STREET FIGHTER V History - Why did it cause OUTRAGE!? 

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Ok that fighting game naming bit was pure gold

The sfv disc was the most expensive demo I ever paid for, I stopped preordering games after this bad experience.

I passed on it due to lacking the offline experience I look for in fighting games.

"Imagine if Nintendo released a Super Mario game based on speedrunning, or imagine if Sega released a Sonic game solely for the furry community." Me: Sonic Forces and Super Mario 35 exist.

Yes, cover the rest of SF5 history, please.

SF5's initial release and dislike suffered from the same reasons people disliked KOF 12. No where near enough content to justify the price

Loved the puns from 2:41-3:02 😂

_'The Street Fighter brand had reclaimed its throne as one of the King of Fighters and was a perfect demonstration of what can be achieved with the Art of Fighting'_ I see what you did there

FANG is one of the worst SF characters of all time imo. Don't like the design.

I'm glad I waited for the Arcade Edition.

You forgot to mention that sony helped pay to finish the game so that it would be ready for tournament season

Just about to make a cuppa and watch this. What a depressing release Sf5 was. Let's go Top Hat!

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I would love to see a follow up to this. SF5 was such an "interesting" release; I use that term loosely lol. Excellent job as always, Top Hat. I've been a viewer for a little over a year now, and I really enjoy your content. Keep up the great work, my friend.

Thanks for saving me a whole bunch of money.

Thanks for the closed captioning!

I remember that the input lag even in single player mode was insane. You press a button and you could read war and peace twice and finally then technique will be executed. Tekken 7 has one of the best value for money base versions you can come across, but the season passes are more expensive.

Couple of things the year it broke 5k at evo was the year it launched and can largely be attributed to being the hype train from the massive success that was sf4. People by in large made the effort to go to that evo because it was the beginning of a new ride they had every reason to expect would be awesome. Most people paid for entry and travel way before the game was out. From a fgc point of view sf5 was also a disaster with not only being a poor street fighter gameplay wise but also it managed to wreak havoc on the fgc community numbers post release. Big websites lost thousands of regulars, local events started to dry up, streamers lost viewership etc. Also despite this sfv outsold sf4 thanks to the groundwork layed by sf4 and mvc3. In short prior to the release sf5 had everything going for it and it blew it big time for casual (who are the grassroots of the fgc) and for the fgc. God I hope they learn lessons for sf6

Indeed, please cover both the Arcade and Championship Editions with scathing comparisons in relation to this release version.

This is great stuff! I never knew that there was no arcade mode in the base release of SFV (I didn't start playing it until after Arcade Edition had released). I absolutely want you to make videos about the DLC, Arcade Edition and Champion Edition.

Funny thing he forgot to mention is that the esport community was worried that this game was going to be uncompetitive because it was so easy. 3 frame links were the tightest. This game is easier to play than sf4 but it lacks the sf4 comeback mechanics

Top Hat I've been binge watching your content since last week when the algorithm suggested you. I gotta say I-am-addicted. Gotta find or hope you do or have mortal kombat kontent but you've also made me realize, I want a channel that does what you do...but for famous creators. How they got started, where they are now and what's next. Loving the channel and looking forward to what comes next.

Not related to the current video, but I've really been stuck on your channel this last year. Absolutely love it my friend from across the pond. Your fan sure appreciate your hard work, and your great content. Thanks from all of us

03:35 The lighting and ambience in the trailer looked so much better than in the same stage of the final game.

I cant be the only one more annoyed that they just wont make it a story finally after part 3. Just make them all older.

Capcom short changed early adopters of the game by crippling the game with micro transactions and removing key features that are a genre standard .

As someone who bought the game Day 1, there's things I wanted to add of why the game pissed people off: - The Servers: Everything in the game ran on the servers, even if you were offline. In order to get Fight Money, you needed to be on the servers when completing something. There were times within that first month where the servers would randomly cut on you & if you were in a position where you were in a match or far in survivor mode, you'd have to restart from the beginning or the match was cancelled. In addition, there was no punishment for rage quitting for a long time. So you lost out on Fight Money if you were winning. Apparently, Capcom only had one person working on the entire netcode & server. - Character Changes & Balance Issues: For starters, there was 8 frames of intentional input lag added to the offline version of the game, making things practically unplayable. In addition, there were changes to characters that shouldn't have happened, Vega is the epitome of this, or balancing & gameplay decisions that made some characters horrible, *glares at Zangief*. Street fighter V is practically the epitome of what happens when you put more focus on trying to create your own scene over making a game as good as possible. You get something rushed out that had no reason to be released that not only pissed off casuals, but even parts of your hardcore base.

Great Video Daddy Top Hat Gaming Man! I tried, but could not get into this one. All others in the series were straight 🔥 My faves were the X-Men crossovers. Love all the great coverage and the trademark yyyeaahhh at the beginning of each vid! Thank you much appreciated!

