First off, I want to announce that I will be discontinuing my Art of War posts. At the time I didn’t realize that David Sirlin had already done it and it was a bit much anyway. In other news, I’m LOVING the new SSF4 tournament mode. It does, of course, bring with it its own set of annoyances though (if you win a round, you can pretty much expect to be kicked from the room). But enough with that, this post is about sharing with you the constructive criticisms I’ve received online. It’s always nice when someone takes the time out of their day to give you feedback on your game, so let’s have a look.

  1. gg
    Classic and simple. This guy played an OK Ryu, nothing special, but we had a nice guile vs ryu fireball fight
  2. you play like a fag

    I humiliated this E Honda player by keeping him on the floor half of the time with meaty attacks. Why he got killed so badly by this, I can’t understand.

  3. good match

    yeah, gg. thawk is a touch matchup against guile
    that was one of the most comptetive[sic] matches that ive had
    i didn’t pay much attention to this match at first, cause i kind of hate playing thawk, but i went back and looked at it and it’s 3 rounds of straight down-to-the-wire fighting. i narrowly won

  4. annoying ass scrub
  5. looks like all u can do is jab… thats a shame

    Because I beat him Balrog(me) vs Guile, then he beat me in a rematch Vega vs Guile(me) (I wanted a mirror). Before getting this, I simultaneously sent him the message “looks like we both suck with guile”. The correspondence degenerates from that point on.

  6. GG

    Classic.

  7. jab jab jab….
    I jab a lot because I can’t do jab, jab, cr.lk, headbutt (his BnB) yet. I replied “crossup crossup crossup…” which is honestly the only thing he did.
  8. gnite turtle scrub

There’s 3 more “gg” types of messages after that. So that’s it. I guess I will have to work on jabbing less, blocking less, and playing like less of a fag.