Street Fighter 2 Popularity Contest [Archive]

Drixxel

07-24-2005, 10:34 PM

Pretty straightforward. Of the 8 classic Street Fighter 2 meisters of pain, who's your prime pick? Be it who you are best with, your personal favourite, or simply a filthy lie to bungle the rankings and falsely crown Zangief as king, hurl that vote into this pointless abyss. I hate to exclude Balrog, Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison, but apparantly twelve is too many poll options. So yeah.. thus the 'classique' selection of 8. Feel free to select choice 9 to voice your great rage.

While I could take the easy way out and vote Ken, who I am substantially better with than any other of these Fight Streeters, Dhalsim was my very first Street Fighter 2 dude of choice. Bless those magical limbs of human opponent infuriation. Oh ho ho.. that Dhalsim.. hoowee.

NssOne

07-24-2005, 10:45 PM

Oooh, tough choice. I always liked Ken/Ryu, but I'm also a big fan of Blanka. I'm not exactly sure which one to choose...

Melf

07-24-2005, 11:21 PM

I voted Ken, since he's not only my namesake, but the only character I don't utterly suck with. :P

Menosa Torres

07-24-2005, 11:46 PM

i voted Blanka he has always been my favorite

j_factor

07-25-2005, 01:08 AM

I guess Dhalsim. But I'm really more of a Super SF2, T.Hawk kind of guy.

Fang

07-25-2005, 05:47 AM

Ryu is my favorite since I can do his moves easily and that head band looks cool.

Drixxel

07-25-2005, 09:58 PM

I've always liked Guile, but not being a computer opponent with the ability to warp space and time makes me choosing Guile an unwise pick. I mean, c'mon.. rapid-fire sonic booms while moving forward? Satanic machine!

Vicman

07-27-2005, 09:11 AM

It's Ken these days, but back in the day it used to Guile big time. Nowadays I'm all about explosive offense, but back then I was that frustrating defensive player that made you waste a quarter against my sonic booms and sommersault kicks. Man did the original Street Fighter II ever put a number on me. I bought a SNES just for the sole purpose of playing the home version of SFII when it first came out. Even then my friends thought i was nuts about the game. I was still playing that very same cart well into 1997! I just got SF collection (Xbox) just so that I can play SFIII: 3rd Strike on my Xbox since I don't play the DC version as much anymore. I'm an addict. :D

GeckoYamori

07-28-2005, 03:16 AM

Chun-Li or E. Honda

lordofduct

07-28-2005, 03:43 AM

Street Fighter blows!

Long live Eternal Champions!!!!!

j_factor

07-29-2005, 12:46 AM

Surely you jest.

16bitter

07-31-2005, 01:57 AM

Ryu is the true master. Ken is a hot dogger.

16bitter

07-31-2005, 02:00 AM

It's Ken these days, but back in the day it used to Guile big time. Nowadays I'm all about explosive offense, but back then I was that frustrating defensive player that made you waste a quarter against my sonic booms and sommersault kicks. Man did the original Street Fighter II ever put a number on me. I bought a SNES just for the sole purpose of playing the home version of SFII when it first came out. Even then my friends thought i was nuts about the game. I was still playing that very same cart well into 1997! I just got SF collection (Xbox) just so that I can play SFIII: 3rd Strike on my Xbox since I don't play the DC version as much anymore. I'm an addict. :D

I'm pissed off about the arcade stick for the SF Collection. The stick is just a mess, and though I can play decently on SFIII -- supposedly one of the most complex games in the series -- with it, I can't do anything on Hyper SFII. Go figure.

Vicman

07-31-2005, 05:51 AM

As weird as this may sound I don't enjoy using arcade sticks and do a ton better with a control pad. I've beaten guys supposedly really good at SF, with a d-pad, while they used a stick. It just feels alot more natural to me to pull off moves using my thumbs and I can string combos together alot faster and more often with a pad. I know it's blasphemy in fighter circles to say as much but I'd rather have a Saturn pad instead of an arcade perfect stick. Anytime I play at the arcades I can hold my own pretty well but it takes alot of work to do so and my arms are too tensed up afterwards. :/

j_factor

07-31-2005, 05:27 PM

I like actual arcade sticks (like, in arcade machines), but I can't get good at using home sticks. Not for fighters anyway... maybe for shooters and some other games.

16bitter

07-31-2005, 11:37 PM

I prefer them in the arcade setup as well, as there's just not a great way to hold them at home as opposed to standing at a cabinet. Take a look at the XBox's controller though (specifically the early adopter controller) and you'll know why an arcade stick is a must. Too bad the stick is screwed. :mad: But then, I've still got six months on the warranty.

I've been meaning to buy that Saturn to Xbox converter which would take care of any fighter control problems. I still play Saturn more than any other console for fighters.

GeckoYamori

08-01-2005, 09:23 AM

I didn't get a lot of chances to play the arcade originals, thus I'm a lot better with a regular pad. I found a SF2 cabinet 2 years ago, I could barely pull off any specials.

Vicman

08-01-2005, 11:15 AM

Funny thing is I was around when SF2 came out in the arcades and played it every single fucking day after school. I'd be there for 2-3 hours each day with friends playing SF2 and the various knock offs that came out around then. I remember a friend of mine would try to get a perfect ending with Ryu by winning every round with a perfect. By doing so he got a special ending which very few people got to see. If he won a round w/o a perfect he'd let himself die and restart all over again. We were SF2 nuts, LOL. Those were some great great times for arcade gaming and for my time as a gamer. :cool: