You know a topic like this always descends into SFC I, II, OP vs. IV. Being an old SFBer, I was terrified that SFC IV might be good and depart from the SFB rules. What I did not expect was a lack of quality. The campaigns were brilliant, but the finish of the game, music, voice-overs, and such were so poor that I felt the game was slap in the face. It never ran on my computer. The fact that it departed from SFB, was merely a dissapointment. The low quality standard for SFC IV made me angry. Very angry, indeed.
Please, don't confuse my feeling toward SFC IV as merely being that it isn't a continuation along the lines of the earlier products. I feel it was so poorly executed that it should not have been released. Yes, I have gone on rants about the SFC IV, but not because it isn't SFB.
There will be an SFC GAW, I just don't know if it will be in my lifetime.