As some of you may know a month or so I made a post that basically said I was ready to quit SF4 because of limitations I experienced within my own thought process while playing. Well I took alot of the advice I got to heart and now a month in the future i belive I am a much better SF4 player and have defiantly gotten over that wall I was at before. 
 
I went back to the drawing board on which character I wanted to use, not so much as a main but just to break the habits I had gotten into while playing Blanka. I bounced around from Akuma, M.Bison, Rose, and E.Honda. I went though all of these characters hard trials in an attempt to learn then and then i went online with them and now like i said before a month later I am at the very lest decent with each of the before mentioned chars and also as a result I was able to improve my Blanka game and break alot of the habits I had developed which is great!! 
 
 
Defiantly enjoying the game a lot more now.   :D
 
 
In other news a very good fighting game resource www.iplaywinner.com just recently received a face lift, and a revamped SF4 guide section I suggest everyone check it out.

I main Blanka and use a SE stick with modded parts

 
 
I bought Street Fighter 4 first day and have been playing it since I have over 150hrs of game time in it, I love it when im doing well ( and even sometimes when im not) I'd like to think Street Fighter 4 is one of my favorite games ever and that im better than the average player. But even after all this time I still cant wrap my head around even some of the most basic prince-ables of Street Fighter 4 most notably combos(Links in particular) and cross-ups. I have no idea what it is with trying to link things together that gives me such a hard time I either just end up spamming the button (even tho I know that wont work..) or waiting too long and miss the combo seriously its depressing when I read everything I have and still cant preform one of the most basic things in the game. Secondly the cross-up I can neither do a cross-up or defend againt one...ever. When ever I try to do a cross up(with Blankas j.mk) it just fails they either just anti air me or I don't even make it over them and then get raped. Now before you ask I under stand the concept very well of defending the cross-up you just block in the opposite direction but no matter how hard I try or how fast I block in the other direction it never works, I either get crossed up anyways or they don't make it over me and im left walking into them. And if I try to use Blankas up-ball? nopeee they either punish it completely or we trade...hell even if I go for electricity it never comes out in time EVEN if i am using turbo (which I never do unless im testing this very situation) it never works and it saddens me that I can't do anything about it..I;ve have a perfect going un-till the other player decides to cross me up ..it works and they do ti again they then reliase they have a good thing going and win the match.
 
 Now this is'nt me calling Street Fighter 4 a bad game..hell no I think its amazing and I love watching it and playing it( as I said before) I am just so frustrated with it right now to the point where its depressing. I think part of the reason why I have such a hard time with combos is my character choice, Blanka, I love the guy and even before the game came out I decided he was going to be my main because of how different he played...little did I kn ow how little combos he actually had not to mention hes a charge character. By picking him up as soon as the game came out I seem to have built a huge wall between me and every single other character in the game (except maybe geif) I tried learning the shotos but can't do any of there combos or apply any of there basic stratiges to my gameplay to help me get better with them but nothing works I'm stuck just throwing fireballs and spamming dragon punch while I mash on light punch.
 
I really don't know what to do at this point, I really wanna keep enjoying street fighter but even the newish people in player matches seem to give me a hard time...as I said before its depressing. I am sure I'll just keep working on it mabey try to learn how to FADC or somthing hell I don't know....
 
 
I love you...why don't you love me back.

Halo wars should have been so much more, the game I just bought/beat has to be one of the worst games I have ever played. Sure it controls fine and even kinda looks nice but there are so many issues that (for more than 60% of the game) I felt like I was playing some crappy budget title, the sound design sucks, the graphics are boring to look at and way to simple ( and im not just talking about the combat).

The one thing halo wars did was it had a good story, but Im not talking game story im talking the drama that happened with Ensemble, as I finshied the game it became clear that bad things were happening and that I was suppose to feel sad but instead of feeling sad or even careing about what was happening on my screen I began thinking of Ensemble and how this will be there last game...and since I absoutly loved there Age of Empires seris how much that sucked..and that there last game was this broken shitty mess. Also, the other thing that comes with the closer of Ensemble is that we will never see any patches, expantions, new maps or anything..you will load up Halo Wars in 10 years and it will be the exact same...which reallly sucks because not only is the campaign short, but there are a ton of bugs and Frame Rate issues making it even more of a chore to play.

Even if you look at the footage showen in 2007 of Halo wars  ( http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24125.html ) and compare it to the recent footage ... it almost looks like they tried to whipe the board clean midway in devlopment and try for a new look, but got about Half Way when they were told about being closed down etc. and just stoped careing...thats what Halo Wars feels like, lack of polish and like no one gave a shit.

Don't get me wrong Im not just saying all this crap to start a flame war or bash halo, I own a 360 and love the halo seris and am a big RTS fan, but Halo Wars is just Garbage...and dosnt deserve any of the high scores its been getting, its complete garbage. What makes all this even worse is the fact that this game got basically the same review scores as Dawn of War 2, which is by no means perfect but is deffinatly not as broken as this. 



So there you have it, my first blog and my first true disapointment that i have experianced in a long time.






TL;DR : Halo wars should have been alot more.