Ultra Street Fighter 4 is Broken
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.พ. 2024
- This is a parody of Heeew's "Smash is Broken" videos. Revisited this game recently and felt motivated to make this compilation of broken stuff. Didn't wanna just throw the five ultra characters in there and complain about them (Decapre notably has a lot of broken stuff tho), so I tried to vary it and touch on every character at least once. I know I missed a few, but there's so many characters in this game and this video is already so long just let me have this.
If you feel like diving back into this beautiful mess of a game, consider joining the USF4 Revival discord server. Small community dedicated to the one and only SF4, easy way to run friendlies, practice, and get some tips to improve.
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Check out Bafael's Bad Balance video on Elena. It goes much more in depth about why she was such a nuisance and a handful of the info in the Elena segment was taken from here. • Bad Balance: USF4 Elena
Tournament footage used:
• Mike Ross vs Tool Assi...
• USF4 R/Kappa Infiltrat...
• USFIV: EG PR Balrog vs...
• USFIV: Kazunoko vs MCZ...
All music is taken from the Ultra Street Fighter 4 OST, all rights go to its owners.
good video lil bro
im coming after you
street fighter 4
There are microphones in my doorknobs
There are doorknobs in my microphones
@@just-linx8271there are doorphones in my microknobs
I remember back in vanilla SF4 Dan had no way to FADC into his ultras so they used his legendary taunt into ultra.
Yep, and if you want, you can call that the FADC:
Fucking
Awful
Dan
Cancel
@@willkpcbased Big Yellow
@@watersheep5535 yeeeahhhh, also nice name, good reference
@@willkpci very much prefer the saikyo crusher
"On top of that he can get through fireballs with the greatest of ease."
Shout out to Dr. Smuggles.. 😂😂😂😂 He made USF4 Dudley...
Great editing and presentation. Can't help but to feel extremely nostalgic watching this.
GuileGodGiftedGamer himself
Man...the sound design of sfiv was really freaking good.
Super/Ultra KO sounds still get me hype even now.
I don't play much SF, but the "KO!" victory sound effect might be the hardest one I've heard among them.
and animations
Soo much better than mk. I absolutely hate the way the punches and kicks landing sounds in that game. This is aural bliss
@@chiarosuburekeni9325 Thanks for letting us know how you feel about MK 😂 😂
El Fuerte just appearing is godlike
Ibuki god tier, rollento is a monster! The rest are lower tier
Long live the quesadilla king
"The very act of neutral jumping instills fear in anyone that Yun faces."
I love how absurd this line is out of context.
it’s really not if you’ve played more than 1 fg lmfao
@@nahdontevenstart older fgs are full of BS ong
@@nahdontevenstart in a lot of modern fgs you have to forward jump though
@@thepotatotaxi2430nah neutral jump is the goat
Hello, old Balrog (Boxer) main here. I would like to quickly point out that 8:06 is wrong. You CAN do Dash Straight into Red Focus but ONLY with the Medium version. Medium Dash Straight had a weird change in USF4 where if it hits, you stay EXTREMELY close to your opponent, making it possible to use red focus and also allows for an extremely situational combo extension on Blanka. Now, the only other way I found to use it was with close HP and Dash Overhead (as shown in the balance patch video 9 years ago) and that's it. Otherwise, it's true. balrog's (Red) Focus is absolutely useless and super situational and that clip of PR_Balrog using it still makes me excited like a fanboy. I remember watching it live and went apeshit over it.
Good video :).
The power of Elena's cuteness made her unbeatable lol
If I worked for Capcom though, I'd go back and give this one last patch, turning her Spinning Beat into an Ultra, and turn Healing into her super. She'd still be top tier but healing would now be a gamble that requires sacrificing EX moves instead of a free back pocket option she has twice per round
No wonder she was able to befriend Akuma, demons recognize demons
He would 100% Raging Demon her, but she would simply just shift her hurtbox over him.
That wasn't even the most broken thing about her. Her hurtbox, her slide, EX Mallet Smash, and her pokes all needed to be tuned down hard.
Your suggestion was the elephant in the room everyone was considering even before her official release. How on Earth the devs finalized Healing being an Ultra Combo when they are deep into the competitive scene is mind boggling.
They really misjudged how hype it would be to be an easy to get Ultra.
If Elena gets to have Healing as an ultra then Yun's Genei Jin CANNOT be a super.
If both attacks were ultras, at least it would be consistent! And like Elena, he's still top 5 without it, so what's the point of trying to balance him anyway?
