The MAD Story of DARKSTALKERS - A Street Fighter Successor!? - RARE GAMING HISTORY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
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Today, Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history Dark Stalkers, a game created by Capcom using the Street Fighter 2 Engine.
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“Pales in comparison to Toshinden”?! That’s an absolute joke even back then, and all the more hilarious now that Toshinden is all but forgotten.
I remember someone saying that Tohshinden was the future, everything would be different from that day one. No way. Actually, the only two 3D fighting games I witnessed strive were Soul Edge/Calibur and Tekken.
People who had a PlayStation back then likely knew what Battle Arena Toshinden was, so I don't see what's the problem with that.
@Nighthawk the character designs are more memorable than the game itself.
15 years later, nobody cares about Toshinden anymore. Also, Darkstalkers aged well and the graphics are impressive even at 2019. Where are your "3d monsters" now? Where are your nostalgic fans? Where is the "future", 3d fighting games? 2d fighting games still exist, 3d don't.
@DejaVoodooDoll I didn't say poloygons, i said 3d fighting. I've never saw or played darkstalkers, so i didn't have nostalgic love for it and that makes me judge subjective. History talked about 3d fighting games. "The future" my ass.
darkstalkers needs more love on the internet
THIS!
YES
I'm sure some certain characters are getting lots of love on certain places in the internet.
Its needs more love in Capcom’s fighting game division 💀
@ThePokefreak98 According to Matt McMuscles, the reason we haven't gotten an actually new Darkstalkers game since Darkstalkers 3 is that Capcom does random, "is this series popular" checks by releasing compilations that offer nothing new but collect the games in the series. The last time they did this for Darkstalkers, the game didn't sell to their expectations. This was after releasing two previous collections that were identical to it, and people just didn't buy it.
In other words, Capcom sabotaged their own game series' future and blames the fans.
I'm a Huge fan of Darkstalkers. Love this series.
@kaneninjutsu I want them to do two things. 1: Adapt Udon's Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers comic into a video game so they get some new eyes on this series and Darkstalkers can get some Street Fighter $$$. Then add Amingo and Son Son into the series from Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 as official Darkstalkers. Maybe Ruby Heart too, but she's the sister of the dude from the arcade Higemaru so that might be weird.
I remember how some people thought 3d fighters made 2d fighters obsolete.
those are the people who always wants the latest of the latest... if it's been used before it's not important for them so they hate. To me 2D captures a lot more magic than the 3D fighting games. It doesn't capture the art and soul as it was drawn.. while 3D is a different story. Well.. each his own. I still prefer 2D (not from indie) fighting games and not the SF2 HD garbage Capcom made. that's like flash player made game. Quality was totally lost
No serious fighting game enthusiast thought that. Just casuals and games "journalists."
lol yup. Mid to late 90's, when 3D animation was all the rage. I never much cared for Tekken, Toshinden, and games of that ilk.
@@capcom23 wrong
Hilarious
I not only want you to cover Nightwarriors: Darkstalkers Revenge, but also Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3! Heck, I want so much more Darkstalkers content, I’ll take coverage of their “sequels” and the various collections. Thank you for giving much deserved love and exposure to this series!
Anita from this series was a hidden character in Marvel Super Heroes (at least in the Japanese Saturn port, not sure about other versions).
Jeff Jacobson they included her in the Marvel Origins rerelease.
If you have a ps2 you can find the japanese collection m8
Capcom absolutely would NOT have used that name for Sasquatch. "Yaoi" has VERY different meaning in Japan.
I didn't know what it was so I googled it... I didn't need to know that was a thing.
'Yaoi' and 'Yowie' are pronounced complately differently though.
Now I’m scared. Curiosity vs “cannot unsee!” ...
@@zerobyte802 it's a style of anime/manga that focuses on homosexuality.
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SF and Darkstalkers is basically like the simpsons and futurama.
Dante but the Simpsons suck, Family Guy and American Dad for me 👌
That was good lol
Then what is Marvel?
@@taylorbee4010 Disenchantment
@@geardog24
This I agree with. But Darkstalkers has a WAY better story.
What an underrated Capcom game. Darkstalkers will always hold a special niche place in my heart.
Pretty much play fba/mame for these titles.
