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[JordanN]

So with new consoles on the horizon, I guess now is the best time to talk about gaming's most iconic fighting franchise.

Was there anything noteworthy about Street Fighter 5's entry in the series? Did its existence mean anything this whole decade?

I remember being hyped back in the day for Street Fighter 4, I even wanted to buy it as part of the 3DS launch line up.
Street Fighter 3 also had its own moments. Amazing sprite work that still holds up, and it was fun watching the competitive tournament scene.

But what the hell happened with Street Fighter 5? I owned a PS4 so the exclusivity wasn't an issue with me but I never once felt like picking it up.
Even when it was free on Steam, nope, still didn't feel like touching it.

Did anyone else feel the same?

Edit: Oh yeah, and now one of the main producers behind the franchise left (Yoshinori Ono), so what does that say about its future?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

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It had the most uninspired characters to date, the gameplay felt worse than 3's and it had the worst launch of any fighter this generation. Also Capcom will never move the plot forward.

So yes, IMO barring the first horrible game (different eras) 5 was the worst one. I had more fun with EX ffs.

 

[JordanN]

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Just did (yeah, I thought of it too late).

 

[Elcid]

It's in my opinion the best of the franchise. The most accessible, best looking, and best cast.

 

[lock2k]

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It had the most uninspired characters to date, the gameplay felt worse than 3's and it had the worst launch of any fighter this generation. Also Capcom will never move the plot forward.

So yes, IMO barring the first horrible game (different eras) 5 was the worst one. I had more fun with EX ffs.

This comment sums up my feelings on SFV as well. I first bought the og on PS4 but I couldn't bring myself to play It and I finally caved in 2 months Ago and I'm playing CE on PC because I own every single SF ever made (I'm kind of a fanatic) but It still feels uninspired, lackluster, It has some interesting stuff but It just lacks soul. I wish they would get rid of dimps as well. The new characters are mostly boring (thought I like Zeku). I hope they can recapture the magic in later entries. Also, FA(N)G sucks balls

 

[Small John McCarthy]

It's by FAR my least played of the mainline games. And I even played EX plus Alpha more.

 

[Fake]

For me 3 and 5.

 

[Azelover]

Yep

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

This comment sums up my feelings on SFV as well. I first bought the og on PS4 but I couldn't bring myself to play It and I finally caved in 2 months Ago and I'm playing CE on PC because I own every single SF ever made (I'm kind of a fanatic) but It still feels uninspired, lackluster, It has some interesting stuff but It just lacks soul. I wish they would get rid of dimps as well. The new characters are mostly boring (thought I like Zeku). I hope they can recapture the magic in later entries. Also, FA(N)G sucks balls

Was there a reason they added so many blonde characters?

 

[lock2k]

It's by FAR my least played of the mainline games. And I even played EX plus Alpha more.

EX plus Alpha is LIFE. High five!

Was there a reason they added so many blonde characters?

Dunno. Wish they would br more inspired. At least they are bringing 3 of my fave chars ever Oro, Rose and Akira.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

It's by FAR my least played of the mainline games. And I even played EX plus Alpha more.

that’s because EX plus Alpha was goddamn amazing.

 

[Rickyiez]

At least play the game before making any judgement ffs .

The latest Champions edition is pretty good . I spent thousand of hours in both SF4 and SFV fyi

 

[JordanN]

It's in my opinion the best of the franchise. The most accessible, best looking, and best cast.

I actually thought it was hideous.
Capcom usually has the best graphics but SF5 looks like complete plastic with low res backgrounds.

Compare it to Mortal Kombat 11 this generation. Huge difference.

Edit: And Mortal Kombat 11 runs on Unreal Engine 3. SFV is on Unreal Engine 4 and it looks worse than this?!?!?1

 

[lock2k]

that’s because EX plus Alpha was goddamn amazing.

I have It on my PSP and raspberry and I still have the original PS Disc. I love this game so much. Perfect cast, style and the music is incredible.

 

[The Pleasure]

Nah the ex series was worse. Nobody really played 3 until 3rd strike and even than that was due to evo moment. People actually play sfv.

 

[lock2k]

At least play the game before making any judgement ffs .

The latest Champions edition is pretty good . I spent thousand of hours in both SF4 and SFV fyi

It is a great game now and I play It daily. Wish I could find some gaffers to play It actually. I still like several of the older entries more but it's cool now

 

[lock2k]

Nah the ex series was worse. Nobody really played 3 until 3rd strike and even than that was due to evo moment. People actually play sfv.

I played a lot of New gen and 2nd impact on arcade and DC lol

 

[Elcid]

I actually thought it was hideous.
Capcom usually has the best graphics but SF5 looks like complete plastic with low res backgrounds.

Compare it to Mortal Kombat 11 this generation. Huge difference.

Edit: And Mortal Kombat 11 runs on Unreal Engine 3. SFV is on Unreal Engine 4 and it looks worse than this?!?!?1

I don't agree. Art styles are completely different. I think SFV looks beautiful minus some annoying clipping. Also Street Fighter V has tits.

