Street Fighter 3 and EX were both capable of running on the N64 but... this was during the time Capcom and Nintendo were at odds with the Street Fighter franchise because Nintendo blamed Capcom for the poor performance of Street Fighter Alpha 2 on the SNES by not coding the game to use the Phase 3 clocks of the WDC 65c816 processor (3.58 MHz) but instead used Phase 2 Clocks (2.86 MHz). Nintendo also claimed that Capcom could of easily placed a Nintendo SA-1 chip on the cartridge to also accelerate the game's performance. Because of all of this, Capcom refused to port anymore Street Fighter games to the Nintendo consoles.
I was disappointed when the Street Fighter Anniversary game was released because they didn't include these. I enjoyed the EX games and think that at least the final version should have been on there.
The soundtrack, the camera angle, super cancel, the characters available, the unlimited hit counter, the rats running around the arena, the collapsing Akuma necklace, and the birds flying through the Chun-li stage make this the SF most special and exciting for me. ♥
i didnt like the gameplay of ex 2. for me, the excel system overshadows everything, all that matters is meter for excel, theres no creativity and neutral turns into who has more meter than the other.
@@nayyarrashid4661 I remember when Street Fighter 4 first came out everyone I knew and myself noticed that street fighter 4 took a lot of ideas from Street Fighter Ex...
I wouldn't say "no one" plays it anymore, i love the EX series, i have since i first played EX Plus Alpha on the PS1 in 1998. I love the music, the combo system, the characters, etc. EX Plus Alpha and EX 2 Plus are two of my favorite SF games of all time. I still play them on a regular basis.
This was one of the best games of all time. The music, the characters, the newish 3D backgrounds, especially when you finish an opponent with a super combos, the bonus modes, the hidden codes you can punch in, the phenomenally developed training move list where you perfected your skills, the "here comes a new challenger" cut screen when someone joined, this game is still beloved by many!!! Hoping to see a Capcom + Arika reunion. Give the fans what they want!
One of the best StreetFighter games I've ever played (I've played them all). I wish Arika and Capcom would revive the series. That was a great mix of Street-Fighters and original characters. Garuda, Kairi, and Skullo were great and fun characters!!!
Fun Fact: Fighting Layer got a sequel last year called Fighting EX Layer. No I didn't put the EX in the wrong place, that's how they write it out. So in a way, Street Fighter EX lives on.Oh, and it's actually quite good.
Best soundtrack of every Sf, amazing and talented musicians behind it. One of the best characters SF never had, and my favorites are on it: D.Dark, Vulcano Rosso and Garuda. My, they re amazing and totally original
I’ve owned this game since back then and I still pop it in and enjoy it fro time to time. It’s a lot of fun. Even better than its sequel for PlayStation 2. It’s really easy to get into and I tear those AI computer players apart.
People thought EX looked and played bad? I think thats more a case of people with the loudest voice stating that, it was well liked at the time and on various forums I have been on people tend to prefer it to 4 and 5 specifically because it plays different rather than be SF2 all over again. I loved it, the only bad EX game was 3.
i dont agree with those pseudo critics...sfex was a fantastic game for that age...and just like many series dead with the ps1 or ps2, it is just left forgotten..for references, go check the bloody roar series..lol
I assume half the 'critics' never bothered to play the game. As someone who played all the titles from the original onwards, it's quite underappreciated, and anyone who has played the game can tell you that while it wasn't quite as polished as some of the other titles, it was still a lot of fun, and I spent countless hours on EX+a and EX2. Also one of the best soundtracks of any Street Fighter (or for that matter, any) game ever.
Speaking of games that are overlooked, rival schools is a big one! I love that game so much but I guess it was overlooked due to the reason why EX was???? I'll love to know why
D Dark was epic! Loved laying down a bomb with a long timer and psyching my brother/friends out :D Also only character able to KO from full life with one bar!
It is funny in retrospective when you see how many things Street Fighter IV stole from this underrated gem from the PSX, and I dare to say most of the Ex new characters like Jack, Pullum, Blair, Garuda or Skullomania are far more charismatic than 40% of the Street Fighter III new characters like Twelve, Alex, Gill or Q, in my opinion it is stupid to love SF IV and hate the EX series...they are the same, Street Fighter Classic 2D gameplay but in 3D Looks. Please people, stop hating 3D looking games from the PSX, Saturn, N64 era, it is absurd. PD: Doin Chain super combos in Street Fighter Ex is awesome, and the soundtrack is great
Have you even played this game? The controls are terrible. Which is weird and makes you think how could they possibly fuck it up that bad. You would imagine it would play some what like tekken and street fighter but no the movements suck horribly. There's a delay when fighting and moving. The game just sucks. Which honestly sucks for the simple fact that it had great potential. If it weren't for the delays when pressing buttons and moving around this game could've been one of the best in general it just needed more work. I couldn't speak on EX 2 or EX3 because I haven't tried them but this game sucks. It's funny because watching the game you wouldn't imagine that it has the kind of lag it has until you actually play it.
It's like when you press the buttons it waits like a second and a half until the game reacts. And that's just not fun at all. Not to mention you really have to time things right and not only do you have to time things right but you have to understand the range. It's not like you don't have to do that with other games but the lag along with everything else really makes this game very unlikable. Like I said it's sad because it really did have a lot of potential even arikas game characters are interesting.
@@plasmaoctopus1728 yes tekken does look slightly better, funny because tekken 3 came out only 3 months after street fighter ex. Then again I feel like in street fighter ex the street fighter characters look like their street fighter alpha selfs but in 3D.
If I had a Sony PS1, Street Fighter EX1 and Street Fighter EX2 would be my favorite Capcom games to play. It makes sense because the Sony PS1 was a 3D powerhouse and not a 2D powerhouse.