Love this channel so much!! Thanks a lot!!

Hope there is a part 2, good fellow.

I see Chun Li in a Top Hat Gaming Man video thumnail, I click. BTW that lenghty pun in the beginning, why are you so british? Love it!

I preordered this and marvel can capcom infinite. Capcom broke my heart with both of them and they’ll never get my money for a fighter again. And this comes after being an avid fan; enough so to have collected up pcb’s or their arcade games from the nineties

Excellent coverage. Yes, please delve into the Arcade and Champion editions.

2:37-3:02 best part, Imho. :)

It's always cool to hear people's perspective on this game. Sure would like to hear you talk about the later versions, though considering the game still has upcoming DLC and most likely another final version, maybe a video about Champion Edition would fit better an year or so from now...

Another Great Video Sir. Top Hat

love the vids dude! Do you ever play SFV? I'm not very good and get frustrated by the game (and my lack of skill) a lot but I still end up coming back to it.

All those fighting game puns LMAO

I would like to hear more about how the game plays today with all the updates and DLC. Did it finally tick off all the boxes? Or was it too late?

Thank you top hat for giving us all.such great content on Thanksgiving! Also I wanna wish my fellow gaming fans a HAPPY Thanksgiving as well!!!!!

years later, the game still doesn't have an infinity timer option. shame the fans couldn't drum up enough outrage to remedy that

Definitely would appreciate you covering the rest of the SFV update

Definitely do the next part fella

I have to know what is that purple and turquoise looking console THGM was holding right at the beginning? It’s not a custom super famicom is it?

I bought this second hand for $18 Australian, and I felt ripped off. I look at the recent Championships edition in the store with utter disdain

5:41 name of the ost?

Thanks for covering! Quite a rough game to get behind.

Yes, you should definitely cover the Champion Edition update! That's what made the game worth playing, at least for me, a casual long time fan.

Where's the second part? Would love to see your detailing about that latter part of this entry.

Loved this video, please finish the sfv video story

Your fighting game puns are gold.

Nice job; I would like to see Street Fighter V Arcade Edition. Wonder if you can play with Akuma.

Absolutely would love if you covered Arcade & Championship Editions

I love the new characters but ...meh. I still play ultra sf 4 on 360 over this. :(

Probably the worst opinion I have but I actually really love playing SF 5 early days, sure it was super super rough around the edges and 16 characters is a bit abysmal for a AAA title but this was the first proper fighting game that I was able to learn at the same rate as the community. Of course not my first SF or fighting game but the first I went a step above being just a casual and well I got to feel like part of a community. I'm glad SF V is definitely in a MUCH better place but those early days are kinds special and nostalgic to me

Great video I would like to hear about the other releases of streetfighter v I want to buy it but I dont known which version only ai want all the fighters story and costumes if A version exist with those specification

3:27 wow... Just wow. Nice touch indeed. 6:47 i do love youtube automatic subtitles...

I'm pretty interested in the other half for Street Fighter V (Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition and Street Fighter V: Champion Edition).

I'm thinking about getting "3 count bout" the SNK game on the Nintendo eShop for the switch. I'd very much appreciate a review of that game, since you have so many other great reviews on wrestling games.

Man, this game was/is a mess! SFIV 4vr! Hoping for some great things with SFVI

Great Show mate! Please finish up the game's history. I myself am a Hardcore fighting game fan as well as a Hardcore SF player (from the SF2 days) who found SF5 Highly disappointing! Keep up the Excellent work Bruv!

That run-on sentence with every fighting game franchise is a true Top Hat Gaming Man masterpiece ;)

Because of this game, I never buy a new capcom game. I make sure to get it used off eBay. Capcom ripped me off by selling me a demo and season pass for $80.

Street Fighter V DLC Edition. It's all about DLC and Micro-Transaction's now. Imagine they introduced these games with everything at launch the price would easily be $100. Games wouldn't jump off the shelves.

Those puns are the best!

Would love to see the follow up on SF5.

Meanwhile I’m still trying to master the world warrior 30 years later 😳

Please review the wrestling game "Ultimate Muscle Leyends vs New Generation" for GameCube.

Please do more videos on mortal kombat & tekken.as well as videos on dead or alive,blazblue,bloody roar,snk's world heroes,primal rage,sonic the fighters,street fighter 1,pokken tournament,& the fighting/beat em up hybrid pit fighter

Despite SFV's disappointing release, the game has now fully redeemed itself through patches and further revisions like Arcade Edition and Champion Edition (both of which thankfully didn't require you rebuying the whole game, unlike the past games). Now, I would even go as far as saying it's the best Street Fighter game.

This is why a lot of fighting game usually don’t sell all that great , to much focus on the fgc and tournament play.

Did i miss ultra street fighter 4 video i can't find it ....?

