One of the cardinal sins involved in creating a fighting game is crafting characters that are just plain overpowered, and I'm not talking about the bosses. Even though it seems every single fighting game nowadays can't go on without a bullshit final fight, that's not the subject for today. That's been done to death.
I'm talking about the fighters that you can actually play. I'm talking about the characters who are just plain unbalanced.
<color=blue>Which ones really get on your nerves?
I've got plenty. First, I'll refer to Street Fighter IV. Two characters who come to mind are Sagat and Abel, both of whom have earned my eternal ire. Well, maybe not Sagat. He's overpowered, yes, but in comparison to Abel, he's fair. Who the hell gives a grappling-based character (Abel) a quick-as-fuck roll towards his opponent, a roll that makes him invulnerable to everything except a grab, and an unblockable throw? I call "bullshit."
Second, I'd like to point out a couple of assholes in Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom. Being that I've never played a Vs. title before this one, I expect I'll get my ass handed to me on the highest difficulty by most characters. Ippastuman and Morrigan in particular can fuck me sideways 'til I feel the hot oven mitts of hatred smother me. However, from what I can tell, they're not unbalanced so much as just plain good.
The people who do strike me as ingloriously cheap are Gold Lightan and Saki. I hate them both with a fiery passion, the former because of his dominance of close combat (you know, that one thing around which the entire fucking game is based), and the latter because of her cheap laser-cannon-and-grenade-and-super-laser-blast defense shield that is just a little too impenetrable for my liking.
I'm talking about the fighters that you can actually play. I'm talking about the characters who are just plain unbalanced.
<color=blue>Which ones really get on your nerves?
I've got plenty. First, I'll refer to Street Fighter IV. Two characters who come to mind are Sagat and Abel, both of whom have earned my eternal ire. Well, maybe not Sagat. He's overpowered, yes, but in comparison to Abel, he's fair. Who the hell gives a grappling-based character (Abel) a quick-as-fuck roll towards his opponent, a roll that makes him invulnerable to everything except a grab, and an unblockable throw? I call "bullshit."
Second, I'd like to point out a couple of assholes in Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom. Being that I've never played a Vs. title before this one, I expect I'll get my ass handed to me on the highest difficulty by most characters. Ippastuman and Morrigan in particular can fuck me sideways 'til I feel the hot oven mitts of hatred smother me. However, from what I can tell, they're not unbalanced so much as just plain good.
The people who do strike me as ingloriously cheap are Gold Lightan and Saki. I hate them both with a fiery passion, the former because of his dominance of close combat (you know, that one thing around which the entire fucking game is based), and the latter because of her cheap laser-cannon-and-grenade-and-super-laser-blast defense shield that is just a little too impenetrable for my liking.