OXM UK reports that David Sirlin, one of the chief designs on Super Street Fighter II HD Remix, has slammed Street Fighter IV for not being accessible enough.
Sirlin reels off a list of odd game design choices but also says that despite the hype and press that the game is accessible, Street Fighter IV is anything but, especially in comparison to other games in the genre.
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.
"not being accessible enough"
Perhaps to someone completely new to the series, although I even doubt that. Personally as a long time ST veteran I'm finding it all a little to accessible. Picking up the most of the characters I could already pull the majority of their moves/specials/combos. I wouldnt say SF4 is anymore challenging to new comers than any other recent SF game. If anything it has less moves and seems somewhat more sympathetic with your input commands.
lol you can't be serious .This guy is a joker, probably mad he ain't getting no money because he didn't work on SF4, which is selling well.
i agree with him. i find it difficult. sometimes when i go for a special move or whatever, it doesn't always work. it took no time at all for me to pick up Soul Calibur IV. i will own you with Darth Vader.
i've constantly been playing with Ken and Ryu. i'm getting there, slowly.
Street fighter 4 is incredible. Maybe i love it so much because the only time i ever played street fighter games was on the mega drive and never played it properly, just messing around - playing casually with friends.
So street fighter 4 is the only SF game i've decided to take seriously to play properly.