to me, it seems story mode is going to be improved thru DLC, i just have a feeling about it, because at times the text at the end seems to be a cliffhanger...

I guess I'll find out tomorrow

I see what you mean... The text at the end of several storylines do kinda feel like they're leading somewhere, and if they do release DLC, I'll sadly be getting it, even if we have to pay for it

That's what infuriates me... I think they could have made it better, but they didn't... They'd rather keep somethine for DLC.

Yeah gotta admit it does seem like they are saving stuff for DLC in the future... -_-;;

Yet early for me to tell since i had a lot of fun with 2 and 3 but only tried the first one. SC4 being the best and funniest? We'll see, but for some reasons i think it was worth buying. I never wait too impatiently for a game though cuz i always predict the worst that could happen. If it ends up being great, then this is a good surprise. It's better than waiting impatiently to finally be disapointed.

I like IV better than III, and way better than the first 2. It's because of the character creation though - that's the only reason I bought either of the newer installments. If there was no character creation I'd have little to no interest in the game.

Being able to bring my own ideas to life is the draw for me. I've written so many fictional stories and novels and most of the time I can get a character in SCIV that's 90%+ accurate to what I see in my head. With SCIII it was more like 50%. Even though SCIII had the best character gen for a fighting game (until now), it was still limited in a lot of ways. I'm very happy that they've retooled the layering system - in SCIII lots of "Upper layer" clothes looked ridiculous unless there was a middle layer beneath; otherwise they just floated in space. Another issue was the colouring; you could usually only change one or maybe two components, with lots of non-optional patterns and whatnot. Now you can usually colour up to 4 parts, which makes things a lot better.

It's worth noting that the character gen wouldn't count for anything if the base gameplay wasn't there to back it all up. This is the best 3D fighting franchise by far (see the failure that is Mortal Kombat).

I honestly enjoyed SC II and III QUITE a lot, and IV is a very good game, and yeh, I think it was worth it, though I do have a couple of things to say..

Story mode ended way too quick for my tastes... I mean... it was like...

There's an evil castle for like 2 stages, then an evil tower for like another 2 stages and then a final battle that leads to a very short ending with an epilogue text that as mentioned already, ends up being a cliffhanger in many cases...

This is in contrast to SCIII, where you would travel all around Europe and Asia and fighting in many different settings...

I still have things to unlock I think but they might have left quite a lot of things fo DLC and that kind of pisses me off .

It was worth it but the disappointment was the story and no team battle

Actually wonder since the ps3 is not mine and i have no time to enjoy it fully, if it was really worth buying.

I might just give up playing it unless until i buy my own ps3 which i'm sparing to buy yet.

SCIV's story mode blew but the gameplay is superb. It was better than I had expected. So I'd say, yeah it was worth it.