Zangeif/Guile/Sakura/etc anyway.
It is great seeing Urien, Alex, the Warzard characters, etc., but the problem is, the mishmash of sprites looks terrible; worse than any of their other fighting games IMO. Some of the characters overlap each other when close up and walk on different planes, too. LAZY.
MrAngryFace said:
Oh wow! Cube fighting background! Awesome! Guys waiting at bus stop! Shit yeah! The fighting system is so de-evolved I cant even bother with it. Jesus man alive. Just make CvsSNK3 and be the fuck done with it. That game was at LEAST entertaining.
They just needed to spend TIME developing the game. Look at what SNK is doing with their similar fighter, Neo-Geo Battle Colliseum. It was announced about the same time as CFE was IIRC, and it's only just now in the TESTING phase. It's got a new game play system, a large cast, the visuals look much better, they're redrawing sprites for older characters, and even threw in two new ones. It looks to be a much better game.
For fighting games, the most important factor is game play, and I think CFE is pretty decent in that regard. The thing is, since there's NOTHING new about the game, I'd rather just play SF3 if I want to use the SF3 characters, SFA3 for the Alpha characters, etc. Those games feel more complete and look/sound a lot better. CFE is so damned unpolished.
To me, CFE is like a massively stripped-down version of Capcom Vs. SNK 2. Instead of making a new game play system (MvC2) or fusing various play types together (CvS2), they just threw the characters together with the style from their respective games, and it's BORING because of it. I hate how the "SF2" characters can't do jack shit compared to all the other characters; they're just stronger. Yawn.
You just expect more from what was supposed to be the first NEW fighting game from Capcom in over three years. I wish that 3D fighter they canned had been released instead.
CFE has got to be the laziest effort at creating a "new" fighting game ever attempted. I thought that King Of Fighters Neowave, which is basically KOF 2002 with a slightly different roster, was laziness, but at least that game was made on new hardware, had enhanced graphics, high-res backgrounds, improved color, and a few new game play systems added. CFE doesn't do squat.
Sadly, I will end up buying the Xbox version because of the online play. Those fuckers are even pricing it $10 higher than the PS2 version.
