Let's not dance around the issue here: Street Fighter V's survival mode is crap. Single round matches against up to 50 opponents in a row, always in the same order. And if you lose, you have to start over from scratch. If you win, however, you get a lovely new colour for your chosen character. No pain no gain, etc.
Players have been complaining about survival mode from day one - and we really can't blame them. Aside from the recently released cinematic story mode and the insultingly short regular character stories, survival mode is really the only content on offer when it comes to playing Street Fighter V alone.
Put simply, grinding through survival mode in order to unlock a bunch of colours for your favourite fighters is a massive pain in the arse - and Capcom seems to have finally realised this. Yesterday, the developer revealed that you'll soon be able to buy survival mode colours with in-game fight money. Alternatively, you'll be able to purchase them with real currency from the PlayStation Store. Yay?
On the bright side, this means that you'll no longer have to slog through survival mode just to unlock colour options, but it's still a bit rubbish, isn't it? Capcom is essentially taking cosmetic unlockables and stuffing them behind a paywall - purely because they're otherwise locked behind a ridiculously tedious mode of play that no one wants to deal with.
Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend, Super Smash Bros. - these are just three fighting games off the top of our head that all feature a selection of alternate costumes for every playable character from the start. But, as always, Street Fighter V has to do things the hard way - the unnecessarily hard way.
[source twitter.com, via eurogamer.net]
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I played the KOF 14 demo yesterday, you have access to four of five colors per a fighter off the bat.
While I don't think KOF 14 matches the graphical polish of SF5 after last night, the gameplay is KOF to the core, and it feels like an old school fighter in that you have multiple colors / costumes without DLC, female/male announcer option, and you already see the options for 50 fighters, a quantity of stages, modes, etc.
@sub12
I thought the demo was for tomorrow, so I will check today. Thanks!
I played Survival once. So cheap the way your enemies are dumb till the last 5 show a huge difficulty spike.
I know there are other fighters out there that offer more value but to me I have no love or affinity with, which is why I badly want SFV to be the best it can be but Capcom's solutions so far are neither rewarding or substantial enough which is very sad.
@sub12
I tried it too, I liked it. Hopefully the online modes will be good and we got a great fighting game here.
As for Street Figher V survival mode, ugh. I hate playing it on Normal, I didn't even bother with it on hard mode.
@sinalefa
If you checked via the PSN phone app yesterday (or website, still might be able to), you could download it to your PS4, even though it has yet to appear on the storefront via the PS4.
KoFXIV is great
It's just so annoying. They made a great game, I can't believe how badly they're destroying it, though.
The sooner Tekken comes out the better, so I can forget about the travesty that is Street Fighter V, the game that is gameplay and mechanically brilliant but Capcom being Capcom is just ruining it.
This situation is pretty much the the entirety of SFV in a nutshell. Extreme grinding to get what you want while Capcom uses the "but you don't have to pay for it if you don't want to"-excuse.
While the colours situation is really stupid (and hard mode survival is HARD) I don't see any problem with purchasing alternative costumes with FM.You get some game credit, you spend it on things you like...don' t forget you can even get new characters without paying, not many fighting games doing that!
I'd focus on other things like new modes...after EVO is clear that the FGC liked the game. Now win some casual fans back.
p.s. having fun with KOFXIV demo -I really don't like the graphics but the gameplay seems solid!
@Feena
Yeah, KOF14 looks like a PS3 game, the actual art direction is solid, all of the fighters look good in their transition to 3D, but the title as a whole is lacking detail.
That being said, they really nailed the feel of old school 2D KOF gameplay, and presentation wise, it also has the KOF energy, so I'm extremely happy about that. The game feels like a throwback in the fact that you payed 60 dollars for a complete package, it's not trying to nickle and dime you.
Selling the game in sections...
What more can be said?...
@sub12 I will most probably buy it! SF, KOF and VF are my jam
@Spirit_Psalm91 you use credit earned playing the game to unlock stuff, never bought anything from PSN and I have all the stages, characters released so far + some costumes I liked...
Will never play a fighting game that Ono is involved with again. How he screwed up what should've easily been one of the top 3, maybe even the top, fighting game this gen is beyond me.
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