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@rich213sal

4 жыл бұрын

Richard I am an Ol' Skool player hailing from Los Angeles, California USA.. and we pronounced it like u...then when i was a teen some geek corrected me to pronounce it like riii-yu...Nope i dont care, its RAii-yuu!!!!!! YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH!!

@Hecatom

4 жыл бұрын

The worst members of the fgc are on the capcom side, specially on the sf3 and mvc3. Some will say that the smashers are the worst of all. But smash is not a fighting game so they dont count despite being compromised of terrible human beings.

@Logic1611

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly I'm Just waiting for the Ultra Street Fighter 4 video, other than that...I'm here for the drama.

@Sin606

4 жыл бұрын

Judging by the comments I can totally see why this video was made. Gotta be honest I had a bit of trouble following this vid. I didn't know if you were talking about Street Fighter 3 New Generation or the SF3 series. I didn't really like SF3 till Evo moment and after I actually became inspiration to try the game and found myself loving Third Strike. Thanks for the vid.

@lonewolffang

4 жыл бұрын

I remember playing it once at a arcade cabinet once and had to wait until the dreamcast versions came out. 👍 Great video by the way. And I used to pronounce Ryu the same way too. And it was pronounced that way for so long so it's not really anyone's fault for saying it wrong. Just think of it as there's no wrong way to say potato.

Keep calm and Parry on.

@TheRealFaceyNeck

4 жыл бұрын

Great comment! lol

@greggomes3D

4 жыл бұрын

we need to make t-shirts wtih that comment

@Descro382

4 жыл бұрын

@@greggomes3D I'd buy one lol

As a longtime follower of the "FGC" for over 25 years and with 3rd Strike being one of my favorite fighting games of all time, I can safely say that at the time of release, 3rd Strike was NOT received well. Since people had already been soured by New Generation and 2nd Impact, people considered 3S as "more of the same", with some even making the jokes of "3 strikes you're out!". And since SFA 3 was still pretty much a thing and with MvC 2 looming in the horizon, 3rd Strike kinda got overlooked. It was only throughout the passage of time that it gained the recognition of the community, not unlike other media such as movies, music albums or TV shows which also gain praise many years AFTER they were released (some call them "cult classics" now). And of course there was "EVO moment #37" (the Daigo parry that appeared in the beginning of the video) which pretty much cemented 3S's legacy. Sure, the game is praised and recognized NOW, but let's not pretend it was always that way. Cuz it wasn't.

@24ericardo

4 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@SaviorGabriel

4 жыл бұрын

Well said! I remember a review from GamePro magazine for 3rd Strike, and they were not all that impressed with it. I've noticed that pattern in these retrospective videos. Over time, reviewers seemed less, and less thrilled with the newer Capcom fighting games. They did like them, but you can tell they were getting burned out.

@ikagura

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot guy with the chibi Urien pfp

@ZaireXIII

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, I remember how fast this game was shoved into the back areas of the local arcades and totally removed once MvC2 hit hard. Even Alpha 3 was a hard sell in some arcades as the era of the 3D fighter was starting to really take off.

@ikagura

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZaireXIII Yeah, Tekken was like the next big thing after SFII so I can understand why people preffered these more back then

I worked part time in an arcade in the late 90s and was a huge SF fan. I helped install the SF3 cabinet. I was shocked by how little it was played. At that point Tekken 2/3 And X-men Vs Streetighter drew the crowds.

@misterfields87

3 жыл бұрын

Capcom verses series did draw me away, it was fun

SF III was NOT that popular on release. That is a FACT.Great trio of iterations though it may have been,

@AcornElectron

4 жыл бұрын

pjomayo iteration is the key word there.

I'm 40 years old. And I was around 17 the time when Street Fighter 3 NEw Generation was released to arcades. I followed the game development for years in Gamepro and EGM. I was happy when my arcade received the game. But unfortunately many people in my arcade didn't enjoy the game. They hated how you had to select your super, as compared to Alpha when you could use multiple supers at anytime during the match. The game also seemed slow compared to Tekken, UMK3, and the Versus games that were immensely popular in my arcade at the time. I personally loved SF3, but I mostly played on an empty cabinet with a few other enthusiasts. 3s was a little more popular, but 3s was considered dead in the USA. It was only when Japan (where the game was massively popular) beat the USA at Evo 2002 is when the USA started taking the game much more seriously. And after the Evo 2004 footage the game had a second life. SF3 was popular in some arcades though. Often referred to as "hotspots". Texas,Socal, and NYC were three areas where SF3 had always been relatively popular. I lived in Atlanta and it certainly wasn't popular in my areas until the 2000s with the competitive scene.

