SF4 was one of my first ever fighting games that wasn't in the Tekken series. I rented it from a video game rental store a couple years after it came out, and I remember looking at the cast and thinking there were so many cool and interesting characters, but who did I choose? The prisoner that could throw rocks and yell Bingo! Ya, I mained Cody back in the day and I sucked so bad at it. Good times.
As someone whose favorite game of all time is the OG Final Fight who also mained Cody in Street Fighter IV (along with every other SF game he's in), I can confirm that you picked the right option. Cody is BADASS.
My first impression with SF4 (and the whole series) was actually really bad. We played Tekken and MK a lot before and were used to being able to just mostly mash buttons to do cool stuff, but in SF4 we were just whiffing normals all the time, couldn't do even simple combos and couldn't even figure out how to do most specials, let alone supers, even when we saw the required inputs in the command list we still couldn't usually get the timing right. We've lost interest in the game and I only returned several years later when I bumped into a great tutorial on youtube that explained how combos, specials, supers or focus attack worked. Since then I've became a huge fan of traditional 2D fighters. Really shows how important good tutorials are in fighting games, and how the lack of them can alienate newcomers. The sad thing is that even nearly 15 years later the big fighting games hardly include any tutorials.
Dude chill, SF4 only revived the SF franchise. SF4 "saving" the whole FGC is a SF fans wet dream. FGC was alive and well. Its just that SF4 brought hype!
Cause of Street Fighter it inspired the return of Mortal Kombat, Dead Or Alive, Virtua Fighter etc the FGC was dead Tekken was 6 was out and became a afterthought.
I'll never forget that time I met my friend sabastian at the GameStop Street Fighter 4 tournament and we wound up staying there for like 9 hours being the only people left until they closed.... playing this s*** over and over again and then we found out we lived in the same apartment complex and continued playing until like 3:00 in the morning!
I remember EVERYONE's minds were blown by the fact that it'd be the "first" time a Street Fighter game would be 3D. Obviously there were others, but this really gained mainstream traction, and I know some people thought the game looked kinda ugly at the time, especially with some of the faces, but dude, I remember thinking this was like, the NEXT GEN FIGHTING GAME as a kid.
@@tyrantravealpha It's weird. Cuz yeah I hate the art direction in this game but the animation feels smoother than SFV's AND the super/ultra choreography (particularly in Super/Ultra) is leagues better than most things in SFV.
@@TehUnHolySkittles929 I never mentioned nostalgia, nor did Max. I'm talking about hype, the term he chose for the title. I don't think hype and nostalgia are interchangeable terms. You can be nostalgic for many, many things without taking something to a high level of fandom. When something rare really gets you hype, and there are also tournaments where other players that are hype about it gather in your area, you generally go if you can. Hype is more than basic nostalgia. And I agree that you can be nostalgic for a game without going to tournaments, but are you truly HYPE if the tournament came to town multiple times and you always choose to do something else instead?
@@TehUnHolySkittles929 Example: Candyland board game is nostalgic to me. Hype? No. That being said... Is Max a professional streamer or a pro fighting game player? Has any pro athlete been able to avoid public competition at high levels for most of their career? I'll go with streamer then. He's chosen streaming over tournament play many times. And that's perfectly fine! But are you really hype for the game, or the viewer count?? It seems then that he is nostalgic for the game, and more hype for the viewer count.
I never tire of seeing my two buddies in the car freakin' out about Street Fighter 4 in that video. Street fighter 4 did so much for everyone back in the day and honestly, its still my favorite SF game to date. Maybe its because it brought SF back from the dead, maybe its because I met so many cool people online and became friends with, maybe its just the epic roster of characters and badass tunes in it. Either way, this game has its place in the pages of fighting history.
We need an announcer back for this series. Almost didn't even need real commentators with the Ultra one. This game has so much style, detail, and energy.
@@tomsmarkovs1946 lol I see what you mean. Sf6 added commentary but it loses impact for me because it isn't as exaggerated as Sf4. It's like listening in to Capcom Cup on the regular.
I was 6 years old when this came out. Before my uncle and I grew distant from me growing and him starting his own family, this was the game that gave us a true common interest. He bought my first fightstick. It was that small SF4 fight stick. I remember learning the motion inputs, unlocking every character, and watching Daigo's Ryu on YT with my uncle. Great times. I hope SF6 can give me a similar feeling. Does not at all need to be the same game, but I just something great.
Man that sounds awesome! I can definitely relate to the experience of bonding with family to ultimately lose touch over time :/ I do hope you guys can get a rematch together with sf6 someday though! ☺️
I played fighting games casually growing up with my friends. The SFIV games are what introduced me to the bigger FGC. SFIV series imo was peak Street Fighter. Unique roster, GORGEOUS soundtrack, hype in-game announcers, and endless hours of fun (casual, competitive, and spectatorship). I still own the 3DS and mobile games today.
The menu sounds, the announcer, the "KO!" is all so nostalgic. I think sf4 had my favorite game sounds ever, i'm glad they have persisted in memes because i could not live without them lol
Street Fighter 4 was my first Street Fighter game and defeating Seth on hardest difficulty in Arcade mode remains one of my greatest gaming achievements of all time!