As others have said; criminally underrated series.. both Ex and Ex2 were - are! - excellent fighting games that didn't get anywhere near enough kudos :(
EX series had some of the best music in Street Fighter. The mechanics are still fun despite being ugly games and new characters were dope compared to the weird shit they added in Third Strike, Ultra 4 or Street Fighter V.
Next gen console it's coming Capcom and Namco wanted to get all of there main fighting titles out first before releasing it. I heard it's 30% finished so far
If this was a platform game, I'm sure it would've been regarded as 2D, even if it uses 3D models and a 3D environment. I believe Klonoa is an example of a 2.5D Platformer as your motion is restricted to two dimensions however the plane you move in can rotate as you move along in the 3D environment.
Just the way it is. Tekken 1 and 2 didn't really had sidestepping but also counted as 3d games. As long as you use polygons, fighting games are considered 3D. Akuma does have a move getting out of the 2D plane though, making it slightly more than 2.5D.
@@RJ-cq8dd Yeah, that's exactly it. The games were game with 3d polygons. Now we refer to 3d and 2d as gameplay styles instead of strictly technical ones, but at the time, the actual third dimension really existing in the render was the qualifier.
Let's face, it when it comes to pretty much all fighting game you're always playing on a 2D plane, sure you can do sidesteps but the main core the mechanics are very 2D. Obviously before EX SF was always just flat, cartoony graphics, but to see them rivalling the likes of Tekken 2 made it a 3D fighter
There were quite a few years between the releases of SF3 Third Strike and SF4, and also between MvC2 and MvC3. People thought the fighting game genre was dying during the years before it was basically revived by SF4 and esports (evo).
This series deserves recognition for the introduction of Allen Snyder alone, not to mention one the best combo trails, the super cancel system...straight up fun..Triple Break!!!!
As I said on Twitter, I played this to death back in the day and still play it. It's definitely the PlayStation game that I put the most hours into. Even hearing the music in this video made me happy. I fucking love this game!!!
C. Jack! I completely forgot about him. Man, this brings back memories. My friends and I would drink beers and have a blast beating the crap out each other in EX2.
I loved Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha. It was brilliant. It didn't drop the ball at all. They went all in from the fighting itself, to the soundtrack, to even the way Ken and Ryu's heel move back and forth when they are bouncing in their stance.
i dont think it has been forgotten, the akira characters were very memorable and fans are always asking to bring them back. They were so popular it motivated them to make the ex layer fighting game
I only seen two people Play any Street Fighter EX Games, me and a cool friend of mine on The PS2. I enjoyed The SF EX Series along with Traditional 2D SF Series. I remember going to arcades during the early 2000s and me being the only person who ever played them. Lol Still to this day I love The SF EX Series.
Goodness. Since I'm old, and was heavily into fighting games since 1991, I can actually remember these developments and the impact they had. I'll try to limit this commentary. Street Fighter was not intentionally saturating the fighting game market in 1996. They were trying to break out of their dependence on Super Turbo and many beat 'em ups. They were testing several waters. Testing involves experiments, many experiments. They went polygon with EX, Star Gladiator and Rival Schools, they went super fluid 2D with SF3, they went anime with Alpha and JoJo, they went mainstream with Marvel, they went goth with Darkstalkers, and they went ridiculous with Super Puzzle Fighter. The purely unintentional saturation occurred because no one could have predicted that each one of these games would develop a cult following; Is it Capcom's fault their games were mostly really good? The whole section on the Capcom's stance concerning the development of a 3D fighting game is based on your assumption that Arika somehow did what Capcom couldn't do: make a 3D fighting game. This is a false assumption because EX is NOT a 3D fighting game (neither are Star Gladiator nor Rival Schools). It's obviously 2D with fancier animations for certain events. So Capcom was correct in their assessment that they did not have the techniques to make a proper 3D fighting game at the time. Later in time, in 1999, apparently they finished acquiring those techniques. The result was Power Stone. And, just so everyone is clear, SF4 and 5 are still 2D. The decision to use simple, tried and true game mechanics is what makes this game worthy of being called a Street Fighter game even more so than Street Fighter 5. In this case, it's a timeless cliché that simply works. Your mention of the "odd departure, stylistically" of the character select portraits is unnecessary. How should they have looked, then? Like the polygons in the win poses? That would have been trash because the facial animations were not very good. Anyone who was a fan of Street Fighter at the time simply played this game and enjoyed it. You compare Street Fighter to other 2D fighters, NOT to Tekken and Soul Edge. Gamespot was wrong. Period. Certain attack & damage animations were not as smooth as Tekken, but much smoother than Soul Edge. SE masked much of its flaws with a dynamic camera. Also, animation aside, moves came out WAY more accurately in EX than either Tekken or SE. EX plus Alpha came out in 1996, Tekken 3 came out in 1997, and you stated otherwise. EX arcade had decent music, but it was all keyboard. It surpasses Tekken but is surpassed by Soul Edge. But SFEX plus Alpha for PSX, with much better sampled instruments (or real instruments, couldn't tell), blew them all away (especially those subpar remixes for SoulBlade on PSX). The backgrounds are not as good as SE, SFA2, or SF3, but they are not bad. The comments you quoted concerning turtling, Street purists, etc., are totally wrong. The UK mag and ign got the actual sentiment most players at the time were experiencing. WHY would you ask anything on twitter? The reason this game doesn't get talked about is because Capcom focuses on a few things at a time. They are pragmatic to a fault. They had action games to worry about, like Mega Man X4, Devil May Cry, Onimusha and Viewtiful Joe. Nevermind their attention to Resident Evil and Dino Crisis. For EX we got a good sequel and a decent sequel for a newer console, SFEX3, and more releases in Japan, so the series left its mark. But what was really hot at the time was Marvel, so we got a few of those. Then Vs. SNK. This game also doesn't get mentioned much because was overshadowed by other games, but also because it hasn't been ported multiple times like other SF titles. I believe Capcom does NOT want to share any credit or profit with ARIKA. Still, I hope they get around to releasing an EX anthology with online versus. Then you will see this game being talked about. "Why NO ONE PLAYS IT!?" Maybe you don't play it, but I still do. Oh, lastly, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie was released in January of 1996. Go watch it for those highly useful moments when the name Ryu is spoken. Who the hell still pronounces his name Rye-you? Does he come from a bayou?????
