I... don't know what to say...

I'll respond to this later.

Syd Lexia wrote:

"at the time street fighter 1 was head and shoulders above any other fighting game. no characters were seen this big before and unless you knew the special moves it almost impossible to complete. i must admit when i first saw street fighter 2 i nearly puked at how slow and shit it was! even without special moves it was piss easy to complete. i think they brought the sequel out just to please the girls and fags that like playing arcade games because it was such a pussy game! we have to remember there are fans of both street fighter 1 and 2 games and i'm certainly not the latter."

Wow. Shitty reviews are the best. Let's see what points it manages to hit.

1. Bad punctuation. Nuff said.

2. Poor explanation of exactly why he likes SFI over SFII. "well, I believe the limited character selection was an extremely effective enforcement of balance, and the difficulty of utilizing the special moves not to mention the payoff made specials more rewarding. In contrast..." When you attempt to reason as to exactly why SFI is better than SFII you come to realize that it's... not. His arguments as to why SFI was head and shoulders above the competition was that the characters were big, and you couldn't beat the game without specials. Not very convincing.

3. Bad metaphor. "I nearly puked at how slow and shit it was" is not a good metaphor. Puking is not brought about from seeing slow things. It's caused by drinking too much, sticking your finger down your own throat, or drinking M<exico water. I would recommend "Everyone moved like they were dinosaurs wading through tar, I went to take a shit while zangief's roundhouse finished executing, and I swear to god that when dhalsim jumped into the air I thought I broke the machine. I went to ask the attendant about the game, he then took a nap and crawled on his hands and knees to the game and even though dhalsim continued to sit in the air exactly where I left him the attendant swore that he would almost have executed an attack and that I should come back tommorow. I've seen cave paintings faster than this. The clock on the game should be a mayan calander.

damn that was long. And as ultimatefierce said, rendered irrelevant with the release of SFII turbo/Hyper Fighting

4. The best part. "i think they brought the sequel out just to please the girls and fags that like playing arcade games because it was such a pussy game!"

Yep. Thats what happened. Capcom went after the extremely lucrative homosexual/female market with a fighting tournament game.