I remember defeating Seth without continues with e honda (I was getting to know the “charge” play style) and getting that achievement with a follow up of getting to fight Gouken (got clapped tho)
The intro alone had every fighting game fan out there hyped when this game came out….remember seeing that opening for the first time like it was yesterday
Capcom really knew how to make super moves back then. I don't know what the hell happened between 4 and 5 that caused all the super moves to be lame as hell but you only have to go back and watch the dynamic angles on these ultras to see the difference.
I always find it interesting that the SFIV team at Capcom originally weren't sure if they were able to handle adapting the franchise into "3D" themselves for so long, only for them to then see Arc System Works' Battle Fantasia, which then gave them the confidence that they could actually do it if they followed ArcSys' lead, in terms of visual style. In essence, Arc System Works is the reason why Street Fighter was able to be revived, in general.
this game introduced me everything fighting games were about. I wouldn't be where am i if it wasn't for street fighter 4 and the multiple versions after it. It still holds up to the day
My uncle got this game for me on PC. I still have the box with the dvd. I played countless hours online when I moved to a city where I had literally no friends to hang out with. This game was FUN. The other editions are indeed amazing but none of them hit as hard as vanilla SF4 for me. What a game.
Street fighter 4 absolutely resurrected the fighting game genre. And now its arguably better than ever with so many quality titles out there. Sf4 will always have a place in my heart for that
Yeah, I still remember when this game came out all those years ago……. It’s the game that REVIVED 2D FIGHTING GAME!! We wouldn’t have had a fighter renascence without it!!
That intro is the definition of HYPE! The arcades had shut down anywhere relatively close to me by the time this came out. My friends and I would hit up Wrights Barnyard (well, DZ's Hollywood Park to be exact by that time) for the single token deal for every machine in the summer months. They closed in like 2005/6 due to the 80/94 expansion swallowing up the land. Still need to make it out to Galloping Ghosts one day, its only about 35 mins from me.
The most important fighting game of all time is Street Fighter 2. The SECOND most important fighting game of all time is Street Fighter 4. Except for a few franchises still barely hanging on like Tekken and KOF, fighring games pretty much DIED in rhe aughts as a genre. Street Fighter 4 revived the fighting game scene with a vengeance and was the first game od the modern fighting game tournament scene. EVO would not be the big deal it is now without SF4. I remember I was in basic training for the US Army back in 2007, and part of basic training is, obviously, that you don't have access to social media or electronic devices during the 9 weeks of it. The only real access to any outside news is either if your drill sergeants told you any (fat chance) or if your family and friends tell you any through letters from home. Well, I received a letter from my brother, and he obviously got me up to speed on gaming news. I started to read the letter, and suddenly I shout at the top of my lungs: "CAPCOM IS MAKING STREET FIGHTER 4!!!" My entire bay of basic training mates erupted in cheers and applause. The drill sergeant on duty walked in angry at the sudden outburst, and smoked us, and he asked me what the fuck that was about. When I told him that Street Fighter 4 was coming out, he immediately ran into his office, and 5 minutes later, he let us watch the teaser on the computer. It was one of my favorite memories of my Army career. Street Fighter 4 has a special place in my heart. It still is, IMHO, the best Street Fighter game after all its iterations, and my favorite fighting game ever, even dethroning Capcom Vs. SNK 2 in that regard.
My first game I played so seriously for 7 years, I can't say I was that committed to anything else (well besides college haha) This was definitely really nostalgic for those who played SF2, like that's exactly what Vanilla was going for and it did it so well.
Max is so right about the timing of SF4a release... It was MUCH needed, I hadn't been pulled in by a fighting game like that in awhile, but I returned after playing MVC3/UMvC3 and the game felt WAAAY too sluggish to get into, but I still have the very fond memories of it's release...
I remember first playing USFIV on mobile and it was my first traditional fighting game I ever put lots of time into. I would always try to do the combo trials on mobile for gods sake, which was as you can imagine, hella difficult. Cheesing the ai with focus attack in arcade mode was my favorite past time after coming home from school. But it introduced and got me interested in fighting games in general, and I wouldn’t have been an SF fan without it
I'll never forget the hype for this game. It was so great. Unfortunately 5 didn't even come close to this. Hopefully 6 can turn it around and we can recapture this.
I remember being surprised when I saw SF4 on the shelves because I didn’t even realise there had been a SF3. Seth Kilian said in an interview that Capcom nearly threw in the towel after third strike because the player pool was so small. SF4 was like an adrenaline shot for the series
You can't deny that SF4 is the most important fighting game in recent history. Basicaly brought the genre back to life when fighting games were becoming irrelevant in the 2000's.
Oh man. I remember me and my cousin playing this for hours. I was a Dan main and he was a Gouken main. Had this whole storyline on how Dan was gonna teach him a real fighting style. Our matches were insane. Never got the same feeling with SFV. SF4 just had a more dynamic and exciting feel. I’ll never forget the time I had with it.
Never gonna forget how SF4 brought me into fighting games. 5 of my friends owned it and we were all extremely good at our character pools (Mine was Ibuki, Juri, Abel, Makoto, Sakura) we also all made it mandatory for all of us to learn Dan so we could have Dan vs Dan joke matches.
