Rawk.

So, with Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Ham Sandwich Oil Can Deluxe Waited For Fucking Ever For It (SSFTIIHDRHSOCDWFFEFI), I reinstalled the awesome program GGPO. You can find a link in my profile to the right. GGPO is a God sent for me since I know fucking no one here in Colorado (still), and fighting games require people. I've been an avid player of Street Fighter III: Third Strike for a while. When I was in college in Ohio a friend of mine was tourny level good and kicked my ass all around, but I was hooked. I never really got into the golden Street Fighter game tho: Super Street Fighter II Turbo. When I GGPO got Super Turbo, I played it a little. My main game was still Third Strike.

Yesterday, I tossed that opinion out the fucking window.


I started GGPO again with the intent of playing a lot of Super Turbo on Thursday. I played close to five hours. I never play fighting games that long. Why? Because I get angry. I get angry because I play Third Strike, a fighting game that has a HUGE crutch to new players: parry's. Parry's are a "block" that has you take no damage, and you get a quicker reaction coming out of it. If you haven't see the ultimate use of the parry, check below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuA5we0RZU
(How to embed?)

Yeah, incredible. But how to use a parry is you push the stick towards the opponent at the exact moment of connecting the hit. Its playing Russian Roulette because if you mess it up, you eat all kinds of pain. Its a huge learning curve, but its part of the game. Its something I could never grasp. I played Ryu pretty damn good, but I didn't "get" parrying so I would suck a big one most of the time. I would get angry, a lot, because I knew if I parried that hit, I could have won the match.

Super Turbo on the other hand has NONE of this crap.

I am a complete newbie to Super Turbo. Because I've played Third Strike, I know how to play a Street Fighter game, basically. It still takes a lot of time to master one however. I still played Super Turbo for five hours without stopping. I was getting handed all over the place from multiple opponents. And you know what I did? I laughed. I was having FUN. This was the best game I've ever played. I wish I could go back in time and relive my life so that when Street Fighter II was THE GAME to play in arcades, I could enjoy it back then when it was gold.

The whole time I played Fei Long. I'm a fan of Bruce Lee, so I picked him without a moments hesitation. Fuck teir lists, fuck strengths and weaknesses. I wanted to play him. It was a blast. He's a hardcore rushdown character and I liked it a lot. I felt I could do anything with him if I learned him enough. Which is why...

I call dibs on Fei Long!

With Super Turbo HD coming out, I have my Xbox stick ready and I am HYPED! BRING IT!