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Street Fighter V - Reviews Thread
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Not many games get re-reviews because people forget about them.
Opus Angelorum
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Excellent review, goes into a lot of details and your history with the franchise is very apparent.
And the red/blue colour coding for mirror matches is beyond confusing! I raised this from the first beta.
IGN probably will do a re-review (they did the same for Splatoon).
Street Fighter V is definitely gonna stay in the public eye thanks to the FGC. And again, if Splatoon got a re-review, then I'm sure that Street Fighter V will follow suit.....at least for IGN.
Wouldn't it make more sense to say it's following in Killer Instinct's steps, lol.
KI went from a great fighter with a little content to a great fighter with much more content. The episodes idea is great..especially if one does the $20 per update thing KI did.
Is SF V full price? (are all future updates free?) Sorry haven't followed it much.
Expected it when I got the game on Friday. Pretty disappointing really.
Altered Juice
Member
Dis gun b gud
Only a matter of time before someone creates an essay thread
Only a matter of time before someone creates an essay thread
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Seems to be the splatoon of the fighting genre which can be good and bad at launch.
Edit:ah beaten
Edit:ah beaten
Acquiescence
Member
So one of those games that'll enter classic status a few months after launch. Got it.
See y'all in a few months.
See y'all in a few months.
That wasn't a critique of your review, but a comment on Capcom's lack of foresight on the issue. They can't really expect the community to be okay with this, and yet here we are in a situation in which they'll most likely end up having to patch it anyway, but will have quite a few pissed off players before they do. It's just silly.
Gamespot review in progress http://www.gamespot.com/articles/street-fighter-5-review-in-progress/1100-6434786/
No one's saying that the gameplay is bad or anything though, which is good. Does Open Critic or Metacritic update their scores after a game has been out for months? Not that I see most sites updating scores.
There's a genre expectation with fighting games that there will be single player content, including some kind of narrative mode. Your average consumer would definitely expect it. I did until I was told otherwise.
Games should be reviewed relative to their peers, so this seems perfectly fair to me.
At the same time it does highlight what a tricky (and somewhat useless) business reviewing is these days. To someone who only plays online, the game might be a 10/10. To someone who only plays solo, it might legit be a 4. So... do you give it a 7? Because both of those audiences will find that 7 to be completely inaccurate once they pick up the game. It's difficult.
onepiecefan
Member
Honestly a fighting game lacking a single player mode/story is not a big deal, personally Tekken is the only fighting game story that I'm interested in. Give me a mechanically well made fighter and you'll get an 8+ from me.
Infernostew
Member
Character story mode should've been like 8 fight arcade mode instead of a 3 fight thing. What were they thinking?
It's pretty much identical to how Splatoon reviewed. Of which, I actually liked the Splatoon drip feed, so I don't see the lack of content out of the gate as a huge negative personally.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Fundamentally the game and mechanics seem to be sound, I think that's the most important thing for the competitive side of the game.
Obliterator
Member
Yep game seems to play great, it just sounds like it needs more content to be truly "great". Seems like the kind of game you can pick up cheaper in a couple months and have a much better experience. Still excited to play it though. Mechanically the game sounds great
Seems about right considering the game is very barebones. The mechanics and the gameplay are there though, and it seems very good in that aspect so the game should be fine on the long term as long ad Capcom keeps their word on constantly releasing new content and updating/improving the game.
But honestly... They shouldnt have hyped up the single player content of the game before release (with that comparison to mortal kombat), even if they didnt know about the delay. It obviously played a part in the expectations people had (including reviewers) about the story mode.
This definitely sounds like a game that will get a bunch of re-reviews later in the year.
But honestly... They shouldnt have hyped up the single player content of the game before release (with that comparison to mortal kombat), even if they didnt know about the delay. It obviously played a part in the expectations people had (including reviewers) about the story mode.
This definitely sounds like a game that will get a bunch of re-reviews later in the year.
SFV has character story mode for each Fighter, but the overall story mode Wong come in until June. It'll have a training mode and survivial mode and you can unlock costumes (to buy with in game currency) via single player. Starting in March, there will be a DLC character roughly every month you can buy with in game currency or real money released.
Eventually, you will want to go online to face other people, and the game will have match making options to try to pair you with people of similar skill.
But if you think you are only going to play single player exclusively. This game likely isn't for you unless you don't mind just playing Arcade mode over and over again.
yes its $60 and yes updates are free
Ah that sounds awesome, I hoped most reviews might just delay scoring til they become available as ultimately scoring this game wont affect the hardcore fanbase who should be playing it for years but theres things missing that a casual SF gamer might be after.
