check it out its a Newgrounds Flash, but one of the best. I think everyone will enjoy it no matter what, sorry if you already saw it as well or if its old. Check out Adam Phillips other stuff as well if you want, or if you don't want to watch the movie then I guess you can just twiddle your thumbs or go prevent forest fires or something. Ok fine if you dont wanna watch it then you can read this funny story.
The other day I was going through my demos on my 360, I saw that there were some arcade games on it, so i checked 'em out. I played the Street Fighter II demo, it was pretty good... I guess. Ok so first of all the 360 has a terrible D-pad.
As you can see, it's kinda like one giant button but has 4 little nooks popping out for the directions, its pretty poor overall and probably the only really big negative aspect about the 360 controller. I play fighting games with a d-pad, well 2-d ones at least, and not to brag, but i am pretty good at Street Fighter and know most of the moves, I play with Ken or Ryu by the way.
So, I start playing, I like to open up a match with a hurricane kick in the face, so i press down, back and kick, but because the d-pad sucks and the game is very sensitive, I couldn't pull it off! It took me like a bajillion tries and my opponenet, another Ryu was just sending out haduken blue fireballs at me and pissing me off. I finally nailed it and then I miss... motherf***ing g0d dammit piece of s***. Anyways I then try a haduken fireball, down, forward and punch, it doesn't work either! Ok so I resort to the analog stick (yes I was ashamed I left my purist s t y l e of play for a little bit) but the analog stick wasn't much better either, sometimes Ryu would jump when I just wanted him to walk up or he would crouch randomly.
In the end, I have determined 2-d fighting games are difficult to play on the 360 because of the d-pad, but now with Street Fighter 4 coming out sometime in the future I am worried, I may to invest in a lap gamepad or some special 8 direction sitck peripheral.
Wow I wrote a lot, I ment it to be a short blog, oh well. Don't forget to floss.
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