@AVENTUS03

4 жыл бұрын

It was fairly popular in chicago arcades with asian, latino, middle eastern, african-american communities, as well as with skater/stoner euro/white kids, for a few reasons: MUSIC, roster of younger/more modern looking fighters, and overall DOPE presentation. But I recall only seeing SF ALPHA cabinets being played at malls further outside the city. But those arcades were pretty much dead in general, because they stayed at home playing N64/PS1

@AVENTUS03

4 жыл бұрын

mrfujisawa it’s arguably getting more popular as it ages. SF3 is one of those games which was launched during an era where USA Arcades were mostly already dead, yet Japanese arcades were still thriving. Also, for some unknown reason, SF3 got very limited console ports, and none with any marketing for them. One on a dying console. So it never really got a fair shake. It wasn’t until the competitive community really got ahold of it, and kept it around, that it was fully recognized for what it was: one of the best fighting games ever made. I personally feel if they would have been able to retain more roster characters from the SF2 & ALPHA2&3 rosters, they game would have succeeded more in more different communities in the USA.

@jihadjoe

4 жыл бұрын

Far as Capcom CPS3 games go I remember having a LOT more fun playing Red Earth than 3S back during those days. Also the competitive people in my local scene either stuck with ST, or moved on to 3D fighters. You couldn't pry me off the VF2 (or VF3) machine to play a round of 3S.

@AVENTUS03

4 жыл бұрын

jihadjoe I always thought VF looked horrible. 3d has only recently begun looking objectively “great”

During my youth, I actually thought SFA was SF3.

@TizerisT.

4 жыл бұрын

It kind of was. It was the third 'base game' of the series.

@Rromantiq

4 жыл бұрын

Street Fighter Alpha was more mainstream then Street Fighter 3 was and were ported to consoles more quickly than the Street Fighter 3 games were. SFA came out in 1995 and SF3 actually only came out a year later for arcades but it wasn't until 1999 when SF3/SF3 Second Impact were ported to home consoles which was already 2 years after Second Impact came out and the year 3rd Strike came out. Further more proving it wasn't that popular so I think a lot of people may have thought the same.

@aliastheabnormal

4 жыл бұрын

First time I heard that SFA wasn't the third game of the series.

@Rromantiq

4 жыл бұрын

@D core That's factually incorrect, the Saturn was superior to the PlayStation and typically had all around better ports of Street Fighter games during that era which again hindered popularity of SF3 reaching more players on home consoles. SF3 had to many animations for anything to be handled in 96/97 and SFA didn't nearly have as many so it was much easier to port even to the PlayStation. There's a reason why Alpha was ported to the Saturn and SF3 wasn't.

@Rromantiq

4 жыл бұрын

@D core Satrun not being able to SF3 is my whole point and you telling me about what the Satrun could do and the PS1 couldn't is literally why I said it was superior for Capcoms fighting games. I'm also not buying into his comments I agree with what he said because what he said was true. Street Fighter 3 was originally met with backlash upon beta testing because no original characters were in the game just as MK3 was. So because of the negative backlash Capcom got they added Ryu/Ken to the roster and even still it wasn't picking up steam until Second Impact came around. Tekken was booming around this time and even though their roster was new they had clones to make up for legacy characters who weren't in the game. Street Fighter 3 was never that popular in the arcades nor even casually and again not being a port until 1999 strengthens my point here. SF3 also came out during a time where 3D fighters were becoming more popular than 2D, I know this because I lived it, it only really started to get more appreciated years after release but when you walked into the arcades during the late 90's there were way more people paying MVC/Tekken 3/Soul Calibur than there was with Street Fighter 3.

Speaking as a long-time Third Strike fan, comments like the ones examined here make it difficult to speak as a Third Strike fan.

I lived in Hong Kong at the time of release and played it in the arcades... Mostly by myself cause nobody else played it

@n.b.l.5709

2 жыл бұрын

lol damm

I didn't even hear about SF3 back in the day, but maybe around 2005 or so I got really into it and couldn't believe I had missed it. Started playing it online together with friends, even if that was a huge hassle back then. Thanks to Daigo's EVO 2004 moment, is how I discovered it so many years later.

@dkvestboy

4 жыл бұрын

I first know there was a st3 when st4 came out 🙂

@IfYouInsist

4 жыл бұрын

Same.

People take stuff way too seriously lol

@DanielBMS

4 жыл бұрын

So you do not take pronunciation of your name too seriously either?

@stevensonchambers5577

4 жыл бұрын

DanceGameGuy uh he is a real person not a fictional video game character. If you want to have a more meaningful debate about SF character name pronunciations, you're better off going after people who pronounce Guile as "Gully" or Dhalsim as "Da-halsim"

@kingninja1781

4 жыл бұрын

Q 🤣

@TyRiders2

4 жыл бұрын

@@ganjaman59650 Ru*

@Silverlining-gm8fd

4 жыл бұрын

It's this generation that gets butthurt for everything! I remembered back in 1997 my friends and I were excited at the first day debut of the game at the local Arcade in Puerto Rico and we all were like "where's chun-li, where's guile, Cammy, Akuma, or at least Zangief? we were ok with Ryu and Ken but the other characters we tried hard to get familiar with but we missed our original beloved characters from SFII so these brats have no idea what the real arcade gamers have to deal thru specially that we have to spend the quarters or tokens!

I was playing MvC in the arcades a lot when SF3 came out and I remember that machine never got touched. People played Alpha but never touched SF3

The salt mine backdrop and your pronunciation of pronunciation was brilliant.

