The hitbox's are fine in SSIII. The whiff's make sense if you understand the engine. You wanna fix something, fix the death combos characters like basara have off of crouching kicks. I am a good SSIII player, not even kidding, and replacing aspects of this games engine with changes can fuck it up worse. SSIII has the best engine of the entire series. The parry system is amazing, being dumb and getting AB'd into death combos is fun to. Stupid shit is stuff like I mentioned and other easy infinite's that don't require swapping behind an opponent.
SSIII is such a brutally great counter poking game at its best, its not even funny. And Ukyo was never more fun then he is in SSIII.
How the heck is this game going to go through the roof price wise?
I wish the SSIII engine remained in this series, and they just removed the infinite's. SSIII has meta game like 3rd strike does at good level. Totally more rewarding then any other SS in the series IMO. Love SSIII.
The damage level change is just ignorance of what SSIII is. It's about counter attacks, that's why it shoots out a percentage of damage based on a dirty counter. Its what makes it a balls out amazing game. You learn fast to either manage your poking game well, or just get beef'd out by a counter. Counter's taking more then half life is justified for what it is. You deserve it if you screw up so bad or get read out, and get a fierce slash to the face. Great stuff.
SSIV, dumb ass game with 14 hitters you can make into corny infinite's with the right amount of practice, a watered down sluggy engine, and other bad changes. Just isn't a good fighting game compared to SSIII. Everyone loved it over SSIII. Nothing about SSIV is better then III. V is painfully unnecessary, but leagues better then IV, and I haven't played special, but from what I've seen, its missing important stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuyhbEDVBsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl6BYfsrhLA
This is what is dumb about SSIII. The easy access infinite's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rsNSIbEo-g
haha btw, watch this one while you're at =]