| Fight-the-Streets said: 90's because of Street Fighter II on the SNES. It changed my life (and I'm not even good at it). Everything of that game was just fantastic: graphics, gameplay, sound, characters (and being able to choose from 8 very different ones was never seen before). People can call him a boring character without rough edges but for myself, Ryu speaks to me in a way no other fictional character ever has (to this day). I truly miss the Fighting games of the 90's where characters were stereotype and traditional (Ryu himself is the best example: Japanese, ok lets make him a traditional martial artist with a white Karate-gi). The modern characters of fighting games (incl. of Street Fighter 6), I don't know, I just can't stand those colorful, cringeworthy talking hipster teenage characters and please no children! Everything below 16 is simply misplaced in a fighting game. (Street) fighting is a serious thing but that's the other big issue with today's fighting games, they don't take themselves serious. When they punch and kick each other, there's no harm, no pain, instead stupid smiles and cuddling. Not that Street Fighter 2 was a very serious game but it definitely has contexture for certain deepness. |
Super street fighter 2 was my most played game on Sega Genesis. too bad I had no one to challenge Me. I played the cpu till I was finally able to beat it at hardest difficulty and with losing any fights.
I later started playing super street fighter 2 turbo on fightcade have 400 hours in. Yea Ryu is one of my face characters of all time. And felt the same way you did. Only sikero was only able to give me that same feeling.
