In terms of making SF3 co-exist with the storyline, its not that hard. They could just say that the SF2 cahracters we know and love were doing their own thing, its just that SF3 didnt tell about it. A lot of people thought in SF3, the SF2 characters just retired, died, stopped fighting etc. But Capcom never says that, they might have just been doing their own thing. Capcom should just work towards showing what the other characters could have been doing during the events of SF3. Lets take Guile for example. Some people thought, oh no in SF3 he became a family man. Maybe he didn't enter the SF3 tournament because he was looking for Charlie. Just an example to help you get what Im trying to say.

Remember when we saw some of the wild Supers in the Alpha series and people said "How come this takes place in the past and yet, Ryu and Ken have more Supers when they were younger than when they are older and wiser in SSF2T?"  Capcom just said something along the lines of "In the story they could, we just dont see it in the game." In letting SF3 coexist ( I would hate if they totaly overrode it,) they just need to mention that the characters from SF2 / SF4 are doing their own thing, still fighting, in the time of SF3, but we just dont see it. That way they could set up a proper SF5 with the characters we know and love.

Nov 6, 2009 -- 8:42PM, The Lone Dragon wrote:

Nov 6, 2009 -- 8:04PM, Truest Strike wrote:

Least favorite stage

-The bridge/Sakura's stage as I call it.

I didn't think it was possible to hate this stage.  Most colorful stage in the game!

It's my favorite. 

Same for me, i love it :-)

My least favorite stage is the Volcano and the Russian one although i am beginning to like it. Volcano just doesn't seem to fit with SF at all IMO, it looks like an afterthought and something i would expect to see in MK or a Tekken game

oh and one more thing regarding stages: does anyone think that the reason why SF II stages look so iconic even today has mostly to do with the actual designs or perhaps is it cause it was a breakthrough game at that time and millions where playing it - thus becoming iconic as a whole?

Cause i worry that regardless of how brilliant SSF IV is bound to be, if they just do a rush job with all the extra stages it might take away from the overall greatness of it. Which is why i think Capcom will indeed re-make a lot of stages, not only from SF II but also from SF III 3rd Strike and even Alpha series, depending on the corresponding characters (FF as well) so that they will not waste too much time researching and risk dissapointing fans

People are confusing SFIV stage-specific BGMs with match-up-specific BGMs. A lot.

Anyway, I like Overpass (my favourite... and also looks like the park where I go jogging!  ) Crowded Downtown, Beautiful Bay, Drive In, Distillery, Snowy Rail Yard, Small Airfield and both Temples.

Volcanic Rim is not that bad. But it's really empty. Lazy.

Cruise is awful.

Jungle is terrible. I would want a jungle stage for Blanka, but seriously that **** is a joke. SF2 stage, SF Alpha stage, even the crashed plane project... they all were better than this.

Nov 7, 2009 -- 5:17AM, True Ryu wrote:

In terms of making SF3 co-exist with the storyline, its not that hard. They could just say that the SF2 cahracters we know and love were doing their own thing, its just that SF3 didnt tell about it.

Or Capcom could just make SFV a retelling of SFIII and include the SFII cast along with most of the cast from SFIII.  If SFIV can be a prequel (and still be called SFIV), then SFV could easily be a retelling with a modified storyline.

Nov 7, 2009 -- 9:36AM, Kira_Timmy wrote:

As for the stages, im sure they're not giving new stage in the map from the trailer, just wait and see, im sure we get char specific stages, hope sagats for the most part, that statue is classic!

But there are new stages in the map!

I can't place any of the SFIV stages in South Korea, India or on the East Coast of the US.

So the dots there have to be new stages, one of them being obviously Juri's.