so i went to chinatown yesterday

[Alpha Six]

Crimson Viper is weird. She only has three moves and one of them takes wayyy too long to do.

But it might just be because I fuckin suck at SFIV

i played it today and did fucking horrible

seriously, i was playing against my friend who i WHOOP in games like mvc2 and cvs2 and whatnot

and he was kicking my ass left and right

street fighter IV is wayy too much like street fighter II imo, it's nowhere near as technical as street fighter III and a lot of specials are lacking. ken's missing like one or two moves and chun-li has become a primarily charge character. in fact, half of the characters in SFIV are charge characters!!!! what the fuck

the EX system is cool but it can get in the way at times, you'll try to do an ultra combo and end up doing an EX special instead which is really fuckin annoying and will cripple you and make you lose. the closest thing to a parry is the focus attack. the focus attack rules p. hard and can actually set up some combos, but IV isn't very combo-friendly compared to III and just feels far too different for me to be good at it

it's like

if i wanted to be good at SFIV i'd have to DOWNGRADE myself

i'm too used to dodgerolling and high jumping and shit

DON'T GET ME WRONG SFIV owns really hard and the new additions have some p. rad movesets, like Abel, his moves are amazing and he's currently my favorite character in the game, him and Sakura

i just can't get good at it though

which is bad since i had to enter a tournament in order to pre-order it ffffff