I Genuinely Love Street Fighter V 

Former Balrog player who loves watching Oro. It wasn’t a question of “If Brian_F?”, but rather “When Brian_F?”.

You sir have earned my respect when you said Oro is the crown jewel of SF5. People fail to understand how great of a character he is. His design, the way he looks, the way he fights, his combos.. everything about him is amazing. Such an underrated character.

"I love Oro. I could gush about the character all day..." *cuts to a shot of Poison's ass* "...which is why I'm a Poison player."

I’m still impressed by how well Dan was handled. Obviously still a joke but his taunts are becoming more useful, he had the coolest “nerf” with red fireball, he got the punches from omega and he has a 1 bar v trigger. What’s not to love?

I really really love Akira, because even though her kit was fundamentally a bit on the basic side, she made up for it with complex interactivity, depending on opponent positioning; her combos change so much, and she rewards recognizing different situations more than most characters too, she has the stuff I really love from SF3: niche, high power and *flexible* juggles, optimizing all the different juggle positions and starters feels so good, and then you mix in the feint cancels they added later, her super jump stuff and it's just the best. Also her EX VS1 Fireball which is just a wall bouncing fullscreen gun is just so addicting

SFV is currently an amazing game. Most of the detractors online parrot the same talking points that either are no longer relevant/present in the final version of the game, or are just purposefully vague and don't actually describe their faults with the game. The "stubby normals" and "characters tools are locked behind v-trigger" are just not that true? And I don't think it speaks to what they actually don't like about the game (Do you WANT Oro to have tengu stones all round?). SFV is a good game. But it will always be cool to hate on it.

the "this fighting game is fun to watch cuz i know it well" is something i can heavily relate to. watching a pro player who plays your main do something you recognize as incredibly sick BECAUSE you play that character is one of the best fighting game experiences ever. when i used to play axl in strive id watch pro axl players do sick instant axl bomber combos and i was always impressed because i knew how tricky those were to execute

Yellow your hair is so good in this video. Like wtf it stood out immediately to me it's so pretty

Hell yeah I love a new video from my favorite LegoPokeFGCtuber

SFV is really cool in that the final patch the game got made it unquestionably the best version of the game in its history. It’s incredible how Capcom turned an absolute dumpster fire into a fantastic main line game with years of dedication With that amount of foresight, I have no doubt in my mind that Capcom will nail SF6’s launch. If they did this well turning SFV into a great game, SF6 can only go up from here

I have mixed feelings about SFV, though it’s more positive than negative and I like it WAY more than 4. One thing I can give it credit for is being the only time I’ve seen a character get nerfed and think “woah that’s genius”. Dan’s random red fireball is one of the most clever character changes I think I’ve ever seen in a fighting game, full stop.

This is honestly such a fantastic love letter, man. I feel like you did a really bang-up job of honing in on exactly where the juice is for you.

Hearing you speak about something you're honestly passionate about truly warms my heart, I have been in a less than ideal mental state and sharing in this love with honestly feels like a gift, we will never meet eachother in real life and we'll never be friends but for a second however small i can say without a doubt that i loved you. Thank you, i hope you're okay.

I have never played a traditional fighting game, closest I've ever gotten is Kazuya in Smash Bros., but over the past months/years(?) you've really made me interested in the genre and I can never get enough content about them. Thank you!

I love seeing my favorite creators just talk about things they love like this. My favorite genre of video right now. It's infectious. Great work.

Can we talk about how SFV is the game that became a gigantic glow up? And how it went from genuine dog shit to one of the best of the series? It's kind of impressive how much Capcom pulled it from the depths.

It always feels weird to say that SFV is my favorite fighting game of all time, but it is. It's the game that really turned me into a good fighting game player.

I came for the pokemon and have now listened to you ramble about games and hobbies I have no background with for 10+ hours. Love your content and I could listen to you talk about genuinely anything.

I'm glad to see people show genuine love for the game. It's a good game which brought us memories and I'm sad to see it go away.

