I'm so fortunate to have been introduced to this game right when it came out. It is the gold standard for "greatest game of all time" criteria in my opinion. Most notably the community that grew up around it, and high profile events like this one which allowed the community to come together and do truly great things. SSFIV became something much greater than a video game, and I'm happy to have been playing it daily with my friends and online while it was thriving back in the early 2010s.
Even though I play video games since I was like 8 years old, (Im 32 now), I started watching competitive fighting games like 10 years ago, and I realized I was late to the party. It definitely has been a great decision to follow this as an entertainment form and a formal discipline as well. It makes me happy to see how much is it grown, and it is such a joy to watch, so much I always keep coming back to old videos of previous competitions.
Watching the FGC grow from 2009 to the present was such an incredible journey. Seeing Evo get streamed for the first time, and then looking forward to watching SF4 top 8 every year was priceless. Watching the other majors grow and stream and experiencing so many moments of triumph, dissapointment, and incredible play from so many talented players was so fulfilling. I hated seeing SFV knock the wind out of the community; I also despised watching the sterile, soulless, corporate, e-sports drones slowly drain this beautiful scene of it's intense passion and raw energy. This top 8 marked the end of an outstanding era of fighting game competition. I'll never forget the feeling of elation after top 8 ended, and immediately getting on to play some sets. Thank you for all the beautiful memories, SF4.
sf5 is trash, ever since sf4 died I just lost all interest in the fgc and fighters in general, its sad that people are willing to accept an inferior product like sf5 and play it just for the money and nothing more, I remember the pre sf4 days when people played fighting games out of love and passion, now its all money, there is no heart and soul in the fgc anymore, peope just flock to wherever their is a pay day
@@fwef7445 sf4 is so comically primitive in design compared to 5 just bc it doesn’t have one frame links and FADC you weirdos try your best to gate keep. Thank god japanese pros especially don’t have stupid nostalgia factors and actually understand how the FGC and fighting games has evolved past 2009 lmfao anyone nostalgia stricken and still open about it is just a clown lmao you probably spend money on marvel movies
i love to come back to this just to remind myself how many moments this game has produced so much fun i had an i love to see how the series progresses through each game i truly love the FGC thank you
What a tournament. Best parts were the AiAi / Nemo Match 53:30 ("a complete shift in momentum" (almost)) and the Infiltration/Momochi match 1:17:54. This whole event is like its own movie with the dramatic stick problem at the end
35:10 its moments like this that CANNOT be forgotten. This game is one of the last few golden capcom fighters ever released. You had so many options and it led to so much hype. PR rog was getting whooped and got it back to game 5 vs nemo. I miss this game.
What a send off for this game, probably the best top 8 in its entire run at EVO. I don't like to be a hater, but honestly the end of this tournament was a heartbreaker. I feel like because Momochi is so much more experienced than GamerBee it was easy for him to adjust from the disruption, but GamerBee had the momentum and I swear if that hadn't happened, history would have been different.
thats exactly what i was thinking , after that draining set against infiltration, gamerbee tried to stay focus but that break at the end was just too much for him and made his focus drop, it was obvious that he lost it in that last round and momochi felt it and rushed him down, but its not momochi's fault either , shit happens and this is now history
Back when evo was fun and for the players! Now it's run by corporations and it's all about money! And by the way this game is so exciting to watch, unlike the shitty SFV garbage we have now!!
I wish that I was more into SFIV as a kid during this time, than MK9. Now I want to attend a SF Evo event. Also that Juri in the beginning needed to stop jumping so much😭
When I first saw Nemo steamroll through everybody during Westcoast Warzone and Daigo on reddit stating that Nemo with Rolento is the best Japanese player at that time, I seriously thought he would win EVO.
I feel sorry for AiAi, they even talked about it in the commentary booth but AiAi was definitely hyped up that year and everyone wanted to see what he could do...Infiltration made that pretty one-sided lol.
Infiltration plays juri really well too, sure aiai is probably the better juri player but infiltration is a really good one too so he knows her weaknesses. And then aiai lost to Nemo 2-3, the last game was so close and anyone could of won it tbh. I was kind of hoping aiai making into capcom cup that year, because he would of been a wildcard/black horse of that tournament
the average link is sf4 is harder to do than anything in sf5 and 6. And while I do enjoy sf6, it’s sad. The hype over difficult combos is over and now the only thing that matters is reads and reaction.
After SF6 it seems like the game is running at x2 speed. I had already forgotten how fast SF4 was. You need to think and make decisions several times faster than now.
Basically capcom was stupid and forgot the rule that healing moves are broken in fighting games (either they will be too good or unusable and never in between)
You can clearly see that Elena was a broken character, she'd be used to beat main characters of the absolute best by players that recently picked her up.
Guessing you haven't actually played SFV since it first came out. It was bad at launch, that doesn't mean it's still a bad game after like 6 years of updates.
@@_maza_2443 The core mechanics of SFV still suck. Easy combos, low skill ceiling and the absence of FADC really hurts the game in my opinion. FADC is one of the, if not the, best fighting game mechanics I've ever seen.
