I was never any good at fighting games. The combination of having to remember… combinations and performing them all in a useful sequence was too much for me to handle so while I did like them, I could never play any sort of fighting game without being easy prey for my opponents. However, Carl is decent at this sort of thing so we decided to search for Street Fighter IV, which was released like a week ago. Unfortunately for North American gamers, I hear it will not be widely available in arcade form, especially since actual arcades have been in serious decline ever since online gaming via PC or consoles became mainstream.
Carl made it to the last guy with a single credit but as it is here in Japan or most other Asia countries, a week is enough time for a serious nerd player to master everything about it and he promptly had his ass handed to him in a neatly taped up bag.
The graphics and art look fantastic and the animations in the game are very fluid. This should be a huge hit when it comes to consoles later this year.
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Street Fighter is awesome. Too bad Carl sucks.
Haha! I’ll trade you some of my scooter riding skills for your Street Fighter skills!
Blah that was like the first time I played Street Fighter since Alpha 2 back in … oh about 1999 I think. Too bad Ed didn’t film me pwning some salaryman the next day! But then I got pwned by some dirty frenchman right after that
That Frenchman owned you hard. Three straight rounds. Carl might’ve landed a punch…perhaps two.
I’ll whoop you with some Blanka skills. Now, excuse me as I go wipe off my scooter battle wound…
I feel inclined to buy an Xbox 360 solely for this game. Online battles are going to be epic.
Damn I haven’t played fighting games in ages, I should get back into it although playing this on xbox live is going to suck because of all the nerds that master the game.
It doesn’t seem like they changed the game mechanics much since Street Fighter II so the people that mastered previous versions should do pretty well on SF IV as well.
Now I wish I could make a new video of me playing… I am getting back into the swing of things! I can’t believe what a noob I am in that video… Lots of rust to work off, that’s for sure!
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