D-idara
Banned via Administration
I want to clarify, when I talk about the Street Fighter Community, I refer to the absolute worst it has to offer, yeah, the guys who on Gamefaqs and only say 'git gud nub' to anyone who has reasonable complaints about the game being too hard. I know there are some good people there who have played Street Fighter their whole lives and maybe are a little naive or can't notice when the game's screwing them over because they've endured the horrors of the previous SF games and have taken bad game design and an engine that refuses to be played as something good.
So I was looking at the 3DS Nintendo eShop yesterday to purchase Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright, and I saw Capcom had a sale going up due to the game's release, so I naturally checked it out and spotted Street Fighter IV for 8.99USD, I had purchased SFIV for the PS3 a few years ago and absolutely, positively hated the ****ing thing...
But recently I've been playing Mortal Kombat 9, Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta. Games that are somewhat technical, but well-designed so they don't become frustrating. So I decided to give this crappy game another chance on the 3DS, maybe a portable fighter would make practicing much easier? I wanted to give it a chance...
But I was wrong, you see, Street Fighter's like a well-laid trap, it lures you and entices you with amazing character designs, catchy music and combos that look flashy on-screen, but then you're met with the real thing, a 1.000 feet brick wall that prevents you from playing the game, the game not only has an annoying, multi-directional system to actually execute the game's special moves, but it also has perfect-timing precision bull**** and cheap AI that doesn't have the limitations of having actual fingers with actual mechanical restrictions.
SFIV's a perfect example of a game series that refuses to evolve and become better, mostly thanks to the fanbase, who actually complains when the game becomes easier (Marginally) and actually insults those who complain about the game simply being too hard for any normal person to grasp it without years of practice.
The thing...I feel scammed out of my money, I could've bought an actually-good game like Resident Evil Revelations or even a fighting game with some thought put into it like Skullgirls, but no, SFIV has fooled me again...I lost 8.00USD to a game that's nothing short of despicable, terrible, tryhard, disgustingly and unnecessarily complex and downright bad.
The worst part's that I try to like this game, I try to think about practicing and getting the commands right, but then there's things like the Shoryuken Z-shaped command that downright refuses to work when I want it to, or the 1-frame window of combos, things that remind me that this game SUCKS and will continue to do so as long as the developers of future Street Fighter keep listening to the etilist, hateful and new-player-hating community.
Rant over, I still want my 8.00 dollars back, though, 50 cents for this game would be too much. It's basically a character art viewer with something vaguely resembling a game.
I'll admit defeat when someone can tell me exactly how do you do the Z-shaped command, EXACTLY, not 'you kinda brush your finger over here like this and quickly twitch in this general direction, I can do it all the time'. Chances are you won't be able to because the command itself doesn't make sense in relation to the time you have to input it, there's no way to punch the right combination without running out of time.
So I was looking at the 3DS Nintendo eShop yesterday to purchase Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright, and I saw Capcom had a sale going up due to the game's release, so I naturally checked it out and spotted Street Fighter IV for 8.99USD, I had purchased SFIV for the PS3 a few years ago and absolutely, positively hated the ****ing thing...
But recently I've been playing Mortal Kombat 9, Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta. Games that are somewhat technical, but well-designed so they don't become frustrating. So I decided to give this crappy game another chance on the 3DS, maybe a portable fighter would make practicing much easier? I wanted to give it a chance...
But I was wrong, you see, Street Fighter's like a well-laid trap, it lures you and entices you with amazing character designs, catchy music and combos that look flashy on-screen, but then you're met with the real thing, a 1.000 feet brick wall that prevents you from playing the game, the game not only has an annoying, multi-directional system to actually execute the game's special moves, but it also has perfect-timing precision bull**** and cheap AI that doesn't have the limitations of having actual fingers with actual mechanical restrictions.
SFIV's a perfect example of a game series that refuses to evolve and become better, mostly thanks to the fanbase, who actually complains when the game becomes easier (Marginally) and actually insults those who complain about the game simply being too hard for any normal person to grasp it without years of practice.
The thing...I feel scammed out of my money, I could've bought an actually-good game like Resident Evil Revelations or even a fighting game with some thought put into it like Skullgirls, but no, SFIV has fooled me again...I lost 8.00USD to a game that's nothing short of despicable, terrible, tryhard, disgustingly and unnecessarily complex and downright bad.
The worst part's that I try to like this game, I try to think about practicing and getting the commands right, but then there's things like the Shoryuken Z-shaped command that downright refuses to work when I want it to, or the 1-frame window of combos, things that remind me that this game SUCKS and will continue to do so as long as the developers of future Street Fighter keep listening to the etilist, hateful and new-player-hating community.
Rant over, I still want my 8.00 dollars back, though, 50 cents for this game would be too much. It's basically a character art viewer with something vaguely resembling a game.
I'll admit defeat when someone can tell me exactly how do you do the Z-shaped command, EXACTLY, not 'you kinda brush your finger over here like this and quickly twitch in this general direction, I can do it all the time'. Chances are you won't be able to because the command itself doesn't make sense in relation to the time you have to input it, there's no way to punch the right combination without running out of time.
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