Only registered users may post messages Want to register ? Topic  Season 2 who are these people? edition by Maou 14:11   Wed 11 Dec Forum   Your UserName: Your Password:   *required - forgot your password ? Message Title: Your message: Icon selection: posticon BakedSquid 16mac1 BoiledEgg Before CutletDinner CandyBowl Clip Clipboard DC_Vm4 DC DishSoap2 Fc01 DC_b2 Dice1 Eggplant Disk_1 Disksys DuntPan Edamame KitchenKnife Fami_2 Fan1 Fc_FBasic Fc_PG Fc_cart1 Fc_cart5 GBP_silver Gameboy Garbege Gba2 Logo_NeoCD Linux Logo_Nintendo64 Logo_NeoGeo MailBox3 Logo_PS MailBox PaperBag MisoSoup OpenBox PCE Pad_DC2 Pad_PS Pad_Pce Pad_Sfc Pad_fc1 cocktail1 PetitTomato Pin-white Pockepika Pretzel SauceLadle Scale2 SegaSat SodaBar SoftCream ShavedIce-Strawberry StrappedBox Take-out Ws_3 alert angry apple arrow art attention beer biggrin book burger candy carrot cars chart chick chick1 chick2 chick3 chicken construction cocktail2 coffee digdug cpu download dosei duck dq1 dq2 dq3 icq-offline mp3 e3 egg face ff-cursor file film floppy fries frown gesselaf goemon1 goemon2 goemon3 happa health humor icecream icq-away icq-dnd icq-free icq-invisible icq-na icq-occupied oba-q pad icq-online icq-seek idea jojo_do jojo_go keylock library mahjong mario meat melon microphone mmcafe monitor multimedia music netscape1 netscape2 netscape3 netscape4 newspaper newswire questionmark opaopa pig pointer posticon pow powerbox pudding question redface sad science search smile smile2 smile3 smile4 sports strawberry sunrise theweb thumbdown thumbup travel upa_milk upa_pig yellowpages or view all icons here. [quote] Every so often, Shoryuken.com still produces columns of interest rather than youtube links, and [URL=http://shoryuken.com/2017/02/16/street-fighter-vs-first-year-dramatic-highs-disappointing-lows/]this one on SFV[/URL] is of interest. I think we all agree with the bungled single player issues, and season 2 "rebalances" are terrible, but it's still enormous fun for all the flaws, and its biggest selling point is still that even its uneven visual design is fathoms beyond the aesthetic horrors of SFIV. The column's rumination on players' (limited) good will and how it relates to season 2 characters returns me to what's Capcom's second-most baffling choice after the awful launch decisions: dedicating a whole season to characters nobody knows. It just...cannot possibly make any money. Certainly not for the season pass since people won't buy who they don't know (except for Iggy, who did it as charity for poor Capcom because he is a Paragon of Virtue). But I doubt for individual characters, either. I mean, I guess Kolin is fine, but why on earth would anyone buy a character whose mechanics they'd never previewed before? Are they that confident that the designs alone would grab people? And even if they were, how could it possibly be a better idea to save crowd favorites for later on the grounds that it would keep interest going? I cannot think of a configuration where it wouldn't be better to rev people up with Gouki-Sakura-Sagat(-SKULLOMANIA) and then still keep some p [/URL][/B][/S][/I][COLOR=660000]-- Message too long, Autoquote has been Snipped --[/COLOR][/quote] Show Signature: include your profile signature. Emoticons: disable Emoicons in this post.