@@Z-G.-2000 both should be supers. Genei Jin should absolutely NOT be an ultra, the last thing we need is Yun potentially going into EX moves during Genei Jin. He needs to be nerfed too tbh, I'd make some of his normals more balanced, same with Elena. If Yun and Elena were nerfed (and maybe a buff for Hugo), the game would be a LOT more balanced
This video screams love for the game. It sure shows how much you used to love this at its peak. I really hope El Fuerte comes back.
Great video!
What a horrible character
@@fauxz3782nah
The existence of a 3 frame HP made me let an entire clip loose into the sky.
Umm actually it’s a mag, not a clip 🤓🤓🤓🤓
Some mags are clips @@kobold7964
You absolute buffoon
@@kobold7964 depending on the gun, could be a clip
Bloke is letting loose upon the cosmos his hunting Garand
"It can get through fireballs with the greatest of ease"
You did not just slide that in man
He's ...acting like he won't get command grabbed...
I was about to say lmfao
Lol ok im glad someone commented it so i dont have to 😂
i don't get it
@@teafordinner2457 its a smug reference he's a SF pro player and would say this a lot in his videos.
Brodi, there's not enough time in the world for the amount of compliments and praises I have for this video. Really reminds me of UMVC is Broken by TheBrunoZone in the best way possible. They way you talked about the good, the bad, the ugly, and the broken/jank in such a insightful and hilarious manner is absolutely astounding! There were so many quotes in this video I felt on a spiritual level, especially 21:07! Street Fighter in general has been a game that's made me who I am, especially SF4. It's amazing to see such dedication and love to this day, it brings absolute joy to my heart. You my wondrous brodi have gotten a subscription from me! Can't wait for your next video! Take care! ✨👍✨
Heeeew’s original videos were already great, so it’s awesome to see the format brought to traditional fighting games.
I’m starting to understand why almost every fights at competitive level is fought in the training room.
Because it resembles the padded walls of an insane asylum 💀
Jokes aside it's to avoid distraction and lags (low geometry count).
@@vovanchoif was to avoid distraction why not use desert map instead?
@@vovanchoif was to avoid distraction why not use desert map instead?
@@samuelmachado8330 no objects is the best for this purpose.
@@vovancho giving me ptsd remembering playing against people on wifi and trash 1m dsl connections. 1 frame links + delay netcode is truly some masochist shit.
The transition from Ken's stupid kara throw into Ultra's really got me. Simple, clever gags like that are what I appreciate, not throwing in memes at every opportunity.
I may have picked it up when it first came out and never really played after, because I didn't have internet and I just didn't understand how fighting games worked back then, but finding videos and watching others like Mike Ross play the game AFTER it was already dead, got me into SFV, and eventually other fighting games. It got me waiting for Makoto to show up in SF6... the eternal pain...
no mentions to akuma… that says a lot about sf4 too lol
dw he crazy aswell lol
The fact that a single tool of his wasn't mentioned shows you just how insane this game is
I was expecting Oni chat
Akuma isn't that good, he gets damaged too quickly, and most of his combos are 1 frame links or harder to pull off. An amazing character in usf4. Sf5 buffed the shyt out of akuma.
more like a boomer now lol
The funniest thing about Seth is that in the lore Seth is one of the weakest characters, getting beaten by pretty much everybody in story mode, but in-game Seth was one of the best characters.
He was shit though in Vanilla and Super. Only in Arcade Edition he was a real threat after they gave him more health and stun, and Poongko.
Decapre's Psycho Stream reminds me a lot of Potemkin's Giganter Kai, just on a much more broken character. For pot he gets to walk forward mostly unimpeded and set up a buster if the opponent gets caught. For Decapre, she gets to do whatever she wants. Anything.
Yooo! This was really well written, I can definitely see this blowing up sometime soon!
Man gained 20 subscribers in the 30 minutes it took me to watch the video
This is a great video. El Fuerte isn't entirely unique though, he's got a lot in common with the KOF character Ramón, who has a similar off beat mixup game.
There's still a lot of elements that are unique to each character, and the fact that El Fuerte is in a slower game like Street Fighter makes him standout more than Ramón, but if you're craving something like El Fuerte I'd suggest giving him a try.
Except in KoF XV where they removed his main thing
They are both mexican, too,. :P
Unique in SF?
The fact that DJ's standing fierce forces stand while whiffing on crouching opponents comedy incarnate.
To this day, still my favorite fighting game ever. Both in spite of, and in some cases because of, the absolute dirt and jank.
Man, do I miss Abel. Such an amazing character to play.
