[Multiplatform] Street Fighter 4 - For some reason they're still putting in characters other than Ken

Originally Posted by Monkey King

As long as the gameplay remains 2D, I could deal with 3D characters, although that would almost seem to defeat the purpose of having 3D to being with.

Yoshi's Story, Kirby 64, Super Smash Bros, New Super Mario Bros, Tomba, Wario World, and others beg to differ.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by chato

As long as the game's coming out before spring. I'm sold to it. He did say he's going to work on that lag issue so that's good enough. I already know so far that the controls on the 360's horrendous (to me) because I was so used to playing fighting games on dc and a ps controller.

While I personally have never found a problem with using the stick for fighting games (probably explaining my "skills" or lack thereof at them) I've never quite understood why Microsoft doesn't release a dedicated fighting pad of some kind. Just take the regular controller, stick a non-shitty d-pad on it, and charge $50 for it. Make a killing!

As long as new characters are still in the running, where the hell is my Cody? Need some jailbird action up in here.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Now that you mention counter picking, Rotor, here's hoping the double-blind character selection they put into Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix is carried over into SFIV. I'm not even a hardcore fighting game player and I can appreciate the ability to actually choose your character first without being countered.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

When it comes to English voice acting, Street Fighter has only one direction to go as a series, and that's up.

DRAGON

Way, way, up.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

It's more about stubbornness, I think. Everyone here knows that the option is there, but they'd rather beat him "legit" out of sheer "I've done this before, I can do it again" stubbornness.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

Unlock chart

Since I appear to be one of the only people to *not* go through all the hoops to unlock the characters the day the game came out I'll see if this is legit or if the whole "2 perfects 3 dadada" thing is the actual legit way of doing it.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

So is it just me, or despite there being a healthy range of characters to pick from, most people online are either Ken or Ryu (with the occasional Akuma for good measure). I know they're fairly stock characters and all, but come on.

Annoyingly I got to a 9 ranked win streak today and then lost it on the 10th. That was irritating.

On a more positive note, last night I had a bunch of mates over for some new-old school Street Fighter action, with my Xbox in the lounge and two arcade sticks. That was a lot of fun, I have to say.

I know I can't really talk too much trash about that considering I play Ken and Dan myself, but what bothers me more about those players rather than their playing Ken/Ryu is that they SUCK at it so badly. These are the players who telegraph their moves so even a relative novice like myself can see them coming a mile away. Do not fucking stand there jabbing the air as Akuma when your ultra meter is full. I will jump over your Ultra, as I have all but 1 time it's been used on me in ranked. If you continue to throw strong fireballs at me I will continue to jump them. It is not as hard as you think it is. The sheer ratio of bad Shoto players to bad ANYTHING ELSE players is infuriating.

It's why I'm starting to consider learning Rufus, to be honest. I want to use a character that doesn't piss people off, and Rufus is an entertaining character to use. So is Dan, simply for the occasional player that will deliberately switch to Sagat when he sees me choosing Dan, only to lose anyway.

FELIPE NO

One of the reasons I still want to learn Rufus, or someone other than the normal characters, is because it appears a lot of people have no clue how to deal with anything out of the normal. Gen I'm sure is going to CRUSH for a while as long as you bother to learn him. I haven't even fought OR unlocked him yet so I have no idea what to expect fighting him. I'd probably lose.

Additional Spam:

Originally Posted by Hotobu

Does skill match work for any of you? Everytime I try to search for someone equal or better the search system shits itself.

I have more problems just with quick match. It just keeps telling me I can't connect. I actually think sometimes the server isn't removing finished games from the list fast enough. Twice now I've realized that I'm joining a match with the person I finished a match with about 10 seconds previously, and last I checked it's not quite possible to start a match that fast.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?