"I wonder if there's an asian equivelent of a weeaboo who loves western culture." Probably some kid who dresses like a cowboy, and instead of studying the blade he studies the 6-shooter, has seen every episode of Walker Texas Ranger

@Run187

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, chucka Norris doing many kick to beat many gang carrying wepon..

@EatWave

3 жыл бұрын

Hideo Kojima, Swery and Suda51 pretty much fall into that category even without doing those things.

@meanwhileinjapan2265

3 жыл бұрын

There is a lot of those they are called Gaijin hunters they are pretty delusional and toxic people in Japan and should be avoided

"look at all those salty people" makes 40 min video while salty.

@ciphermkiii

4 жыл бұрын

Terra Ranger What a fine and polished comment. Wow.

@ml3778

4 жыл бұрын

@@ciphermkiii He is right though, compare the salt. Some people made comments. This guy made a 40 minute video.

@deadpilled2942

4 жыл бұрын

That's the joke

@jenisia3600

3 жыл бұрын

Ur right fam.

I was in the competitive scene back then, and frequented arcades in NYC, London, Paris, and Amsterdam. SF Alpha 3, Virtua Fighter 2/3, Tekken, Soul Edge, and VS series were simply more popular. (Still more popular than SF EX2, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat 4, Dead or Alive, War Gods, lol!) It wasn't until about 2001, with Third Strike, that westerners started caring about SF3. It was still mostly for the most competitive. The Daigo parry in 2004 boosted the game's popularity, but that also had to do with many people getting bored of CvS2, MvC2, and the 3D fighters. Also, SF33 wasn't a part of the official lineups of B5 (2001) and the 2002 Evo series. In 2002 there was a Japan vs USA battle, which showed how much the Americans were still learning the game.

@NewportBox100s

4 жыл бұрын

How did you afford to travel to all those places back then just to play arcade games?

@madspunky

4 жыл бұрын

@@NewportBox100s my Dad lives in NYC, so visited often, and the European cities are doable for all sorts of reasons : )

@PRODAt3

4 жыл бұрын

@@NewportBox100s you can now and could then take a rougly 1 or 2 hour flight between any of those european cities for like 100 euros if booked early enough. NY is the only one that might have costed a lot, but maybe the gentleman in question had less monetary problems than I did back in the early 2000s

@mekkimaru2365

3 жыл бұрын

Can't take you serious when you list Killer Instinct along with MK4, War Gods, DoA and so on. Very few people played MK4 after about a month,, and next to NOBODY played War Gods (this game was actually made by Midway as a test to see how a 3D MK could work). Killer Instinct was MASSIVE in arcades, yet it was released in 1994, and was absolutely MASSIVE. One of the most popular fighters after SF2, MKII, and to a much lesser extent, VF2. Only issues it had was glitches in all revisions and the Eyedol and Cinder (Meltdown in the US) infinite combos. I was in the competitive Fighting game scene and also traveled - Manchester based but only to London and NY. So I know what games were popular in those circles.

@madspunky

3 жыл бұрын

@@mekkimaru2365 Ah, by the time I was taking the arcade seriously, KI2 had been released. And honestly I never saw lines form. If you're saying that KI1 was popular between 1994 and 1996, I would believe you!

*films a response video in a salt mine * Legend

As someone who grew up and played in arcades in the late 80s and all through the 90s and nobody was on SF3 series....it only attracted a small group of ppl. MvC2 was waaaay more popular and Tekken also. I always played it if I saw it but no one was really on it, I got more competition in other games because ppl wasn't on 3s or any other version of of SF3. It only got popular when the Daigo Parry went viral (before that was term) and only the hardcore tournament screen played and even they will tell you not as many played it as they did SF2

@SuperArt7

4 жыл бұрын

Surprised OG Apoc left that comment

@InternetTAB

4 жыл бұрын

mvc 2 and Capcom vs SNK were more popular than 3rd strike at the time. In my local experience anyway. but 10 years later people were coming in and playing 3rd Strike still and the other 2 are gone. 20 years later and the people still get together almost weekly to play 3rd Strike

@brandonmuse5532

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The SF3 series was an amazing game that tool things now be recognized. I think Capcom's approach to the SF3 series was off. The character roster should have been better mix of older and new characters. The internet has really helped this game.

@olschoolTonyCarter

4 жыл бұрын

Facts bro, only when 3rd strike came to dreamcast is when people really start playing sf3 and it has a cult following.

@badassgenevideos

4 жыл бұрын

@@olschoolTonyCarter yeah, and people started playing sf3 during the time of tekken tag 2 and mvsc2. And the time when older players like me started playing PC LAN games like counter strike instead of going to the arcades like we did since sf2. We played everything from sf2 to sfa3, kof 94 to 98, tekken 1 to 3. Art of fighting 1 to 3, samsho 1 to 4, capcom VS, but we never touched sf3. We only played it on 3rd strike when younger players are getting better than us. Hehe.

Reserving a seat early that title alone is enough to sir up some turmoil.