I was very happy to watch this. I've seen other videos for games in the style of Heeew's "is Broken" videos, but this really captures the part where you show what it was like to play this before future Street Fighter installments came out. Super and Ultra SFIV are why I'm still into fighting games nowadays, so it's cool to have a video like this to look back on those games with. Thanks a lot! (And thank you, SFIV.)
as an SF3 Elena main who hasn't played a ton of sf4, i find it wild how much better she became
Lynx tail went from being mostly meaningless and easy parry food to absurd, and she actually gets reward off her overheads now? wild
probably the clearest explanation of crouch teching ive ever seen and its in a meme video LOL
This video was fantastic. It doesn't even feel like a parody, but more like another sequel kinda like Bruno Zone's Marvel 3 video or Guile's Super Turbo video. As someone who played SF4 super causally when it came out, I always love seeing videos about this other side that I had no idea about growing up, because seeing one of my childhood games in a new light is fascinating, and I'll always cherish seeing stuff like this.
Unless I'm insane.
"HE'S ON THE ROPES-"
11:37
"with the greatest of ease"
I see what happened there.
hello fellow Duff City citizen.
"Mhm. Yup, that's right."
smuggin all of us
"actin like you wont get command grabbed"
exATCLY what I came here to say
Both SF4 and MK9 I think are representative of what a perfect fighting game is. Which is being anything BUT perfect. The amount of bullshit in these games is second to none, and that's what makes them so great. There are clear rules, but the rules don't prevent the fights to go full bananas. It's also a testament of how far the art direction goes. SF4 is a beautiful game, a throwback to arcade era that has its own flavor. The presentation is very lighthearted, but the message is strict: to be good you you'll have to earn it.
Sf4 and mk9 too goated, what throwbacks
I'm glad people enjoy it but personally I am glad we are out of that era more or less. These games are crazy fun but not my competitive ideal. I'm glad they can be played anytime but that they've been replaced. Personally. Imo.
Hmmm idk if I like how much SF4 relied on esoteric option selects tho
@@lancergt1000 games change. Im just happy they removed the vortex in SF5 by introducing quick rises. SF4 will still be my fav SF just because of the art, sound, and generally overall design.
What a genuinely beautiful love letter to this game. Good job, man
22:47 I remember playing the Arcade mode and Seth just doing this crossup many times, and even if you was able to block it he probably was gonna grab u.
I hate this guy so much.
They actually programmed an AI to do cross ups?
@@Cezkarma idk if is programmed to do so.
But seems like wheneever you are way too far away against it, it will shot an sonic boom then teleport behind you when the proyectile is about to hit
@@Cezkarmadoesn't matter if they meant it because he learned them
@@Cezkarmaiirc his boss mode does the cross up automatically
Like someone showed how boss Seth differed, and a few of his basic oki/followups are just baked into his moves if they hit
@@Qobp They just programmed the AI to do it. Even if you block correctly, as always the AI reads your inputs. In this case its the safest to backdash since it has invulnurability.
You can still cheese the shit out of AI Seth on hardest difficulty. My favourite is using Dictator and just keep doing headstomps from far away. Stupid AI seth will just keep throwing booms.
This video was a blast to watch !! SF4 definetly is a legendary game
Extremely cool to see SF4 content in my recommended feed.
I've never really played SF much myself (I'm more a KOF player) but I love watching SF4 tourney footage and competitive matches, as well as deeper content like Bafael videos, Juicebox, and other players like PR Rog, Daigo, Tokido, Kazunoko, even Xiao Hai, and the other usual suspects.
till this day i will always remember the last two years of street fighter 4 before sf5 how out of nowhere you had these really scary elfuetes and for the longest he was low low low on the ranks lmao and out of no where he becomes this incredible skill based character that your either really good with or free with
This is super professional and entertaining. Thank you, SF4.
Love your videos. I can remember picking this up having never played a street fighter game and getting wrecked by Seths. I was beyond frustrated but like you said the game had some ups and downs, but was charming no matter how high my blood pressure got. Will always hold a special place in my memory.
incredible video. thanks for the trip down memory lane. i see all the work that went into this, thank you!
aw i love videos like this. finding out about all the busted stuff in games while jabbing at them lovingly is always such a joy to watch
absolutely amazing video. Even as someone who knows only the basics of SF4, having entered the genre more seriously after it was already overshadowed by V5, i found it easy to understand and appreciate every detail given. I would absolutely love to see more videos like this, probably shorter, for specific characters! going over what makes them great, what makes them bad, or what makes them stack up against the rest of the cast!
