Friday, June 20, 2008

Street Fighter IV

I spent a decade playing the fighting series Street Fighters.
SF1 is hard to execute moves, it was less fun then Yie Ar Kung Fu. SF2 is major hit when I was freshman in college, followed by a long series of versions and updates: Champion Edition, Turbo. More characters! More supers!
Then there was a time when Capcom refuses to do a sequel, instead, they do a prequel with the kid version Street Fighter Alpha series.... Then there was the rough polygon 3D series known as EX. And there was the vs. Marvel series... That super fireball is a big laser beam! (They had to upgrade Ryu to fight the powerful XMen)

I spent countless quarters. I am still not a REAL good player, but fairly decent.
I spent lots of $ on the GREAT Street Fighter comics made in HK... That is such great artwork and story.

Then SF3 was there. Eew, it wasn't so impressive! Only ONE super moves? I actually didn't play a lot with it, but it wasn't so revolutionary. SF1 to SF2 was revolutionary. SF3 OUGHT to be revolutionary, ought to be real fun. But nope, it was a big letdown.

Finally, after a LONG time, Street Fighters are back from the dead, there is wow amazing looking Street Fighter IV! Watch this impressive video here. Now THAT'S revolutionary. That's what SF3 should be.

http://www.amazon.com/Capcom-34009-Street-Fighter-IV/dp/B0012N5MIO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1213994929&sr=8-1

Computer graphics have evolved SO MUCH! Gaming has evolved so much. NO ONE is going to the arcades now. It is a sunset industry.

But am I going to buy a PS3 to play this? Not really. There are other priority of life now. Life also revolved much.

1 comment:

Forced-to-be Montessori Dad said...

i like marvel vs capcom more for their exaggerating graphics :P