I wrote to Capcom when I was 8, asking when a new Street Fighter game will come out. They sent me back a postcard saying there are no plans for future Street Fighter games, but that I should head to my arcade and check out Darkstalkers. My local bowling alley didnt have it. But they did soon have Children of the Atom....
I’m a simple man , I see Morrigan I click
Had a huge crush on her as a kid. Was too young and naive to recognize her for the supernatural thot she was.
@Ginga I know, I do too, but I had realized that she was a succubus.
I'm also a simple man, I see Darkstalkers and am shocked and appalled that Hsien-Ko didn't even feature!
@@Ginga who cares, she's still hot
@@GeoNeilUK Because she didn't debut until Night Warriors/Vampire Hunter.
Please continue the history of Darkstalkers, and Primal Rage could be cool to so a overview of in the future.
Along with it's "unreleased" sequel
@@Invidente7 I remember seeing nothing but concept art and models for primal rage 2 in a game pro back in the mid to late 90s
Sad that Capcom has basically abandoned this franchise. It is my favorite fighting game because of its story world and lore. They could do so much with it.
Yep. They needed to include all the "archetypal" monsters and build out a huge roster. Like mvc2 huge. That would have been AMAZING.
There should have been a Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers game.
@@58jharris would of been awesome
Rival Schools would make an interesting video.
Hm, Rikuo is strangely attractive for a fishman.
Anakaris is probably my favorite character to play and watch because of how bizarre his moveset is.
Rikuo triggered my nausea something FIERCE when I was a kid, during his move where his gills open up and he fires gas out. I've got a "thing" about holes in bodies/objects, like wasp nests and gills :| *shudder*
@@sabin1981 Trypophobia I believe.
I never really thought of those as holes opening, but more as like an ink sac on a squid
@@Gamersgoinblind Aye, that's the actual phobia itself. I don't suffer from it medically but I am deeply nauseated and uncomfortable in similar scenarios ----- sadly including anything to do with fish gills, like Rikuo's constantly opening/closing breathing :D
Darkstalkers was my favorite 2d fighting series ever. And I'm a MASSIVE sfa3 fan.
I was amazed at the Darkstalkers games. And I gotta be honest, out of all the characters, I always liked Jon Talbain, even if he is underrated.
I'd say that the other male characters apart from Jon, Jedah and Demitri are underrated. They don't get quite the love that Morrigan, Felicia, Bulleta/B.B. Hood, Hsien-ko get.
Especially ones like Victor, Huitzel, and Anakaris need more love.
Once people get the grasp that Jon is not just a werewolf but a MARTIAL ARTIST werewolf it gets truly fascinating
Jon Tolbain, Felicia, and Lord Raptor were my jam! :D
Would love for Jon Talbain to be in more Fighting games.
@@khaimk4r4su
I know right, sadly people aren't even willing to go that far into uncovering that.
Just wonderful! Got some thrills here. I was there at the arcades when this game came out, and what we saw was a revolution. We would look down upon the SF series and see it as no longer attractive and fun. We'd learn how to play with each and every character. That bloody machine would drain us out of our pocket money day after day.
Thank you for this beautiful, detailed video about one of my favourite games of all time, a landmark for my teen days.
Something to note, this is where the button sequence LP,LP,->,LK,HP originated as Morrigan's super move Darkness Illusion.
Akuma didn't start using the sequence until SF Alpha.
Well
Um
sF two turbo he could do that
@@RuhabDabeer Nope. In the original arcade version of SSF2 Turbo, Akuma did not have a Super meter. You can even see that in 21:20.
It was only added much, much later in the HD version.
@@plasticbutler Well but I swear I saw it
Still my favorite Capcom fighting series. That sprite work is just stunning. So much personality in every little pixel drawing!
I really wish they'd add Dmitry and Jon Talbain to a modern VS game. Nothing against Morrigan and Felicia; they're just overrepresented. Heck Capcom, port the Vita Darkstalkers to Switch and PS4/Xbone! I really want to play this series on a modern console!
Oh My God, Yes!!! There isn't enough exposure for the other Darkstalkers characters in not only their own games, but other fighting games in general.
This is one of my favorites capcom fighter games. It was simliar to Red Earth. People overlooked this game at time just like they did Street Fighter 3. It was really unappreciated. Thanks for looking back on this game and hopefully you have time to cover the sequels. Its doubtful capcom will remake or revisit this game or add most them to future fighters.
