So when's Darkstalkers 4?
>>319950791
Prob 5 years we'll get a new one with like, 12 characters (8 veteran fighters nobody used and 4 newcomers nobody wanted) with SFV graphics.
Maybe if SF5 is a hit.
MAYBE.
>>319951090
>8 veteran fighters nobody used
There isn't anyone among the existing cast that nobody used.
>>319951405
Considering Morrigan, Heseinko & Felicia are the only relevant characters that have seen the light of day in the last decade; id say everyone else in the cast hasent been used. I mean, you can legally file a missing persons case at this point. Of course Anarkis would love that since he barely got love in mvc2 tourneys.
>>319952215
If they have a brain, they'll use Talbain. He's got a huge fanbase in America.
>>319952446
I don't see why they'd drop anyone. I mean, the entire series only has 18 characters total. And they're all unique, it's not like SF where you've got 5 shotos.
>>319950791
Never because Darkstalkers Resurrection didn't sell as much as SF4.
>>319954272
Well, yeah. Of course a port of 20 year old game isn't going to sell as much as a new game. But back when they were new, the Darkstalkers games sold pretty well. Better than SF3.
>>319954857
Tell that to Capcom. According to Ono they won't fund a new Darkstalkers because Resurrection didn't sell over 4 million copies.
>>319955217
They're idiots. The fanbase would love it and normies are STILL eating up "PG-13 horror" bullshit.
Darkstalkers 4 with SFV quality graphics, all the vets, and some new gameplay mechanics would be GOAT
>can't wait to slap your shit with Talbain in online VS
>picturing 3D Q. Bee boobies already getting me rock hard
>can't wait to see what else they come up with for new characters
>>319955217
Which is their own damn fault.
>>319955524
No one even plays dark stalkers, game development costs a lot and its clear they would be at a loss if they made DS4, Ono had a hard enough time convincing the high ups to make a SF4.
>>319956104
>No one even plays dark stalkers
But they do. It still gets tournaments 20 years later.
>>319956104
>its clear they would be at a loss if they made DS4
All the previous Darkstalkers games made profits. You know what game did give them a loss? Street Fighter 3.
tfw Darkstalkers vs Clayfighters wasn't real
I knew that rumor wasn't real, but I wanted to believe it
>>319956325
You are retarded
>>319957171
Why? Do you think SF3 was some sort of huge success or something?
>>319957379
The market has changed since the latest Darkstalkers game was released. You know, 18 years ago. The amount of people who know this franchise, let alone how many of them would actually buy a new installment, is simply not big enough for them to fund a new game.
Capcom uses their shitty tactic of holding games hostage unless you buy ports of the old ones because it actually works well for them. SF4 got made because SF2 HD sold well. Marvel vs Capcom 3 got made because MvsC2 HD sold well. We're getting a full remake of RE2 because RE HD sold well. Darkstalkers Resurrection on the other hand sold like shit.
>>319958671
MvC1 rerelease sold like shit too. Capcom themselves said that each of those ports sold less tan the last, which means that people were just getting tired of one port of an old game after another. SF2 and MvC2's ports sold well because they were the first ones, done early in the gen, before the whole thing became stale.
>>319958671
>The amount of people who know this franchise, let alone how many of them would actually buy a new installment, is simply not big enough for them to fund a new game.
Make it PS4 exclusive, have Sony ramp up the marketing, and maybe it'll work.
>>319958671
Also you're contradicting yourself. You talk about how popular MvC is, then say know one knows about Drakstalkers despite Darkstalkers being featured in MvC.
So does anyone actually want to play Darkstalkers?
Im up for some Hunter or Savior if anyone wants to play.
>>319959249
Sony only played for exclusivity because they knew they could make mad dosh off of Street Fighter. They're not gonna be so willing for Darkstalkers.
>>319959454
Not him, but dude, I played the first two MvC games when I was young and I didn't learn that Darkstalkers even existed until about five years ago. People aren't as eager to learn about character origins as you think they are.
>>319959454
Smash is popular but F-Zero isn't
>>319959751
But Earthbound is. Even though it was a total bomb back when it was released in the US. And Fire Emblem's popular, even though back when it was first featured in Smash it had never even left Japan.
>>319959094
>MvC1 rerelease sold like shit too.
Of course, they released that one AFTER MvsC3. Very few people wanted to pay for the original when they had MvsC2 HD and MvsC3 already.
>>319959454
And how is that a contradiction? There's no indication that people who play MvsC care about the Darkstalkers characters in it or the franchise they come from. Shit, I've met people who play MvsC and thought Felicia was "that character from hentai" until I told them the Darkstalkers games existed.
>>319959649
Despite /v/s claims no one here actually plays the game.
>>319959649
What's the best way of playing the Darkstalkers games right now?
>>319960086
Either Fightcade or Darkstalkers Resurrection on PS3/360.
>>319960086
Fightcade
>CENSORED FIGHTER 4
YES!