It is a great game now and I play It daily. Wish I could find some gaffers to play It actually. I still like several of the older entries more but it's cool now

You on PS4 or PC? I play regularly. Also what rank are you?

 

[The Pleasure]

I played a lot of New gen and 2nd impact on arcade and DC lol

The sound fx and animation doesn't have that oomph until 3rd strike. Parrying felt weird in those too. The fighting didn't feel as tight. But yeah i dreamcasted those days. I miss that era. All i had was time to hang with friends and play games.

 

[lock2k]

I don't agree. Art styles are completely different. I think SFV looks beautiful minus some annoying clipping. Also Street Fighter V has tits.

You on PS4 or PC? I play regularly. Also what rank are you?

I'm on PC. I actually don't remember my rank. Lol. Username is LUX2000

 

[The Pleasure]

Anyone want to challenge me on kof? I main Xanadu.

 

[lock2k]

Anyone want to challenge me on kof? I main Xanadu.

I need to buy KOF. Is the netcode good for 14?

 

[The Pleasure]

I need to buy KOF. Is the netcode good for 14?

Only if you play in California, mexico, Japan or China.

 

[lock2k]

Only if you play in California, mexico, Japan or China.

Damn. Lol

Will buy It anyway. I love all things SNK as well

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I was super hyped for SF4 and ended up hating the thing. Even basic movement just felt terrible, and later iterations never changed how I felt about it. SF5... definitely an improvement, but I didn't like the mechanics. Didn't stick with it after the first couple of months. Huge improvement in aesthetics, but I just don't like what the series has become.

Best era for me was the mid-to-late 90s. Loved the Alpha games and SFIII 2nd Impact and 3s were both a lot of fun (though I don't like 3s as much as most). Hell, even SFEX1 and 2 were fun.

 

[K1Expwy]

I'm not a fan of some gameplay choices in SFV, and I really don't like the costly multi-season MTX model in modern fighting games. For "worst generation for Street Fighter" I consider the period between SF3 and SF4 worse than SFV, because of how difficult it was to play against another human in the wake of arcades closing down (in the West), before online play really took off.
Of course Capcom vs SNK, MvC2, Project Justice etc were solid games, EX3 was okay. But Capcom Fighting Jam was a dud, along with no online option.
It was a really weird time to be a fan of that IP. Whether you like SFV or not, you can still actively compete, and it still receives updates

 

[Ten_Fold]

Sf5, hate that game soo much, I’ve gotten all the way to like super diamond rank early in sf5’s life an I was just bored. I played sf4 from 08(arcade) till 2016. I enjoyed every year. I loved 3s it was pretty fun. Alpha 2 is one of my favorite fighters ever.

 

[Fake]

MK focus are on their realism. Street Fighter is more about art direction, so is not a fair comparison.

 

[SupremeHoodie]

The whole sf4 fgc was on Xbox. Sony moneyhats capcom into making sf5 ps4 pc exclusive. Of course that will negatively impact the franchise.

 

[The Pleasure]

The whole sf4 fgc was on Xbox. Sony moneyhats capcom into making sf5 ps4 pc exclusive. Of course that will negatively impact the franchise.

You mean the 59 fps to 60 fps? I rememver that. But everything else was on ps3. So it was a weird one. Capcom for 360 or aksys, namco, examu, snk, and everything else on ps3 that was Japanese.

 

[JordanN]

MK focus are on their realism. Street Fighter is more about art direction, so is not a fair comparison.

Ok, but there where still better stylizied fighters then. Like both Guilty Gear Xrd and Strive.

 

[mr.dilya]

Fighting games in general became sports games. Money grabs and rehashed garbage.

SF4 was great though.

 

[Fake]

Ok, but there where still better stylizied fighters then. Like both Guilty Gear Xrd and Strive.

Agree. Guilty Gear is miles ahead SF. Funfact is both use UE.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Ok, but there where still better stylizied fighters then. Like both Guilty Gear Xrd and Strive.

Yeah GBF shits on all the other fighters when it comes to that.

Sadly it is a DLC ridden mess. The roster is also for the most part extremely meh. (and small even after BOTH season passes)

I hate modern fighting games greed so much. But I'll still buy it eventually if they add Sandalphon. :/

 

[Bardiche]

SFV is up there with SFA3 for best Street Fighter games. It's significantly better than SFIV.

 

[The Pleasure]

SFV is up there with SFA3 for best Street Fighter games. It's significantly better than SFIV.

Nah. Four was better. It had better defensive play. The v skills are more bullshit then ultras.

 

[Danjin44]

Compare it to Mortal Kombat 11 this generation. Huge difference.

Edit: And Mortal Kombat 11 runs on Unreal Engine 3. SFV is on Unreal Engine 4 and it looks worse than this?!?!?1

In my opinion MK11 even with all that fancy "graphics", it has terrible, terrible in-game animation, its stiff and super awkward.

