Do You think Capcom Will introduce new characters to Street Fighter IV?

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Been playing street fighter 4 since the day it was released and i have witnessed the success of this game, After seeing online reviews, comments people have written towards this game i think capcom have made a terrific game. Championship Edition has recently been released and to be honest not still 100 percent sure how it works. Anyway do you think capcom will release more updates that will have some new characters, Some people have complained to capcom why T-Hawk and Dee-Jay have not been entered in this game. Personal opinion, i think capcom should introduce the SF4 community to new characters i think it will be terrific if they do.

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Going by previous Street Fighter standards, I bet Capcom will only introduce old or new characters by releasing a Street Fighter IV: Super Double Strike New Challenger Champion Edition Grandmaster Turbo X revision or whatever.

Unless Capcom have a decent development system in place for this game, I highly doubt they would ever release new characters in form of a DLC. Reason why being that they would have to work extensively on the coding and hitboxes so that they will be balanced and match well with the characters already on the roster. Its why when you look at the other main fighting games that are online and with DLC (Soul Calibur IV, Virtua Fighter 5, Dead or Alive 4), they don't introduce any new characters, but rather the usual extra items, costumes etc. A new character by patch/add-on may just end up screwing things up.
 
I think they will keep SFIV as a foundation to build on, all the new stuff such as focus attacks etc seems to have worked, although the character balance is something that could be tweaked abit. They will possibly bring out another game in the future building on from SFIV, introducing new characters, new levels, new music etc but I think the important part was getting this one right, which imo they did. Highly addictive game with huge depth. :cool:
 
Agree with the above. No danger they'll 'patch' in new characters, that'd be a strange thing to do and probably wouldn't be too well recieved by the hardcore of fans who play regularly and to high standard.

As for releasing "SF4 II - The next Batch" or whatever they'll call it, although this is traditionally what happens with fighting games and particularly Street Fighter games, I'm not quite so sure it'll happen :(
I think SF4 has been a much bigger scale release than any previous generations of SF4. There have been adverts on TV, posters up in every game shop on the high street and the internet means everyone gets to see the huge (well deserved) review scores and so this games has sold masses, comprable to any other big release.
Problem we get to, is that SF4 appears a very simple concept yet playing can be exceptionally deep. Most who are new to the game will play online, get destroyed, get fed up, not play anymore and in a years time SF4 will be back to being a niche game.
If in a year or 18 months or even two years Capcom release "SF4 II - The next Batch" I don't think it will be sufficiently different (I hope it won't be too different!!) to entice large numbers of people to buy. The only takers are likely to be the hardcore still playing SF4 religiously two years after release.
I think what my above rambling is trying to say, is thatI don't think there's enough commercial interest to make it viable.........





(I'd love to be wrong though)
 
Within 12 months there will be a "Street Fighter IV : 2nd strike" or equivalent in the Arcades. As to whether it is enough to warrant a new game release on consoles, I doubt a 2nd SF4 game will come out on consoles this Gen tbh.

Worryingly I see more substandard Capcom games being released on XBLA/PSN to capitalise on the success of SFIV.


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ojste said:
hope thats not directed at mvc2 because its awesome! :D
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I think it was a terrible game tbh, I did not like most of the crossover series Capcom did. They are entertaining in a non balanced (not even tried) jump 500 foot in the air, anime, 20 hit plus combo kind of way. To me they are a sign of the terrible milking of beat-em-ups that led to their demise (more or less) in the arcades in the last 10 years or so.


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I think there will be upgrade 'packages' in the years to come, so for example pay £10 to have that years balance changes, new online modes and possibly new characters. Would be a good way of raking in money which is something capcom love, but would also fragment and alienate the community, something capcom don't care about.

There will certainly be a street fighter 4.5 of sorts in the arcade which i bet will just feature the characters that are on the console release.

While it is so utterly close to being a balanced fighter there are a few niggles i'd like to see them sort out such as insanely biased matchups (Abel vs Gief, in giefs' favour, Sagat vs Gief, in sagats favour etc etc, basically any matchup that is 7-3 or higher does result in some pretty frustrating matches for the person on the low end)
 
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paying for balance patches would be a really bad decision since it would split the online community but then again i wouldnt put it past capcom since they are pretty bad for bull**** dlc
 
rp2000 said:
I think it was a terrible game tbh, I did not like most of the crossover series Capcom did. They are entertaining in a non balanced (not even tried) jump 500 foot in the air, anime, 20 hit plus combo kind of way. To me they are a sign of the terrible milking of beat-em-ups that led to their demise (more or less) in the arcades in the last 10 years or so.


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I dunno, I would say that 2D fighting games at the time were in demise already, no thanks to the whole PlayStation generation. The casual were more into the 3D fighting games and 3D graphics overall and so 2D was left feeling slightly dated. The hardcore would be into Street Fighter III at the time and even then then it was quite the complex game for casual players. Capcom's crossover mashups were really the only way to mix things up and keep the 2D fighting genre alive.
 
they still need to sort some of the existing characters out 1st. seth for example is a right dweeb. allright he cheats at SP but try him in multiplayer hes a right weakling.
 
I was watching Playr TV (or something near that name on Bravo) and they were interviewing one of the games makers who said they had unfinished models for SF4 that they were thinking of putting out. Which really hinted on it being DLC for me.
 
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I was watching Playr TV (or something near that name on Bravo) and they were interviewing one of the games makers who said they had unfinished models for SF4 that they were thinking of putting out. Which really hinted on it being DLC for me.
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Probably extra costumes and such that were already there.
 
Its T.Hawk and Djay theres plently of info on it over at Capcom Unity, they say they had the models almost finished but decided to leave them out as not enough time

Not sure if when they will be released tho
 
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