man i used to own in sf, all the sf2 games before st (ww, hf, super). im still prett decent at sf4 considering i only play like once a month or something along those lines. i still beat scrubs that play the game way more often than i do all because of my sf2 expertise. you actually have to be pretty good to beat me or turtle all day. if sf4 was more fun for me i actually might have invested the time in the game and gotten my game up to tourney level. shit just wasnt worth it for me, my lil bros felt the same way about the game like i did (theyre 26 now and have been into this shit almost as long as me, since 92)
and lol cronopio, do you really find sf hard to understand? if you have played the sf2 series competetivelly you are in a position to talk about sf related shit. sf4 especially, because its the most like sf2 imo. sf3 series and ts, now thats a totally different beast and i give those players way more respect that any sf4 player. ive never been high level at the 3 series but i still understand everything about it and can deduct evething about it. i know there are people who dont have a firm grasp at fighters, but if youve been all about fighters from the start i dont get how you could not get it if you actually played it?
now for sf, imo in sf you battle the character and not the system. all characters can dash and jump, but all theirs works differently (like in all games, but in sf its really hugely different and character specific). meaning if you main a certain character your gonna have trouble against some and an advantage against others. its all character specific, mainly cause thats how the sf system works (sf2 and 4, and to a degree alpha series). you have to work with your character against the other character with the system having only a small role to play in it.
kof on the other hand has the same character specific match ups with some being harder and some being easier. the BIG difference is that every character has ways to move and go in unlike sf. the system allows for all characters to be that way, some more than others (thats normal for foghters) but it goes for all. in short if your good at kof you can become good with most characters. yes there are special characters that play completely different from others (yamazaki, geese, chin, anhel, gai etc) but you can still manage 1 way or the other if you have a firm grasp of the system and baller execution. it doesnt mean you dont have to learn the characters and character specific shit, it just means your way less bound to those rules as theres ways around it. its called evolution.
sf is way too character specific to be fun imo, because of the system it becomes such a shitty boring turtle fest (unless you got a divekick, cammys air thingy or safe rekkas like fei). i mean how could it not? in all thee\se limited ways to get in your basically stuck to your position, which happens to be b/db, now you have 1 button to poke and zone with, another for an aa and perheps a cr mk/etc that can be cancelled into a special for chip and damage.
in short this was the exact reason i quit sf2 back in the day when i was actually good. there was no real good way to advance and it was all about poking and countering with turtling (and throwing, you had to have a great throw game back in the sf2 series, mines was tops, like the rest of my sf2 game back then). the first GREAT game that changed all this and finally gave offensive players ways to get in and shit was the og and the 1 and only kof 97, which imo is still one of the best kofs ever and perhaps my most played kof ever. the shit was huge back in 97. it was a revolution (maybe the vs from capcom did this as well, but i personally never really cared for the superhero fighters and couldnt stand the air combos and dashes).
my 2 cents.
last, 6 buttons can be way noob friendlier than 4 when these buttons replace all other actions. you could never play rog or guile the same way in kof. they have 6 way noob friendlier buttons than most koffers. in kof, there are no characters that can just db jab, or rh or fierce and keep you at bay. you have to work way harder when you only have 4 buttons of which none are nppb friendly (unless your goro in 98, ahum). but it still needs way more work.