 

[The Pleasure]

Dear god please. Make Zangiefs command grabs one frame again

 

[phil_t98]

I would say this is the worst gen for it in the fact it went paid exclusive on ps4 and stopped a lot of people playing it. that's coming from a ps4 owner

 

[chriskun]

Man, it’s hard to say. There are some good things about the game. I actually like the simplicity, and the easier links of 5. The 1 frame links in sf4 were such a chore, and really hard to land online. Five is honestly better balanced than 4 and while I 4 had more depth, option selects kinda ruined the game for me. I think I would have to say 3s generation is the worst by a country mile, it destroyed the entire genre lol.

 

[JTCx]

People here forgetting SFEX series.

 

[fallingdove]

So with new consoles on the horizon, I guess now is the best time to talk about gaming's most iconic fighting franchise.

Was there anything noteworthy about Street Fighter 5's entry in the series? Did its existence mean anything this whole decade?

I remember being hyped back in the day for Street Fighter 4, I even wanted to buy it as part of the 3DS launch line up.
Street Fighter 3 also had its own moments. Amazing sprite work that still holds up, and it was fun watching the competitive tournament scene.

But what the hell happened with Street Fighter 5? I owned a PS4 so the exclusivity wasn't an issue with me but I never once felt like picking it up.
Even when it was free on Steam, nope, still didn't feel like touching it.

Did anyone else feel the same?

Edit: Oh yeah, and now one of the main producers behind the franchise left (Yoshinori Ono), so what does that say about its future?

I like Ono. I think he did some great things to bring back fighting games and revive Street Fighter - but Street Fighter V was not only ugly but poorly conceived.

I am actually encouraged about the future with Ono gone. Street Fighter needs a fresh perspective to compete with the likes of Guilty Gear and Mortal Kombat.

 

[aclar00]

So with new consoles on the horizon, I guess now is the best time to talk about gaming's most iconic fighting franchise.

Was there anything noteworthy about Street Fighter 5's entry in the series? Did its existence mean anything this whole decade?

I remember being hyped back in the day for Street Fighter 4, I even wanted to buy it as part of the 3DS launch line up.
Street Fighter 3 also had its own moments. Amazing sprite work that still holds up, and it was fun watching the competitive tournament scene.

But what the hell happened with Street Fighter 5? I owned a PS4 so the exclusivity wasn't an issue with me but I never once felt like picking it up.
Even when it was free on Steam, nope, still didn't feel like touching it.

Did anyone else feel the same?

Edit: Oh yeah, and now one of the main producers behind the franchise left (Yoshinori Ono), so what does that say about its future?

The mechanics are the worst part for me. I just dont like the feel of the game if yoh will, compared to SFIV. Hard tk explain, but it doesnt feel smooth. Also just the way it was released (shitty Capcom style), the ultra grinding for additional characters, the long as loads, and always online garbage.

Always online is kind of the deal breaker, particularly because ive been bounced back to the main screen while i was playing a single player match against the CPU all because either there was a momentary glitch in my internet or the servers...that kind of shit should just be a PSN pop-up notification, not "we had to kick you from a single player match cause ummm er something happened on our network"

Put it this way, ive played SFIV on PS4 100x longer/more than i have SFIV.

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

SFIV is, and was so much better than SFV. The V-skills ruined the game. This is from someone who was top 2k in the world on SFIV. SFV was more so geared to casuals, than the hardcore fanbase, which didn't make sense as Sony moneyhatted it from a huge player base.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

I think it was okay.
I didn't like it was PS only. I think that hurt the game.

I prefer SF4 by a mile though. It just played better, and I cannot really tell you why.

 

[Damian black]

The whole sf4 fgc was on Xbox. Sony moneyhats capcom into making sf5 ps4 pc exclusive. Of course that will negatively impact the franchise.

People switched in mass to ps4 anyway.

 

[MrMephistoX]

Are we taking console generation? If so not even close PS2 was the absolute worst for the fighting game genre. That said I do agree SFV just isn’t as much fun as SFIV which I still pickup and have fun with to this day.

 

[Calverz]

My dream is they go back to pixel art but know this wont happen.

 

[skneogaf]

Street fighter 5 is amazing, if you or anyone has a problem with it then just play something else. Mortal kombat 11 isn't as good in my opinion than 10 but so what, it happens, I don't go on about it like the morons on social media on every street fighter 5 related post etc.

Constant moaning by millenials.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

Well no, I wouldn't say this is worse than the PS2, Xbox, Gamecube era in which there was no all new Street Fighter entry at all, would you?

Look, as a very, very casual fighting fan SFV delivers in what is the most important part to me, the sexy girls, that makes it leagues ahead of something like MK11 in my book.

My dream is they go back to pixel art but know this wont happen.

Indeed, why the hell has pixel art that tries to push things forward been almost entirely abandoned? Almost everything that uses pixel art these days is overly chunky stuff going for a purposely crude "retro" look, with the only exception being Wayforward but even then it's not as advanced as it could be.

I think the very last game to try to push pixel art totally forward was Scott Pilgrim vs The World, at least on consoles.