So, I haven’t played SFV since just before season 2 started. I’ve mostly been playing GG XRD REV and REV 2.
I come back to the community, and the level of salt over SFV is so high I can’t even seem to dig through the mountains of hate to find what everyone is angry about.
I know about the whole lag thing, and that crush counters are out of control, but what is making everyone so livid that they’re just dropping the game or praying it gets better?
I’ve had the itch to jump back into SFV, but should I even do that at this point? Should I just go back to GG?
I’m only a couple of years into the FGC, so I’m still learning a lot. Will SFV teach me bad habits?
Playing Street Fighter V is certainly not going to teach you bad habits in other fighting games, that’s just stupid.
If you feel like playing Street Fighter then play Street Fighter, then judge for yourself if the complaints of the people you’ve seen are reasonable or they’re just out of their minds. Wherever the case you shouldn’t let the noise made by the internet masses decide for yourself.
You’re about to read some personal opinion from a random guy on the internet.
There are two main problems with the game. One is that it’s just a barebones, low quality product produced by a company that isn’t doing that well. The other is that the core gameplay was poorly conceived and isn’t very fun. I could write a book about all of the issues, but I’ll spare you. That said, unless you are a diehard SF fan (I am), there are much better games at the moment. SFV does still have the biggest tournament presence, but I’m not sure that will last.
The lack of content was what made me lose interest in the long run. When I picked up Revelator and Revelator II, I had been playing SFV so much that I was actually shocked by the amount of content in those games, especially Rev II. Everything just feels so…Thrown together. Especially that story mode.
Should you ultimately care about that to begin with? Ask yourself that.
If it’s just lack of content you were unhappy about and actually enjoy the game, play the game! It has more content now, so explore and have fun. Even more stuff is coming on the 25th, after EVO.
And nobody stops you from playing both SFV and GG. I play SFV and T7, enjoy both for what they are~
I’m mainly bummed at the lag and choppiness I encounter online and the fact that pc doesn’t have a messaging system. But as far as the core gameplay goes, it’s still Street Fighter and I still love it.
People that like it are going to say yes and that SFV is worth jumping in right now, I’m going to say yes because I like the game in spite of its issues.
People that don’t are going to say no.
If you want to return to SFV just to give it a try then do it, then judge for yourself. Don’t depend on what random people on the internet think.
If you play the game and like it, then play the game and like it. I have a love hate relationship with the game in that I love it because it’s a challenge that I’m trying to figure out, but I hate it much more for the fact that it’s a game that I haven’t figured out and so I can never really express myself in this game.
Expression is the primary thing most people have with the game as far as gameplay is concerned. There are LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of very specific factors for this lack of expression, but that doesn’t really matter. If you’ve never really played streetfighter before then the game is perfect for you because you won’t know what you are losing going from older more expressive streetfighters to this one, and so you will find your own way to express yourself in this game and have fun with it.
Corner mechanics, for example are so wrong in SFIV and SFV. No other game has the same mechanics when you or your rival are cornered: You can still jump at the back of your opponent and displace it from the wall even if the other player is pushing back at the controller. Nor SFIII, nor SFII, nor Vampire hunter series, nor GG, nor BB nor whatever other decent fighting game that comes to your head even of the 90’s era has that.
And like this silly example a lot more can be told about the game and all the bad habits is going to teach you. The engine is not solid and the game producer is an inept.
“You” can express “yourself” that’s not the same as other being able to express themselves shilljin
My expression as an example is to do cr.lp> Regular throw, over and over again. It makes me giddy and happy inside. Doesn’t work very well in sf5 though unless you throw in all kinds of other things like staggers and delays and shimmies and counterhit combos. Even in sf4 I could just mixup between cr.lp throw or cr.lp delayed move as a frame trap. In sf5 you have to go through a bunch more shit.
I also like expressing myself through just using buttons to win and control neutral. This can’t really be done in sf5 though. Every character even dhalsim NEEDS to get in and hit some combos. This was much less true in sf4, though to a certain extent it was true… but in sf4 it was pretty easy for a good amount of characters to win with neutral pokes and 1 combo. In sf5 you tend to need 3 combos and some neutral pokes, so you need to get in ALOT.
That’s not my expression though. But it is what it is, if you enjoy the hell out of it more power to you.
