What are you playing?

[REPO Man]

Been plowing through Dying Light 2 on PS5.

If I get a Switch 2 and it gets a native non-cloud Dying Light 2 port, I'll GLADY rebuy it (on sale).

[opa]

Either I just suck (a total possibility) or the arcade version of Street Fighter 2 is really damn difficult.

[Ack]

I mean, the limitations certainly mean having to relearn some things. Who are you playing as?

[pierrot]

Either I just suck (a total possibility) or the arcade version of Street Fighter 2 is really damn difficult.

Are you talking World Warrior (straight-up vanilla) or one of the later releases (Champion, Turbo, Super, Super Turbo)? If the former, it's basically just entirely a zoning game; The CPU is mostly just going to try to zone you into dangerous positions.

About eight years ago I was playing through all manner of Street Fighter on the Dreamcast, and when I got to SSFIIX: Grand Master Challenge, I had an absolute bitch of a time with the CPU (Vega (US: M.Bison) in particular). Took me in excess of 63 credits to finally get through arcade mode (most of them on Vega). So, I would say Super Turbo has an insufferable CPU, personally.

[Ack]

Is that the "Sagat only uses projectiles constantly" game?

[pierrot]

Grand Master Challenge? I'm not sure, but it does have up to Turbo 6 setting, which at that speed feels like it's all just jumping beans. It's bonkers.

[opa]

I was playing as Chun Li and E Honda. (Champion edition)

[pierrot]

Oh, good old Champion Edition: My intro to SFII (rented on Genesis) outside of the arcade. I don't really remember where exactly in the SFII chain they sort of adjusted frame timings to actually facilitate normal combos instead of just the janky, hacky ones in WW, but I think it was somewhere between CE and Turbo.

Both of those characters are charge characters, so that can be kind tricky to get used to. If you really wanted to git gud with one of them, there's always something like Super Combo. This is all basically SSFIITurbo-centric, but some of it would still apply to Honda in CE: https://wiki.supercombo.gg/w/Super_Stre ... ._E._Honda

[marurun]

Champion Edition is the version I most often ran into in the arcades and I suspect it might have been the most common arcade release.

[Ack]

I'm currently wrapping up my initial run of Turbo Overkill on Steam. It's another of the wave of post-Dusk boomer shooters we have gotten in the last few years, and it's a bit overly long, both in terms of level design and total levels. I just wrapped up one level with nearly 1000 enemies in it. Thankfully, I think I am saved at the start of the actual final level, so it shouldn't be too much longer before I get to the end, though I still have plenty more to do on replay.