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753: Street Fighter V

Retronauts · March 9, 2026

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01:09:56 - 01:11:06

Okay, this is something I've been dancing around since we started this podcast. So this game obviously was not released in a finished state. And the sort of going reasoning is that they wanted to make this competitive for the eSports scene, like we want to get this out for pro players to play. So we can get some eyeballs on streaming. eSports is starting to become sort of a global thing, not just in in Asia with Starcraft in, you know, League of Legends and other countries and stuff like that. Like, people are starting to make money off of this, we need to get our hands into that pie. So this game was clearly meant to be like basically made for hardcore players to play online so they can get ready for Capcom Pro Tours, which they were just starting to launch around this time too. So this only basically came out with modes to train you to play competitively against other people. Even the survival mode is kind of like a dummy for you to learn to do some of that stuff. So this is one of its probably its biggest complaint is that it this game was released in

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... Okay, this is something I've been dancing around since we started this podcast. So this game obviously was not released in a finished state. And the sort of going reasoning is that they wanted to make this competitive for the eSports scene, like we want to get this out for pro players to play. So we can get some eyeballs on streaming. eSports is starting to become sort of a global thing, not just in in Asia with Starcraft in, you know, League of Legends and other countries and stuff like that. Like, people are starting to make money off of this, we need to get our hands into that pie. So this game was clearly meant to be like basically made for hardcore players to play online so they can get ready for Capcom Pro Tours, which they were just starting to launch around this time too. So this only basically came out with modes to train you to play competitively against other people. Even the survival mode is kind of like a dummy for you to learn to do some of that stuff. So this is one of its probably its biggest complaint is that it this game was released in this. It's cool to, you know, to slam buttons in training mode and stuff like that. But there is no story mode to speak of. There are no challenges like combo challenges to teach you how to actually ...

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