I know they are called HARD challenges, but they're mostly just needlessly long and boring. There's a point where they are just ridiculous, right?

I just got done winning 26 matches on the fourth Hard Survival in Challenge mode. Twenty-six. The only reason I didn't win more is because I was absolutely sick to death of doing Gief's Lariat. Anyway, I won twenty-six matches, and got a silver medal for it.

If there were maybe a few Survival levels that made you go through 20+ matches in order to get the gold medal, it would already be annoying enough, given how much of a grind playing against the AI can be. But I've been through all the normal ones, and now four of the hard ones, and I can't even remember how many times I've had to face almost all (if not all) members of the cast. Each time a new opponent pops up, I'm literally like, "seriously... match 19 AGAIN?" Do there really need to be this many levels that hit 20 and 25 levels? Ugh...

I don't know, it just seems like overkill to me. The heart and soul of the game is the 1-on-1 action, so it really pisses me off that there is so much tied to the single player component - way too much of which is tedious fluff. Bah.

/rant

Spamming Zangief's lariat move (whatever it's called) over and over can hardly be called a challenge...more like an exploit.  No wonder you think it's tedious.

I Know, Right?! The only reason I started doing time trials and survival is to unlock actions and stuff, but I have quite a few now so I've given up. Unless your going for trophies/achievements, there's not much point in lots of the additional stuff really. Except for the challenge mode of course, which is pretty useful.

"Spamming Zangief's lariat move (whatever it's called) over and over can hardly be called a challenge...more like an exploit.  No wonder you think it's tedious."

Just an FYI you need 40 wins on all the HARD survival challenges to get gold though I hear they don't end until around 120 some matches.


I have no desire to do that, so I got 10 and put my controller down.

"Just an FYI you need 40 wins on all the HARD survival challenges to get gold though I hear they don't end until around 120 some matches. I have no desire to do that, so I got 10 and put my controller down. "

Ugh...I don't know, it just seems like overkill to me. The heart and soul of the game is the 1-on-1 action, so it really pisses me off that there is so much tied to the single player component - way too much of which is tedious fluff. Bah./rant"

"Mercator said:

"Just an FYI you need 40 wins on all the HARD survival challenges to get gold though I hear they don't end until around 120 some matches. I have no desire to do that, so I got 10 and put my controller down. "

W-O-WThat's just banonkers. Thanks for the info though. I wonder if I'll stick that out. Sheesh...Oh, and to MB: I rest my case ;)"

"hoody said:

"Mercator said:

"Just an FYI you need 40 wins on all the HARD survival challenges to get gold though I hear they don't end until around 120 some matches. I have no desire to do that, so I got 10 and put my controller down. "

W-O-WThat's just banonkers. Thanks for the info though. I wonder if I'll stick that out. Sheesh...Oh, and to MB: I rest my case ;)"

you know in racing games they have endurance levels where you have to race for like 4 hr or even 24 hrs. People still get through them becuase they either love the game that much or they do the smart thing and pause the game and continue afterwards. similar thing here, except its a bunch of matches. the only thing that is fucked up is your addiction of unlocking stuff and getting achievement points which seems to be your main reason to do this."