Have to thank super sf4 for teaching me how to play fighting games. I've been playing them since the snes but it was with sf4 where i actually sat down and taught myself how to play and not just mash buttons.
I rented SF4 in '09 when it came out and got my ass beat online. I had no idea what I was doing outside of the normal motion attacks from Ryu/Ken and the like. Once I got to college, in 2011, and SSF4 was out, I had some friends at school that sat down and taught me how to do everything. My fighting game life changed after that moment. I am still here, year after year, because of SF4. Thank you, Street Fighter 4.
Price does the VA work for SSFIV and onward. Vanilla SFIV's announcer was different and the story there, from what I have heard from an interview (can't remember), is that Capcom had someone do the VA... and when the time came around for SSFIV, they could not find him back after his voice work was done. That SFIV announcer did had voice samples for Dee Jay and T.Hawk if you do data digging within the original SFIV audio data, which they didn't make the cut in vanilla SFIV. Eventually, those two character came through within SSFIV.
I always liked that when you did a super move, you'd see a literally reaction of "Oh shit!" surprise and shock on your opponent character's face- even if they weren't close enough to get hit, i thought it was a cool and funny touch capcom implemented into that game.
@@daviddennie4086 Honestly though, as a black guy myself, i have seen a good amount of brothas and sistas with some huge eyes. Two people that come to mind for the current time is youtubers "ignant rizzy" and "shuler king" those two brothas got some eye on them. 😂
SF4 will probably always be my favorite, everything in it just clicks for me, the visuals, the roster, *the music*, this game got me into fighting games and even tho I sucked at it I had a blast with it
This game is so fun to watch. The Excellent Adventures of Gootecks and Mike Ross is by far one of my fav fighting game video series. SF4's remixed OST is also absolutely top tier!
Max appearing on that show is how I discovered him and I’ve been a religious fan of him since. But that era of the FGC in general was just spectacular. The episodes of Cross Counter where they had a huge crew of the best FGC members running sets is nostalgic gold for me lol
Random anecdote, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Max years ago at Wednesday Night Fights back when it was at Proud Bird - I was going to FFA all the time to get footage of Evil Ryu and Oni. Max, you gave me a lot of great advice and inspiration that day, I'm still making content in largepart thanks to that.
FACTS as to why Street Fighter IV is a disappointing game: Street Fighter IV was nothing more than a mediocre game with that was a huge step back for the fighting game genre. SFIV is hands down one of worst looking games of the 7th gen. Every character looked bulky and had down syndrome. The music is pretty forgettable. Each track had that same tinning techno note that made the whole OST so repetitive and annoying. The gameplay is a simplistic, all you have to do it spam shorts and then lock your opponent into a 7 hit combo to take away 2/3 of their health. Don't worry, the losing player can use a ultra combo that rewarded to the player for playing badly. . . SFIV is bare bones as it had little to no single-player content. 6th gen fighters like DBZ Budakai 3 for PS2 blows SFIV out of the water in terms of single-player. As I said, SFIV is a huge step back for the genre. SFIV also had disc lock like costumes which were a FREE UNLOCKABLES in almost every polygon fighter starting from the 6th gen era. So yeah, SFIV was never good game. SFIV only succeeded based on the timing of its release, basically the opposite of SFIII failed launch. It's only well liked amongst those that were five-years-old and pretended to be like by shills of the FGC. Speaking of shills, you know the FGC is corrupt when DSP exposes them. . . . . . .
Lived in Japan when this came out, and I would regularly go to the spots where the pros would play in Tokyo and just watch. Loved it! Such fond memories. I don't think we'll ever get that again.
This is the "you have to be there" situation.. SF4 was soooooo big and the hype, excitement is something that hasn't been seeing for YEARS! Everyone was playing, the gorgeous art style,stages & everything, it was soo amazing, its really one of the best fighting games ever not just SF titles, and its impact is sooo massive, it really revived the 2D fighting game genre, now with SF6 we are entering a new era and SF6 looking like its gonna hit big! Funny enough SF6 its the highest rated fighting game since SF4! Full circle 😂❤ so many memories, just seeing these animations, characters, how the stages interact with each blow, its amazing, also its the reason why i started watching esport! That daigo vs Justin wong evo final was legendary! Since SF4 release i got to know everything about the FGC as a community! In the 90s and 2000s it was just the local scene and playing in the arcades but SF4 was something else that made ppl gather worldwide in a bigger way than before
A core memory from when I was younger was seeing my uncle’s sf4 mad catz stick and immediately falling in love with both the look of an arcade stick and the feel of one as well
I got sf4 back in 09 when i was in college. My friend would beat me over and over with ken and this continued on until ssf4ae2012. Fast forward to 2013 and i watched my first sf4 tournament online. From there a huge fire was lit inside me to get better at the game. I bought a fight stick and trained for months and i was still losing. But i didn't give up and i finally became good enough to not only beat my friend but gained a large understanding of the game. Thank you sf4. You really taught me what it means to strive for something you want badly.
I personally grew up with the 3DS edition, and it was awesome, the touchscreen moves were a great help to kid me who didn't know how to do special moves normally. Not to mention the game looked amazing too EDIT: After watching the video, I am disappointed that there was no mention whatsoever of 3DS edition
i feel like the era of sf4 was kind of like guitar hero 3 in a way, where it brought people in because they thought the certain was cool, while also looking cool, which made it cool and popular to play the game at he time also evil ryu and oni were the coolest parts of this game and will forever be my favorites
The Music, The Intro, The Art Style, The Variety of Characters, The Supers/Ultras, The Gameplay, The Ink Splash from Focus Attack, The Arcade Mode, The Rival Fights, The Secret Boss Fights, everything was so good. This was the game that made me a SF Fan.
