Near the end of 2009, Capcom announced Super Street Fighter IV, an updated version of Street Fighter IV. And after EVO, the FGC continued to grow even more. It’s really good), as well as the IGN coverage of EVO 2009 with the hype Grand Finals between Justin Wong and Daigo Umehara. Street Fighter IV was part of the I Got Next documentary (once again, I urge you guys to watch it. It was hype), more and more people started making local scenes, and new regional and major tournaments were born all over the world.
Other than EVO, there was a GameStop National tournament that was going on (I remember watching the qualifier matches with my friends. I was one of the 09ers.īut man… that game brought back life to the FGC in a positive way. Mind you, I was just a beginner to competitive Street Fighter and I was introduced to the tournament scene at the age of 17. I would remember going straight to GameStop after school just to pick up that game since I reserved it. At the time, I was a senior in high school. On February 17, 2009, Street Fighter IV came out for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Daigo was well-known for pulling that move in tournaments. The most famous use of the FADC was Ryu’s Shoryuken, FADC’d into his Ultra 1, which is his Metsu Hadoken.
It costs about two bars of meter to do that. It worked by pressing MP+MK, Forward, Forward (or Back, Back) after cancelling a normal or special hit. The Focus Attack Dash Cancel (FADC) became an advanced technique players used to keep the combo going. Focus Attacks gave the player a crumple stun in order to create a combo opportunity. The main gameplay mechanic introduced in Street Fighter IV was Focus Attack (aka Saving Attack in Japan).
For the first time ever in Street Fighter history, we got a chance to play as Gouken, Akuma’s brother and Ryu and Ken’s master. As soon as we got an announcement for the console release, we would end up getting console-exclusive characters not seen in the arcade version, such as Sakura, Rose, Dan, Gen (all four returning from the Alpha series), Cammy, Fei-Long (both returning from Super Street Fighter II), and Akuma (who was a secret character in the arcade version, also returning). Viper, El Fuerte, Rufus, and Abel) and a new boss (Seth). In the arcade version, we saw the return of the 12 original characters from Street Fighter II and we were introduced to four new characters (C. Hell, some of the players got a chance to try it out at EVO 2008 if I recall correctly. Once Street Fighter IV was released in 2008 for the arcades, we got a chance to see what it was like thanks to the power of YouTube.
STREET FIGHTER 4 TOURNAMENTS SERIES
When we saw more of it, we noticed that the game was in 3D, much like the EX series except it felt more traditional to Street Fighter II. Ever since that announcement for Street Fighter IV was made back in 2007, the community couldn’t be any happier that they would see another Street Fighter game. Street Fighter IV… I would like to say thank you.īetween 20, the FGC had to deal with playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo/ Hyper Street Fighter II, and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike in tournaments.
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