A few days ago, an interview with Keno was posted where he talked about the balance changes in Super Street Fighter 4.Is Guile low tier in Super Street Fighter 4? Keno said you told him a lot of things in the interview. Also, when the players had time with it at USC, were they playing the most recent build, or did you not have access to it?
Seth Killian: Hey guys,
A few things. One, I <3 Keno, but was unfortunately misquoted in a number of places. Them's the breaks, happens a lot.
That said, Guile feels more "Guile-y" to me, which I think is a good thing. A lot of the work on the game is not specifically around, "Let's make this character #1!" but more about improving options and feel and fun for everyone. There will always be winners and losers in a rankings chart; if there weren't disparities, the game would be a lot less fun, which everyone seems to forget immediately when they are talking about "There's an imbalance!" but I digress.
Also, although Keno refers indirectly to playing the characters that were just announced today, that certainly didn't happen with me — the build at USC was exactly the same as the one showed at Fight Club in Las Vegas, with 4 masked character slots. There were a lot of people there, and this is quite clear.
Finally I'm not sure what you're referring to about "not having access to the most recent build" etc. That would be... nuts. Possibly the confusion comes in because we're often not able to *show* the most recent build, since creating builds that have some characters masked is extra work that takes time away from development, but of course my in-house materials are as fresh as it gets.
It really wouldn't make sense for someone as important to dealing with the fan base, the press and the overall Street Fighter hype machine to not have access to every new build that comes through.
Seth: You guys do realize I do internal reviews on the game as well just talking about it, right? Maybe not? Anyway, that's why it sounded nuts to me to suggest I wouldn't have the latest build.... Yes, I do more than just talk about Street Fighter. :P
