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Capcom Talks "Balancing Up" In Super Street Fighter IV

If you think Super Street Fighter IV won't feature anything fresh besides a few new characters, you need an education.

And a very cool and lengthy interview over at the Capcom Unity blog should be your destination for said education. You might not realize just how hard the developers worked to improve many of your favorite characters, including Guile, Vega, Dhalsim, M. Bison and Sagat. It's all about a "balance up" philosophy, largely in response to fan feedback after last year's Street Fighter IV; a fantastic game in its own right but players did notice a few balance issues. Read up on what they've done: they say Guile has become more "Guile-like" (whatever that means), Vega gets some "helpful buffs," Dhalsim isn't as weak as before, M. Bison's psycho crusher move is more potent, and while Sagat is still a bad-ass, you might not want to break the controller every time you lose to him. It seems that many fighting fans have complained about these characters, especially Guile and Sagat, and Capcom wasn't about to ignore those complaints.

So who plans to snag this significant upgrade come the end of the month? It could very well be worth your money, especially once you learn more about certain "balancing" improvements.

Related Game(s): Super Street Fighter IV

4/6/2010 9:21:29 PM John Shepard

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Comments (37 posts)

LimitedVertigo
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 9:53:27 PM
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Not I but I'm not a fan of fighting games. I may rent it.

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Dridion
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 9:58:32 PM
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I will. The game is only $40 and it includes very much needed balancing as well as 10 characters, which is just CRAZY good!I'm happy to see that the fighting genre is back. Thank God Guile is more Guile-like cause in SF4 it seemed like a very different character. Also online is gonna be sooo robust this time, possibly better than BB.Can't wait till the 27 which happens to be a day after my B day....(gift to myself) ;)
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Scarecrow
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 10:09:34 PM

I have a deep hatred for Guile

And it's not just because M. Bison's my all time fave character...

But even I agree, Guile wasn't Guile in SFIV

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laksh
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 10:43:43 PM

I've had this preordered since it became available... to preorder. Looks sweeet and i'll be getting a t-shirt of my main characterd halsim. Sucks that it doesn't release here in uk till 30th though. I'm quite looking forward to seeing the balances put in the game.

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Dridion
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 12:10:25 AM

@scarecrow

LOL I feel your pain. Another character who felt so off was Vega. He's my main and will always be, but again there's no denying how incredibly gay he played in SF4 too.

@Laksh

I hate when we never get a real simultaneous release. I just feel like I'm being left out lol, know what mean? Oh well, I wish I was getting a t-shirt...All we get here in the states are a bunch of thumb covers lol fail :(

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Scarecrow
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 10:10:43 PM
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Heh, good to see. Other characters need re-balancing as well. So waiting on those other updates.

The best update of all is that Ryu and Sagat have been nerfed hard!

How Ryu's shoryuken is better than Ken is the dumbest thing Capcom has ever done

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Oxvial
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 11:48:04 PM

great I was tired to see Ryu in almost all online matches.

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Jawknee
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 10:12:36 PM
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I might buy this when its 20 bucks. I got bored with Street Fighter IV pretty fast. Love the design and art direction though.

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www
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 5:56:53 AM

Same, my brother!

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Alienange
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 10:23:22 PM
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How Capcom is not completely embarrassed to release the exact same game with the slightest of tweaks such as "making Guile more like Guile" is just absurd.

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Darthvintage
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 10:36:53 PM

@Alienage

Its capcom and we love em for it.

Well Except for the RE series. those have been milked to the bone.

But if you knew capcom then Super street fighter 4 should have been no surprise.

Can't wait to get my game on with t.Hawk

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Scarecrow
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 10:40:03 PM

-10 new characters
-New stages
-New Ultras
-New modes
-New storyline*
-New online modes
-New alternative costumes

Slightest?

Oh by the way:

Tekken 5
Tekken 5: Dark Ressurection

Tekken 6
Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion
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Virtua Fighter 4
Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution (2 new characters)

Virtua Fighter 5
Virtua Fighter 5: R

Blazblue: Calamity Trigger
Blazblue: Cotinuum Shift (3 new characters). And it's called a "sequel."

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Jawknee
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 11:24:26 PM

Alienage you act as if they haven't been doing this for years. How many versions of Street Fighter II did we see on the SNES? A lot.
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Oxvial
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 11:46:21 PM

Fighting games are always like that , 2-3 NEW characters, some new stages and trying to balance some characters.

I'm actually surprised with Capcom putting a decent price of 39.99 for this game I expected 59.99.

