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[Drinky Crow]

I borrowed Capcom Fighting Evolution from a friend who swore up and down the mags were being unfair. MAF dropped by for some VF4evo action this evening, so we popped in CFE first to give it a shot.

It's obscenely horrible. MAF, formerly the Biggest Capcom Fanboy Of All Time(tm), was APPALLED.

Seriously, what happened? The backgrounds are flat, non-parallax billboards, and ONE is just a bunch of black and white squares. The Red Earth characters, Kenji aside, have terrible animation. Hell, even SvC looked better than this. It's ugly as hell, the music is chintzy, most of the sprites are recycled horribly, and even the controls lack the "tightness" of the average Capcom 2D fighter. This is the most cynical cash-in they've done since RE2 and 3 on the GAMECUBE NINTENDO. and this one seems more insulting simply because they tried to package it as a new 2D fighter.

And what the fuck was up with Ingrid? Did Capcom REALLY need a cut-rate Athena in their roster THAT badly?

This game is a fuckin' BLIGHT on the Capcom name. This is the sort of shit they make fighting game fans playing in HELL -- it's better than, say, Fight Club, but it's all the more awful because you expect SO MUCH BETTER from Capcom.

 

[Matlock]

it's better than, say, Fight Club,

That ain't saying much, padre.

 

[Drinky Crow]

That's kinda my point. ;(

 

[Sho Nuff]

What's the oldest sprite in the game?

 

[explodet]

The inclusion of Red Earth characters is, to be honest, baffling.
Who ARE these guys? Why should I care about them? Why am I playing this game with these characters I've never heard of? And why am I playing this game in the first place?

The bad taste in my mouth was washed away with some Third Strike, though. To this day I go to my local arcade and there are always people still playing it.

What's the oldest sprite in the game?

The early Darkstalkers characters, I'm guessing.

 

[Drinky Crow]

Probably Demitri or Felicia or one of the Alpha characters.

 

[Matlock]

What's the oldest sprite in the game?

If it's anyone other than Morrigan, I'd be surprised.

 

[Drinky Crow]

Morrigan isn't in it, oddly. Capcom usually never passes up an opportunity to pimp her out; I guess it shows exactly what expectations they had for this turd.

 

[Matlock]

The hell? What the fuck kind of Capcom fighting game is it without the horridly outdated Morrigan sprite?

 

[Monk]

The inclusion of Red Earth characters is, to be honest, baffling.
Who ARE these guys? Why should I care about them? Why am I playing this game with these characters I've never heard of? And why am I playing this game in the first place?

Hey dont knock red earth, atleast it was a serious attempt at being creative with the genre.

 

[Argyle]

The inclusion of Red Earth characters is, to be honest, baffling.
Who ARE these guys? Why should I care about them? Why am I playing this game with these characters I've never heard of? And why am I playing this game in the first place?

Red Earth/Warzard, although not a fantastic game, is kinda fun, and very pretty. The exp system is interesting (although of course you can just get a password off the net and play as a powered up character)...(yes, I own the board)

 

[Brandon F]

Speaking of Capcom games, and I will probably do a separate thread writeup because I think it deserves it, but I just beat MMX8 and it was pretty sweet!

 

[Lyte Edge]

The hell? What the fuck kind of Capcom fighting game is it without the horridly outdated Morrigan sprite?

Don't worry; they used the horribly-outdated Demitri sprite instead, and even fucked it up in some sort of weird attempt to make the character look "taller." :/

 

[MarkRyan]

And what the fuck was up with Ingrid? Did Capcom REALLY need a cut-rate Athena in their roster THAT badly?

The inclusion of Red Earth characters is, to be honest, baffling.
Who ARE these guys? Why should I care about them? Why am I playing this game with these characters I've never heard of? And why am I playing this game in the first place?

What. The. Hell.

This game gets most of its flack from the lack of new. So why is anyone complaining about the five new (at least in America) characters in the game?

 

[Lyte Edge]

What. The. Hell.

This game gets most of its flack from the lack of new. So why is anyone complaining about the five new (at least in America) characters in the game?

Yeah, that's the only part of the game no one should be complaining about. Even if the two boss characters from Warwzrd are dumb-looking. And even if Ingrid is a lame character design.

 

[Drinky Crow]

The Warzard characters have terrible animation. It looks like someone cut their sprites out, reduced 'em to 16 colors, and stuck 'em in a bad Flash game.

 

[Lyte Edge]

The Warzard characters have terrible animation. It looks like someone cut their sprites out, reduced 'em to 16 colors, and stuck 'em in a bad FLash game.

Leo and Kenji are good IMO, but the two monster characters look horrible...that's what happens when Capcom takes boss characters from the game's 1P mode and tries to make them into playable characters in a fighting game. :/

 

[Shouta]

I like Ingrid's design for some odd reason.

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Hauzer is quite possibly Capcom's biggest character ever, so no wonder he's got crappy animation. Not the best choice, but better than another basic karate clone.

And I agree: why are people complaining about the roster? Yes, it's small, but at least all the characters are wildly different. We could have gotten SF2+2 more characters like in all other Vs games, but we got Urien, Alex, Rose, Guy, Felicia, Jedah and Warzard instead.

Complain about lousy sprites, complain about butt-ugly backgrounds, complain about generic music, but don't complain about the characters that are actually there.

 

[MrAngryFace]

I think what it comes down to is not whether they are different or not, but rather are they good for a fighting game? I say no. One of the worst fighting game rosters ever.

 

[Shouta]

You need to play FInal Fight Revenge MAF.

 

[explodet]

I just couldn't click with the Warzard/Red Earth characters - they felt too unwieldy when I played them.

Plus, each character having their own, different super system is all right, but after Capcom vs. SNK 2 where each team could choose from different grooves it seems like a step back.

 

[anotheriori]

wha.. you don't like a team of Dinosaur! and Giant Squid!? i'll agree its ugly, this makes me appreciate cvs2 that much more.. and that game sucks too.

 

[FortNinety]

So the music's bad? I downloaded the soundtrack a while ago but haven't listened to it. Should I just chuck it?

Bear in mind, I did like some tracks in Capcom vs SNK 2....