Sajam Reminisces About Street Fighter IV

[@tylermorrison6335]

Sajam yelling attack names is always funny.

[@SupermanSajam]

It's the right way to live your life

[@keeganhancox5188]

i love how he refers to Fox's up-b as "hiyahh." made me giggle

[@internetmovieguy]

What is the fire fox? and why does it go farther than the bird?

[@CaptainHandsome]

Sajam working through some shit from his college days at the start. We're here for you if you need us

[@mightquinnable]

Yeah, street fighter community is sus. That part of the FGC was extremely vocal about about not playing other games

[@danielspencer5908]

What does sus mean? Don't "boomer" me pls.

[@danielspencer5908]

@@emergencypension3239 Thanks a lot man.

[@baronvonfaust]

@@danielspencer5908 in Australia it gets used in the same context, but you'll also get the expression suss out, which just means looking into or organising something. I'll suss out what Dave's doing on the weekend, etc.

[@leehunter3964]

the 09er wave was indeed pretty bad. before that we had cvs2, mvc2, and third strike at every tournament and everyone respected the games. Then sf4 comes out and nobody would play blazblue or kof13 which were better games.

[@exiaR2x78]

@@emergencypension3239 A lot of the older gen did play a lot of the games and not just by specific companies

[@inkninjelani-akin4745]

People’s memories of SFIV are some of the most rose-tinted memories I’ve ever seen.

[@easygoingdude9990]

Nostalgia goggles to strong dude

[@Komatik_]

You can't nostalgia goggle Elena away.

[@easygoingdude9990]

@@Komatik_ some people do lol

[@Hardivh]

Well, It didnt have meaty grabs

[@inkninjelani-akin4745]

​@@Komatik_ I will always and forever be angry at whoever thought it was a good idea to make Healing an Ultra, and in turn made a ton of ppl hate one of my favorite characters in the series. =(

[@1Diddums]

"To Breathless, or not to Breathless." - Praying for Soulless, 2010

[@Kammora]

I started playing SF4 during AE, but didn't really get serious about competing until Ultra and honestly that period was some of the most fun I had playing and watching fighting games. I remember how crazy it was when Pepeday suddenly appeared out of nowhere and beat everyone at TGS with his godlike El Fuerte; seeing Poongko style on people with his Seth; staying up super late to catch Topanga Cup. Watching PRBalrog's crazy Capcom Cup run that one year (I think it was 2012 or 2013) with his hyper aggressive play inspired me to get good with Balrog. While I was just excited as everyone else when SF5 was first announced, I remember thinking and still to this day believe that Ultra could have used one or two more years to mature. Viewership was at it's all time high towards the tail end of 2015 and IMO still had room to grow. People were finally starting to understand how to play/counter the new characters. I really do think the game deserved a better treatment from Capcom.

[@FierceFIYA]

5:57 "Hope you like this!" Got me weak.

[@xLuminary]

Remember when no one played xrd until gg2020 got announced then everyone is a big lifelong fan?

[@fistofsage]

I know right? I was flipping out on Twitter like "Where the fuck were all these 'die-hard' GG fans back when I used to try to play online and it was a barren wasteland?" 😂

[@beltube]

Huge Guilty Gear Fan Excited to Play It for First Time

[@BigBoss-hn1vn]

Online is still a baron wasteland lol, I hop on PC lobbies quite a bit..and not one single person in any server, on the entire planet is online playing xrd. People just like to talk about anything current that people are posting vids on.

[@arbyw.1889]

Cause GG netcode is trash.

[@PK_Ave]

I didn't even know GG Strive was coming out until after I bought xrd at the beginning of the month lol. I started playing KOF and wanted to play more fighting games, heard GG was tough and I like challenges. Well, I've become a GG fan regardless now lol

[@StreyX]

Breathless was horse crap. In the first iteration there was like 5 characters that had no way out of it. The second ultra meter was full, they were getting hit. And AE was hong kong fighter.

[@BBGunRenegade]

As a Balrog player.....I'm getting PSTD flashbacks. TAP and the smash dash punches were too slow to armor break breathless in so many situations. Also, not Breathless related but Seth could throw a sonicboom at Balrog and could ultra 1 you from full screen if you tried to jump over it or focus through it T.T

[@TheDuke07]

My favorite meme is people talking about SF4 as great after shitting on it for years

[@Pandaman64]

Sf4 stopped getting shit on after vanilla tho. Super sf4 onwards were received pretty well until ultra came out and got a bit janky.

[@KruxisV]

@@Pandaman64 Get out of town. People shit on SF4 right up until SF5 came out and you know it. AE was an abomination. All you heard about was "hurr hard knockdown into vortex no brain game" and "just wait till SF5 comes out and all y'all actually have to learn how to play." It was inescapable and anyone who says otherwise is being willfully nostalgic to fit in with the current shit-on-SF5 climate. I'll bet dollars to donuts the SF5 defense squad will come out of the woodwork as soon as SF6 drops.

[@PsychoCrusher46]

Damn really. When I was a kid, SSF4 and MK9 were awesome. I was also around the internet and haven't heard anyone shitting on SF4 until SFV came out.

