Street Fighter, Oh Street Fighter

By breadfan August 14, 2009 35 Comments

As the summer draws to an end, along with the lack of any real great summer game titles, I have been looking for games to play.  Every few months I get incredibly bored with my games and I need something new to play.  I haven't purchased a retail game in quite a long time, though this summer's play list has been scattered with new Xbox Live Arcade games such as Battlefield 1943 and Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers.  However when I become bored with my current set of games I usually tend to fall back into Street Fighter.
 
So this week I've been putting some time into Street Fighter 4 as well as Street Fighter 2 HD Remix to get my fighting game fix.  When it comes to Street Fighter 4 though there are some things that just annoy me to some extent.
 

Hosts not starting

 

Now I don't know about anyone else, but it seems that every few games I join is hosted by some immature person who wants to piss people off.  I will join a lobby and the game will start, I select my fighter and then...I wait.  The host just lets the timer go down to almost zero and then picks their character and then proceeds to do the same thing with the level.  
 
 
 

The Ken

Now I have nothing against people who use Ken he is a very accessible character for new players, but sometimes it can get annoying.  I am not talking about people using Ken (even though there seems to be thousands of them) I am talking about the dude who thinks he is being sly.  You know waiting for you to pick your character like he is hatching some diabolical scheme and then picking Ken, and usually sucks with him.
 
 
 
 
 

Cannot Connect to Host

Now the previously mentioned gripes pertain to a small amount of people in the Street Fighter community, but this is my biggest annoyance when it comes to Street Fighter 4.  Ok so you turn on your Xbox and you just wanna join a game to get fighting right...well sorta.  You select quick match and are given three dudes who are looking for a fight also.  So you pick the first guy, cannot connect.  Alright I'll just pick this guy, cannot connect.  And it seems to go on forever!  

 

However once you eventually find a game there is little if no lag at all, which is one thing that Streety Fighter 4's online play does very well

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