BeefJack writes, "There's just something about punching your friend in the face that never gets old. Fighting games had their heyday during the Street Fighter 2 days, when the genre went from a passing notion to a full blown bonanza. Everyone and their mother was making fighting games back then and many huge franchises would soon follow. However fighting games in the States began to run into their own growing pains.
Things are beginning to look up now, as a fighting game renaissance is brewing, with fighting games sharing renewed interest with new games being made and the return of some big franchises to the limelight.
So, with the excitement growing, I figure it's time to take a look at some of the big fighters to come in 2009..."
The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?
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.
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.
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.
eyyy max xD
one of the very few streamers i can actually watch without it being cringe and awful ha.
The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
yeah street fighter 4 will i just dont have hopes for tekken
imdaboss- i agree with you about street fighter 4 but i disagree with you when it comes to tekken 6 to me it looks very promising but hey only time can tell
It'd be nice to have a gory fighter come back on the lines of MK or Killer Instinct. Heck I wouldn't mind seeing Eternal Champions 3.
SEGA make it happen. Also make another new powerstone somehow without the help of Capcom.
No more PG-13 fighters.
Bring back the Bloody Roar series, Rival Schools and Power Stone pls. And where's my Dead or Alive 5 (I hope Tecmo is still planning on releasing a sequel to my most played game of all time -DOA4-)!? GameGod make it happen (add in the FF7 remake and I'll die a happy man).