I loved this video! Great video! I liked that you summarized and put all of these aspects of SF4 into one video!
There are two things that I would have wanted to add into this video: Rolento's backflip roll attack, and just how strong Poison's zoning game is.
as someone who played this game religiously with cody, many memories and some ptsd came back around xD, in all seriousness, you explained perfectly well on how absurd this game can be....ESPECIALLY WITH ELENA & SETH. Also, i dig that combo near the end there, too! Great video! 👍
this video is fucking awesome. One minor qualm I have is that a lot of super absurd stuff about this game, like crouch tech and el fuerte for example could have had longer more in depth sections. Not trying to suggest that this 30 minute video essay needs to be longer, but maybe two separate videos with more focused content would be nice. Otherwise this video is amazing, best thing I’ve seen today
honestly after the whole elena breakdown i was expecting the next one to be evil ryu who was probably the strongest shoto of this game and among the best characters.
little was i expecting MY MAIN from all characters of this game to be send off for this video and I couldnt be any more proud. Seth was my second most played character in the franchise (first being Q) and it was never because of his tier placements or anything related but because he felt so good to play as. He had one of the most complete tool kits in the game all for the price of having the lowest health so there was a degree of skill and execution required to play him decently. I owe this character my introduction to the FGC and also a thank you for shouting out one of my favorite characters across all fighting games.
Fantastic video, have always loved these types of videos that give out so much information on games
You forgot to mention the most egregious part of rose’s ultra by far; it’s fully invincible on startup! This makes it a super plus on block combo starting invincible reversal that wins neutral for you even if it’s baited and the opponent makes it whiff
that was only in super, it didnt have invincibility, just no startup and no recovery, and since then they gave it recovery so you can properly bait and punish it
@@biglightning2776 sorry about that, I'm living in the past... great video!
I love watching these in depth videos on a fighting games balance even though I either dont play the game or I dont at enough to be knowledgable about it. This also reminded how good the SFIV OST is lol. I hope you make more videos like this about other FG's, because this was a really good vid.
Man you made such a nostalgic video with contents and properties of the game I wasnt even aware of despite playing for it. Loved the content, take my sub!
Ive always thought, and still do, that SF4 benefitted heavily from the era of gaming that was just before mainstream internet usage and message boards like reddit. If 4 released in the 2020s people would complain so hard at how bad and broken it is.
Imagine thinking that the Internet wasn't mainstream in 2009 lol
@@coolcarl571 It certainly wasn't the titan of public opinion like it is now though. That wouldn't really come until the time of USF4 and SF5 I feel
The amount of work you put into this video is insane. Also glad they added an input buffer on the newer games, couldn’t imagine having to do damn near perfect combos
As someone who’s been kind of critical of the SF series, I owe my current love fighting games to SF4 for bringing the genre back. This video was a reminder that SF4’s wild balance history was secondary to “oh shit new fighting games”
I’m so glad that this video managed to grace my feed. I love this game to bits. Despite starting off with tekken, sf4 got me to love fighting games even more. It taught me how to properly play fighting games and showed me that there’s more to it than just KO-ing your opponent. It was because of sf4 that I got through a pretty tough part of my life, and I made quite a bit of friends at our local scene as well. This game singlehandedly changed my life, and for that, it holds a special place in my heart.
Love this keep it up! I’ve only just gotten into street fighter so learning the history of broken characters is really cool to see
I love these types of videos so much. I remember watching someone else do a UMVC3 is broken. I dont know if you took inspiration but i loved that video and i can say the same here. Please make more of these :)
This is a masterpiece of a video. I played a lot of characters in this game, and you somehow managed to touch on every one of them. Thanks for the great video!
What a fun video and with great editing. SSF4 was my first Street Fighter and the first fighting game I ever learned properly, what an insane game it was. I was just a young teenager and this was the early 10's so I didn't know most of this and learned a ton of things I wish I knew 10 years ago. Man if rollback ever got officially added I'd be back on it Day 1.
I was ass at this game, but it remains the most fun iteration I have played. Solid vid and happy to be a new subscriber
good video man, had some really good laughs with the sett and elena parts, thanks!
Amazing video you made here. Thank you for taking me back to the glory days of the FGC.
glad you still bring this up
Stellar video!! I subbed in hopes of more USF4 vids in the future.
Don’t think I didn’t catch that SMUG reference during the Dudley segment 😉 Nice Work!
The music stopping at 9:36 after showing off Sakura's 3 frame heavy is so good.
