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

It's so fun listening to Max talk about Street Fighter and it's history.

As much as I adore Third Strike, so much of the music and stages from 2nd Impact are so good that I honestly prefer a lot of those themes, mainly Ibuki, Gill, Ryu, Elena, and Hugo’s, to Third Strike Also massive props for using the New Generation Arranged soundtrack. Some of the best SF music ever

The ending gave me goosebumps... God bless the Online Warrior!

I remember as a kid, for years after SF2 came out, every time I went into an arcade, looking for the inevitable sequal, SF3, and never finding it. Around the play ground there were rumors upon rumors about people seeing SF3 some where, but any time I investigated it, I only learned I'd been played. At some point, with SF2 having come out in 1991, and literally half a decade passed of searching for this mythic sequal and never finding it, I gave up and assumed it just was never coming out, probably around 1996. Many years passed then in 2008 SF4 came out and while super excited, I was also super confused, were they counting alpha as 3? After doing some research I learned there was a SF3 that came out in 1997 but was horrifically marketted so even people like myself who were desperately waiting for it, never knew of it, and wouldn't get a home market release until well after the arcade scene was dead in the area I lived in. At that point, in 2008, I hunted down a copy of the 15 year anniversary collection and dusted off my old ps2 and absolute LOVED the graphics. 10 years later and it was still easily the prettiest SF game I'd ever seen and I'd say its still the prettiest to this day. But after learning there was a clearly defined tier list, every told me you either player Chun or Yun if your cared about winning, other wise you handicapped yourself by playing anyone else, it killed my interest in learning the game beyond the most casual level and I never came back to it. Now adays I hear people talk about it lovingly, but it will forever for me be that game I wanted sooo badly to exist for a half decade of my formative years, only to finally come out after I stopped looking and its competitive scene feel completely unapproachable by the time I did learn of it. It's beautiful, but fills me with nothing but melancholy to think about.

Just as a note there's a fightcade compitable widescreen mod for 3rd strike. It actually is really interesting since the levels have much more detail than we usually can see. The modder BankBank also adjusted them to look great and fixed the issues with this mod since it was left unfinished. It really is worth a try for anyone who wish to play the game in proper widescreen. There's also footage on youtube of it.

I really love the switching between stream footage gameplay and max giving us a lesson, great editing

I first saw SF3: New generation in year 2000 in arcade in Turkey and was blown away by that. The art style was so awesome and Alex character became my favorite since

AHHHHHHHHH these videos are so good. That outro bit where it transitioned into the online warrior intro sent chills down my spine! Years of memories from watching Max and the online warrior, what a time. Thank you third strike.

I remember the primary reason for wanting to play these was just because it was more street fighter games to play. I'll admit, I was one of the many who was thrown off by most of the veteran characters being replaced by a bunch of newbies. However, the second reason I played these games was because of the animation. Everything just looked so smooth, weighty, and impactful. The animations almost had this stretchy "whiplash" effect to them. Christ almighty, I think Makoto's walking animation has about 40 frames!?!? That's an insane amount of effort to put into an animation many people wouldn't even fully see... But they did, and it was all traditionally animated. Street Fighter III really makes me miss 2-D sprites... They just have a charm and energy that 3-D will always have a hard time replicating. It's a shame SFIII had so much effort put into it, just for it to go such a long time to be fully appreciated.

unpopular opinion perhaps but I'd love to see Sean come back as DLC in sf6

I'd like thank you, Max, for all these videos about the franchise I truly love. My father is in hospital and I'm going through big shit in life, but these videos are giving me fresh air and joy.

RESURRECTION! You got me into this game almost 12 years ago, and its also my favourite fighting game of all time. Thanks Dood! BRING BACK SEAN FOR SF6 CAPCOM 🏀

There's some great characters that I would love to see come back for Street Fighter 6 Sean, Makoto & Dudley would be nice

Failures are just a stepping stone on the path to success. Street Fighter III proves that.

It's surprising to learn that Ryu and Ken were not going to be part of SF3. As a kid, it was already weird seeing only Ryu and Ken returning in addition to a lot of new (some weird) characters (which we come to love now). I do think the SF franchise would have been in a MUCH more difficult spot if Ryu and Ken were not added. If that was the case, the only other things that looks "Street Fighter" were Sean and Remy's "Sonic Boom" and "Flash Kick" Though interestingly 2 years later, SNK took a similar approach and released Garou: Mark of the wolves. This time, ONLY Terry was the returning character and everyone else were new. However, the difference here is that a lot of the new characters had connections with previous characters and also had recognisable moves (Rock, Kim's kids, Khushnood). Although SNK took this risk, the game did really well despite just 1 returning character from Fatal Fury.

I'm glad the common misconception that SF3 was a massive success is being cleared up. The love for the game is very much retroactive and times were very different back then.

I got to love that Max hails 3rd Strike as his Most favorite Street Fighter game. So many hours of content on that game in his Channel.

Ah SF III: New Gen. It brings back my memories when i played it for the first time back in 1997. I remember i got my jaw drop with the impressive 2D sprite but in the same time also feeling confused because i only recognize Ryu and Ken in the roster and everyone else are new characters. I also remembered not many people played it. Every time i came to my local arcade, New Gen cabinet always looks deserted compare to SFT, X-Men vs SF, or KoF 97 cabinet.

Gotta give the credits to the artists who draws Max in the thumbnails!

People not knowing that there were games before 3rd strike is like people thinking that SF series started with SF2 LOL