17:51 That is a good lesson. I remember the words of Satoru Iwata (the ex president of Nintendo) when he talked to Sakurai about the success of Smash Bros: "People who loves games and are really good at games were once, at some point in the past, casual gamers themselves. That is why is so important to make sure that you continue to bring new gamers" "The appeal of Smash Bros. is that anyone can take a controller, readily pick up the fundamentals and, within the spam of ten minutes, a beginner can sit down and get loud with a pro and enjoy some exciting gameplay" Iwata was right
So privileged to have got into competitive fighters during sf4... i wasnt good at the time. Still really not a "competitor" but that era was filled with so much community and hype for a game we all played for a solid 10 years. Whats crazy is i have friends i met on xbox live 15 years ago that im still good friends with now (even tho we dont play sf4 like that anymore) to this day!
I love this whole recap on the streetfighter series before the next one comes out. A lot of history has happened, and I'm happy to see how the community has grown
All great Capcom games fall off and then come back just look at resident evil 6 and then look at resident evil 2 remake they all come back at some point the nostalgia will never stop and the first moments of adrenaline you feel from the gameplay is like Cammy ass you will never forget it and stop loving it!
You clearly don't know the history as to why SFIII wasn't a success. SFIII only failed based on the timing of its release while a mediocre game like SFIV succeeded for its timing of release.
SF4, especially Ultra, was a breath of fresh air to me. It almost taught me to get a full extent of almost every character. I Thank every pro, even you Max, for teaching some of the insight on the mechanics😊
Hope MK is great too! I grew up on MK but recently started branching out and I love all fighters for what they are and their differences! MK, Virtua Fighter and Street Fighter are my top 3 favorites Hope we get a VF6
To this day, the first two weeks of Super SF4 was probably the most fun I ever had with a fighting game. All 10 new characters dropped with the new version (unlike today where characters drop piecemeal during a "Season") never have I seen such character variety in online matches. It's like everyone collectively decided to break from picking the usual Shotos & Top Tiers to learn the new cast! It was great! ^^
Man this takes me back! SF4, SF2 HD Remix and Third Strike Online were my first Street Fighter games. I missed the arcade scene, but SF was a series I heard about and wanted to try. But during this period I only played 3D fighters and Smash. SF4 got me into the series and 2D fighting games in general!
I remember as a kid getting this game for $10 when it came out. It was priced wrong because there was two copies one was 10 and the other was 60. Went to the register and the lady was so confused why it was $10 but checked out the price tag and it was legit. Played Street fighter 4 a lot and this was a nice memory lane. Get video once again Max.
Vanilla SF4 - The era of have and have nots, being able to FADC DP into ultra was so ridiculously powerful a character basically either had it, or they weren't viable, and among those who had it, Sagat was king. Non-ex invincible DPs were just OP in general in this generation, since FADC made it safe even on block, and fire balls returned to being pretty good, albeit not ST levels of game defining. Despite some balance issues, this version will always hold a special place in my heart for bringing back SF, a franchise I don't think I quite realized how much I missed until I played SF4 for the first time. SF4 Home Edition - Not talked about in this video, but the home edition of vanilla, while not changing the balance of the arcade characters, added a ton of new home exclusive characters who were basically all ignored in competitive play because most tournaments were on arcade cabinets which didn't have them, so all of these characters showed up super low on tier charts till SSF4 when they were finally available in arcades, despite the fact characters like, say, Cammy, were actually quite strong, just the strong players weren't using her. SSF4 - Arguably the best version of the game, easily my favorite, significantly nerfed DPs and FADC into ultra, making characters with out DP into Ultra finally viable for the first time, and just generally compressed the tier lists as well as any SF game has ever such that an insane portion of the cast was viable and in the conversation for best in the game. Also added selectable Ultras ala-SF3, with many of them filling in gaps for characters who had largely useless or match up specific ultras in vanilla. Not relevant at high levels of play, but the nerf to DP also reduced the frequency of flow chart ken in lower levels of play, creating more variety at lower levels then ever before. SSF4 AE - Easily the worst version of the game, this version was so bad it eventually caused me to take a break from the game, which was really hard for me after how much I'd loved the first 3 versions. Yun was massively, and per interviews, intentionally, over tuned resulting in a stale meta of yun vs yun in nearly every tournament and at all levels I played at. Also I found oni and evil ryu super un-hype personally, game already felt bloated with shotos and they just added to the bloat. USF4 - Was briefly the best version of SF until people realized how busted Elena was. Never felt quite as bad as with Yun, more comparable to how strong Sagat was in vanilla, Elena users definitely still got upset all the time, but she was OP enough that she kept this from feeling like the definitive edition which for me, will always be SSF4. Also can confirm, almost no one I knew was hype for Decapre, the opinion always seemed to be that her inclusion felt like proof they were rushed and strapped for cash so they just re-used Cammy with a new skin, even if she did play quite uniquely.
SF4 was the game that really got me into properly learning Fighting Games and getting involved in the FGC. Finding your channel, watching your content from SF4 to UMVC, Assist Me, SF3 online warrior, etc. Loved your content for longest time. I have a lot of love for SF4 and i am grateful for how much it taught me. Keep it up Max! Would love to see you do some stuff with the The Vortex guys!
I remembered even around late 2007 when SF4 was announced. My friends and I were so hyped. We were all regulars at Arcade Infinity. And it felt like 100 years between then and the first time we got to play it at AI. We played SF3 religiously up until then too. I can't even describe how hyped we were.
I remember when SF4 was first revealed. I was sick at home from school, and I was on my PS3 looking up new trailers on the PS Store, and I saw the gameplay reveal for SF4. It had me so hyped that it brought me back into Street Fighter as a whole. I kept watching this trailer over and over every day until it came out. I even pre-ordered the game when the pre-orders were available. I played the hell out of it, dominated the ranked leaderboards (to an extent) and just had so much fun with my friends, even my brother, who didnt like fighting games, even wanted to play it with me too.
