Yasawas

Learning Dhalsim at the moment and he's so different to characters I'm comfortable with that he requires a total mental shift I just don't have down yet. The main ones are: 
  
1 - I don't AA enough. He has the awesome HK Knee of Justice and B+MP is great too, I just forget they're there half the time.
2 - I get this incredible urge to throw after someone's tried to cross me up, maybe related to Sim not really having any jabs or pokes that come out quick enough to push people back with. Many, many SRKs and random ultras eaten. 
3 - Applies to me with every character, but even after hundreds of hours I'm still really ignorant of when I'm doing something that can be easily punished by a wake-up ultra. The number of times I'll put out a fireball to catch a guy on wake-up just to give him something to block and be on the end of Abel's U1 or something similar - ugh.

" @Yasawas said:

" Definitely. On launch day. And the one after that.  Nothing else this year has come close to grabbing me like SFIV has. I'm still horribly scubtacular, it's cost me a fortune all in (crappy limited edition, awesome expensive TE stick, importing SBO DVDs) and it makes me SEETHE like nothing else sometimes and yet it inevitably pulls me in every time I switch the bloody 360 on. It's the only fighter I've ever gotten into and only the second game since CoD4 to get a lot of play online to justify that LIVE sub. "

Do you still find fun in the game even if you lose a lot?  Or are you not that much of a scrub as I assume you are from what you said. "

Definitely. On launch day. And the one after that. 
 
Nothing else this year has come close to grabbing me like SFIV has. I'm still horribly scubtacular, it's cost me a fortune all in (crappy limited edition, awesome expensive TE stick, importing SBO DVDs) and it makes me SEETHE like nothing else sometimes and yet it inevitably pulls me in every time I switch the bloody 360 on. It's the only fighter I've ever gotten into and only the second game since CoD4 to get a lot of play online to justify that LIVE sub.

I have an Emusic account that I reactivate every few months, for a month, when they have a special offer on and I buy the odd thing off iTunes for sheer lazy convenience, but besides that, not really. I want to download decent quality files from a large variety of artists and crucially, Mr Jobs, be able to redownload them at my whim, but nobody offers a service quite that perfect at the moment.

I absolutely loathe CDs and have done for some time now. They get ripped once and left to get dusty on a shelf, No point, no need, waste of resources, time and space.

It's a hard one to answer as I think it's completely worth it as my 75ish hour game clock testifies, but I can easily see why people do dislike it. Indeed, I spent the first 6 hours just mincing about in areas I shouldn't have been in, way out of my depth, hated it and went and completed Dead Space instead. I came back a week later to give it one more chance from the start and fell in love with it. 

As already stated there are clearly points where you can see the limitations of the game, it looks a bit ugly, environments can be repetitive, there are a few AI quirks, and some bugs (infrequent imo, I've had one instance of having to reload a save in all that time). But then GTA III had all of the above too and it never stopped it being a classic. The immersion can conquer all.

Also, if it's worth anything, I hated Oblivion, so don't be tempted to base an opinion on that.

I quite like Gouken, go him when I'm feeling cocky and have seen exactly one other online, who completely humped me incidentally. Ryu is probably my main. I know it's dull and I sigh myself when I see my opponent pick Ryu/Ken/Akuma, but I'm not going to change the character I'm generally best with just because other people are getting bored.

I'd like to play Chun more as I did when it first came out, but she's just more work to be competitive than I'm willing to put in. I love to see a good Chun though, it's like a totally different game for those guys. My problem was linking consistently into supers/ultras with her which is such a big part of IV, especially for a character as weak as her.