@SAM-ru4vx

4 жыл бұрын

So are you gonna show up with a arcade stick? And then argue over brand names over parts?

@SirPumpkinSlice

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta get attention somehow.

I grew up in Hong Kong, China and for the most part the problem with Street Fighter 3 was it uses a new CP3 board where the majority of the games were on a a CP2 board. That's why the other series like Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter Zero/Alpha series and the Marvel VS stuff were more popular and commonly played.

I just have one thing to say: _What a salty gentleman tbh_

@badassgenevideos

4 жыл бұрын

Maku Donarudu!

Diego Umehara *DIEGO* Umehara 😂😂😂 I'm sorry man, I agree with everything else in the this video but, that gaff was just too priceless to pass up. Daigo is pronounced (Die-go) btw

@LyingSecret

4 жыл бұрын

Unless he did it to troll responses like the one you just gave, which I know he did :D It worked lol

@MooKyyLOL

4 жыл бұрын

not even Daigo himself gets bothered by people pronuncing his name like thsi cause he understands people from different parts of the world say and perceive words differently

@miguelalarcon

4 жыл бұрын

The name Daigo is not the same as Diego may sound similar for the phonetics of the vowels in English since Japanese does not follow the same rules of use and pronunciation.

Its not about pronunciation But about to at least try to say and pronounce correctly surnames or names, When I see English surnames or names I give my best to pronounce them the correct way, Native English speakers are the first one to criticise non native speakers when they pronounce words. Arrogance is to think that you can pronounce any other name the way you want but expect non native English speakers to pronounce English words perfectly, This is not about accent at all. I know that English names and surnames are not spoken like in my mother tongue.

@AcornElectron

4 жыл бұрын

leomatri don’t get too worried about the nuances of the video. The main point is that sfIII was pretty irrelevant at release. And of course, we’d all really like our local dialects and languages to be pronounced correctly ☺️☺️

@everettedl

4 жыл бұрын

I have to agree here. I want to pronounce names correctly, which is why I change when I learn I'm wrong. I assume others want to do the same when I correct them.

@metachronicler

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. He is just being insufferably arrogant. He is so insecure that he can't fathom that people correcting him on the pronunciation of a proper name is anything other than a personal insult. His justifications for using one of the absolute worst English pronunciations of Ryu's name are as laughable as some of these bad comments that he is spending so much time to deal with.

@AcornElectron

4 жыл бұрын

metachronicler you do know thgm is a character? He doesn’t even pronounce pronunciation correctly in this diatribe.

@OnYourSquare

4 жыл бұрын

My question is: Why would you care how a person you've NEVER met, pronounces the name of an IMAGINARY character!? Who gives a f--k!? Rii-u (Ryu), Gully (Guile), Shang Too-Sung (Shang Tsung), Shay-yo Can (Shao Khan). Who actually cares? If that's how he or anyone else prefers to pronounce it? Who gives a f--k? My guess is, you'd still know who he was talking about.

17:11 Alas, poor Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life

@gentarofourze

4 жыл бұрын

@Heiny Reimes IMO, I like games in frachises that are often ranked highly but not the best. for Street Fighter I loved EX, Alpha 2, 3 2nd Impact. I like Tekken 2 the best in that franchise and Suikoden 1 for that franchise for example. SF4 just felt like a 3d Street Fighter 2 so more of the same so whilst I played it now and again for a few years it never grabbed me like EX or Alpha 2. 3's main weakness for me was that insane final boss difficulty.

I love this video! Great job illustrating your points, and I'm definitely looking forward to your next video!

I love how that one guy is talking about how Tekken was popular until 3 & TT as if those came out way later or something instead of at the same time SF3 was coming out

"How dare you expect me to say people's names right"

@georgeuzzle

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, what if he meets a Japanese man named Ryu? (They exist) Would he just say "Well this is how I say it so I won't even attempt to say your name correctly"?

@YASYTU

4 жыл бұрын

His Ryan -> Ryu logic is hilarious. Also "They also said it wrong in the awful movie! so there!" ... yeah :)

@Kagaenod

3 жыл бұрын

Darrell Williams I study Japanese and Top Hat Gaming is actually correct. The Japanese pronounce “Ryu” as a single syllable リュウ. The sound itself sounds very foreign to American and British English, I know I’m still practicing! It’s sounds like “ri” and “yu” slurred so close together that it’s almost its own sound. When American and English gamers attempt to pronounce it correctly, they make the “ri” (リ) and “yu” (ユ) syllables sound distinct, articulating it as リユ. This would confuse Japanese speakers not familiar with English accents. So Top Hat’s argument that there’s no point in arguing for a “correct” incorrect pronunciation is very sound. Without Japanese language training and a lot of effort, most won’t be able to say the name as it was spoken/written originally. Is what it is. On a side note, Japanese speakers butcher the English language all the time. “Aisukurimu” is actually how they pronounce “ice cream,” and there are numerous other examples. They’ve also been known to butcher French and German words as well, languages like to borrow words from other languages when convenient! These are called “loan words.”

A most excellent review my friend. Very thorough. Very well done.