I remember crying my eyes out cuz I couldn’t do specials (I was 12 at the time I used to main akuma,ryu,gouken) although i mashed and mashed it grew to combos and then long ones the amount of insanity I had to deal with in training mode trying to copy combos and also trying to be creative is insane I will always love street fighter 4
This also came out at the time when Capcom was starting to take PC ports more seriously and it was a big deal for me, because it was an ACTUAL quality port and I LOOOVED the heck out of this game and I have plenty of memories of playing this specific version with my cousin and my nephew. Granted, it was a Games For Windows Live release, so it was not perfect. I remember dreading having to fight against AI Zangief more than Seth himself, those grabs were DEVASTATING in this game. Maybe it's time to reinstall Ultra, just for nostalgia sake.
INDESTRUCTIBLE - NOSTALGIA CRANKED TO 11. Back when this came out I went thru a bad breakup. This song got me out of the dark times to reach for something again. Now I'm so pumped every time i hear it because its strength and resolve
FADC is one of the most satisfying game mechanics i've ever seen. Roman Cancels might be the top but Focus Attacks and all the related tech are so good
Damn that Cammy match really did bring up some nightmarish memories. SF4 was the first FG for me and i played it with classmates but couldn't play online, so playing against AI was the only way to actually learn something. Cammy, Gief and Hakan were the bane of my existence as a noob Juri player. I should still have in an old HDD the recording of when i finally managed to win against a max difficulty AI Zangief in vs mode, after hours and hours of trying non-stop. I remember showing it proudly to one of my classmates that played Gief and was the only one with prior FGs experience (albeit in Tekken) and the one who was always on top of our little tournaments.
Still the best intro cutscene to any fighting game for me. The music, the art style, everything is so hype it’s ridiculous. Still gets me pumped to this day man
I remember waiting on a long line just to pick this game up and the animated movie that came along with it. I enjoyed the hell out of this game and poured so many hours into this once ibuki was out
Street Fighter IV holds a special place in my heart. Not only did it bring me out of semi-retirement when it comes to video games but it outright saved the fighting game genre. After this we got that boom period of Marvel vs Capcom 3, Mortal Kombat (2011), Street Fighter III Third Strike Online, King of Fighter XIII, Injustice, Street Fighter X Tekken (super underrated), Persona 4 Arena, Tekken Tag 2, Skullgirls, Dead or Alive 5 and Blazblue Calamity Trigger. It was a glorious time.
man I remember the hype for this game like it was yesterday I was totally like those dudes in the car screaming street fighter 4 with my friends at the top of our lungs if you weren't around it is hard to explain basically in the 90's I could get anybody to play street fighter 2 with me but street fighter 3 practically no one not even in arcades but street fighter 4? everybody played that game with me I had no trouble finding opponents whether it was online or irl that is how well known this game was and why max said it brought street fighter back from the dead because it basically did for better or worse
Still remember taking 2 hour drives to get 1-2 arcade matches a day🥰 sf4 will always have a special place in my heart for Fighting games, the journey and hype was real
SF4 Super was my very first fighting game that I got into competitively! Made so many awesome friends from tournaments too. Watching tournaments on twitch and learning about Daigo and Excellent Adventures of Gootecks and Mike Ross. Ah I miss it!!
SF4 will always be one those special games. It was one of the first fighting games I got back in 2009 and I just loved street fighter ever since. The gameplay, the music, everything is just nostalgic
This is no bullshit . Maxamillion dood ken replays are a big part of the reason I got into sf4 so much. You can still see My comments on his old videos blown away by his ken before i even learnt what hit confirms were by watching lord of ultimate tutorials. I still play it occasionally 12 years later and am a member of the facebook revival group and keep Up With the latest scene and will always love it .
This was a moment in time alongside MK(2011) like I grew up playing all the collections on the PS2 and Super and Turbo on an SNES but I was about 13 when SFIV came out and holy shit was it amazing. Just the fact I got to experience a SF game at launch and with friends was phenomenal. This brought back a ton of memories
I definitely took Street Fighter IV for granted for many years. Not only was it a great game, it was the revival of the 2D Fighter that was sorely needed. In the 2000s most if not all fighting games were 3D. You had Tekken, you had Soul Calibur(which was Tekken with swords), Dead or Alive(which was Tekken but horny) and the Mortal Kombat 3D era games (which were trying to be Tekken with swords but gory) you had maybe 1 or 2 2D fighters creep up here and there, but they weren't big titles. And then Street Fighter IV released and changed everything. Because of SFIVs success a new era of fighting games boomed. Without SFIV we wouldn't have the new era of Mortal Kombat games(which are amazing), the smorgasbord of 2D anime fighters like Blazblue and Guilty Gear and of course the revival of franchises like Killer Instinct and King of Fighters. Street Fighter may not be my favorite fighting game series out there, but there's no denying the impact that Street Fighter IV had in the genre. It's a shame the same guy that revived Street Fighter also crapped the bed with SFxTekken and Street Fighter V. And still no Darkstalkers IV either. *sigh*
How everyone reacted to SF4 is how I was towards Marvel 3. I'll forever be greatful for SF4 even tho I didn't play much because I wouldn't have gotten the games I went crazy over.
I'll never forget when it first came out! When I bought my PS3 this was the first game I bought! I was so glad to get back into Street Fighter. I never got into 3. Only played the originals and Street Fighter Alpha. But when 4 came out! Played it a ton!
I have a lot of good memories attached to SF4. My friends and I always used to hang out and play it, just passing the sticks for hours. It makes me miss those days!