I'm waiting to see how well PS3 sticks work with the game before I dip so might just get it once those additional features turn up. Gonna lose all the time anyway whenever I turn up
ps3ud0 8)
awesomegamername
Banned
Yeah it sounds like it. I just watched the IGN review and they said no CPU vs mode. That's a bummer.
IGN said they usually don't do re-reviews, but did it for Splatoon because a ton of people asked.
And going by what Capcom laid out, Street Fighter 5: 2017 Edition (AKA everything through 2016 on one disc) is probably going to be a retail disc that happens so a re-review of the base game probably won't be necessary.
SEGAvangelist
Member
The characters aren't free, though, right?
GhostTrick
Banned
Daaaamn. Tempted to get it.. ><
standards change
actually you will be able to buy them with in game currency, but youll need alot of it
Capcom specifically said this will be the only disc version of SF5. they could of course be lying, and just release one with the season pass incorporated next year
I honestly don't know how it slipped through the cracks, seeing as everything else on a multiplayer gameplay view is on point.
Everything, including characters, can be earned with Fight Money aka not-Zenny.
HundredEyeMonk
Member
That is a pretty fair and accurate review. Good job.
Infernostew
Member
That's a pretty fair argument to make
I compared Street Fighter V to Splatoon because both are full-priced games that are/were barebones at launch with free features promised overtime. The difference is that while Splatoon's support was cut off after last month (likely due to Nintendo diverting all of their developers to the NX Platform), Street Fighter V is gonna be supported for the long haul.
As for the updates themselves, all of the planned modes will be free (Challenges, a more detailed Tutorial, Cinematic Story Mode, 8-Player Lobbies, Spectator Mode, etc.). All DLC characters & a select few alternate costumes can also be earned through in-game Fight Money (beating all of the stories for the core roster will net you enough for one DLC character).
They are if you earn enough Fight Money.
...but it's also being compared to other fighting games--namely, MK--which have continued to add a robust suite of single player content. In a Street Fighter vacuum, yes, it's nearly on par with SFIV.
The Lone Dragon
Member
They actually wanted ALL the fights in story mode to make sense for once
In previous SF arcade modes, you'd have stuff like Guile fighting Chun Li...or Bison fighting Vega. These don't make sense in the context of the story.
For casual people that just want to have fun, definitely wait to pick it up if you need that single player content. But for anyone who plans to be competitive in any way, they aren't going to wait.
Splatoon never had Paid DLC, though. That's a big difference as well.
I can see the point when Capcom did go out of their way quite a ways before launch to say they were developing a more in depth story mode. It's not relevant to the core audience, but I'm sure more casual folks (which may include plenty of reviewers) were looking forward to it, and disappointed to see it missing at launch.
I'd equate it to promoting a tacked-on online co-op then delaying that at launch. It'll matter to a few people.
I think that's a pretty considerable exaggeration.
Ok, if udpates are free...good deal.
As long as the core fighting is great (like KI was) it's just a matter of when one wants to jump in.
Makes sense. Very similar to KI in a # of ways...and Splatoon as you said
.All it's missing is the story mode which is dropping in June at no extra cost. Should they have delayed it because of that? I personally don't think so. Capcom knows their SF audience. The vast majority buy it for online vs and local vs. The story mode is going to take you a couple of hours including cutscenes. If that's what makes or breaks your purchase decision for a fighting game, especially SF, that person probably wasn't going to buy the game anyway.
slackern1nja
Banned
Yeah I plan to for sure. The game's big enough to warrant it.
Here's ours at GodisaGeek, 9/10: http://www.godisageek.com/reviews/street-fighter-5-review/
Cannot wait to play it, myself.
Cannot wait to play it, myself.
OrbitalBeard
Member
These reviews seem totally fair . A great game that's lacking in content (which will be fixed over time, fortunately!).
Can't wait until tomorrow!
Can't wait until tomorrow!
True, but I'm talking about the additional modes themselves. And even then, the only thing you absolutely have to pay for in Street Fighter V are premium alternate costumes. Everything else (that we know of) will either be added for free or can be earned for free.
Stone Ocean
Member
Because it doesn't have a couple fluff modes that are coming in a couple weeks anyways? Oh spare me
Supposedly DLC in this game is free too. You can just unlock them faster by paying. So eh.
Infernostew
Member
Well then they could've given a mode that does make sense and a separate arcade mode that doesn't. Seems like they pushed release up a month or 2 early for the CPT.
yes they are free, suffice you put in the work to get the fight money needed to unlock them, otherwise you can use real money for a quick unlock
brandonh83
Banned
All I care about is the GT review.
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