This is so crazy, I remember I was about to graduate highschool senior year when this came out, I was so excited SF was making a mainstream return ❤️. Can’t wait for SF6
Super/Ultra SF 4 holds a dear place in my heart. I put so much time into Gouken. It was the joy of playing a legendary name from the SF lore to me. Sure I enjoyed other characters (Fei Long, Gen and Yun mostly) but that was such a wonderful time. My PS3 is always at the ready for it and SFVT when I want to revisit them.
I remember going to an arcade while I was visiting Tokyo for a couple of days, and there were just rows upon rows of SF4 machines and they were all networked up, fun times.
the game responsible for my love for street fighter and fighting games in general. it will always have a special place in my heart, especially the vanilla version: the characters, the music, the intro, the announcer, the style.. what a great, great chapter.
Max: Oh, it's just Cammy, but not. Max earlier in the same video: Street Fighter IV gets really really interesting when these nutty-ass characters (Evil Ryu and Oni) get added. Love you Max. Ya make me laugh.
Building up to US console release, I used to drive from Reno, NV to Davis, CA just to play on the closest cab at the University fun center. The line was frequently out the door, and you'd bide your time til your turn with CVS2, Third Strike, MVC2, and 2nd Impact if you had to. The hype was real.
I remember how hyped i was for usf4 after sf4 getting me into this. it was literally priced £15 for pre order. No corporate greed fair price. I remember coming back from my uni dorm to find it’s been sent through my post in my home town, Best feeling ever!
Street fighter 4 on the 3ds was my first fighting game in like middle school lmao I remember thinking it was sooo weird pressing back to block instead of blocking having its own button
About a year or so prior to the release of SF4, I remember seeing retrospective top 10 lists being done for the fighting game genre w/ the content creators reminiscing about a supposedly dying trend of the past. Talk about aging like milk.
Maaaan, I remember when SF4 came out in arcades. I had moved to LA about a year before it released in arcades, and I was able to catch the hype at Family Fun Arcade before it closed down. The hype was unreal, brought me back to the heyday 90s. I bought Super SF4 on PS3 and played it for awhile, then it just got stale for me and I stopped playing. I occasionally play Ultra SF4 on Steam, but never got super deep into it like I did with the Alpha series. I was honestly just excited that SF was back.
I HAVE A SEVERE EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TO STREET FIGHTER IV! I might have been the only person who has a strong attachment to all the newcomers that were first introduced in this game (except Rufus) and let's not forget THAT UNFORGETABLE SOUNDTRACK! THIS SOUNDTRACK CEMENTED HIDEYUKI FUKASAWA AS ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE VIDEO GAME COMPOSERS PERIOD!! (He even did the soundtrack for Marvel VS Capcom 3 and a few bangers in Street Fighter V)
This was pretty much my first street fighter since 2 turbo in the early 90's. I absolutely adore SF4, and the Shoto fighters that inspired me to pick up martial arts.
I love SF IV for so many reasons. The art style was unique, the new play mechanic was simple to understand but incredibly deep on both an offensive and defensive level, and the game felt so satisfying to play. I remember the hype around this game and it creating a buzz around the genre that hadn't been there since seemingly the late 90's, as all the various other games (including some from Capcom) meant that Capcom was competing against itself much of the time. But this game stood out. It was just as much fun to watch as it was to play, and I have many memories teaching my young nephew the special moves. I still play it today, and it is my favorite Street Fighter. And yes, Indestructible is awesome.
I remember playing sf2 back in the early 90’s at a movie theater and I was blown away! And eventually got it on snes for Christmas. Me my brother and neighborhood friends would trade off playing it for hours. This will be my 1st SF since Sf4 and I can’t wait!!!
I'm from granada hills, I remember seeing you at family fun arcade, good times. There was so much hype when they imported the SF4 Cabinets prior to its console release, and when evil ryu and oni seemingly randomly showed up. Loved that arcade!
We just have to think about it. I was born in 98 so I didn't grew up with fighting games in the arcade. I played them casually, like soul calibur 3 on ps2 on sf4 on 360 and of course I got angry, I was an f'n casual. But then I found that one friend in school, he sadly passed away but he'll be in my heart forever, we played so many fighting games and digged into competitive. We always tried to match and get better than the other but we grew together. And if there is ONE fighting game to thank for, it is street fighter. Street Fighter is THE fighting game. We started playing sf4 on 3ds with the auto special help it gave and then went to pc, learned the motion inputs, got consistent and before we could realize it, we were a part of the fgc. Thanks street fighter, for giving us that great time and opportunity EDIT: I also met a lot of amazing people over the years over open rooms or what its called in english, I got completely destroyed but I learned stuff and met nice people on the way, the community is just amazing
Man, Cody in SSFIV is my absolute favorite fighting game character! Totally fell in love with his style and I would love to get some kind of variation of him in SFVI in the future.
The game that started my competitive drive. I will forever love this game. Not to mention, nothing will ever touch the hype this game did when evo was going on at that time. Rivals and so much more storylines happened. Forever grateful for this game
That Kara motion for Ken is so difficult. It took me a month to do Ryu DP FADC into ultra. Ken’s Kara throw inputs are hard to master. In the corner, it’s even more menacing. Definitely worth getting down 100%.
I remember sitting down and watching my brothers play this when I was still in elementary school. One of them got so good to the point where the other started banning characters 😂 So he ended up learning even more of the cast to the point where he beat him with Dan. That was the last time my oldest brother played and the beginning to when I joined in. It's kind of sad in hindsight but it was really funny back in the day, wish I could go back and relive that moment.
Street Fighter IV was the game that made me go from someone who plays fighting games to a fighting game player who wanted to learn something deeper than just mashing buttons and throwing out the occassional hadouken. I'll always appreciate it for that.
