Gamezine: "One of Britain's Olympians is now using Street Fighter IV as part of his training. He has full backing from sports psychologists.
Sportsmen are hard at work training for the London 2012 Olympics and to best our 2008 medal performance, one of Britain's Gold hopes has included a video game in his daily training.
Tyrone Robinson, a British International Championship Gold Medallist and a European Championship Bronze Medallist in Taekwondo, has turned to the classic beat 'em Street Fighter IV.
Now a best-seller, the game has been entertaining gamers around the world, even breaking world records, but now it's being tasked with training a potential Olympic Gold medallist..."
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.
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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.
remember david james got dropped at liverpool because he spent too much time playing computer games and it showed on the pitch with his lack of concentration... and still does. Trying street fighter moves in the ring will get your leg broken.
Games don't aid athletes...
So he plans on fighting a lot of Kens spamming fire uppercuts in real life ehhhh?
... that's a mighty elaborate excuse you got for playing games there, son...
Street fighter and taekwondo have nothing in common. I did both for years, tournament level. Street fighter and chess, ok...
There is a LOT of benefits from SF for a TKD guy.. the amount of elements that come into play would be extremely beneficial infact. Learning how to impose your game on someone, keeping calm under pressure.. I could go on. Still, i'd say this is nothing but an excuse for him to game lol.