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WolfCrimson
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 12:35:55 AM

@Scarecrow: Yes, it's a sequel because it continues the story where it stopped in BB: CT. And there are huge system changes as well (why they changed it is beyond me, I thought the system in CT was perfect)

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WolfCrimson
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 12:35:56 AM

@Scarecrow: Yes, it's a sequel because it continues the story where it stopped in BB: CT. And there are huge system changes as well (why they changed it is beyond me, I thought the system in CT was perfect)

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WolfCrimson
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 12:36:26 AM

@Scarecrow: Yes, it's a sequel because it continues the story where it stopped in BB: CT. And there are huge system changes as well (why they changed it is beyond me, I thought the system in CT was perfect)

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WolfCrimson
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 12:36:27 AM

@Scarecrow: Yes, it's a sequel because it continues the story where it stopped in BB: CT. And there are huge system changes as well (why they changed it is beyond me, I thought the system in CT was perfect)

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WolfCrimson
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 12:36:27 AM

@Scarecrow: Yes, it's a sequel because it continues the story where it stopped in BB: CT. And there are huge system changes as well (why they changed it is beyond me, I thought the system in CT was perfect)

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WolfCrimson
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 12:36:27 AM

@Scarecrow: Yes, it's a sequel because it continues the story where it stopped in BB: CT. And there are huge system changes as well (why they changed it is beyond me, I thought the system in CT was perfect)

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WolfCrimson
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 5:53:27 AM

Ack! Ben (or anyone with mod powers), can you please delete the extra re-posts?

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Banky A
Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 3:29:48 AM

@WolfCrimson that was totally win.
I read all your posts ;D

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SmokeyPSD
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 11:07:47 PM
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by all accounts it sounds like I should just skip over IV and get super.

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Oxvial
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 @ 11:59:35 PM
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FUUU!

People look at Amazon offer! in the end the game is just 26.99(Ps3 version) in that place.

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Roach721
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 1:20:04 AM
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The only thing left to do is find some dummy I can sell my Street Fighter 4 to for 30 or 25 bucks.Hope they redid Blanka it looked pretty damn stupid and Guile is just too weak nowadays.

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LimitedVertigo
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 1:33:01 AM

Look in the mirror.

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Jawknee
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 2:16:26 AM

pfthaha!

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___________
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 3:48:48 AM
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i dont know if "balanced" would be a word id use for SFIV, i think something along the lines of muddled, and stringed together would be more accurate!

as far as im concerned mortal kombat is still the king of fighting games, shaloin monks was such a good game and jesus christ never have i had such trouble beating the final boss!
having to fight goro, kintaro AND shao kahn all on one bit of health, yeah i think we have a new definition to the word brutal!

deception was such a good game too, the konquest mode was allot of fun and surprisingly it actually had a decent story to boot!
than you had their style of chess and tetris to keep you occupied.
and the brutality, OMFG some of the fatalitys were so creative you have to be one twisted mother %$#@er to think them up!

all they have to do to revive the series (because midway has gone bankrupt and are now owned by wanner bros) is take all of MK deception build a new story for konquest, new powers for tetris, and add in the weapons, environmental kills, the test your might and test your sight from previous games, the falling combat and going through wall combat from MK V DC universe, brutalities and you got yourself the perfect mortal kombat game!
sell 2M units on first day easy!

id love to see another shaolin monks styled game, but i doubt that would sell as well so it would be too risky to release that first.
when your just joined a new studio you want to put your best foot first, because if your first game flops well what impression does that leave?

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Mavfan321
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 9:05:21 PM

Street Fighter and all of it's incarnations will always be the KING of fighting games. MK was okay at best even when I was young and should have been drawn to the violence I preferred SF II a lot more.

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Arvis
Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 9:10:30 AM

I'm with mavfan.

Mortal Kombat is, was, and ALWAYS will be, a joke as a fighting game.

-Arvis

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AwRy108
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 8:21:43 AM
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It's a killer price on Amazon right now: $36.99 + $10 Gaming Gift Card.

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Arvis
Thursday, April 08, 2010 @ 9:17:29 AM

Wow, thanks! You just helped sell one more copy of this game.

-Arvis

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DeathOfChaos
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 10:31:01 AM
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I wonder how much it will shave off the price if I bring in my regular Street Fighter IV copy...bought it when it first came out, and if trading it in helps me save some cash, then I'll do it.Trading a game in for a buffed up version of the same game? Seems worth while to me, lol.

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JDC80
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 10:39:58 AM
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Are they going to address the new king of cheap bosses Seth? I love the game until I run into Seth at the end.

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Darthvintage
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @ 1:03:56 PM

I Hated Him To The Guts.
Even in the middle of my combo's he always does that grab that you can never tech out of.

I Thought Akuma Was Broken But Seth Is Just Ridiculous and a joke of a character even a Boss At That

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KoldStrejke
Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 1:31:52 PM
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i dont think it should be about balancing. i think street fighter has allways been a fight to fight the next aponent, working around that aponents strengths and winning. i think Capcom has been doing a good so far an i still love the franchise. but balancing , c-mon guys. practice makes perfect. stop whineing.

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KoldStrejke
Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 1:34:23 PM
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oh yea. and that comment was for the button mashers, that think they know how to play StreeFighter.

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