I remember watching Gootecks and Mike Ross on CrossCounterTV and seeing Max on there for the first time. They hooked me but Max got me to stay in terms of loving fighting games. I don't play as much anymore but I love watching. This brought back so many memories.
I still prefer SFIV to SFV. This was the first game I actually wanted to learn a character, and because he's a memelord, I had to pick Dan. Behold my 5% win rate but I don't care. Dan's the Man.
when i first got this game for the ps4, i had no idea how big this was to the SF fans, all i knew was this was the first street fighter game ive owned (other than that, i played one match at a street fighter 2 retro arcade as a little child) i loved the game, the opening song is my ringtone. this was one of the few things that brought my family together
Street Fighter IV was my first fighting game that I learned more than just mashing buttons. Was alot of good times being fresh out of HS and spending days at Arcade Infinity back in the 10's. Totally miss those times.
The first fighting game I really tried to learn. Before I had played a bunch of Tekken but only as a normal casual but one day in 2010 I cam across a video of SF4 and it was Ryu vs Ken and it looked so cool and technical and I immediately wanted to play it and so I did and here I am 12 years later still playing fighting games, at an intermediate level at best but still improving. Also funny fact about that video I saw, at the time it looked super high level and fast and hype but I found it again 10 years later and it was hilariously low level, even more hilariously one of the players was Poongko, the Poongko, crazy ass Seth player Poongko. How things have changed.
I still remember this coming out, and playing it at a friend's house with him for hours- days- fucking years. That, and the legendary story of the SuperBestFriends traveling into the US just to play SF4, and nearly dying because Minh almost fell asleep behind the wheel.
SF2= Revolutionized the fighting game genre
SF4= Resurrect the FGC
100%
SF3?
@@brandonsellers1076 only the even numbered entries are worth a damn. hope 6 lives up to that.
SF2 didn't revolutionize the genre. It literally invented it lol
@@Dirtboy37 no, it revolutionized it, there were fighting games before this one
SF4 was one of my first ever fighting games that wasn't in the Tekken series. I rented it from a video game rental store a couple years after it came out, and I remember looking at the cast and thinking there were so many cool and interesting characters, but who did I choose? The prisoner that could throw rocks and yell Bingo! Ya, I mained Cody back in the day and I sucked so bad at it. Good times.
🤝 My man I’m a Cody main in SF5 and I picked him cuz I thought he looked so sick, I hope they bring him back in 6
As someone whose favorite game of all time is the OG Final Fight who also mained Cody in Street Fighter IV (along with every other SF game he's in), I can confirm that you picked the right option. Cody is BADASS.
Ay fellow SF4 Cody main
Fellow Cody main as well 😀
My first impression with SF4 (and the whole series) was actually really bad.
We played Tekken and MK a lot before and were used to being able to just mostly mash buttons to do cool stuff, but in SF4 we were just whiffing normals all the time, couldn't do even simple combos and couldn't even figure out how to do most specials, let alone supers, even when we saw the required inputs in the command list we still couldn't usually get the timing right.
We've lost interest in the game and I only returned several years later when I bumped into a great tutorial on youtube that explained how combos, specials, supers or focus attack worked. Since then I've became a huge fan of traditional 2D fighters. Really shows how important good tutorials are in fighting games, and how the lack of them can alienate newcomers. The sad thing is that even nearly 15 years later the big fighting games hardly include any tutorials.
Street Fighter 4 save the fighting game community such a great comeback game of the franchise.
Fr like it's better than the sequel 💀
*Capcom fighting game community
How did it save the fighting game community outside of the Capcom fighting game community?
Dude chill, SF4 only revived the SF franchise. SF4 "saving" the whole FGC is a SF fans wet dream. FGC was alive and well. Its just that SF4 brought hype!
Cause of Street Fighter it inspired the return of Mortal Kombat, Dead Or Alive, Virtua Fighter etc the FGC was dead Tekken was 6 was out and became a afterthought.
I'll never forget that time I met my friend sabastian at the GameStop Street Fighter 4 tournament and we wound up staying there for like 9 hours being the only people left until they closed.... playing this s*** over and over again and then we found out we lived in the same apartment complex and continued playing until like 3:00 in the morning!
That sounds like the dream :')
I remember EVERYONE's minds were blown by the fact that it'd be the "first" time a Street Fighter game would be 3D. Obviously there were others, but this really gained mainstream traction, and I know some people thought the game looked kinda ugly at the time, especially with some of the faces, but dude, I remember thinking this was like, the NEXT GEN FIGHTING GAME as a kid.
And then its one of the most hideous games ive seen lol
The thing that bothers me, is that I HATE the art style because of how it makes the characters look, but I will be damned if it didn't animate well.
@@tyrantravealpha It's weird. Cuz yeah I hate the art direction in this game but the animation feels smoother than SFV's AND the super/ultra choreography (particularly in Super/Ultra) is leagues better than most things in SFV.
@BitterOrange Nothing wrong with that!
@BitterOrange to be fair I agree that it looks better than V
Going to be honest the way that Max opened this video about Street Fighter 4 was SO Epic flaming the chat!
"Get fucked, chat"
*Unsubscribed...*
So that I can subscribe again.