It's not perfect but it was the game that opened my eyes to the genre. I always played sf4 and mkx thinking these games are fun to press buttons in but getting good is just to time consuming. Sfv was the first fighter I attempted to get good in and I'm pretty happy with the results. I started as a measly know nothing bronzie back in season 2 of the game and became a crusty old man hardstuck in diamond before the games final update released. My golden epiphany with this game though was that I understood the basis on how fighters worked. I understood how to take the tools the game gave me and utilize them, system mechanics, frame data and all. It's almost like learning a language and the reward was getting to communicate towards a broader audience. Now I can play sf4, sf3, mk11, Ggxrd, ggs at a moderate level and enjoy myself.

As someone who cares a lot about the character storylines in Street Fighter, this game felt like a great compilation of all the lore throughout the series and some interesting new stuff as well. I also appreciate the way that seemingly every character is highly specialized so when you find a character that works for you, they really work for you.

I started playing fighting games with +R, right at the end of 2021, and it was kinda stressful to learn how to pay attention to the screen and react to things when you have so many moving parts that can also change with every character, so it's no surprise I ended up being pretty burned out after a while of stressing myself in match and while labbing. Then I tried SFV, and while it still was stressful at times, I started to slowly learn how to observe my opponent (who was generally at the same skill level as I was) and react accordingly, and then, I fell in love with how this communication works, with how you can say to another person "I know what you're doing" and they can also say that to you, just by how they act in game. Now, I still can get stressed at times, but even then I have fun, I can laugh about what happened and still learn one thing or another about mine or other characters. When I reached my goal in SFV (reaching ultra silver, I know it's a minor achievement, but it's something I did), I went back to +R with this different mindset and fell in love with the game too! Now I'm trying to get some time free to improve more in SFV. So yeah, for helping me to really get into fighting games, SFV will have that little special place with me. (P.S. Your videos also helped me a lot during this journey, as it was pretty entertaining and sometimes useful to learn more about anything related to fighting games. Thank you!)

truly one of the games of all time

The Red Fireball is also another KoF reference which Dan is of course made of, this time to Shingo Yabuki's Critical Hits which are similar randomly improved specials that surprise the shit out of him. Really one of the all time best "nerf that is actually a buff" of all time

16:03 you hit a sakura combo that i've never seen in my life. good stuff

Im really glad they reduced the skill barrier on SFV, because it allowed me to get into other games like SF4 and learn their harder stuff (I main evil ryu and do stomp loops, i love it so much). I was able to grind and practice enough to get to diamond, and have sinced played all manner of fighting games under the sun. Its a fantastic game in the final state that it ended in and im so happy it turned out the way it did

I feel so relieved to find someone else who's not ashamed to admit that they genuinely love the game. Sometimes I feel like it's just cool to hate on it for no reason

I used to be really defensive of my love of SFV and I couldn’t really find the words as to why I did, but I think this video helped me to find it. When you were talking about how watching the game was so much fun because you could see pros do things and then do them yourself, I really felt that same connection because that’s how I learned everything I know about all fighting games. SFV is my first Street Fighter game and I’ve only been playing fighting games for like 3 or 4 years total, so it was super neat stumbling into the end of a game that I genuinely loved. I’ve only played street fighter since Oro came out, so I guess I don’t really have the full experience, but the last few months of this game have been the most fun I’ve had in the FGC since I started playing Tekken 7 in 2017-2018.

SFV is probably the most interesting fighting game of all time. The bad launch, the biggest tournament of all time, the input delay, being on ESPN, the rootkit, the red bull sponsorship, season 5, the in-game ads, the partnership with Intel to be at the Olympics... what a roller coaster!

Amazing video as always! I have always loved SFV, it is the first fighting game i genuinely wanted to get good as well. I think i played very little when it came out and took a break until season 2 in which a random person from a random facebook group wanted to play with me. We played a shit ton together and got better at the game together as well. I even went to their home and played locally once. Sadly they passed away because of covid approximately 2 years ago. I want to thank them for spending their precious time with me. I will never ever forget you my friend.

I genuinely love this game. I love Street Fighter V.

Mark of a good video: Ive never been competitive in a fighting game in my life, but your vids make me wanna play around and try at one. Keep up the good work!

never really got into sfv but Seth’s design always pulls me towards it. that evil smile it has is just… so primo

The editing was really enjoyable in this video. Great stuff Yellow.

As a longtime SF fan and one of the many people that dis'ed SFV, Oro legitimately made this game for me. Wish he was there sooner or that he makes it into 6, but I am eternally grateful that he made it to 5 and was so fun to play. Great video!

