[Multiplatform] Street Fighter 4 - For some reason they're still putting in characters other than Ken

According to Capcom-Unity, they'll have more info on friday.

I'm the same as SimDaddyGT, been playing 3rd strike to death for the past years.

No matter how good SF4 will be, if it's 3D, people will go back to 3rd Strike. The gameplay suffers a lot with this transitions. 2D gameplay in 3D games is pure crap.

Take a look at Kof 2006 for example. It's a decent game and they tried to give it a 2D gameplay, but somehow it didin't work very well. 3D makes fighting games a lot slower.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, I'm too a Makoto player, but I try not to abuse of karakusa. I don't play on a competitive level, but I can defend myself pretty good.

The Ken/Chun/Yun is true. I grabbed EVO2k5 DVD and it was a total waste of time. Only a couple of videos of Makoto, Urien and Remy (which was one of the worst Remys I've seen in my life) and a whole crap of videos of Ken/Chun/Yun.

That's why I like to see Aruka, RX and J. I love how Aruka humiliates top tier characters with his Ibuki.

That's what makes 3s so good. If you're good, you can win with almost every character (exept Sean of course).

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Originally Posted by Destructoid

Brazilian gaming blog Blogeek has apparently gotten big news on the upcoming Street Fighter IV game and they are more than happy to share it with the Internets. Check out the translated info below:

- The graphics aren't the way they are in the teaser that everyone watched. The game's still pretty, but it has nothing of that ink-splashing or anything. Art direction is interesting. Unlike all the other 3D fighters, SFIV is not meant to be photo realistic.

- Street Fighter IV runs at 60 frames per second.

- Street Fighter IV will have online play.

- The game takes place after Super Street Fighter II Turbo and before SFIII. The good news is that the character roster will be made of many old-school brawlers and some entirely new ones.

- There are two new girls on the list. We will probably not see any SFIII characters.

- The stage you saw at 1Up, if you didn't figure out, is Chun-Li's Stage from SF2.

- The excellent Parry system form SFIII is gone. The new system seems to be called Saving or Revenge (we're not sure about the name). We don't know exactly how it works, but it's built around cancels. And we do know we'll have another gauge to activate the Saving/Revenge stuff, besides the usual Super Gauge.

- Supers are there (although they didn't decide yet if it will be like in SSF2T or SFIII), and now they've put another moves called Ultras. These makes your character throws a auto combo with tons of moves. It's like a custom combo ... except by the custom part.

- Shen Long may appear in the game. We are NOT kidding.
The consoles are not decided yet, really. But, assuming that SFIV will have online play, we can obviously think of Xbox 360 and PS3 (duh). It's very likely that we'll see an arcade version without online mode too, and our sources told us that Capcom could put some test machines in Japan arcades in Q2 next year.

Of course, until we hear something from Capcom or pick up the next issue of EGM, we can't be too sure about this info. So why run with this then? Because Blogeek also provided us with two new screenshots from the game. Looks like a little old blog site got the exclusive before a major publication ... ouch. Of course, there's always that one percent chance that Blogeek has the worlds best Photoshop artist on their team ...

To me, the game looks horrible. Of course, it's just in alpha state, but still...there are many games that look better than this.

Anyways, as in all fighting games, gameplay is what matters. I'm a little dissapointed that parry is out though.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by SimDaddyGT

Makoto is GONE?????

This would probably be my worst issue if it's true. I can't live without kara .
Though, it says "probably", so I wouldn't mind about that yet.

Originally Posted by Karatsu

BTW, is this game being made by Capcom USA or Japan, because didnt Japan give USA the rights to Street Fighter?

Capcom Japan.

What really bugs me is that the producer is Yoshinori Ono....who made the worst capcom fighting game ever, Capcom Fighting Jam.

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Wait, wait, wait.......

Spoiler:

POISON IS A f%# GUY?????????????
Oh, shit! First Bridget, now this...Fighting games are tempting me to drive on the other side of the road
(oh fuck!, I just remember that I have already preorder that Poison PVC figure.)

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SF4 First gameplay & developer chat

I'm donwloading it right now. It may take a while, since it's a pretty heavy file.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Slayer X

If only it wern't being hammered so bad, maybe the rest of us would be able to see it... lame.

Yeah, that's why I' downloading the damn video (290 mb). Streaming is impossible. It got like 16.000 views in 10 min!! At least is good to see that many people are interested in the game.

Try the download links from the page. I'm downloading at max speed. Still, 5 more minutes to finish.

FELIPE NO

Ok, so according to the interview, the "blocking system" is kinda like the SVC:Chaos cancel system, right? Or the Roman Cancel of Guilty Gear. Canceling one move into another and end it with a super art or ex-move. This will surely bring a lot of creativity to the game. I can already see youtube loaded with 1000 combo videos, like GGXX already has.

So far, I'm liking the gameplay. It looks pretty damn fast and it seems it will be great for beginners and advanced players alike.

I totally hate Ryu's face though. I mean, WTF is this???


