The Lost Completely Different Street Fighter 3 - Gaming History Secrets

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In today's video, we discuss the Lost Street Fighter 3 game. Let's look an interesting project that never panned quite out as it was planned.
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[@BloodlessWolf]

I remember, after Street Fighter 3 came out already, I was hanging out at the arcade in the mall and a guy approached me asking if I wanted to be a part of a focus group and answer some questions. I, of course, went and me and, like, 5 other guys were led to this small room with a table and they asked us a bunch of questions mainly about Street Fighter. They asked if we wanted a new Street Fighter. They wanted to know what other fighting games we played. But most of all I remember them asking if we wanted a new Street Fighter to be 3D or 2D. I was adamant about wanting it to be 2D. I remember feeling a little upset because several of the others said no new Street Fighter and wanted it to be like Tekken and for them to have swords and guns. I was paid something, I think it was like $5. I'm glad Capcom didn't listen to those other guys.

[@Old_Man_Jay]

Capcom did make that Final Fight fighting game on the Saturn which DID have guns and such, if I'm not mistaken. They probably used that game to test the waters. Glad none of that nonsense crossed over to the Street Fighter series.

[@JinzoCrash]

@@Old_Man_JayWell, there was Rolento.

[@Old_Man_Jay]

@@JinzoCrash True. A slight exception. But even then, he’s not a weapon heavy character aside from his baton.

[@kyokari4]

​@@Old_Man_Jayyeah, it's pretty interesting to think that interview may have contributed to that game.

[@locked01]

​@@Old_Man_Jayermh...Guy..Cody....Rolento.. and more.

[@emailchrismoll]

I wonder what MK would look like with today's technology if it was made with 4k digitized picture sprites

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Remakes of the first three almost happened. Look up "Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection HD canceled."

[@stephenflynn1989]

I wish they would

[@RandySpycyWeinr]

Shen Long looks like a divorced dad. A powerful one.

[@rexgamewell]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RandySpycyWeinr]

Lol I was hoping I wasn't alone with this reference. 😅

[@TheHobgoblyn]

You realize he was in Street Fighter 4, right? But they cleared up the naming difference by then and called him Gouken.

[@RandySpycyWeinr]

@@TheHobgoblyn what's your point?

[@TheHobgoblyn]

@@RandySpycyWeinrJust that well-- he went from being a fanfic character to being an actual character in an actual game in the series.

[@mRibbons]

The cast in Alpha 3 was far better, but 3rd Impact has laser precise mechanics. So good, both of them!

[@eddylex4921]

I remember back in the 90s there were rumors that Street Fighter EX was also at one point considered the be Street Fighter III but during its development they changed the name. Not sure how true this is though I guess the only way to be sure would be to see an original design document for EX. This does happen often however if you look at the design documents for Final Fight they say Street Fighter II on them.

[@KEN-1991]

It would make sense if the game were called "Street Fighter 3-D".

[@81carlos]

Street Fighter '89.

[@eddylex4921]

​@@81carlosYes originally in the design proposal the game was called Street Fighter II when the game came out they dropped the II and called it 89. And redid the logo lettering. Then they changed the name for the final game to Final Fight. Interestingly the redesigned logo was used for the actual SFII they just added the II

[@andrewvalentine6977]

I seem to remember that as a kid I played Street Fighter, The Movie, The Game (such a cumbersome title)in my local GAME store. I think in the story mode Guile was the only playable character and I remember completely wrecking the A.I. Not sure if the A.I was bad but I had people watching me and felt pretty awesome at the time. I kind of thought that Street Fighter Alpha was the unofficial Street Fighter 3.

[@blackcurtains4710]

No you were playing the CAPCOM home console version which was just champion edition reskinned with STREET FIGHTER The Movie sprites borrowed from Incredible Technologies. Street Fighter Alpha was more capcom answer to SNK and evening having Dan as a dig at King of Fighters.

[@truebiggirllover9301]

SF3NG had 4 different Parry Systems. You could bounce off Air Parrying Hadokens so far that you could cross up an opponent.

