I think most of you let your love for ST get in the way for your better judgement. This game looks really bad. It's not just the animations or design. The graphics are pretty terrible too when we get close-ups. Sure, they've done some nice changes (making it brighter, fixing the chicks face etc.) but overall it looks like something I'd expect from a PS2 game.
It simply looks bad in every way possible.
The animations are done to simulate how sprites would look. This is pretty hard to explain if you don't "get" the deeper mechanics of a 2d fighting game, but everything is obviously done in frames, and when you cancel a move in ST, you cancel out some of the later frames. With sprites, this looks smooth, and it's a nice fast deal. With models (normally) it looks very...well....BAD. The reason being that with a sprite, it's just a drawing. With a model, there's actually a "skeletal" system, and it looks pretty terrible because with a drawing it just changes to first few frames of another move, and with a model its not that easy, since they have to shift through the animations or else it looks really wonky. I hope that makes sense. .___.
The graphics are supposed to be really good and basically
everyone who has played the game has said that all screenshots and even video so far don't really do the game justice, and that it looks amazing in-game.
It's doing an amazing job of being a Street Fighter game right now, and not Soul LETS LOOK SUPER COOL AND BE ALL BRIGHT AS FUCK BLOOM x 24892190381239812038012 Calibur, which is ace in my book. I don't care if it looks "not-as-nex-gen" as long as it looks Street Fighter. I play fighters for the fighting, not for how good it looks! But this still looks good.