"Shadow said:

I keep tricking myself into getting excited for this game.  Every time I do, I go download that trial of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix thinking I'll suddenly realize the amazing nature of the game, but then I play it and realize "oh wait...that's right...this game sucks".

What? You're trying to tell if you will like a game by playing a demo for a DIFFERENT game? That's like playing Resident Evil 2 to see if your going to like RE5. I have HDremix and I'm never going to play it again because SF4 blows it so far out of the water that it's over the horizon and off my radar.
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"What the hell? Troll?
I'm just pointing out the fallacies in his stupid ass comment.

Let's break it down to another medium then.
Why watch Heat when you can just go rob a bank?
Why watch Titanic when you can just sink a ship?
Why watch Evil Dead 2 when you can just chop your hand off and replace it with a chainsaw?
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i just made my first attempt to beat the game on hardest and i did it with only 1 continue and that was on seth. everything up to taht was so easy to read. my balrog tore them all apart.

no i don't think the street fighter barrier to entry is high cuz i only just got into street fighter last year when it was announced. i played sf2 on the snes when i was a kind but that was it. something about street fighter 4 got me excited for fighting games. i bought a hori ex2, started playing hyper fighting on the xbox 360, got hd remix when it came out. i spent a long ass time reading about the game, learning the REAL mechanics. learning about cross-ups, tick throws, stamina ratings, linking, canceling, meaties, the theory behind area control, the theory of pressing the advantage, and all these other things that make street fighter the deep and compelling fighting game that it is. i've watched countless youtube videos of daigo, justin wong, alex vale, tons of other super turbo tournament level players and how THEY went about playing the game. i'm a huge fan of Darksydephil and his madness series of videos.

all these things led up to me having a better understanding of the game. its helped me so much, and i've barely even begun to play street fighter games. i've only really practiced them within the last several months.

so no. the barrier to entry is only as high as you want to make it. as in, if you don't care to learn it then you never will. i constantly hear on podcasts about these people who really don't know a damn thing about street fighter cuz they don't want to know a damn thing about street fighter. it kinda makes me sad that there aren't more people who care about this series. but whatever. i've loving it and i've only just begun to really sink my teeth into it.

"MMA is awesome, I recommend it."

"let's all admit the game looks great."

"HandsomeDead said:

"DrRandle said:

"let's all admit the game looks great."

I can't. I really do think this is one of the ugliest games out there today. Almost as bad as Guitar Hero III for horrible art style. And, while the IN-DE-STRUCTIBLE theme tune might be good the first time, the fact that it near enough the only music in the game really annoys me. I think it's one of the reasons why i'm not getting any better at the game because when I lose, particularly against Zangief and his infinite piledrivers, I don't particularly care about getting better.
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I will gladly take your copy of the game off your hands. Hell I'll buy it from you if you sell it for less than $60."

this is the reason why i haven't touch a fighting game in the last 12 years

awww...

"awww..."

"i just made my first attempt to beat the game on hardest and i did it with only 1 continue and that was on seth. everything up to taht was so easy to read. my balrog tore them all apart."

No running fireball, but you can charge it which will make it bigger and do more damage, but shorten it's reach.
She still has a running Dragon Punch, but if you press two or three punch buttons at the same time she'll do a double Dragon Punch.
Her flying weak kick cancel almost anything people throw at it due to the speed.
Her Super and Ultra is a great even though you have to be up close.
Her hopping Hurricane kick is great against fireballs, but her jumping three hit punch(Shoryuken movement, but kick instead of punch, then punch three times) is even better. I love pulling that out against Sagat players who spam fireballs.
Her main detriment is being weak, so you gotta hit your opponent alot more. Then again, she is pretty fast so you can rack up the combos or just rapid fire strikes to chip away on your opponents health..

She's a nice variation after years of being a total Shoto whore. She's close, but different. I can't play as Ken online without feeling dirty nowadays.

Wow, its amazing to see how much of a hard time some of you are having with beating the game on Medium let alone Easiest.  I'm by no means one of the greats but playing through the challenges and training have helped my game A LOT.  One of my greatest achievements was beating the game on the Hardest setting within 45min.  Though it may not seem amazing to most, it was an achievement worth showing off to my friends who claimed to be SF badasses.  I'm up for some sparring if anyone is interested, just hit me up over XBL.

XBL GT: LW360

Yeh, the game is definitely brutal to newcomers.  I personally have not played a Street Fighter game steady since II: Champion Edition.  Even though I have played III several times in arcades, only the fact that I knew how 2-D fighting games basically worked helped ease my entry.  I just kept at it and found a character that suited me.  After I got relatively skilled with him, I tried out new fighters.  I'm having a lot of fun trying out new guys and basically rotating between Fei Long, Gen, and Abel in online play.

Got the game. Totally feling it.

I'm pretty bad at the game, can blast through arcade on easy then get annihilated fight after fight with seth. I've found that by  far the most fun I've had is playing local multiplayer with friends who are around the same level as me. Most of my friends, like me, played streetfighter II to death and haven't touched the series since. We would get owned by any serious player, but as we're all the same level passing the pads round for an hour or two is great fun, and the fact that none of us know a thing about cancelling or focus attacks doesn't matter in the slightest.