[@chunky9791]

"You must defeat Top Hat Gaming to stand a chance" good luck with that

[@neoturfmasterMVS]

Challenge accepted.

[@StephenDruesedow]

OMG all I wanted was to see some footage of this lost sf3, I'm scanning through and can't find anything.

[@pairofsneakerheads]

Third Strike is my all time favorite Street Fighter game. And I've been playing since part 2

[@FoolsGil]

Typical that some of the japanese devs would deflect blame

[@kuyache2]

The interview where it is said that if an SF3 is being made it will be very big is a very true statement, Capcom Japan would never allow a big number on a series to be created by a 3rd party or even by Capcom USA they simply wouldn't allow it to happen. So this whole ordeal is just made up by fans with wild imaginations. When the west subsidiary of the company takes leads on projects that are not sanctioned by its Japan overlords, something similar to the Sega Phenomenon happens.

[@potatochobit]

that's true, i hated the game when I first played it in the arcades and I owned all the dreamcast versions even the japanese ones but it was hard to play online.

[@ODGtheToyman1974]

The description of Sheng long sounds 🔥

[@Kos4Evr]

Honestly I feel that someone must have said street fighter 3 at some point for members of the team to think that even if it was not approved

[@RonSanPedro83]

what's ironic is that even though this game (the arcade version specifically) is considered subpar by street fighter standard and a Mortal Kombat wannabe, it is more innovative and actually plays better than any of the digitized MK games. a lot of fighting game standards have their roots in this game, EX moves, OTGs, juggle launchers, heck there's even a sub system that allows you to recover a few health in exchange for super bar.

[@thereub8166]

If I'm not mistaken, SF got credited w/creating the combo system. They didn't give a score bonus, because they thought people wouldn't be able to hit the buttons fast enough at the time.

[@Markworth]

Yeah, this game isn't nearly as bad as the rep it carries. I think a lot of people just kind of get a sense of cringe from the thought of it and don't give it a fair shake. In terms of release time, it compares to SFA1 and UMK3, roughly? Xmen COTA predates it. So uhh...guess it's not as pretty as those games. 🤷‍♂

[@RonSanPedro83]

@@Markworth Man Xmen COTA's really blew my mind, the show was at the peak of popularity and the animation was so fluid, I think only the CPS3 games came close. no wonder nobody played SFTMTG lol.

[@wads80z]

Sheng Long was gonna be Trogdor with a beefy dragon arm...and maybe some burnination!

[@JohnnyProctor9]

Like in Dragon Ball?

[@nufiya999]

Burninating the countryside alpha 3

[@ArkVogel]

A beefy dragon arm with CONSUMMATE V's, mind you.

[@jetlife314]

He was a dragon man

[@unholyshape]

When anyone says Ernie Reyes I instantly think of the movie Surf Ninjas.

[@TheHobgoblyn]

That would be the Ernie Reyes Jr. He was in Ninja Turtles too.

[@unholyshape]

@TheHobgoblyn Ernie Reyes Sr was in surf ninjas as well. He played the part of Zatch.

[@lonesn1per]

Is it me or is the video glitchy?

[@lordkered]

Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha was the best but somehow slipped over. D. Dark was epic.

[@ActionGamerAaron]

Street Fighter: The Game: The Movie: The Game was done so dirty while being genuinely game and looking more smooth than MK at the time.

[@sapphoai821]

Thanks

[@Invalidcookie-bv4cx]

The "Lost "SF3 was never going to be SF3. It was going to be Street Fighter the Movie : The Game. The people they got to do it wasn't part of capcom. CPS-3 Couldn't handle Digital Graphics. The people were told "Your going to be working on 'the newest street fighter game' " They thought it was SF3. The guys at capcom said "This is the first i'm hearing about it" (this was like 18 years later) They had a REALLY hard time getting all of the actors for Street Fighter The movie to come to the studio to be scanned, it took way longer than it should have, and YES Shen Long was Approved, and the Footage was recorded. But they simplely did not have the time, Like i said it took them MONTHS to get all of the actors in there to be scanned with Dalsam not even choosing to come in, The Production for the Movie was a Nightmare, if you google it im sure you can look up all of the issues they had in Thailand.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

It was a B Rated movie at best.

