It was quite a surprise announcement when Capcom revealed the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, especially considering that it’s been nearly three years since the first Capcom Fighting Collection was released.
Capcom Fighting Collection series and Street Fighter series producer Shuhei Matsumoto recently sat down for an interview with Famitsu to discuss these collections. During this interview, he revealed why these collections were made in the first place.
“How about we start by talking about what led to the first compilation, Capcom Fighting Collection, being released,” begun Famitsu.
“Capcom released a really large amount of fun fighting games back in the day. So because of that, people would definitely want to play them on modern hardware and with online capabilities, right? That’s what we were thinking.” — Shuhei Matsumoto
“Capcom released a really large amount of fun fighting games back in the day. So because of that, people would definitely want to play them on modern hardware and with online capabilities, right?” responded Matsumoto.
“That’s what we were thinking. We’d been feeling that for a long time and the last compilation was us finally being able to put those feelings into reality.”
The first collection consisted of Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge, Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire, Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers’ Revenge, Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire, Red Earth, Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness, Hyper Street Fighter 2, Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, and Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo.
Of course, this meant that half the collection was devoted to the Darkstalkers series. Famitsu would make mention of this during the interview.
“In the first game, it really felt like the Darkstalkers series was the main focus, but what was your basis for selecting the included titles?” continued Famitsu.
“We started from the assumption ‘the Darkstalkers series is what people mainly want to play on modern hardware, right?’ And then we really wanted to include Pocket Fighter and Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, ha ha,” said Matsumoto.
“Also, the development team said ‘Let’s bring this one over!!’ for Red Earth so we included it.”
Of course, this mindset also carried over into the development of the Capcom Fighting Collection 2. There were certain games that were becoming older that the developers wanted to see on more modern consoles.
“There’s still a lot of games we want to bring over to modern hardware, so that made us think ‘Now we HAVE to make a 2 as well, right?'” — Shuhei Matsumoto
“And how did that lead to this current Capcom Fighting Collection 2?” asked Famitsu.
“There’s still a lot of games we want to bring over to modern hardware, so that made us think ‘Now we HAVE to make a 2 as well, right?'” said Matsumoto.
This second collection consists of Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro, Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, Capcom Fighting Evolution, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper, Power Stone, Power Stone 2, Project Justice, and Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein.
A special thanks goes out to Nicholas “MajinTenshinhan” Taylor for the translations featured in this article.
Source: Event Hubs