The ending summed it up so well. Godlike video my boy
Excellent video that displays an incredible depth of knowledge about the game’s intricacies from a very high level gameplay standpoint. Aside from being a C+ scrub at MVC2, this is the game that truly got me into fighting games heavily, starting all the way back on vanilla SF4 in an arcade before the home version. I had some of the most fun I’ve ever had (and most frustration, being a sole Cody main to the point I’m basically handicapped with the rest of the roster lmao) during the height of SF4’s various versions, and despite this games foibles (and Yun/Elena), it will always hold a special place in my heart.
Thanks bro, you made an awesome video, What a good memory. Miss the hype of USF4. Damn ❤
love letter to sf4.. great video man. what a walk down memory lane. great choice of music with each part, too
Man, thank you for the hard work you put into this! It took me back to my early 20s. The countless of hours playing on Xbox 360 and practicing in training mode. All to perfect my combos, just to drop them and get hit by Seth’s ultra 🙃
Thank you for making this. I truly mean it, this game has been my childhood even though I didnt play it myself and seeing it broken down like this is really cool.❤
No way in hell ltg didnt complain once
"When street fighter 5 comes out will I ever play SF4 again"
Fuck no. Hell fucking no.
Always hated SF4, still hate it, give me my motherfuckin' points back.
Thank you for providing an educational and nostalgic experience. I played this game all the way, too ultra, and it was just so much fun. Please do more videos like this if you can
Insane video! Had so much fun watching this👍
I'm glad that so far, every single "X is broken" video I've seen from people following in Heeew's shadow have been from what I've seen versed enough in the intricacies of said game to break down details effectively. Makes them fun to watch, even for games I don't play.
Love the Heeew style of vids, cant wait for more!
Great stuff man 👌Another broken tool you can add to the list is the dash super/ultra with charge characters that can be super useful against max range fb or just to whiff punish, It also allows u to do some silly combos like guile's fk fadc same as decapre stinger fadc u1 ✌
i cant believe you figured out the formula with less than 10 videos. this was amazing and I never played SF4
El fuerte on 3ds was my shit
This is an awesome video, very similar to the broken smash videos. Keep it up man
24:46 Seth is such a killing machine that even his ass has a hitbox. XD
the song in the beginning sounds so familiar... i cant remember what it is
awesome video btw!
One of the best videos i’ve seen from the FGC in a while, GREAT STUFF
Always love to see parody based on Heeew, great SF4 video.
awesome video bro i already watch this several times and still is great
Just wanna say, I love the editing in the Tanden Typhoon section
"Behold- HHNGNG"
Great content, would love to see something like this tech video on SF6.
Very informative, thank you very much
I absolutely love vids like this man thank you so much
Had to throw this on .75 speed to fully take in all the data. Great video.
For me it's one of the few videos that got the pace right, I was able to read almost everything at normal speed before the next text appears.
@@Manglet762Still not as good as Heeew's pacing. Heeew's pace is the perfect mix of enough time to read but not too much
For Balrog, u can do MP dash straight into Red focus. That's the only way for him
unless you're insane
Unless you're insane
@@tedjomuljono3052 Hope u know I'm being serious, bc I tried it and it works. It only works for that strength :)
Fantastic vid, loved all of it
Unrelated but Seth's air kicks are so fucking cool they make me feel like a badass every time I land a juggle with them
This game got me into the fighting genre ! Despite his flaws, he'll still have a special place in my heart. The soundtrack still gives me goosebumps :D it took me back ! Thanks for the great video :p
I am learning so much about this game I've been playing for years and years.
This is making me aware how little I know about what tournament play is like, too...
Finding all this out about this game 10 years after it died hurts man. It cuts deeper than any blade
Great video! I would watch one tackling SFV or some other game in a heartbeat.
Ahh the good old SF4 days. Thanks for the video.
Insanely good video, congrats
Man, i miss sf4... Is what I'd probably say if i wasn't still playing it. Great video!
The 1 frame links made being a Vega main soooo painful. The man was super low tier but then they also give him the hardest links
This video reminds me of the breakdown of MVC3 being broken. Nice job.
You talk about all the things that made USFIV broken, I see (mostly) the things that made it interesting and kinda wild. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Its called clickbait. The only thing that is legitimately "broken" about this game is that Elena was OP. If she was broken she would've been banned in tournaments.
might be one of my new favorite videos
Look, Elena at least plays a game instead of Decapre cancel simulator and Yun's ... jumping ... just fucking jumping in place. And Elena is a ball of joy I hope we get her back in SF6.