Hes also talking all over the amazing intro
Interesting how hype he is but he never even competed in a tournament for it, at least there isn't footage
@@TehUnHolySkittles929 I never mentioned nostalgia, nor did Max. I'm talking about hype, the term he chose for the title. I don't think hype and nostalgia are interchangeable terms. You can be nostalgic for many, many things without taking something to a high level of fandom. When something rare really gets you hype, and there are also tournaments where other players that are hype about it gather in your area, you generally go if you can. Hype is more than basic nostalgia. And I agree that you can be nostalgic for a game without going to tournaments, but are you truly HYPE if the tournament came to town multiple times and you always choose to do something else instead?
@@TehUnHolySkittles929 Example: Candyland board game is nostalgic to me. Hype? No. That being said... Is Max a professional streamer or a pro fighting game player? Has any pro athlete been able to avoid public competition at high levels for most of their career? I'll go with streamer then. He's chosen streaming over tournament play many times. And that's perfectly fine! But are you really hype for the game, or the viewer count?? It seems then that he is nostalgic for the game, and more hype for the viewer count.
I remember when this came out.... I cried tears of JOY!
I never tire of seeing my two buddies in the car freakin' out about Street Fighter 4 in that video. Street fighter 4 did so much for everyone back in the day and honestly, its still my favorite SF game to date. Maybe its because it brought SF back from the dead, maybe its because I met so many cool people online and became friends with, maybe its just the epic roster of characters and badass tunes in it. Either way, this game has its place in the pages of fighting history.
SF4 definitely created and supercharged an era of fighting games and rebirthed SF in a big way! I was playing before with my amazing fightstick.
We need an announcer back for this series. Almost didn't even need real commentators with the Ultra one. This game has so much style, detail, and energy.
You right
This one in the base game is kind of lame tbh. In Super and Ultra they're great yeah
Careful what you wish for.
@@tomsmarkovs1946 lol I see what you mean. Sf6 added commentary but it loses impact for me because it isn't as exaggerated as Sf4.
It's like listening in to Capcom Cup on the regular.
I was 6 years old when this came out. Before my uncle and I grew distant from me growing and him starting his own family, this was the game that gave us a true common interest. He bought my first fightstick. It was that small SF4 fight stick. I remember learning the motion inputs, unlocking every character, and watching Daigo's Ryu on YT with my uncle. Great times. I hope SF6 can give me a similar feeling. Does not at all need to be the same game, but I just something great.
Man that sounds awesome! I can definitely relate to the experience of bonding with family to ultimately lose touch over time :/ I do hope you guys can get a rematch together with sf6 someday though! ☺️
What do you think about 6?
I played fighting games casually growing up with my friends.
The SFIV games are what introduced me to the bigger FGC. SFIV series imo was peak Street Fighter. Unique roster, GORGEOUS soundtrack, hype in-game announcers, and endless hours of fun (casual, competitive, and spectatorship).
I still own the 3DS and mobile games today.
The menu sounds, the announcer, the "KO!" is all so nostalgic. I think sf4 had my favorite game sounds ever, i'm glad they have persisted in memes because i could not live without them lol
Literally one of the first games I've played on the PS3.
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The Street Fighter 4 opening song is one of the best. It gets you pumping. It's always on my workout playlist.
SF4 wasn't just a revival for Street Fighter, it was an evolution for fighting games as a whole
Nah only thing original about SF4 is Focus attack lol
@@leonamoonslasher7070 the most ignorant mind ever
@@leonamoonslasher7070 street fighter 4 is the reason why Mortal Kombat 9 exists
It's surprises me that Max didn't take advantage of the revival and try and enter a tournament or anything really
@@diegotm4365exactly
Street Fighter 4 revitalize the fighting games genre and Street Fighter was dead for years.
And street fighter 6 is about to do the same thing in less than 24 hours
How do you make SF4 great then go make the trash known as SFV then make a banger that is SF6
By fucking itsellf it was crazy
I'm not a fan of playing Street Fighter myself, but this was the game that got me into watching tournaments. The high level play was so HYPE.
Street Fighter 4 was my first Street Fighter game and defeating Seth on hardest difficulty in Arcade mode remains one of my greatest gaming achievements of all time!
I remember defeating Seth without continues with e honda (I was getting to know the “charge” play style) and getting that achievement with a follow up of getting to fight Gouken (got clapped tho)
The intro alone had every fighting game fan out there hyped when this game came out….remember seeing that opening for the first time like it was yesterday
Capcom really knew how to make super moves back then. I don't know what the hell happened between 4 and 5 that caused all the super moves to be lame as hell but you only have to go back and watch the dynamic angles on these ultras to see the difference.
SF6 is the wake up call
I always find it interesting that the SFIV team at Capcom originally weren't sure if they were able to handle adapting the franchise into "3D" themselves for so long, only for them to then see Arc System Works' Battle Fantasia, which then gave them the confidence that they could actually do it if they followed ArcSys' lead, in terms of visual style. In essence, Arc System Works is the reason why Street Fighter was able to be revived, in general.
this game introduced me everything fighting games were about. I wouldn't be where am i if it wasn't for street fighter 4 and the multiple versions after it. It still holds up to the day
Ryu's second ultra was the most gorgeous in this game. The pop offs when it hit... good times
Metsu ShoRyuKen, still my fav too
Especially when it armored through a focus attack and you hear the glass break…. 10/10 😂
My uncle got this game for me on PC. I still have the box with the dvd. I played countless hours online when I moved to a city where I had literally no friends to hang out with. This game was FUN.
