“Tonight you’re gonna break your one rule.” – The Joker
I will not be playing an hour of Street Fighter V. There are several reasons for this.
The enjoyment of these games comes from playing with friends (I don’t have friends that play this) or from learning the system, which takes a while. Fighting games are pretty much tailor-made to require far more than an hour of play to grok. I don’t have a good fighting game controller for this type of game.
But really, the reason I didn’t get far is that Street Fighter V felt like a pay-to-play game.
I don’t know why the majority of the characters are gated away, but it would take a very long time to unlock them without buying Champion Edition. Loading up the game repeatedly battered me with notifications that I had to slowly scroll down to the bottom of. Once I finally got into a match, the game wasted ten seconds before the fight on a splash screen advertisement for Street Fighter 6.
The splash screen got me good. Every match I played actively asked me to get excited about playing a different game.
Verdict: Played half a dozen matches.
Kyle Adams 