This was actually my brother and I’s very first PlayStation game. We played it religiously back in the day, and it will always hold a special place in my heart. And the soundtrack still slaps.
No one plays it?! Me and a bunch of friends used to play this religiously weekly after work, we'd go to whoever's turn it was to host the night, 4 set ups, 10-20 friends and very very late nights. So many good times.
I liked Street Fighter EX. But then again, I like 3D fighters over 2D ones (though two-dimensional SNK fighting games are good too). P.S. Oh, and PlayStation had Guilty Gear, series which remained the best looking 2D fighting game for most of history. Anyway, EX had some cool designs, Pullum Purna is great, so are Blair and her replacement Sharon in EX2.
so many negative reviews near the end honestly breaks my heart. i love this game, its a great street fighter title on par with some of the best legacy titles for me. i played this game growing up, and i still play it to this day. i bring it out every single week to my FGC meetup and i play it. in my experience the game is much deeper than people give it credit for. sadly most people i talk to about this game either have fond memories and moved on to newer titles, or never really played it because the graphics turned them off, and/or thought it was a 3d street fighter which is absolutely wrong. this is not a 3d fighter. this is a 2d fighter made with 3d graphics. ive talked to many people who thought this was a 3d street fighter and they never gave it a chance because of that. the people who play this game are out there and they love it because they know it for what it is, because theyve taken the time to get to know it. you need a simple yet strong character? we got it need a high skill technical character? we got it this game has everything you want in a street fighter title... literally. well... i suppose it could do with a gameplay makeover, but dont tell me those character portraits arent amazing, and that the soundtrack isnt one of the best soundtracks out of any street fighter title. people who complain about graphics are complaining about nothing and im convinced that they just like to complain. stick to modern games, dont go back to old titles, ever again. dont tell me you watch everything in 4k and cant appreciate a painting. unless youve done a deep dive on this game, you cant judge it, because youve likely only scratched the surface.
I never got into the original street fighter games. The arcade series passed me by and by the time I got a PS1, I was a Tekken man almost all the way. Except for this game. Ex Plus Alpha was beyond awesome. One of my fondest memories is playing against my nephew with one of us as Akuma and the other as dark Ryu. That was insane. For some reason, the music they made for games back then had more character and dare I say "heart" that a lot of stuff that comes out today.
I love that you took a break with this series of street fighter . Not alot of people don’t know exactly how to play and how special the EX series is. Me personally I’m a EX3 guy when it comes to which one I admire the most in the series
I have played every Street Fighter game from the beginning and I think the EX Street Fighter games took the franchise to another level and were by the best and most fun to play. It is highly disappointing they don't continue to produce these games. Not even the new Street Fighter games were as good as EX.
Played it regularly at Yellow Brick Road, arcades owned by Capcom in San Diego back in the day. Then picked it up for my PSX, & actually have been playing this game once a week for the last 3 months. Along with playing SF alpha anthology, Samurai anthology, & other fighting classics. Reliving the good old days. 👍
I beg to differ. Ex series and Rival schools was very popular in Asia. We even had arcade battles back in the day.. it was Streefighter ex, Tekken, Bloody Roar, DOA and Soul Calibur.
Ex series was honestly one of my favorites the fact it's responsible for the Sakura theme we hear at the end Max videos says alot, The actual fighting was amazing as you could cancel any normal moves into special moves and cancel any special or normals into supers so you can do some super nutty stuff with it, Also give Skullomaina is the PoG Champion. His Instant hell murder is the best in the Street Fighter Series.
Game feels good, music is still fantastic to listen to, gameplay combo sequences were a test of skill and the oomph in the game is excellent. Probably the biggest contribution was the trials system that gave guidance to what was possible combo wise and set a standard in subsequent SF titles. Something true 3D fighters lack.
Ok, people don't talk about this game too much anymore but I'm not hearing conversations about Soul Edge/Blade or Tekken 1 either. The only difference was those games got better with the sequels and the Street Fighter EX series didn't.
Street Fighter EX is my favorite fighting game. Back when it was out none of my friends could beat me when I use Ken or Blair. The number of friends who plays this was less than 5 people. :) LOL Most of my friends where into Tekken.
Why it is forgotten is very simple. Its not a bad game on its own or for your first street fighter game, but lackluster compared to other street fighter games and other 3D games of the time.
I will never forget the day that I finally get SF Ex Plus Alpha, after playing it in a obscure arcade for months, the local game shop brought one copy of this gem, I was so anxious to play, that the 20 minute bus journey seemed like hours. This game blew my mind, it was the arcade at home but better. This game single handled helped me improve in Street Fighter with its amazing training/challenge mode, trying to unlock the bosses made me a better player, and the soundtrack, ah the soundtrack is perfection!!
During the summer of 1997 I would go to my friends house to have a Street Fight EX Plus tournaments. There would always be at least 6 of us playing. I ended up buying my own copy so I could practice at home. I remember the combo trials were ridiculously hard. I still own my copy, and its still one of my favorite SF games.
