>Biggest roster
>Coolest HUD
>Coked-up announcer
Simply the best.

>>11819458 (OP)
>posts the worst version
You don't like SFA3, you're just baiting.

>>11819483
What's the best version, anon?

>>11819487
CPS2 for comp, A3 Max for casual

>>11819494
Satern version is better

>>11819458 (OP)
It's my favorite. I don't get why most people prefer SFA2 to this one.

>>11819487
PSP

>>11819496
Saturn version is rebalanced, which means it can't be used to train for SFA3 tourneys. Fun fact: PS1 version is the closest to CPS2 original gameplay and balance wise.

>>11819497
We've had this discussion a million times here. Try something new

Why did they do Balrog like that on the cover, c'mon now.

>>11819497
SFA2 has a more classic vibe to it—the music obviously but also in other subtler aspects. Also the SFA2 stages are more detailed and interesting imo.

I like the big fat roster in 3 and some of the extra home port modes, but it doesn't really make SFA2 obsolete (not that it triesdto either).

Funny that most FGCfags dislike Alpha 3 because of the V-ism infinites (which most of them are super hard to do, mind you).
A3 has some balance issues besides V-Ism juggles (wonky hitboxes, otg command grabs, Akuma unblockables, Dhalsim, Ryu v-ism hadoken rave and his tatsu being extremely good, Zangief being super strong, etc...) but it's still a really good fighting game, probably one of the best ones from the 90s and I like playing it more than 3S.

>>11819509
>SFA3 tourneys
in 2025? get a life

>>11819934
It's just loud minorities and people on the internet aping them. Fighting game discourse in general is weird as hell. The vast majority of players don't play at a level where many of these balance issues matter. It's also why it's hard to get a straight answer as to what makes a "good" fighting game

>>11819983
Sure. How's this one?

>>11819934
>>11819990
I feel like infinites are overhated in general. There's almost no difference between losing to an infinite and losing to a touch-of-death combo, but for some reason when a game has an infinite (no matter how hard it is to perform) people act like it's an existential crisis.

>>11820406
It depends on the game I guess, something like Marvel vs. or HnK has people going nuts over infinites/ToDs because those games are built on crazy shit, SF isn't nearly that crazy so having infinites like the ones you can do with V-Ism is seen as negative despite their difficulty.
>>11819990
It's funny because when I went to FC2 most play A-Ism or even X-ism characters (props to anyone that plays as A-Gen or A-Guy), very rarely you see a V-Ism player, much less one that can consistently do Variable Combos into infinite juggles.
V-Ism might be busted but it isnt the I win button some believe.

>>11820406
Because 50 percent of the people with super loud opinions about fighting games on here don't play fighting games, just read wikis/watch youtube. They're not drawing from personal experience and actually dealing with super high level players (something really, you're only going to on fightcade anyway, not casual play with friends like most people who actually played at time of release) so they don't know how minimal a problem it truly is

More games should have isms and grooves

>>11820406
I do think it's generally good to criticize games at the upper bounds of what's possible within them. Like, I think it would be really dumb to criticize the design of Chess based on low ELO play. That said, people really should disambiguate between "this game shows some cracks when pushed to the the absolute limit of what it's systems are capable of, a limit few people are capable of actually reaching" and "this is a bad game."

>>11819458 (OP)
This game's scene on FC was pleasantly chill in my experience, but still good and not afraid to teach you the hard way. Seems like a hit with fellow Americans along with A2, by comparison to the more anyone's-guess-at-a-given-time melting pots of the communities of other slightly more niche games like 2CE, so English-speaking in-game chat is fairly active and by extension of it being a slightly niche game, knowledgeable.

>>11820536
I think the two fair metrics to judge a fighting game on are how fun it is to practice and how fun it is to play with your friends.
One of my favorite fighting games is Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I'm sure it is a horrible, terrible, awful, dogpiss dogshit game to play in a tournament. The game's design basically spits on high-level play. But that's never stopped me from having fun playing it with friends and family or trying to master all the characters. You can play that game for a thousand hours and not get bored. (I actually just got the milestone for playing my 1,000th match earlier this year.)