The other editions are indeed amazing but none of them hit as hard as vanilla SF4 for me. What a game.
I got USF4 for the 360 recently. OH MY GOD ITS SO FUN! I just want to say thank you for getting me into a great genre of games. Also, Shine on!
U do know u can download it for Xbox one also right?
Can u find an online match quickly?
I play on 360 even now. my channel loaded with great matches and high level Ryu.
We probably met online.
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Man those were the days….. especially when combofiend came on the show it was just perfect
Street fighter 4 absolutely resurrected the fighting game genre. And now its arguably better than ever with so many quality titles out there. Sf4 will always have a place in my heart for that
Yeah, I still remember when this game came out all those years ago…….
It’s the game that REVIVED 2D FIGHTING GAME!! We wouldn’t have had a fighter renascence without it!!
That intro is the definition of HYPE! The arcades had shut down anywhere relatively close to me by the time this came out. My friends and I would hit up Wrights Barnyard (well, DZ's Hollywood Park to be exact by that time) for the single token deal for every machine in the summer months. They closed in like 2005/6 due to the 80/94 expansion swallowing up the land. Still need to make it out to Galloping Ghosts one day, its only about 35 mins from me.
The best Evo moments. The best members of the FGC. Cross Counter TV before the crazy. SF4 is easily the best SF.
im still partial to alpha
Cross counter is still great
@@mkooij I haven't watched very actively but the KOF streams have been pretty fun
That's where I found out about max.
@@blackpanthro a man of culture
The most important fighting game of all time is Street Fighter 2.
The SECOND most important fighting game of all time is Street Fighter 4.
Except for a few franchises still barely hanging on like Tekken and KOF, fighring games pretty much DIED in rhe aughts as a genre. Street Fighter 4 revived the fighting game scene with a vengeance and was the first game od the modern fighting game tournament scene. EVO would not be the big deal it is now without SF4.
I remember I was in basic training for the US Army back in 2007, and part of basic training is, obviously, that you don't have access to social media or electronic devices during the 9 weeks of it. The only real access to any outside news is either if your drill sergeants told you any (fat chance) or if your family and friends tell you any through letters from home. Well, I received a letter from my brother, and he obviously got me up to speed on gaming news. I started to read the letter, and suddenly I shout at the top of my lungs:
"CAPCOM IS MAKING STREET FIGHTER 4!!!"
My entire bay of basic training mates erupted in cheers and applause. The drill sergeant on duty walked in angry at the sudden outburst, and smoked us, and he asked me what the fuck that was about. When I told him that Street Fighter 4 was coming out, he immediately ran into his office, and 5 minutes later, he let us watch the teaser on the computer. It was one of my favorite memories of my Army career.
Street Fighter 4 has a special place in my heart. It still is, IMHO, the best Street Fighter game after all its iterations, and my favorite fighting game ever, even dethroning Capcom Vs. SNK 2 in that regard.
A lot of the voice actors sound so young in SF4. Its really interesting to hear since I've wound up following a lot of their careers since this game.
My first game I played so seriously for 7 years, I can't say I was that committed to anything else (well besides college haha)
This was definitely really nostalgic for those who played SF2, like that's exactly what Vanilla was going for and it did it so well.
Watching the enemy's eyes widen to a comical level when using ultra is always hilarious
Max is so right about the timing of SF4a release... It was MUCH needed, I hadn't been pulled in by a fighting game like that in awhile, but I returned after playing MVC3/UMvC3 and the game felt WAAAY too sluggish to get into, but I still have the very fond memories of it's release...
I remember first playing USFIV on mobile and it was my first traditional fighting game I ever put lots of time into. I would always try to do the combo trials on mobile for gods sake, which was as you can imagine, hella difficult. Cheesing the ai with focus attack in arcade mode was my favorite past time after coming home from school. But it introduced and got me interested in fighting games in general, and I wouldn’t have been an SF fan without it
I swear, the Street Fighter IV Era was the most hype era in all of Street Fighter. Change my mind now.
I will do no such thing, because you're correct.
Street fighter 2
Tournaments with sf4, mvc3 and kof13 were so hype.
I'll never forget the hype for this game. It was so great. Unfortunately 5 didn't even come close to this. Hopefully 6 can turn it around and we can recapture this.
Dude street fighter four watching you play that was what made me get into fighting games and all I can say has been a great journey my dude ❤️
This game was revolutionary to me and many others. Especially seeing vanilla Sagat
I grew up with SF4 and was the first fighting game I played. This game made me fall in love with fighting games and in SF.
I remember being surprised when I saw SF4 on the shelves because I didn’t even realise there had been a SF3. Seth Kilian said in an interview that Capcom nearly threw in the towel after third strike because the player pool was so small. SF4 was like an adrenaline shot for the series
This is definitely one of the best Fighting games out there in existence!!
This is how I found the dood of doods looking for sf4 videos and never stopped watching damn time flys
You can't deny that SF4 is the most important fighting game in recent history. Basicaly brought the genre back to life when fighting games were becoming irrelevant in the 2000's.
Playing Street Fighter IV for the first time was like seeing your favorite band get back together. All those old faces with new 3D clothes!