I remember renting this when it first came out thinking it would be the form of the future. Wasn't impressed. Actually forgot it even existed until this video. Great video as always though. 🎩
The game was actually very hard to find in Australia. I had to hire this from the local video store to play it. One of my mates had connections with a video game shop and was able to get EX2 in and I played this game for hours. It was great and it is so under rated. We used to play the 5 v 5 and play 4 randoms and your main, so we had to get used to playing all the characters. The blisters I used to get on my thumb after a session.
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha was the one I played when I was a kid and it remains my favorite, especially the soundtrack. I can't believe that the songs from the soundtrack haven't shown up later in the series.
Ex plus alpha was a lot of fun. It was different in terms of physics and "feel" but it opened things up for new strategies. It's hard to explain, but there's a certain "springiness" to the hits that makes some of the combos work in a unique way.
The night my bro bought this! It had JUST COME OUT! We traded lots if stuff in and needed a 2nd controller. Only PS controller they had was the now RARE! "Dual Analog Controller" Was the 1st to have the 2 sticks. Years before the dual shock could be rolled out (because of Nintendos control of copyright and vibration function) it had a green and red setting on the button to turn the sticks on. What a life time ago
Even though the EX series is the red-headed stepchild of Street Fighter, there are multiple elements that I love about it, such as the soundtracks, the dynamic camera angles, and the Super Cancel mechanic. I even have a soft-spot for some of the more off-the-wall characters introduced in this series. (Skullomania in particular ranks as one of my top 5 all-time favorite fighting game characters) I'm also mad at myself for having recently misplaced my copy of Street Fighter EX3. 😣
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Street Fighter 3 and EX were both capable of running on the N64 but... this was during the time Capcom and Nintendo were at odds with the Street Fighter franchise because Nintendo blamed Capcom for the poor performance of Street Fighter Alpha 2 on the SNES by not coding the game to use the Phase 3 clocks of the WDC 65c816 processor (3.58 MHz) but instead used Phase 2 Clocks (2.86 MHz). Nintendo also claimed that Capcom could of easily placed a Nintendo SA-1 chip on the cartridge to also accelerate the game's performance. Because of all of this, Capcom refused to port anymore Street Fighter games to the Nintendo consoles.
You do know that there is a new SFEX game out right? it was even on evo. it's called "Fighting Layer EX"
I was disappointed when the Street Fighter Anniversary game was released because they didn't include these. I enjoyed the EX games and think that at least the final version should have been on there.
The soundtrack, the camera angle, super cancel, the characters available, the unlimited hit counter, the rats running around the arena, the collapsing Akuma necklace, and the birds flying through the Chun-li stage make this the SF most special and exciting for me. ♥
Thumbnail (if knowone played the game you wouldnt of made a video of sfex in the first place 😕)
Best soundtrack of any SF game hands down!!!
Yes
EX master mode combo challenges were amazing.
Street Fighter Ex @ 2 was a bit better but I still have this game and miss it
"Street Fighter EX plus a" was my first PS1 game. I loved it.
Same
My second PS1 game, first was Diablo
Same
GARUDA WAS KING OF THE 1ST EX Plus a game.
Same here.
I LOVE Street Fighter EX, I freaking love Arika's exciting linkable supers system, it is AMAZING
I just love the roster 🎆🎆🎆🎉🎉
Me too!!!
linkable supers were also possible in xmvssf for the ps1.
@@adrenalinex4 yes
@Rene Valleramos do you play FEXL
Street Fighter EX 2 is criminally underrated. It’s probably my favourite out of the series.
i didnt like the gameplay of ex 2. for me, the excel system overshadows everything, all that matters is meter for excel, theres no creativity and neutral turns into who has more meter than the other.
@@diwachtler Just ban the neutral while playing lol
I’ve never played SF EX2, but by the looks of the gameplay it looks interesting!
This game is sooooooo underrated, the characters, the BEST Street Fighter soundtrack and the story...
Agreed... the soundtrack was simply amazing.
Agree!!!!
I wanted to play this so bad back in the days. I was so excited for this art style and direction SF was going. Sadly it is no more
@@nayyarrashid4661 I remember when Street Fighter 4 first came out everyone I knew and myself noticed that street fighter 4 took a lot of ideas from Street Fighter Ex...
Agreed
I wouldn't say "no one" plays it anymore, i love the EX series, i have since i first played EX Plus Alpha on the PS1 in 1998. I love the music, the combo system, the characters, etc. EX Plus Alpha and EX 2 Plus are two of my favorite SF games of all time. I still play them on a regular basis.
this. same here too
I downloaded them on my ps1 classic. My favorite sf of all time
Agree!
@@JP_Wuyes
I used to tell people SF4 played like EX3, as usual they laughed.
I seriously felt that when I first played it!
@@germain83 As well as Maximilian Dood and myself.
They were right to laugh at you.
@@Hotobu Why were they right to laugh at ticksmilk?
I liked EX just fine, but RIVAL SCHOOLS really brought it home for me.
*THIS!*
I love that game so much as a kid! Had to go on eBay a few years ago & buy both the arcade & evolution disc!
Hyo , Akira, Prof.Hideo were my favorites
Rival Schools and Project Justice far superior to the Ex series.
Played the snot out of the demo
ahh the game that badly skinned my thumb that I have to play it by putting the controller inside my shirt to ease the pain while playing
This was one of the best games of all time. The music, the characters, the newish 3D backgrounds, especially when you finish an opponent with a super combos, the bonus modes, the hidden codes you can punch in, the phenomenally developed training move list where you perfected your skills, the "here comes a new challenger" cut screen when someone joined, this game is still beloved by many!!! Hoping to see a Capcom + Arika reunion. Give the fans what they want!
