

I have always preferred the presentation of New Generation and 2nd Impact as well. At this point I'm going to let the pictures do the talking, so sit back and enjoy some 90s fighting game goodness: That being said, let's start off by looking at the stages themselves.


The aim of this thread is not to argue about which _ is better than _, it's to admire these gorgeous games and appreciate the good old days of 2D fighting games. People often talk about how Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is the pinnacle of 2D fighting games in terms of its graphics, but if you ask me that honour still goes to, and always will go to, its two predecessors. Street Fighter III: New Generation and Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact are now just over 20 years old (both games released in 1997), but the use of Capcom's CPS3 hardware resulted in one of the most beautiful and staggeringly good looking games of the 2D era, if not all time.
#Street fighter iii new generation series
So I've been thinking of making this thread for a couple of days now due to the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection finally adding these games to a console other than the Dreamcast, but after Capcom put out their final retrospective video on the Street Fighter III series I decided to go through with it.