SSF4 was the first fighting game I properly tried to learn and I had to do it all by myself in bumfuck Iceland in 2010, took forever to become what is today Bronze level. But it was thanks to content creators like you Max making videos like the MvC3 Online Warrior series in 2011 that I kept going and I'm still here 13 years later. I miss watching the incredible matches in SF4 tournaments but SF6 has so far been awesome and I look forward to its future.
Possibly the first non-Smash fighting game tournament I ever saw was a Top 8 dominated by Elena. How I decided to get into fighting games after seeing that is beyond me.
I was obsessed with Street Fighter IV at the time but never had the chance to play it online or my city had any sort of local FGC. It was kind of sad, but with Street Fighter 6 this is going to be different. Can't wait to play the game with you all.
The opening to Super Street Fighter 4 gets me pumped every time. Well... not the middle third, but the first and last fights, with Ryu/Ken, and Cammy/Jury/Chun-Li. That shit is sauce.
something worth noting with omega mode is that while a lot of the new things characters got weren't directly carried over into sf5 there are a few cases where they definitely did use a concept from omega mode for a different character, like omega Hugo had a parry/counter which functioned nearly identically to how Abigail's v skill 1 would later function in SF5, for example
Super street fighter 4 got me in to street fighter thankfully. This game made me go through 2 disks due to laser burns and 2 controllers due to stick drift kicking in, and I don't regret it
Great video, love the detail and insight into the competitive scene and community around that time! I do wish you went a little more into the characters and overall content that 4 added. I’m someone who owned the original Street Fighter 4 long after all the update versions have dropped, but getting even somewhat familiar with Juri-Han through the fandom/community is what got me both invested in the series and also fighting games as a whole. I think there’s a lot of stories like this with other characters as well! ^^ I respect the focus on the competitive scene but I think there’s a lot of value in acknowledging both a little more, and that variety is how SF4 was such a big success. ^^
Sf4 hold a big part of my heart i still go back and play once in a while online community was absolutely amazing back in the day used to get on daily talking smack and playing matches ended up going to a few tournaments meeting people and fell in love with fighting games even met up with a few xbox sf homies this game was a masterpiece of a fighting game sf6 looks promising cant wait
Man I was so excited to see Street Fighter 4 come out! I though it was done! Had some good times with it and some great matches! I hadn't played Street Fighter in awhile before this came out. But was glad to see I could pick right up from Street Fighter 2 and jump into the game!
Have to thank super sf4 for teaching me how to play fighting games. I've been playing them since the snes but it was with sf4 where i actually sat down and taught myself how to play and not just mash buttons.
Me too
Facts me too brother I was a deejay and balrog main and I learned most my skills from that game
I rented SF4 in '09 when it came out and got my ass beat online. I had no idea what I was doing outside of the normal motion attacks from Ryu/Ken and the like. Once I got to college, in 2011, and SSF4 was out, I had some friends at school that sat down and taught me how to do everything. My fighting game life changed after that moment. I am still here, year after year, because of SF4. Thank you, Street Fighter 4.
Same bro
Same as you 👍 (well I started a little bit with Vanilla SF4, but really started learning for real with SSF4)
*Fun Fact:* The voice of SFIV's announcer also voices Paul Phoenix in Tekken 8.
Price does the VA work for SSFIV and onward. Vanilla SFIV's announcer was different and the story there, from what I have heard from an interview (can't remember), is that Capcom had someone do the VA... and when the time came around for SSFIV, they could not find him back after his voice work was done. That SFIV announcer did had voice samples for Dee Jay and T.Hawk if you do data digging within the original SFIV audio data, which they didn't make the cut in vanilla SFIV. Eventually, those two character came through within SSFIV.
I always liked that when you did a super move, you'd see a literally reaction of "Oh shit!" surprise and shock on your opponent character's face- even if they weren't close enough to get hit, i thought it was a cool and funny touch capcom implemented into that game.
Especially how racist it was with Balrog eye's I'm just saying Balrog look like Mr popo from dragon Ball z before you hit him with a super move!
@David Dennie that's a reach
Blanka hates it! 😂 My favorite visual is Shin Shoryuken, hands down. Ryu's win animation in 6 is also sublime. 👌
@@daviddennie4086 His eyes were damn near coming out their sockets 😂
@@daviddennie4086 Honestly though, as a black guy myself, i have seen a good amount of brothas and sistas with some huge eyes. Two people that come to mind for the current time is youtubers "ignant rizzy" and "shuler king" those two brothas got some eye on them. 😂
SF4 will probably always be my favorite, everything in it just clicks for me, the visuals, the roster, *the music*, this game got me into fighting games and even tho I sucked at it I had a blast with it
Same vanilla SF even though looking back now was the shit. Tournament mode and the corny music too 🔥🔥
Street fighter legacy will never die as long as Chun li thighs and legs are are around to say aknowledge me!
I sucked at first too, but then I began to master it, and starting beating people. I still suck at other Capcom fighters though lol.
The game that got you into it is always going to be important.
Indestructible" from Exile and Flo Rida is a certified classic banger!
SF IV "Is that fighting game that you always come back" no matter the years, because the gameplay, the stages, characters and the music.
WELL SAID!!!
Same as MK 9 too me
3rd Strike
This game is so fun to watch. The Excellent Adventures of Gootecks and Mike Ross is by far one of my fav fighting game video series. SF4's remixed OST is also absolutely top tier!
Max appearing on that show is how I discovered him and I’ve been a religious fan of him since. But that era of the FGC in general was just spectacular. The episodes of Cross Counter where they had a huge crew of the best FGC members running sets is nostalgic gold for me lol
Indestructible" from Exile and Flo Rida is a certified classic banger!
Great commentary; haven't thought about those bozos in years..
Miss Mike Russ!!
