One of the first things I did arriving home was purchase Street Fighter 4. I have been a Street Fighter fan since I was a kid. I first started playing Street Fighter 2 religiously with my friends at lunchtime during High School when I was about 11 or 12.
It proved to be great value for money as for 20 pence you could play for 20 minutes at least as we always got to the end bosses and more often than not, completed the game as well. A year or so later I was playing Street Fighter 2 on the Super Nintendo and soon after that I swapped about 5 games to get an imported version of Street Fighter 2 Turbo (It cost £75 from the market – Robbing Bastards!! haha). Since then I have purchased numerous versions of the game for other systems.
So I was really looking forward to Street Fighter 4. I’ve heard a few people saying they are disappointed with it but I actually think it’s a good game, except for one thing. The online part of the game sucks balls. This was the part of the game I was really looking forward to too.
There are two main problems with it.
The first is a problem with connection speed. The game tells you to only play players with a green connection bar, which signifies a good connection speed. My mate Malky said to never play against someone with less than a green bar but after 4 days of owning the game I have still not seen anyone else with a gree bar.
I have only seen yellow bars, which signifies an average connection or more common, a red bar, which signifies a poor connection. A lot of problems occur because of this. Mainly, the game is unresponsive. Half the time you do the command to do a specific move it just doesn’t do it, which makes the game frustrating and close to being unplayable.
The second main problem is actually finding a game. There seems to be very few players on the game and the ones which are one, for want of a better word, are assholes! I realised this the other day. I was playing a guy the other day who kept just running away and doing fireballs. I soon realised why he was doing this. The guy had setup the game a 30 second one round game. He was clearly doing this just to get cheap wins and increase his online ranking.
I can’t understand people like that. People who are more interested increasing some pointless rank instead of actually playing the game. Am I getting too old for gaming or is every other gamer concerned about these ranks online. I finally got a good game going today in an unranked game. We were both Akuma and the guy was beating me 2-1. After some close games he increased this to 4-1. I then demolished him 2 games in a row with near perfects every round and when it was 4-3 he left the game.
Damn kids!
Ideal, thanks. I keep forgetting to post my DVDs and games back to LoveFilm so I might give it a go through that, give it a test drive.
By the way narelle, there’s a good article and discussion at the link below. Make sure you read all the comments to get an idea of where the criticism is coming from (nearly all of the commenters are hardcore gamers so take that on board)
What I hate about Street Fighter 4
Hi Narelle,
It’s just the online element which has frustrated me. I played my mate Malky last night online in a private game and it was excellent because the connection was good and there was no lag. But playing others is frustrating. I’ve had several players leave after the first round because I beat them. But Capcom have fucked up, they don’t punish those people for leaving so it is a legitimate to inflate your rank.
Although some have criticised the main game, I’m loving it. It could do with more modes as it only has arcade, versus and challenge, but it’s a good game.
It’s more similar to Street Fighter 2 than Street Fighter 3rd strike so if you liked SF2 you’ll like this. I picked it up for 28 quid from morrisons.
Oh, and I have a ps3 :)
Do you have the PS3 or 360? I was considering buying this for the 360, but if it’s as bad as you say I’m not sure I’ll bother.