Haha! This has happened to me! Just flashes though. It’s not like I’m consiously thinking about it and it doesn’t distract me from buisness at hand, but sometimes when you’ve just played a lot you’ve got a bunch of toons bouncing around and beating eachother up burned into your retinas. So fucking irritating. :).
I was addicted. Then I got RROD. Balls.
I’m almost hoping for a RROD. Street Fighter is just so much more engaging than my uni finals, at this rate I’m not going to pass :’(
you shud try the ‘wrapping a towel around it’ trick, and then when u need to fix it do the ‘wrapping a towel around it trick’ again. apparently it DOES work but im sure as hell not gonna try it till mine RROD’s ha ha.
I honestly want to play SF4 without revenge meter…just to see how many more players would suck lol… but yeah I’m starting to lose interest in online more and more…I’m still loving good player matches though.
i get really really pissed at the matches where i loose and we both beat each other one round and on the last round we both have barely any life left and the other guy wins
This is my problem as well…sigh…
Quit looking for it on the internet. You posted this, we didn’t. Seek professional help… you’re obviously in dire need.
For Christ’s sake! He asked if anybody had similar thoughts. It’s been said over and over that this thread is meant for lighthearted discussion about our mutual Street Fighter obsession. If you read the posts in this thread, there are a bunch of funny anecdotes were people expose their quirky behavior pertaining fighting games, and then there’s a lot of boring, angry posts aimed at the OP for no real reason. Which of those are more constructive, you think?
You need to calm down.
Yeah…I have similar problems too. You start thinking about random strategies and goes back on SF4. On the side note. I think i should just stick it to either vs match or arcade. Online throws me off.
god damn this game online sucks
i wish it wasn’t so mainstream
losers sitting on championship mode all day sucking ass to get to G1
this game made me so much worse
I’ve retreated back to player matches. Continually playing fireball-spam Ryu after fireball-spam Ryu in Championship Mode isn’t going to help me get any better.
I mean people comon! It is your own choice playing SF4 whilst you could have done other stuff such as (home) work. Blaming SF4 for not doing other activities or not getting your beauty sleep is just… WOW!
In the end it is just your own responsibility. It could have been any other game that consumes all your (free) time. It is just a matter of not having enough discipline to prioritize your daily activities imho.
I like it how some people see the fun of ‘air executing’ with their gf/wife next to them. Nothing wrong with this, but this goes out to those who actually blame SF4 in particular for not having a decent social life anymore, LOL!
im glad i didnt ever get into something like WOW. ive played a few shitty MMO’s with awful grind sessions (and minus XP for dying? WTF?) that has pretty much put me off for life ha ha thank christ.
I wouldn’t be so quick to justify a such a broad statement as common sense. I’ve experienced the same thing the OP was talking about with videogames before, as well as unrelated activities, usually work related, like foreign languages or mathematical computations.
I’m sure plenty of people have experienced the problem of sleep difficulties after doing a very repetitive task over and over not too long before bed, especially if it requires concentration. I’ve had nights before where I had trouble sleeping because I had number crunching, language exercises, or fighting game commands running through my brain that just wouldn’t quit so I could get to sleep. If you’re already experiencing other sleep problems like a irregular cycle or general insomnia, then I don’t think this would be that unusual. The brain is not perfectly understood, and certainly doesn’t cooperate sometimes. At the very least, I don’t think it automatically implies, “you have a problem” in the sense that you play games too much or obsess to an unhealthy degree.
SF4 i think has more exploits than other SF games. I think it’s made me better though. Fireball spammers I’ve managed to get past and destroy.
I used to get consumed by Street Fighter games back in the day, especially Street Fighter Alpha 2! When I got my second apartment back in 1996 and Alpha 2 was out on the Saturn/PS1, my friends would come over and we’d pull an all nighter on the game. We would then go to Family FunTime Arcade in Granada Hills, CA and work the competition over there as well. We lived, ate and drank Street Fighter Alpha 2 to the point of absurdity. What I soon realized was that my social life and my career path began to suffer. I was not dating as much and I had no interest in furthering my education in order to land a high payng job.
For the next 8 years, I remained consumed with competitive fighting games. I would look up the best strats and combos and spend hours perfecting them. I was pretty decent and could hold my own against many players. Then, one day it hit me. I had been wasting my time trying to perfect my skills in competitive fighting games instead of perfecting my life. I found myself working at retail stores and and various customer service jobs (i.e. Bank Teller, game store clerk, Telephone Banker, etc.) I was getting paid crap at all the aforementioned jobs. I had wasted the last eight years of my life for what? Owning some guy in a game? That guy I owned probably went on to become successful in the career he chose. Many guys I that knew and played back then did get good jobs after they graduated college.
I made a choice one day that changed my life. I decided to go back to school and educate myself. I earned a degree in computer science (programming) and worked my way through various companies as a web/Flash ActionScript developer. I Burned the midnight oil to becaome an expert in the field of web development. I transferred my passion from Street Fighter to web development and programming. For the last five years, I have been a succesful web developer and have a really good paying job. At 34 years of age, my only regret is not having done this 8 years prior. Who knows where I could have been at this point in my life.
My advice to you all is not to let this game take away your future. It almost took mine away. Play this game for fun, but only spend a couple of hours every other day on it. Use your quality time to spend with the people in your lives and your education. Video games are for spare time only.
Peace
Good post, man. But only one thing: Don’t look at the time playing SF as wasted. Well, don’t look at the time as wasted if you have enjoyed it.
I mean, money, career and all that stuff of course has some importance, but really, appreciating and enjoying what you DO is the most important thing in my eyes.
What’s the use of a career, money, education and all that, if you cannot live in the here and now and enjoy the life you are just living?
Don’t regret, live in the present - no matter what you do.
Otherwise: Good words of caution.
Yeah, I think, like most things, it’s about a good balance. A person can easily let hobbies rule their entire lives (seen it a lot in MMO players), but it also seems pointless to make life all about jumping through various hoops of “achievement,” only to arrive at the end just as much worm food as the next guy and wondering what it all accomplished (not directing this at mastermalone, btw, didn’t want to suggest that).
So enjoy it and don’t feel guilty about it, but don’t overdo it. Besides, I personally find I can burn myself out on almost any hobby if I go at it too hard.