Game has been out officially for less then 4 months and people complaining about the âlackâ of a meta game? Go back and read post from here during the first few months of Vanilla SF:IV and the majority of the things youâll see is that the Metagame for SF:IV revolved around âFADC>>>Ultraâ to win statements by like 90% of the posters. In fact the game was despised, hated and bashed by a greater number of people then even SF:V, and this was by even some of the most seasoned individuals.
It took SF4** years** before we could truly flesh the meta game out and get to where we are at in USF4. Even when SSF4 came out we were still scrubs playing with that game, and only now can we look back and realize how little we knew. If we had the current knowledge that we do now of the IV series but transitioned back to Vanilla SF4 instead, the entire Tier List for that game would shift dramatically because of strategies that has been developed.
I mean back in Vanilla SF:4 because we knew jack shit of the meta game, we all *believed *Cammy, and Fei-Long were trash, but we all know thatâs complete bullshit today. People were arguing that Vanilla Gouki being ranked #3 on the tier list was way too high, however letâs remind everyone that this #3 ranking was before we even knew or utilized Vortexes. I would even argue that with todayâs knowledge, Gouki arguably jumps to #1 on the Tier Listing, yes even above Vanilla Sagat. Speaking of Vortexes, Seth in original SF:4 would make AE:Seth look like a modest character. Only Vanilla Sagat, Ryu and Viper wouldnât take a nose dive down the tier list with todayâs wealth of knowledge of how to play SF:IV.
As it stands right now in SF:V, people still donât even punish instant air legs, even though Wolfe has been posting videos about how to do so for sometime now. Mikaâs getting away with murder doing claps all day, Kenâs doing the same thing whenever they V-Trigger. People landing block strings that arenât even true block strings in SF:V, and nobody realizing that they can punish in between. Case and Point, weâre still Scrubs in the game of SF:V. Yet people are going to state that this is as far as weâre going to get from a strategical position in this game?
So if you ask me, Iâm definitely jumping on the bandwagon that the metagame of SF:V will definitely Evolve with time.
No, itâs Not. SF is a household name per say, but not on the same level to that of Pokemon. Pokemon was something that spanned multiple continents in Insane popularity and was mainstream well outside of the gaming world with the distribution of it as a medium cartoon, I mean for crying out loud it spanned multiple movies that were put into theaters all over the world, and a card game that every single child and even adults were crying to get a hold of. The reasoning being is that Pokemon caters to Non-Gamers as well, which is a huge advantage with itâs popularity and fanbase.
Even when we compare Street Fighterâs Most Prosperous Era which was the early 90s it is still dwarfed to what Pokemon did during the height of their glory days.
Pokemonâs popularity in the media is on par to that of other things like Dragon Ball etc which is well beyond that of Street Fighter, so anyone who says itâs just as much a household name is completely incorrect.
Pokken having a âgreaterâ sales success is because it reaches out to a significantly larger fanbase and thus the numbers for itâs sales is going to be ridiculous in comparison to a game such as SF.
