From playing street fighter 5 since first beta I was hyped. Now that the game is out all I can really say is that they did get me sucked in with the graphics and gameplay being slowed down, but that’s all we have. Only one stage to where your going through walls or the noodle bowl landing on head. Everything else is bland and its getting old already, not really enough stages to begin with and I’m not even gonna talk about the roster. Only because I’m a hardcore fan me and my son are still playing it but we sometimes want to pop in street fighter 4 for old times sake, that’s bad for a new game when you want to play the old one sometimes. They hyped us up with chun li vs ryu and the background stage but now the game is out that’s all we have literally. I hope the patches come quick and capcom brings more to the game.
People don’t have a valid retort to your concerns, other than to say ‘be patient’ and the game will grow or to attack you personally whilst make sweeping generalisations about people who speak ill of the game. Simple bullyboy tactics.
This game reminds me so much of SFxT, horrible release and terrible reviews, dumbed down to bring in new players. All of these things work counter intuitive to one another, the terrible reviews scare off any new players and the dumbed down gameplay turns off seasoned players from SF4.
The player base is artificially boosted (yet still very small) at the moment by people wanting to compete in tournaments and win Cashcoms money. Capcom are quite literally paying people to play this game just like SFxT when it was released.
Go look at Steam reviews, the average gamer wouldn’t pick it up from the bargain bin and many people from the FGC simply don’t like it. So the transferable player base from 4 is small and the new player base is negligible, subtract those that are only playing for the money as that will run out, then subtract those that wont play because they can’t find a game as easily online.
Game is turnip and only a vegetable would deny it.
If you can’t punish people don’t blame the game. The cast is, for once, very well balanced, and everyone has tools to deal with every other character.
More risk than reward for ryu, you say? You play a character that knocks off 25/30% of their life bar with 3 hits…
I don’t understand what do you mean with “some frame traps are safer than others”. A frame trap is safe by definition, and the pushback of this game is so high that everyone is back at normal after 2/3 blocked attacks.
You’re either playing the game wrong or just don’t understand how the game is meant to be played…or you came into fighting games with SF4 and think that game is the norm for fighting games. Fighting games were never about having a million options, there’s a reason people played sf2 20 years on and that game has the least amount of options in the SF series. People need to understand a game like sf4 was not the norm it was an exception to the rule and also 3rd strike was “simple” too in terms of game mechanics it had way less than sf5…the only real mechanic it had was parries…
sf5 for a lot of us resembles a real old school fighter and that’s why people are hyped, we don’t want this bs sf4 crap
I’m probably going to regret asking, so I’m not going to. I’ll just take your comment for what it’s worth, you are ‘laughing out loud’ and feel the need to let us on the internet know. Consider this the validation you so desperately crave.
I think tonight might be the last time I play this game for the next year. I tried to join the FGC with this game, but it’s garbage. The people are constantly mean, the game is unfinished and bad, and there are no outlets for me to get better or other ways to play to let off some steam without just closing the game.
If this is what fighting games are like no wonder they’re so unpopular.
Would hate to lose someone over this shit. What platform you on? I’ll try and help you if I can. I’m only mediocre but can probably help with basics maybe? Like I said, I’m no pro but I’d feel bad if I didn’t at least try.
Playing sets with someone in total silence where our ability to communicate is reduced to pre selected generic text phrases in the lobby isn’t going to help me, though. I’ve been doing that with people all along. I’m sorry, but this game just isn’t worth the stress of trying to get better. Maybe if you were sitting next to me and we could actually have a social experience, but that’s not something the designers of this game thought was important.
It’s just a lonely grind where you lose a million times in total silence punctuated too often by either lag or lengthy waits. I got into this game watching Gootecks and Mike Ross on youtube, but what I’m missing is the friend sitting next to me. Without that it’s just quiet frustration.
It’s your decision, but there’s time to get back in. I’d say you’re better off just waiting for the end of March or June for the game to be in a better state.
What do you mean by people are mean? You talking the forums or the game itself? People can’t even message you in the game to be mean to begin with. Also, you pretty much can’t find a competitive community where people aren’t being mean. That’s the nature of competition and playing something where the goal is to steal victory from someone else. Dudes will get “mean” about it. I understand you could easily say “well I deal with shitty ass personalities at work, why should I deal with it in a video game?” Well…people don’t like getting their wins stolen from them or are just generally prideful in anything competitive.
Just find some people on the forum or on twitch that play the characters you like to play, socialize with them and go from there.
I’ve been diamond ranked in Star Craft and mid gold in League. Both of those are competitive games with large competitive communities. This community feels different, it seems very hostile to ‘casuals’, which is just a shortcode for ‘new people’. You don’t see that in league and especially not in starcraft. The hatred of new players or anything that might make the experience of new players better seems unique to fighting games.
You’re right in that my experience may be better in a few months, but it might also be much, much worse since by then all the new players will be bleached out and I’ll just be fighting the hardcore audience that will just kick me out of the genre entirely.
From what I’ve personally heard those communities can be just as brash. From what I’ve heard it’s hard to join random teams of League as if you do something they don’t like on the team or screw things up for them they will blast you on the chat until you leave or they kick you. I’ve heard a lot stories about how you should pretty much always play on a team of people you know if you don’t want to get blasted at the end of a game. You’ll probably get away with piggy backing on some random teams, but I’m sure you’ll eventually find a team that will just kick you out quickly if you’re not doing what they want. It’s pretty similar with fighting games. Find some people to get to know on a more personal level online that play your characters, spar with them and get better.
All of the fighting game veterans and top players were scrubs/nubs at one time. I was just some Ibuki scrub that mashed buttons and didn’t block when I started out in 3rd Strike. Went 0 to 2 at my first Evo then started winning local tournaments and such. It all takes time and finding the right people to connect with. Any fighting game will always have an ample set of noobs and intermediates to play with. It’s never just pros in any online game.
As someone who has logged thousands of hours into that game that’s not really true. In the first place you can’t be kicked off a team and while people are often pretty mean in chat it takes a while to get there and you can always defend yourself. That’s better than just dying thousands of times in total silence with a surrounding community of people who make it their mission to make your experience joining the games audience as bad as possible. I’ve seen so many people say that you teach new players by just perfecting them over and over again so they can get a feel for what fighting games are ‘like’ and that’s just miserable. There’s a reason people don’t play these games. I’ve never experienced a multiplayer game as frustrating and isolating as this one. The ONLY reason I’m still here at all is out of some weird ideal that I picked up about street fighter being the more pure form of fighting game. I’m definitely not here because the 30 hours I’ve spent on steam have been enjoyable.
I just want to be able to talk to my opponent or rematch like I can do in seemingly every single other fighting game released in the last 8 years, including SFIV. How can I have an experience that isn’t AWFUL just losing thousands of times against people I will never see again?
