I got Street Fighter IV half a week ago as a Christmas present. As a context to this, my brother had recently bought himself an XBox360 (he works at Bluenotes and produces music in a locally popular band, and is overall extremely influential in my city), and so the idea is that I could play games on it.
My mom insisted on getting me something, when I really had long since given up the trouble of Chrristmas gift-exchanging (I don't take it for granted, mostly because I can't give gifts myself), so when she asked I told her about SF 4 and BlazBlue: CS.
I confirmed today that Street Fighter IV is unplayable with an XBox controller. At least for me.
Sadface.
(the following bit is skippable if you really don't care)
As I know from Brawl, an issue with me is that I can't hit trigger buttons. XBox only has four buttons on the padface, so I *have* to use at least two triggers; no two are always in reach of my fingers without giving myself some kind of Carpal-Tunnel-esque seizure crap. Neither the pad or the analog stick are in condition such that I can consistently enter the 623s or quarter-circles for specials, let alone trying to cancel them. In Viper's trial mode, one of the challenges is to cancel Hard Kick into the Super. The Super's input is 236236(allPunches). For particular reasons, you cannot just enter 236236, hard kick, then all three kicks, nor can you even 23623, hard kick, 6(LK+MK+HK).
Even with the help of configuring the Bumper-button to be LP+MP+HP, I realized I simply cannot do this input. I can't move a thumb that fast within 1/4 of a second of hitting something else with my other thumb.
So basically, I can't play this game. I allowed myself to get my hopes up about actually doing it - getting into SF4 - but it's unplayable, because XBox sucks sufficiently enough that my own suckage from disability is decisive.
I... I'm angry, that that makes me disappointed. If I hadn't got the idea of ever playing SF - and believe me, where I was, I was resolved to never play anything outside Brawl again, due to my financial situation - . . . I'd go on as I was, where I had found a sort of happiness. I should be exactly where I was before Christmas: I don't have Street Fighter and I can't play it. But I feel like something has been taken away from me.
I dropped the phrasing I had in mind for this. ****. But it's... I don't want to be disappointed, but I'm angry that I am. I don't have less than what I had, but I am revolted at this turn of events. It's just... disgusting. Why? Why do I want to break the walls in my house for this?