Brandon Sheffield writes:Yoshinori Ono is Capcom's big rising star. He's the face of Street Fighter's reinvention with Street Fighter IV, brought back Marvel vs. Capcom for a third installment, and is now crossing over with Tekken.
His games have been multi-million sellers, and for all the gripes from the hardcore community, they sure do play these games a lot.
Michael 'BrolyLegs' Begum, beloved Street Fighter icon, has passed at 35, leaving behind a legacy of courage and inspiration.
Damn, this guy was amazing and very courageous. It was unbelieveable how good he was at Street Fighter. Playing the game basically with his mouth. RIP.
The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?
After Street Fighter II released in in 1991, it caused a fighting game explosion, both in arcades and in home consoles. But, as the decade ended, and arcades were failing, so too were 2D Fighting games. This is how Street Fighter IV completely revitalized the genre.
I'd say Blazblue helped too. Didn't care for Street Fighter 4, but Blazblue was amazing during that time. Sad that the series kind of went downhill after the first 2 or 3 games though.
BlazBlue was the much better, more technical game..and a real 2D Fighting Game after all. But yes, since it was a big name..the characters were still popular and the game itself was good, SFIV indeed helped a lot. However, I am pretty sure the much better-selling Mortal Kombat 9 would have been done without SFIV as well..and that one truly helped to make the fighting game genre in general more popular again.
eyyy max xD
one of the very few streamers i can actually watch without it being cringe and awful ha.
The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.
SF x Tekken looks amazing. Cannot wait to see the next fighters.
i have seen this guy everywhere that involves sf but all i know about him is that hes the producers of the games but is he the creator or something? anyone care to explain and skool me a bit?
am still waiting for SNK VS CAPCOM 3