Agreed. It is amazing seeing the comment section full of people who just share a love for this game.
I remember this game fondly. This was part of my childhood.
One of the best StreetFighter games I've ever played (I've played them all). I wish Arika and Capcom would revive the series. That was a great mix of Street-Fighters and original characters. Garuda, Kairi, and Skullo were great and fun characters!!!
they released Fighting Layer EX last year with Skullo
@TripleDoubleNoTAS that game been out along with Terry it's just that nobody play's it.
@@shenelljohnson74 I play it and I'm no nobody!
@kmden Rt ...its not SF EX, its called "Fighting Layer EX" I believe, and has no StreetFighter characters in it, only the Arika characters.
Albert Schroter not the same without SF fighters.
Fun Fact: Fighting Layer got a sequel last year called Fighting EX Layer. No I didn't put the EX in the wrong place, that's how they write it out. So in a way, Street Fighter EX lives on.Oh, and it's actually quite good.
Is barely a sequal to fighting layer since it has no fighting layer characters IN it. It has the EX characters from SF EX though.
Fighting ex layer not is a fighting layer sequel, is a SF ex prototipe for unreal engine whitout sf characters.....
It trash compared to SFEX the controls and mechanics are poor.
@@ricardo_alemanes some of the SF fighters in ex is in it.
@@jeremyhall2727 capcom don't own those characters and didn't create them tho
EX series is great, some of the best music tracks, great fighting system, awesome characters. There was a scene back then and there still is one now.
Best soundtrack of every Sf, amazing and talented musicians behind it. One of the best characters SF never had, and my favorites are on it: D.Dark, Vulcano Rosso and Garuda. My, they re amazing and totally original
I’ve owned this game since back then and I still pop it in and enjoy it fro time to time. It’s a lot of fun. Even better than its sequel for PlayStation 2. It’s really easy to get into and I tear those AI computer players apart.
People thought EX looked and played bad? I think thats more a case of people with the loudest voice stating that, it was well liked at the time and on various forums I have been on people tend to prefer it to 4 and 5 specifically because it plays different rather than be SF2 all over again. I loved it, the only bad EX game was 3.
i dont agree with those pseudo critics...sfex was a fantastic game for that age...and just like many series dead with the ps1 or ps2, it is just left forgotten..for references, go check the bloody roar series..lol
@@Nov-5062 yep but i was refering to the recent critics..the twitter guys lol
I assume half the 'critics' never bothered to play the game. As someone who played all the titles from the original onwards, it's quite underappreciated, and anyone who has played the game can tell you that while it wasn't quite as polished as some of the other titles, it was still a lot of fun, and I spent countless hours on EX+a and EX2. Also one of the best soundtracks of any Street Fighter (or for that matter, any) game ever.
No mention of the sequel, and current gen game, Fighting EX Layer?
my thoughts exactly
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This was the first game I got for the Playstation, and while it certainly hasn't aged well, I still enjoy playing it every now and then.
Kensei: Sacred Fist aged better as well as Tobal #1 and Tobal 2 and Erhgeiz
@@budgiecat9039 nice to see, there a people whi even know kensei sacred fist.
Speaking of games that are overlooked, rival schools is a big one! I love that game so much but I guess it was overlooked due to the reason why EX was???? I'll love to know why
I didn't know about rival school 2 intell I started using emulators
I still play ex plus alpha. Might be my favorite street fighter game of all. I actually really dig its stylized visuals too, not an ugly game.
Me and my friends played this one to death in our teens. Played it again recently and still love it. D Dark was my character
me too, remember played it for a weekend straight with my uncle, my character was Akuma
D Dark was epic! Loved laying down a bomb with a long timer and psyching my brother/friends out :D Also only character able to KO from full life with one bar!
It is funny in retrospective when you see how many things Street Fighter IV stole from this underrated gem from the PSX, and I dare to say most of the Ex new characters like Jack, Pullum, Blair, Garuda or Skullomania are far more charismatic than 40% of the Street Fighter III new characters like Twelve, Alex, Gill or Q, in my opinion it is stupid to love SF IV and hate the EX series...they are the same, Street Fighter Classic 2D gameplay but in 3D Looks. Please people, stop hating 3D looking games from the PSX, Saturn, N64 era, it is absurd.
PD: Doin Chain super combos in Street Fighter Ex is awesome, and the soundtrack is great
Wow, I couldnt agree with you more. You hit it perfectly
Skullo is my boi. The part about the EX games that drew me in despite the issues were the imaginative new characters.
Backed up. Fantastic characters, soundtrack and game mechanics.
I still play EX. I mean what other street fighter game do you get to destroy a Friken satellite in a bonus stage? 🛰️🤣
12:24 what did he mean by "bad controls"?. There is no such thing in ex series. The control was just fine.
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Have you even played this game? The controls are terrible. Which is weird and makes you think how could they possibly fuck it up that bad. You would imagine it would play some what like tekken and street fighter but no the movements suck horribly. There's a delay when fighting and moving. The game just sucks. Which honestly sucks for the simple fact that it had great potential. If it weren't for the delays when pressing buttons and moving around this game could've been one of the best in general it just needed more work. I couldn't speak on EX 2 or EX3 because I haven't tried them but this game sucks. It's funny because watching the game you wouldn't imagine that it has the kind of lag it has until you actually play it.
It's like when you press the buttons it waits like a second and a half until the game reacts. And that's just not fun at all. Not to mention you really have to time things right and not only do you have to time things right but you have to understand the range. It's not like you don't have to do that with other games but the lag along with everything else really makes this game very unlikable. Like I said it's sad because it really did have a lot of potential even arikas game characters are interesting.
@@PenitentOne8 now am i crazy, but it also looks like EX 1 is in 30 fps, whereas the tekken 3 footage seemed higher.