[@Pandaman64]

@@KruxisV Legit, I only remember the cries of sf4 being a knockdown to vortex game becoming common after sf5 was announced. The only AE complaints I recall are the capcom didn't want to port it to consoles for ages, and once they did they were slow to patch yun/yang into not being gods.

[@Pandaman64]

@Prashanth Panicker No, no, no. Make no mistake, the people jerking off third strike from back then are in fact STILL jerking off third strike. Those guys are die hards.

[@misterkeebler]

That first minute and 30 secs was some of the realest shit I've heard in a long time.

[@MajesticMormel]

Remember when everyone hated Tekken for not being a real fighting game like Street Fighter but then somehow was hyped for a SF X Tekken game? Why were people like this

[@Pandaman64]

Easy. As one of those people, I hate tekken's actual system mechanics but love pretty much all their characters. SF X Tekken was a super appealing idea to me, all the characters with gameplay I'd actually enjoy. Still is, actually. It was pretty fun.

[@redhanded3]

well sf x tekken isn't tekken?

[@T2Designgaming]

@@Pandaman64 makes sense

[@Raiden3651]

Americans will explore other FGs past the 2 month mark as long as at least 1 SF character is playable, and the devs "imply" they can just coast off their skills from their Capcom comfort zone(SF4/MVC3).

[@baronvonfaust]

The grass is always greener on the other side dude, and in the FGC that shit gets turned up to eleven. It's absurd.

[@gorillabuttons6731]

People ragequitting, sending me insults and death threats, trolls/stalkers... This game is special to me because it made me feel so bad playing it after a while, that I finally gave Guilty Gear (and Anime games in general) a chance. Still love Poison though, and got furious Capcom made her a Phonon clone in SFV... Yet it was the game that got me into fighting games, so I can't exactly hate it. Tournaments were always cool to watch too.

[@StevenVQ]

Damn rip Heineken.

[@howsitgoingwhiskerdude]

I don't always drink Dos Equis, but when I do, I wished it was a Heineken.

[@baronvonfaust]

He's channelling Frank Booth... HEINEKEN?! FUCK THAT SHIT!

[@noblegas7073]

SSF4 and AE 2012 were my favourite versions of SF4. Vanilla was so whack, I loved it!

[@Lil_Fr0sty]

That "hiyahh" was so fucking perfect, has me crackin' up.

[@LetsJamMan]

Lol that college analogy was spot on

[@Kuribohdudalala]

Juri is still one of the coolest fighting game characters ever created

[@mfbandit7930]

. _.

[@Ramsonpwndz]

AE2012 GANG Shoutouts to my year-one-scrubass self for thinking evil ryu was better a character than most ppl an SRK forums thought he was. Before Sako picked him up and did Sako things

[@JameboHayabusa]

lol I remember the SFIV kids. Most of them only started playing fighting games for a couple of years and just about all of them thought they were experts. Then you put a new game in front of them and they become all talk, making every excuse in their adderol riddled brains could think of as to why a games sucks too much for them to play. Truth is most people don't want to take the time to learn a new fighting game if there's already one they can play.

[@fistofsage]

I remember having to defend Tekken 6/tag 2 along with a bunch of other fighting games (KOF 13) against the SFIV "frat boys" in stream chats way back then lol

[@2000Doriyas]

This is the most real shit that people ignore so they can feel a sense of belonging

[@redhanded3]

I love abel's japanese. so much ferocity.

[@JadeJackal4]

Was Sajam a commentator during SFIV? I don't remember him, Rip or tasty Steve being around during SFIV era.

[@DirtyOldmanOG]

Maybe in USFIV but not sure. I think I remember him doing UMVC3

[@smpfox]

Sajam started with injustice 1

[@SupermanSajam]

Yup! I did USF4 stuff, and I made videos back in the SSF4 days. I commentated starting around 2013 or so, and did Injustice/USF4/KI around that time

[@JadeJackal4]

@@SupermanSajam ah ok, could've sworn the only nasally guys around commentating during that time was Ultra David and Seth Killian. I must've mistook you for one of them.

[@ehvaandal]

@@JadeJackal4 lololol!

[@massterwushu9699]

I played SFIV , but even during its peak I still played way more BBCT & CS. I honestly didn’t get the SFIV hype. Everyone made you feel like shit for not playing their favorite game.

[@kingdomkey92]

As much as i love SF4, I really wished Omega SF4 tournament or Edition Select tournament were a thing.

[@Pandaman64]

ban gen in omega though, yeah? Hahaha

[@djhero0071]

“I think Street Fighter IV players are evil” Lmao

[@jordan8199]

Got out of usf4 pools as thawk, can confirm I never did anything on wakeup other than jump, ultra, or spd. SF4 was sick.

[@Naleb514]

Fchamp looking at his old tv interview like fuck what did I do with my life! Lol

[@MrDrumStikz]

Has the Street Fighter Community ever stopped bitching about the only game they're willing to play? Street Fighter 2 ST: "Where's SF3." SF Alpha: "They're still putting off SF3" SF3: *crickets.* SF4: "Damn, all this stupid shit will be gone in 5." SF5: "WTF there's nothing in it."

