I think its beyond well that game sucks, durp!!!
sf4 as a game compared to many OTHER good fighting games, is just fucking terrible and behind the times. Then as a community, we reward that crap by giving people who play that game lots of money and sponsorships? cvs2 as a game is MUCH better than the crap in sf4. Its literally retard fighter. Characters in that game can’t even dash+attack as a universal concept its 2012 people, not 1992.
When a vast majority supports the crap in SF4, it will naturally bleed into other games and its why most games right now have some shit garbage mechanic in them or just purely fucking suck. IMO with some very good tweaks to characters and the removal of XF from umvc3, you have a very worthy sequel to mvc2. It didn’t need to have I’m a scrub factor help me out please with BS mode.
and most of the people who have sponsorships in sf4, aren’t even REALLY good players when you talk about fighting game fundamentals. Mike Ross\Ayame are ok but I can think of 50 people who are beyond their skill level but since they don’t play sf4, their talent goes unknown and unrewarded. Instead of rewarding the best players playing the hardest games, we reward players who do well in a very shitty game.
Not only does sf4 suck as a game mechanically and from a balancing perspective but we reward people who are average in skill with money\sponsorships. Its sending the wrong message to the sponsors and developers entirely. There is this Japanese VS player called Kaji. Super ridiculous hit confirm skills, spacing, reaction time and his skill level is 1000x stronger than Mike Ross from a player stand point but does Kaji have a sponsorship even though he’s the better player? nope. You can be 10,000x better than people who play SF4 and you WILL never get into the sponsorship realm unless you happen to play a modern game. We’re not support the good players as we should be, we support whoever does well in a popular game regardless of how behind the times it is
MOST times when a game is brand new, regardless if its worthy or not, it usually gets some time in the tournament scene and because of that, we never stick to whats good. We stick to whats new. I’ve played ST\HF and IMO, HF-ing is definitely the better game but since ST was the last in the series, it got the last sf2 stamp and now its the main SF2 game.
fighting games to me have always been very sports like, especially when I was starting in the scene between 2k1-2k8. I had 4 games I knew would be there every year, st\3s\cvs2\mvc2. When we change to new games, we’re basically inventing a new sport and @ this pace, we’re inventing a new sport to play every year. There is a HUGE philosophical problem with this question though, not quite sure how to answer it honestly.
When Jordan played basketball, all he had to do was worry about basketball. Over the last 4 years, I’ve gone from playing basketball, to playing golf, to playing frisbee-golf to playing football. It is VERY hard to learn to master 1 game when everything gets updated or obsolete in 6 months. Jordan had 35 years of his life to master basketball, I had 6 months to play vanilla mvc3 and maybe 1 year with ultimate and if you want to stay in the scene, you have to make the jumps along with the scene to stay relevant.
seriously???
all fighting games have pieces and to determine whether or not a game is harder, you just add up all the pieces. kof98 has all the basic fundamental things in it that sf4 has like footsie\AA but it also has a faster tempo, WAY more movement and harder mixups to deal with.
of course, you could actually play the game for yourself and form your opinion like I have.
