Hey guys,
I’ve been around this site before, looking up strategies and such. Thought I’d give my opinion on SFIV and my experience with it. Feel free to let me know what you think.
So, I’ve enjoyed this game. I’ve hated this game. All of you losers who tell players to stop playing because they are frustrated with the game, shut up, that doesn’t help and the game can be frustrating when you are trying to learn all of the little loopholes and irritating noob strategies that the developers gave some of the characters. Instead, why not offer advice that may help them counter and make them a better player? Isn’t that what this place is all about? Anyway, I have mained Ryu since I put the game in the system and have enjoyed playing him. I was thrilled when they put championship mode in the game as a patch, my goal is to get to G1 in a few days. I have a few complaints about that and general online play.
Championship Mode
I feel like this is the way it should have always been, the battle points thing was a bust. The first problem with it is the Gap between G3 and G2. I was out of G3 after the first day of playing. Then G2 takes forever. I think I’ve won about 45 championships and 30 runner ups. I could have probably gotten where I am quicker if I wouldn’t have lost those runner-ups, but anyway, I think I have about 11,000 GP and I enjoy playing people with more GP because I want to get better, but why did they make it where you play a 14,000+ GP player one match, then a 2100 GP player the next match? Its not fair to the 2000 GP person, they always get their butt handed to them, and it doesn’t help me or them no matter what the outcome is (really). They needed to make it about the quality of players you beat, not the amount of people you can beat in a row IMO.
Lag (Championship)
Usually matches are pretty smooth online. Lately, it has been lagging horrendously (even when playing someone with 4 bars). I wish I could see what my connection looked like so I could know if I needed to do something about it. Also, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely despise laggy matches. I won’t even play someone who has less than 3 bars. Why can’t there be a search filter that lets you determine the amount of connectivity your opponent has? I would rather play 15 good, non-laggy matches than 30 lag-ridden, controller tossing, crap games. So for some reason I have been getting messages that the game was laggy. So what? I have no control over that once the match starts. I just play through it and at this point, its like snow in a football game. Everyone has to deal with it and no one gets an advantage anyway. I wish lag was not an issue, and I hope capcom does something to remedy this in SSIV, but I doubt it.
Dhalsim
So as a Ryu player, dhalsim gives me more trouble than ANYONE in the game. I don’t fault any Ryu player for being frustrated at this matchup. For the most part I respect any player who chooses anyone in the game. You have the right to choose who you want to play with and that’s just fine by me. What I don’t like about Dhalsim is that they custom fit this game to his style of play. First, no parrys. I could go on all day about how parrys should be in SFIV, but it doesn’t matter because they aren’t. If they were in the game, jumping in on Dhalsim would be a WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY. His anti-air knee has a hitbox the size of Mt. Everest since, psychologically, you are trying to move in on him the whole round, it is frustrating when you instinctively jump in and whoops…instant damage and more Dhalsim pattern game. Also, no Guard Crush. Why? Why not put in guard crush? Not putting in BOTH parrys and guard crush leads me to believe that capcom wanted a turtling style of play that caters to charge characters and turtle players. Charge characters have a tough time against good Shoto players but having his long attacks, teleport, and disgusting anti-air makes him the biggest turtle of them all. The reason people don’t like this kind of matchup and get frustrated at dhalsim players so easily is that you have to totally overcompensate for him and go into turtle bashing mode. I can play Cammy, Chun, Bison, Guile, Balrog, Blanka, etc… and still have the same kind of mindset when playing them. With Dhalsim it is extra challenging, and I know he’s slow and his damage isn’t great, but I’ve had matches where I couldn’t land 2 hits on him because the guy turtled so much. Also, I would be a little more sympathetic to Dhalsim players if half of them didn’t taunt me 5 times a round. Is that your way of baiting me? Are you that much of a prick that you want to gloat about your cheapness? In any case, I like Dhalsim as a challenge because he brings out the best I have in the game. I just wish there was a little more of a penalty for having Obsessive Turtle Disorder.
