I have recently been playing a lot of "Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
HD Remix" on Xbox Live Arcade. I wanted to hone my skills that have
been laying dormant since Super Street Fighter 2 on the SNES in
anticipation of Street Fighter 4. It was a long uphill battle, about
60+ straight losses in ranked games but I finally reached the point
where I can win 90% of the ranked games I play online.
Now I was always under the impression that the saying "All is fair
in love and war and Streetfighter" was widely accepted, however I have
come across quite a few individuals online who, upon the eve of their
loss will call me "cheap" and bail. I have seen this term "cheap" used
in this game so loosely. Instead of the player understanding the game
mechanics, watching what the player is doing, and finding a "counter"
to what they are doing (which is the essence to fighting games in my
opinion), they find it easier to call the other player "cheap" and try
to save their own self esteem by quitting the match.
The tactic I was using, was shooting fireballs to force my oponnent
to jump in close, and then knocking them out of the air with a well
timed dragon punch. I would then jump in for a crossover for good
measure.
I have always played fighting games using whatever tactics the
developers created. Especially in such a well balanced fighter such as
Street Fighter, where every tactic or move has a counter. Apparently
instead of using wit to realize what the other player is doing, find a
counter, and overcome it, certain individuals cry "cheap!".
Maybe I am looking at this the wrong way? What do you guys think?
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Seems fine to me. No one likes to be on the receiving end of a crossover and yeah, if you don't have a move to counter a crossover you're gonna be pretty frustrated, but it's not what I would call "cheap"
My definition of cheap is if a person keeps spanning the same move over and over and over again.
cheap is more of the same old grabbing, because they can't find any other way to land a hit. Same move over and over is predictable and easy to counter.
Special move grabs are acceptable because you need the actual skill to perform it, but just walking up to someone and doing a simple grab to put someone off guard is cheap.
I've played at many tournaments and they would have one guy that would resort to the cheapness of over abuse grabbing, lack of skill and everyone looked down on him but he had an excuse. " it's all he can do" meh =/