Street Fighter 2 Popularity Contest

[Drixxel]

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]

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]

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

[Menosa Torres]

i voted Blanka he has always been my favorite

[j_factor]

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

[Fang]

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

[Drixxel]

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]

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]

Chun-Li or E. Honda

[lordofduct]

Street Fighter blows!

Long live Eternal Champions!!!!!

[j_factor]

Surely you jest.

[16bitter]

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

[16bitter]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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:

[shinobimusashi]

i voted dhalsim i used to own guys in the arcade when i was 8 with him. i would just use his long leg jump kick over and over and it would piss grown men off bad! that was back when it first came out and you had to wait in line to play it

[Baloo]

Ken, the original Otaku.

[The Sports Guy]

With a six button and E. Honda, no one can stop me.


Okay, that's a lie, but I am pretty tits with E. Honda.