Paul James writes "Paying to stop people from having fun is nothing short of cruelty and when the third party exclusive concept is dead and buried it will not be soon enough."
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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The sixth generation of gaming probably gave this journalist a mild heart attack. It was third party exclusive galore during that era.
Yeah ps2 had all the 3rd party exclusives .
All it does is hurt the developer by less sales.
If i only owned an xb1, then sf5 just became irrelevant.
Thats bad for the dev, not the consumer.
Their loss.
I think people are jumping to conclusions way too fast with this whole SF5 thing. Yeah it says exclusive in the trailer, but we don't know the whole story. The trailer is Japanese, and a leak. We've had no comment from Capcom and Sony, or MS. The trailer has been ripped offline and Capcom has been going after anyone posting it, including Maximillian. People need to wait to hear the whole story before going nuts over this stuff.
And I agree third party exclusives are bad for gamers. If we find out Sony funded SF5 and it never would have existed without them, similar to Dead Rising 3 and Bayonetta 2, then okay that's different. If it was just straight up paid off not to be put on the other console like say Tomb Raider probably was, then that sucks. People buy a 400 dollar console and have companies keep things from them.
Where were these articles when Xbox one secured Titanfall, Dead rising 3 and Tomb raider.
Now Sony does for one title, all these sites go on rampage about its hurting the industry.
Now M$ knows karma is a B***h