Thank you based piracy for forever immortalizing and archiving these early versions of live service games.

It's crazy how great sf6 at launch is compared to sf5. Glad they learned from their mistakes

Vanilla felt more like a beta than a fully released game

Can confirm that CFN was not working on launch. Another little detail about that main menu, is that the shade of blue changed according to the time. During mornings it had a lighter blue, and during night time, the one being showed in the video.

I’ll second preferring Vanilla SFV’s aesthetics over Arcade/Champion edition. Not sure what it is, but the minimalistic white/blue style hud and menu theme is appealing to me. That, and the character selection screen was awesome and got you pumped up before a match.

I still cant believe this game launched in such a barebones state and people defended it ahhh.

One thing that wasn’t mentioned about season 1. Reversals were invincible and didn’t require meter. So metered DPs were still a thing. Also there was an option select jump which allowed you to escape throws and beat frame traps. This was removed in season 2. Lastly anti air jabs. Lots of characters had them and lots of them got free mixups. The problem with season 1 was that it was too scrambly. Every situation lead to a scramble. Ken and Chun were 2 of the best scramble characters in the game. With Ryu coming in behind them. A lot of the season 2 changes short term pissed people off. I think it took really till season 4 to get the formula right. Because season 3 had the Abigail problem. And season 2 was so centered around robbery V-triggers. Season 4 started the final meta of whiff punish and cr.mk fighter V. But I also think the game because very stale too. And kind of boring. This is why SF6 really need to keep the fun and spirit of characters. Without taking the fun and interesting stuff from them.

rip floe

Something that I'd like to make note of regarding Survival Mode at launch- not only did you have to unlock colors for each individual character, but you had to unlock colors separately for each individual *costume*!

10:30 This entire section is wrong. The Bustling Sidestreet stage was initially THE ONLY stage in vanilla SFV that had the stage transitions working. You could bust someone through the wall and expand into the diner, and then get smacked into the cramped kitchen and get noodles on their head. And the noodles would stay on their head for the rest of the match, as long as they didn't get hit or blocked an attack again. I remember my friends and I would joke around about "Noodles Challenges" where we'd go for a Perfect on Round 3/Final Round in order to keep the noodles on our head(s) for the win screen.

The artwork of Ken when first mentioning Bengus is from the Capcon Classics Collection Vol. 2 version of Street Fighter I.

I remember playing the beta as Laura and enjoying it enough for me to really want the full version. I remember saving some money getting SFV alongside a PS4 in my university days, when the GameStop near my favorite gym was still open, which my parents probably would have advised against. I remember having to wait an extra few days to order a Brooks Converter for my ps3 fightsticks. I remember how bored I got of fighting Necalli on the waterfall stage for Survival. I remember how strange it was how odd the story mode art felt because of how little it looked like the in-game designs especially for proportions. I remember how relieved I was when they began releasing Season 1 dlc, and how exciting it was that Guile and Alex were free for a certain period. Overall, it's interesting to see how a game has post-development now with all these patches; it makes it a lot harder to revisit the past of a fighting game compared to the separate releases that Street Fighter along with other fighting games have had.z Thanks for this trip down memory lane.

Regardless of the failure of the sf5, it had the best costume designs in all of street fighter.

Another Blue Menu enjoyer here. I loved the Blue version and wish you could switch back to it. Wasn't a big fan of the while version, and while the blue menu music wasn't something special, the white menu music was too bombastic for my taste. Another thing you couldn't do in vanilla SFV was REMATCH online. Yes, all online matches were one and done affairs during the first weeks. Add to that the huge amount of ragequiters and no real repercussion to ragequiting, the loading times before every match and Online was a sad experience overall during the first months.

SF5 honestly immediately fell into a rut and never recovered until right before SF6 was about to drop. SF6 basically did the complete opposite of 5 in terms of execution and accessibility, it's wild.

Vanilla SFV almost killed the series credibility entirely. It took years of work just to make it a decent game and until SF6 to regain its glory as the premiere fighting game.

great video, I always remember AFV vanilla as an outsider and felt greatly alienated, it was only after champion edition that I started getting more into it

I miss this game idk why miss my dude gill and dan hibiki

Oh crap. I wasn't actually watching the video and just listening - I thought this was for Vanilla SF4

I played Street Fighter V Champion Edition from the start of this year until the start of June and it has a charm I miss now that I'm playing Street Fighter 6.

