Street Fighter Almost DIED | Street Fighter III - New Gen, 2nd Impact, 3rd Strike

SFIII: 3rd Strike is the best of the 3 of course. But I did like 2nd Impact’s intro and non-nerfed Sean

Rip second impact Sean, never forget.

huh, when SFIII came out in the arcades I remember being blown away by it, talking about it with friends etc. I had no idea it was so unsuccessful.

Actually Max, it was 2004 when the anniversary edition came out. Like, Oct 2004 maybe Sept. I rented it before I went to basic training, and I went to Ft. Knox in Nov 2004

This is where Tokido mastered the Urien playstyle of a charge character at his EV02002 debut. Sorry JWong and John Choi, Tokido is just on a whole another level.

Grew a love for street fighter watching this series, I can vouch SF4 Really Teaches The Basics You Should Learn

I own the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection on the original XBOX which includes Hyper Street Fighter II and Street Fighter III: Third Strike. I only played Street Fighter III: Third Strike on the original XBOX because I played Super Street Fighter II: Turbo HD Remix on Xbox 360.

to think that this game started out as not even a street fighter game

Weird, I personally love Street Fighter 3: New Generation and in fact I would go as far as to say it's my favorite iteration of Street Fighter 3 as well as not just my favorite Street Fighter game but also one of my favorite videogames of all time period!

Sf3 NEEDS a true sequel

Alex’s heavy flash chop is also an infinite. No, seriously

When SF3 came out, the arcade was dead. And it didn't come to SNES or Playstation so I never really played it. Plus all the character's were gone except Ken and Ryu. So I had no interest in it

I have distinct memories with the 3rd strike arcade machine.
I’m born 2000’s and I think I was 4 when I would always see someone playing this game at a donut shop my mom would go to in the mornings. The style and everything always intrigued me so much. It was really a surprise throwback when I finally got to play it and remember.
I guess it was a weird time where all the arcade machines scattered? I also remember distinctly a MvC 2 machine.

hy, i play ken in street fighter 6 . i have costume 2 all colors. now he is my famous.

I really really really hope. That I can play Yun in sf6. SF6 is the first street fighter I’m genuinely taking seriously to learn n play and get real good at and watching third strike reeeeeeally makes me wanna go back n learn Yun I just like that character but him coming to sf6 would be dope asf

Capcom please take the best launched Third Strike back then, put all stages of SF3 New Generation and Second Impact into the game, insert a couple of single player contact, relaunch the game. If you also insert a couple of additional characters that make sense to the lore, like Kolin and Ed, we won't complain.

I grew up in south Mississippi, and there was a SF3 New Generation cabinet in the local arcade in the mall near my house for like 5 years. It was off in a dark corner of the room, and I felt like I was the only person who ever played it. Definitely nostalgic for me.

Akuma was in SSF2 turbo

Street Fighter 3rd Strike is the Chess of fighting games. Its the best in the series TO THIS DAY and will never be topped. Its a masterpiece. The greatest fighting game of all time. Noobs need not apply. SF6 is the first SF game i have loved as much as SF3TS.

King of fighters 98 is the best fighting game ever

Of course people don't want to play a game that's fair and balanced; they want the version where they can be cheap as f*** and lame with infinites and crap.

Hugo slapping Gill out of his resurrection is just mwah chef's kiss.

What really screwed SF3 was the bad transition to consoles.
Too advanced for anything at home that time & while it was on Dreamcast by the time 3rd strike was out, that didn't help with that console falling off HARD.

The Stages and theme songs from 2nd Impact are truly incredible. Especially Elena’s Night Bridge and that theme, Necro’s Train stage and that spooky DNB theme, and of course Gill stage and that theme … even Hugo’s beirgarten stage … all superior to every stage and theme in 3s except Akuma’s theme and Ibuki’s theme.

Absolutely cannot wait until switch/consoles get another relaunch / remake of all-encompassing versions of BOTH the Street Fighter III series & Street Fighter Alpha series.