Wow. That is quite a... knee... that Ken's got in that thumbnail. I'm sure all the ladies are impressed!
Oh man. I remember me and my cousin playing this for hours. I was a Dan main and he was a Gouken main. Had this whole storyline on how Dan was gonna teach him a real fighting style. Our matches were insane. Never got the same feeling with SFV. SF4 just had a more dynamic and exciting feel. I’ll never forget the time I had with it.
Never gonna forget how SF4 brought me into fighting games. 5 of my friends owned it and we were all extremely good at our character pools (Mine was Ibuki, Juri, Abel, Makoto, Sakura) we also all made it mandatory for all of us to learn Dan so we could have Dan vs Dan joke matches.
I remember crying my eyes out cuz I couldn’t do specials (I was 12 at the time I used to main akuma,ryu,gouken) although i mashed and mashed it grew to combos and then long ones the amount of insanity I had to deal with in training mode trying to copy combos and also trying to be creative is insane I will always love street fighter 4
Shout out to Team Four Star having Max voicing in Stardust crusader's part 2 in 9 minutes
Came here for the TFS comments. Wasn't disappointed.
This also came out at the time when Capcom was starting to take PC ports more seriously and it was a big deal for me, because it was an ACTUAL quality port and I LOOOVED the heck out of this game and I have plenty of memories of playing this specific version with my cousin and my nephew. Granted, it was a Games For Windows Live release, so it was not perfect. I remember dreading having to fight against AI Zangief more than Seth himself, those grabs were DEVASTATING in this game. Maybe it's time to reinstall Ultra, just for nostalgia sake.
Street Fighter 4 was how I met my now best friends. We don't play anything but USF4 whenever there's a UFC fight now.
The game that made me say "Hold my space, I gotta pickup my kids from Daycare."
the street fighter 4 art for me was brilliant and it always fascinated me as a child growing up in the early 2000s
INDESTRUCTIBLE - NOSTALGIA CRANKED TO 11.
Back when this came out I went thru a bad breakup. This song got me out of the dark times to reach for something again. Now I'm so pumped every time i hear it because its strength and resolve
Oh man, the start of SF 4 when you could take entire sets with Sagat with just his jump-in, heavy kick, tiger shot and sweep. Good times.
I suck at this game, but land a FADC into a Ultra is satisfying as hell!
FADC is one of the most satisfying game mechanics i've ever seen. Roman Cancels might be the top but Focus Attacks and all the related tech are so good
@@Countdownsmiles agreed. But, to be honest, I like RCs more. :v
When I was 13, I always borrowed my cousin’s laptop to play Super SF4, my favorite game of that time. So memorable.
The game that truly inducted me into the FGC.
I KNEW I recognized that voice! Ken's English VA is Reuben Langdon, who did Dante in the DMC anime. Learn something new every day.
As far as I remember Street Fighter 4 got a warm reception. But it wasn't until Super Street Fighter 4 that the fighting games really came back.
Damn that Cammy match really did bring up some nightmarish memories. SF4 was the first FG for me and i played it with classmates but couldn't play online, so playing against AI was the only way to actually learn something. Cammy, Gief and Hakan were the bane of my existence as a noob Juri player. I should still have in an old HDD the recording of when i finally managed to win against a max difficulty AI Zangief in vs mode, after hours and hours of trying non-stop. I remember showing it proudly to one of my classmates that played Gief and was the only one with prior FGs experience (albeit in Tekken) and the one who was always on top of our little tournaments.
I haven’t played Street Fighter 4 in a long time. It’s great to see this game again.
Seeing this brought back MAJOR nostalgia.
Also got me excited again for SF6 weirdly enough.
God I CANNOT WAIT to see SF6 GAMEPLAY!!!!
Still the best intro cutscene to any fighting game for me. The music, the art style, everything is so hype it’s ridiculous. Still gets me pumped to this day man
I remember waiting on a long line just to pick this game up and the animated movie that came along with it. I enjoyed the hell out of this game and poured so many hours into this once ibuki was out
Street Fighter IV holds a special place in my heart. Not only did it bring me out of semi-retirement when it comes to video games but it outright saved the fighting game genre. After this we got that boom period of Marvel vs Capcom 3, Mortal Kombat (2011), Street Fighter III Third Strike Online, King of Fighter XIII, Injustice, Street Fighter X Tekken (super underrated), Persona 4 Arena, Tekken Tag 2, Skullgirls, Dead or Alive 5 and Blazblue Calamity Trigger. It was a glorious time.
man I remember the hype for this game like it was yesterday I was totally like those dudes in the car screaming street fighter 4 with my friends at the top of our lungs if you weren't around it is hard to explain basically in the 90's I could get anybody to play street fighter 2 with me but street fighter 3 practically no one not even in arcades but street fighter 4? everybody played that game with me I had no trouble finding opponents whether it was online or irl that is how well known this game was and why max said it brought street fighter back from the dead because it basically did for better or worse
Still remember taking 2 hour drives to get 1-2 arcade matches a day🥰 sf4 will always have a special place in my heart for Fighting games, the journey and hype was real
That intro track fucking floored me when this got shown for the first time
this game was always on in the dorm rooms. having fei long back was the best. and when dudley and Cody were added....sweet Jesus
SF4 Super was my very first fighting game that I got into competitively! Made so many awesome friends from tournaments too. Watching tournaments on twitch and learning about Daigo and Excellent Adventures of Gootecks and Mike Ross. Ah I miss it!!