Watch versus vortex. Its Mike ross playing SF6 and other fighting games with xian
Random anecdote, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Max years ago at Wednesday Night Fights back when it was at Proud Bird - I was going to FFA all the time to get footage of Evil Ryu and Oni. Max, you gave me a lot of great advice and inspiration that day, I'm still making content in largepart thanks to that.
Hard to believe it’s been 15 years since Street Fighter’s biggest return, used to be incredibly hyped about it as a teen.
Now it’s back again with SF6
I gave your comment a like because you're Carbuncle from Puyo Puyo.
FACTS as to why Street Fighter IV is a disappointing game:
Street Fighter IV was nothing more than a mediocre game with that was a huge step back for the fighting game genre.
SFIV is hands down one of worst looking games of the 7th gen. Every character looked bulky and had down syndrome.
The music is pretty forgettable. Each track had that same tinning techno note that made the whole OST so repetitive and annoying.
The gameplay is a simplistic, all you have to do it spam shorts and then lock your opponent into a 7 hit combo to take away 2/3 of their health. Don't worry, the losing player can use a ultra combo that rewarded to the player for playing badly. . .
SFIV is bare bones as it had little to no single-player content. 6th gen fighters like DBZ Budakai 3 for PS2 blows SFIV out of the water in terms of single-player. As I said, SFIV is a huge step back for the genre.
SFIV also had disc lock like costumes which were a FREE UNLOCKABLES in almost every polygon fighter starting from the 6th gen era.
So yeah, SFIV was never good game. SFIV only succeeded based on the timing of its release, basically the opposite of SFIII failed launch. It's only well liked amongst those that were five-years-old and pretended to be like by shills of the FGC. Speaking of shills, you know the FGC is corrupt when DSP exposes them. . . . . . .
@@Noname15514 Street Fighter 5 was trash and simple to play
@@Noname15514 SF4 was awesome
Thanks to Sagat in vanilla sf4, I began Muay Thai
I have to credit street fighter for my life ❤
If only sagat was in street fighter 6 we can all dream!
@@daviddennie4086 maybe in year 2 or 3 dlc
Dude, I started Muay Thai after playing Adon in SF Alpha.
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Lived in Japan when this came out, and I would regularly go to the spots where the pros would play in Tokyo and just watch. Loved it! Such fond memories. I don't think we'll ever get that again.
This is the "you have to be there" situation.. SF4 was soooooo big and the hype, excitement is something that hasn't been seeing for YEARS! Everyone was playing, the gorgeous art style,stages & everything, it was soo amazing, its really one of the best fighting games ever not just SF titles, and its impact is sooo massive, it really revived the 2D fighting game genre, now with SF6 we are entering a new era and SF6 looking like its gonna hit big! Funny enough SF6 its the highest rated fighting game since SF4! Full circle 😂❤ so many memories, just seeing these animations, characters, how the stages interact with each blow, its amazing, also its the reason why i started watching esport! That daigo vs Justin wong evo final was legendary! Since SF4 release i got to know everything about the FGC as a community! In the 90s and 2000s it was just the local scene and playing in the arcades but SF4 was something else that made ppl gather worldwide in a bigger way than before
Between this and Marvel 3 it really felt like Fighting games were BACK
A core memory from when I was younger was seeing my uncle’s sf4 mad catz stick and immediately falling in love with both the look of an arcade stick and the feel of one as well
I got sf4 back in 09 when i was in college. My friend would beat me over and over with ken and this continued on until ssf4ae2012. Fast forward to 2013 and i watched my first sf4 tournament online. From there a huge fire was lit inside me to get better at the game. I bought a fight stick and trained for months and i was still losing. But i didn't give up and i finally became good enough to not only beat my friend but gained a large understanding of the game. Thank you sf4. You really taught me what it means to strive for something you want badly.
I personally grew up with the 3DS edition, and it was awesome, the touchscreen moves were a great help to kid me who didn't know how to do special moves normally. Not to mention the game looked amazing too
EDIT: After watching the video, I am disappointed that there was no mention whatsoever of 3DS edition
Same here with everything you mentioned!
i feel like the era of sf4 was kind of like guitar hero 3 in a way, where it brought people in because they thought the certain was cool, while also looking cool, which made it cool and popular to play the game at he time
also evil ryu and oni were the coolest parts of this game and will forever be my favorites
The Music, The Intro, The Art Style, The Variety of Characters, The Supers/Ultras, The Gameplay, The Ink Splash from Focus Attack, The Arcade Mode, The Rival Fights, The Secret Boss Fights, everything was so good.
This was the game that made me a SF Fan.
17:51 That is a good lesson.
I remember the words of Satoru Iwata (the ex president of Nintendo) when he talked to Sakurai about the success of Smash Bros:
"People who loves games and are really good at games were once, at some point in the past, casual gamers themselves. That is why is so important to make sure that you continue to bring new gamers"
"The appeal of Smash Bros. is that anyone can take a controller, readily pick up the fundamentals and, within the spam of ten minutes, a beginner can sit down and get loud with a pro and enjoy some exciting gameplay"
Iwata was right
So privileged to have got into competitive fighters during sf4... i wasnt good at the time. Still really not a "competitor" but that era was filled with so much community and hype for a game we all played for a solid 10 years.
Whats crazy is i have friends i met on xbox live 15 years ago that im still good friends with now (even tho we dont play sf4 like that anymore) to this day!
I love this whole recap on the streetfighter series before the next one comes out. A lot of history has happened, and I'm happy to see how the community has grown
Street Fighter IV got me into Street Fighter the franchise. Also, I learned about frame rates from its guide.
I love the boss rage against Oni in this game.
It's a miracle this franchise is still going, after the rocky hill that was New Gen!
Try SFV trash start too. 6 is gonna be something special. Two more days!
