street fighter 4 is actually the simplest of all street fighters to learn.

just saying, this game is easy to learn. it's very forgiving unlike every other fighting game (except blazblue).

you aren't going to get good playing the computer anyway. you won't be able to develop any mind games or really be able to set up any sort of strategy.


get some friends that also want to play street fighter and play with them. watch lots of videos, and develop a play style from those. me personally, I keep a notebook with different ways to beat specific characters.

isn't tekken mostly about memorising combos and juggles? how is that easy or fun? why would you play fighting games by yourself?

also there is a lot of depth to "being cheap". street fighter is essentially a competition to see who can be the cheapest. most fighting games are. what differentiates a good one from a bad one is how interesting the competition is i.e. how it evolves. if you are interested in why 'pros' and other such dorks find this fun there's an okay article on it here: http://www.sirlin.net/ptw

really i do not intend to defend fighting games as a genre - objectively they are awful because there are hours and hours of effort and practise and commitment required to get any good at them. they emphasise competitive behaviour and tend not to have very much to say that chess didn't already say better (except chess pacing sucks). i enjoy fighting games because i like obsessing over tactics and trying to predict other people's strategies, but i don't think this makes them GOOD. probably you should play a different game entirely. go trade it in. all the other games these days are pretty awful too though.

get some friends that also want to play street fighter and play with them. watch lots of videos, and develop a play style from those. me personally, I keep a notebook with different ways to beat specific characters.

How rewarding could going through all of this possibly be?

i only play virtua fighter, so i dont know what you guys are talking about (internet joke)

this topic makes me sad

if you want to win you absolutely must not pick vega

I have a lot of problems with this game from a videogaems are fun point of view.

I think this whole genre is a load of shit and it's not particularly fun at all if you aren't playing it with friends in the same room.

It isn't very encouraging getting your ass handed to you by some anonymous faggot online over and over because of a clear gap between experience and even winning isn't fun because the only thing you feel is shame for throwing away your sportsmanship in order to use those el cheapo tricks that got you that win. I think the biggest problem I have with games like these is how extremely narrow the gameplay is and the overall lack of variance in everything.

There's like 20 or so characters in the roster yet there only really is about 4 or 5 clearly different characters that aren't just a 90% copy of someone else or a mix of 3 different characters in one.

I have a lot of problems with this game from a videogaems are fun point of view.

I think this whole genre is a load of shit and it's not particularly fun at all if you aren't playing it with friends in the same room.

It isn't very encouraging getting your ass handed to you by some anonymous faggot online over and over because of a clear gap between experience and even winning isn't fun because the only thing you feel is shame for throwing away your sportsmanship in order to use those el cheapo tricks that got you that win. I think the biggest problem I have with games like these is how extremely narrow the gameplay is and the overall lack of variance in everything.

There's like 20 or so characters in the roster yet there only really is about 4 or 5 clearly different characters that aren't just a 90% copy of someone else or a mix of 3 different characters in one.

This is entirely a problem with players and not the game itself.  If it's only fun for you with your friends, then only play it with your friends!  There's nothing wrong with the game itself, I mean by the same token party games are a load of shit because they're only fun with your friends.

THIS GAME IS FUCKING SHIT I STILL CANT ENJOY IT. Why don't they make it fun for people who aren't pros? I think I'm going to trade it in. Games shouldn't be so hard that the only way to win is by being cheap and pushing the same attack over and over again to exploit gaps in the AI. It shouldn't be super hard on medium, it should be medium. I don't know who the fuck gave this shit 10/10.

If you're playing the game for the AI you're doing it wrong.

but super street fighter 4 isnt even out in japan yet either???

ps tatsu is a vega player also. very very very good vega player from southern california.