Matt from PC Gaming Enthusiast delivers his thoughts on Street Fighter V and other games like it.
He writes:
"While the idea sounds good, the Street Fighter V launch demonstrates both the good and the bad of the notion of video games as a service."
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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As long as i don't have to buy super street fighter 5 then ultra street fighter 5 I'm good. Yes it could've definitely been better at launch for the casuals but i play fighting games to fight other people. The computer is usually boring, cheap, or both. So even though a real story mode wouldve been nice, it wouldn't have kept me entertained too long. I played injustices single player 1 time then went to training and online mode. I figure I'll do the same here.
Endless no,is good game yes;)
this all seems rather ironic given how many have said without sony's involvement this game would not have come out so soon. maybe that would have been a good thing.
Glad I didn't pick it up
So crazy. A company tries something new to appease gamers and people will still raise hell about it. It's like saying league of legends, smite, Dota, and even the upcoming overwatch will be forever in beta. That's what it's modeled after. They said BEFORE release it would never be "done". They will always be adding modes, moves, characters, stages, features and balance updates all for free. Not selling you patches like Blaze Blue, Old Street Fighter games, and even Killer Instinct.
The recent patch added everything except a arcade mode and true story. They have already laid out a release roadmap for the whole year. So once those two modes come in a couple months what else will there be to complain about? Game still has years left and all the features most fighting games have will be there within 6 months. What will the rest of the year hold? Year 2?
If Capcom charges for updates they are money hungry. When they no longer charge you and give you all updates as its ready it sucks cause it's never complete.