If you guys went on the Fightcade chatrooms for this game, you’d instantly understand the thumbnail

1:32 Damn that’s parrying! Nice informative video as usual TGM👏🏽👏🏽

@yajeel

4 жыл бұрын

Wherez My Cash Look up "Justin Vs Daigo." The context of the parrying makes it more amazing.

Hahahah, I loved that video. It's a video that provided amazing hindsight on the topic of why YOUUUU and I didn't play the title at the time of its release. There's alot of elitists that don't get out of the internet that often and just say what they want based on reading the title and watching seconds of the video...and in this case, obviously never removed their sf33 disc from their Dreamcast since the game's release which makes them experts in the history SF subject matter... Keep doing what you do and keep telling us the factual truths of the games we love now.

This videos on Street Fighter and the Vs games have made me a subscriber! Love your content! I just hope you go far enough to do Tatsunoko Vs Capcom

Great video by the way.. keep up the good work

He's absolutely right.. I grew up in the 90's, killed Street Fighter II all the way up to x men vs street fighter.. But for some reason missed out on Street Fighter III

This is legit my favorite video 😍 new subscriber right here

Great video, one thing about Alex; i agree he's an 80's throwback of a mascot, but I think his design owes far more to John Rambo than Hulk Hogan.

Bro just keep being you. Love the videos. Subbed

STREET FIGHTER 3 series is a big hit in our country, especially in the 90's

Thanks for the consistent content fam. You’re right though. I’m 33 years old been a huge SF fan since the Second game, And never really heard of street fighter 3 until like 2005/2006.. we were playing alpha series , capcom vs snk etc. I don’t know why that’s just how it was here in NY at that time.

I love how you handled this issue top hot and I laughed at the many comments that ppl left and being a huge street fighter fan myself I enjoyed this video so much.also the first video was also a good one as well Thank you again Top Hat 🎩

My only hangup with the pronunciation of Ryu is that it's not a word, but a name, so getting as close to proper pronunciation as possible makes a lot more sense here. I used to say rye-you like everyone else but once I heard it said properly in Marvel vs Capcom I looked into it and ended up learning about basic japanese vowel sounds and felt silly for how many things I pronounced wrong for so many years. They just have the same five or six sounds for everything and unlike english it almost never changes. Makes reading japanese names/words pretty simple.

Great job dude what a great video

Yeeaah! Love this channel. Can't believe some of the stick this guy gets. Maybe it's just cos I'm also an Englishman, but I really appreciate his humour. I'm a long time subscriber, and always look forward to new content being uploaded. Keep em coming mate!

@nicktaylor8032

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate!!

... Personally, I loved the 3 series, but I can't argue your point though. It didn't sell too well based on the fact that it took damn near 4 years before a home version came out, and Capcom oversaturated their market by releasing so many fighting games.

@andrejones5441

4 жыл бұрын

@D core some people as we've seen with the Street Fighter games after the 3 series, don't like change.

As someone who basically lived in arcades through out the mid to late 90's, Mr. Top Hats is correct. SF3:3rdStrike was while more popular that it's prior iterations still took the back seat to Tekken and Soulcalibur. I was a long time fan of 3 but I could not get my friends to come over to play, they were enamored with Tekken, which in hindsight makes sense, Tekken felt like something new. Heck it wasn't until SF3 hit Dreamcast did it really take off. I remember abandoning SF3 to get back into the Alpha series witfh SFA3 since I skipped SFA2 to focus on Marvel games and SF3. But yeah SF3 was not a popular game by any stretch of the word.

my god....imagine a fighting game tournament taking place in a salt mine...IT WOULD BE LEGENDARY!

who the hell wants to play a street fighter game without Chun-li? not me

@gspotcyplick

4 жыл бұрын

@Lucas Quilling but she isn't in second impact. how did it take them 3 trys to correct this?

@ikagura

4 жыл бұрын

In SFIII there wasn't some of my Alpha series main and I don't mind that much... I mean some World Warrior and New Challenger character weren't in it until A3

@ikagura

4 жыл бұрын

This comment smells like bias from miles away. Just because your main isn't in the new game doesn't mean it's bad...

as a fluent japanese speaker i fully agree. none of yall pronounce ryu correctly. so, we laugh at you regardless (while understanding quite well how difficult the pronunciation can be). not being salty or anything. coz, you know, japlish is a thing

All 3 SF 3 games were great but I didn't play it till well after they came out. Keep the great content coming Mr. Top Hat Gaming Man. You are one of the best in the youtube game.

"DIEGO Umehara" LOLHaHaHa U made me laught so much now dude. UmeShoryu for U!!!

its ate up that you have to explain this in further detail... cheerio old chap. keep calm, and carry on...

I love 3rd Strike,I had it for my Dreamcast back in da day,such great music and tight gameplay,gonna be getting it real soon for my PS2,In the form of SF anniversary collection ...Great game great video

Very well articulated. Good show!

