Street Fighter V

Coming Spring 2015, exclusively for PS4 and PC.
http://shoryuken.com/2014/12/06/street-fighter-v-is-coming-exclusive-to-playstation-4-and-pc/
Ultra SFIV also getting ported to PS4 sometime next year.

This pretty much guaranteed me buying a PS4 next year, good job Sony

Got any links to a character list?

They've only shown Chun Li and Ryu (using his super art from III) so far

yeah this and Bloodborne = PS4 for me I think

Not impressed with this so far. Graphics look average. Guard breaks are usually feature cruft. On the plus side, this means SF4 won't be the go-to fighting game for much longer.

Looks like it doesn't have guard breaks -- Ryu just has some moves that can't be blocked. In the updated trailer, they included a move that was made to look like 3rd Strike parries, but it doesn't seem to actually be a parry. Ono is on a troll.

now i'm no expert but this doesn't look like the most practical outfit for street fighting

http://images.vcpost.com/data/images/full/84808/street-fighter-5.jpg?w=590

pretty practical for the spine breaking T&A shot tho

tbf this is not that far off from what Japanese (and American for that matter) women wrestlers wear
also, I love R. Mika

Mad Catz announced a bunch of new pads and sticks for SFV's release.
http://madcatz.com/StreetFighterV/

Kinda messed up considering the Chun Li stick just shipped. Find these all interesting. The TEs don't look too different, just upgraded w/a PS4 touchpad, but the Alpha ministick for $40 and the redesigned Fightpads for $60 =( look good.

I heard the ministick was a direct response to Hori's Fighting Stick Mini which I did not know existed until now and apparently comes out in two weeks.

Still not sure I like the weird stipple shader.
Love Dhalsim's new beard.
Anyone else playing the beta this weekend?

Tomorrow!

less than glowing review in the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/15/street-fighter-v-review-capcom

oh, they totally deserve the criticisms in that article. single player modes are coming via patch next month, sigh. a little surprised there isn't more of an uproar over that. smart review all told

tbh everyone who buys this day 1 is going to be hopping online almost immediately anyway. even more ready for it than usual because we got multiplayer beta access

Comments? Nhex?

OK so I was thinking about picking this up as it looks so great and I like the single-serving length of a fighting game a lot more than any other type of game I enjoy but I haven't played a fighting game deep since Tekken 3. I am (meekly) asking this question here in hopes I get a straight answer:

Do people use the left joystick or the d-pad for fighting games these days? I mean people who don't use the six-and-stick peripheral. I've been playing the Mortal Kombat games casually and doing ok, but in Mortal Kombat most of the moves are sonic boom type gestures rather than fireball type gestures.

D-pad is still the way to go for most games. SFV for a bit was actually going to remove all charge moves, but they changed their mind seemingly after the first beta - it's still weird to get used to playing Vega (Claw) as a motion character though

The quality of the D-pad (ugh 360) on the stock controllers could make a difference, as well as which buttons you have to hit simultaneously. Like the MK games did a better job designing for gamepads, since super moves were just "hit both back triggers" or "hold trigger + face button for EX move". SFV still has a handful of 3 punches/3 kicks move activations (like Zangief's lariat, Dhalsim's transport) which I'm really surprised by, since you almost always have to use a trigger/macro button to hit those on a pad

I have some sticks but never fully acclimated back to them since the 90s tbh. Was thinking about getting one of those Mad Catz PS4 sticks coming out for this but ran a bit short on cash, maybe later this year. Went with the Hori Fight Commander 4 instead, uses the Saturn D-pad + 6 face buttons setup that the MC Fightpad did

my copy should be home by the time I get home from work :)

How do you do a Yoga Flame or Zangief's piledriver on a d-pad? Did they change those moves?

no, they're still the same. yoga flame is just like a longer fireball motion, back, down, forward + punch.
zangief piledriver is weird to get ahold of the first time on pad but very doable with practice. also a little easier to do these days as i think it's a 270 motion instead of 360 these days, so can sorta input it with things like back, down, forward, up-forward + punch

Oh, so you can input them with separate presses rather than a roll. I remember on the Super Nintendo SFII having to slide the ball of my thumb diagonally up from down to forward which gets painful after awhile.

i remember attempting the zangief piledriver like 3 trillion times, and all but one of those attempts ended with me jumping straight up in the air

the successful attempt ended with me yelling "I DID IT!" to no one

...while jumping straight up in the air

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4b7d786d0000000000faf513/image.jpg

btw guys lupe fiasco beat the world's greatest sf player. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3yR00q-VQ

heh i still gotta watch that
no you do still have to roll the stick/pad for those moves, i was just using shorthand.
it's all totally doable on pad! honestly the hardest execution is 1-frame linking which is more about the buttons than the stick

i'm probably a little biased though, always took massive churlish pride at being able to hit pad SPDs

SFV doesn't have intentionally hard links, everything gives you a 3 frame window. there's still some tricky maneuvers like chun-li doing lightning legs right after she jumps.

standing piledriver was always really hard. you had to do the motion while gief was doing something else. like greenhand or blocking a hit or landing from a jump.

ugh, multiplayer was broken last night. should be ok today.
the story/single player modes are incredibly bare as expected. Capcom should be chastised for releasing so little SP content AND having the day 1 server issues, but maybe that was inevitable, seems so many launch games w/required online access have this now

xp in the beta R.Mika was one of a few characters that actually did have some 1-frame link combos, don't know if that made it to the release version though

online's been working for the last day or two which is good
played at my local meetup last night, good times.
really great to see almost everyone maining different characters. trying out Laura for now. love the early part of the game before everyone's figured out the matchups or the game system in total
(a good ryu's still annoying as hell, tho)

I weirdly forgot all about this game, largely because of the co-op bubble I've been in with EZSnappin and jjjusten as well as the demanding children living in my house. I expect I'll be buying this before the end of the month.

Here's my early tier predictions just so they can be laughed at later on.

A
Ryu
Dictator

A-
Zangief
Dhalsim

B
Chun
Birdie
Claw
Necalli
R. Mika

B-
Laura
Rashid
Nash

C
Karin
Fang

D
Ken
Cammy

Ken is surprisingly good, FANG is just weird as all hell and scary with the right player

Fang is one of those Zatana types where the designers threw together a bunch of moves that don't work together. His specialty might be in trading down damage, although the trades usually aren't in his favor.

I rank Ken and Cammy low because their V-skills are dumb. Ken's is a little better than a forward dash and Cammy gained nothing.

i haven't played a good Cammy player yet so I still don't know what her V-skill actually does (lol), but Ken's V-skill lets him cancel out of certain moves, more useful that it initially looks, believe it. his normal/hit confirm game is almost as dangerous as Ryu's

Cammy's is just her spinning backfist.

http://i.imgur.com/ZXjaZmp.gifv
lol Marn

Servers down today to add in Trials, 8-person lobbies. Alex incoming on Wednesday.

http://youtu.be/FW6P9GLItiA
Red Bull Kumite Grand Finals, Tokido (Ryu) vs. Infiltration (Nash)