One thing Impulse/GOO has going for it over Steam's DRM is that you can actually play a single-player game offline. Steam is puzzled by this concept.

Oh yeah, that too. :D
No requisite client/Internet connection are huge pluses for me -- as in, the reason I'd buy a Goo'd game but not a "Steam'd" game.
In Steam's defense, though, they had lightened up a fair bit lately -- now you can install games anywhere without limits and stuff.

There's the Offline Mode on Steam, but I think you need to tell it you'll be heading offline for you to be able to play it offline.

not really, you just need to have played the game while you were online at least once.
http://www.wegame.com/watch/Steam_in_Offline_Mode/

So I've been living a lie all these years?
And the game's out on PC? Sweet.

Street Fighter IV is a native Windows game; the original arcade cabinet runs Windows XP Embedded on off-the-shelf x86 hardware. Seriously. Additionally, because it was designed for the PC first and foremost it's beautifully optimised.

Ah yes, I remember. The arcade Taitos were using dual-core Turions or something.

There are situations where it will shut you out.

I never said it was one hundred percent perfect, and even in that video, it shows you that some games don't work.

this makes me happy

Just sayin~

It actually extends much further than just SF4; many of Capcom's recent and upcoming big-budget games use their MT Framework engine, for which games are developed and optimised on the PC first and then ported from there to the 360 and PS3. This engine not only makes it even easier for them to develop across all platforms simultaneously but also helps make the PC version the best of the bunch. The excellent "port" quality seen with the likes of Lost Planet is only going to improve over time because of this.

what has already been said.

You're being a dick again, it's not fun.