"Street Fighter V - Angry Rant (& Impressions)"

[kane_magus]

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Note: His actual Angry Rant only goes until around twelve or so minutes in, so it's not nearly as long as that 29:35 length might indicate. I stopped watching when it cut to him and Other Joe just fucking around or whatever.

He basically says the game is good, as far as the bare bones basics of the gameplay is concerned, but is lacking content. He says it should have been labelled "Early Access." In short, he's saying some, but not all, of what a lot of other people who are complaining about this game are saying about it. He didn't give the game nearly as much shit or get nearly as angry about it as I was hoping he would, though.

Because Angry Joe is a reviewer (perhaps even, dare I say it, a professional one [not to be overly insulting to him to call him such]), I no longer hold it against him that he still buys this shit (though why he needed to buy the Collector's Edition to review [or... not review, as is apparently the case, and I have no idea what he's talking about when he says he's working on a Street Fighter game, maybe it's in a video of his I haven't watched], I don't know), even though he should know by now how the modern video game industry rolls. He is, I suppose, performing a service by letting people know about this shit.

The problem, of course, is do people actually listen to what he says? I'm not sure, given that lots of people in the comments are being fanboy apologists and/or reputation management drones about the whole thing and are shilling the fuck out of the game, even despite all the bullshit surrounding it.

In semi-related news, I couldn't even finish watching the SBFP Friday Night Fisticuffs video for SFV. (Which, in my not so humble opinion, should have been a Saturday Morning Scrublords video. ¬_¬ But then, they only use that label for games that they, themselves, actually find to be bad or stupid or whatever, and apparently, at least from what I watched of it, they think SFV is great.) I got as far as Pat saying "This game is so good. It lived up to everything that I always wanted it to be." Then I just had to sigh and close the tab. For what little it's worth, they were using a pre-release copy provided to them by Capcom, as they say at the beginning, but still...

If, and only if, I could get SFV in another Humble Bundle with a bunch of other games for $15 or less at some nebulous point in the future, then maybe I would buy such a bundle (but even then, I wouldn't be buying such a bundle for SFV). Otherwise, what I have seen of this game is incredibly underwhelming, enough so that I wouldn't even pay $5 on Steam for it, by itself. I am apathetic at best about Street Fighter V, and actively antipathetic at worst. And this will likely be the last post I make about it, unless something else comes up concerning it that happens to catch my attention.

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

The game Joe's working on is covered a bit in some of his other videos yeah. Basically it's a type of hybrid table top trading card game thing. Not something to run on the computer.

Basically has figurines and trading cards from what I gather, and covers 3 fighting game genres. Namely Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat (iirc), and Dragon Ball Z.

As far as that's concerned, while I probably won't be interested enough to try to help the kickstarters etc, if it does get funded and I see it available locally, I'll probably pick up a few of the figurines just because they're figurines.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Ah. So it's nothing I'd be interested in, looks like.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

On another note, I wonder if this game of his is the reason he was relatively lenient on SFV - compared to Mortal Kombat X which has a pretty similar setup for ingame currency.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

And yeah looking over the actual review, he's definitely pulling some punches, or it feels that way to me.

For instance he's going on about the getting all the fighters in the game (DLC) for free by playing the game, as if it's awesome! When he knows full well that the earning of those in-game points are going to be excessive - he even starts to talk about it being not so bad as he considers just unlocking the alternate colors for the characters. "So about 50 rounds per character's alt color, 16 characters so about 900 rounds and that's not too bad - oh wait a minute"

900 rounds, assuming each round is just a minute long, that's close to 15hrs of gameplay. Assuming you win all those rounds I'm guessing. And that's just for the alternate colors - and remember each time a new character is released, you'll need another 50 rounds to unlock that character's alt color as well. After you spend god knows how much time to unlock the character itself, which you will NEED to do if you want to use that character at all.

Also I found one site online that seems to hint that not all the content can be bought with the ingame Fight Money. (The paid-DLC has a different currency as "Zenny" - again to further remove the actual hint of real money so you don't quite realize how much cash you're blowing)

Characters can be bought with Fight Money or Zenny (I assume it's either or.)

Story Mode costumes (The colors, I'm guessing...) can be bought with Fight Money only. (like 400k each...) It doesn't list a cost for Zenny so I'm guessing it's Fight Money only.

Premium Costumes.... are Zenny only, or shows only zenny as an option in the page I'm seeing.

So yeah, it this is true, it's a lie to say everything's actually free in the game.