All great Capcom games fall off and then come back just look at resident evil 6 and then look at resident evil 2 remake they all come back at some point the nostalgia will never stop and the first moments of adrenaline you feel from the gameplay is like Cammy ass you will never forget it and stop loving it!
@@daviddennie4086 RE is a weird case.
The hate boner for 6 was exaggerated, and the normal boner for 7 was IMO kinda unfounded
Indestructible" from Exile and Flo Rida is a certified classic banger!
You clearly don't know the history as to why SFIII wasn't a success. SFIII only failed based on the timing of its release while a mediocre game like SFIV succeeded for its timing of release.
I flew to Japan for SF4's arcade launch. That was a hell of a week. All the SF4 versions will always hold a large place in my heart ❤
SF4, especially Ultra, was a breath of fresh air to me. It almost taught me to get a full extent of almost every character. I Thank every pro, even you Max, for teaching some of the insight on the mechanics😊
My turn to say that i love to hear Max talking about all of Street Fighter games
Hope MK is great too! I grew up on MK but recently started branching out and I love all fighters for what they are and their differences!
MK, Virtua Fighter and Street Fighter are my top 3 favorites
Hope we get a VF6
It's the way to be!
Us fighting game fans are eating well lately
Hope we get a new dark stalkers, rival schools, eternal champions , vf6 , dead or alive 7 , bloody roar , and battle arena toshiden remake
@@bigloc3442 be perfect timing it’s like a fighting game renaissance
You must play SNK titles you gonna love them!
@@Lloydo111 I’ll check them out🫡
SF4 got me into street fighter and fighting games in general! Never looked back 😊
What a time to be alive back then
To this day, the first two weeks of Super SF4 was probably the most fun I ever had with a fighting game. All 10 new characters dropped with the new version (unlike today where characters drop piecemeal during a "Season") never have I seen such character variety in online matches. It's like everyone collectively decided to break from picking the usual Shotos & Top Tiers to learn the new cast! It was great! ^^
SF4 was the game that made me love fighting games again, I was never good at it but I had a lot fun trying to learn and watching events.
The SF4 theme (Indestructible) is easy contender for GOAT
Man this takes me back! SF4, SF2 HD Remix and Third Strike Online were my first Street Fighter games.
I missed the arcade scene, but SF was a series I heard about and wanted to try. But during this period I only played 3D fighters and Smash.
SF4 got me into the series and 2D fighting games in general!
I remember as a kid getting this game for $10 when it came out. It was priced wrong because there was two copies one was 10 and the other was 60. Went to the register and the lady was so confused why it was $10 but checked out the price tag and it was legit. Played Street fighter 4 a lot and this was a nice memory lane. Get video once again Max.
the original character select theme for this game was top tier
Man I had SF4 for the 3ds I was simply amazed by it growing up on Tekken and Street fighter
Vanilla SF4 - The era of have and have nots, being able to FADC DP into ultra was so ridiculously powerful a character basically either had it, or they weren't viable, and among those who had it, Sagat was king. Non-ex invincible DPs were just OP in general in this generation, since FADC made it safe even on block, and fire balls returned to being pretty good, albeit not ST levels of game defining. Despite some balance issues, this version will always hold a special place in my heart for bringing back SF, a franchise I don't think I quite realized how much I missed until I played SF4 for the first time.
SF4 Home Edition - Not talked about in this video, but the home edition of vanilla, while not changing the balance of the arcade characters, added a ton of new home exclusive characters who were basically all ignored in competitive play because most tournaments were on arcade cabinets which didn't have them, so all of these characters showed up super low on tier charts till SSF4 when they were finally available in arcades, despite the fact characters like, say, Cammy, were actually quite strong, just the strong players weren't using her.
SSF4 - Arguably the best version of the game, easily my favorite, significantly nerfed DPs and FADC into ultra, making characters with out DP into Ultra finally viable for the first time, and just generally compressed the tier lists as well as any SF game has ever such that an insane portion of the cast was viable and in the conversation for best in the game. Also added selectable Ultras ala-SF3, with many of them filling in gaps for characters who had largely useless or match up specific ultras in vanilla. Not relevant at high levels of play, but the nerf to DP also reduced the frequency of flow chart ken in lower levels of play, creating more variety at lower levels then ever before.
SSF4 AE - Easily the worst version of the game, this version was so bad it eventually caused me to take a break from the game, which was really hard for me after how much I'd loved the first 3 versions. Yun was massively, and per interviews, intentionally, over tuned resulting in a stale meta of yun vs yun in nearly every tournament and at all levels I played at. Also I found oni and evil ryu super un-hype personally, game already felt bloated with shotos and they just added to the bloat.
USF4 - Was briefly the best version of SF until people realized how busted Elena was. Never felt quite as bad as with Yun, more comparable to how strong Sagat was in vanilla, Elena users definitely still got upset all the time, but she was OP enough that she kept this from feeling like the definitive edition which for me, will always be SSF4. Also can confirm, almost no one I knew was hype for Decapre, the opinion always seemed to be that her inclusion felt like proof they were rushed and strapped for cash so they just re-used Cammy with a new skin, even if she did play quite uniquely.
Would love to see a Mortal Kombat Legacy series just like this series. Its been such a joy watching these.
SF4 was the game that really got me into properly learning Fighting Games and getting involved in the FGC. Finding your channel, watching your content from SF4 to UMVC, Assist Me, SF3 online warrior, etc. Loved your content for longest time. I have a lot of love for SF4 and i am grateful for how much it taught me. Keep it up Max! Would love to see you do some stuff with the The Vortex guys!
I remembered even around late 2007 when SF4 was announced. My friends and I were so hyped. We were all regulars at Arcade Infinity. And it felt like 100 years between then and the first time we got to play it at AI. We played SF3 religiously up until then too. I can't even describe how hyped we were.
