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Street Fighter IV - Vega vs Chun Li

Capcom published a new Street Fighter IV video featuring Chun Li fighting against Vega. Enjoy.

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kalel1146087d ago

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Geez.

LightningPS36087d ago

takes me back, the best fighting game ever to me.

Harry1906087d ago

It's Balrog, not Vega. Curse you wrong translation, confusion and pending lawsuits. You have confused a whole generation.

NegativeCreep4276087d ago

because M.Bison's name is Balrog in the Japanese versions and Balrogs name is M.Bison.

The story goes that this original setup of character names was going to stick in the U.S. version's of Street Fighter, but that since M.Bison (or as we know him as Balrog) was a black boxer and showed some resemblence to Mike Tyson (especially back in the early 90's) Capcom felt that the name M.Bison was too similiar to Mike Tyson, so they swapped out the boxer's name to Balrog and the main badguy's name to M.Bison.

Get it? Got it? GOOD!!!

jpod6087d ago

It is not wrong translation. Vega was orignally Balrog, and Bison is Vega. The US Balrog is Mike Tyson, but to evade a lawsuit, they changed him to Balrog, and made Vega, M. Bison. Then Balrog became Vega. or something like that :P

NegativeCreep4276087d ago

and that would be that the Japanese LOVE to over-complicate things!

JEDI WOLVERINE6087d ago

Balrog was the boxer type guy - i think!

sack_boi6087d ago

The boxer is Mr. Bison (In Japan) I think

mindedone6087d ago (Edited 6087d ago )

Yes, (Japan)M. Bison = Mike Tyson = (U.S.) Balrog.

Edit: but now that I saw the video, I think I see what harry meant. Why on earth would it say Balrog wins at the end of the match?

Harry1906087d ago (Edited 6087d ago )

Mr Bison should be the boxer = Myke Tyson. They could not do it because of fear of getting sued by Myke Tyson.

Balrog is the narcissistic tall blonde guy with a mask.

Vega is the baddie who gets hit by Akuma's ultimate move in previous FF. The guy with a general hat. Also my favourite character. The translation i all messed up in NA and Europe.

I go by their original names.

mindedone6087d ago (Edited 6087d ago )

I'll stick with the western translation and be content with at least knowing the truth. Why on earth would a Spanish character be named Balrog? What was the nationality of the original Vega?

EDIT: nevermind, thanks wiki

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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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Snookies12680d 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.

DarXyde680d 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.

Snookies12680d ago

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

DarXyde680d ago

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

Terry_B680d ago

Valkenhayn ..just sayin'

Terry_B680d 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.

Ryuha1234h680d ago

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

Redgrave680d ago

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

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Terry_B680d ago

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

gold_drake680d ago (Edited 680d ago )

eyyy max xD

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

GhostScholar680d 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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gamer78042012d 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.

King92012d ago (Edited 2012d ago )

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

Teflon022011d 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

gamer78042011d ago

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

Enigma_20992012d 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.

King92012d 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.

PhoenixUp2012d 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

NapalmSanctuary2011d ago (Edited 2011d ago )

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

rainslacker2012d 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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