Street Fighter 4 is just stupidly hard.

[zuhane]

I just bought SF4 and it's absolutely awful in my opinion. I practiced for a bit
in practice mode and thought "wow, this is looking really good". The animation,
music, characters and graphics are really nice. So I started playing arcade mode on Medium and
died against the first enemy numerous times. Okay, so I turned it down to Easy and tried
again. Couldn't do the first level. Fine, let's turn it past Very Easy and down to the "Easiest" setting.

I managed to win about 6 fights after really struggling, then reached the end boss which is
physically impossible to kill. Enemies just instantly knock you to the floor the very microsecond
the round starts, then instantly grab you the second you get up or unleash an insane flurry of
moves which depletes your entire health bar.

Now, I wouldn't exactly class myself as a "bad gamer". I usually beat all my friends at Tekken,
Mortal Kombat and Smash Bros and can play them on Hard. I regularly come first place on
games like Team Fortress 2 for example.

But come on! I'm playing Easiest and there's Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard then Hardest
and I can't even beat the boss on Easiest. It's beyond challenging. I'm actually returning the game
to where I bought it from and pretending it's faulty because I'm that disappointed.

[fruckert]

From what I've heard, either you're stupidly good at this, or godawfully bad.
No inbetween.
None.


As such, you either love it, or you hate it.

[Red Fox]

Yeah the game is impossibly hard. At least if you play above easy. Play some challenges, I learned enough from them to unlock nearly all the characters from it. (Got the last boss left)

[Deathreaper]

SF4 is WAY too easy. Play SF3 if you want to see difficulty. I play SF4 on hardest difficulty just to get a challenge. Hell, SF2 is harder than this.

[Dragonium]

Speaking of infuriating fighting games, Soul Calibur 4's online is godawful. Nobody plays properly. They just choose Cervantes or Kilik and spam two moves over and over. Sod that.

[Legacy of Elecrusher]

I've never seriously played a Street Fighter. Ever.

Now I feel deprived.

[Deathreaper]

I've never seriously played a Street Fighter. Ever.

Now I feel deprived.

I suggest trying out SF2 before anything else to help you unstand the basics. The Alpha is pretty good as well. SF3: Third Strike is where the challenge is, it introduces a pretty balanced new set of characters along side Ryu, Ken, Akuma and Chun-Li. In SF3, you can do something carry a parry by pressing forward at the moment your opponent does a move (try not to do it too much, only why you see a projectile coming or if the opponent strikes form above) and grants you no damage an a split second opening against your opponent.

[Cerebus]

I've never seriously played a Street Fighter. Ever.

Now I feel deprived.

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[Deathreaper]

Well, for a first SF game, I suggest you guys play SF Alpha 2 or 3. Since they're the best in the alpha series and unlike SF2 (with the exception of Super Street Fighter II Turbo) it has super moves.

[Cerebus]

Well, actually, I don't really enjoy fighting game, except for Smash Bros. since it's quite... very different.
But... maybe I will try one, since I did have some fun back then when playing the first Street Fighter.

[Legacy of Elecrusher]

I've never seriously played a Street Fighter. Ever.

Now I feel deprived.

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[Archem]

I've never seriously played a Street Fighter. Ever.

Feelin' fine.

Oh, and I've heard from everywhere that SFIV was stupidly easy by comparison. Perhaps you're just **** at it?

[Deathreaper]

Oh, and I've heard from everywhere that SFIV was stupidly easy by comparison. Perhaps you're just **** at it?

It's true. This is nothing compared to the others. But then again, looking at the other mainstream fighting games out there, challenge isn't exactly there in the actual game in comparison. More-so the actual players who are challenging than the game itself. Thus, like I've said before, games are getting retardedly easier than they used to be

[zuhane]

I don't really understand. I'm not bad at fighting games. I've practiced for ages
and can beat all my friends, but the last boss on Arcade mode just won't die.
He's impossible to hit.

[Drace]

They also go for extreme idiotic difficulty in the final boss in final games. I think Mortal Kombat started it. Haven't played SF4, so I can't give my two cents about that.