I LOOOOOVE that video! “I’m gonna need you guys to reconsider your thoughts! I gotta get some water!” 😂😂😂

_ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!_

_Zooms into Max's mind:_ *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!*

I prefer "max played all kof on level 1 and hid the difficulty with a black square" because it actually happened

@@sorubro2193 Wait, wha-?! When did this happen?

"yes that makes sense"

“Well, I get the picture”

"that's what I expected"

Akihiko?

"Alright, that's cool"

The dangerous influence of "viral" community bandwagon opinions in the modern internet (kinda late 2000s). Even before mainstream social media, things went viral in just a smaller scale, the scale compatible for those years.

@@carlosaugusto9821the game sucked

That's my experience with Tekken 4

@@rogaken Tekken 4 is my favorite Tekken!

@@carlosaugusto9821this game is a mess.

Frankly, I liked the game even back then but man it was ugly! Specially the new "Buddha" super fish animation replacing the super cool "meteor shower" one.

also street fighter v wasn't out yet to steal this title as well

@@Zontar82 relax it wasn’t that bad, especially towards the end. it just could have been a lot better

@@logandunlap9156 Ken looks better in the SFEX games from 20 years ago than he does SFV lol

Ex3 got shit on so bad, when there was so much good going on for it.

@@IToastMySocks The real issue is SFEX3 is lacking in contents. It had more to offer in the multiplayer aspect but not for single player. Something like a World Tour Mode or Story Mode would had definitely made the game a bit worthwhile to get. Heck I play through all the SFEX games and still know nothing about 90% of the new guys in the SFEX games. Only few I do kinda know is that Hokuto is Kairi's sister and Kairi got possess by Akuma somehow after SFEX1 and Garuda is coming after him or something and that's it.

A fighting Layer video will happen as soon as I get a real board, cause Arika are real hard on emulation so I wouldn't wanna explore the game in a way that'd make them unhappy publicly!

The game board is rare, and expensive and only officially released in japan. To my knowledge, the EX players didn't overlook Fighting Layer, we just had no access to it.

I think that's because unlike SFEX, Arika did not have any ownership of the Fighting Layer characters, which is a Namco property If they finally got an OK to add the FL characters in, the game will literally be SF x Tekken part 2, since FL characters are target combo heavy, not to mention the Gougi system giving people vietnam flashbacks to SxT's gem system

The tragedy is that FEXL never really took off. It was an awesome game and playing Terry in it was incredibly fun. I long for the day Capcom and ARIKA get together one more time and give us the Street Fighter EX4 the world truly needs. And yes, Terry can be in it too. Shit, maybe get a few more SNK fighters in there. I'd throw in Saisyu Kusanagi. That choice for a guest appearance is out of nowhere and unheard of. But it would work.

@@BridgetGX hell, just have Arika make CvS3 or something haha

He also has the best level 3 super ever.

Of course, Arika is made by the creator of SF2. He still had a very good sense of fg making after leaving Capcom.

For real, skellomania is probably one of my favorite fighting game characters of all time

Quattro Panorama!!

Being locked on the PS2 is definitely not in its favor for being accessible, especially to modern audiences.

Three's a problem about in this case. Not an invincible problem but it still is notable. Capcom is not fully the responsible for the game. SF EX was a series of games made by Arika, and they still are the formal owners of the original chars for example (as we see in FEXL). So any new release depends on an actual deal and agreement. It's similar to the situation of crossover games like CvS or SFxTK, in the sense it's not all about Capcom's will to rerelease it.

dude, i totally remember people loving Bloody Roar back in the day. yeah the fighting games get wild public opinions. way before screw attack or whatever was a thing.

tbh i hold EX2+ at a much higher regard than a2 because of the balance. with A2 while it is much better balanced than many other old SF games. i do run into the issue of struggling to find a reason to play anyone lower than mid tier. the high tiers are just better versions of the low tier characters and quite a few feel non functional. ex2 on the otherhand everyone feels like they have some good sauce and the excel mechanic feels alot less bullshit than a2 cc's. i'd even argue that ST succeeds more in the balance aspect as at least you can have a good reason to pick some of the low tiers.. why would you ever play adon in a2 for example. but honestly the ex games are perfection. if EX+@ is a supped up version of hyper fighting then ex2 would be a supped up version of a2

@@Shodan130 interesting. Who do you play in A2?

@@fogblades6811 gen and guy, I started with Adon but honestly the character felt so redundant, no hit confirms, most of his shit is cc punishable on hit and block, and he has a good CC but rolentos is better and does everything else better too. guy and gen are better but gen while having a great CC and pokes generally has worse pokes than Sakura and needs 2 meter to confirm from lights, a feat Sakura does for 0 meter and gets an unblockable after, not to mention gens pokes and anti airs just seem to be an overall downgrade to sak’s pokes and anti airs especially when you factor in that unlike sf4 gens stance changing isn’t instant, guy fairs better but having no good anti airs, anti fireball tools that don’t work and like his tatsu’s and some awful match ups not even due to game plans but due to hitbox issues (guy vs Charlie mainly) makes the character a pain, while the top and high tiers don’t have any of these holes, they feel more complete. Even tried dhalsim for a bit but the character gets invalidated due to how a2 CC works. I like all these characters but if I want to win. I’ll play sak or akuma who despite playing way way less is much more complete so winning with them is much more feasible, it isn’t a case of different game plans like say ST but rather certain characters having similar or the same game plan but has a straight downgrade in terms of tools

@@Shodan130 I get what you mean, SF6 kinda has a similar blessing/curse. It's balanced for the most part aside form 1-2 somewhat problematic characters(s). I think it's balanced for SF standards and I'd rather have A2 balancing than say, 3rd Strike's balancing. You wanna talk about a game that deletes characters from the roster? Sean, Twelve, Q, Remy, Alex, and even Hugo can never crack Top 16 because the Top 5 RULE this game with a diamond fist.

