What do you guys think about how far SF4 has come since the original game was released.  i mean the game has really changed in a lot of meaningful ways in the last three years.  From the expanded roster to the damage balances SSF4AE from a gameplay standpoint is radically different from the days of vanilla.  Personally I preferred the more balanced style of supper to the rushdown heavy AE, though I do appreciate that AE made Hakan a real character instead of an absolute joke.  Really, I think AE would be the best version if the twins were not so dominant.  Hopefully there will be one more balance patch and the game will be complete.  Which game did you enjoy the most from a balance/ playstyle perspective?

AE because I can play Chinest Hat Boy and his bro Trowa Barton like 3rd Strike.

I enjoy AE, it nerfed projectiles and the shotos importantly. For far too long they were pretty powerful characters. They still are just not to the extent where you have Ryu and Sagat blasting you to death every game, the damage was a bit much in Super and Vanilla, especially Sagat's. No more shoto-coptering all over the level from them anymore either.
 
That patch that capcom has in the works I hope addresses Yang's bug where he has a few frames of invincibility when he gets up from a knock down. Its normal for all the characters to be for a bit but his goes for even longer, there was a video on Shoryuken.com showing this, but I haven't seen any kind of response about it from capcom.

Red fire son! Eff your purple and green fire!!

 "No more shoto-coptering all over the level from them anymore either."

I liked the damage output of Vanilla, but I was able to compromise with the (almost) universal damage nerfs going into Super because the balance is easily the best of the three.

I have nothing good to say about AE, and I hope that if Capcom touches the game again they just do it ST style and let you pick which version of the character to play (in this case Super or AE).

@ThePhantomnaut said:

AE because I can play Chinest Hat Boy and his bro Trowa Barton like 3rd Strike.

Good god, I've been trying to figure out who he looked like for the longest time and it just clicked.

Also, my favorite version was the 3ds version of super, I really like the circle pad, as I don;t have a fight stick. Picked up AE earlier the week so trying to get adjusted to that. Been playing a ton of Volt on iphone too, because it's in my pocket all the time.

i prefer Super, pretty much the entire cast is viable

i dislike AE quite a bit, always feel like the character is beating everyone and not me when i use Yun

ive been playing a bit of SF4 on PC for a laugh and yeh the damage in that game is fucking insane, its nice not having 60% of your life taken of from a mashed DP when you play Super

I can really appreciate the across the board nerfing of DP damage that has taken place over the iterations , but I think the real problem was making a two characters with  DPs, fast dive kicks, and command grabs.  I mean seth is a pain to play against but he is so fragile and his dive kick is no where near as good as the twins.  I think that has Capcom shortened the command grab range and slowed down the dive kicks of the twins then most of AE's problems are solved.  Though Fei would still be good, I don't think he is anywhere near as mindless as the twins.

It was fun the first time it came out, it was fun when it became Super and it's still fun when it evolved to Arcade Edition. ;)

@Sacerdos87: Sagat is a lot stronger in AE than Super, certainly not Vanilla levels but Sagat is definitely a buffed character. So I can't see where you're coming from with that.

Super was the most balanced, AE nerfed too much and buffed too few, if Yun and Yang were introduced as they are in Super, there wouldn't be such an uproar as there is now.

@Sacerdos87: Ahhh I see, thanks.

For the most part, I like AE.  Really hope this "2012" version becomes a reality.

@JJOR64 said:

For the most part, I like AE. Really hope this "2012" version becomes a reality.

2012 version? You mean there's a rumored Super Street Fighter IV Turbo (or whatever the hell they'd call it)?

@JJOR64 said:

For the most part, I like AE. Really hope this "2012" version becomes a reality.

2012 version? You mean there's a rumored Super Street Fighter IV Turbo (or whatever the hell they'd call it)?

i liked Super fuerte more than AE fuerte but still i like the way its gone. Still miss parries. Dont like that since AE came out on consoles not as many people are in the arcades playing it but what ever.

Dont like that since AE came out on consoles not as many people are in the arcades playing it but what ever.

@scarace360 said:

Dont like that since AE came out on consoles not as many people are in the arcades playing it but what ever.

There was no way AE would survive if it didn't come to consoles.  It was the right move on Capcom's end.

@JJOR64 said:

@scarace360 said:

Dont like that since AE came out on consoles not as many people are in the arcades playing it but what ever.

There was no way AE would survive if it didn't come to consoles.  It was the right move on Capcom's end.

Ya but still i liked it when everyone was always at the arcade. Kinda felt like the old days.

@scarace360 said:

@JJOR64 said:

@scarace360 said:

Dont like that since AE came out on consoles not as many people are in the arcades playing it but what ever.

There was no way AE would survive if it didn't come to consoles.  It was the right move on Capcom's end.

Ya but still i liked it when everyone was always at the arcade. Kinda felt like the old days.

Yeah.  Well, I guess I didn't grow up in the arcades.  Never had anything really good where I live.