My journey with SF has been since the arcades in the early 90's. To now, it's difficult to share a thought or compare to other titles. I give you kudos for sharing the obstacles you have had to face. SF 3 was a game i had in my Dreamcast library. Double Impact & TS. Loved it from start to finish, even though some characters take time to master. But most of all what grabbed me was the animation, visuals, and music. It was the best title yet. I did enjoy SF2. Even though 3 went on with very few familiar faces, the new gang was worth the ride to learn. 3 was also an expansion, Third Strike. Seriously. The master work, precision, and learning curve. Even now with the Anniversary Collection on current consoles keeps that alive. As a longtime fan, I know the feels. We all see a game differently. Honestly I wish V from the start was a complete game. Seeing Champion Edition reminds me of the past, when everything came together to celebrate it's growth, changes, and fandom. Even though it's an obstacle course. I love SF, its just challenging to share what you love without being heckled. Top Hot Gaming, again + kudos for creating this companion video. As a fan, this hits deep. It goes beyond words to just say thank you.

Yep, my experiences were similar to yours. I saw this game in the arcades I went to back then (in malls and other places), and while it was there, it usually had a spot on a back wall rather than being one of the 'featured' games in the front/center of the arcade, and almost never had more than just 1 or 2 cabinets rather than the 3~4+ cabinets that the popular titles would always get (for example, titles like MK3/Ultimate usually had at least 3~5 cabinets, as would whatever the current iteration of SFII would) and by the time III finally showed up, arcades had moved on to mostly 3D titles and varied genres beyond fighters for the most part. I played SFIII maybe one time in the arcade, and soundly abandoned it. While I did notice the quality of the animation itself (the high frame count was clear), but stylistically it really didn't appeal to me, neither did the fact that most of the original roster was gone, replaced with characters I didn't recognize and therefore had no confidence in choosing since I wasn't certain that I would know their moveset (i.e. no guarantee a standard Hadoken/Hurricane Kick/Shoryuken/Flash Kick/Sonic Boom etc. movement would work, and no idea what would come out even if it did).

I remember when we played SF III 3rd Strike together. You were very cordial. You were very clean. We had fun. But after you had left, I noticed that my VHS copy of Christmas with Kathie Lee was missing. Yeeeaaahhh!

I love how the music is from the first two games, and NOT 3s lmao!

The salt I love this shit keep it up :D I'm a fan of street fighter and I love the vids especially the one about the game based on the film, The actor who played Vega jay Tavare sent me an autographed photo of himself as Vega a while back

SF2 was culturally important in the mainstream(it even spawned a fucking movie), SF3 was important in the FGC(It was the first modern fighter to be taken serious in the competitive scene). You pretty much nailed all the reasons why SF3 didn't sell well back in the day

@shishioh

4 жыл бұрын

MvC2

@MrBranh0913

4 жыл бұрын

SF3 was not the first fighter to be taken seriously competitively. Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighter was. Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Street Fighter Alpha 2 also had massive competitive scene. Both came out long before 3s. Competitive 3s never took off in Americs until 2002

Awesome video! I liked the first one, and seriously, a lot of delusional fight nerds showed up. Not everyone in the fighting game community are like that. Real original fans would know that SFIII was the darkest time in the SF franchise. Checking the original video recently, it seems like reason is more prevalent. It surprised me how many of them attacked the video over 3rd Strike, when SFIII (the 1st release) is what you were discussing. That release was horrible. The game itself was sound, but I clearly remember people not playing that machine for long. SFIII 3rd Strike is the game that everyone fondly remembers. Most of these kids never got to see an SFIII machine. There's a reason why Street Fighter IV took so long to be released - SFIII wasn't a successful release initially, and Capcom were ready to move on without them. Thank you for putting these people out there! It sure was fun!

Yeah, that was definitely a big thing I remember people pissed off about them getting rid of all the older characters.

2nd impact's soundtrack was sublime. Notice how THGM uses it so much in his video.

@justingoers

4 жыл бұрын

So true. I still listen to 2nd Impact soundtrack all the time.

A character like Stone Cold Steve Austin in Street Fighter? Give me a hell yeah!

I never even knew Alex was supposed to be the main character. I never thought the 3 series was bad. It aged way better than most software from that era, due to the beautiful hand drawn art and animation. It mostly wasn't popular for the reasons stated. Capcom was competing a itself, 3d games were all the rage. the biggest factor: it just wasn't widley available for whatever reason .also infind it hard to play. The most advanced tech is gated behind high technical excecution. Its not a bad series. Its just one of a zillion SF variations, and wasn't the revolution 2 was, that's all.

I was in high school when sf3 came out... And there was an arcade 1 block way from my school.. XmenVsf Sf3 and tekken were huge having crowds around all 3 .... Especially between the hours of 3 and 6 pm

The rest of us would like you to stop hogging all of the salt.

@JadedJester739

4 жыл бұрын

😂 right? Like who is the troll? I mean WHOM is the troll? 🤔😆😅😂

From my own experience, I NEVER got to play any of the 'Street Fighter 3' in my home town. I only got to see it in arcades out of town.

More fighting game videos please mate!