[@ficroulaud]

SF4 wasn't my first fighting game but it was the one where i decided to go online and try and learn some things, instead of just playing offline with friends. Didn't start till Arcade edition. I was a Dee Jay and M Bison main. Didn't make it very high in ranks lol.

[@NeonGamePlayz]

icould listen to you talk about sf4 for ever i remember all this shit aah man i need to load it up

[@jasonwalker4003]

I got SF4 3d edition on my launch month 3ds. That game let you set 4 inputs on the touch screen as macros. It was FANTASTIC for teaching dumb kid like me the basics fighting games, and that game is why when I properly got into the fgc, I had great neutral and theory, but awful execution. I had never once intentionally done a quarter circle after probably a solid 50-100 hours of playing street fighter.

[@otgrey3927]

I loved Street Fighter IV and I had no idea Abel's Breathless was sooo "good" and had armour.

[@leeburgers2444]

I had so much fun playing MVC Infinite on Gamepass story was wild. Maybe I'm a scrub but whatevs

[@MikeRosadoGaming]

4 was the peak.

[@squidbird9338]

USFIV is where I started and I love it!

[@BushidoMauve]

I wish i got to play it back then.

[@MopedOfJustice]

The MvCi hate wagon was crazy

[@JustGoodwine]

We called abel breathless brainless instead. Because it was brainless in super

[@TaffieTheCapy]

I remember when SF4 was shat on super hard all the way until SFV became the "main game", which still pisses me off how Ultra was just dropped because I feel like it didn't get a chance to really evolve fully meta wise and SFV was released way too early, fucking Beta garbage. Anyway: Slow FIghter 4 Wake-up Fighter 4 Vortex Fighter 4 Sweep Fighter 4 Any others I'm missing?

[@TaffieTheCapy]

@@mrclean2224 Jab Fighter! I also like Pocket Elena Fighter 4.

[@Mikeand1keFGC]

I feel like SF community then lowkey is like the Tekken community now. Granted yes Tekken is an amazing game but holy fuck some of you guys act like other games aren't existing. It's okay to say that Tekken is good but if someone isn't into it that's okay too.

[@Carlanite]

oh shit i need to finish college 😂😂

[@leehunter3964]

you also have a wave of games copying the mediocre sf4 engine (punch planet, riot fighter) like guys fadc was just a shitty roman cancel you dont have to keep doing that

[@pinkt1t5]

0 frame Orbs, lol. Memories. Loved AE though.

[@protonjones54]

sajam is so damn funny

[@kevinrivera9917]

6:50 lmfao

[@naught_]

Hey man, Heinekens are pretty good for a light beer.

[@dj_koen1265]

Nah man the only beer worse than heineken is cheap polish beer

[@dj_koen1265]

Although I don’t know what kind of abominations they create on the other side of the sea

[@nocandoslurms433]

Nah, us MK boys are way more toxic.

[@puxtbuck6731]

I was in a frat but they never bought Heineken. Cheap bastards only bought Natty lol

[@Corkyjay]

I always thought sf4 was great tbh i loved decapre and evil ryu

[@Kuribohdudalala]

I only got into the fgc after 2016, so I only played 4 casually

[@mabooooyleatherface.1044]

capcom fanboys are the most toxic? did u ever play mk11 or x?

[@LuckiiTucky]

Breathless singlehandedly let me take games off people in an SF4 tournament i did not practice for at all

[@aplezauz8809]

Replace USF4 with Tekken 7 and that's the fgc since 2018

[@madrocts]

Uhhhhhhh No

[@aplezauz8809]

@@madrocts Found the tekken player

[@madrocts]

@@aplezauz8809 found the generalist and typecaster 2 for 1 sale!

[@ehvaandal]

Lol it do seem that way. Street fighter and tekken players do love to claim that they don't play anything else like it's bragging

[@aplezauz8809]

@@ehvaandal don't you take great pride in only playing 1 game and calling every other game you don't play inferior for completely arbitrary reasons?

[@coreyhulse8226]

i am gay boi

[@AkiRa22084]

*Abel for SF5!*

[@BLewTheKake]

Sf4 the 🐐

[@JohnGaming55]

B Lew lmao what?

[@BLewTheKake]

@@JohnGaming55 said wt i said!

[@dreadedsage8630]

@@JohnGaming55 GOAT

[@stolensentience]

Sf3 the goat but I think sf4 better in some ways and I think it’s probably the deepest sf ever.

[@Kriss_ch.]

I resent this statement I also like _Smash_

[@nedbrookes6481]

melee or ultimate?

[@Kriss_ch.]

@@nedbrookes6481 it's all good

[@nedbrookes6481]

@@Kriss_ch. very respectable answer

[@greatestgamer00]

knaw bruh tekan scrubs are the worst

[@Bboyduck]

at least sf4 had execution barrier , so scrubs can't do damaging combos all the scrubs that don't have execution hate sf4

[@thuggles42]

I feel so attacked