Characters
As long as they had Ryu I was going to buy the game. Simple, it was going to happen. I do like other Characters, I like Bison, Rufus, Sagat, Sakura, Gen, and soon to be Guy (YES!). I felt like ranting on a few of the characters. Sagat, too much power, range, speed of fireballs, and juggle/linkability/ultra. Overpowered, but I still love him. El Fuerte- What is so great about a spastic, button mashing, spamming the flying throw and body splash move Fuerte player? I’ve heard all kinds of lame excuses like “He does so little damage” and “You’re a scrub for not learning how to stop/defend it” or “He’s low tier, its harder than it looks.” BS. I’ve used him and taken out decent players by spamming that dash into flying throw move and body splash. Speed is everything in SFIV, if you are faster, you will get more hits in. If you suck, you wont link the hits, but if you know what you’re doing, you only need a few moves to hit before you destroy someone. El Fuerte’s speed is overlooked and is what makes him so incredibly cheap. A Fuerte player can spam 3 moves before I’m done with 1 SRK. all he needs is to hit one of them and most of them stuff my SRK anyway. Also, its really annoying to lose to this goofy stereotype. He is the kind of character that people who want to annoy you pick. I realize it’s one of the more flimsy racist citations, but what the hell a mexican/wrestler/cook with broken English? How shameful. There is no honor in that character or the people who made it. Seth, eh…like Sagat, I don’t seem to have much trouble with him anyway, but wow what a set of moves. Not to mention a teleport (then grab). I used to think that Blanka was the cheapest character in the game, and he can be one of them, but after playing him enough times, he’s not so tough. His ultra is really made for bailing out scrubs (What is with the chip damage?). I mean I have had about 1.5 inches of health left and I know I’m screwed if I block. BTW if anyone has trouble its block low (if close because he does that ground pound to start it) then he goes up high (block high for that) then block low when he rolls at you. The only reason I put that in here is because I found it difficult to find that info and if someone has read this far, surely they will appreciate that info. Anyway, the only other problems I have with Blanka is the way his slide move works and his EX Jumpin Roll. In a tight match these moves are very difficult to anticipate and the EX Jumpin Roll can be moved around, so where am I supposed to block? Lastly, I don’t really care for Balrog. His jabs stuff nearly everything, and when a pattern Balrog player confirms a hit, buckle up because you’re going into a headbutt/ultra. I would say that the two characters that need preparing for (I think its retarded to have to prepare for characters) as a Ryu player are Dhalsim and Balrog.
Character Names
I’ll just say briefly that I do not care if I am not saying Claw or Dictator or Boxer, etc. I am referring to the names of the Characters I have always played with in Street Fighter. I know they goofed with the names in the Japanese one/American One, but that’s not my fault. If they wanted their names to be Dictator then they shouldn’t have messed around with some dumb, gimmicky Mike Tyson rip-off name anyway. I will call them M. Bison, Vega, and Balrog. I am not some lame comic-book-guy/SF nerd and I choose to call them by their names in the game I play. I love the japanese, but I don’t care what you call them. Most of the people who say Boxer or claw are usually fanboys who want to sound learned about the game, but call them what you want, just know I will be calling them what I call them. Don’t mean to offend on my first post, but I’m just keepin’ it real.
Arcade Mode
It was great to put the Fight Request in Arcade mode, think that’s cool. The problem with Arcade mode is that none of these CPU opponents play the way good online players would. Everything I refer to hear is based on playing it on the “Hardest” setting. They spam the hell out of an ultra as soon as they get it, the fall for focus attacks like it’s the first time they’ve seen it, and ultimately they are just way too easy. They condition you to play poorly right before you are going to play a human who has seen your tricks before and wont fall for them over and over like the CPU does. It’s counter-productive. Capcom should make their AI play like Tournament players like Daigo and make the Hardest Mode HARDER Capcom. It’s a joke. Just like survival with Zangief. The difference between a Human Dhalsim player and a CPU Dhalsim player is ridonkulous.
I know I’ve written a novella here so I’ll wrap it up and hopefully get out there and post on some other threads. Finally, I will do a semi-rant on my own Character, Ryu.
Ryu Players
First, it’s RYU (Ree-you). That is how they say it in the game people. The game has been out for 22 years, its about time people say it right. Anyway, this isn’t really a rant, but I guess at the risk of sounding like a hypocrite, all I ever see online is Ryu players. I am a contributor to this as I think I’ve used Ryu 95% of the time for about 2000 matches. I really think they should have just named this game “Ryu.” Is it Daigo? Is it that he’s so balanced? Does no one want to risk losing online? Is it that it’s so easy to chain a Metsu? Who knows? I just have noticed that if I don’t face a Ryu in all 4 matches of a championship, I will see him usually at least twice. I don’t know. I just have to most fun using Ryu, and I wouldn’t care if they nerfed him to make others stop using him. He will always be my favorite character and to hell with anyone who who questions his eminence.