Oh that Dan fireball "nerf" was a beautifully elegant solution, that's such a fun way to balance things

Big Yellow knew he had to continue the video after the "I geniunly love SFV" line somehow, he was blocked and considered scrapping the video due to writer's block, but then Oro came down from the heavens blessed Big Y with the knowledge necessary to push and make a masterpiece...and some small turtle facts as bonus. Joke's aside, the 'fighting game' that clicked with me and opened my doors to watch and understand fighting games is DBFZ. Yeah I get a lot of shit for liking it, but damn, as a DB lover, playing and spectating the matches are such a threat. Thanks to it I could branch to other Fighting games and both understand and play them with others! It's the best in my heart 💖

If you're ranked Platinum, you are very good at the game. The average SF5 player is Bronze and Super Bronze. Even being Gold places you in the 90th Percentile/top 10%. Platinum? Top 5%. This is a friendly message to all of us in the FGC: don't downplay your hard work and skills! Don't use professional players, who play these games for money, as the point of comparison on if you're good at the game or not.

The biggest thing that makes me love SFV is that so many of the newcomers feel really cool or unique in a good way. A lot of people don't like FANG but I'm always partial to wacky reset shenanigan characters. Menat is extremely fun and cool to watch even if her VT1 makes me want to jump off a cliff when I'm on the receiving end. Nash is just an aggressive Guile with super-speed or whatever the lore is and I think that's neat Abigail's design is stupid but in terms of gameplay he's extremely enjoyable and has the most fun move in the game, that being if course VS2. Rashid is a favorite and for good reason he's extremely sick Zeku is amazing, a stance character that changes age and has a little animal buddy along with some of the cleanest animations in all of Street Fighter And above all the others, G is the best fighting game character of the past 10 years. One of the most unique styles of gameplay I've ever seen, constantly leveling yourself up through each round with the swankiest moves that feel like constantly styling on your opponent. Match that all with G's incredibly charismatic personality and you get an 11/10 character. It's not all winners, like I think Ed and Falke are kinda lame and I straight up just don't like Luara or Necalli but when SFV makes a good character, they make a *GOOD* character.

ive never played a fighting game past platform fighters and after binging all of your content i’m happy i picked up sf4 for the 3ds before the eshop died. i’m so confused but it’s cool. thanks, yellow!

That Red Fireball rant was aces! It really is just that elegant haha I feel the same way about Pokken as you do about SFV. It's the only fighting game I can just watch endlessly. The phase changes add such a dynamic feel for me, and I have that same feeling of "Oh I didn't know X - that looks cool!" and then actually be able to lab it out!

I don't play, but my son does and it really tickles me to learn more so I can understand what the heck hes on about. Now I wanna play with old man turtle Oro...he looks damn interesting. Thanks for such a fun and interesting take on the game

Person who doesn't play or even like fighting games, watches this man consistently upload in depth technical deconstructions of fighting games I don't like or play. Awwww Yissss

I LOVE that you talked about the danfinite so much, I absolutely LOVE the way they handled nerfing that and it’s one of my favorite changes in any fighting game Absolute banger video

The Ed player whose PS4 is slowly cooking under the Italian sun came completely out of nowhere but hit way too close to home, in every possible way XD Also, since you ended the video by basically giving me permission to promote my favourite fighting game to the world, have you ever taken a look at Blazblue Centralfiction? It has a lot of the same things you love about SFV (very flexible combos, rewards players for experimenting with weird confirms and combines input leniency with high situational awareness). At the same time, it shares a lot of the DNA of Guilty Gear, and seeing how you play both +R and Strive that may be a good thing for you. I'd personally recommend you start by taking a look at Azrael; he's a big body who hits like a truck and has unbelievably flashy combos that are mechanically simple, but feature a ton of variation based on starters, screen position and spacing. I think you'd like him a lot!

Love your vídeos they feel so fresh and variated, I use to watch them with a few friends. Greetings from Spain!! 🫂

You are speaking from inside my head! I love watching and playing SFV. Great video.

I forgot you used to make fighting game content, it's nice to come back to that

I love it too. Genuinely love crush counters. Genuinely love all the tense moments where you're guessing in the corner. Genuinely love getting rolled by scammy characters. Genuinely love cc someones bad tech and getting a fat punish. Genuinely love that you can feel the panic of your opponent more in this game than any other game I've played.