Visually, this blew me away at the time and made me drop SSF2T in a heartbeat.
I love how the gaming magazines were holding up Toshinden as the standard for fighting games at the time when playing it now on the PS Classic most gamers would say that it's an ugly, dated, unbalanced, barely playable mess of a game. LOL!!! 😆
OMG yes....it is HORRIBLE. However battle arena toshinden for the gameboy is an EXCELLENT game and rivals any capcom 2d game.
Yeah, even at launch Battle Arena was a terrible game :\ Soul Edge and Tekken came out so soon after to wipe the bad taste of the Toshinden games out of our mouths :D In fact, the only thing I ever enjoyed about Toshinden was the - at the time - revolutionary "mirror display" in some stages, that showed off the fight in progress. I loved that tech at the time.
@@sabin1981 - Toshinden was playable, and I enjoyed it at the time more for the quirky, original characters...but I'll admit that Soul Edge and DoA were better once they came out, in fact the Gameboy port is actually the better version of Toshinden in my opinion.
@referral madness in my opinion, it is the BEST fighting game for the original gameboy! It is worth playing and even owning.
@referral madness - I think so...it's a whole different game really with those chibi SD graphics like the Samurai Shodown Gameboy games and the fighting games on the Neo Geo Pocket Color. You can also play 2 players on one cart/system with the Super Gameboy from what I hear...
They had this in my local Laser Quest as a kid for years and it was really beautiful in the arcade next to a 4 seater Daytona cab and another game that slips my mind... 🤔 That's what happens when you hit 40!
i'm 42, I know that feel...
I always called DS
SF: Halloween edition
Interesting how well thia game has aged. Unlike the lauded polygon games of the era...this game is still a joy to behold
Really wish these games would get a collection
Also there was a collection on Xbox and PlayStation
Fightcade exists...
And the newly released Capcom arcade board/stick hybrid (from Capcom) has the first game included, along with around 15 other classics.
Please cover the other two Darkstalkers games! I really appreciate these videos. I think you're probably already planning on covering SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos, but if not, I think that'd make for an extremely interesting video. Especially, if you cover its secrets to midbosses, bosses, endings, and the three types of transformations that can happen to the characters. Thanks for all you do. :)
I remember playing the arcade version at my local lazer tag place, and it was there I experience the beauitful animated sprites and fell in love with the series and years after got it as a Christmas present in 1996 here in Australia.
Fun game that I still play to this day and would love to see more Darkstalkers content and also would love to see more of this awesome franchise to grow.
As always mate grear video
Darkstalkers was such an exciting and imaginative game franchise full of great combat, visual design and art. A true masterpiece and worthy successor to Street Fighter!
I hope that Capcom puts out a complete Darkstalkers collection on current platforms, namely Switch for me.
(Felicia for life, btw!)
I swear, it's fucking bad when we haven't received a Sequal since 1997. Almost 30 years now.
Did you get the collection 😃 I love it! 💪🏾
20:00 there is a PS2 Japanese only Vampire Collection that has all the arcade versions of the DarkStalkers series, a Hyper version(able to choose any version of the character, also versions of characters in games they weren't in e.g. a DS1 Lilith), and an updated version(it may be the Hyper version) with and alternate Donovan called Dee.
There was also a re-release of Vampire Savior on the Dreamcast only released in Japan that was awesome, too.
I fell in love with the animation style used in these game series.
I truly miss the days when this game style ruled.
Theres a rumor that a darkstalkers 4 in development by the skullgirls team
I would LOVE that!!~😄😄😄 In a way, Skullgirls is the spiritual successor to Darkstalkers!~ :D
There IS a 4
@@alternaterealitygamejerk7311 No there isn't.
Every Darkstalkers Entry PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
I remember in 2000, being 16 and playing Marvel vs Capcom at 7-11 every weekend coming home from a McDonald's shift, wondering who the hell these weird characters were. I just got the street fighter table top arcade and was pleasantly surprised to find Darkstalkers, hence why I clicked on this video. What a gem this game is, all the better that I get to explore it for the first time after all these years.