SF4 is 15 years old, wow I remember playing this game along with COD back in late 2000's and early 2010's
IV was the most hyped I was for a new SF game; before VI.
Still remember getting it early at a lil mom and pop game store, back in the day.
I remember when SF4 was first revealed. I was sick at home from school, and I was on my PS3 looking up new trailers on the PS Store, and I saw the gameplay reveal for SF4. It had me so hyped that it brought me back into Street Fighter as a whole. I kept watching this trailer over and over every day until it came out. I even pre-ordered the game when the pre-orders were available. I played the hell out of it, dominated the ranked leaderboards (to an extent) and just had so much fun with my friends, even my brother, who didnt like fighting games, even wanted to play it with me too.
This is so crazy, I remember I was about to graduate highschool senior year when this came out, I was so excited SF was making a mainstream return ❤️. Can’t wait for SF6
I found Max videos through street fighter 4 in the old days. It was what kind of got me into fighting games, and his videos really helped me.
Super/Ultra SF 4 holds a dear place in my heart. I put so much time into Gouken. It was the joy of playing a legendary name from the SF lore to me. Sure I enjoyed other characters (Fei Long, Gen and Yun mostly) but that was such a wonderful time. My PS3 is always at the ready for it and SFVT when I want to revisit them.
Love gouken!
Damn, you really are lining this series to end RIGHT on launch day of SF6. Love the lead up release schedule of these videos!
The second intro theme is the best fighting game soundtrack ever made for Street Fighter.
I remember going to an arcade while I was visiting Tokyo for a couple of days, and there were just rows upon rows of SF4 machines and they were all networked up, fun times.
the game responsible for my love for street fighter and fighting games in general. it will always have a special place in my heart, especially the vanilla version: the characters, the music, the intro, the announcer, the style.. what a great, great chapter.
Max: Oh, it's just Cammy, but not.
Max earlier in the same video: Street Fighter IV gets really really interesting when these nutty-ass characters (Evil Ryu and Oni) get added.
Love you Max. Ya make me laugh.
Building up to US console release, I used to drive from Reno, NV to Davis, CA just to play on the closest cab at the University fun center. The line was frequently out the door, and you'd bide your time til your turn with CVS2, Third Strike, MVC2, and 2nd Impact if you had to. The hype was real.
I remember how hyped i was for usf4 after sf4 getting me into this. it was literally priced £15 for pre order. No corporate greed fair price. I remember coming back from my uni dorm to find it’s been sent through my post in my home town, Best feeling ever!
Sf4 was my first foray into fighting games. What a masterpiece. Thanks for the throwback!
SF4 came out while I was in HS and literally me and the boyz had this in heavy rotation, with Halo 3 and Gears 2. What a time
There will never be a more perfect roster than this game's roster. Every shoto, every SSF2T character, Evil Ryu, Alpha and 3 characters, oh man!
Street Fighter 4 really blows my mind when I first play the game. The visuals were beautiful and the music remix for each character was awesome.
Street fighter 4 on the 3ds was my first fighting game in like middle school lmao I remember thinking it was sooo weird pressing back to block instead of blocking having its own button
Damn, these videos have been coming out pretty fast! And they're pretty great too!
I remember playing SF 4 during my first tour in Afghanistan in 2009. My Sergeant would flex on the whole troop by beating everyone with Dan.
About a year or so prior to the release of SF4, I remember seeing retrospective top 10 lists being done for the fighting game genre w/ the content creators reminiscing about a supposedly dying trend of the past. Talk about aging like milk.
The output frequency on these quality SF videos have been crazy, just a few days before another 20+ minutes of Dood.
This drastically propelled me back into Street Fighter one of my favorite games ever. Always a special place on my shelf for that one
Maaaan, I remember when SF4 came out in arcades. I had moved to LA about a year before it released in arcades, and I was able to catch the hype at Family Fun Arcade before it closed down. The hype was unreal, brought me back to the heyday 90s. I bought Super SF4 on PS3 and played it for awhile, then it just got stale for me and I stopped playing. I occasionally play Ultra SF4 on Steam, but never got super deep into it like I did with the Alpha series. I was honestly just excited that SF was back.
Man I was amped when SF4 came back! I thought it was over! This brought me back in!
I HAVE A SEVERE EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TO STREET FIGHTER IV!
I might have been the only person who has a strong attachment to all the newcomers that were first introduced in this game (except Rufus) and let's not forget THAT UNFORGETABLE SOUNDTRACK! THIS SOUNDTRACK CEMENTED HIDEYUKI FUKASAWA AS ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE VIDEO GAME COMPOSERS PERIOD!!
(He even did the soundtrack for Marvel VS Capcom 3 and a few bangers in Street Fighter V)
SF4 3D edition was my very first fighting game and the series as a whole holds such a special place in my heart.
INDESTRUCTIBLE!
This was pretty much my first street fighter since 2 turbo in the early 90's.
I absolutely adore SF4, and the Shoto fighters that inspired me to pick up martial arts.
The old footage SF4 from the arcades is giving me DSP flashbacks
Really enjoy listening to Max in these type vids and all the fighting game knowledge he gives us.
I love SF IV for so many reasons. The art style was unique, the new play mechanic was simple to understand but incredibly deep on both an offensive and defensive level, and the game felt so satisfying to play. I remember the hype around this game and it creating a buzz around the genre that hadn't been there since seemingly the late 90's, as all the various other games (including some from Capcom) meant that Capcom was competing against itself much of the time. But this game stood out. It was just as much fun to watch as it was to play, and I have many memories teaching my young nephew the special moves. I still play it today, and it is my favorite Street Fighter. And yes, Indestructible is awesome.
I remember playing sf2 back in the early 90’s at a movie theater and I was blown away! And eventually got it on snes for Christmas. Me my brother and neighborhood friends would trade off playing it for hours. This will be my 1st SF since Sf4 and I can’t wait!!!