[@BridgetGX]

The Movie game was actually kinda dope and the arcade version actually has players today

[@HalcyonEX]

Is there an image of what shen long would've looked like if he made it in the game?

[@Invalidcookie-bv4cx]

@@HalcyonEX People have been trying to get the Footage and game data "leaked".Which it's been this long i don't even think CAPCOM would mind. I would LOVE to see what they had planed. According to the guy who did the scans. he had ONE arm that was like a Dragon (it melted during shooting under the Hot lights) but they did end of finishing it. I say CAPCOM should just do something for the Fans and release the videos and Gamedata for Shen Long in SF The movie.

[@HalcyonEX]

@@Invalidcookie-bv4cx that would be sick

[@disciplesoftheapocalypse]

This was my introduction to Street Fighter and it made me hate Street Fighter as a kid.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Gotetsu not Gosetsu

[@arnezcooper1873]

Nice steam

[@Gamesackfan-bn6eg]

I saw this. My friends didn't believe me

[@reboxtherapy]

Charley turned into Blanka?

[@PirataMundoTV]

Yup, in the Street Fighter movie they merged Charlie and Blanka into one... Carlos Blanka🤦🏽‍♂️

[@yourlocalFrostingfan]

​@@PirataMundoTVwell the movie itself non-canon because Capcom never revealed that Charlie is blanka

[@popthatbeep]

The "real life" art style spawned by Mortal Kombat actually was popular only in USA. Gamers outside of USA especially in Asia feel that it looks so funny and lame. They only play Mortal Kombat because of the gore and laughs. No one in Asia really thought Mortal Kombat was really a high end fighting game, it was a graphically violent game for dorks. I can see why the Japanese team reacted on this game development and be like "Dafuq is this shit...

[@jamesmcgeachy5433]

🎉

[@bradh6980]

I want a movie based on Street Fighter: the movie: the game. It could be called Street Fighter the Movie the Game the Movie. And then make a game out of that called Street Fighter the Movie the Game the Movie the Game.

[@g7gatsu]

Glad that the Yankees got laughed at with their little silly project. Digitized graphic over pixel art? That's rich.

[@Left4JokerOficial]

The console version is better, and the gameplay is very very simillar to SF2 Turbo. I wonder if it was kind of a base for the cancelled/transformed SF3.

[@carlosfelipe2988]

Lo que 💩Street Figther III fue lo de solo poder usar un súper art🙄

[@Crystallums]

SF the Movie it was a good example of a shitty game!

[@liquidbiden]

This game isnt lost bro.

[@jacobbaranowski]

It's Street Fighter the movie 🎥 the game, not Street Fighter 3

[@EriknocTDW]

I've never been a fan of digitized actors in games. Moreover, I couldn't stand Mortal Kombat and the blood and dismemberment of Fatalities, and was annoyed by all the hyped fans over that heaping pile of garbage. Even a few of my brothers loved it and tried to get me "used" to playing it so I would abandon SF2, but that was short lived. After a couple of weeks of playing MK, it just wasn't fun. The combo system and move sets were wonky, the stages were ugly and gave a Satanic vibe, and the blood and dismemberment was disgusting, and yet so many people drank that s*** up like it was a gift from the gods. I also gave Killer Instinct a shot under pressure from one brother, and while I did play that on longer, like maybe a month, it was still wonky enough and it seemed to me like it was trying to win fans from SF and MK over by somewhat meshing them together. I got good enough with KI to where I kept beating my brothers relentlessly with every character in the roster, so they stopped playing with me claiming I needed to get a life (as if practicing combos was a bad thing). I didn't stick with KI because it just really didn't appeal to me, and in some of the same ways MK didn't appeal to me, especially if I would have had to play it by myself. It was like a peanut-butter, jelly, and s*** sandwich. I liked peanut-butter,, I liked jelly, but not the s***. So needless to say, I abandoned KI and went right back to SF2. At least that was an enjoyable enough game to play, whether I was playing by myself or with someone, even though the computer was a freaking cheater. Lol.

