Viewtiful Joe Rashid Skin.. That's kinda cool.
I'm very happy to see this. For all my complaining I'm a SF player at heart, and if they handle the balance patch well and add some new content we will hopefully have a better game with a healthier meta and at least *some* new blood trickling in to the scene.
Id like to see them implement a kind of Primary-Secondary balance scheme, where once a year we get a large balance patch designed to change to game in significant ways while keeping characters true to their purpose and basic gameplans - ie Karin isn't going to get a sonic boom and become a zoner or someshit - but the meta receives a useful shakeup that keeps the game marginally fresh moving forward. In a perfect world this would be accomplished by adding small systemic changes that slightly increased the complexity of things moving forward, allowing each new primary update to add options to what already exists.. Then a secondary patch that falls approx 3-4ish months after the first and is designed to iron out wrinkles in the initial shakeup, tone down anyone made stupid, beef up anyone flagging, etc. This would be a very SMALL patch. Nothing that drastically alters gameplay *at all*, but just rounds off any rough edges. They kind of did this for s2, and I'd just like it to be made official.
Game is looking good moving forward then. The UI looks great and if they *WERE* to pull the input lag down even further, I think the community as a whole would be so damn in love they could throw extra terrible Chun-Li costumes at us that we'd all buy up out of thankfulness, if nothing else.
I'm excited. I just hope I can find my motivation to play again. I'm hoping Zeku turns out to be interesting - maybe that can get me back. I mean, 100% I'll be back, with bells on, for s3, but in the meantime..
Maybe I should just go back to Karin.