I miss the way that Charlie and Ryu and Mika were in vanilla sfv, they were super fun before nerfs

Dropped a like for the el-p mention. Love rtj

Yeah man, when it came out I was like "all the people hating on lack of content are FILTHY CASUALS who don't know that the real enjoyment of fighting games is just playing against other people." And well, in that department, the game was there. Online, offline vs, training mode. But everything else... eeesh. Though tbf, Overwatch launched the same year and there also wasn't anything else but online play, and everybody loved that, so idk. At least League is free. But CS:GO wasn't at the time. I was so defensive about it, because I got into fighting games few years before that and, well, SFIV was in full swing by that time, not to mention it was just a hard game in general for a total newcomer. So I thought that SFV would be my chance. Yeah, I was an apologist, so what. Oh, the stage transitions/finishers: yeah, they were added later (not for any of the DLC stages, though), but the Bustling Side Street was there from the start. I'm positive. It was the only stage that had it for a long time. Anyway, I honestly also kinda prefer the original UI. Like, it was nothing, but it was a very clean nothing. We all liked the Arcade Edition overhaul because it was something new and, at least in my mind, it could've hinted at some bigger story developments/implications, especially with G. Or, at the very least, that we would've gotten yet another overhaul at some point, like Tekken 7 did during that time. And none of those things happened. I especially mourn the loss of the original VS screen. Because the VS looked like V and 5, which is, you know, kinda corny, but also kinda cute. Same with the Character Select screen, there's that deliberate V in there. And boy, the Character Select theme. That was like, the only speck of this game's identity, to me. (Along with Ring of Power's theme.) I still listen to it sometimes, it's miles better than what we got now. but at least the v-system and ex bars look like batteries now, so that's funny

Honestly sfv launch was so abysmal and season 2 was so shite that general long lasting opinions stemming from both really shaped how sf6 was released, how its system is designed and is currently handling its balance. It fundamentally changed how Capcom approached development for the better in all honesty

Ah Season 1 of SFV. I can’t let go how Capcom DE-STROYED Nash after ppl complained about him in S1 and then the game proceeds to have characters twice as busted and after the fact and they still never brought Nash back from the depths. This character got killed in the first season from being in a great place and we never saw him again for the rest of the lifespan.

1:45 Someone who has a PS4 retail copy of vanilla SFV may confirm (I don't have one) but I'm pretty sure if you have the physical version of a PS4 game, you can still launch it without updating, ostensibly getting you access to v1.0 vanilla SFV But I think you're correct that you can't play v1 SFV on PC legit

We needed that bad sfv vanilla to get the fantastic sf6 vanilla.

9:59 is that ryu with only 2 bars of super?

Ooh yes a new video

SFV at Launch was so Bad that I questioned myself as a Street Fighter Fan. Then I played my very First Street Fighter Game, which was Street Fighter Alpha 3 for the GBA and thankfully I was able to remind myself.. and I saw how a GBA Game can beat a PS4 Game in almost Every way!

Coming from Ultra Street Fighter IV, I preordered this one, and when it came out. Oh boy! I was like where's the actual game and you need to pay everything to access content.

the only good thing about vanilla SFV was the character select theme

sf5 on launch feels like an xbox 360/ps3 game tbh

You simply cannot put into words how bad this game was at launch. On fundamental gameplay level its terrible to this day, but now there actually many things to experience and play with in the game.

I enjoyed this video much more than I thought I would when seeing the title. This style of content is oddly satisfying.. maybe it's because it helps my old bum feel slightly younger? 🤣 Also RIP Floe... dude is very missed.

I miss Abigail, Nash and Mika :(

I know how much hate this version generated, but I'll be honest....I love SFV since DAY 1, even with it's lack of content and seriously it was a glorified demo at best, but I don't know I love the look of the game that screen as you say was my fav, I kinda never really liked what they did after Arcade Edition, neither the music, I liked more the vanilla themes the menu, the versus screen and the character select have.........also damn, I so glad SFV avoid the ZENNY and now we are suffering in SF6 with this annoying crap of Coins, I miss FM so badly, in the entire time SFV last, I never used real money on characters or stages, as I played everyday I have more than enough every time a brand new character got release, for all it's flaws SFV launch and the first 2 years of life the game had in the vanilla state, DLC was actually fun and reward players that stick with the game, what a CONCEPT play the game to unlock content, instead of...buy the game....and still give us MORE MONEY for every damn updated we do, like pretty much all games does and SF6 is currently doing, with it sucks in my humble opinion.

could you pleeeaase do a tutorial on how to launch the vanilla setup?

Thanks for the cookie!

I picked up early disc versions hoping to experience the game but the mandatory updates did away with that. I would have liked to experience the damage or imbalances between what the characters were originally given.

damn vanilla 5 was bad. always was.