I believe SF4AE remains my favorite SF yet.
Absolutely Loving this recap on SF History! Thank you so much, Max!
You are one cool dood!! 🤘😎
I'm from granada hills, I remember seeing you at family fun arcade, good times.
There was so much hype when they imported the SF4 Cabinets prior to its console release, and when evil ryu and oni seemingly randomly showed up.
Loved that arcade!
Such fond memorys from this game, playing with my brother for hours in the summer. Will always apreciate sf4.
The intro still is an absolute nostalgia bomb, for me
I haven’t heard it in years. Brought me to tears 😢
We just have to think about it. I was born in 98 so I didn't grew up with fighting games in the arcade. I played them casually, like soul calibur 3 on ps2 on sf4 on 360 and of course I got angry, I was an f'n casual. But then I found that one friend in school, he sadly passed away but he'll be in my heart forever, we played so many fighting games and digged into competitive. We always tried to match and get better than the other but we grew together. And if there is ONE fighting game to thank for, it is street fighter. Street Fighter is THE fighting game. We started playing sf4 on 3ds with the auto special help it gave and then went to pc, learned the motion inputs, got consistent and before we could realize it, we were a part of the fgc. Thanks street fighter, for giving us that great time and opportunity
EDIT: I also met a lot of amazing people over the years over open rooms or what its called in english, I got completely destroyed but I learned stuff and met nice people on the way, the community is just amazing
Man, Cody in SSFIV is my absolute favorite fighting game character! Totally fell in love with his style and I would love to get some kind of variation of him in SFVI in the future.
The game that started my competitive drive. I will forever love this game. Not to mention, nothing will ever touch the hype this game did when evo was going on at that time. Rivals and so much more storylines happened. Forever grateful for this game
Man I remember all my hommies and my girl would play this all day some of us had custom sf4 fight sticks what a time
Awesome video Max! Nostalgia hit me hard
That Kara motion for Ken is so difficult. It took me a month to do Ryu DP FADC into ultra. Ken’s Kara throw inputs are hard to master. In the corner, it’s even more menacing. Definitely worth getting down 100%.
I remember sitting down and watching my brothers play this when I was still in elementary school. One of them got so good to the point where the other started banning characters 😂 So he ended up learning even more of the cast to the point where he beat him with Dan. That was the last time my oldest brother played and the beginning to when I joined in. It's kind of sad in hindsight but it was really funny back in the day, wish I could go back and relive that moment.
Damn big bro had to sit the controller down for you to pick it up 😢
"Indestructible" from Exile and Flo Rida is a certified classic banger!
Street Fighter IV was the game that made me go from someone who plays fighting games to a fighting game player who wanted to learn something deeper than just mashing buttons and throwing out the occassional hadouken. I'll always appreciate it for that.
Thank you so much for going back in History the last few weeks.. really enjoyed it
SSF4 was the first fighting game I properly tried to learn and I had to do it all by myself in bumfuck Iceland in 2010, took forever to become what is today Bronze level. But it was thanks to content creators like you Max making videos like the MvC3 Online Warrior series in 2011 that I kept going and I'm still here 13 years later. I miss watching the incredible matches in SF4 tournaments but SF6 has so far been awesome and I look forward to its future.
Possibly the first non-Smash fighting game tournament I ever saw was a Top 8 dominated by Elena. How I decided to get into fighting games after seeing that is beyond me.
This is where my passion for street fighter started
I was obsessed with Street Fighter IV at the time but never had the chance to play it online or my city had any sort of local FGC.
It was kind of sad, but with Street Fighter 6 this is going to be different. Can't wait to play the game with you all.
The opening to Super Street Fighter 4 gets me pumped every time. Well... not the middle third, but the first and last fights, with Ryu/Ken, and Cammy/Jury/Chun-Li. That shit is sauce.
something worth noting with omega mode is that while a lot of the new things characters got weren't directly carried over into sf5 there are a few cases where they definitely did use a concept from omega mode for a different character, like omega Hugo had a parry/counter which functioned nearly identically to how Abigail's v skill 1 would later function in SF5, for example
One of the first games that i played on the xbox 360 as a young kid other than lego batman, that intro is pure nostalgia
Super street fighter 4 got me in to street fighter thankfully. This game made me go through 2 disks due to laser burns and 2 controllers due to stick drift kicking in, and I don't regret it
Street fighter 4 was not only my first street fighter game but the first fighting game ive ever played. This game still looks great
I remember an arcade I would regularly go to in Japan actually had 16 SF4 cabs back to back!
played SF4 recently after playing SF6. I forgot how ridiculously fluid the fighting is in comparison.
My best street fighter moments were with SFA2 and SF4. Alot of good memories learning and playing against friends.
Great video, love the detail and insight into the competitive scene and community around that time!
I do wish you went a little more into the characters and overall content that 4 added.
I’m someone who owned the original Street Fighter 4 long after all the update versions have dropped, but getting even somewhat familiar with Juri-Han through the fandom/community is what got me both invested in the series and also fighting games as a whole.
I think there’s a lot of stories like this with other characters as well! ^^ I respect the focus on the competitive scene but I think there’s a lot of value in acknowledging both a little more, and that variety is how SF4 was such a big success. ^^
Sf4 hold a big part of my heart i still go back and play once in a while online community was absolutely amazing back in the day used to get on daily talking smack and playing matches ended up going to a few tournaments meeting people and fell in love with fighting games even met up with a few xbox sf homies this game was a masterpiece of a fighting game sf6 looks promising cant wait
Man I was so excited to see Street Fighter 4 come out! I though it was done! Had some good times with it and some great matches! I hadn't played Street Fighter in awhile before this came out. But was glad to see I could pick right up from Street Fighter 2 and jump into the game!