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X-play Street Fighter IV Review

X-Play writes:

"Back in the heyday of Street Fighter, the joke was that Capcom couldn't count to three. The seemingly endless string of updates to Street Fighter II established the tradition of not renumbering a Street Fighter game until substantial changes and improvements were made to the game. After many years of silence on the Street Fighter front, Street Fighter IV is perhaps the greatest leap the series has made between iterations."

jrsenkbe5541d ago

A great game, however its taking a litle to get used to the in-game models, but he cut scenes are amazing. I also realized that I suck at fighting games, anyone have any advice on how to improve?

gaffyh5541d ago

Practice mode, also if you are playing on 360 the D-Pad is not very good so you won't be able to improve that much. But if you are playing on PS3 (or with a controller with a good d-pad), you will know how well you are doing by the amount of blisters you have on your left thumb.

PistolPumptMonk5541d ago (Edited 5541d ago )

First of all, AMAZING game.

As far as improving, I'm not great but I can give you a few tips. Try using a character like Ryu or Ken, I find that they are the easiest guys to master. Just look at the move list and keep practicing until you can pull off all of their special moves. The main thing is don't button mash, learn what each button does and how you can effectively use them to fight. And block alot, blocking is important. Especially get good at the dragon punch (the jumping punch move), and fireballs because if you get those two down you can play Ryu or Ken very well.

Really good tactic is keep distance between someone and throw fireballs, when they try to jump the fireballs to get to you, dragon punch them in the face. (Also, this is a good way to piss your friends off :D )

But yeah, this is coming from someone who's about to go get owned online... :)

Sexius Maximus5541d ago

I actually think both D pads suck for this game. The PS3 has no fluidity with the 4 direction design (you need a smooth, circular pad) and the 360 to way too inaccurate. You really need the Mad Catz 6 button or Arcade stick. In general, yes, the PS3 D pad is better, but I don't think either have the advantage with this game, because both suck equally.

showmethegames5541d ago

DAMN!!!, i was gonna wait to pick up this game after KZ2 because $ is tight but this game is getting high scores all over the place and it looks amazing; i may have to trade in some games to afford 2 games this month............ DAMN ECONOMY !!

boodybandit5541d ago

but if you can find a way GET THIS GAME!
It makes waiting for KZ2 go away. I was on the edge of my seat counting the days for KZ2 and right now all I think to myself is when I will find time to play some more SFIV. I just hope I can complete most of the unlockables before KZ2 hits retail.

boodybandit5541d ago (Edited 5541d ago )

This is the most fun I have ever had playing a fighting game. I also agree with their only gripes (no demo of combos in training/trial mode and the final boss name).

It is cumbersome trying to find the timing of some of the advanced combos in trial mode and when I made it to the boss character the first thing I thought to myself is what kind of name is Seth for a boss? ;)

celldomceen15541d ago

i dont care about his name i care that on the harder levels it took me FOREVER to beat him lol.

OOG5541d ago

ah boo i didnt want to buy this..... but im going to have to :( lol and try and find a stupid madcatz controller....somewhere lol

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The 7 Best Street Fighter Games: Exploring the Franchise

The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?

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How Street Fighter IV Saved 2D Fighting Games (Ft. Maximilian Dood)

After Street Fighter II released in in 1991, it caused a fighting game explosion, both in arcades and in home consoles. But, as the decade ended, and arcades were failing, so too were 2D Fighting games. This is how Street Fighter IV completely revitalized the genre.

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Snookies12309d ago

I'd say Blazblue helped too. Didn't care for Street Fighter 4, but Blazblue was amazing during that time. Sad that the series kind of went downhill after the first 2 or 3 games though.

DarXyde308d ago

BlazBlue was phenomenal. Platinum'd Calamity Trigger because I loved it so much. I remember buying Continuum Shift back in the day at launch for like $40. They did have DLC characters (Valkenhayne, Makoto, and Platinum at the time) and it came out to just a tad more than it would at full price. Didn't mind at all.

Great fighting game.

Snookies12308d ago

Continuum Shift was definitely my favorite. Spent way too many hours on that game, haha... Had the counters for days with Hakumen.

DarXyde308d ago

I really like Makoto, Valkenhayne, and Hazama. Super fun characters

Terry_B308d ago

Valkenhayn ..just sayin'

Terry_B309d ago

BlazBlue was the much better, more technical game..and a real 2D Fighting Game after all. But yes, since it was a big name..the characters were still popular and the game itself was good, SFIV indeed helped a lot. However, I am pretty sure the much better-selling Mortal Kombat 9 would have been done without SFIV as well..and that one truly helped to make the fighting game genre in general more popular again.

Ryuha1234h308d ago

You’re sound dumb. Blazblue was not better than sf4. You’re just saying that because you’re a street fighter hater.

Redgrave308d ago

>calls someone dumb
>does it by saying "you're sound dumb"

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Terry_B308d ago

A SF Hater eh? Fight me in SF 2,3 4 or 5 and you will regret that stupid comment ;)

gold_drake308d ago (Edited 308d ago )

eyyy max xD

one of the very few streamers i can actually watch without it being cringe and awful ha.

GhostScholar308d ago

The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.

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Street Fighter Producer Says Fans Need To "Convince" Nintendo, If They Want More Entries On Switch

In the same interview at EGX 2019 recently, Capcom and Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono responded to a fan question asking if there were any plans to bring the fourth or fifth entries in the series to the Nintendo Switch.

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gamer78041640d ago

they botched SFV so bad, just start over, make a new version with proper single player mode and fully fleshed out with support for all of the consoles this time.

King91640d ago (Edited 1640d ago )

Gamer7804@ they already did kinda it call sf5ae it help sf5 sell like another 2 million copies.

Teflon021639d ago

SFV is actually great now. Bunch of modes, bunch of characters, alot of stages, not sure what else there is to even complain about. Costume MTX? Not a issue imo, I don't get what I don't want anyways

gamer78041639d ago

botched launch, and they launched only on one console and currently after a long time still on one console.

Enigma_20991640d ago

Did you see how Ultra and the Collection sold? We don't need to convince Nintendo of anything. Just put it on the console.PHYSICALLY.

King91640d ago

Enigma_2099@ they probably have to make a new sf game just for the switch they probably will need Nintendo to help fund it just like sony help fund sf5.

PhoenixUp1640d ago

You’re not seeing Street Fighter V come to other platforms besides PC because Sony helped co-fund the game so it’s staying only on PS4 & PC

NapalmSanctuary1639d ago (Edited 1639d ago )

Don't know why anybody would want SF5 on Switch. Especially if they owned a Switch.

rainslacker1640d ago

That doesn't makes sense. Is Nintendo saying that Capcom can't publish the game on the system because it's users don't want the game? if so, that's really stupid of them, because why should they care?

Nintendo isn't saying such things of course.

Capcom shouldn't pass the buck. If they don't want to make more SF games on the Switch, then just say so, and say why.

If they want Nintendo to fund the project, then they are the ones that need to convince Nintendo to give them money.

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