Street_Fighter_IV tag

There is currently a Street_Fighter_IV tag, and 27 posts with it. In other situations, the originating series is used as a tag. AFAIK, SFIV is the only exception where a specific title from the series is being used as a tag.

The issues I have with this tag is a) limited usage, and b) inconsistency.

A) This tag will only be used for pictures related to Street Fighter that would already have the generic SF tag. The only pictures that would get SFIV added as well are ones that include a new character (Seth, Viper, or Abel), are official art used in SFIV, or feature SFIV-specific alternate outfits.

Perhaps these would be useful to some, but they seem like corner cases to me, especially since searching for the new characters is simple enough without the need for an SFIV tag.

B) No other games have a tag of their own like this (or else I haven't been paying attention). It would be a lot of work to apply new tags like this.

If this is consistently applied, every post with Kasugano Sakura in it should have a Street Fighter Zero 2 (Alpha 2) tag. Ryu and Ken would go under the Street Fighter 1 tag, but Chun-Li and Cammy would get a Street Fighter 2 tag. If they were wearing their alpha outfits, then Chun Li would also get a Street Fighter Zero tag, and Cammy would get a Street Fighter Zero 3 tag. Actually, Cammy would get the X-Men vs. Street Fighter tag, I think, technically.

We'd need tags for every single SF game so that we could tag the official art appropriately, and label each post that contains a new character or different outfit. If we were going to be anal about it, anyway.

In the end, however, it just goes back to effort:usefulness. In my opinion, it represents a lot of effort, and almost no usefulness. I would be interested to hear other opinions.

This always happens when a new game comes out, like with soul_calibur_iv or melty_blood, sometimes it starts being used because of the characters get new outfits so people feel the tag is deserved, sometimes there is one or two new characters and people feel they should have the tag of the new game as well, sometimes to just tag the official art, eventually they become outdated, as time passes the tags make less sense to be there, see soul_calibur_ii or soul_calibur_iii, perhaps they're useful for the outfits.
But there's no immediate harm with having the street_fighter_iv tag for a few months, it can always be transitioned back to street_fighter easily because there are barely any new characters and the returning characters don't have new outfits.

memegui said:
and the returning characters don't have new outfits.

Actually, all the returning characters do get alternate outfits - a number of the images tagged with street_fighter_iv include pics of Chun-Li in her alt costume from the game.

That being said, there's also tags for SF2, SF3 and SF Alpha/Zero, according to this image: post #269696 It's not just the latest SF game that has that problem.