Street Fighter II has been out for 17 years. How have you not memorized some moves by now? The next thing you're going to tell me is you don't know the Konami code either. Come on Naz! Knowing basic moves in SF is like knowing Mario shoots fireballs after he touches a white flower. It's inside your gaming DNA!

I gotta admit the moves in SF are the basis of a lot of fighting games nowadays.

The only version to get is the PS3 collectors edition with RYU....Figure

This game is a must own for me....I love the SF Series.

The Graphics are just .... hm Weird, the game sure is going to be great (it is SF after all).

I hate to pile on you Naz but Onyx makes a great point. Besides Street Fighter isn't Virtua Fighter. Each character doesn't have well over a hundred moves. Every hands on preview of the so far has remarked on how people that haven't played a fighting game since SF2, hopped onto the game an picked it up no problem because the basics remain the same.

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The version of the game to own, is the version that the majority of your friends is getting. Playing Street Fighter has always been more fun with friends than with strangers.

No, he doesn't.  In fact, he makes a very bad point.  Molecular Biology has been around a lot longer than that but I don't know it, because I have no desire to study it. Why should I play a game I have to study? I'd rather play a game where my actual skill at playing games is tested. So no, I don't have Street Fighter moves memorized, because I've never been able to stomach the game long enough to learn them. Not in 17 years.

The game is VERY true to the SF2 roots. You'll find that many of your old combo's and tactics still exist in the game.

I'm one of the lucky bastards who has an arcade machine nearby, so I play it frequently enough to give a good opinion. Not all the characters are available on the machine though, roughly 3/5ths of them. I played just last weekend actually, worked up quite the win streak with Bison... until some Akuma player came and beat the shit out of me 4 times in a row >_>

I didn't use Focus attacks too much... I don't like how slow it is. They brought back EX moves from SF3 too, which is neat.

I feel that Revenge moves might be a bit overpowered though... I take AT LEAST half of someone's life bar by landing it.

Yep. I'll be buying it for PC when it comes out (rather get it for my Wii, but noooooooo, Capcom doesn't want to release it there).

I'll have to just agree to disagree with you Naz. The basic's of Street Fighter are not complex. That was the whole reason SF2 became so popular in the first place. You don't have to study Street Fighter. The reason fighting games started to lose popularity was because games like Virtua Fighter, Tekken, Soul Calibur, etc. did require study. You could take entire Street Fighter IV casts move set and it would be less than Akira's, of Virtua Fighter's, moveset alone. Where is it would take around a week at minimum just to learn a character for Virtua Fighter/Tekken/Soul Caliburs entire move set. You can learn a Street Fighter characters move set in minutes.

All games require you to study. You didn't pick up Smash Bros. either and just started rocking at it. While the moves may all be performed in the same manner of button presses, it still requires you to study the actual moves each player has and understand the strengths and weaknesses of them. Other games in your collection that I'm sure took a slight bit of study:

Ace Combat 6
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
Valkyria Chronicles
Kameo: Elements of Power
Marvel vs. Capcom
Soul Calibur I and II
Both Advance Wars games in your collection
Disgaea DS
All your Tekken games
Mortal Kombat I and II
and many others...

Seriously man, you've got an awful lot of fighting games in your collection for someone so hellbent on not learning basic moves in a 17 year old fighting series. If you don't like Street Fighter, just say you don't like it, but the reasoning you gave just makes no sense since a good portion of your games require plenty of study and aren't simply pick up and play.