Arcade Mode is oddly pointless in this Arcade Edition

[TarMan]

Why is there nothing attached to Arcade Mode (Fight Money or EXP)?

There is literally no insentive to play through the mode at all (unless you really want to see a storyboard/collage with some text on the bottom).

I thought the Character Story Mode was the most embarrassing thing I've seen in a modern fighting game (with awkward static drawings that look like they were drawn by a programmers nephew), and then I played the Arcade Mode, and my God it's like they actively put as little thought or effort into the mode as humanly possible.

It seems like an absolutely pointless inclusion to the game as it's just an assortment of fights (loosely themed after each entry in the series) that feels completely underwhelming when you complete it.

For the game to focus so heavily on FM and EXP for leveling up characters (for absolutly no real reason as the level is just an inconsequential number) and then to have the mode that shares the games namesake have absolutley no relationship with this "reward" system, is completely laughable.

Also the system of beating a mode to "unlock" the ability to buy the thing you just unlocked is the biggest F U to the player I have ever seen in any game.

[Tusnayoshi]

Bloody agree.

[Gailim]

its here because for two years it's absence was the biggest thing people complained about.

if you don't like arcade mode, fine, don't play it

honestly once they added vs. CPU the functional need for arcade mode vanished. but people want what they want

[Tusnayoshi]

Originally posted by Gailim:

its here because for two years it's absence was the biggest thing people complained about.

if you don't like arcade mode, fine, don't play it

honestly once they added vs. CPU the functional need for arcade mode vanished. but people want what they want

I'm sure they didn't want a useless mode with very little to add to the game. Anyone can get a pen and make their own story and select few chars for the CPU, fight them in a specific order and get no reward in the end. Arcade mode does it automatically, the only difference.

[Gailim]

Originally posted by Hanuo:

Originally posted by Gailim:

its here because for two years it's absence was the biggest thing people complained about.

if you don't like arcade mode, fine, don't play it

honestly once they added vs. CPU the functional need for arcade mode vanished. but people want what they want

I'm sure they didn't want a useless mode with very little to add to the game. Anyone can get a pen and make their own story and select few chars for the CPU, fight them in a specific order and get no reward in the end. Arcade mode does it automatically, the only difference.

I know, I have been saying that for a year and a half.

despite that, people kept on asking for arcade mode, incessently

so they added it for those people

[TarMan]

Originally posted by Gailim:

its here because for two years it's absence was the biggest thing people complained about.

if you don't like arcade mode, fine, don't play it

honestly once they added vs. CPU the functional need for arcade mode vanished. but people want what they want

If people complained about it's absence for two years and Capcom have been heavily pushing FM and EXP, then basic logic would dictate that they would introduce an Arcade Mode that has a relationship with these two reward currencies that they have introduced into the series.

Also I never said I didn't like Arcade mode, I said it's absolutely pointless (it wasn't until I played through some of the characters SFIV themed arcade modes and I was sitting reading a storyboarded version of the already low effort SFIV endings, that the pointlessness of it really hit me), there is more "value" to playing the pathetic Character Story Modes ( that are one or two fights long) than there is in playing a 8-12 character arcade tournament (that has multiple difficulty settings).

Does that not seem moronic to you?

[Skiptro]

you can unlock special art for the gallery by clearing certain conditions, like playing without continues, playing on hard, beating shin akuma on hard etc etc. But i agree with you it can atleast reward exp.

[Catratio]

Probably why there is no EXP or FM rewards is because people would cheat with a trainer and let it run all night repeating arcade to get a character to level 99 (or higher, whatever the max is) and get a ton of free FM they would use instead of real money and Capcom doesn't want that. I mean people already do this online, but with arcade it would go way faster since they wouldn't have to wait to find matches.

[TarMan]

Originally posted by Catratio:

Probably why there is no EXP or FM rewards is because people would cheat with a trainer and let it run all night repeating arcade to get a character to level 99 (or higher, whatever the max is) and get a ton of free FM they would use instead of real money and Capcom doesn't want that. I mean people already do this online, but with arcade it would go way faster since they wouldn't have to wait to find matches.

Wouldn't it make more sense for Arcade Mode to have similar one time rewards like Survival or Character Story does?

Where you only get the EXP or FM upon your first completion of each difficulty tier?

It seems like an easy thing to implement and it would be impossible to farm.

[Serlionrpg]

i wanted arcade mode but not like this. No intro to it, aside history mode. Terrible drawings as endings with a poor textbox, nothing else. And a sh*tty boss fight without special powers like seth or any arcade boss. Also no reward for playing it, just more sh*tty drawings

[TarMan]

Originally posted by GungZA:

you can unlock special art for the gallery by clearing certain conditions, like playing without continues, playing on hard, beating shin akuma on hard etc etc. But i agree with you it can atleast reward exp.