EDIT: Sorry, I meant "Blocking", not "Saving".

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NEW CHARACTER REVEALED!

Spoiler:

It's like a mix of Vanessa from KOF and Reimi From Variable Geo IMO. Totally KOF style and a little of EX too.

Anyone can translate, please? T_T

Edit: Ok, her name is "Crimson Viper". That's the only info I know.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

New interview with Ono:

Inside Street Fighter IV's Nostalgic Allure | Game | Life from Wired.com

Originally Posted by Ono

Potential home versions of the game should offer something else to hardcore Street Fighter fans, says Ono. "If and when there are console versions, we could see someone like Sakura-chan (from Street Fighter Alpha) or Ibuki (Street Fighter III)," says Ono. "For a home version, you can sit and practice the characters as long as you want to before you take them online. So there will probably be a move to add even more characters to the home version."
"Of course we know that there are people who want Alpha characters, who want III characters, who want all-new characters. We get emails, we read the message boards. We're listening to all of those voices. We have to respect those users as well, they're terribly important,"

Fricking sweet. Grown up Sakura pretty pleeeease?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Sagat & Balrog. We kinda saw this coming.

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Well, I was waiting for friday because a new character was going to be revealed at the SF Blog, but Kotaku seems to have the info now.

"El Fuerte"


I never liked wrestlers characters, not even in DOA, which was kinda hot. It definitely looks more "mexican" that T.Hawk though, that's for sure.

Ok, one more grappler to add to the list....

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El Fuerte gameplay. Wow, so damn fast.

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NEW CHARACTER: Rufus
Reminds me of Cheng ShinZan from the Fatal Fury series.

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I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Nintendonomicon

Poor Rufus, the internet is ablaze with hate for him.

Yeah, don't know really why though. He seems.... unique... at least in the SF world. Anyways, the hate will last till the next new character is revealed. Everyone will start saying how amazing Rufus is and the hate will go to the new character. Everyone seems to like El Fuerte now...

Originally Posted by Manny Biggz

El Fuerte looks like he plays exactly like Ramon from KOF.

My thoughts exacly as I saw him doing that climbing up the wall. He seems much faster than Ramon though. I hope they'll add the "Viva Mexico" quote from Ramon too.

Enough with the new characters. Can we have Sakura now Capcom?

How ya doing, buddy?

OMG YES!!!!! Finally!!!!

I don't like how she has the same look as in the Alpha series but nothing that an alternative costume won't fix.

This is good news for the ones hoping to see Alpha characters in IV since I read a long time ago that they had no plans to add any characters from that series.

It's already the game of the forever for me, but if they add Makoto or Ibuki I will frame a picture of Ono and hang it up in my house.

FELIPE NO

Sakura gameplay video!

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New screenshots of Fei Long and Dan from Shoryuken:






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Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, the gootecks podcast with Justin was pretty cool. I don't understand much why he said that Guile is the worst character of the game since I've seen a lot of matches where he kicks serious ass. But, he knows the stuff...

About El Fuerte's infinite, it's seems it's really hard to pull off, but I hope Capcom can patch this in the future.

By the way, have you guys seen Justin playing Sakura? They said that he had like a 50 win streak using her. Probably they were all scrubs, or maybe Sakura is top tier. Anyways, seeing some of his matches, he didn't do any fancy combos with her. Normal FK and EX Shunpukyakus most of the time.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Niiiice.

Also, Cammy gameplay. Very low quality though...

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by OXM

Online play is really where Street Fighter IV will really shine.

Who where they playing to claim that? If they have a review copy, they were probably playing between employees. Of course if your OXM buddy is in the same city, the latency will be smooth. The real test is to see how it holds up against someone overseas, but my hopes are not great since I live on the bottom of the Earth and I've never played someone with good latency outside GGPO.

Tokubetsu: Check gamechariot.com for some high-level Viper action. She is supposed to be very weak, but fast as hell. At some point I thought I was watching a GG match.

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....and Gen vs. Rose (both ultras included).

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New trailer showing all the roster (taken from SRK). A few new ultras I haven't seen.

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Originally Posted by 1UP

Tomorrow (01/15/08) at 5 p.m. PST, Richard Li, along with his friends from shoryuken.com will be stopping by to stream an informative segment on the game. So if it's in-depth analysis and discussion you desire with pro's, watch it here or in Game Night's official club (as always, if you can't watch it live, we will always have it available the following day

If you drop your question at SRK they might be able to answer it in the show.

Link at SRK: 1up.com Game Night Jan. 15th: SFIV feat MAGUS1234, A_Rival, R. Li and Haunts - Shoryuken

As for the english dub, I'm so in love with Cammy's voice.

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Originally Posted by Hantei

And a nice little montage of all the character's faces in agonizing pain to Rose's Ultra, with a WTF at the end (can you actually do that?).
Gametrailers.com - Street Fighter IV - Rose Ultra-Shock Showcase

That was so funny. Rufus's face killed me.

About the Rose vs Rose thing, I think is a montage. You can see at the very end that they kill each other with a focus attack.

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