Originally Posted by Brodie
Has anyone else had trouble getting online matches? It takes forever to find a Quickmatch, on either Ranked or Player settings. Why the hell do they call it Quickmatch?!
I'm in a weird place, because I -played- SF2 and 3 when I was younger, but I never PLAYED (lived) SF. It was just something I'd drop quarters into at the arcade, or would rent from the video store. I was never any good, because it wasn't something that was engrained in my childhood completely.
So, here I was, playing SF4...And I felt like I missed the boat. A game hasn't made me feel like I sucked this bad since Megaman 9. It feels like to train for this game, I needed to have been playing for the passed 10+ years.
I played through the first arcade mode....then hit up training/challenges. Then I played a few matches with Stryker, and then his Gold membership expired (hilarity), so I ended up playing various people online.
I've come to find out that there are people who are ridiculously good, then there's people like me. Those people being the ones who haven't really picked up a fighting game like this in a long time (or are picking up a SF game for the first time ever).
So, its kind of neat, being able to get that sense of accomplishment for learning, and practicing, and pulling off moves as one specific character. Its essentially finding the series over again, and getting that sense of, I dunno, "wonder" that people who LOVE SF found when they were younger, and TRAINED on this game.
(If only SF was essentially like the Last Starfighter)
Since I paid money for this game, I feel OBLIGATED to learn, and train, and have -fun- with the game. So far it has been really fun. I was getting my ass handed to me for a while, but I stuck with it, and it was still fun.
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