Starting with a quite well-known one.
The Darkstalkers series had some really cool and memorable stages.
>>2884534
This one fucks with my mind
>>2884541
Seconded. I always found Tower of Arrogance stage visually mind-blowing.
Last Blade had some visually astounding stages.
>>2884548
Can't forget Samurai Showdown either.
In before forgetting a classic.
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>>2884793
wat game?
>>2884828
KOF 99
Next battle... wow! this guy is really angry!
>>2884894
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurisq_TiS4
Hey hey hey!
>>2884906
Man, that stage spooked the freak out of me when I was a kid.
NO ITEMS
FOX ONLY
FINAL DESTINATION
>>2884541
DON DE KE~ BAI BAI~!!
>>2885467
Billy Kane kicks ass. I miss the old Outlaws team.
Bring back Yamazaki!
I didn't figure out that this was a forest until I was like 16 or 17. I always thought they were fighting at the bottom of a giant pit and the background was a bunch of huge rocks
The GOAT.
>>2886341
The atmosphere from that stage design and music is fantastic. If anything, I used to be confused as fuck about Yoshi's 2P costume until I looked it up.
>>2884558
I used to think those were ship-like cannons on wheels.
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>>2886620
>that Brook lookalike in the front wall
This thread needs some Street Fighter 2 stuff.
>>2887062
best stage for the best music.
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>>2887063
I know right? There is something of atmospheric in Sagat's stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUKEg6ye36Y
>>2886627
Budget cuts.
>>2886627
Blander concepts in general, and a worse balance between the parts of the artwork tailored to the native resolution (usually in the foreground), and blurry scaled down 3D or Photoshopped stuff in the background
I do like some of the stage ideas, though, like the tin-roofs-over-bustly-market one. But half of it looks like death.
>>2888248
Compare with this one: only the top part of the sky looks like it comes from adapted images; the rest is crisp pixel by pixel perfection
>>2884541
This is my favorite fighting stage ever.
I used to play darkstalkers with my friends and when I explained to them what this stage was their minds were collectively blown. I felt like Morpheus.
>>2884540
Shame that Night Warriors turned that stage an ugly pink/brown color.
>>2888354
Saturn port allows you to change it back to original Vampire 1 color and music
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This one because it lets you set up an infinite right as the round starts that the opponent can't even escape depending on the character they chose
Is there any trick to getting that one stage in LB2 that opens with a black screen and pans down to some outdoor setting at night with a full moon? It happened to me once playing on FC and I could never figure out how to make it happen again
