Namco vs. Capcom? HELL YES!

[ThirdMarioBro]

http://www.kombo.com/article.php?artid=15221

Rumor is two games will be announced -- one 3D fighter developed by Namco based on the Tekken 6 engine, and one 2D fighter developed at Capcom by the Street Fighter IV team.

Can I get an EPIC MOTHERFU*KING WIN? Trailer to be released Saturday at Comic-Con.

[Ninjinister]

I'm a bit skeptical as it seems like it would be stepping on MVC3's toes... but I'm not going to complain if it turns out to be true. More Vs. games equals (potentially) more awesomeness.

[Shredder]

I'd love for these games to be released if this were true since I loved Marvel vs. Capcom and Capcom vs. SNK, but it's probably just one of those too good to be true rumors. Remember the Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat rumors?

[ThirdMarioBro]

Too many outlets are picking up the story. This one's moving fast.

[The Stryker]

All it's going to boil down to is Tekken Vs. Street Fighter. F*cking lame.

If Pac-man or Dig Duglas are in the game. I'll be interested but so far this seems like another generic capcom fighter with the same sh*t different game roster.

[Ninjinister]

I'm with you on this one, Stryker. Likely, the Namco-produced one may be the one that's strictly relegated to the "fighters" (Street Fighter, with maybe some Final Fight or something... versus SoulCalibur and Tekken), and the Capcom-made one will go off the chain with the roster. And yes, I am anticipating the day when I get to bust skulls as Pac-Man and Taizo Hori (Dig Dug).

[Ninjinister]

Street Fighter vs. Tekken

Lame.

[愛]

Tekken sucks and I hate Street Fighter. Pass on that junk.

[XERO]

Better Tekken than Guilty Gear, I say.

[Ninjinister]

Actually, if this Namco version plays like Tekken 6 like it is supposed to, I'm totally out.

I liked Tekken 1-5 and Tag Tournament okay. 6 made me sad, though.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Yeah, that was a let down. Tekken sucks. I was hoping for some Soul Calibur goodness. Oh well, I'll definitely pick up the Capcom game since it's packing the SFIV engine. The Namco game will depend on how well the SF cast melds in a 3D environment.

[Shredder]

I also definitely prefer Soul Calibur to Tekken but I enjoy both game series, even if the older games in both series were better than the newer ones. The first Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast was near fighting game perfection.

I'm interested in seeing more about these new games. The Capcom game should be especially fun and a likely must-buy, but I'm as not sure about the SF characters in a 3-D Tekken-like environment. Remember Street Fighter EX? Still, I'm looking forward to screenshots, videos, etc.

[XERO]

Remember Street Fighter EX?

YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!!!! :x :cry:

[Andrew NDB]

I've never been this excited about a fighting game, actually.

Apparently Capcom's "Street Fighter X Tekken" just sticks the Tekken characters into the SSF4 engine and removes all the Tekken character's 3D movement ability (like, characters such as Lei Wulong and Eddie -- if they even put them in the game -- would be essentially useless or fundamentally different) while Namco's "Tekken X Street Fighter" ports the Street Fighter characters into the Tekken 6 engine and grants all the Street Fighter characters side-stepping and such like Street Fighter 4 should have.

So yeah, definitely Namco's "Tekken X Street Fighter" for the win, but it won't come out until a full year after the Capcom version.

[The Stryker]

So after finally seeing screencaps and the trailer.

It's just SF4. AGAIN.

[Ninjinister]

Essentially, yes. But mind you, there's still over a year of development on this before it's released (Capcom pegged it for 2012), so things could change - while it still may be on the SF4 engine and feature the same visuals, there may be a lot of tweaking done to make it totally different. Tag team is already a huge jump in the right direction, provided it doesn't turn out to be ass in the final product.

The one I'm worried about is TxSF. As I said before, I did not care for Tekken 6, and if it's based on that engine, it would take a lot of convincing for me not to snub it. There are persistent rumors that it will be based on Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign mode (although I still have yet to find evidence of this), which I totally hated, so there's even further room for this to not work for me.

I still wish it was the entire companies' series instead of pigeonholed to one for each side. That would have been infinitely more entertaining even if they stuck with the same engines they are now.