It’s been eight years since Road Fighter V hit PC. As you would possibly recall, the preventing recreation landed with the poise of somebody shattering each kneecaps on affect, as complaints a couple of small roster of characters and barebones story mode – to be crammed in later with DLC – have been made extra egregious by a lot of technical points, together with bugs and on-line points attributable to its wobbly servers.
“In some ways, it’s the right preventing recreation, a straightforward 10, however it’s woefully missing in some areas,” Andi wrote in our personal overview on the time. “Hopefully, this botched launch doesn’t put too many individuals off sticking round, as a result of when Road Fighter is at its greatest – once you’re studying, enhancing, competing and successful – there are only a few video games that even come shut.”
Road Fighter V finally managed to regain its posture over the next months and years, including a cinematic story mode and dozens of extra characters throughout 5 seasons of DLC earlier than wrapping issues up shortly after the reveal of Road Fighter 6 with a ultimate Definitive Replace in 2022.
With Road Fighter 6 now out, marking a real shifting on from its predecessor, Capcom took the chance to mark the eighth anniversary of Road Fighter V’s launch by apologising to gamers for the messy launch whereas additionally celebrating how far the sport got here afterwards.
“From the start to the center of the discharge, there have been community points, lack of content material, and many others…” the builders wrote on TwiXer. “We’re really sorry for the content material that didn’t meet the expectations of lots of you.”
The workforce added that they “did plenty of self-reflection” throughout Road Fighter V’s youth, ensuing each within the enlargement of Road Fighter V – with the evolution of its preventing system to incorporate V Expertise and V Shift, and a filled-out roster of 45 characters in all – but additionally the expertise to assist make Road Fighter 6 a greater recreation. By all accounts, Road Fighter 6 appears fairly darn good, so it appears it paid off.
There’s a contented ending for Road Fighter V too, in that its participant rely has apparently elevated “considerably” since Season 4 in 2020, with the sport nonetheless attracting a whole bunch of 1000’s of gamers right now in response to the studio.
“Above all, a very powerful level was that I used to be in a position to apply this reflection to [Street Fighter 6],” the builders wrote. “I as soon as once more really feel that the previous eight years have been spent along with everybody.”
“After the disastrous launch that was Road Fighter 5, seeing Road Fighter again on prime type once more simply feels proper – and I’m extraordinarily excited to see what the subsequent 12 months of content material updates can do for a recreation that already feels this mechanically polished at launch,” Lewis stated of Road Fighter 6 in our overview, praising its story mode specifically for being “one of the best story mode in any preventing recreation I’ve performed” – fairly the redemption arc from the lambasted providing of its forebear.