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Soniti 254 · #6 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:49 am

fireball87 wrote:

Eh, I've been quite ok with 2.5d games ever since they (partially, though there's more 3d in DKC then there is in NSMB) pre-rendered Donkey Kong Country. Some of them, DKC included stand out as some of the prettier 2d games. It's all about style though, and I personally find a lot of the 3d games just as pretty or prettier then their 2d variants. The main issue with games like SSF4 as 3d is I'm not sure they didn't just do it to take the easy way out, KOF HD may look endlessly more impressive with it's 2d sprite work, but it also probably took a lot more time to produce. Sprites have to increase in complexity quite a bit more per resolution increase then 3d models seem to... though perhaps I'm jaded on that by my artistic talents forcing me to do 8 bit... poorly.

I'm also okay with 2.5D games. Kirby 64 is amongst my favorite games for the N64, possibly amongst my all time list too. I'm not sure if a game like DKC would really count as 2.5D, but I won't argue on that.

Actually, you pretty much hit the nail on the head about sprites. The main reason why most games don't use sprites anymore is because they are very time consuming to fit today's standards (I would know, I used to work on spritesheets during my free time, never did anything past 16-bit though). I love games like BlazBlue and a lot of SNK fighters partly because they have some of the most fluid and gorgeous sprite work I've ever seen. But yeah, it's simply easier to use 3D renders in today's market because all you really need to do is make the character model itself and you're basically done. With sprites, you have to build up every pose up pretty much from scratch and that already can take a long time, let alone prettying it up with shades and textures. Capcom also seems to be dead set on making 2.5D/3D fighting games for the time being since SF4 did so well.

fireball wrote:

Though the real reason I didn't care for SSF4 is cause I can't see how it or any fighter in the SF series is better or more polished then SSF2T... that and I've kindof fallen for the random Neo Geo Fighter instead.

In general, I actually prefer SNK fighting games over Capcom ones. The main reason for that is because I can actually make the character do what I want him/her to do without much struggle. I find Capcom ones to be difficult for some reason and I can only do the quarter-circle motion-based moves usually in Capcom fighting games.