Each title containing literally every roster character and stage and theme song from every possible port and version of the games, and selectable playstyles from each, ala Vampire Chronicle: Chaos Tower / PSP’s Alpha 3 Max ….

I remember back in, about, 1997-98, I found a new Generation arcade cabinet at a...wait for it...a Greyhound bus station in Columbus, OH! (I mean, it's not there any more) I remember going to that station to wait for my grandmother to come in on the bus and saw a machine that just said THREE on it. Then I was was like, "whoa, is this a new Street Fighter game??" Ibuki was the first character I ever picked.

Excellent info and history lesson.... buuuuuut I absolutely despise SF3 so NEXT!

Sf 3 third strike is the best of the series for me. I always prayed for a version with guile Dhalsim and the others. The best animation, the competitive style of play, awesome.

It's funny how japanese people believe hip hop is about a remixed jazz track and pretending to be a black man saying "yeah!" They went right back to it in SF6.

Alex is the coolest SF character of all time and it’s not even close

As someone whose only played Third Strike its crazy to me there's all these stages in 3 and Second Impact that weren't reused.

I remember when my brother and I, first saw SFIII at a local arcade. The giant "Three" on the marquee had us scratching our heads. 🤔

The character selection, stage design and music was a complete 180 from SF 2. We were highly disappointed with the game's overall design.

But in it's defense I'd say SFIII: 2nd Impact is the best iteration of this game.👍

Oro still is and always be a weirdo

I was in elementary school when 3 came out and my local laundromat got a Japanese cab and I hated the game, it was too complicated for me at the time, fast forward 25 years and me and my best friend are still running sets and is by far my favorite SF game

I love Third Strike as much as the next guy, but calling it the "greatest fighting game of all time" when KOF 98 UM and 02 UM exist is a bit of a stretch.

New Generations - the original freak fights

Music didn’t even really matter in the arcade you couldn’t her it with all the other machines going

Aisha 3 was out during the same time plus it wasn’t on PlayStation 1 it was only on sega’s consoles it took until street fighter anniversary on ps2 before it came out years later

The dreamcast version of 3s had the better soundtrack. A different bgm track for every round instead of 2 different tracks.
Greatest fighting game is virtua fighter 5 tho.

IIRC Yun's aerial target combo does exist in 2nd Impact, but only in Gen'ei Jin. 3rd Strike removed it entirely.

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What is parying?

Street Fighter III at release:

Didn't know any of the characters, didn't recognise any of the locations, never saw a home port of the game.

I never heard about any home port until the Dreamcast, which was years later.

There was nothing about the game that made people interested.

Dude, when TSOLE dropped. I think I called off my job life three days in a row even though I had never had to before in the last four years, lmao. The long con, I suppose.
Gotta wait for a good opportunity to use that good will up, eh 😁
That and the when MvC3 first dropped were probably some of the best out of arcade experiences I can remember having. MvC origins also comes somewhere in the top 5.
So much fun. And I was even there for your first episode of the online warrior!

I grew up with the cartoon and SF2 on a cab at the movie theater but 15th on PS2 was really my SF gateway drug. I had MK3 on snes, came off of SC2 and 3 on PS2, a little bit of XX, but we played the shit out of that 3S in college. I tore the callus off my though multiple times on a PS2 pad playing it. From there we got SF4, BB, and onward, but picking up 15th used from Gamestop was what started it all. When OE came out we went ape shit. Good times

Why does anyone care what this guy thinks? He’s literally just a guy

I dont know how SFIII is so highly acclaimed. I think the Daigo moment elevated it massively. Maybe online its decent but from a single player perspective it isnt much fun

I remember the wonkiest Street Fighter I ever played being a 3D fighter on the PS2. Thought it was SF3 for the longest but turns out It's Street FIghter EX 3, now I'm realizing there was a whole EX line of games.
Thanks for making me do my googles Max