@@plasmaoctopus1728 yes tekken does look slightly better, funny because tekken 3 came out only 3 months after street fighter ex. Then again I feel like in street fighter ex the street fighter characters look like their street fighter alpha selfs but in 3D.
If I had a Sony PS1, Street Fighter EX1 and Street Fighter EX2 would be my favorite Capcom games to play. It makes sense because the Sony PS1 was a 3D powerhouse and not a 2D powerhouse.
I literally just got this game today for ps1 as it was missing from my collection.
As others have said; criminally underrated series.. both Ex and Ex2 were - are! - excellent fighting games that didn't get anywhere near enough kudos :(
Unnapreciated and underrated games. One of my favorite spin off series of Street Fighter.
EX series had some of the best music in Street Fighter. The mechanics are still fun despite being ugly games and new characters were dope compared to the weird shit they added in Third Strike, Ultra 4 or Street Fighter V.
I still want the NAMCO promised TEKKEN x STREET FIGHTER which was promised to be soon after STREET FIGHTER x TEKKEN
Next gen console it's coming Capcom and Namco wanted to get all of there main fighting titles out first before releasing it. I heard it's 30% finished so far
They didn't promise anything lol and i can link to you Tekken fan's are declining TXSF and rather have T8
I absolutely loved ex alpha. I got really really good at it.
My first imported game. Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha was my shit and has the best in-game music for a fighting game.
It was one of my favorite games ever! I still jam the soundtrack!
As do I - anyone who played the game at some length can attest that the soundtrack is simply magnificent 👍
If this was a platform game, it would be regarded as "2 and a half D", so why does everyone brand SFEX a 3D fighter?
If this was a platform game, I'm sure it would've been regarded as 2D, even if it uses 3D models and a 3D environment. I believe Klonoa is an example of a 2.5D Platformer as your motion is restricted to two dimensions however the plane you move in can rotate as you move along in the 3D environment.
Just the way it is. Tekken 1 and 2 didn't really had sidestepping but also counted as 3d games. As long as you use polygons, fighting games are considered 3D.
Akuma does have a move getting out of the 2D plane though, making it slightly more than 2.5D.
@@RJ-cq8dd Yeah, that's exactly it. The games were game with 3d polygons. Now we refer to 3d and 2d as gameplay styles instead of strictly technical ones, but at the time, the actual third dimension really existing in the render was the qualifier.
Let's face, it when it comes to pretty much all fighting game you're always playing on a 2D plane, sure you can do sidesteps but the main core the mechanics are very 2D.
Obviously before EX SF was always just flat, cartoony graphics, but to see them rivalling the likes of Tekken 2 made it a 3D fighter
It plays a lot like Rival Schools. I love it!
Oh man Rival Schools, thanks for the memory!!!! That bat guy was great lol
Made by the same devs
I still play it.
Top Hat taking a break from the VS series to prevent “burnout” or “over saturation”
Y’know... just like the Street Fighter brand forgot to do. 😏
There were quite a few years between the releases of SF3 Third Strike and SF4, and also between MvC2 and MvC3. People thought the fighting game genre was dying during the years before it was basically revived by SF4 and esports (evo).
This series deserves recognition for the introduction of Allen Snyder alone, not to mention one the best combo trails, the super cancel system...straight up fun..Triple Break!!!!
I liked Allen. Kiari is my favorite shoto clone but Allen is a close second. I thought they we're improvements that of Ryu and Ken.
I feel like Ex plus alpha was better than alpha 3
As I said on Twitter, I played this to death back in the day and still play it. It's definitely the PlayStation game that I put the most hours into. Even hearing the music in this video made me happy. I fucking love this game!!!
C. Jack! I completely forgot about him. Man, this brings back memories. My friends and I would drink beers and have a blast beating the crap out each other in EX2.
I loved Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha. It was brilliant. It didn't drop the ball at all. They went all in from the fighting itself, to the soundtrack, to even the way Ken and Ryu's heel move back and forth when they are bouncing in their stance.
i dont think it has been forgotten, the akira characters were very memorable and fans are always asking to bring them back. They were so popular it motivated them to make the ex layer fighting game
The EX series is my favorite of all the street fighters
I only seen two people Play any Street Fighter EX Games, me and a cool friend of mine on The PS2. I enjoyed The SF EX Series along with Traditional 2D SF Series. I remember going to arcades during the early 2000s and me being the only person who ever played them. Lol Still to this day I love The SF EX Series.
Goodness. Since I'm old, and was heavily into fighting games since 1991, I can actually remember these developments and the impact they had. I'll try to limit this commentary.
Street Fighter was not intentionally saturating the fighting game market in 1996. They were trying to break out of their dependence on Super Turbo and many beat 'em ups. They were testing several waters. Testing involves experiments, many experiments. They went polygon with EX, Star Gladiator and Rival Schools, they went super fluid 2D with SF3, they went anime with Alpha and JoJo, they went mainstream with Marvel, they went goth with Darkstalkers, and they went ridiculous with Super Puzzle Fighter. The purely unintentional saturation occurred because no one could have predicted that each one of these games would develop a cult following; Is it Capcom's fault their games were mostly really good?
The whole section on the Capcom's stance concerning the development of a 3D fighting game is based on your assumption that Arika somehow did what Capcom couldn't do: make a 3D fighting game. This is a false assumption because EX is NOT a 3D fighting game (neither are Star Gladiator nor Rival Schools). It's obviously 2D with fancier animations for certain events. So Capcom was correct in their assessment that they did not have the techniques to make a proper 3D fighting game at the time. Later in time, in 1999, apparently they finished acquiring those techniques. The result was Power Stone. And, just so everyone is clear, SF4 and 5 are still 2D.