I don't think artwork (that you can find with a quick Google search or visiting a Wiki) is any incentive to any player to waste hours of their life completing Arcade Modes that don't even have mediocre endings (the budget comic strips that are in the game aren't even to the standard of an indie comic).

There aren't even colours or costumes attached to completing the Arcade Modes, something that would be at least of some value to a player for investing their time into the mode.

[Catratio]

Originally posted by DireWolf:

Wouldn't it make more sense for Arcade Mode to have similar one time rewards like Survival or Character Story does?

Where you only get the EXP or FM upon your first completion of each difficulty tier?

It seems like an easy thing to implement and it would be impossible to farm.

Yeah I would've loved that, but since they just removed it from all the other modes I wasn't expecting there to be one for arcade.

[TarMan]

Originally posted by Catratio:

Yeah I would've loved that, but since they just removed it from all the other modes I wasn't expecting there to be one for arcade.

If they have removed rewards from other modes then that makes even more logical sense that they would have taken the removed rewards and applied them to the Arcade Mode (as an incentive for players to play the games namesake mode).

The logic behind this game is baffaling, SFxT has more merit than SFV, as for all of it's faults that game was at least highly polished upon it's launch (with CGI cutscenes, unique character interactions and a rewarding progression system, similar to SFIV's).

SFV feels like a budget title, which is ridiculous considering it has DLC that equates to at least three times the games vanilla launch price.

[Wezilla]

It not quite good as previous Arcade mode....SF2 SFA SF3 SF4 even SFxT I talk about mini intro story but AE feel too dry I think that what FM is missing...no rewards ???

As myself I'm hardcore Arcade mode for many years....this is nothing...this is not exactly "ARCADE MODE"

WHERE IS CPU VS CPU ?

PS) FM rewards only once for each char and different 3 skills. Where ?

That what surival does...irony twisted.

[BasiliskEye]

This game sits in that same weird place for it's genre that DoTA2 sits for MOBAs.
It's the most hardcore tourny focused game. The devs do not care about single player content and few of it's active players do either, They neither care nor do they understand why or even what about single player content would appeal to anyone.

A good Arcade mode is more then just fighting a bunch of brick stupid input readers, a good Arcade mode presents a story, it has fun unlocks, it gives people reasons to try characters other then their main,
SFV's Arcade Mode has zero of these things, it is basically what people that don't care about arcade mode think of arcade modes, just a bunch of random pointless bot matches with an end screen they skip.

It's not even like they didn't have the tools right there to make it at lest passable for new players, all they had to do was just combine the pointlessly short story modes and their rewards with each character's arcade mode, it still wouldn't have been the best, it wouldn't have even been as good as SFIV but it still would have been better then this weaksause and pointless thing they are marketing this entire release on the inclusion of.

I love Street Fighter V but honest to god it's the most frustrating relationship I have had with a game in years because it feels like nobody but the people working on the crunch of the combat itself seems to give a ♥♥♥♥.
That criticism extends to MVC:I also.

[TarMan]

Originally posted by HexCaster:

A good Arcade mode is more then just fighting a bunch of brick stupid imput readers, a good Arcade mode presents a story, it has fun unlocks, it gives people reasons to try characters other then thier main,
SFV's Arcade Mode has zero of these things, it is basically what people that don't care about arcade mode think arcade mode, just a bunch of random pointless bot matches.

It's not even like they didn't have the tools right there to make it at lest passible for new players, all they had to do was just combine the pointlessly short story modes and their rewards with each character's arcade mode, it still wouldn't have been the best, it wouldn't have even been as good as SFIV but it still would have been better then this weaksause and pointless thing they are marketing this entire release on the inclusion of.

That's exactly what I use Arcade Modes for, I use it to play through and learn/experiment with every character in the roster of the game, and the endings or unlocks (costumes or colours) are the incentive/reward for investing that time.

It's amazing how a fighting game (SF being arguably the biggest fighting game) released post the 2000's can have such a pathetically weak Arcade Mode, and to have absolutley nothing tied to it is even more confusing as they named the game after the mode that they have put absolutley no effort into.

Playing Arcade Mode feels like playing a MOD, it feels just cheap, from the lazy splash screen with whatever games png on a two tone gradient background, to the cheap "travel animation" which is a bar with a flag on each end and a sliding graphic of a plane.

If they were going to do the Legacy Arcade Modes why didn't they put some effort into it and attempt to recreate the visuals of each games Arcade Mode (like the SF2 character grid and map layout or Third Strikes portraits with the option of two opponents) and give the illusion that you're playing through an updated version of the previous games.