Anyone else not buying into the SFV hype?

Capcom got bigger issues than that. The company trolled stream viewers and those at audience at Final Round with an Alex trailer but delivered nothing. Look at the general thread at all the outrage it caused.

Oh I’m aware. It’s fucking absurd. How the hell hard is it to put together a trailer for people? Something? Anything? A friggin’ 30 second clip of a combo into Critical Art followed by black-screen with release date. Literally about 20 minutes of work to put together.

My conclusion as just some schmoe that’s worked in the industry?

The shit is VAPOR at the moment. Alex is HIGHLY unfinished and not even in a displayable state outside of some stills of his model. Maybe Capcom is in full-on panic mode right now working to crank it out while ALSO fixing the myriad issues in the game.

It would make sense.

The trolling on top of that? Worse than a ā€œPlease understandā€ mea culpa moment. Capcom continues to act as if they are doing everything right and have insane fan-support & customer faith that can allow them to troll (give it up, Capcom, Boon has you beat hands down in good-natured trolling…) when NOTHING could be further from the truth. Fucking insanity.

Someone check Capcom HQ for a slow Carbon Monoxide leak…cuz they’ve lost their damned minds

Yeah not having an Alex trailer or some gameplay footage days before he’s supposed to be released doesn’t exactly instill confidence.

If you had confidence left after the launch then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

inb4…

Alex release consists of playable Alex that can walk, jump, crouch and block.

ā€œAlex basic attacks & special moves releasing alongside Story Mode in June! GET HYPE!ā€ - sincerely, Capcom

The problem at launch was the server issues. The characters and gameplay were fine, so I guess I expect the upcoming characters to be fine too.

Nope. I brought it up once in the game’s comparison to it’s predecessors.

You know, a perfectly logical thing?

Then basically you came outta nowhere like, ā€œOMG UR A 3S FANBOI. NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT CUZ I LIKE IT TOO.ā€ and yeah. the other guy started going into detail about how the tier list is more unbalanced to V, which i agreed, but disagreed this game is more leveled like 3s due to other functions of the game, to which we disagreed. so why he and I are still going on is really just burning time for no reason.

But yeah, any further 3s needs not be addressed with you and I and any suggestions you got about the messaging system are appreciated but not needed since you’re just looking for some fodder to use and reaching.

But i hope to see you when the shitstorm starts, cuz when it’s time to get on their case, i’ll remember what you said.

The reason i can say that is cause 3s has had a lot of time to get broken down. Also SFV had betas and tons of feed back from top players and normal players.
Its a different world in game development today compared to the late 90s. Which is why I can say its more balanced than 3s right now.

Final Round was a very good indicator of character balance. If you was watching almost every character was competitive. I do agree in a few months we will have a much more solid knowledge on the tier list though.

Honestly at this point, it’s like Capcom WANTS Street Fighter V to die, it’s honestly completely baffling how horrible they are at PR right now. As someone else stated, it’s not even just about Alex and more of EVERYTHING WITH ALEX’S RELEASE.

Trials, Daily Challenges, the option to rematch online and so on…

All of these is supposed to come at March…and yet it’s the 21st and there’s only 10 days left. If them making the trailer in NCR is supposed to be hype, then they seriously have no fucking clue on how to actually make people hype…

You said you’re ā€œdropping this game like you did 4 and going back to 3S.ā€ You kinda sound like a 3S fanboy when you say that.

I didn’t like 4 either, but I didn’t troll the forums looking for every opportunity to bash the game. Just play the games you do like and move on.

I said if ibuki turns out to be bad in this game i’mma just drop it and go back to 3s. I’m a fanboy for that?

ok. Going back to the only sf i like makes me a fanboy then i don’t care.

The thread is about who doesn’t feel hype about V. So if I express i don’t like it and frequent the thread, then ???

I may have some moments i might complain about the game, but in every other thread you see me participating just fine. So make sense.

Im as patient as someone that loves SF can be but even Im getting annoyed now. Its the 21st of the month and nothing, not even a fucking trailer!

