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Sirlin weighs in on Street Fighter IV by Fussbett 02/26/2009, 10:14am PST
http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2009/2/22/a-few-things-about-street-fighter-4.html

Here's the list, broken down:

- You can see the opponent's name before you fight.
- No double-blind character select.
- Lag introduces "input delay"
- The button configuration screen it too complicated (this is the largest paragraph in the article)*
- "The jumps have strange acceleration to them"
- "Getting hit out of the air is extremely floaty"
- Stage sizes are too big
- Default wake-up is normal speed, requiring button presses to do a "tech recover". This should be switched (because of Guilty Gear?)
- Two-button throws should never exist in 2D fighting games
- Something about canceling "low short" attacks into supers that will heavily affect about twelve people at the next EVO tournament, I'm sure...
- Too many linked combos
- PPP for Ultras is too hard
- Focus canceling is MP+MK+dash instead of PPP as it is in Guilty Gear
- The reviews are wrong when they call this casual friendly
- Unlocking characters sucks

Put another way, he's saying...

- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Guilty Gear is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is better
- Guilty Gear is better
- Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix gets a bad rep for being too difficult
- Unlocking characters sucks

Looks like Capcom really fucked up by not hiring Dave Sirlin to tune Street Fighter IV.

Obviously this is a product of playing one game for 15 years and becoming an international top ten player. Perspective problems! Like so much Valve, Sirlin should film people playing some fighting games. Perhaps his game and SFIV, back to back. I don't mean utter noobs, and I don't mean the SSF2THDR savants he hangs with. I mean people with 20 years of video games under their belts. People who should be pretty good at games but don't learn the frame data. He'll be disappointed about how coarse we are, manhandling his pretty baby like stupid apes, but when he sees us have twenty times the fun in SFIV, pulling off crazy moves non-stop, he might come to understand something about his fellow man. Namely that his fellow man broke off from the Street Fighter series at exactly SSF2T.

On the upside we agree that unlocking basic multiplayer gameplay sucks.

* "If you think this is negligible, you have never seen people set buttons. The wrong way turns what should be a 3 second task into a fairly confusing affair. Yes I know the wrong way allows you to have lots of functions in your list, but this can be done the right way also." -- Sirlin
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Sirlin weighs in on Street Fighter IV by Fussbett 02/26/2009, 10:14am PST NEW
    Re: Sirlin weighs in on Street Fighter IV by Bananadine 02/27/2009, 6:14pm PST NEW
    If you think Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was bad, by imagine Dave Sirlin's SFIV! Worm 02/28/2009, 1:44pm PST NEW
        Re: If you think Dave Sirlin's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was bad, by Creexuls, a monster >:3 02/28/2009, 1:51pm PST NEW
            OK! NT by Phil Katz 02/28/2009, 2:25pm PST NEW
                More OK! NT by Street Fighter 4 devs 02/28/2009, 3:49pm PST NEW
        Son, let me tell you a little something about Psycho Crushing by Entropy Stew 02/28/2009, 1:51pm PST NEW
            what he should have told him about was STEALING BANDWIDTH NT by Entropy Stew 02/28/2009, 1:53pm PST NEW
            Re: Son, let me tell you a little something about Psycho Crushing by Fortinbras 02/28/2009, 11:30pm PST NEW
        I can't believe I forgot the flashback concept picture! by Worm 02/28/2009, 2:43pm PST NEW
        SF4: title is too short verdict negative they need to change the name to somethi by Weyoun Voidbringer 02/28/2009, 9:17pm PST NEW
            found it :D hm why can't other posters be this helpful and synonym for useful by Weyoun Voidbringer 02/28/2009, 9:32pm PST NEW
 
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