Man, I love Street Fighter IV and I love this video.
Annoying people with Dan is sometimes more fun than actually fighting properly. My favourite character is Cammy, I’d say I’m best with her, but I have more fun playing Dan. He is, without a doubt, the worst character in the game, but for some reason I get on better with him than “good” characters like Sagat or Ryu. Maybe it’s his jovial attitude rubbing off on me, I mean, I don’t really care whether I win or not when I’m Dan, but when I’m Cammy and I narrowly lose to someone I really should have beat I get SO MAD sometimes. Playing Dan sometimes has this RAGE effect on my opponents. Often, when people see I’m Dan, they taunt a lot. Guess they figure Dan is a taunt machine so they taunt to make my taunts seem less offensive to them. But when I start air taunting over their fireballs and putting my finger in my ear then dashing off they sometimes lose it, go all out on the offence and leave themselves open, wildly reeling off move after easily avoided move. If they are using mics I can hear the RAGE – If they are not using mics, their reckless jumping gives them away!
Something that annoys me with Street Fighter IV is the amount of Ryu/Ken/Akuma/Sagat players. Sure, you get the occasional Bison, the occasional Gouken (although he is pretty similar to Ryu/Ken/Akuma), but in a ranked match I don’t think I’ve ever played against a Honda, a C.Viper or a Gen. Actually, Gen is understandable as he’s rubbish. But you see where I’m going with this. Most people choose to learn the easy characters. Although Dan is semi-easy to learn, he does low damage and most of his moves are easily tradable. Unlike Ryu’s Shoryuken which is mostly invincible, I always seem to trade hits with Dan’s version. I like his Ultra though, it’s very easy to surprise people with, and very useful against an enemy’s whiffed (missed) move. One day, in a competitive match, I will combo a match winning Gadoken into the Super Taunt!
So, to summarise, I play mostly Cammy, which usually makes me angry, Dan, who is super fun but can be hard work to scrape a win with, and to mix it up a bit I sometimes play Rose, if the Ryu/Ken/Akuma/Sagat are not very experienced they fall into the Soul Reflect, Soul Throw trap very easily. I’m hoping the rumours are true and Adon is in Super Street Fighter IV, he was awesome in the Alpha series.
