So, Street Fighter V has been released...

[kane_magus]

...and is currently sitting at an aggregate 4.2 user rating on Metacritic (for the PS4 version)[1] and a 44% "Mixed" user rating on Steam.

Yeah. How about that.

/me idly goes back to not giving a shit about Street Fighter V.

(Adding the asinine anti-singleplayer trend tag here, since Street Fighter V is retardedly online-only, but this is

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[owsf2000]

Yeah just finished reading PC Gamer about Street Fighter V, and likewise I'll go back to not giving a shit about it

[kane_magus]

My history with modern era Street Fighter is as follows:

I bought the original Street Fighter IV for Xbox 360, not long after it first came out. At first, I tried (in retrospect, foolishly) and failed to buy the Collector's Edition, after which (in retrospect, even more foolishly) I fucking rebought the standard edition, along with one-day shipping, which cost like $70 total (and then I just pirated the OST and the anime that was supposed to come with the CE ¬_¬). I later bought Super Street Fighter IV, also for Xbox 360, for around $10 (which, in retrospect, was still probably paying too much ¬_¬), about which I apparently didn't even bother to make a LJ post.

All of that, of course, was before I stopped buying new games at full price at all, ever.

After that, at some point, I bought the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology and the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection for dirt cheap, used, from EB Games/GameStop (back before I stopped buying anything from them at all ever, and boy howdy does this lead me into yet another huge,