This was a stupendous salt-inducing video response!! I loved every single second of it, too. 😂 You even got a response from SF Alpha 3 player Apoc! I know I bought 2 copies of W Impact. My best friend's Dreamcast scratched my first copy! I imported 3rd Strike and kept it at my house. TBH I preferred playing .Alpha 3 to 3rd Strike but I still loved it. I'm a die-hard fighting game fan who would frequent local arcades during the fighting game golden-age. Being from Northern California USA at a time when arcades were prevalent, even I admit that we were in a proverbial bubble of choice when it came to the genre here; with Capcom USA being in the Bay Area, we got to experience a lot of their new games (including limited releases) due to the sheer luck of proximity. Playing Darkstalkers and Cyberbots in the arcade were great experiences that many didn't get to have. Even attending Nor Cal Regionals in 2004 to be among the first to play Capcom Fighting Evolution was a great memory - It was broken and FUN! LOL I played and enjoyed the SF III series during this time as well; but even then, I knew only a relative few of us would truly give it the attention it deserved. It was a great game but with arcades on the decline (eventually being mostly relegated to university campuses in the early 00s) those outside of the hardcore FGC just didn't play it. We can't attack people who just present facts. It doesn't look good on the FGC to do so. Heck, I even enjoyed the Battle Arena Toshinden series as a young teen. It's awesome music and character designs kept me interested. You have to be a fan to even touch that game.

I never even saw a Street Fighter 3 cabinet in an arcade. I saw plenty of 2, darkstalkers, and they had one of the Alpha cabinets at uni, but I never knew what any of the 3 games involved until I saw your videos.

Hope you are enjoying Romania, that was a surprise location haha.

Wow, the emotional responses to your SF3 to your historical impact coverage is hilarious. Thanks for sharing these tear jerking expositions, truth is that SF2 went beyond the game community into pop culture, SF3 didn't reach that type hype, not that its a bad game, but choices made by Capcom did impact the reception, this does not deny that it has had a revival thanks to multiple ports and fan passion.

I don't even think that "we" realize how hard that cab was even to find. it is truly baffling that people can't look at a KZread video and understand it's about personal perspective, take things personal, or understand how their world isn't THE world.

As a devoted Street Fighter 3 fan I can agree that most people didn't play at the time of inception. Tbh what put Third Strike on the map was the tournament scene. And that famous match...

Whoever drew that sexy picture of Chunli did good.

Sf3 and its iterations were not popular in the UK at the time of release. Your words are correct.

SF3 was so much fun upon release. We’d always jump to have people Shoryuken us and parry that shit.

Great video and sorry you have to deal with such toxicity. People take entertainment too seriously.

Seriously anyone who says tekken didn’t rule the arcade at the end of the 90s either has memory loss or wasn’t alive at the time

You said the reason it only shifted 80,000 units, it only came out on the Dreamcast which was not only not far away from ending Segas hardware days, but also, as you said in the video, proportionately had many less owners than its competitors. SF2 came out on everything eventually really didn’t it, during the height of the 16-bit console wars, of course it would have sold much much more.

@hobboskins8591

4 жыл бұрын

TrueSinister Street Fighter 3 wasn’t on the anniversary edition on PS2 in Europe (or at least the U.K). I don’t deny that it wasn’t as popular as Street Fighter 2, Champion Edition is my favourite game of all time. I was just pointing out that the gap that Top Hat was giving was a bit disingenuous being as he was only counting 90’s sales, meaning 80,000 units was Dreamcast only.

Here's the thing about Street Fighter 3. It was something that I saw in a magazine that I was hugely excited for, but forgot about during the SF Alpha days because, while I could find just about any other version of SF that was popular at the time, SF3 didn't actually appear in an arcade near me until 2000. I played it briefly and thought the animation was stunning and I sat around waiting forever for this game to come to consoles, which eventually it did on the PS2 bundled with SF2 Anniversary. I didn't even know there were two other versions of the game. We got 3rd Strike and that was it. It wasn't until CPS3 emulation broke on the scene somewhere around 05 or 06 that I was even aware of any other version of SF3. That's how UNPOPULAR SF3 was, at least where I lived. And for that matter, I think I was the only person in my immediate area that actually owned a copy of it. Fighting games were huge in my area. But most people were playing MVC2 or Street Fighter Alpha 3, if they were playing a Capcom fighter at all. Those were the only 2 Capcom fighters that were largely represented in my area because 2D fighers had gone out of style. The rest of it was Tekken, the resurgence of Mortal Kombat, and the king at the time, Soul Calibur 2. SF3 didn't appear on anyone's radar, except for mine, until a little thing called Moment 37 happened. Then everyone wanted to play 3TS and all of a sudden you couldn't find a copy, new or used, in the area. Of particular importance, was the XBOX Version because of XBL. My point. SF3 was niche. It's a great game, still my favorite SF game in the entire series, but completely niche. And no I can't do the famous Diago parry regardless of the hours i put in on the training mode in the PS3/X360 release. The last part, the pronunciation of Ryu. Willing to bet, because this is how I learned to say it, was a little anime called Street Fighter 2 V. Before that, no one knew the pronunciation, no one cared about the pronunciation, and honestly I wish someone would have kicked my ass back in the day for force correcting everyone's pronunciation. Watching mental break down after mental breakdown on social media has taught me how utterly annoying I was and I'm glad that I was made painfully aware of it so I was forced to change because I didn't want to be anything like that.

