Quick Look: Ultra Street Fighter 2: The Final Challengers

Overpriced

I'm thinking ST will remain the tournament standard version of SFII.

That price is near-criminal.

Edit: That first person hadouken thing, yeesh! Maybe take that out and bring the price down Capcom.

I hope this game is better the what people are saying need it is way to expencive though

I bought Mark of the Wolves and KoF 99 for 16$ instead! Such great games

Capcom continuing to give Street Fighter the respect it deserves as a franchise.

Giant Bomb mad-libs are always the best.

"They wanna put me in this movie, but I'd be called "CHARLIE" Blanka."

I never played the original HD Remix. Were the character sprites as grimey in that as they are here? There's some weird pixelation going on or something, like they downscaled a high-res sprite without applying any filtering. The backgrounds and character portraits don't seem to share the same problem, which is odd...

Sideways Joy-cons, the true Shitty 3rd Party controller.

But really I've no issue with using them on the Console, or the Grip.

Still don't understand what's the issue with playing with a single joycon, to me it's just meant for a quick multiplayer session with friends. It's not the best but perfectly seviceable for that purpose.

Hopefully Nintendo will reduce the price of their controllers but it's gonna get tiring if you guys are gonna complain every time you do a quick look on the switch :/

40 bucks seems way too much for that port though. Maybe 20 at most.

At least a MH game is coming.

i wonder how well that HORI stick will sell. maybe i'm underestimating things and this will sell a ton because people are desperate for switch games, i dunno.

@adulfzen: i was totally cool with paying $70 for the pro controller. it's a damn fine controller. feels like you could crack a skull with it too. :D

i'm willing to believe that the motion controls are actually unresponsive garbage

but, otoh

both jason and jeff weren't holding the controllers the way the game explicitly told them to

remember when capcom used to make video games

also, motion controls, still fucking garbage in 2017

I doubt these'll be the "final challengers" we see from Street Fighter II.

On a positive note, they're using the awesome illustrations from Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Revival in the menus.

Oh how I have missed the days of wonky motion controls; it's like watching an old kinect QL!

Street Fighter is fine, I guess.

Hmm why can't the internet/network problems be solved by say... taking a separate internet connection/subscription to the building specifically for playing games online in the studio, much like you'd have if you play games at home. So, not tied to the corporate network.

I suppose that would be even more of a nightmare with which cables to use and such. Maybe there are rules against it? Hmm. It does seem like an important thing to solve for the future. Not just for us but also for your own sanity.

So this would be terrible but do you need to reset the controllers after each move? It talks about holding them in front of you and hitting the buttons at the beginning of each move.

Watching both Jason and Jeff not put their hands on the joycons the way the game tells them to for the motion control mode, with thumbs on top and fingers resting along the inside where the SL/SR buttons are, instead putting their thumbs on the sticks that weren't used for one second outside of the menu, makes me incredibly optimistic about the competency any of them are likely to display with the similar ARMS control scheme.

My main take away from this is that I'd probably pay $40 for a Switch version of Ultra Street Fighter 4. Maybe $20 at this point. But not for SF2. This is a silly thing.

Anyone who actually bought this: is the online functional and smooth?

Watching any reviewer play ARMS is going to be super rage inducing XD

If you guys are reading this: Here's a heads-up! Cause I saw some people already mess this up. When you want to block in ARMS (or move) you don't need to move your arms. If you do move your arms a lot for anything other than punching or grabbing, like they never tell you to, you will probably accidentally punch instead of block.

I bet most reviewers are going to make that mistake. XD

Just wanted to point out Ryu's head doesn't spin during the hurricane kick in the motion control mode. Kinda creepy if you think about it too much.

The Blanka cell phone thing got me.

Fobwashed is going to have a field day with this one.

Anyone else thinks this looks like a phone/flash game?
Like that main menu.....and the fighter vs fighter screen with the coloured squares around their pictures looks ultra cheap...
40 dollars man.....not okay...

They should have a Ranking of SF2 ports.

I also like in first person when you use the Tatsumaki, you look in the same direction as your legs spin around you...which is a terrifying image when you stop and think about t...

@roy42: i fumbled with it a bit too but it took me like a minute to figure it out. since ARMS strongly touts its motion controls i'm sure they'll figure it out too,

Fourty dollaaaaaars.

I don't know how, but this looks far worse than SF2 HD Remix at a far higher price - HD Remix is regularly on sale for like $4.00. I can't see anyone picking this up unless they just desperately need to take SF2 on the go with the Nintendo Switch.

If this were like $20 on the PS4 that'd be cool but man this is way to much money for not that much new.

between this game's music and the entire persona 5 soundtrack, 2017 is the year Japanese games got obsessed with cool jazz.

This is an embarrassing package when compared to the almost-identically priced (in the UK) Injustice 2.

Capcom: Remember when we made incredible content? Instead of giving our creators time and freedom to make new incredible content, maybe we can sell that content AGAIN for nearly full price!

@roy42: If you needed an extra period for that run-on sentence, you could have just asked.

boy, this is trash, and actively depressing

These new visuals brought to you by Adventure Quest.

Oh wow, I didn't know that Persona 5 character, Ann TATSUMAKI! was in this game.

+1 for Ben's laugh at 15:10

After reading the comments and then looking back at the video, yeah Jason and Jeff totally weren't holding the joy cons correctly for that crappy Way of The Hado mode.

But even so it seems like they were doing the basic motions it wanted and it was pretty unresponsive. Which, of course it is. Motion controls!

So we've got new(ish) art that lacks a lot of the charm of the original game, a menu that looks like someone cobbled it together in about half a day, and it's a nearly full priced release (UK at least)?

Doesn't sound like a great buy to me :/

Street Fighter 2 came out in arcades in 1991 - isn't most of this music pretty much from that version? In either case, I feel like a lot of Japanese stuff has some jazz or jazz fusion in it somewhere.

Oh man, they should have put out sad guile along with violent ken.

Are all Quick Looks going to be a 3 person team sort of thing? I can't remember when this started.. is it recent or did I just not notice before? Before Ben came on I could swear it was usually the classic two person thing. Maybe it's because they're easing Ben in but he has been in every single feature thus far.

That was actually his name back in the Street Fighter movie. They decided to combine characters for whatever reason.

Also, it looks like you're supposed to hold your hands horizontally for that motion-controlled hurricane kick. Obviously that would have saved the entire mode. :P

@humanity: I think it's just for fighting games out west, although lots of QLs had Dan Alex and vinny.

@humanity: 3-person Quick Looks could be a great way to change the previous QL format, as you could be bringing in a wider range of opinions - for example, 2 of the crew might love a game, but the 3rd might say "but here are it's flaws" (or vice versa). I think it could work!

Also, regarding the "they're holding the controller wrong" -- if the majority of reviewers are having trouble with the controllers, that doesn't mean that people should lament the lack of instruction-reading among the reviewing community.

It means the game company didn't make a very comfortable or intuitive controller.