shinobi602
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What do you think? Think the backlash is disproportionate?
More here: http://www.gamesradar.com/street-fi...-value-quantity-over-quality/?tag=grsocial-20Street Fighter 5s launch has caused a minor, yet undeniable, outbreak of Internet Video Game Indignation. Its not an overly serious one. Nothing like the Great Fury Geyser of PS3 Skyrim back in 11, or the virulent outbreak of Konami Rage Fever late last year. But people are indeed upset about SF5s lacklustre single-player launch content, and the initially dicey performance of its online servers.
There are certainly criticisms to be made. I know, because I made those exact criticisms in my review this week. But the backlash is getting a bit disproportionate, for my money, with talk being bandied about of SF5 being little more than a paid beta. Street Fighter 5 is not that. What it is, is an incredibly good fighting game with theoretically limitless depth and longevity in vs. multiplayer, which has done a bad job of advertising that fact, as a result of being released a month earlier than it should have been (possibly in order to tie into Capcoms Pro Tour). The core game is stunning, but the peripheral features rounding out the package are rather lacking, and remain so until they are expanded (for free) in March.