How amazing is it that these 2D fighters are still appreciated today, and you don't see too many people going this nuts over Tekken 2 or Soul Blade. I can't wait to see the next game in the Darkstalkers series covered. Night Warriors is my favorite of the series and was the reason I bought a Saturn. My love for this series, Capcom 2D fighters, and the Saturn all started because of Night Warriors.
To be fair, 3d fighters were still in their infancy and a lot less polished than their sprite based counterpart. The earliest versions of Tekken and Soul Blade that aged well and still worth revisiting are Tekken 3 and Soul Calibur on Dreamcast.
Top hat gaming man, I love this fighting game history series!! Please continue with Dark Stalkers!
They should make all of the Darkstalkers part of the Street Fighter cast.
A great video! Darkstalkers/Vampires was one of my favorite series. Saturn title was my first import purchased. I would love to see coverage on the other titles.
I remember when DS hit arcades where I lived. Once I played, I completely dropped Street Fighter (still love SF though) and all I did was play DS when I had the chance. Glad we are getting Capcom Fighting Collection in June!
Kinda cool how some of the monsters' nationalities are where they're commonly from. Werewolves from England, Frankenstein from Germany, Sasquatch from the Americas, Mummies from Egypt, Vampires from Romania. it's all very neat
The games aged so well I absolutely love playing Vampire savior, I personally like the DArk stalker franchise more than street fighter.
Awesome and educational video. There were good chunk of things I didn't know about the franchise.
How about the history of Capcom vs SNK 2?
One of the main inspirations for this game was the looney tunes!
I first got to know about Dark Stalkers thanks to the many cameo appearances of Succubus (Morrigan and Lilith) and the Cat Girl (Felicia) characters.
Cross Edge on the PS3 was one of those games that I was able to know about these characters.
Darkstalkers is one of my favorite fighting games ever! Can't wait for the video on Vampire Savior. Undeniably the best one in the series!!
Darkstalkers is still one of my favorite games to this day. i loved the anime as well, i wish they would physically re release it for the PS4 and the Switch
It's finally getting another home release on the Capcom Fighting Collection this year.
14:31 That design which looks like a very buff Starfire cosplaying Batman really got me lol
Any chance, that you’ll talk about Primal Rage
It would be fantastic if you can cover the other darkstalkers games. Especially, with the Capcom Fighting Collection out. This is my first time playing these games. Really enjoy your content. Keep up the fantastic work.
My first exposure to Darkstalkers was Morrigan when I was playing Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars on the Nintendo Wii.
If Darkstalkers was made a movie back in the 90s, my suggested cast would be,
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Dimitri
Keanu Reeves - Donovan
Alicia Silverstone - Felicia
Elizabeth Hurley - Morrigan
Darkstalkers is one of my absolute favorite game series of all time and I did learn a bit of new stuff from your video. One of my top 5 fave games of all time is Darkstalkers 3 on the PSOne and I'd love to see you cover
Apreciate the review! Looking for the next series analysis! Thank you Top Hat! You rock!
I loved seeing that intro scene! I hadn’t seen that in years!!! Brings back memories.
Other Capcom-related fighting games are okay, but Street Fighter will always be the number one Capcom fighting game series that started the fighting game genre.
Even so, it isn't the END-ALL, BE-ALL of fighting games. Much better fighting games came out afterwards and have proven to be much more interesting than Street Fighter.
You could make an entire vid on just Morrigan's appearances. Wait a minute...
So wonderful you covering this series! Can't wait for the next one!
I played the ps version back then. Played several characters, got kind of frustrated.
Until I picked the werewolf. Then I straight up combo'd every opponent. So fast and brutal it made me dizzy. So for beginners, pick that character and learn the moves and try to combo everything.
Fun Fact: There was a darkstalkers collection that only got to japan.
Features:
All games
Secret characters (Hold Select+The Game)
New darkstalker, Dee (only for darkstalkers 3-5)
Teen Anita (as a npc)
Option to make the night warriors roster 10 to 12 (with npcs)
Music Quality
Video Quality
English (Almost all is English)
Autosave
Save
Load
A secret option (R1+Game Option)
Fast
Command List
Display adjust
Sound adjust
Gallery
Please make more of this content???? I LOVE Darkstalkers!
Okay... but Sasquatch is the most adorable Bigfoot I’ve ever seen.
We always think of Bigfoot as this hairy bulking giant. But what if he’s just a little cute creature with MASSIVE feet?
