Time to brawl gentlemen

By dj March 1, 2009 5 Comments

My time in Azeroth will have to take a back seat for a while, Street Fighter 4 is here to save the day. I went to the Best Buy hoping to pick up Street Fighter 4 along with a joystick or at least one of those fight pads. Sadly none were to be found. I did see a huge empty shelf that the store assistant claimed used to be stacked with controllers. I did not anticipate that at all. Then I checked online to see that the situation is not any better online. I'm now sitting patienly in que to get that Mad Catz fight stick. I am a little worried because I'ver heard some horror stories of malfuctions. I might just pick up a Hori stick instead.

I'm not a good fighting game player in any sense of the imagination. Yet I can still find really good matches on the online mode. I had assumed that I would be completly blown out the water by 20 year veterans. For the time being its really easy to get into some really close matches. By playing online I'm really starting to see how much crazy depth there is to this game. For some reason even seeing my ass kicked by some master player is somewhat entertaining. I have dabbled into the challenge mode but I can't get very far before reaching a point where I just can't do what I need to do. This is the first time I had to use the 360 D-Pad alot and I now realize how crappy it is. Double Fireball motions are almost nearly impossible and shoryuken's are completly out of the question.

So far I'm really psyched with Street Fighter, I just can't wait till I can play the game with a joystick.

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