STREET FIGHTER IV

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famitsu art.

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/__icsFiles/artimage/2009/02/06/pc_fc_n_gn/0202suto006.jpg

so ridiculously psyched for this. any word on the quality of online play?

I am crazy stoked for this. here's what I know about the online play for def:

- 1vs1 player and ranked lobbies
- no word yet on quarter matches, would be silly if they're not in there. this screen seems to suggest it
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/__icsFiles/artimage/2009/02/06/pc_fc_n_gn/0202suto017.jpg
- earn grade points to participate in online tournaments
- earn battle points to rank up
- day-one patch to add in championship mode
- some dude on SRK who has the console version for a while: "I can confirm the net code is solid"

- the capcom USA and capcom JAPAN dev teams have been playing each other pretty much lag-free throughout development. that's california to japan. pretty sure the game runs on P2P as well, so o_O

^^^last point from capcom PR tbf

- there's no official US street date btw, so copies will start turning up in shops late next week

are you getting this day one, circa?

absolutely. we'll have to try out that netcode.

what's the bit about no official US release date? thought Feb. 17th was "official".

nah, afaik capcom haven't given an official street date. they're having a launch party on the 17th but on SRK folx are starting to hound best buys and 7/11s from next week ^^;

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=174520

"Capcom has declared retailers can sell this as soon as they have the copies."

http://img.skitch.com/20090208-fyjb3qsc7jimm382m93cj8nb5m.jpg

JME has his copy already

God, I wish I could play this. Everything about it looks outstanding.

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my thumb has a dime-sized blister from playing street fighter all weekend

o rly? ws it gd?

yah altho it plays closer to 3rd strike than anything. akuma is still completely broken ken still sucks and i can pwn with rose but generally suck.

the collector's edition stuff is pretty dope the udon artwork is nice i also was given the first couple of sf comix which are pretty lulz

nice. so you have a copy then? can you let us know if you can play quarter matches?

lol capcom unity. i dont have a copy a friend of mine that worked on the launch has one i played it at his place this wknd u probably know more about the game than i do. i played strictly vs. mode. once round with each character than a couple hours more with just the ones i like to get a feel

no worries dude, was worth asking : )

The mounting hype for this is killing me! Blog posts everywhere anticipating it and recalling
nostalgia and glory for the old SF2 days feels so familiar.

My local store claims copies this friday! Fingers crossed...

online looks pretty lag-free

dan's challenge mode (spoilers)

he looks... viable

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Apologies if this has already been discussed on here, but I have NEVER heard of seconds!

http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8980892&publicUserId=5696848

The new 1up blogs are really on fire, Retronauts and the Grind have been doing really good work since they started up.

Seconds is definitely real, though I don't know anyone who called it that. The commenters are on point - it was a polite thing to do, to stretch out the match for the money you were spending the arcade. Of course if you were in a real hardcore arcade then not so many people cared about that stuff. Of course, at home it's all far less relevant.

We called it "mercy round" around my parts. If you really wanted to demonstrate your primacy you'd take them down to just a hair on their bar before giving them the round.

i have never heard of seconds or mercy rounds, but what a pointless thing. how does that catch on?

My local store claims copies this friday! Fingers crossed...
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:14 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sooooooooooo didja get it?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/street-fighter-retrospective-article

:( now they're sayin' monday...

... maybe tuesday. saturday at the latest

Apparently most places won't be selling this until Wednesday the 18th. So I guess the "no official release date" thing is resulting in the game being released later rather than sooner.

Will the release of this mean that I shouldn't buy SFIISHDTURBOSLDKDLF because everyone's gonna migrate to the new game?

I'm betting a lot of people will move over to SFIV, yeah, but I doubt the HD Remix community will dry up. I'd hate to dissuade you from picking up HD Remix because it really is a great game.

Also, upon further research, some places will be selling SFIV on Tuesday. A lot of mixed info on SYR forums.

10/10 on EG
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Dumb Onion AV Club pan:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/street-fighter-iv,23796/

I understand the aim for broader audience reviews not aimed at super hardcore nuts like us, but the writer seems really lazy. I'll quote some of the comments:

This is like listening to someone who hates westerns review The Wild Bunch.

"Some outlaws rob a bank, they run from the law for awhile, there's a big shootout, some people die - haven't we seen this before? Did we really need another one?"

That's exactly it, actually. The gameplay, which is what a game like this lives and dies on, was only discussed in five words. Stylish, superb, second to none. How so? What stuck out other than the pretty graphics? Why are we stuck on less relevant points like the win quotes and so on when the meat of the game is so shallowly addressed? In a positive IGN fluff piece or this phoned-in review, that's just lazy. I'll forgive any reviewer for not knowing a genre-- you get what they give you to review-- but pretending you do is just not good policy.

I'm ready to admit that the game isn't near perfect, but it doesn't even sound like the reviewer tried to play Street Fighter in a versus mode. Street Fighter lives by multiplayer and to ignore completely is just plain foolish.

Lol, sf nerds will fucking CUT YOU mang.

i love how video game fans cant deal with less-than-100% STELLAR reviews of games they want to be good. that review seemed pretty fair to me.

it's just wrong in many places, which is annoying:

"Gameplay is still rendered in old-school 2D."

"If you repaint the Mona Lisa or do a shot-for-shot remake of The Godfather, can the unoriginal results somehow still be compelling?" <- this isn't even a valid crit. of SF2HDR, nevermind SFIV which is a bottom-up new engine

"Street Fighter purists will argue otherwise, but this is essentially the same game most of us played nearly two decades ago, only rendered in far prettier pixels." <- this is close if I'm being generous, lazy if I'm being honest... the 'essentially' gives him a lot of space to breathe

"Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, etc. Is Street Fighter IV the best version?" lolwut

"... a game they already own." uhhhhhhhhh

it ws a pretty bad review slock bt I think yr point still stands, it is funny how worked up folx get abt vidgame reviews

/stan

I think reviews don't really serve fighting games v.well tho