I remember Third Strike being in arcades, but honestly, I played Super Turbo and Tekken 3 more. And then Marvel VS Capcom 2 and Capcom VS SNK 2 grabbed my attention after they were released. Those were good times... I didn't become a fan of 3S until it was released on the SF Anniversary Collection on the PS2 in 2004. I continued playing it via the Online Edition on the PS3, and most recently on the 30th Anniversary Collection on Steam. It's easily one of my favorite all-time fighting games. I used to play as just Chun-Li, Akuma, and Sean, but lately I've been trying out Twelve, Elena, and Hugo. It's still so awesome after all these years.

Just waiting for the Ultra Street fight 4 video, other than that...I'm here for the drama.

I've read that makoto was written as to be ryu's little sister in Street fighter 3 third strike.. but was changed during late development.. is there any concept art of this? Maybe like a hand-drawn ending that never made it to the real arcade.

Street fighter 3rd strike is my all time favorite game and has been since it released on Dreamcast. But. I am fully aware of it failing to grab the attention of the consumer. These people are crazy.

I never knew Street Fighter 3 existed until Street Fighter 4 was released, lol.

Been watching all these fighting game videos he's been dropping. This one right here though, is top tier. Like a diss track to the comments. This is good shit

Sadest thing is at least 30 percent of the commenters probably werent even around when SF3 hit the arcades

Daigo represented exactly how serious this Street Fighter incarnation was. Straight up dedication. Much respect is still due.

Ahh gotta love a video connecting Street Fighter to 90s WWF

great video.

I think a majority of fighting game enthusiasts were either too young, like me, to really gravitate toward SF3 when it released or it was lost in the shuffle because of the VS. series, 3D fighters, and other more accessible fighters. I didn't really get into it until the mid 00s. On top of that, there weren't a lot of arcades within reasonable distance from home, but there were cabinets at different places that were usually more popular fighters and because I didn't have a dreamcast, I didn't play it till it was available on PS2. I love the game, sure, but the lashing out of its toxic fandom is wild. Very much appreciate your stuff, Top Hat Gaming Man. I hope you're doing alright.

it’s DAI-GO not “Diego” SMH

@TexFan85

4 жыл бұрын

durandutz no no no, that’s just how people in HIS country say that!

@gonzalodelfino5807

4 жыл бұрын

Its Di (as in this) e (as in best) go (as in goblet)

@jonnylyden

4 жыл бұрын

Gonzalo Delfino what???

@mdedes9891

4 жыл бұрын

My name is Mario. I've heard people call my name with so many different pronunciation. Just live with it. It's not the end of the world. Different cultures exist. No one is purposely trying to speak improper. How many languages can anyone speak with proper dialect.

@Run187

3 жыл бұрын

@@mdedes9891 letsa go 😃..

I liked it, it was in arcades here in Australia. right next to the Tekken one, we were spoiled for choice as to what to play.

I was a huge Street Fighter fan growing up, and huge fighting game fan in general. I was surprised to accidentally find Street Fighter 3 on sale for the Dreamcast as I simply didn't know it existed. Maybe it was a UK thing, but all you'd hear about was Soul Calibur, Tekken, Dead or Alive etc. Little Street Fighter 3 was pushed to the side and overlooked. People trying to rewrite history claiming it was "massively popular" are only deluding themselves. As great a game as it was (and I'll never dispute nor try and take that away from you), it wasn't popular at the time. A few years on though, a certain Evo moment and more of a "community" behind it and that changed for the better. 3rd Strike is still one of the best titles in the SF line-up in my book, but there is no getting around the fact that I learned of its existence purely by accident DESPITE being a huge fan of the genre.

I also like how you have the most random videos of yourself in the beginning LOL

Going from Ryus awesome fireball beam from MvC2 to his SELECT 1 special and lack buster lock killed this game for me. 50 cents I will never get back.

Found this channel recently and love it! I also love 3rd Strike and felt you painted it in a fair and accurate light. Would love it if you did BLAZBLUE but keep up the good work!

in the mid 2000's i used to hang out at the local gamestop. the workers would get everything done early and make sure customers were covered. they had a ps2 and a tv set up to run demos and test the trade ins (systems, games), in this time frame a ps2 was normally hooked up. this store ran fighting games on the ps2 during the downtimes. I learned the Street fighter , Marvel vs Campom, soul caliber, and guilty gear games. But sometime they would stick on Street fighter 3 for a while. it got to the point one of the workers bought every copy in the store to get it out of that store. to get the toxic out of the fighting games.

I'm with Mr Top Hat here. It was locked in the arcades plus I was a kid who had to do what his parents said or get beat so I would just stare at the intro movie over and over cuz I didn't have money to play or I was being rushed out the mall cuz my mom had more errands to run.