With Street Fighter, Capcom birthed the fight game genre.
With Street Fighter II, Capcom defined said genre.
With Street Fighter III, Capcom made arguably the apotheosis of the genre.
With Street Fighter IV, Capcom snatched the genre from the jaws of death.
With Street Fighter V, Capcom... missed?
Capcom had basically never missed with Street Fighter, the only exception being III, which went underappreciated before the pro scene showed what it could be. But they hadn't really missed with the series.
SFV was inarguably a miss, and even though it bounced back by the end of its lifespan, it was the first in the series to not have a massive impact of some kind. With Street Fighter 6, Capcom needed a win. And they sure as hell got it.
Street Fighter 6 does so much right, the amount of quality of life features is staggering, the online runs buttery smooth even when playing folks across the world and without ethernet cables. It's going to be damn hard to go back and play any other fighting game. SF6 set what should be the standard for fighting games going forward. Pretty much the only flaws with this game are found within World Tour mode, which also happens to be one of the games biggest strengths.
World Tour is a fantastic way to bring in new players, serving as both a story mode and a massive tutorial, and it does its job supremely. Unfortunately, the late-game gets to be very grindy, especially if you want to get every character's alternate costume. The only other method of getting these costumes is to buy them with real money, which is pretty scummy, just like locking off all of each character's main costume's colors besides the first two. You can get these alternate colors by getting drive tickets by completing challenges, either daily or weekly or monthly. Doing this will take an ungodly amount of time to unlock the alternate colors, but the only alternative is purchasing them with real money. Luckily there isn't much of this scummy-ness in any other part of the game, but it sucks that its there in the first place.
Overall though, SF6 is an excellent game, and one that'll only improve with eventual updates and dlc.
With Street Fighter II, Capcom defined said genre.
With Street Fighter III, Capcom made arguably the apotheosis of the genre.
With Street Fighter IV, Capcom snatched the genre from the jaws of death.
With Street Fighter V, Capcom... missed?
Capcom had basically never missed with Street Fighter, the only exception being III, which went underappreciated before the pro scene showed what it could be. But they hadn't really missed with the series.
SFV was inarguably a miss, and even though it bounced back by the end of its lifespan, it was the first in the series to not have a massive impact of some kind. With Street Fighter 6, Capcom needed a win. And they sure as hell got it.
Street Fighter 6 does so much right, the amount of quality of life features is staggering, the online runs buttery smooth even when playing folks across the world and without ethernet cables. It's going to be damn hard to go back and play any other fighting game. SF6 set what should be the standard for fighting games going forward. Pretty much the only flaws with this game are found within World Tour mode, which also happens to be one of the games biggest strengths.
World Tour is a fantastic way to bring in new players, serving as both a story mode and a massive tutorial, and it does its job supremely. Unfortunately, the late-game gets to be very grindy, especially if you want to get every character's alternate costume. The only other method of getting these costumes is to buy them with real money, which is pretty scummy, just like locking off all of each character's main costume's colors besides the first two. You can get these alternate colors by getting drive tickets by completing challenges, either daily or weekly or monthly. Doing this will take an ungodly amount of time to unlock the alternate colors, but the only alternative is purchasing them with real money. Luckily there isn't much of this scummy-ness in any other part of the game, but it sucks that its there in the first place.
Overall though, SF6 is an excellent game, and one that'll only improve with eventual updates and dlc.