Agreed OP!
But then again thats online play for you, most of what people complain about doesn't happen in offline matches where those online tactics don't or can't work. personally i play offline and at the arcade. But yes, online players are cheap and will get a few hits dominating the match then run away and begin baiting you to come forward and start hit-&-run tactics spamming fireballs with Ken/Ryu with no hardcore proper gameplay strategy planned out etc. And i hate it when scrubby players get lucky even at the arcade, then again the game isn't the most technical nor best Street Fighter game ever!
Its popular because of the name its got and its made a massive commercial comeback in terms of its all-round popularity since last year with SF4. But the game's pretty basic in terms of its all-round gameplay, no where near as indepth as previous titles in the series (SSF2T, 3rd Strike, Alpha series etc) feels broken as hell sometimes and buggy with a cheap ass A.I. computer and crap boss in Seth. While IMDB.com isn't used for video game discussions primarily as much as other forums online, compared to the SF4 page, this place isn't nearly as busy as vanilla SF4's board pages on IMDB.com or the other Street Fighter boards. Says alot about the overall game doesn't it?
I play it still, but only out of boredom or the fact its played at all. In japan Tekken is still the most played game, followed by Gulity Gear & Blazblue, KOF 13 (Test Versions?), Virtua Fighter 5 - "R" (now by its latest version 'Final Showdown') and Street Fighter 4 which is soon have its arcade version of SSF4 released by August/September.
Super Street Fighter 4 would be a good decent game, if only Capcom would stop the 'Top-Tier' business and truly balance the game properly and also ditch alot of the cheap ass "scrubby-ness" the original SF4 had. SSF4 just a update with more characters and bonus stages, the majority of crap SF4 had is still there prominately in several layers of spades.
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Look man F&%k Google and Yahoo, ask me!
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