General gaming discussion

Street Fighter 6 getting great reviews. This and system shock make it very hard to be saving up to pay off holidays...

The persona fighting games added it as well. It's a good option for beginners to make them feel like a pro by pulling off a button mashing combo as well as not feeling like they are cheating by picking Eddie Gordo. It doesn't lessen the depth as the combo is usually situational and not viable in pro matches as well as it not being the best in terms of DPS.

I really don't think it's pros giving out about this as they know it's a feature that doesn't affect the high level meta game. The latest samurai showdown highlights this. Loved by everyone including high level players it's probably the most accessible fighter in years. It's easy to learn, hard to master but has a gradual rewarding learning curve. Also all inputs for super moves are shared across all fighters making it even easier to learn. High level players never complained about this game.

As for why street fighter is so good, I've always found the Capcom fighting games easy enough to pick up but have a rewarding learning curve until you hit pro level when it's a bit of a brick wall to get over. The only other series that matches it is Virtua fighter but unfortunately the inferior Tekken is preferred in the west.

Tekken I find is waaaaay too complicated. It easy to button mash but if you want to take your game past that there's too much to learn and a frankly ridiculously complex blocking system. Fair play to people that can play it well but I feel Virtua fighter does everything Tekken does and better with less complexity. Mortal Kombat was always complete shite until 9 which was surprisingly competent. No experience of the later ones but they are well regarded.

My favourite though are the sink games such as king of fighters. They are a joy to watch but again the learning curve from the start is insane, they are a little too complicated.

I'm guessing you only really play Playstation? Street Fighter controls are really great but the d-pad needs to be good and Sony have never made a good d-pad. The D-pad was acceptable on the PS4 but PS1-3 they were absolutely outrageously bad. Same with Xbox. Playing these games on a SNES , Megadrive and even more so on the frankly glorious Megadrive and Saturn 6-button pads was an absolute breeze. The moves flow really well using circular motion or charge moves. As someone that used to play at a high level with a good joystick, a joystick actually takes a long time to learn and a good d-pad is much easier to use from the off.

The reason you think mortal kombat and tekken work better is that their focus of pressing directions to initiate specials works better on a rubbish d-pad like the playstation. There's a reason why no other series uses these types of inputs, the street fighter method just works better and Tekken relied on the playstation audience so needs a control scheme that works with a sucky ass d-pad. The Capcom input method also allows for better flow in combos whereas mortal kombat and tekken rely heavily on dial-a-combos and juggles.

I kind of agree MvsC3 is a very complex game, it's kind of made for a high level audience although you can still have a lot of fun button mashing. As for Tekken if you are at the button mashing level it's not complicated but if you want to take it to the next level you are dealing with multiple characters with 50+ specials that need counters, a blocking system that has high, mid and low blocking but also complicates things further with moves that combine levels of blocking like mid+low attacks. I just couldn't deal with it. It was also kind of a boring game to watch competitively although I've heard from 7 onwards it's been massively improved with it being the most popular pro fighter for a while.

As for combos in SF games from SF4 onwards they give really good tutorials on how to perform combos. However don't get sucked into trying to do fancy combos as a lot of them are for showing off and aren't really viable in a match as the frame window for input is very low. Most characters will have 'bread and butter' combos that are easy to learn and pull off consistently and do good damage. There's really no reason to get complicated when a good 3-4 hit will give you consistent damage, and even the pros won't attempt anything too fancy unless they need big damage. Again SF tutorials are good at highlighting these.

Again though, there's no need to play these at a high level if you have people you can play with locally. I think if you got into a good capcom fighter you'll see why it's regarded as much better than the likes of mortal kombat (again old MK, I hear the new ones are good as well as the latest Tekkens).

It must have been set to the easiest dip switch. Any arcade I was in the arsehole arcade operator had the games set to the highest difficulty and if you weren't good at the game you weren't cheesing any fight and probably were stopped by the second fight you got (and god help you if one of them was guile as the AI cheated so much since the AI didn't have to charge any of his attacks).

Just thinking, it could well have been a rainbow edition cabinet. It was an unlicensed rom hack with absolutely ludicrous special moves. The dragon punch shot out twin fireballs on top of the punch and you could teleport and swap characters at will. Absolute unplayable nonsense.

I remember the ranked matchmaking in SF4 worked very well but on the lesser populated games and when a game matures you need to git gud or git out.

Etrian odyssey collection getting some very good reviews and write ups.

Unsurprisingly really as they could well be the best RPGs of the last 20 years and I don't say that lightly. Give them a shot if you are interested in them. I had no interest in first person dungeon crawlers but these games made me really enjoy the genre. The only issue is that these games are so much better than any other dungeon crawler that every thing else can't match them.

So gave We Love Katamari a go on PC. Another stellar port other than booting in window on the first boot.

I'll have no one argue with me that this game doesn't have the greatest soundtrack of all time.

Personal fav from the race track levels. The chorus 1 minute in sparks joy

GnG resurrection was highly regarded by the fans though? I only played a bit of it and it reminded me too much of the bad PSP games but apparently I should give it another try.