Each character plays differently, and you only have to learn and understand how to use one of them to be able to participate in the rich tapestry of the system. Street Fighter's form of fairness is the gold standard, and I personally do my best to live up to it as a developer.Īnother thing Street Fighter II did was put asymmetric gameplay on the map. Those who grew up in world of fairness and meritocracy really got something valuable, something we can carry into the rest of our lives. The saddest thing is that so many modern competitive games have become unfair forms of competition that allow paying for power and allow grinding for material advantage. You also could not buy a more powerful character and you could not grind in order to gain material advantage in the game. If you were good at the game (as in, had actual merit), you rose to the top. Our community didn't care about anyone's race or religion or who their parents were, etc. The world of Street Fighter competition and tournaments is a meritocracy. The big boom of competition spawned by Street Fighter II was "fair competition". David Sirlin, fighting game analyst and balancer, author of Playing to Win: Becoming The Champion, creator of Yomi and Puzzle Strike It taught you fear and fearlessness in equal measure, and if you were good, it taught you a lot about yourself. Winning at SF2 required not just memorizing patterns and little tricks, but seeing straight into the dark heart of your opponents. Most importantly, it injected games with humanity, by offering enough depth to let people express themselves through a character and a playstyle. It was beautiful, baffling, and made every loss feel somehow personal. Seth Killian, formerly at Capcom and Sony Santa Monica, now working on Rising Thunder But, at the same time, it was the seed that ended up creating this environment where you're battling between two people, two minds battling. People can look back at Street Fighter II and say, "That wasn't a very balanced fighting game," and maybe that's true. It was actually the very first game that had that.
You actually had to build strategies around the person that you're playing against. On top of that, your opponent was a human being, so you actually had to have an understanding of what their habits were. Street Fighter II it was the very first time I ever saw a game where you had to fight with logic, you had to have strategy.
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Yoshinori Ono, current series producer of Street Fighter It made us gamers realize that overcoming your opponent (and yourself) was fun as hell. Of course there were many games before SF2 where you could compete against friends, but it must have been the first game that had the depth that was worth investing time and effort into. I think it was the first game to make people seriously compete against each other. Junya Christopher Motomura, designer at Arc System Works ( Guilty Gear, BlazBlue) Here are some excerpts from the responses we received that explore this topic. Several noted how the game fundamentally changed the multiplayer experience, bringing unprecedented depth and complexity to player vs player combat. A common thread emerged from the developer responses.
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