SF4’s online system needs a small update.

So, the first time I turned on my PS3 in a few days I did four fights in Street Fighter 4. The first match was against a guy who played as Blanka who did the same roll attack over and over again. When he didn’t do that he did the electricity move. The second match was against Sagat which was a combination if Tiger fireballs and Tiger Knees. The third match was against M.Bison who continued to do the same aerial stomp move and the final one was against Zangief where the Whirlwind attack was all that was done.

I posted on PS3 fanboy when the tournament mode was given a release date regarding people who spam the same amount of moves and how they should be pointed out like disconnectors would be. It was a response to the fact that they documented disconnects to show people who would be guilty of leaving a game they know they’d lose. While that was great and all, I later found out it’s disconnects in general … so if you have an honest-to-goodness bad connection and it’s lost … it goes on your record. And the three people who disconnected in a game with me seemed to just have a poor connection.

Anyways, the response was that I needed to learn how to play and how to successfully counter those moves. That’s a legit point to a certain extent but the fact that spammers aren’t necessarily called out like disconnecters will still make it possible for people who spam the same move over and over again to continue doin what they’re doing.

Review: Street Fighter 4

The thing about fighting games is that the initial experience is the actual experience. Unlike games like Resident Evil, Little Big Planet and Bioshock – what you experience in your first hour in terms of graphics, gameplay and story progression is pretty much it.

Like I said before, the game showed promise although it’ll be nowhere near as enjoyable as Street Fighter II was back on the Super Nintendo. But many people are saying that it’s the first Street Fighter to feel like Street Fighter II since … Street Fighter II. And overall, the game’s not bad at all … but I can definitely see areas that can be improved.

First Impressions: Street Fighter 4

So, clearly not learning my lesson from Killzone 2, I picked up Street Fighter 4 last night. However, the mentality behind it involved the fact that I had birthday money and if I put it in the bank it would go to bills. So when I went to Wal-Mart, I picked up Bioshock and Street Fighter 4.

Outside of the disappointment that was SSF2THDR, Street Fighter 4 was the first fighter that I picked up for myself. All the other ones were for my wife. There was something that I liked about Street Fighter 4 and I wasn’t sure what. Originally it was going to be a rental, but I figured that this was my birthday money, so I’d buy it on a game that I technically wanted.

And while Street Fighter 4 may not be my renaissance of gaming, it does show promise.