Another great video. It’s always fun watching you gush about shit you enjoy. Or what you don’t :3

great video and also love the sweater

i understand... i hate-love that game. it's the first fighting game i actually managed to get my buddies to play with me and it became our group's main common hobby outside RPG sessions. it has... lots of things i hate, but it still is a fun game in the end. btw, completely unrelated but that's a neat look you have right there

Listening to you talk about this game is like how i feel about MKX. There always felt like there was more to learn and you can implement those things quickly. Also watching the high end gameplay was so cool aswell

I genuinely love SFV too. I think it’s come a long way and it was a stepping stone for SF6 which seems to be very a good game and headed in the right direction. It’s also just fun, and it has a cool cast of characters. All I need, really.

Love the nails! A fighter I've been enjoying the hell out of for the past 3 years just got a shoutout from Arcsys' battle director as their game of 2022 (Merfight: Curse of the Arctic Prince) yet I'm still struggling to get folks in the FGC at large to notice. Still chugging along, though. Thanks for the video.

I’m so glad you mentioned how fun SFV is to watch. I first reconnected with Street Fighter watching WNF SF4 tourneys but SFV is just *chef’s kiss* with its clarity. Oh, and absolutely top tier animation - even their worst characters are better animated than many others’ best. I actually really appreciated the simplicity of old SFV but even with all the extra options and new combo routes, there’s still a Blanka or Alex or Ed to help out a scrub like me to have fun and do damage without needing to learn super difficult combos.

What I love is the editing in this video, 10/10🎉

Just found your content, I mega enjoyed this video. Keep it up! Also appreciate the wee segment of gameplay I'm in during the video, I audibly shouted "oh shit thats me" while eating my dinner :)

I never got why crush counter is so contentious, I actually think it's a really cool mechanic! SF5 as a whole is my second favorite SF behind Ultra 4. One thing that definitely makes it such is how incredible the roster is. This is one of the only games where I've had a crisis picking my main. I'm still stuck between Alex and Mika, and in the past I've mained Birdie, Laura and Abigail.

Under Night In-Birth doesn't get enough love. It is a game that French Bread took all the lessons from Melty Blood from and made the game they wanted to make. It has pretty unique characters and some really good game mechanics that a lot of people have found to be answers to some of fighting games' biggest questions. It's biggest downside is that it has no rollback netcode whatsoever.

SFV is one of those games where I've always loved and appreciated it for what it is but at the same time when people complain about it I'm like "yep, that's absolutely fair". I think it helps that I've absolutely loved every character I've played (Urien, Gill, Oro) It's refreshing to see people kind of unanimously excited for SF6 though. (also love the sweater queen

Wow what a love letter to SFV. I love this game too and thanks for this vid. Its funny cause this was the main SF game for my duration of college. I wanted to get good at it seriously too. When game launched I went with Bison because the was the only character I kind of wanted to learn. That was the first ever charge character I learned and I remember back then thinking I didn't want to play a charge character. I'm glad I put the time in though because he taught me you can do it if you out in the effort. I came back when Kage was announced because he's my favorite edgelord just to mess around a bit. I actually started playing a bit of ranked with him. I had gotten better at other fighters since then and could actually do more combos and confirms than when I last touched the game. Then I finally came back after getting into more SFV content creators and oh man did I truly come to realize what an awesome game this is. I finally committed hard to learned Zeku. That character has taught me so much about fighting games I don't even know where to start. It was such a commitment to learning two characters essentially, but it was so rewarding. He really in the character for me in how cool he is and his swiss army knife gameplay. He really was a character I believed in and grew with. I think I'm better at dissecting any other fighting game I ever pick up from this point on because of my time spent in the lab, ranked, and locals playing Zeku. Its been great to watch this game grow over time. You just feel like a proud Dad knowing how far its come top be such a sick game.

Love your fighting game content!

Fantastic video!

That casual match idea at the end is really smart. Hope they put that idea in future SF games.

I personally loved SFV since Alex dropped, but the constant improvements through out the years made it my second favorite Street Fighter title. I made so many memories with this game and I’m looking forward to SF6. Great video!

