okay i started playing SF4AE a few months after the release of AEv2012, which is obviously pretty late. Lol Seth killian was asked if we can expect to see SF5 anytime soon not to long ago, and he said something like " for sure before 2019." The first thing i thought was " obviously!!you dont have to work for capcom or be sometime type of an expert analyst to know that, im guessing 2017." Okay but in the mean time whats gonna happen with SSFAE2012? Are they gonna ever add more music, stages or characters instead of wasting slots on evil ryu and oni? Lol
i was also wondering if they are just gonna keep updating the balance every year, calling the game v2013, v2014, and so on? Or are they just done in general, guys?
Nah, their done.
Most they will do is bug fixes and that’s it.
I pray to God they’re done. I’m hoping for some more exposure to other series of Capcom games, and/or SF5. People are getting bored/tired of AE.
Thanks guys. Dude the SF4 era has only been four years so far and people are tired of it? Lol sad
thats why i guessed 2017, heck maybe even 2016 for street fighter 5 cause sf 4 just doesent have that replay value that 3rd strike does. I think by 2014 winter everyone is not even gonna wanna look at the sf4ae cover again in discust
Well I don’t speak for the entirety of the community, but the people I’ve spoken with (all of whom have played the game competitively since Vanilla) are saying they’re starting to lose interest in the game. It’s a great game, and I’m sure it will continue to be a staple across a variety of majors for years to come, and it will be considered a classic game, but people always want something new and fresh to play.
Many people thought 3s was a terrible game in the first few years it came out as well. It took years for people to realize the depth that 3s has, alongside the invention of youtube to help showcase international talent and high-level strategies.
The game will also continue to be relevant as long as there are fresh new faces that come along in the scene and perhaps beat some of the more established players out there now. Any game can last an eternity. It’s just up to the people who are passionate about it to keep it up while other people join the party.
It’s one thing to play the games that everyone in the FGC plays, but it’s another to play the games that you love. And I’m sure plenty of people love the game, so don’t worry if you think you’re gonna get little out of playing AE.
Umm the thing is that i feel that people are starting to lose some interest in ssf4ae everyday, being that said hoping for v13 would be nice but i really doubt it, if anything they should add are maybe 2 more characters or so, classic stages if possible. Sure as long as there are fresh faces people might regain some interest but unless we see a low tier hero taking a big tournament, there won’t be much of a refreshing feeling because in the end they will be the same characters with the exact same gameplay (giving some tweaks to characters could help) every year so i think it is destined to lose hype unless we see anything new
Personally, I think that this phenomenon has little to do with SFIV being uninteresting or too shallow or something along those lines. I believe that it is because North Americans have grown spoiled throughout the years. Back in the days, you didn’t have companies shelling out new fighting games every week. We stuck to our games, finished them and then went onto other ones (or kept playing, on the matter of fighting games.) Mindsets have changed, people constantly need more, something different, something new.
It’s what capitalism is all about and society totally bought into it. Honestly, I’ve known multiple people claiming that they were getting tired of this game (but still came back after a few weeks of thatnewtrendygame’s release.) And everytime, we’ve had a blast. Japan doesn’t seem bored of the SFIV series either. Adding new characters is just a temporary measure. It makes new people wanna join in, it doesn’t make them stick. I bought SSFIV for Makoto and ended up not playing her a lot, sticking to Balrog. Learning new characters is a good way to stay interested too. I’ve been learning several other characters these past few months (Yun, Cody, Viper & Gen) and it helps keeping things fresh.
Either way, you’re gonna be fine. There is a new SFIV player everyday, it’s a great game (although a little scrub friendly) and it’ll stick in history.
I think a Hyper SF4 would be fun to screw around in.
Currently Capcom wants to sell the SFxTK DLC. We won’t hear about AE’13 until October I guess.
There have been a few tweets by Ono in the past that mentioned “AE13”.
https://www.twitter.com/Yoshi_OnoChin/status/140618598027767808
Yeah like, look at Vanilla MVC3, it didn’t even last close to a year.
But, I think Ultimate MVC3 is gonna stick for a while.
Personally, if people tried out other characters, they’d play the game more rather than dedicate them self to that one character that’s top-tier. Sure, I main Abel, but he gets kinda stale after a while and I pretty much switch to characters like Chun-Li, Ibuki, etc.
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I believe we talked about this a little bit, but mostly just about when SF5 might come out. Four years is a pretty long time for a game to be played super seriously. I think a true masterpiece of a game should be played for 10, 15, 25 years, and I think SF4 is a very good game but I personally don’t think of it as true masterpiece at this point. Another factor to consider is that SF4 was basically the only big show in town for years. No Marvel 3, no KoF13, no Mortal Kombat even. Just a handful of people playing the older games a BlazBlue and feeling annoyed that their games didn’t get any attention compared to SF4. So, I think that could lead to SF4 growing stale for some people more quickly than it would have otherwise. There are a lot of former top SF4 players who have shifted almost all of their focus to MvC3/KoF13 or even dropped SF4 entirely. Of course, many people still play it and love it, too, and that’s great.
My guess is that they’re done with the SF4 series. Everyone finally agrees that it’s balance (maybe too balanced IMO…), it already has a massive amount of characters… And really, part of why I personally have lost some passion for it has been the multitude of updates. I felt like I was finally getting comfortable with Super and then AE was coming out, and then when 2012 was announced and basically all of the top tiers were nerfed significantly, Capcom kind of took the wind out of my SF4 sails.
On the other hand, the idea of a Hyper SF4 REALLY excites me. SF4 is really slow and a bit tedious at this point, and something like a big speed boost could potentially really spice it back to life. Either a “Hyper” update or the introduction of a really powerful/important brand new system mechanic or something is the only kind of update I would like to see. I am not sure if Capcom would do this because SF4 is like the Jesus Christ of their fighting game products and the idea of messing it up and alienating a lot of fans is probably horrifying to them, but fuck it’s Capcom, God knows what they’ll do hahaha
No more SFIV please. No more new characters either. The game is fine (well, they broke Yun but that’s OK) and needs to be left alone to grow and breathe.
People got irate over the whole “Super Hyper Street Fighter IV Championship Arcade Turbo Edition” nonsense (hell, it really went a long way to killing FG’s back in the late 90s / early 2000s) so Capcom would be wise to leave SFIV alone at this point. Let them sell their lame DLC to the SFxT crowd and make some of “dat fight money” and work on SF5 (and please, for the love of god, a new engine that doesn’t look anything like SFIV).
Every time Capcom announces something that isn’t new Darkstalkers I die a little inside.
And yeah yeah, I know “Modern Capcom is shit and would fuck it up” but I’ll be damned if I don’t want it anyway. We’re getting close to 15 years since the last installment here.
What was their August 5 SBO announcement?
Jojo’s Bizarre in HD. Whoop-de-fucking-doo.
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Completely agree with all of this post. If a few new motivated players could regularly show up and do a good performance, the game will keep being interesting. If people just don’t want to step up their game we will most likely continue to have those classic Rufus mirror finals in the US, and then people are gonna get bored.
Play the game you like, not the game other people play. I’m tired of people playing a game and then saying “But this game is shit!”. If you think it’s shit, just stop playing and leave it to people who actually enjoy the game
Yes its a possibility!! As much as some people don’t like the idea, at the same time those people love it. Those people love tier controversy, remember the Yun and yang problem people kept talking about? It kinda added salt to the mix, whick kept people interested. Lol