I did enjoy watching Final Round but dam Capcom this shit should of been out by now. Im leaving for a 2 week vacation in 3 days. I was hoping to be able to play Alex before leaving.

Fun facts:
Coop this year was the biggest 3s tourney in history

There were no Chun teams in pre coop top 8

It was understood for years that it isn’t Chun that’s vastly out of balance, it’s that she’s the best character and that the big 3 Chun players are pretty much the best players overall. MOV and Nuki also have two of the best Kens in Japan. Rikimaru is not just the best Chun, he’s also a ridiculous Yun, Dudley, and Urien player. The big 3 Chuns didn’t team this year and suddenly there wasn’t a Chun in pre coop top 8. Kinda makes you think…

Almost none of the top players have moved on lol. Who are you even talking about. 3s more than any other game has top players who play 3s and nothing else. Pyrolee once said ā€œI’m not a video game player, I’m not a fighting game player, I’m a 3s player.ā€ This encapsulates the attitude of most notable players in the community in both Japan and America.

I don’t see why 3s even needs to be in this conversation tbh

(You could still fit its entire competitive scene in a small highschool gym)

It may be bigger than when it was ā€˜alive’ and was a dead game, but by 2016 standards it’s deader than a doornail. Smite has a small pro scene and is like 3 orders of magnitude larger. Brood War is larger.

A dead games top players are the biggest fish in an aquarium.

Also, I’m not really even on a side in this. I just don’t think universal parry was a good balancing mechanic and I think they should patch SFV twice a year.

Unfortunately, I don’t agree with any of that. I mean do you really consider the first major to be a good indication of character balance? Do you really think that 4 3 day betas for a total of 12 total days of play is a great way to balance the game? Capcom has rarely/almost never had good balance on the first version of their game. Lots of times it takes them multiple game versions to get a good balance or if not good balance, then a good meta.

Final round was indicative of almost nothing. There were characters regularly doing unsafe stuff that could get them full combo punished that weren’t punished at all. There were characrers that were regularly doing things that put themselves at frame disadvantage that were able to attack afterwards even at point blank. Like… Do you know that laura has NO WAY to stop someone from pressuring her with a 3 frame normal after her blocked shoulder unless she has super? It is literally free. And doesn’t even require any kind of fast reactions to do.

People were also missing meter opportunities, not using v skills appropriately, not using v triggers, not getting absolute max damage at easy opportunities.

Final round showed us barely anything. You can’t be seriously saying that the first major of a new series capcom game has showed us how well balanced the game is.

Like I said, we won’t know this for a few months especially with how complicated the game is and how all around the game is in many aspects. Once a lot of that shit is figured out… Then we can think about the over arching balance.

What makes this more interesting is that you can say that the community for 3s is small, but seeing as it’s a game from back in the 90s and there’s still a strong community going for it?

Like in fightcade there’s typically 40 to 70 people playing it alone and those aren’t even the ones who go to tournaments so it goes to show for something thats over well 10 years old to still have a community is pretty amazing in it’s own right.

Not to mention folks still play 3s0, so.

You are entitled to your opinion. From my experience with hundreds of hours ive been into the game, match videos and all the betas. The way fighters are developed today as to compared to the 90s. Things are found much faster on a the entire scale. People are constantly looking for things to report and with betas this is whats been going on with SFV.

SFV doesnt only have 3 or 5 viable characters. The tier list is much more squish together. In time we will get a better view on things but i cant safely say its more balanced than 3s right now.

whoops my bad.

lol

So after a month of playing, I transformed from hype to hate.

Loved 3S. Hated SF4. Parries, Alex, Urien…you could imagine the hype.

Then I played the game. Parry was not as good as 3s. More costly than rewarding actually.

Then there was this thing apparently called frame advantage. I still don’t understand it but what I do understand is that basically my opponent could whip out a fierce attack, an EX even, and still be able to whip out a jab before I can punish. What the f is that bullshit??! I’m talking to the cammy’s, Rmikas and Nash’s sonic kicks. Blows my simple casual gaming mind I suppose.

Yeah, download V Frames app and learn what frame advantage or disadvantage is. That’s the first step to becoming a better player in fighting games.