SF4 will always be one those special games. It was one of the first fighting games I got back in 2009 and I just loved street fighter ever since. The gameplay, the music, everything is just nostalgic
Hearing the shout out to Video 94 and remembering the days of going there every day after school to train my Bison, man that made my day. Respect.
This is no bullshit . Maxamillion dood ken replays are a big part of the reason I got into sf4 so much. You can still see
My comments on his old videos blown away by his ken before i even learnt what hit confirms were by watching lord of ultimate tutorials. I still play it occasionally 12 years later and am a member of the facebook revival group and keep
Up
With the latest scene and will always love it .
For alot of people Street Fighter 4 is their Street Fighter 2 if you know what i mean. Got alot to thank for because of SF4.
If people want to play SF4 and you have PSNow, Ultra 4 is free on there. It’s how I play besides playing on Steam.
This was a moment in time alongside MK(2011) like I grew up playing all the collections on the PS2 and Super and Turbo on an SNES but I was about 13 when SFIV came out and holy shit was it amazing. Just the fact I got to experience a SF game at launch and with friends was phenomenal. This brought back a ton of memories
SF4 was definitely hype. My local gamestop had a tournament for it after its release. It was so fun... and yes I won it. 😎
I missed watching your channel Max. I’m so glad to see you still being awesome
I definitely took Street Fighter IV for granted for many years.
Not only was it a great game, it was the revival of the 2D Fighter that was sorely needed. In the 2000s most if not all fighting games were 3D. You had Tekken, you had Soul Calibur(which was Tekken with swords), Dead or Alive(which was Tekken but horny) and the Mortal Kombat 3D era games (which were trying to be Tekken with swords but gory) you had maybe 1 or 2 2D fighters creep up here and there, but they weren't big titles.
And then Street Fighter IV released and changed everything. Because of SFIVs success a new era of fighting games boomed. Without SFIV we wouldn't have the new era of Mortal Kombat games(which are amazing), the smorgasbord of 2D anime fighters like Blazblue and Guilty Gear and of course the revival of franchises like Killer Instinct and King of Fighters.
Street Fighter may not be my favorite fighting game series out there, but there's no denying the impact that Street Fighter IV had in the genre.
It's a shame the same guy that revived Street Fighter also crapped the bed with SFxTekken and Street Fighter V. And still no Darkstalkers IV either. *sigh*
The character selection music was the one song I would always listen to. I downloaded it on my tablet. And I still remember the mods
Man remember Max vs Hugo one of the hardest boss fights in this game by far.
This game was SO. GOOD. A perfect 10/10, in retrospect.
How everyone reacted to SF4 is how I was towards Marvel 3. I'll forever be greatful for SF4 even tho I didn't play much because I wouldn't have gotten the games I went crazy over.
I remember playing this at Super Arcade! The memories, I’ve seen you there many times.
I'll never forget when it first came out! When I bought my PS3 this was the first game I bought!
I was so glad to get back into Street Fighter. I never got into 3. Only played the originals and Street Fighter Alpha.
But when 4 came out! Played it a ton!
that intro got me hype even before it released I was buying controllers and fight sticks
I didn't really play SF4 a TON but hearing that music start up did take me back to playing this in my college apartment.
I have a lot of good memories attached to SF4. My friends and I always used to hang out and play it, just passing the sticks for hours. It makes me miss those days!
Street Fighter IV was the one that made me love the FGC and actually study games like SFIII and ST.
I remember watching Gootecks and Mike Ross on CrossCounterTV and seeing Max on there for the first time. They hooked me but Max got me to stay in terms of loving fighting games. I don't play as much anymore but I love watching. This brought back so many memories.
I still prefer SFIV to SFV. This was the first game I actually wanted to learn a character, and because he's a memelord, I had to pick Dan.
Behold my 5% win rate but I don't care. Dan's the Man.
Hell yes.. I can't explain how much this game meant to gamers.....
when i first got this game for the ps4, i had no idea how big this was to the SF fans, all i knew was this was the first street fighter game ive owned (other than that, i played one match at a street fighter 2 retro arcade as a little child)
i loved the game, the opening song is my ringtone. this was one of the few things that brought my family together
Street Fighter IV was my first fighting game that I learned more than just mashing buttons. Was alot of good times being fresh out of HS and spending days at Arcade Infinity back in the 10's.
Totally miss those times.
The first fighting game I really tried to learn. Before I had played a bunch of Tekken but only as a normal casual but one day in 2010 I cam across a video of SF4 and it was Ryu vs Ken and it looked so cool and technical and I immediately wanted to play it and so I did and here I am 12 years later still playing fighting games, at an intermediate level at best but still improving. Also funny fact about that video I saw, at the time it looked super high level and fast and hype but I found it again 10 years later and it was hilariously low level, even more hilariously one of the players was Poongko, the Poongko, crazy ass Seth player Poongko. How things have changed.
sf4 resurrected fighting games, sfV put them back in the hospital
I still remember this coming out, and playing it at a friend's house with him for hours- days- fucking years.
That, and the legendary story of the SuperBestFriends traveling into the US just to play SF4, and nearly dying because Minh almost fell asleep behind the wheel.