SUPER STREET FIGHTER 4 GETS A 3RD STRIKE

I literally almost cried.

I am not kidding, being facetiousness, or am trying to use hyperbole or anything.

I see Street Fighter still being given iteration after iteration and think "where's my super duper Killer Instinct revamp already, fuck you Rare, fuck you to death"

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My thoughts are...this is still basically the same game as the original SFII and I am not at all interested.

GET OUT

But seriously, that's why Street Fighter was and still is successful. Instead of changing wildly from the original formula that's gotten them success for about 20 years, they just keep the same base model and improve on it with each new game. Mario, and a slew of other games do the same thing.

got my arse handed to me online by either cheap bastards or people who have not seen sunlight for the past 10 years or so from playing Street Fighter games in their basement.

Oh come on, that's just sore loser-itis. "EVERYONE WHO BEATS ME IS CHEAP/A LOSER".

I got pretty high in championship mode on SF4. But that doesn't really equate to my skill...people who were terrible at the game would be high rank simply because they played for way too many hours. I hope they fixed the netcode. That's the only thing I would like fixed now.

Oh yeah, I remember going to the arcade too on weekends with my older brothers. I was ten years old facing guys twice my age. I never won many games in MvC, but I was okay at X-men vs. Streetfighter. I wish there were arcades where I live now. =(

Can somebody explain how these "3rd Strikes" work? Do they release a Street Fighter game and then release... the same game with new characters over and over? I am not saying this is a bad thing, I am just confused.

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Can somebody explain how these "3rd Strikes" work? Do they release a Street Fighter game and then release... the same game with new characters over and over? I am not saying this is a bad thing, I am just confused.

seconded.

EDIT:

Maybe it's a baseball game? Kinda like how Mario took over kart racing and soccer and whatnot.

No no no sillies - first they release a game. Then, they release THAT game AGAIN, but with a few new characters AND some tweaks to the gameplay to remove bugs - and call it SUPER. BUT some people think they ruined the game, and a big flame war happens and people take sides. They may then release that second game somewhere else, like the arcade, and call it SUPER ALPHA

THEN, they release that ALPHA game on the original system, call it 3rd Strike, add a few more characters to piss the arcade crowd off, and incorporate the original rules as well as the arcade rules to spark more flame wars about which rules are "real".

They may go as far as a fourth, but that is invariably ignored by everyone except collectors.

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The Street Fighter series is too hard. I always found the controls to be clunky, too (up to jump? diagonal ups to jump forward? that's just damn lame). I tried SF2 a while back and couldn't get past the 1st round.

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I'll take Smash Bros (any version) over SF anytime

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The Street Fighter series is too hard. I always found the controls to be clunky, too (up to jump? diagonal ups to jump forward? that's just damn lame). I tried SF2 a while back and couldn't get past the 1st round.

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I'll take Smash Bros (any version) over SF anytime

Same for me. Smash Bros before hos.

The Street Fighter series is too hard. I always found the controls to be clunky, too (up to jump? diagonal ups to jump forward? that's just damn lame). I tried SF2 a while back and couldn't get past the 1st round.

Wow. Can't tell if you're being serious or not but that's how you jump in almost every 2D fighter ever.

Same for me. Smash Bros before shotos.

:D

236p is hard

LPx2, F, LK, HP

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The Street Fighter series is too hard. I always found the controls to be clunky, too (up to jump? diagonal ups to jump forward? that's just damn lame). I tried SF2 a while back and couldn't get past the 1st round.

Every single fighter (all 2 or so of them) that requires a non diagonal button to jump is extremely clunky and counter intuitive. Try doing fast paced combos and aerial moves with a 'jump with A' button.

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Can somebody explain how these "3rd Strikes" work? Do they release a Street Fighter game and then release... the same game with new characters over and over? I am not saying this is a bad thing, I am just confused.

Basically, there are different series of Street Fighter games.

As everyone knows and jokes about, there are quite a few versions of Street Fighter II, such as Super Street Fighter 2 and all that business.

There's also Street Fighter Alpha, Alpha 2, Alpha 3, and so on.

There are also a few versions of Street Fighter III, such as 2nd Impact and 3rd Strike.

Put simply, the Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha, and Street Fighter III 'series' play very differently from another and are true sequels in most senses of the word. However, the difference between games in an individual 'series', like Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike are more along the lines of 'updates' rather than true sequels, with stuff like new characters, balance issues fixed, gameplay tweaks, bugfixes, etc etc.

The main reason they do this, besides money I guess, is to keep the individual games in a certain 'series' tournament viable and updated. The tournament scene in fighting games is HUGE and very serious, and they're usually deconstructed down to the bone. It's very common for fans to find out everything there is to know about a fighting game in a matter of weeks of its release.

In other words, they're sort of like the precursors to DLC.