The decision to use simple, tried and true game mechanics is what makes this game worthy of being called a Street Fighter game even more so than Street Fighter 5. In this case, it's a timeless cliché that simply works. Your mention of the "odd departure, stylistically" of the character select portraits is unnecessary. How should they have looked, then? Like the polygons in the win poses? That would have been trash because the facial animations were not very good.
Anyone who was a fan of Street Fighter at the time simply played this game and enjoyed it. You compare Street Fighter to other 2D fighters, NOT to Tekken and Soul Edge. Gamespot was wrong. Period. Certain attack & damage animations were not as smooth as Tekken, but much smoother than Soul Edge. SE masked much of its flaws with a dynamic camera. Also, animation aside, moves came out WAY more accurately in EX than either Tekken or SE. EX plus Alpha came out in 1996, Tekken 3 came out in 1997, and you stated otherwise. EX arcade had decent music, but it was all keyboard. It surpasses Tekken but is surpassed by Soul Edge. But SFEX plus Alpha for PSX, with much better sampled instruments (or real instruments, couldn't tell), blew them all away (especially those subpar remixes for SoulBlade on PSX). The backgrounds are not as good as SE, SFA2, or SF3, but they are not bad. The comments you quoted concerning turtling, Street purists, etc., are totally wrong. The UK mag and ign got the actual sentiment most players at the time were experiencing. WHY would you ask anything on twitter?
The reason this game doesn't get talked about is because Capcom focuses on a few things at a time. They are pragmatic to a fault. They had action games to worry about, like Mega Man X4, Devil May Cry, Onimusha and Viewtiful Joe. Nevermind their attention to Resident Evil and Dino Crisis. For EX we got a good sequel and a decent sequel for a newer console, SFEX3, and more releases in Japan, so the series left its mark. But what was really hot at the time was Marvel, so we got a few of those. Then Vs. SNK. This game also doesn't get mentioned much because was overshadowed by other games, but also because it hasn't been ported multiple times like other SF titles. I believe Capcom does NOT want to share any credit or profit with ARIKA. Still, I hope they get around to releasing an EX anthology with online versus. Then you will see this game being talked about. "Why NO ONE PLAYS IT!?" Maybe you don't play it, but I still do.
Oh, lastly, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie was released in January of 1996. Go watch it for those highly useful moments when the name Ryu is spoken. Who the hell still pronounces his name Rye-you? Does he come from a bayou?????
I swear some people need serious help if they hate the EX series and no I’m not a fanboy I’m just speaking facts
This game took hours away in 95 with me and my big bro.
This was actually my brother and I’s very first PlayStation game. We played it religiously back in the day, and it will always hold a special place in my heart. And the soundtrack still slaps.
Great video! I would love to see you cover War-Zard/ Red Earth. The long forgotten CPS3 game.
No one plays it?! Me and a bunch of friends used to play this religiously weekly after work, we'd go to whoever's turn it was to host the night, 4 set ups, 10-20 friends and very very late nights. So many good times.
I liked Street Fighter EX. But then again, I like 3D fighters over 2D ones (though two-dimensional SNK fighting games are good too). P.S. Oh, and PlayStation had Guilty Gear, series which remained the best looking 2D fighting game for most of history. Anyway, EX had some cool designs, Pullum Purna is great, so are Blair and her replacement Sharon in EX2.
I actually love this series
so many negative reviews near the end honestly breaks my heart. i love this game, its a great street fighter title on par with some of the best legacy titles for me.
i played this game growing up, and i still play it to this day. i bring it out every single week to my FGC meetup and i play it.
in my experience the game is much deeper than people give it credit for.
sadly most people i talk to about this game either have fond memories and moved on to newer titles, or never really played it because the graphics turned them off, and/or thought it was a 3d street fighter which is absolutely wrong. this is not a 3d fighter. this is a 2d fighter made with 3d graphics. ive talked to many people who thought this was a 3d street fighter and they never gave it a chance because of that.
the people who play this game are out there and they love it because they know it for what it is, because theyve taken the time to get to know it.
you need a simple yet strong character? we got it
need a high skill technical character? we got it
this game has everything you want in a street fighter title... literally.
well... i suppose it could do with a gameplay makeover, but dont tell me those character portraits arent amazing, and that the soundtrack isnt one of the best soundtracks out of any street fighter title.
people who complain about graphics are complaining about nothing and im convinced that they just like to complain. stick to modern games, dont go back to old titles, ever again. dont tell me you watch everything in 4k and cant appreciate a painting.
unless youve done a deep dive on this game, you cant judge it, because youve likely only scratched the surface.
I never got into the original street fighter games. The arcade series passed me by and by the time I got a PS1, I was a Tekken man almost all the way. Except for this game. Ex Plus Alpha was beyond awesome. One of my fondest memories is playing against my nephew with one of us as Akuma and the other as dark Ryu. That was insane. For some reason, the music they made for games back then had more character and dare I say "heart" that a lot of stuff that comes out today.
i love EX we still play it all the time
I feel like I'm the only person who played it religiously when I was younger.
same here too
Same
This was a great game had lots of fun playing against my mate it really was easy to play if you were familiar with the street fighters before it
I love that you took a break with this series of street fighter . Not alot of people don’t know exactly how to play and how special the EX series is. Me personally I’m a EX3 guy when it comes to which one I admire the most in the series
I really miss this game. Too bad it was never re-release on the PSN or something.
This was actually one of my favorite SF game I was actually disappointed when with SF 3&4 they went back to 2d.
I have played every Street Fighter game from the beginning and I think the EX Street Fighter games took the franchise to another level and were by the best and most fun to play. It is highly disappointing they don't continue to produce these games. Not even the new Street Fighter games were as good as EX.
