Trevor of GAMElitist.com - "I have been a devoted Capcom fan since I was a child. I was raised on Mega Man (X is still my favorite game ever), Resident Evil, and of course Street Fighter. Plus, let’s not forget their fantastic work on Disney platformers (Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers, Ducktails, Aladdin)."
The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?
Or it's about to leave the storefront like another Capcom title.
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.
Capcom is responsible for one of my All Time Favorite RPGs: Destiny Of An Emperor on the NES. It's where my avatar comes from. JRPGs at their finest.
You make some really solid points, but I think many of them can be cross-linked to other former-leaders as well, unfortunately.