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Street Fighter IV is 5 years old today
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Thing on a Spring
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Why do you consider it a burn when Capcom updates and supports their game at the request of the fans of the game and the series, in order to keep everyone playing and continually interested? This line of thinking baffles me. Perhaps my line of thinking baffles you, who knows.
As a fighting game lover from Turkey, I really like Hakan. And surprisingly, he's widely loved by Turkish FGC.
joffocakes
Member
I want scotland to have a lovely racist stereotype character rep too. The guy in the tartan apron from the distillery stage would be marvelous. He'd definitely have a Caber Toss special move and swigging whisky would improve his abilities.
SFIV brought fighting games back from limbo. People discovered and rediscovered their passion for testing your skill against an opponent one-on-one. People complain about the updates and rereleases, but that has kept the game fresh and exciting to play. We went from 25 characters in Vanilla to 39 now in AE, through several balance changes and 5 new characters will be added soon. There is still life in this game and judging by the popularity of this game in the tournament scene, it will be like that for at least a few more years. We like to complain about a lot of things Capcom has done wrong, but this SFIV era has been awesome. For that, I thank them
APZonerunner
Member
My most played game of the generation hours-wise, by a long way. Incredible, incredible game. Worth every penny all the times I've bought it.
Shadow Ranger
Member
Me too, I think. But I'm currently a bit tired of SFIV. Love what it's done to the genre though, no denying it.
As for fave SF character - Well, Ryu isn't my avatar for no reason. Except, err...I main Fei Long because he's just wat more enjoyable to play in SFIV than Ryu is.
joffocakes
Member
I do wonder about that. It definitely seems weighted. We get Ultra 2 Viper mirrors more often than we should. A lot of El Fuerte too. I dunno if it's my least played characters or not.
Since Alpha 2.Second favorite is probably Makoto. I need to pick her back up when Ultra comes out.
Pretty much the same deal for me. ( though i liked Makoto much better in Third Strike) I was really good with Sakura but i kinda fell of with SF and i have been meaning to get back into it lately, AE is sitting on my shelf and my arcade stick is collecting dust under my bed.
Bayonettasbuddy
Neo Member
Love this lady, sooooo many moves and so much variation to the usual shoto characters that I got bored of. I'm better with Balrog and Vega but this lady is just too fun to play with!
Yup. I'm fairly certain the majority of the people who complain about it don't play SF4, haha.
beyond_death
Member
Still my favourite fighting game to watch.
Parrying wasn't hard, it was just a stupidass system.
Nonexistinghero
Banned
I remember back when the game had superb graphics...
These days it's not impressive at all though.
After playing it a lot for a year or 2 or 3, I kinda got burned out of SF4 and most fighting games.
These days it's not impressive at all though.
After playing it a lot for a year or 2 or 3, I kinda got burned out of SF4 and most fighting games.
Man, that EGM brings back memories. That article got me so hyped in a way most articles about games don't. I don't even know how since I don't really like SF that much as far as fighting games. After reading it I was like "I have to pick it up," but I never did. I did end up renting the game (and later SSF4) a few months after launch but I found I didn't really like it compared to stuff like BlazBlue, so I never bought it. Despite this I've spent a ton of time watching SF4 on fighting game streams >_>.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
vanilla cammy
that's all I have to say about that.
that's all I have to say about that.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Indestructible. Won't let nobody break me down...
Anticitizen One
Banned
The best thing to come out of SF IV to me was the revival of good Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct and the resurgence of the fighting game genre in general.
Nocturnowl
Member
I barely played fighting games until SFIV, my experience of mostl fighters was basically getting my ass handed to me on the PS2 iterations of Soul Calibur and Mortal Kombat in multiplayer because I had no idea what I was doing and was essentially forbidden from looking at the move lists, so yeah that did a fine job of putting me off most of the genre.
I did however have SF2 turbo on the SNES and though I had no clue how to play that one either it held some nice nostalgic memories of Dhalsim wrecking my shit because he was clearly cheating with his teleporting and stretchy limbs, so anyway upon seeing SFIV and its eye catching art direction I decided that this time i'd figure the genre out, fortunately one of my other friends with no fighting game experience tagged along for the ride which was probably the biggest benefit of all. See now we could learn from each other going from barely able to throw a hadouken to our currently grand status of being average at best, but hey that's fine by me.
SFIV has swallowed up many hours of mine in multiplayer, it's become one of my favourite games of this generation, it reintroduced me into an entire genre and for that I thank it.
I've played many other fighters since but none feel quite as right to me as SFIV and with the Super update I finally understood why getting excited for a game update was totally understandable.
I did however have SF2 turbo on the SNES and though I had no clue how to play that one either it held some nice nostalgic memories of Dhalsim wrecking my shit because he was clearly cheating with his teleporting and stretchy limbs, so anyway upon seeing SFIV and its eye catching art direction I decided that this time i'd figure the genre out, fortunately one of my other friends with no fighting game experience tagged along for the ride which was probably the biggest benefit of all. See now we could learn from each other going from barely able to throw a hadouken to our currently grand status of being average at best, but hey that's fine by me.
SFIV has swallowed up many hours of mine in multiplayer, it's become one of my favourite games of this generation, it reintroduced me into an entire genre and for that I thank it.
I've played many other fighters since but none feel quite as right to me as SFIV and with the Super update I finally understood why getting excited for a game update was totally understandable.
twothunder
Member
She's just so mad (and awesome)
I'm not sure SF4 single handedly saved the fighting game scene, but it sure did a hell of a lot of good for it. Great game, still love watching it at Evo.
Ah. Makoto . My favorite Street fighter character. Gotta love her dedication and brutal fighting style.
Still. Almost hard to believe it's been 5 years since the game released...
shouamabane
Member
It's not often that a game revives a genre like SFIV did.
Opus Angelorum
Member
I've never played a Street Fighter game 
Remember the first months on online? No? Here. Let's jog your memory:
That was 5 years ago? jeeze I'm getting old.
Smooth Operator
Member
5 years ? It's time to celebrate ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wSMhpKU2iR4#t=103s
WAR recon zero
Banned
Funny how even Capcom couldn't match the great online
Mvc3 online is super sucky. Sf4 is playable among continents
Mvc3 online is super sucky. Sf4 is playable among continents
prodystopian
Member
I played a lot of SF2 as a kid, but pretty much skipped over Third Strike (played a bit later). When SFIV was announced, I picked up HDR because I couldn't wait. I got SFIV day one and have been playing off and on ever since.
I can't say I have a favorite character because I like so many of them. The balance in the game now is just unbelievable. I hope they can keep that with Ultra SFIV.
I can't say I have a favorite character because I like so many of them. The balance in the game now is just unbelievable. I hope they can keep that with Ultra SFIV.
Senor Kami
Banned
Great to see a five year old console game still getting love from the fans and support from the devs. I know some are mad that Capcom didn't abandon it years ago, but fuck them. Im so glad Capcom paid them no mind.
SF4 online still has some problems but it's pretty solid most of the time. I don't know how Marvel and SFxT ended up with worse online.
Capcom USA don't make or develop anything.
Ironically SFIV wasn't made by Capcom it was made by Dimps which is run by the creator of Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and KOF.