Rin (Ryu) vs. Itabashi Zangief

11/28/08 Nakano TRF. MC Momiage

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• sf4
• street
• fighter
• iv
• itazan

[DustMan2704]

Zangief shall crush all noob ryu and ken players.... ok that would be about 80% of the whole sf4 community.

but its a fair price to get rid of all that hadoken and shoyruken spammers....

[ShardZERO]

Actually I'm pretty sure gief has consistantly been ranked as one of the top chars in sf4.

[Sablicious]

@daddyshere1 You're playing SSFIV and _I'M_ dumb?! o_0

lol! Good one! xD

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[daddyshere1]

@Sablicious You're dumb. The end.

[sedgambit]

Rin missed a shitload of links to ultra....

[Sablicious]

Well that's all I'm saying - it's a poor design... the whole game mechanic in fact. 'Gief in particular has become a joke character. He looks silly, his moves are dumbed down, his MO is jumping around like an idiot & his BnB is mashing lariats.

All the skill once associated with using the character has diminished. Getting up close is the only hurdle to surmount with him. And this is the most frustrating aspect of his game in fact.

Zangief is the most disappointing transition to IV for mine.

[dmj9798]

No, I've fought Seths and Akumas. I know the matchup is really really bad, and yes, it's the worst it has ever been for him. But it's nothing new. It's essentially the same thing, just harder. Now he deals with a character that can throw air fireballs (sometimes two) and Dhalsim with a faster projectile.

It is poor design with him, I'll admit, having him pound half the cast into dust and then get beat comfortably by the shotos, Dhalsim, and Seth. But it is what it is.

[Sablicious]

But never have fireball spammers posed as much of a problem as they do in IV. And that's considering how broken 'Gief is up close with his n00bish command inputs and command grab priorities.

'Gief used to take skill to use and skill to defeat. In IV you only get two flavors: get projectile spammed -or- get up close and mash to victory. Crud.

You need to play more Seths and Akumas methinks...

[dmj9798]

Very difficult =/= impossible. Every single Zangief player around knows that's what they're gonna deal with when they pick him.

People are gonna do things in this game that you're gonna have problems dealing with. You either live with it, learn something, or just don't play.

Zangief has had to deal with fireball spamming since...umm...forever. Complaining about it isn't gonna make it go away.

[Sablicious]

'Strategy'...? o_0 lol xD

It's called -SPAMMING- FYI - overuse/abuse of a particular move that's usually very difficult to circumvent due to the mechanical shortcomings of a given game.

Spare us the euphemism please... <_<

[dmj9798]

And you're right. They don't beat that strategy. But most of them don't go around bitching about it, because they know that when playing with Zangief, that comes with the territory. They fight it out.

[dmj9798]

Take that strategy out and what happens? Zangief dominates the entire game and you bitch about him.

People like you ruin fighting games for everyone.

And FYI, I main Gen.