Quote Originally Posted by Bakuretsu Hakkei
Ummm....GG's graphics aren't as good as SF3's, not by a long shot.
This is up for debate. I'll give you that GG's animation doesn't match SF3's, but then again, GG has high-res sprites, while SF3 doesn't. I guess it all depends on what you value more. I think that while GG doesn't have as fluid of animation as SF3, what it does have is passable and acceptable. However, if Capcom was to put out SF4 today, with the same exact sprites as SF3, that would be unacceptable (unless it was on a portable). It would be like they had put out RE4 with the RE2 Leon model. Totally unacceptable! The graphical jump from SF2 to SF3 was huge, thanks to all that great animation, but it was like they ran into a wall after SF3. Pretty much every game after SF3 re-used old sprites. And look at their latest fighting game, Capcom Fighting Evolution, that game had low res sprites, crap animation, AND crap gameplay. All I'm trying to say is that yes, SF3 looks great, but SF4 could look better. As Dark Holmes was saying, putting high res sprites together with SF3 quality animation would result in something spectacular. In my eyes, Capcom has already been one-upped by Sammy, so it's time they change.

As for never innovating unless someting is wrong with that game... I will give you Tetris... Tetris is the one exception to the rule as its game design is absolutely perfect. Pokemon sales are slowly getting weaker, though. Reviews have been getting worse as well, with the main complaint that all the game are the same. That's also my main complaint with the series, and though I'm was a huge Pokemon fan, I will not buy another Pokemon game until the series goes through a serious overhaul. Capcom already one-upped itself with SFA after the SF2 series, even though no 2D fighter really came close to it. I really don't think the mentality of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" works... well, it does to a certain extent, but after a while, even if nobody has done better, companies will be forced to better themselves. As gamers, we better hope that developers try to better themselves, even if they lack competition...or we'd be stuck playing the same games over and over again. If that was the case, we'd be playing SSF2: Turbo Hyper Championship Twentieth Attack Superstar right now instead of at least having SF3:TS. Because seriously, did any non-Capcom game really become better than SF2?