Totally respect this video, just think it's cool that this game clicked for you so much. I personally haven't been a big fighting game player; aside from Smash, I think I've only played Soul Calibur 3 and Persona 4 Arena, the latter really not clicking and the former only getting a lot of play time because I'm a solo moder and Chronicles of the Sword exists. And even then I never stuck with a run to the end. However, I have been feeling like trying out a Guilty Gear game recently, probably gonna start by emulating one of the earlier ones. Hopefully something clicks somewhere, since now I actually kinda give a crap.

Great video. I too love the game and always had fun with it, even at its lowest (Hello, season 2). I was a big fighting game fan growing up, but I didn't like 4 and i kinda fell out of love with the genre. 5 brought me back, so i'm forever thankful

I had a very similar experience with Uchu mega FIght! In that game there's an autofire for attack buttons (so basically infinite buffer) and you only have 2 buttons, but it require mostly much more precise spacing and cancel timing to do the higher damage combo, while making every single charter easily playable in a casual level. Labbing in that game is so fun because there are so many fun combos to discover with every character.

I’m a big SFV fan that was also insanely critical of the games first 2 years and the subsequent issues that popped up till season V. As the first fighting game I took really seriously I recognize it’s many flaws but felt that even back during season 3 the game was good. It lacked in areas that SF6 is making up for. I’m glad SFV happened because it really showed me how much I love SF and fighting games in general. Fantastic video!

Thank you for making me appreciate Dan's red fireball even more than I already did

oh boy,oh here we go I got in the game (may I even say the franchise,much more seriously at least) thanks to season 5 and a sfv content creator,and am also aware of the state the game was in at launch. Can say to the title,I do too. I’m glad it is the way it is now and that it managed to attract new players,just like me,and kept them over. Even now I was just messing some stuff in training mode lol. Really excited to watch this almost half hour long video lol,and almost a minute in I’m already seeing some clean edit as well as the point about the game not getting that much inherent love even now soo well yknow,thanks for making this as well haha👍

I actually got into SFV on the ground floor and played until a small while into season 2 (one of my more popular videos is an overview of Laura’s season 2 changes), and those two seasons of the game honestly sucked. I don’t play the game any more but season 5 of SFV is genuinely really cool, because it’s the version of SFV that understands the strengths of SFV. Also I’m a massive Rival Schools fan, so seeing Akira come in and be such a faithful representation of her home game’s mechanics was really awesome

I was a big SFV defender back in season 1 and 2 (more so that it wasn't that bad and less so that it didn't have faults) and while I haven't played the game since around when Luke dropped, I still have so much love for the game as it was the first FG I took seriously (even bought my first stick to learn it) and I can't wait to watch Capcom Cup. It'll be a really nice closing on this chapter of SF. Great video btw!

Personally, I didn’t like it, but I think it’s mostly because I haven’t found a street fighter game other than 3rd strike that works for me. I just am not a fan of the way any of the games play with air space, and I like jump in parry more than I like the way any other SF mechanic feels, I dunno. That said, very cool video and I particularly liked the part abt starting to get your head around why good players make certain decisions, it’s a part of watching games like KOF XV and Xrd that really gets me invested in competitive matches, even if I don’t know or am not really invested in any of the players in the bracket

0:36 ah! ah! you said it! you said it.

Your look was on point this episode

i really appreciate this video, it's hard to get a balanced view of this game because so many people seem so dead set on hating it, i knew a lot about the negatives but not much about the positives, so this video was great. also you look very cute here.

As much as I liked the sides gimmick for Gill, giving him fire and ice versions of moves was such an insanely good idea, and giving Dan the rapid punches to make him even more of a parody of SNK's Ryo was genius as well. I also like the V-system in concept but they felt oddly tacked on to me. Making the Skills and Triggers into regular moves or supers for some of the world warriors in SF6 just made them shine even more, especially Guile's Sonic Blade, and Ryu's charge trigger just being turned into a binary state was a fantastic touch

The game has a super that gives power to the ass 10/10 Edit: I now desperately want the sweater you have

SFV ended up not being a game I could personally really get into but I enjoyed the time I spent with it. This is a really cool video. As for an underappreciated game that I like, people meme a lot on Dino Rex for being a bad game (and they're right that it's pretty rough) but I find the way space control plays out in it really neat, in no other game has the corner been scarier and it adds a lot of tension to an otherwise very barebones fighter. It's got a lot of charm graphically too and I really think it could have been a very unique entry if the devs had had more time to polish it up.