Darkstalkers was also the first game where Daigo won a tourney playing
More Darkstalkers please! Can't wait until you get to the third game and my main monster, Jedah!
Would love to see the subsequent entries in the Darkstalkers seriers covered, as well as Toshinden since it has largely been forgotten outside of its diehard cult following.
Please make more dark stalkers content! Love it!
Never realized until today that Hsien-Ko wasn't in the original Darkstalkers.
Time for a Darkstalkers revival!
i loved these games as a kid! they were great!
Love Darkstalkers! Not sure if someone else mentioned this or not but Felicia is more than just a cat woman. She's actually based on a magic shape changer of Japanese mythology
I thought she was based off a poem about a cat lady from Transylvania.
@@heynae2016 there have been a few biographies of Felicia over the years, they're all definitely worth watching
Thank you for creating this channel
How about Vampire Savior/ Darkstalkers 3? I know I’m jumping the gun but it’s one of my favorites.
Yeah.
Oh how i wish they would bring this series back using current tech. I mean they revived RE2 and rumors say RE3 is coming with the same engine but here we have this gem still in the dark.
First time I played Darkstalkers was on the arcade in 94. Wow...... man the memories
I got the arcade roms to all three games and play them from time to time.It was a very unique idea for it's time.I would a game like skull girls was inspired by this.
Never going to understand why they stopped making games that look like this.
3D stuff is nice and all, but there's a certain magic in 2D sprite animation when it's done right and if it had the same kind of focus today there could be some Absolutely Brilliant looking games made.
😄👍
Finally someone talks about this series. Thank you. Of course I want to know more about Darkstalker-series
You DO know there’s a third Darkstalkers game, right?
Huitzl and Pyron are playable! Jedah too!
Yes I’d like videos on the other Darkstalker games in the series. Well done! I’ve owned the psp and Xbox day 360 is a compilations as well as night warriors and vampire savior (Darkstalkers 3) on the Sega Saturn.
Top you are the man! Shout out from California bro. I would love for you to cover the last blade series! That is all.
Yeah!!! 😎🎮
In some instances Sasquach is a Bigfoot whose race is Yeti according to his bio and Game Fan magazine.
Brilliant video! Please cover the rest of the series in future uploads!
I love these videos, I would definitely like to know about the sequel
Now the real question is one piece ' brook based off of Lord raptor?
I absolutely love your breakdown of dark stalkers however I wish this video show the sequels and the ports and the DLC versions PSP version Resurrection however I still enjoyed watching thank you for making this video for the dark stalker fans
I have made one on the second game too if you want to check it out :)
One of my fav fighting games. A very fun game to play.
I look forward to these fighting game overspectives every Thursday!!!
Morrigan is almost as much hentaified as chun li and tifa lockheart
You're God damn right, she is! There are literally thousands upon thousands of porn/hentai pics of all three women on the Internet, with no porn/hentai slowing down on them anytime soon.
Could probably do an entire video this length just covering the game, and character name changes alone from this series alone.
"Morrigan.... YEaaaaaa"
3:10 Morrigan looks so badass here
Please continue with this franchise!
Vampire Savior on Sega Saturn is my favourite game of all time.
Playing that with the new version of Virtua Stick (Seimitsu lot) was the best gaming experience in my life.
It's a massive shame Vampire series didn't become a permanent hit like Street Fighter world wide.
Fun fact about Romania: it's actually completely free of vampires. Werewolves ran them away.
The only thing wrong with some characters like Demitri is their defeat stance....always face down, it's weird. At least in the King of Fighters series characters have different falling animations
Ah best Darkstalkers and Street Fighter Alpha series old menories late 90s capcom fighting games history ever!
Darkstalkers is mid 90's and also most of SF Alpha games so Pay fucking attention
Thanks for doing a video darkstalkers is my all time favorite video game series
felicia isnt just any cat girl, shes an all singing all dancing all ophanage owning catgirl, her darkstalkers 3 ending is the most wholesome dancing with the orphans
I grew up in the 90's playing Darkstalker's Revenge on Sega Saturn. When the console was gone to his old-doom malfunction, 10 years later I got the Arcade version on my PC, and oh my god, I could play only this game in the rest of my life. Please, review it!! :D :D :D