@@fogblades6811 oh yea don't worry i wasn't going to suggest that a2 was any where near as fucked as 3s is for tiers... or as a game i personally think 3s is shite. sf6 i can kind of get it. especially since it feels like the type of game that is so system heavy it just boils down to who uses the drive the best rather than who the best character is. if you don't have a +2 ob normal, OD reversal and lots of ways to set up empty drive rush just re-roll

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@@GuileWinQuote my pleasure :]

FEXL is a lot of fun! Recently I got to try the new version during Evo Japan last month too, and that game is legitimately bonkers. Can't wait to play more of it!

Yes!

It's called Giga Gladiator in game, but we all know it's the Gigantic Pressure super.

same here, the ost alone brings me back to a happier moment in time

Of course! Some of the best OSTs not only in fighting game but in overall video game history! Hosoe, Saso, Aihara, and Watanabe pulled off a nice arcade soundtrack but BEYOND KILLER arranged versions of it clearly inspired (for the most part) by the Japanese jazz fusion scene.

LET'S GOOOO

I've always loved the EX-clusive characters, especially the legend that is Skullomania.

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The thing is unlike SFEX, the character roster in that BlazBlue game are taken from established IPs from other series, everyone who bought that game knew who they are and knew that the game was a crossover, the subtitle gave that away already. The EX characters for SFEX was made just for that game series so most who play SFEX didn't know who the new character are and associate them with only the SFEX games meaning the EX characters are not Fighting Layer characters or from any existing IP, they are actually Street Fighter characters but Capcom let Arika get full ownership of them which was a mistake as now those characters feel out of place when not part of the Street Fighter franchise anymore. It's like taking guys like Alex, Dudley, Necro, Urien, Gill, and Oro off of SFIII and giving them away to dev like Arc System Works and say okay these are no longer SF characters, you can add them to your roster for Guilty or Blaze.

@@VOAN From what I heard, Capcom actually never owned them, or the music, which is why we never gotten anything related to the EX series since. Capcom tried to buy the characters from Arika but Arika wouldn't let them. Not to mention when the first EX game was in development it didn't start out as Street Fighter EX, but rather an original project (Featuring the same characters we all know and love from Arika), that also featured originally only Ryu and Ken at the time, because Capcom wanted to test their characters in a 3D environment (whether or not SFEX is 3D I'll let everyone else decide for themselves on that). There is actually a video from ArikaFGC showing the beta footage of Street Fighter EX (before it was called that). Eventually leading up to Arika putting in many of Capcom Characters in the game along with there own an calling it Street Fighter EX. It was more so meant to be its own thing rather than another Street Fighter entry if that makes sense. We only associated them with Street Fighter cuz we thought Capcom owned those characters and everything else in the EX games. Many of us wanted them to come back but there was an issue with that. The issue? Little did we know it was actually Arika that owned those characters and the music and vice versa. Thus why we never get anything from Capcom related to EX like collections, individual fighters. etc. Except the costumes in SFV. Knowing this now we essentially associate the EX fighters to just Arika in general. Similar as to how Ingrid from Capcom Fighting Jam (Yes I know she isn't FROM Fighting Jam but from Fighting All-Stars: Code Holders), who people seldom debate is either a Street fighter character or not. Tho it be more logical to say she's just a Capcom character. And not just in the sense that they own her, just a character FROM Capcom. Also similar to Captain Commando who originally is also from Capcom as he didn't originate from his arcade game yet. Same could be applied to. We consider SFEX a crossover in disguise because Capcom never owned those characters from the EX series to sum it up. EDIT: Although fandom wikis fake things all the time, there is a art piece of Street Fighter EX one literally labeled on the Capcom Database wiki "Arika meets Capcom". I think that also may imply Street Fighter EX was just a crossover labeled Street Fighter.

I may come off a bit harsh in this video, but I was watching everything on ScrewAttack and even going to SGC in that era, so I definitely have a lot of love for that era haha. It was a different time and I don't think we should judge too hard on it.

i havent played it yet but i already love that game for its intro alone

I was there when it came out and its not great. Even people that praise it say the start is awful. It also controls a lot worst than some other games that were already out ECT. People weren't making crap up out of nowhere.. it looked unpolished for what was a premiere series.

Not funny, understandable. It is just as understandable as this video revisiting EX... which is a fair video. Castlevania 64 *is* a bad game, that's the difference: EX looks 3D but it was not SF's jump to 3D mechanics like Castlevania 64 was. The camera is awful, the creativity is lacking, the graphics are dull... that doesn't stop anyone from liking it. The EX series, however, if it was released in 2D, for example, it would've legendary status like Square/Nintendo's Super Mario RPG.

@@DSan-kl2yc sure larper. I was there and every magazine gave it good reviews which you can still check online. SOTN as great as it is only barely managed to outsell 64 by pooling all the sales from psx and sega saturn combined while 64 was in only one platform. I too fell for the idiot youtubers speaking crap about what they new nothing about but after playing through all the Castlevanias several years ago, 64 and Legacy of Darkness are the ones I've played through the most.

@@redacted2275 the casualest take lol.

Street Fighter EX 3-D, they can't call it Street Fighter 3 cause New Generation, Second Impact, and Third Strike already got the SFIII title. At least we got Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition for 3DS.

SF EX was made by Arika. And now Arika is in a (more) struggling phase and busy with their own stuff.