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Capcom nearly cancelled Street Fighter HD over art

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Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix developer Backbone and redrawn art overseers Udon were "worried" that Capcom might cancel the game during the early part of its troubled development, lead designer David Sirlin has revealed.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com in the second part of a mammoth post-mortem interview, due to be published later this week, Sirlin suggested that Capcom continued to support the project because of pressure from the "world of gaming".

SSF2THDR, which is out on Xbox LIVE Arcade now (it's still to appear on the PlayStation Store in Europe), suffered a high profile delay earlier in the year when redrawn art based on Udon source material was thrown out of the window and work began with a new set of artists.
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gambare - 382 days 22 hours ago
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I thought I was the only one who noticed the downgrade of the art, the first art was high res and high quality but it was downgraded in order to "fit" to the XBL limit sizes, but after that the XBL size was increased and it should be a problem solved, but then what? they downgraded the rest, it was a disappoint, and I wonder what was their excuse to do that? the new draws looks like low res art upscaled and it looks awful at 1080p.
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SIX - 382 days 22 hours ago
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absolutely right. i personally know the guys that did the sprites. in fact, check out the end art for vega. i did those. nobody wanted it so stepped in. sometimes you gotta take one for the team right.
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gambare - 382 days 21 hours ago
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1.6 - @Bladestar
"but after that the XBL size was increased and it should be a problem solved"

they did it:

"Street Fighter 2 HD Remix Gets XBL Beta, New Art; XBLA File Size Limit Not a Concern"

http://www.shacknews.com/on...

they made a new art since the old limit of the XBL was 368 MB but it was increased to solve this problem, but it seems that Capcom kept the "new" art. But that's an old story and the new art sucks in comparison of the old art.

and yes, I read the whole article but you didn't read my full post, I said it was the "FIRST" problem but it was solved WITH THE INCREASE OF THE SIZE LIMIT OF THE XBL DOWNLOAD.
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N4Flamers - 382 days 19 hours ago
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I didnt like the old art and I didnt like the new art. I love udon and they have great artists, I didnt like the concept of this game. They just made sf2 look better. Thats why I think all the art looked underwhelming because they had to fit the parameters of the original street fighter 2. What they should have done is have a whole new street fighter 2 drawn by udon. It would have been awesome to have a game that looks as good as one of their comics.
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imdaboss - 382 days 22 hours ago
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what capcom need to make is Marvel vs Capcom 2 HD instead of dis
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Daver - 382 days 22 hours ago
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i agree that game is way better
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riksweeney - 382 days 22 hours ago
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I imagine if they did redo MVSC2 in HD they'd still leave Morrigan with her crappy sprite.
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SketchCA - 382 days 17 hours ago
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That would be f-ing great. I would sell your first born for that to happen!
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farhsa2008 - 382 days 22 hours ago
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what a shame that would have made my day!
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bpmurr - 382 days 21 hours ago
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I liked the old art but the current art is ok. What I would have liked is if they added more frames to smooth out the animation. I realize that would require the game to be rebalanced and relearned but they pretty much did that anyways with remix mode.
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rajman - 382 days 18 hours ago
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Would Capcom hurry the fudge up and release it in Europe! I mean WTF! Why are we still waiting?
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Dark General - 382 days 16 hours ago
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Great read. Though it made me a little sad. SF3 would probably be the last game to come on PSN and XBL because it's animations system.
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