Haha thank you sir. Feel free to link anywhere you like. Can’t get me in too much trouble, right?

Btw you can link to an individual comment by clicking on the timecode above.

I guess it’s not that I don’t understand it’s more that I’m awe of the audacity of some of the people knocking sf4 and I totally agree people should look at fighters in a much larger scale, it would be nice to see fighting games as big as poker, but everytime I see people knocking sf4 and dissuading people from playing it I can’t help but think that they’se shooting the community in the foot.

Though as you said earlier it’s how the Internet works

Thanks, chicobo. ^_^ You made my day with that reply. Even though you have to expect people ripping you apart when you make your viewpoint public, it’s still relieving to hear others giving sympathy. Haha. ^_^

And Maj, you response is so spot on. I think you’ve worded it better than I could have. Can I link to your reply or can you repost it on SRK? Hahaha.

– James

So essentially everyone’s jealous of SF4 because they wish their game was that popular. And this is aggravated by their unwavering certainty that their preferred game is “superior.”

Of course it’s a waste of time to listen to anyone motivated by jealousy because that’s one of the most wasteful emotions of all goddamn time. But the sadness goes deeper than that.

See, what it really comes down to is these people thinking that SF4 has reached the very apex of mainstream popularity and that it’s time to tear it down in the interest of restoring universal balance. But they’re too limited by their own experiences and expectations. They shouldn’t be thinking “Damn SF4 for being more popular than my favorite game!”

They should be thinking “Will SF4 ever be as popular as Halo or WoW or Poker?” Because fighting games still have a looong way to go before we rival WSoP or Nascar. At the end of the day, whether or not SF4 is your favorite fighting game, it certainly represents the fighting game community in the public’s mind – at least for now.

What jchensor is saying is that it makes more sense to push that further forward and rally other games around its success, rather than undercutting SF4’s chances with bitterness.

I mean, is there anything more pathetic than people who hate on something and go out of their way to undermine it just so they can revel in saying “I told you so” when it fails? Everything goes out of style eventually. You can either make something positive out of it while it lasts. Or you can be a naysayer and chip at the foundation until an earthquake knocks it over so you can be happy on flat land (and later take credit for knocking it down).

I mean, i don’t agree with everything in the article but i certainly agree with the overall sentiment. Before SF4 came out, i was really ready to take a break from video games for a long while. Obviously that didn’t happen and somehow – for better or worse – i’m more involved now than probably ever before.

But even if i had taken a completely different path and skipped SF4 altogether, i still wouldn’t go around publicly talking shit about the game simply because i wish CvS2 had been that popular instead.

The bottom line is it’s still Street Fighter! How can anyone deny that SF4’s success will help SF5 in terms of production budget, marketing investment, and mainstream buzz? And that goes beyond Street Fighter, because we’re even hearing rumblings about a possible Darkstalkers game.

At the end of the day, you can either be an optimist or a pessimist about all this. (Anyone who claims they’re a realist is a poser because nobody has a good handle on what’s going on right now and nobody can predict where this will lead in 3 years.)

I’m not sure why people are grumbling over SFIV’s popularity overshadowing other games; popularity can be fleeting. That’s not to say SFIV is a fad or anything, but realistically it can’t stay too huge forever because you can get other fighters out there to a similar level with due time, patience, and unity in a community. Besides, isn’t SFIV’s popularity good enough to inspire new fighters and international releases of others as well?