The crux of the matter is that the single player offerings in Street Fighter V at launch were the weakest part of the game. Tiny chapters with one round fights that can be completed in mere minutes for each character are just not worth it. Street Fighter games typically had a satisfactory Arcade Mode which handled the story but also gave replay value. Story Mode is here to make up for that in some small way.
Street Fighter 5 launched in 2016, and is widely considered a misstep for the hugely popular franchise. This article explains why that is.
Every Street Fighter is called a misstep of the series since Street Fighter III..and even the Alpha games were not liked by everyone.
SF V had a miserable start but later it did a lot things actually better than SFIV and SF6.
SF6 is the first SF since SFII Turbo for that I did not buy at launch. And today, around 6 months after its launch I still have no motivation to buy it.
I've had every Street Fighter on launch since SFII on the SNES. SFV is definitely my least played of them all.
SF6 is very good. You should give it a second look.
Maybe in 2-3 years when there is a version that has characters I care for.
So far there is not one of the new characters I like..and my favourite 4 are not a part of it either. (Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Vega) + the whole hip hop style and the crappy music turned me totally off.
Looking forward a lot to Tekken 8.
SF4 vanilla was loved by most and and not considered a misstep. It wasn't until they went revision crazy that people started turning on Capcom.
Don't remember the criticques it got for the big hands and feet, the sometimes weird looking faces, the lame boss (Seth) and that so many characters were shotos and yup..the many new versions. Just every SF got its haters no matter how good it was.
It was criticized for the first trailers having an interesting art style with those ink splashes, but the real game had none of that and people felt cheated. And Capcom decided to add some of those effects in the game later because of the backlash. But I don't remember any other big complaints about it.
I grew out of fighting games, loved them as a kid but online you just get your ass kicked over and over leaving just the bare bones single player and also having no friends anymore who like fighting games either just makes me not want to buy or play them anymore.
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Idk why you were expecting a full fledged out story mode??We knew from day 1 that the story would be nothing more than a short story to bridge the gap between SF3&SF5 and thats exactly what it does.
Still a better love story than Twilight
Man I disagree I started and finished it last night as Stories go in fighting games I thought this was pretty damn enjoyable. They showed that they have been watching what Mortal Kombat has been doing for the better part of a decade. It did a great job balancing all those colorful characters and even had some decent emotional moments in there. I was very pleasantly surprised. Man the internet is super negative about everything.
Personally I enjoyed the story and it's pretty much what I was expecting. Just sucked that it just now came out