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In my house, our first Super Nintendo game was Street Fighter II. We've been a Capcom supporting faction for the longest, but there's one gripe that always pissed me off as a kid and still does to this day...

Did it ever irk anyone else that when you cranked up the difficulty in Capcom games, not only does it make the AI harder but it ALSO makes them hit increasingly harder!?

I remember dying from just one Yoga Noogie, as we called it, from Dhalsim because the computer was a bastage, dying in four hits from Ken, and just being disgusted with this... Anyhow, discuss? ;D

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Did it ever irk anyone else that when you cranked up the difficulty in Capcom games, not only does it make the AI harder but it ALSO makes them hit increasingly harder!?

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Did it ever irk anyone else that when you cranked up the difficulty in Capcom games, not only does it make the AI harder but it ALSO makes them hit increasingly harder!?


Mmmhh, I don't know, I always play my Capcom fighting games at the hardest difficulty, it's like a rule over here...

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[this message was edited by Burning Kyo on Fri 31 May 11:09]

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Mmmhh, I don't know, I always play my Capcom fighting games at the hardest difficulty, it's like a rule over here...

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Mmmhh, I don't know, I always play my Capcom fighting games at the hardest difficulty, it's like a rule over here...


I dont go to max difficulty settings, but I set it between normal and maximum difficulty. I'm not that good of a cap player.

But... I remember in the old days of SFII, if you beat the game with a low difficulty, then you wouldn't see the ending? Does Capcom still do this with their fighters? Of course, I never tried.

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There's no or few difference between 1 star difficulty 'n 8 stars difficulty in many Capcom games (e.g. : SF 3.1, M!JG, Jojo's BA, ..etc).

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Did it ever irk anyone else that when you cranked up the difficulty in Capcom games, not only does it make the AI harder but it ALSO makes them hit increasingly harder!?

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But... I remember in the old days of SFII, if you beat the game with a low difficulty, then you wouldn't see the ending? Does Capcom still do this with their fighters? Of course, I never tried.

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There's no or few difference between 1 star difficulty 'n 8 stars difficulty in many Capcom games (e.g. : SF 3.1, M!JG, Jojo's BA, ..etc).


Did I forget to mention I was asking about old school games? Go back and play some SNES SF2 and you'll see!

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for some reason, i have a tougher time playing SNK games with hardest difficulty, especially against counter characters. Kasumi is SOOOOO evil in kof 99. "HAOH-sho-koh-ken!" (or a similar bigass super) she rolls past and kicks my ass. i attack her -- counter. i throw a projectile -- dodge. she's so damn mean. i dunno, maybe it's just me

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[this message was edited by Freeter on Fri 31 May 20:16]

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In my house, our first Super Nintendo game was Street Fighter II. We've been a Capcom supporting faction for the longest, but there's one gripe that always pissed me off as a kid and still does to this day...

Did it ever irk anyone else that when you cranked up the difficulty in Capcom games, not only does it make the AI harder but it ALSO makes them hit increasingly harder!?

I remember dying from just one Yoga Noogie, as we called it, from Dhalsim because the computer was a bastage, dying in four hits from Ken, and just being disgusted with this... Anyhow, discuss? ;D

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In my house, our first Super Nintendo game was Street Fighter II. We've been a Capcom supporting faction for the longest, but there's one gripe that always pissed me off as a kid and still does to this day...

Did it ever irk anyone else that when you cranked up the difficulty in Capcom games, not only does it make the AI harder but it ALSO makes them hit increasingly harder!?

I remember dying from just one Yoga Noogie, as we called it, from Dhalsim because the computer was a bastage, dying in four hits from Ken, and just being disgusted with this... Anyhow, discuss? ;D

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Nah, Kasumi's an UGLY GIRL!!!

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Seriously, counters are seriously overpowered in KOF. Kasumi, Mary, and May Lee shouldn't be able to counter supers.

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LOL!!!! i remember those demonic Yoga Noogies on the hardest difficulty

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PS : I'm surely traumatize by Jojo'BA difficulty ^_^'

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for some reason, i have a tougher time playing SNK games with hardest difficulty, especially against counter characters. Kasumi is SOOOOO evil in kof 99. "HAOH-sho-koh-ken!" (or a similar bigass super) she rolls past and kicks my ass. i attack her -- counter. i throw a projectile -- dodge. she's so damn mean. i dunno, maybe it's just me

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I always play on the hardest difficulty as well. As for Evil Kasui in '99, that's because she has those damn counters and, in the hands of a high powered AI, are god-like. I dislike games where they throw in a Counter Character and, because they "know" every move you're about to or going to do by your inputs, decide they're going to counter each thing. Bastard AI...

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Jump in, but don't attack. Kasumi tries to counter and eats the biggest combo you have when you land. Jump back and repeat until she's dead. It's the classical "anti-Geese trick". Works 80% of the time, at least.

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And SF2 Turbo was wack. To this day, I have nothing but the utmost awe at anyone who actually got any kind of ending on this game. Both because it was breathtakingly difficult, and because any one who actually spent the hundreds of dollars required to do this has serious psychological problems.

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On the old games, yes, the CPU did more damage on the higher difficulty levels. For some it was a slight gradient, though at the highest level the CPU almost always did twice as much damage as you did. This applies for all versions of SF2 and Alpha 2 for you.


And SF2 Turbo was wack. To this day, I have nothing but the utmost awe at anyone who actually got any kind of ending on this game. Both because it was breathtakingly difficult, and because any one who actually spent the hundreds of dollars required to do this has serious psychological problems.


The original Turbo (aka Hyper Fighting, or HF) was quite a jump in difficulty. It took quite a while for most of us to handle the CPU. After a while, people could decimate the CPU with Ken and Ryu, but everyone else was still a challenge (and remains so to this day - I can't beat the arcade game consisently with one coin with my best character, Bison, despite the fact that I have algorithms against every character).

However, HF's difficulty was NOTHING compared to Super [SF2] Turbo. I don't care what anybody says, ST is the hardest fighting game *ever*. The CPU *always* knows what move to use to counter you, it tick throws like hell (watch as Dhalsim, Honda and Blanka remove 50% of your life with every hold even though you're mashing like crazy to escape), and of course, it does twice the damage you do! I can't even come close to finishing this game on the easiest difficulty level (I couldn't tell the difference between Very Easy and Very Hard, actually) with anyone except Vega, who has simple stupid patterns he can use! Bleah.

Mind you, beating the CPU isn't necessarily a sign that you know how to play the game (and conversely, *not* being able to beat the CPU doesn't mean that you *don't* know how to play the game). It just means you know how to exploit AI routines. But ST was so hard, it almost demanded that you have some competancy in order to get past the first few opponents.

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