Skull mania was the man. I enjoyed this game 💀
Played it regularly at Yellow Brick Road, arcades owned by Capcom in San Diego back in the day. Then picked it up for my PSX, & actually have been playing this game once a week for the last 3 months. Along with playing SF alpha anthology, Samurai anthology, & other fighting classics. Reliving the good old days. 👍
I still see a lot of love for Skullomania. Probably the only character to still get love from this version of the series.
I beg to differ. Ex series and Rival schools was very popular in Asia. We even had arcade battles back in the day.. it was Streefighter ex, Tekken, Bloody Roar, DOA and Soul Calibur.
That fighting lair game looks sick AF
My brother and I loved this game! We also got SFEX2. One of my favorite SF games.
Ex series was honestly one of my favorites the fact it's responsible for the Sakura theme we hear at the end Max videos says alot,
The actual fighting was amazing as you could cancel any normal moves into special moves and cancel any special or normals into supers so you can do some super nutty stuff with it, Also give Skullomaina is the PoG Champion. His Instant hell murder is the best in the Street Fighter Series.
The music of the EX series is the best of all the street fighter games. EX3 was really fun too
Game feels good, music is still fantastic to listen to, gameplay combo sequences were a test of skill and the oomph in the game is excellent. Probably the biggest contribution was the trials system that gave guidance to what was possible combo wise and set a standard in subsequent SF titles. Something true 3D fighters lack.
I played SF ex+alpha a lot on Playstation, really great soundtrack
I regret street fighter EX games wasn't included into the Street Fighter 30th anniversary collection
Ok, people don't talk about this game too much anymore but I'm not hearing conversations about Soul Edge/Blade or Tekken 1 either. The only difference was those games got better with the sequels and the Street Fighter EX series didn't.
You clearly haven't heard of 2 Old 2 Furious. We've been playing EX2 still till this day.
Street Fighter EX is my favorite fighting game. Back when it was out none of my friends could beat me when I use Ken or Blair. The number of friends who plays this was less than 5 people. :) LOL
Most of my friends where into Tekken.
the moment I heard the Sakura EX3 music, I thought Maximillian Dood was going to come in and interrupt your video.
What an interesting time for this video to have come out as I recently just picked up SF EX+ Alpha and its sequel EX2 for PS.
Why it is forgotten is very simple. Its not a bad game on its own or for your first street fighter game, but lackluster compared to other street fighter games and other 3D games of the time.
I will never forget the day that I finally get SF Ex Plus Alpha, after playing it in a obscure arcade for months, the local game shop brought one copy of this gem, I was so anxious to play, that the 20 minute bus journey seemed like hours.
This game blew my mind, it was the arcade at home but better. This game single handled helped me improve in Street Fighter with its amazing training/challenge mode, trying to unlock the bosses made me a better player, and the soundtrack, ah the soundtrack is perfection!!
Street fighter EX was one of the best games THEY NEED TO BRING IT BACK ya'll crazy it was a good game
Street Fighter Ex PLUS Alpha was my very first playstation game and i love it til this day!!
During the summer of 1997 I would go to my friends house to have a Street Fight EX Plus tournaments. There would always be at least 6 of us playing. I ended up buying my own copy so I could practice at home. I remember the combo trials were ridiculously hard. I still own my copy, and its still one of my favorite SF games.
The sound track was king in that game. My favourite one is Kairi character.
Rop Hat Gaming Man drinking game
Take a shot everytime the word "regards" is used in this video
I remember renting this when it first came out thinking it would be the form of the future. Wasn't impressed. Actually forgot it even existed until this video. Great video as always though. 🎩
I got this game yesterday! Will sort my retro gamingroom out in the next coming days, and sit down and play it for the first time soon!
The game was actually very hard to find in Australia. I had to hire this from the local video store to play it. One of my mates had connections with a video game shop and was able to get EX2 in and I played this game for hours. It was great and it is so under rated. We used to play the 5 v 5 and play 4 randoms and your main, so we had to get used to playing all the characters. The blisters I used to get on my thumb after a session.
Alpha 3 and EX series were my favorites of all Street Fighter games, not including crossovers.
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha was the one I played when I was a kid and it remains my favorite, especially the soundtrack. I can't believe that the songs from the soundtrack haven't shown up later in the series.
Ex plus alpha was a lot of fun. It was different in terms of physics and "feel" but it opened things up for new strategies. It's hard to explain, but there's a certain "springiness" to the hits that makes some of the combos work in a unique way.
This is hands down my absolute favourite street fighter game in all of the series, everything about it is beautiful, and it's very underrated.
Thumbs up because you mentioned my favorite fighting game as a kid. Soulblade
This seriously needs to make a return back to new generation. The EX series gave me some seriously legendary memories from my teens
The night my bro bought this!
It had JUST COME OUT! We traded lots if stuff in and needed a 2nd controller.
Only PS controller they had was the now RARE! "Dual Analog Controller"
Was the 1st to have the 2 sticks. Years before the dual shock could be rolled out (because of Nintendos control of copyright and vibration function) it had a green and red setting on the button to turn the sticks on.
What a life time ago
If Megaman get's a Vol. 3 on the Legacy Collection, as Zero/ZX, I want a Street Fighter Legacy Collection Vol. 2.
Even though the EX series is the red-headed stepchild of Street Fighter, there are multiple elements that I love about it, such as the soundtracks, the dynamic camera angles, and the Super Cancel mechanic. I even have a soft-spot for some of the more off-the-wall characters introduced in this series. (Skullomania in particular ranks as one of my top 5 all-time favorite fighting game characters)
I'm also mad at myself for having recently misplaced my copy of Street Fighter EX3. 😣