Nobody's ever going to make a perfect fighting game. It's fine to praise the games that get close, they deserve it. But that isn't equivalent to being fun to play and learn, which for me at least is what fighting games are all about.

>>11819487
Double Upper

>>11819458 (OP)
>>11819483
So I've often heard that the DC version of Alpha 3 is the worst, but I've never heard WHY it's the worst. Please tell me what this port did so abhorrently wrong that even the PS1 version is apparently considered superior.

what is this corporate calarts style

SFA3 is my favorite fighting game, despite its fundamental shortcomings.

>>11820601
>One of my favorite fighting games is [off-topic party game]

>SFA3 console
>bugged characters
>Still has the weird quirks from the OG game

The best port is the PSP/PS2 one that keeps the arcade weirdness and fixes some quirks from the og console port. But the best version is SFA3 modded on fightcade.

>>11821341
Input lag, uneven pixels because of bad upscale, changed balance. IIRC there were some bugs too but I don't remember the specifics.

>>11819498
Yup, I actually have the ps1 version and the psp version on my vita which I justify by each game having a different world tour mode

>>11819458 (OP)

>>11822158
Karin buttcheeks

>>11822163
>Z
>ERO
What did they mean by this?

>>11821508
DC version supports 240p

>>11822229
How do I activate that? I can't find anything about that on GameFAQs/Segaretro/etc.

>>11822961
On the Dreamcast startup screen:
>Hold Start + L on a standard controller
>Hold Start + Z on an arcade stick
The game will boot into 240p mode if supported.

Capcom is so gay for not giving us SFA4.

>>11823969
That's the problem with making a game a prequel series for no reason, it wrapped up when the story got to where they wanted SF2 to begin

>>11822229
Capcom ports on DC have awful uneven pixels in 240p mode too. DC doesn't support 384x224 resolution of CPS2 and CPS3 natively.

>>11823969
CvS games are the successors of SFA3

>>11824053
I can get behind this idea. Artstyle too.

>>11824028
Every separate Alpha game was meant to set up for where SF2 began, yet the next game ended up retconning the previous one. What's one more death-retcon for Charlie at this point?

>>11824738
Alpha 2 retconned/replaced Alpha. Alpha 3 did not retcon Alpha 2.

>>11824754
It still retconned Charlie's death, and he in fact got to live in his A3 ending for a change (though he dies in Guile's ending in versions where the latter appears). Aside from that, it mostly just ignored A2 altogether.

>>11819458 (OP)
>Worst OST in the series

They really should added the classic style character themes for Versus mode in the Dreamcast and PSP versions and use the new music songs for a Story mode, cause they song like generic action songs.

>>11824773
no it didn't. fighting game endings are never to be considered canon until the follow-up game shows which ones actually happened.
this is plainly obvious from the fact that nearly every fighting game with individual character endings has contradictory and mutually-exclusive events spread across different characters' endings. Alpha 3 has like six different characters delivering the coup de grace to Bison. obviously these can't all be true at once.

>>11824776
I disagree. I love the Alpha 3 music.

Fucking Cover looks like it was done by the people who make Southpark.

>>11819458 (OP)
best story mode in a street fighter game
you also get a game over if you fail to beat m bison lol

>>11819497
Alpha 2 is the best playing alpha game. Alpha 3 might still the best single player fighting game ever made. I remember when I finally got a copy of sf3 2nd impact for my sreamcast and how disappointed I was that they hadn't kept a world tour mode for home ports.

>>11819983
Why not? Or do you just come to /vr/ because you don't like older games?

>>11822169
E
SEX

>>11824053
Yup, the groove system are spiritual successors of ISMs and CVS2 had the best iteration.

>>11819458 (OP)
The best ever anon

>>11819458 (OP)
Best sf

>>11819458 (OP)
Love ya sf3