Question about Street Fighter III: Third Strike

This finally arrived at my door today from Capcom.com (only took them two weeks :rolleyes: ). Within seconds of navigating the main menu, I found myself cringing at the soundtrack, which was nearly vomit-inducing to me at the character selection screen. My question...

Was the music changed for the US release? I'm assuming so.

Cool game, though. I like the step down in complexity from the Alpha series. Too bad I can't play Street Fighter worth a shit with that Dreamcast controller. *scowls* Anyway, my personal conflicts with the genre of music in SF3TS' soundtrack has already pushed me to want to dump this game and get the import instead (only if the music is different). Oh well, I guess I can always play with the music off.

The music is the same. Relax.

Um... okay. What about SF3 Double Impact? Does that have more respectable BGM?

I don't mind the Third Strike music. I am not the one to ask.

Third Strike is a much better game however... just turn the volume down, and play your own music. Or just deal with it.

I actually liked the music in third strike.

Me too...better than that horrible MvC2 music. "Gonna take you for a rah-ah-ide!" *shudder*

I liked the soundtrack as well. Hence why I also own the US soundtrack (though I wish we got a CD collection with all the mixes instead of one of each).

As for DI, the music is more... respectable, I suppose, in its pure and utter typicality. Boy, they finally decide to try something new and give people specific styles of music and they get lambasted for it (or so it seems on the web, everyone I know in RL that plays enjoys the music). Of course, I found MvC2's music hysterically good compared to how it worked with the action, so take that as you will.

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Originally posted by OmegaFlareX
I like the step down in complexity from the Alpha series.

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Huh?

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Originally posted by MechDeus
Huh?

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SF3 is a more "pure" engine for the most part. Alpha has isms, VCs, guard breaks, air blocking, alpha counters, on and on.

SF3 mostly just has parrying. Red parrying, dashing, universal overheads and such are all pretty minor little tweaks. Although UOHs were pretty friggin broken in 2i.

Too bad parrying ruined SF3*. No position game, no footsie, no projectile pressure, nothing. And when people get to the point of parrying entire supers (which isn't that hard really), it just becomes ridiculous. Don't even get me started on character balance...

*I'm mostly talking about SF3 and 2i, my 3s exposure was very minimal.

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Alpha has isms

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One must pick from the Supers in SFIII, similar effect which also requires knowledge of what each Super does, as opposed to the apply-to-all Isms.

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guard breaks

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Dizzy meter.

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air blocking

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Air parrying, which is more difficult to boot. Although I do lament the loss of two-type air parrying from 2I to TS (there's only one kind in TS).

You also left out SFIII has Kara Throws (your missing footsie game), reactions from taunts, and regulates throws (no more accidental throws/reverals). It is beautiful in simplicity, but I would hardly call it lower complexity then Alpha.

I also hated projectile pressure ("Whee! I can stand at the other end of the screen and do fireball over and over! Aren't I skilled?") and much prefer the projectiles in either useful situations around other moves or in combos. I also can't think of any other fighting game that balances characters better (aside from VF4). Hugo and Yun/Yang have their problems (and Elena is very much parry-bait), but nothing that can't be dealt with.

*reads*

Mech, we must play one day :evil: