We would all love to play Brawl.

@Dynablade
Why aren't you feeling SSFIV anymore? I'm curious...

@anandxxx

I don't want to play Brawl! I want to play MH! ..and Rock Band 3, eek!

@anandxxx

It's all stuff in the game's fighting engine.

I won't crazy into it, but I will rant a little bit here.

Basically, when I first got into Street Fighter IV a year or so ago, I was still new to it, wasn't playing online, just learning the basics. But once I got SSFIV and soon after, got live... I started wanting to get better. And at first, I felt like I could without spending 24 hours a day on the game and attending every tourney. But as of the past couple months, I feel like I'm banging my head against the wall, and even getting worse at the game.

The biggest problem, is link combos, the most annoying thing in the game to do: basically, to get certain oft-used combos to work, you have to press buttons at a very specific frame. This is hard enough to do offline/local, but online? It is the most frustrating combo I've ever had to do. People can say what they want about Tekken's combo system or Tatsunoko/MvC's long combo strings, but at least I know if I do the commands properly, the combo normally hits. With Link combos, it feels like there's this... 90% chance it won't hit unless you spend months JUST practicing that combo.

The next problem comes more on an individual basis: some moves online are extremely hard to punish, no matter how often yo u can do so offline. Ken's weak Dragon Punch might as well have no recovery time, and people will ALLWAYS follow it with another one or a strong one or an Ultra. It's... agitating.

Third thing? Speaking of Dragon Punches, I'm tired of 90% of the online users playing as Ryu. Even with over a thousand matches in, I feel like I don't know how to fight half the cast because all I ever run into are Ryu, Guile, Ken, and Akuma. Dudley and Balrog are really high in use too. But Ryu... oh man, if I never fight Ryu again, it'll be too fucking soon.

There's more, but these things by far have really weakened my like for the game. And I still like the game, I do (just played it today for as long as I could stand). But I cannot wait until I get KOF 2002 UM (which I know I like more anyhow), and Blazblue CS (which many of my local friends have switched to).

Aside from that? I'm reducing my fighting game time and getting in some more MHT time.

Yeah, I know I shouldn't double post but... man, that rant was huge.

So, quick question: is there any way to add people who are offline? In example, I used to add people's FCs in Brawl all the time and it would just sync up later... is there no way to do that in MHT? It keeps saying "the player is offline" when I try to send a friend request.

Trying to do this because it'd be a lot easier to just send out requests and then be able to look at my friend roster whenever I log on to jump in with other people.

@Dynablade

Yeah, I do think they need to be online. Link up here, and meet 'em on there! Partyyy!

@Mr_Mustache

Hells yeah

I know I've been absent from the fun for a while, but Thursdays are looking good for me again. My wife has clinicals until 11:30 pm that day, so I should be unhindered.

Thursday might be ok for me...my girlfriend will be over so we'll be itching to play some Kirby, but maybe I can sneak in an hour of Monster Hunter while she studies? We shall see!


@Dynablade
That's how Nintendo Wi Fi Connection works, I think. Monster Hunter uses Capcom's servers so it's a different system, unlike SSBB, Mario Kart, etc...

Is tomorrow rock solid? What time are we hunting?

Hey Rubes, are you set for your Urgent? Have you passed HR18?

Looks like I'm buying another copy of the game. I can't seem to find the one I have. Has the price been lowered?

@DSLeet

Gamestop had a lower price a few weeks ago. I got the ad in my email.
I'm not sure if that was a weekend special or a full-time drop.

@Mr_Mustache

Haven't passed it yet. The Lagi is way harder to kill online, I basically can't even dent the damn thing right now, lol. We'll see though, hoping to get online soon with my usual group and thrash it.

@anon_mastermind

Yeah, that's what I figured... which is weird. Not often that Ninty's online system actually does something better. No biggie though; just makes it harder to add people en masse like I'm used to doing.

Unless I play brawl if someone is online i'll be playing MH3 in like 15 minutes or so (it's 12:12central)

Dynablade what's your screename on MH3?

Ruby. ID is GDKAUD.

ps. I was just in Tempe

@Fabz

Right on! Whereabout did ya' visit?

All over. I'm on mh3 now btw

Ok, my name is "RgR" in the game.

Which server do you guys play in?

Doesn't matter. You can warp over, as long as people aren't in restricted high-level servers.