“It wasn’t a game so much as it was a glorified demo, with the promise of the best stuff to come in future patches” Jonathan Lightfoot
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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This game is awesome
Utah it sucks we had to wait two years for a complete experience
Exploiting the stupidity of the average person is just now becoming worrying?
The only difference these days,is how blatant these companies are in doing it, because you have cement heads who just shrug their shoulders at getting ripped off.
The rest of us are stuck going along for the ride with the tidal wave of idiots.
Just getting back into the game and i'm lacking fight money. I refuse to pay all that cash for characters or play that long to get them. Dafuq isn't the cosmetic DLC paying the bills , damn! Release the characters for free I got no time for that. I'm not trying to go to EVO.
"Releasing a fighting game without an Arcade Mode or Story Mode..." Correction: Street Fighter V did launch with a Story Mode. This comment implies it launch with neither when only the arcade mode was absent. I don't mind opinions but let's not spread misinformation especially when a simple online search can check most facts.