Sometime last year, someone asked if I had played or planned to review Street Fighter 6. This was the answer I gave them (more or less – the actual wording may have been different slightly…)
“Eh… still haven’t played it… or bought it for that matter… I don’t know. I have not been too inclined to pick up a new Street Fighter or fighting game unless it’s available for really cheap. Obviously, they cater this stuff more to the esports crowd or the online crowd, which I don’t care for. Not my deal.
“To me, a fighting game is something I pick up and play for a lark… and that was the neat about it back then. Yes, there’s a system of moves you can learn, but sometimes, it’s just fun having two people pop in a copy of Street Fighter II, we’re both playing Honda and who can get close enough to do the hundred hand slap for endless cheap hits while the other sap’s trapped in the corner.
“Little pleasures like that when you’re just playing for shits and giggles without really diving too deep into it… I enjoy some of these things, but you get to a point where there’s so much out there that you try them, but you ultimately go back to the familiar because I don’t know; they’re more fun to play. Everyone likes to praise Alpha 3, but I’ve always been partial to Alpha 2. That, to me, is the more fun game. More options; you have super combos and custom combos. Alpha 3 – they split that into seperate systems and I’m like… why?
“But yeah, I don’t know… maybe… I wanna get through the other Street Fighter games first because those seem more interesting… but… not much of an answer, but I don’t know… we’ll see.”
So that was the answer I gave… and it still holds a bit true today, but there’s one other thing that I don’t think I brought up… and that is the reality that Street Fighter 6… really doesn’t interest me. It’s not just the gearing towards the online, pro-gaming, e-sports crowds. But the game as a whole feels a bit… dull. None of the trailers hyped me up for the game. I could tell you that Street Fighter V, for all of its faults early on, at least had something that piqued my interest. It took me a while to get on that particular train, but there was something that had me go… yeah, I might want to give that a go when it’s cheap enough.
Street Fighter 6 hasn’t given me that moment where I’d want to give it a genuine shot. While I’m sure it’s a fine game and all, it simply doesn’t interest me. When it comes to reviews, I want to review things that are interesting to me or at least, when it comes to the more popular or well-known stuff, try to approach it from a different perspective of sorts. I’ve mentioned a bucket list of review subjects at one point and I can tell you that it’s a huge list dating back years. Some reviews are actually written and prepped to go, but there’s always that little something that goes “Eh, maybe not.” Trust me when I say that some of these reviews take years to put together, it’s not that farfetched.
Modern gaming is something that feels alien and foreign to me. A lot of stuff that I see coming out doesn’t seem all that exciting and I will admit that I have particular tastes when it comes to games. And if I want to try something outside my wheelhouse, I’d want it to be as cheap as possible. That’s why I veer much older these days. There’s plenty of stuff there that I haven’t sampled yet that genuinely excites me. The Jaguar stuff, while not the most exciting games – and really, it’s no secret that some of Jaguar’s best stuff came from 3rd parties and hopefully, there’ll come a point where I can cover those games somewhere down the line – but I did enjoy sampling the games featured on that Atari 50 compilation… yes, even the semi-rubbish ones.
In other news, someone suggested I do Zeebo – the Brazilian console that recently got emulated… as soon as I figure out how that shit works and whether it’ll be worth my while, I’ll let you know… but… as far as Street Fighter 6 goes… never say never… but at the moment, not anytime soon.
Sorry.
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