I can't look at that image of Chun-Li in the thumbnail without thinking about the early glitch that gave it extreme...physics.

Would love to see you discuss the arcade and championship editions of the game. Don't have a ps4 but if I did I would have passed on this game

I want to hear about all the crap DLC and versions toooooooo!!!

I say yes to more street fighter 5 update videos (arcade edition/ champion edition videos)Snf Great gaming journalism

Even today the game still feels unfinished and largely barren, the "fighting" part is really lackluster, and there's a certain cheapness present in the story mode cutscenes

SF2CE and SFA3 are my favs of the series.

I play it now and love it, but at launch, it was so terrible, I dropped it and didn't give a second chance until Champion Edition. It took the game years to become what it should have been before launch.

Thankfully I never bought the game until the CE which is a damn good game.

I love Street Fighter and I own this game but I unfortunately haven't played it since they introduced the adverts prior to a battle and the multiple season passes. P robably 2 years or more since I last played it and I have no desire to.

So was this game ever sold as a disc??? I imagine someone buying a disc thinking they could do something with it even if you didn't want to live on the internet and being immensely pissed

When did Zangief have a sailor tattoo?

Despite the controversy, Street Fighter 5 has got to be one of my all time favourite fighting games. I wouldn't say it is as good as the masterpieces that 3rd Strike and Ultra 4 were but if you get the Championship Edition, it is a highly solid game with a strong roster with some fan favourites returning, some of my personal favourites were Charlie and (Mayor) Cody, as well as some fun to play as newcomers such as Rashid and Lucia (I know she was in Final Fight 3 but SFV was her first Street Fighter game), good overall mechanics, new additions which I actually liked such as the V Trigger, V Skill and special knock out zones, and a story mode, whilst flawed, was quite interesting even though I would've preferred it if Ryu actually did something except steal Charlie's kill right at the end as for the supposed main character, Ryu didn't actually do anything.

Righyu and Saggat. Gotta love it.

Street fighter 4 was so dope I completely forgot about 5 when it came out I didn’t even get it

Love those Killer Instinct and Tekken puns 😎👍🏿

Oh my gawd! You went ham with the fighting game puns, haha! Brilliant! To this day I still see Street Fighter 5 as the weakest game in the series.

Street Fighter doesn't look right in 3d, and to me never will.

Killer instinct

the outrage was simply because they released one empty shell of a game, then updated it months later and kept the best stuff behind a paywall.

Not releasing sf5 on xbox was the only mistake capcom made,other than that this game is a fucking classic.

17:55 Ken vs Top Hat Gaming Man?

I passed on this game due to the root-kit alone. I didn't even know that it lacked an Arcade Mode until this video. But if I'd bought it and found that out, I would've demanded a refund. Then again, I would rather that they'd just continued making more characters playable on SF4, but that's just me. Give 4 every character from 2, Alpha, and 3. That's what I want. :)

Before i start i gotta say. I love the line of puns here! XD 2:36 That's the problem with most modern fighting games now (Not that older fighting games hadn't done this). It just seems to be the kind that just aims for the competitive, serious, esports gamers, rather than the casual, diehard, or deep Street Fighter fans. Not even just the SF fanbase, but any fighting game fanbase. So much to the point before you would see people who love fighting games for the roster, gameplay, fun factor, having things to do. But nowadays, you would mostly see people talk about liking fighting games for the netcode, frame rates, frame data, skill factor, buffing/nerfing certain fighters, update patches and DLC rather than just cheaper upgrades of the game, online lobbies and being able to find matches online with only just the online mode taken to account and with the notion "Fighting games are MEANT to be played with people not on you're own". And its like even when you do have things to do, it just doesn't feel like there's love put into it like in past games, or it don't feel like an arcade fighting game experience, especially. The only fighting games that came out that i feel have love put into them are more obscure ones (aside Mortal Kombat X since its not obscure) like Under-Night IN-BIRTH, Blade Strangers, and Nitroplus Blasterz (Surprised it was a sequel to a bad game). Fighting games pretty much just became a genre made for competitive esports fans not for gamers who want a good fun experience. Esports gamers done good with keeping fighting games alive, bu they also changed fighting games (and many other genres) for the worst only having devs cater to the competitive online gamers. And sadly Street Fighter V isn't entirely to blame for this this. I noticed this started when Marvel VS Capcom 3 came out. EDIT: Apparenty King of Fighters 12 was guilty of doing this long before Marvel VS Capcom 3 came out.

Can we get a video on avengers galactic storm arcade as your next fighting game

Capcom also said they wouldn't re-release the game as in arcade and championship editions.

Even if there's a story mode and arcade mode, I think SFV purpose have been ultimately for competition

Street Fighter V gave us banana-hair Ken, and for that, I will always be thankful. (And also shirtless bearded Ryu)