Street Fighter 4 Gets Back to Basics
So remember how I told you that Capcom was going to release a Super Street Fighter IV game in February with more characters and it was only going to be $40? Well, a new video came out from Japan detailing some of the new modes of play — I assume, it’s all in Japanese, but the pretty pictures do indicate some kind of tournament play going on — but what really excites me? Cars and barrels.
Skip to the two-minute mark in the above video, and there they are — the original SFII car-destroying and barrel breaking bonus stages. I can’t believe how awesome that is. I also can’t believe that it’s the barrels and car stages that have me ready to spend $40 on Street Fighter IV, a game I had no desire to play or own until about five minutes. And I suck at every Street Fighter game, so I’m just going to be pissed off. And yet, I have to destroy that fucking car.
I am a sick, sick man.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.