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09/29/09
SF4 wasn't great to begin with and selling me a new game to fix Sagat and add new characters who will likely be either broken in new ways or just completely terrible...nah.
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Changes so extensive they can't be patched and released as DLC? Big big bullshit.
There ain't nothin' you can't patch nowadays.
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Not true at all, sir.
As far as XBox goes, M$ limits DLC sizes.
As for PSN, it's hard to tack on patches onto a blu-ray like that if the game wasn't designed to do that prior to original release.
You forget that game-discs are read-only. Patches on XBL and PSN normally don't affect the inner-workings of the game in such large ways as something like this would (I've never seen a 1gb+ patch for any XBox game)
09/29/09
Too bad about the Live limitations on downloadable content. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
No, I don't "forget that game-discs are read-only." Come on. We all likely have games in our collections that have changed and grown significantly over time via expansions and patches.
Retail is still where the dollars are at. They want another multi million seller flagship title at retail.
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As I recall, that's what was said about Halo 3: Recon before they changed the name (for the worse IMO) and made it full price (also for the worse)...
That being said, this will be a day one purchase for me. Plus I am glad they you will have to start over with the online rankings in Super SFIV... I've hit a "wall" playing online in IV since I made it to G1 on Championship Mode but, being a full-time attorney, I don't have the time to invest in playing often enough to win matches consistently at these higher levels...
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I hate dumbass consumers.
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If you didn't like SF4 and don't want to buy the game, by all means... but if you claim to be a fan, how about we at LEAST wait until they've announced a price and get a good look at what we're getting before we make any value judgements.
Oh yeah, right... the internet.
And frankly, if something is going to cost the same amount anyway (which it would... don't delude yourselves), I'd rather have it on disc. Particularly with MS' draconian DRM, I don't want anything to be DLC that might end up not working down the road when the consoles are dead and buried.
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I'm not sure why people are so angry... if it is 10 extra characters on top of the original 25 or so characters from the first game, that's an INCREDIBLY awesome upgrade in comparison to older SF's. Maybe it's from being a fighting game fan for such a long time? I was a little kid when SF2 came out but I still had every version released for Super Nintendo.
Honestly, given how much other companies charge for one or two new characters ($5 for Darth Vader, for an extra MMA fighter or boxer, etc.) you'd think that EVERYTHING being added would end up costing almost as much as a full game in terms of downloadable content. New characters, new stages, presumably new costumes, and all. Either they'd nickel and dime by stage/character/costume or package it all together for a price that would STILL put a lot of people off.
I kind of wonder if people would be angry about this if it were called Street Fighter V instead of Super SF4?
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They didn't create a new engine, or anything new from the base SF4 game. We didn't buy it on a non-writable cartridge and a system without internet hooked up to it, so why do they need to release it as a whole new game, making everyone's old copy worthless.
09/29/09
Everyone keeps saying "this should be DLC," but I don't think any of you know how programming works, so stop it. Do you follow plumbers around telling them how water pressure works? Do you tell electricians what gauge of wire and conduit need to be used? Do you tell doctors how to treat your ailments?
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It's a good deal if you bought the original, because if you can' scrounge up sixty bucks in the six months between now and the time the update is slated to release, you have bigger problems than the need to play a game.
Not that it's gonna be sixty bucks. Also, they announced this update a full eight months after the original released. How is that in any way misleading? Do you get mad when they release a Director's Cut DVD of a movie you enjoyed in theatres?
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Where are the Yuns, Yangs, Guys, Codys, Alexs, Makotos, and Dudleys? And better yet, where are interesting new characters? I mean come on. El Fuerte is one of the worst characters in the game, design, gameplay, and story wise. Rufus, although a strong character, is still a stupid design, and a ridiculous story. And Seth looks like the design you'd see on a fucking pog.
With these last 5 characters Capcom, please, PLEASE make something that makes me want to keep the game this time around.
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COWABUNGA!
Man. Pogs were fucking stupid as hell. What were we thinking?
09/29/09
I suspect by not being full price what they mean is that the game will still cost $40 to $50. And then there's still the fact that there are two game discs, including the one for the original SF4, but the new game will likely render the original obsolete. Why the hell not offer this as a $20 - $30 expansion pack like it should be?
09/29/09
Why does everyone on the internet cling so religiously to FUD? They just announced that they are working on the game YESTERDAY. It won't be out for at least six months. Calm the fuck down.