Thanks for the cookie, fam 🍪

No mention of the ROOTKIT?

thank you for the cookie bro

This came in my recommended

When's the next umvc guide? 👀

Baby on the sticks is tuff lmao

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RIP flo

during ongoing crackdown on pc mods

Und there so many smug people under angry joe review of sf5 saying that video aged badly

SFV Ono edition

I always enjoyed it, and it was always busy online...so to be honest all the bandwagon hate was just social media noise.

In vanilla I’m using R.Mika and whipping mfs off the wall all day then they gotta take a mix every time!

thank you for cookie

I spent $60 of my own hard earned high school money to preorder this game. I remember playing the preorder beta and being like… hm. Something about this seems off. Then the game came out and yeah it was a complete disaster.

i haven't watched the video, but before anything (already liked and suscribed), the audio is very, very low compared to other videos. Cranked it all up to 100 and it's barely audible, opened another video and the youtube ad was way louder.

Audio levels too quiet

Ah Vanilla/Season 2 SF5: a fighting game I disliked so much that it almost single-handedly killed my love of fighting games. I’m glad that it got better, but as a lifelong Street Fighter player that doesn’t really like other fighting games, that shit hurt.

isnt the character stories arcade mode? just a really short one. arcade mode is the mode where you destroy the trucks right?

the SF5 launch was... bad. hell, I remember there being a rootkit controversy.

Your audio levels are always off, sometimes the music is too loud and other times your voice is way low.

sfv launch was so bad that i still wont touch it with a 10ft pole. f that game

Rip Floe

i'm grateful for all the work capcom put into this game over the 7 years of its life. it became a much better game, and i think if the netcode and online play were better, it would still be standing on equal ground with SF 6. because you can't drive rush all over the place, getting in and breaking opponent's defense requires more effort and thought. i think there is also a much larger variety of game mechanics in 5 because there are so many more playable characters. it also has one of the best soundtracks IMO. and personally, i think the 5 brand new characters they introduced in the season 2 character DLC added a lot of excitement to the game and helped define the character of this game, and i hope see the return of characters like zeku, kolin, menat, and abigail.

afk fight money farming

Man if you don't retire this garbage 😂😂😂

What ruined SFV was that they paid too much attention to the competitive scene and pro players.

I still don't like this game at all, I think all the UI sucks, and you have to go through that to get into a fight, then the fight also sucks a lot.

Nice video. But sfv sucks 😅

I hate when people talk badly about sf5 when talking about 6 because it's clear people move the goalposts around and are referring to vanilla 5, rather than end of cycle 5 which is still legitimately one of my favorite fighting game. So disingenuous it drives me crazy. Nice vid btw, my post was kinda unrelated but I rarely see anyone talk about 5 anymore

What an horrible street fighter

you want to play a bad street fighter game? vanilla sf4 is even worse.

SFV is trash. Online was trash. Characters where trash. There was a reason why its producer was fired. The Sf6 launch was so much better. Any person loving 5 more than 6 is insane.

I would like to see statistics for played modes. SF5 was criticized for not having an arcade mode, but does anyone really play this mode? You can say arcade mode is a de facto standard of fighting games, but the output jack was also standard on phones, and look where it is now. Now SF6 has a lot of content, but who spends most of their time on world tour mode? I'm not a pro player at all (silver-gold), but I find these single-player modes so boring. My little community only plays training or (online) versus. I play single-player modes only for rewards (story bits, currency, etc.). What we really need is 1 - good netcode, 2 - crossplay, 3 - a perfect training mode, 4 - quality ranking, 5 - functional lobbies, and 6 - an overall story mode and character-based stories.

My question is why are people making videos remembering how bad SFV was?? Let the game die in gaming hell where it belongs worry about now SF6 is here now and way better then SFV....let the game die

No doubt the worst street fighter ever and probably the most terrible fighting gamer ever made.

Oh I remember everything going around SFV when it was released. Even though there was the good the bad and the ugly with sfv i feel pretty nostalgic for it and still one of my favorite SF games in the series. I still prefer the old aesthetic compared to what it ended with. I play often still 😁

Awesome video, but sf5 was awful from start to end. Footsies non existent because of proximity block. V trigger. Lack of player expression through combos. Crush counter encouraging you to mash heavy attacks for scrubby free combos. The scrubbiest street fighter ever in terms of execution. You can mash the fuck out of each button during the combo sequence and the combo will not drop. Lots of sf5 players are complaining about sf5, and I understand why now. They're simply not good. They were use to this super 2 demensional gameplay. In sf6 theres too many options. They want to be able to stomp their opponent without them having an answer. LOL Yall remember being locked in block stun by laura when her fireball is half screen away? That was STILL in the game at the end of its life. Sf6 is the best sf since sf4.

I hated the launch of 5 so much that I never came back for any major updates. Chun and Nash were the best characters by a large margin and the anti air jabs drained any fun from the game for me