>>319960284
If it just meant Morrigan and Felicia acting like their original incarnations and not the blatantly pandering crossover incarnations, I'd be fine with it.
>only people who want a new VS are vs players and people who never played the game, and will never touch it if they do release
Why do you all want shit nobody else does? It's like megaman, nobody is going to buy dat shit
>>319960284
Fuck off retard
You don't need to remake the best sprite fighter of all time.
>>319960492
Self-fulfilling prophecy. Of course no one's going to buy something if you constantly refuse to make it.
Who's ur main /v/
>>319959875
That's all true but where are you going with this? He just gave you an example on how it's possible to feature a franchise on a popular game without making said franchise popular. F-Zero is definitely not as popular as either Earthbound or Fire Emblem despite all of them being featured in Smash.
no one even played darkstalkers on /v/
>>319961074
I want to try and learn Huitzil, but his jump take some getting used to.
>>319961074
Trying to learn fishy
>>319959649
>Tried and failed to get Fightcade working so many damn times that I eventually just gave upDSR to Steam when?
>>319961074
Victor
>>319950791
after felicia stops making bad nun puns
>>319961721
>DSR to Steam when?
I'd buy it if they did that. Only reason I didn't buy DSR was I didn't have either console it was on.
>>319961787
I had and played it on 360 but I no longer have it so RIP. They even had the feature where you could upload your matches to youtube in horrendous quality. I'm bad but I had a ton of fun.
>>319950791
I like Darkstalker threads but asking about 4 makes me sad
TOLL PITS
>>319960172
>resurrection
>not collection
Resurrection is a gimped version because it tried to be "true" to the arcade.
>>319963938
Collection was true to the arcade, too. It just had some extra stuff as well. But you can't play it online, and it never left Japan.
>>319964105
So I guess the best version that came to US is the PSP version then.
>>319964692
Not really. The PSP game, and the Dreamcast version it was based on, is a weird, inaccurate mashup of sorts that doesn't really accurately represent any of the games it's supposedly based on.
>>319964875
I dunno, it feels like an upgraded PSX version.
I'm saying that they are superior in a sense that Savior has the console port characters, and these port characters are actually properly implemented.
>>319965003
Thing is though, it has inaccuracies all over the place. Lots of the changes from Savior 2 and Hunter 2 (which were pretty universally disliked) are there even if you pick the Savior mode, lots of combos are no longer possible due to a change in the way animation on hitpause works, and if you try to play one of the modes base don one of the first tow game,s things get even more inaccurate, not just gameplay-wise, to the point of completely lacking stuff like stages, voice clips, and animations from those games.
>>319965360
I actually thought they gained more animation because a lot of the characters had missing animations in the PSX version.
then again
>PSX version
>getting complete animations in Capcom fighting game ports
>>319965504
They have more animation than the PSX version, yeah. But that;s just due to the PSX port removing some animation from the arcade version due to memory limits, but the DC/PSP one having enough memory to do the full arcade animation. But they just didn't bother to include lots of stuff like winposes and intros from the first two games that weren't in Savior. Stuff like Victor's teakettle or face slap wionposes.
>>319966127
Ahh I didn't notice that.
>>319963938
>true to the arcade.
As it should be
there is only one real way for Darkstalkers to come back and that is retooled to fill the hole Marvel left
if SFV performs, you better believe they will consider making a "Not" Marvel 4
>>319966412
some games tend to be better beyond their arcade scope though
>>319961074
>>319967920
best idle animation
>>319966570
It already was the source of lots of Marvel's mechanics. And post-SF2 Street Fighter's.
>>319967058
Drarkstalkers isn't really one of those, though, It was primarily an arcade series, that's where most people played and enjoyed it. No one really cared about playing as Donovan, Pyron, or Huitzil in Vampire Savior. If people wanted to play those characters they played Night Warriors.
>>319968324
I beg to differ.
>>319968892
I guess I'm just salty because I want to play as them under the VS mechanic.
>>319969309
pyron is fucking garbage in VS
>>319969628
He is. They nerfed him way too hard. And Huitzil's almost a different character because they changed his moveset so much. Plus his Dark Force is really abusable. And Donovan is well... Donovan.
>>319969628
I was talking about Huitzil.
>>319970085
You'd be better off playing Gradius than VS Huitzil. It's basically the same thing.
>>319955217
He was joking, you imbecile. He just threw that number out there as an example of sales that would be literally impossible for any company to ignore. Look at their reaction to REmake HD's sales - Capcom literally held a press release to announce that it sold a million copies and immediately greenlit REmake 2. They never even expected an HD rerelease from their most popular IP one sell one million copies, let alone four.
They probably anticipated like 70k but got 40k or something. Come on nigga stop taking Ono seriously
>>319950791
If Demitri was your boy, you could pick up KI. New Shago is almost entirely borrowed from Bato Mastah
>>319970606
heh, I guess you're right
>>319961074
best girl of course