[@vandagylon2885]

You're a fanboy, we get it.

[@mechadeka]

​@vandagylon2885 MK is actually bad though.

[@Mechanomics]

@@mechadeka No, not really though.

[@crews-lj3ph]

​@@mechadekafoh street fighter fan boy

[@JohnnyProctor9]

Yeah, too bad we got rubbish instead of a REAL SF3!

[@blumiu2426]

Am I the only one that found Mortal Kombat's graphics then ugly?

[@S-Groove]

They certainly weren't the most pleasing. But that's something you'll have to expect of games from that age.

[@popthatbeep]

The "real life" art style spawned by Mortal Kombat actually was popular only in USA. Gamers outside of USA especially in Asia feel that it looks so funny and lame. They only play Mortal Kombat because of the gore and laughs. No one in Asia really thought Mortal Kombat was really a high end fighting game, it was a graphically violent game for dorks

[@micoromico]

I'm sure they were disgusted

[@malcolmbranch10]

Who is writing your titles?

[@MortimurGrimm]

I was never a fan of motion capture characters, as they look cheap to me, and prefer the drawn ones. The costumes weren’t as cool or sexy either. Chun-Li without thick legs and pantyhose looks weird. Same with looks for the other characters.

[@ryanbailey6900]

Mortal Kombat was a gimmicky pile of crap compared to SF2. The Japanese knew this and were annoyed that thier game was now taking direction from MK

[@suhtangwong]

Eh, idk about that

[@theultimateninja]

Worst take ever

[@LEFT4eV3r]

I think it's the other way around my friend, looks like sf is taking pointers from mk

[@crews-lj3ph]

Foh mortal Kombat is a better game than SF y'all just say anything

[@LEFT4eV3r]

@@crews-lj3ph yeah like tell them to foh like mk is better 🏝️

[@FrankCosbyNo-Relation]

🧢

[@premeloanthony1953]

yaaaaaaaaa

[@nickfanzo]

I love street fighter 3 first strike, so good

[@Rockysbeats]

i think street fighter needs a whole new presentation the ugly 3d plasticine has run its course now id love to see a new game thats completely out the box

[@JinzoCrash]

Picture of braided Blanka = clickbait. ::downvotes::

[@TexasHollowEarth]

Not a fan of Street Fighter 3 outside of Chun-Li in 3rd Strike. The character designs stink + all the line-scrolling was removed from stage floors despite running on new and superior hardware!? I MUCH prefer Street Fighter 4 and it's updates but that Chun-Li SF3 3rd Strike sprite is just SO well done 😎👍

[@KEN-1991]

My only problems with Street Fighter III: • Its lack of more veterans. Capcom learned from that mistake which is why SFIV, SFV & SFVI has more fulfilled and satisfying rosters. • Capcom would rather put some off-brand emo dooshbag named Remy into the game instead of making Guile's teenaged daughter Amy/Chris playable. • Eagle and Maki should've appeared in the PS2 and XBOX versions of 3rd Strike instead of Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper & Double Upper.

[@jons9239]

Ikr. People don't want to admit it but I think SF4 was the more fun game. 3rd strike roster is whack.

[@PirataMundoTV]

​@@jons9239 yeah the animation was cool but it lacked veteran characters. Plus they tried to make Alex the new face of the franchise... Luke

[@81carlos]

@@KEN-1991 Also, they took too long to make SF 3. SF 2 and 3 were made 6 years apart. By that time, sprite based games were being replaced by 3d games like Tekken and others and Capcom had released a bunch of other fighting games in between as well.

[@81carlos]

@@jons9239 Worst Street Fighter roster of the series. I only liked a few of the new fighters.

[@scienz]

i hate click bait titles

[@bman4894]

First

[@AleksandrGabachev]

who cares grow up

[@HalcyonEX]

Congratulations your the first comment on a video with 20 comments looool

[@chengfu7063]

It's better than this garbage today leagues above the current version at least this is a real Street fighter and not a circus and that's an insult to the circus that has talent unlike anything today's whatever tries to produce

[@lordfyita2096]

Too much babbling no showing.

[@BronsonAlive]

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