Comments on: Looking backwards

By: Apath W

Apath W — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:11:31 +0000

The scenario SS describes (newbies -> “OMG!! Awesome!” into “He cheats; I quit”) has already occurred with the Xbox Live release of World Warrior. I seem to recall that the game sold well at release but I don’t know if it had any prolonged success at market (virtual though it may be). Maybe it did, since Capcom seems to again be courting the nostaglia factor that gave SF2XL it’s initial windfall.

That or they’re just stupid

By: sonictempest

sonictempest — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:12:13 +0000

Yay :D

I wish I had someone to play against here :x

By: PenPen

PenPen — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:06:05 +0000

Oops, I meant I can’t post it because it says I don’t have Javascript and cookies enabled, which I had. Weird.

I’m supposed to contact you according to the error message, lol.

By: PenPen

PenPen — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:05:19 +0000

By the way, I’m not sure why but I can’t post that comment in Fierfox.

By: PenPen

PenPen — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:04:55 +0000

I don’t know, I don’t even see a SF4 around here in arcades.

Doubt that SF4 is going to make huge changes to the arcade landscape though.

I doubt anything’s going to change. Hardcore players are still hardcore and still pwns casual players easily. Casual players, unless they really devote time and energy into the game, won’t have a chance to beat the guys with pretty good skills.

It’s not like you’re going into an arcade, play 10 rounds of some popular fighter and thinking that you’ll be owning guys who played that for 5 years plus. Not going to happen.

Speaking of which, I think my KOF investments are beginning to reap some rewards, I’m paying less and less per game in the arcades. :D