Street Fighter II Censored

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I'm sure that would be me too. I am so many generations behind the fighting genre - the last games I played where Street Fighter III, Mortal Kombat 4 and Tekken Tag Tournament.

And even if I wanted to go back and try them out again, I can't stand playing fighting games on a D-Pad style controller....

I paid $300 for a pro arcade stick for my PS5 and I still get owned all the time. Whether it's Tekken 8 or Mortal Kombat 11/1 online, I can usually get some play while the game still has me as a "novice" and matches me against similarly ranked players around the world. It's when I start winning and moving up that it quickly becomes not as fun, because then I'm just losing. Mostly.

I remember when it was a pretty impressive feat when you could nail a "shor-U-Ken!" at the arcade. Then, even as a kid, I could see the scales beginning to tip into "this is gonna take WAY too long to master!" when games like Killer Instinct started rolling in toward the end of arcades as they were known. All of these 62 hit "ULTRAAAA COMBOOO" type stuff, to where it's just like no way unless you're probably practicing like 16 hours a day.