I judge it in its own class to a limit. First off, its called street fighter, secondly, it draws from those games historically.
Mostly I hate it for what it is itself.
Some nostalgia is fine, for games that deserve that nostalgia, but we shouldn't be three sequels into the sfiv series so quickly. I mean c'mon.
SFIV series is shit for some reasons, and great for others. Its shit for how crippled block strings are, its shit for auto correct and easy reaction, but I love its footsies.
It really is a weird beast. I do feel personally that its just way to easy to counter match people and beat someone fairly experienced with limited experience if you use the right character. If I could gauge one major issue, its the uphill of match ups when they are unfavorable. I mean we even see Daigo losing to american dhalsims, that guy is a hardcore experienced player, he shouldn't be losing with all his experience.. In Alpha 2 where sim was a beast, he destroyed our sim's for free.
I just hate how easy some characters are to use. Like, you gotta do some certain thing to counter some shit, and if you gotta work harder execution wise then the other guy who's sitting on godlike neutral poke zoning, you're gonna lose a lot of the time. Its like this, small nuance vs yours. Its like Ryu vs Sim in SUPER IV. I mean ick. You can tag sFP with cMP with ryu for a while, but eventually they just wont do it, you jump, they sRH or sMK, you jump at them bRH, or bMP. You gotta just build meter and do some crazy shit, which is always unfavorable, because that character is a wall. I used Sim for some time and lost interest due to how easy he sits on shit. Stupid shit like this is annoying. Basic pokes for anti's, and ryu has a slow cFP or srk. '
Heres a good tidbit for you guys who don't understand SFIV and are bitching on a bandwagon or train posting. Just check some of these factors out, because this stuff is all real and I do have the experience to give this opinion from my own history playing it:
My main character balrog mops the floor with ryu, and I was happy to be vindicated on that stupid tier list to where they finally just called it a 6-4. You cannot escape that corner if the balrog is good. Now he doesnt even have a distance cross up tatsu, which was GREAT vs balrog, so you can build enough meter to cross his ass up with it and super him raw. Now there's like no damage factors. Rog's don't even need to jump onto ryu, and the jump in FP hits from such a supremely far distance that hado's are no good from such far range a lot of the time. You gotta play it like, constant cMK, prebuffering srk on each cMK tap, in case rog does a dash punch, and you're lucky enough to even tag the thing, you'll automatically get the srk which you can fadc ultra.. Now that ryu has lost hit abitlity on that move, who knows.. That's how fucking stupid its gonna be. Its not like alpha 2 to where rush down had some respect factors. If its a counter match and the person knows the match, it can be super tough.
It all comes down to a counter match being a counter match because my stupid basics are easier to have on the screen before your reaction execution heavy shit.
I'm gonna start taking cockey peoples money in the rog vs ryu match up. I'm very confident in my play in this.
I figure that since he can't even do a distance escape tatsu when I corner his ass, its option selects o plenty.
Ryu does that, I dash back and do cFP, he stands still, cWP, tick throw. He phishes for cMK's, I can tag those with my own reversal cMK. he jumps straight up, headbutt ultra, he throws a hado, headbutt ultra. I can just toss a few distance cRH's in to be a dick, or footsie style walk up retreat cWP's. How about a distance sRH or sFP for poking?
BTW, rog is ridiculous for a reasons. cFUCKIGNWP. cWP is amazing. I can just toss two of those out there, if the second shows as hitting I can just react to that hitconfirm and murder with whatever I choose. Theres like no reason. Sometimes I'll play idiots who figure they know what to do. I'll do jRH or jFP cWP, they srk or have that habit, next time I'll do one cWP instead of two and score a free whatever. The mindgames in this revolve around exposing peoples gimmick stupidity, and due to this factor, a lot of the fun of playing it drags. I have a playbook for different archetypes of players who have these habits in my brain.
This shit is why SFIV is stupid. There is so much damn option select in this game, I agree with my friends view of it.
