Well, the thing I had against that was that it was quite a cheap way to make profit on something that should have been in the game from the beginning. (like, you know, all the others fighters such as the recent Soul Calibur 4, Tekken 6, DoA4 and even a new 2D fighter like King Of Fighters XIII will have costumes, and it's more complicated than 3D models!)
And offering new costumes for that much?... They could make a big bundle all-in-one from the start and cheaper too!
Or make more costumes, not just one per character...
Fan communities make mods for the PC version just as professional and for free! They don't earn a profit,
Anyway, the main problem was also that apart from 2-3 costumes that were throwbacks and references to earlier games or artworks, they don't seem that much inspired this time around.
Even less than SF4 and SSF4 first batch of their own costumes. And these news are all-new, meaning not present on the disc currently, they spent time working on those since the release!!
Well, here's costume I would have paid for, a bit more creative, and all straight from Capcom's own concepts in this book:
Capcom already planned but scrapped a lot of costume concepts.
They were a bit more original creative-wise, at least in my eyes.
Sure one or two aren't that great (like Dudley below, the actual new costume is better with that gentleman "touch"). But they are mostly more original (Makoto!), truer to the characters (Ryu!) and more fan oriented (look at GUY!! I'd almost, almost!, pay for just his costume!)
So here goes:
They're simply more fun!
It seems that when money wasn't involved, when the team cracked down some costumes on the paper, they were a bit more free on the direction and tried many things.
Sure, Ken's not the more original one here. But I would finally play with Seth or Vega a bit more if they used these suits!
Ibuki, Makoto, Juri have fantastic costumes here! Great ideas!
Love the references, be it Chun Li's Lara Croft costume or Xiaoyu (from Tekken) costume, and Guy/Strider. Kinda reminds me of the funny parody/references costumes in KOF Maximum Impact.
All in all I would be a bit more happy about the upcoming costume pack if they added a 2nd costume per character in it, inspired by those above.
