Savory Cade
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I would be willing to bet it's gonna be 2.5d. Super-stylized 3D characters with 2D gameplay, probably using the smoky-ink effects from the video. I think there will be scripted cinematic animations for certain combos and moves to make them look really flashy like that combo-throw-counter thing in the video.
Capcom wants this to be big and there's just no way a traditional 2D game will be big with a mainstream audience. If it was 2D, it would have to be hi-res art like Arc System Works' games with better animation than SF3 and that's prohibitively expensive, not to mention time-consuming. Are any of Capcom's great artists even part of the company anymore? I think a lot of them went freelance. Even their latest 2D arcade game, that Sengoku Basara fighter, was a collaboration between them and Arc System. I just can't see Capcom shelling out the money for a 2D game like that even though it would be absolutely awesome.
Capcom wants this to be big and there's just no way a traditional 2D game will be big with a mainstream audience. If it was 2D, it would have to be hi-res art like Arc System Works' games with better animation than SF3 and that's prohibitively expensive, not to mention time-consuming. Are any of Capcom's great artists even part of the company anymore? I think a lot of them went freelance. Even their latest 2D arcade game, that Sengoku Basara fighter, was a collaboration between them and Arc System. I just can't see Capcom shelling out the money for a 2D game like that even though it would be absolutely awesome.