A weird one for me, personally. I reviewed it for GamesRadar and I stand by everything I said in that - Street Fighter 6 is a remarkable fighting game and one of the best overall out-of-the-box packages seen in the genre to date. It's a 5/5, a game that offers instant fighting game fun and seemingly endless depth if you decide to get 'into it'.
I did decide to get into it. I've played Street Fighter games to a solid standard since SFIII, never been a top player but aspiring to improve and play to the best possible standard I can, consuming endless tournament footage as it became more and more freely available and playing in local offline events since SFIV dropped. I'm INTO this stuff. Since release, as the meta of the game has slowly started to take shape, watching and playing the game has left me feeling a bit cold. It's still exceptional when I play my pals or go to an event but grinding ranked or watching the top players hasn't grabbed me in the way previous titles have, mainly because I'm not hugely into how the core mechanics affect the game. I don't think they're bad (in fact, I think the Drive System is genius) it just doesn't fondle my bollocks as much as I need it to, so to speak.
Lucky for me, they patch these games once a year and I can almost guarantee you there will be some significant changes to this stuff and it might end up changing into something that I play every day for the rest of my life, such is Street Fighter.
An exceptional fighting game, no doubt.
I did decide to get into it. I've played Street Fighter games to a solid standard since SFIII, never been a top player but aspiring to improve and play to the best possible standard I can, consuming endless tournament footage as it became more and more freely available and playing in local offline events since SFIV dropped. I'm INTO this stuff. Since release, as the meta of the game has slowly started to take shape, watching and playing the game has left me feeling a bit cold. It's still exceptional when I play my pals or go to an event but grinding ranked or watching the top players hasn't grabbed me in the way previous titles have, mainly because I'm not hugely into how the core mechanics affect the game. I don't think they're bad (in fact, I think the Drive System is genius) it just doesn't fondle my bollocks as much as I need it to, so to speak.
Lucky for me, they patch these games once a year and I can almost guarantee you there will be some significant changes to this stuff and it might end up changing into something that I play every day for the rest of my life, such is Street Fighter.
An exceptional fighting game, no doubt.