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Street Fighter IV Already Broken?

OXM reports that an infinite combo for El Fuerte has been found in Street Fighter IV.

The discovery came from America just weeks after Street Fighter IV made its public arcade debut there. The infinite sees El Fuerte cancelling standing fierce punch into a cancelled run, over and over again. The only break in the combo comes when the opponent is dizzied but El Blaze can simply start the infinite again.

All eyes are on Capcom to see how they deal with this discovery. Is this something they will ignore or something that will be fixed for the console release? Only time will tell.

TOSgamer5717d ago

But this may ruin the arcade experience for a lot of people...

Ozzyb5717d ago (Edited 5717d ago )

They had better fix it! This is the biggest "no-no" in any fighting game! So if you get caught by one combo, you automatically lose the match? Better believe they will fix that. I don't hold it against them for missing it, but I would if they left it there.

(Didn't mean to reply to you, just meant to post in general_ XD

sumfood4u5716d ago

But this isnt nothing new, the old Street Fighter II had a bug in the Arcades, but switched it up when it hit SNES & Sega! Pros like me know what move I'm talking bout. its none other than Guile's Handcuffs
it will make the Game freeze if you don't throw them off all you do is do his Flip Blade Kick Medium Kick & Medium Punch same time! Wham he puts on handcufs on anyone even Bison. then Quarter reverse throw to release them before timmer expires!

centrum2k5717d ago

so this is how you play fighting games? block all the time?

JeepGamer5717d ago

So basically you have no problem with getting hit once and never, ever, being able to recover from it as you are taken from 100% life to 0%?

Idonthatejustcreate5717d ago (Edited 5717d ago )

@centrum2k
I block when I need to and that is when someone spams the same button over and over. And usually if you block precicly when someone hits you, you can stagger him or counter him in someway.

@350ZRunner
If you watch the video of him displaying the so called "broken combo" you can see that it's far from the severity that the article would like you to think. It's not that overpowered.

Skizelli5716d ago (Edited 5716d ago )

Did you even read the thread on Shoryuken?

Enigma_20995716d ago (Edited 5716d ago )

... have you never heard of GUARD BREAKS?!?!? And no one likes a turtler...

All this will do is doom us to a million El Fuerte players... And he's a stupid looking character to begin with!!!

@Idonthatejustcreate

Be that as it may, the fact that he still has access to such a damaging, EASY TO PERFORM combo is ludicrous... even Akuma's Instant Hell Murderer which nails opponents for almost haf their life is difficult to catch opponents with. Such a high reward attack should be balanced with a high risk, IMHO....

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Perjoss5717d ago (Edited 5717d ago )

I don't really see the problem, it will very likely get fixed for home versions, and anyone using it in the arcades will lose respect pretty damn fast, and seeing as they are right there next to you (not sure if the networking works across arcades) you can just not play against them in future.

edit: it's still very lame of them to release the game in this state, makes me have even more respect for devs like blizzard who hold onto games and not release them for a long time after they appear to be finished, for long testing and balancing periods I assume.

Skizelli5716d ago (Edited 5716d ago )

"and anyone using it in the arcades will lose respect pretty damn fast"

Since when has that ever stopped people from taking the easy route in order to win? There will always be people who will do anything to win and/or to be the best.

I'd also have to disagree with your Blizzard comment, as WoW's PvP is severely broken right now. Not to mention the game relies heavily too much on player incapacitation. I think it's BS how it has become a game of paper/rock/scissors where one class totally dominates another (Rogue/Warrior > Warlock, for example) and all you see is people going after the easiest class to kill. Don't get me wrong, I do like Blizzard and I'm anxiously awaiting Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2, but they're not perfect. This is only my opinion of course.

Ri0tSquad5716d ago

I didn't even know this game was released in the arcades in the US.

testii5716d ago

its gonna get fixed for both i think/hope

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The 7 Best Street Fighter Games: Exploring the Franchise

The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?

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How Street Fighter IV Saved 2D Fighting Games (Ft. Maximilian Dood)

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.

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Snookies12313d ago

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.

DarXyde312d ago

BlazBlue was phenomenal. Platinum'd Calamity Trigger because I loved it so much. I remember buying Continuum Shift back in the day at launch for like $40. They did have DLC characters (Valkenhayne, Makoto, and Platinum at the time) and it came out to just a tad more than it would at full price. Didn't mind at all.

Great fighting game.

Snookies12312d ago

Continuum Shift was definitely my favorite. Spent way too many hours on that game, haha... Had the counters for days with Hakumen.

DarXyde312d ago

I really like Makoto, Valkenhayne, and Hazama. Super fun characters

Terry_B312d ago

Valkenhayn ..just sayin'

Terry_B313d ago

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.

Ryuha1234h312d ago

You’re sound dumb. Blazblue was not better than sf4. You’re just saying that because you’re a street fighter hater.

Redgrave312d ago

>calls someone dumb
>does it by saying "you're sound dumb"

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Terry_B312d ago

A SF Hater eh? Fight me in SF 2,3 4 or 5 and you will regret that stupid comment ;)

gold_drake312d ago (Edited 312d ago )

eyyy max xD

one of the very few streamers i can actually watch without it being cringe and awful ha.

GhostScholar312d ago

The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.

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Street Fighter Producer Says Fans Need To "Convince" Nintendo, If They Want More Entries On Switch

In the same interview at EGX 2019 recently, Capcom and Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono responded to a fan question asking if there were any plans to bring the fourth or fifth entries in the series to the Nintendo Switch.

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gamer78041644d ago

they botched SFV so bad, just start over, make a new version with proper single player mode and fully fleshed out with support for all of the consoles this time.

King91644d ago (Edited 1644d ago )

Gamer7804@ they already did kinda it call sf5ae it help sf5 sell like another 2 million copies.

Teflon021643d ago

SFV is actually great now. Bunch of modes, bunch of characters, alot of stages, not sure what else there is to even complain about. Costume MTX? Not a issue imo, I don't get what I don't want anyways

gamer78041643d ago

botched launch, and they launched only on one console and currently after a long time still on one console.

Enigma_20991644d ago

Did you see how Ultra and the Collection sold? We don't need to convince Nintendo of anything. Just put it on the console.PHYSICALLY.

King91644d ago

Enigma_2099@ they probably have to make a new sf game just for the switch they probably will need Nintendo to help fund it just like sony help fund sf5.

PhoenixUp1644d ago

You’re not seeing Street Fighter V come to other platforms besides PC because Sony helped co-fund the game so it’s staying only on PS4 & PC

NapalmSanctuary1643d ago (Edited 1643d ago )

Don't know why anybody would want SF5 on Switch. Especially if they owned a Switch.

rainslacker1644d ago

That doesn't makes sense. Is Nintendo saying that Capcom can't publish the game on the system because it's users don't want the game? if so, that's really stupid of them, because why should they care?

Nintendo isn't saying such things of course.

Capcom shouldn't pass the buck. If they don't want to make more SF games on the Switch, then just say so, and say why.

If they want Nintendo to fund the project, then they are the ones that need to convince Nintendo to give them money.

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