No way, I actually played your in ranked a while back that's awesome I had no idea you played sfv nowadays so thought it was a different account

I also love SFV. I have played SF games before, but SFV was the one that hit me just right. I'm not saying it's objectively the best, but I absolutely love SFV for what it is. It's an amazing game.

SFV was my training wheels. I will always appreciate it for introducing me to fighting games.

I played at launch up until a few months after Abigail released. I kinda wished I stuck with it but the initial release did kill my hype for it compared to 4's release and later editions. It did genuinely look like it improved a lot over time after I left so I'm happy for those that did stick with it and enjoyed it.

Season 5 was so good that it made me look forward to SF6

I started playing street fighter V in season 5 right after Dan was released. SFV Is my very first traditional fighting game and I didn’t start really trying to improve until about last month. Right now I’m hardstuck silver and I’m learning the game with Cody and I’m having an absolute blast. I’m a Cody one trick but I plan to pick up more characters as I improve. I want to hit gold before SF6 releases. I’m not sure if I can say I love it just yet but I do love playing Cody and I do really enjoy the game. I really do want to get better at the game and fighting games in general. I played a bit of guilty gear strive and even though I’m extremely mashy in that game (I’m kinda mashy in fighting games in general) I absolutely love it. But this is the game that introduced me to fighting games (not counting smash) and got me fully invested into street fighter as a franchise.

One thing I really love is the special free juggle state on certain options (Oro/Kolin Double Jump, Ibuki/FANG Fly, Wall Jumps, Dhalsim Float, etc). I so rarely see it, but if you know when to look for it, you can get some pretty wild stuff

One aspect I like about SFV, specifically SFV in the latter half, is single-player. The game went from not having any single-player at all, to having a bunch of modes I can mess around offline, be it Team Battle, or 6 different Arcade Mode paths with unlockable artwork, some of which may be tied to ridiculous requirements. Shame some of them are tied to limited-time events like the Extra Bosses, so I have to use mods to fight them in VS mode, but the variety's nice.

DUDE! You noticed the Sakura animation too!? I completely forgot until you brought it up after I made a combo map for a friend before the last couple of patches T_T

"Who is going to say they love Street Fighter V?" It's me. I genuinely love Street Fighter V. The best Chun-li ever.

I've only really gotten into SFV recently and I'm having a blast. I had this preconceived notion that SFV was a very honest, footsie based game with very traditional mechanics but what I've discovered goes against all of that - but in the best of ways. It's not just shimmys and cross ups (though silver Ryu's and Ken's would tell you differently). This game is full to the brim with everything that makes a fighting game great. My only regret is that I didn't get into it sooner.

I haven’t labbed sfv in a long time but I remember really wanting to setup a meaty tackle with Lucia and it turned into the discovery that I could trade combo with slide and throw reset

As a Grandmaster Ryu, I think you’ve got a couple of small things wrong, but you’ve got the right attitude. Watched to the end - and would watch again.

I've never cared about SFV, nor street fighter in general, but I love watching your vids and now I do care about SFV

I might not like v much, but I like seeing anyone put their love for a game out there like this :)

7:00 YEEEA HERE WE GO!!!-THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!! ORO MAIN DAY ONE HERE!!!🙌😁

love the hair in this one edit: oh shit new editing style too

It took me a longggg time to get into Street Fighter V. SFIV was the first fighting game I ever got into learning for real, and SFV felt too different from it and I never gave it a proper chance. Not to mention that the game had none of my characters from IV. But season 5 really drew me in with those dev videos and Dan, probably my favorite or second favorite character from IV (possibly second to Dudley, who I remain very sad that he wasn’t in V and doesn’t look like he’ll be in the base roster of VI)

Pretty much nailed down every way I feel about the game. Successfully working something I was labbing into my gameplan with consistency was one of the greatest feelings in the world. Also finally learning to whiff punish only improved my fundamentals in every other game I play. A+ experience even after taking away invincible DP's. Couldn't be me maining fang feeling bad for a shoto.