This bit in a recent interview has me all atingle:
“In collision detection, initially we were using standard 3D detection, and what that means is that any physical thing in the game is going to have a boundary box around it approximately the same size and shape as the object. The problem with that in something like Street Fighter is that, unless one thing is actually touching another, it’s not going to register as a hit. Whereas is you look at older street fighter games, it was almost fake hit detection.

Sometimes the box was bigger than someone’s arm or hand, because it felt more natural that way, sometimes it was smaller. Or with Dhalsim’s extending arms, the only collision part is the fist itself. With polygons you can’t do that easily. What we ended up doing, because the game didn’t feel natural in parts, it didn’t feel like Street Fighter, is we took the 3D collision detection off and replaced it with old-school 2D detection. So there’s an invisible box drawn around every part of a character that could hurt another character, like the arms, feet, whatever. So if you look at some of the crossover kicks, where you’re kind of over the guy’s head, but you still tag him on the way down? That came about almost by mistake because it was a weird aspect of the collision detection, but now it’s a part of Street Fighter and very hard to simulate with a 3D system. So this feels a lot more like Street Fighter now. We only had a month or two to revamp the whole system, and we think it feels good.

Really, we thought we were doing ourselves a favor by using 3D detection, we thought it would be easier to adjust later for balance issues, as we could just physically change the length of a punch instead of fiddling with all the hit boxes. We ended up doing that, then going back and re-doing it in 2D, but we think it’s better for the game. If you played it at GDC it might have felt a little goofy to you at the time, but this version we have now is very much improved.”

fuck yes.

And by “love” I mean “hate.” Where’s my Makoto at? :(

I think if most of that clip means anything to you, you’re an old fart…and the target audience (for that particular ad anyway). Worked well I thought.

Cut a trailer to ‘Cuckoo for Caca’, that’ll turn some damn heads! Controversial statement: ‘King for a Day…’ is their best album.

Hey, can we get a trailer cut to ‘The Final Countdown’? GOB would make a brilliant SF fighter. Who needs fireballs when you have the bafflement of tricks illusion?!

KG

Cedge – I meant for that trailer, Mr Grumpy Chops.

MeestaNob!: I sure don’t want it looking like the original promo trailer. I prefer to have my games actually, ya know, playable, and a fighter looking anything like that would do nothing to facilitate it’s playability, and instead, would probably detract from it enormously.

Chaz: Well, if you look at the old sprites, they’re pretty huge there, too…