Just wanted to give you guys a quick update on my recent post complaining about stuff. While fishing around for hyperlinks yesterday, I stumbled across an older article opining about the original SF4. I felt very good to see David Sirlin(highly respected author, tournament player, and game designer in the fighting community) echo a lot of my complaints. Although I don’t agree with everything he said (I thought I would hate 2-button throws, ended up loving them. Also, other stuff), but I particularly liked these excerpts:

Linking is the name of the game, which actually makes the game closer to CvS2 than to 3s or ST. The effect of all these links is to hide the actual game behind an impenetrable wall of execution. If you practice (ie, develop 1p skills unrelated to strategy and unrelated to interaction with the opponent) then you gain access to the real game, a game of high damage off small hits, but only for the dexterous.

I’m not sure what qcf x 2 + PPP is doing in a “casual friendly game” in the first place.

Also, I’ve been meaning to mention that I did get CPS3 games working in mame after croikle set me straight on that. Although I haven’t actually played them yet.