Calgary Thread 2014

Since his “macro buttons” are now banned, I recommend Full Schedule instead have UP and LEFT buttons next to each other, UP and RIGHT buttons next to each other, and then glue something like a small popsicle stick across each pair, and just press that instead… Done.

Can you ban a popsicle stick?

wow… Copy and Paste Fighter 4. lazy bastards.

Greg looked it up last night and I guess Ultra will be released as a DLC add on for $15 first and then later for $40 as a single disc (sort of like AE). The catch is the Japanese arcades. They gotta pay like $1k or something stupid for the update.

$15 for : a balance patch, 2 new modes, 5 stages, 5 characters. Not a a bad deal.

Let’s not forget Capcom has been “pretty gay” for a while now.

You guys rememeber the midnight launch of SFxT?
MVC3 -> UMVC3 update?

I don’t mind that it’s a doll that’s whatever to me, I just dislike that they took cammy and put a mask on her face like “look guys new character.” Evil ryu has his own business oni does too but decapre … Her normals arethe same her combo structure is the same her throws are the same same spiral arrow same fucking neutral stance. That’s garbage. I might not know how to 3D model but if it were my fucking job for a game company than you’d better fucking believe I’d at least change something on the character aside from a few special moves. Don’t get me wrong she’s interesting char that’ll add something to usf it’s just the amount of work they didn’t do on a character they were building so much hype for. Disappointed, yes, but I like sf4 and will be buying it anyways.
Fuck gen fuck marvel

i wonder if someday capcom will realize that your average consumer probably doesnt want to buy sf4 the 9th time and will make a new game eventually

it took them like 10 years to go sf3-sf4 though so my hopes aren’t very high

i’ve invested more time/money into SF4 since 2009 than any other video game released.

another $40? yeah sure. still pissed at the Xtekken stages more than anything, fuck that game

i dont mind evil cammy doll being the new 5th character. she looks kinda cool.

personally i would prefer they kept her original full mask tho, looks cooler than the batman thing shes got going on.

and ya its not surprsing they rehashed another character model just like all 4 other ones, but her moveset looks completely different.

i will definitely pick her up, fast offensive character with crazy flashy teleportish mixups? other than the fact shes a charge character, sounds like a good alternative to ibuki for me :slight_smile:

BTW i almost bet on the 5th character being a new shoto named “sho”, to complete the SHO RYU KEN TRIFECTA.

Capcom didn’t HAVE to make a new update. They could have let the game die if they wanted. They obviously still care about the scene and all that, or else they would be sponsoring events/doing Capcom cup events. Like previously states, they’re pretty poor compared to other companies, I’m happy they’re still doing this kind of shit with the time/money they were given.

The thing with ppl saying capcom has no money - they have $152 million in CASH which is a very substantial amount. That was godawful video game business reporting at its finest. Total fucking morons with little to no understanding of how business works.

One line from an article “Capcom only has as much cash as Nintendo made in the previous 3 months” - $152 million cash x 4 = $608 million yearly revenue which not only sounds inaccurate but is $300+ million LESS than Capcom’s 2013 revenue. A business doesn’t conduct all of it’s affairs with only cash… usually, they do it on credit. Capcom has $450m in liabilities so for them to only have about 3 times as much debt as they have actual cash is outstanding and very healthy.

For comparison’s sake the company I work for, a multi-billion dollar oil company, “only” has $37 million in cash… and about $2.4 billion in liabilities. 65 times more debt thn cash, and no one is even remotely worried about the health of my company.

When you google that article everyone refers back to the original, typically has the exact same title… it was copy-pasta’d all over the internet. If it is games journalism trying to comment on serious things like how business works, ignore them. They have no clue whatsoever about what they talking about. Making a story like that and spreading it around is actually highly irresponsible as even though it was seriously misinformed, it still could have had a negative impact on their stock price.

Total side issue compared to the new SF character being one of the laziest things I’ve ever seen. Capcom didn’t put any money into Ultra SF4 because they know that the fifth iteration of a FG is not going to get good sales at all. They didn’t cheap out because they HAVE no money, they cheaped out because it was NOT WORTH the investment.

thats an excellent cop-out statemet john. Yes, the dying company capcom released a new version of the only fighting game within the last 10 years with 5 ported/copied over characters because they care about the scene, not because they’re trying to squeeze out what little money us fighting game players have. Yeah, capcom cup and all these “sponsored” events aren’t all marketing strats to get ppl to believe in capcom again. Especially when it seems that street fighter is the only game thats made any money (if that) for them in the last few years here. Especially with all the bombed games that they’ve released since 2007. Have you noticed that all capcom does now is release “new” versions of old games? Cuz their new ones suck balls. From sfxt to the the new dmc, garbage games that disappoint fans everywhere.
It probably cost them a lot less than that you think to make things a bit diff on block/ change hit boxes/ and port over characters. lets be real out of the money they had to spend on this game they did it with minimal effort on the new characters. PC modders do that shit for free with the same effect! Again, I’m not unhappy about usf4, it sounds like it’ll be a fresh feel for the game, but saying"at least they did it" isn’t good enough. Might as well have released the update with the changes minus the copy/ported characters and i’d be happy. Especially after making us wait 6 months for this shit. It’s all seems like an attempt to recover from the last horrible game they released by having to make u pay for it in the new sf.
Again, I’m not unhappy about the new game, just wish they put some sort of effort into the new characters. I am keeping in mind all the other changes they’remaking though. The new modes, including online training and supposed better netcode, not to mention the new mechanics that’ll make the meta game deeper than the previous builds. I’m still excited for usf4 and i’ll be bodying the lot of u at it too. don’t forget that shit!

I don’t understand your logic. You want us to learn this and see for ourselves how difficult it is to create a fundamentally new character from scratch… yet none of us are actually paid to already do this? Unlike the … you know… developers at capcom are? Okay.

Anyway, first day back at work and i’m a) late for work, because i forgot to adjust my alarm clock for daylight savings time. b) forgot my wallet c) have no lunch now.
Life sucks man. Life sucks.

The game would not have died if Ultra weren’t released and adding superfluous new characters doesn’t help the game. There are too many characters already.

SF x T announced July 2010. Released 20 months later. 34 new character models. 21 recycled models.
Ultra SF4 announced July 2013. Released 10 months later (japanese arcades). 4 recycled models, 1 modified model.

Time should not have been an issue with creating character models.

Money/profitability on the other hand was probably the restricting factor hence, the lazy effort.

March is brutal for new releases god damn…

Dark Souls 2
Titanfall
Metal Gear Solid 5
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
FFX/X-2 HD Remastered
Infamous: Second Son
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls

Muh wallet :frowning:

guy you should be thankful capcom is trying to milk you all for another 15/40 dollars by copy and pasting some code and putting a mask on an existing character and putting up a few 1000 at majors around america

i mean its not like valve and riot literally invest millions of dollars into growing their game

japan is just a little ass backwards, be thankful

coolest thing I’ve ever seen happen in Skullgirls

That’s sosick

I think everyone was expecting Decapre, but hoping against hope Capcom wouldn’t pull a Capcom ;).

Word to cody/the prince.

Yo Amin, wanna buy a gamester gear headset? Now that Chris G is on the team, I’m sure these headsets have a lot more credibility.

I thought there wasn’t really a single new skeleton in SFXT, which is most of the work behind the model iirc.