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6/29/2025, 9:07:21 AM
>>11833080
If you grew up with the chronological progression of playing 1-3 and then moving on to IV you usually liked it because it was a natural evolution from the first 3 games. No one thought having more responsive controls and a difficulty level somewhere below "assrape" was a problem. If anything, those were improvements
But as edgy contrarianism and stockholm syndrome regarding difficulty began to take root amongst zoomers who played the games out of sequence IV became a particular target because it's the only classicvania not to have the rigid control scheme and it has the couple gimmicky "look what the SNES can do" levels so there's multiple things for self-anointed purists to get butthurt about.
Basically, it was about the time when people stopped actually enjoying things and started trying to win online merit badges for liking older or harder shit just because it was older or harder.
If you grew up with the chronological progression of playing 1-3 and then moving on to IV you usually liked it because it was a natural evolution from the first 3 games. No one thought having more responsive controls and a difficulty level somewhere below "assrape" was a problem. If anything, those were improvements
But as edgy contrarianism and stockholm syndrome regarding difficulty began to take root amongst zoomers who played the games out of sequence IV became a particular target because it's the only classicvania not to have the rigid control scheme and it has the couple gimmicky "look what the SNES can do" levels so there's multiple things for self-anointed purists to get butthurt about.
Basically, it was about the time when people stopped actually enjoying things and started trying to win online merit badges for liking older or harder shit just because it was older or harder.
6/19/2025, 5:12:01 AM
>>11808648
The rumor about Sheng Long in Street Fighter II was persistent in the pre-internet era because despite EGM openly acknowledging it was a prank the whole time most kids heard about it from other kids who were convinced it was real. The rumor spread faster than the truth did, and there were multiple versions, which just added to the confusion.
The kid who told me about it insisted that not only could you not lose a match before M. Bison, you had to get a perfect in every round. And despite this seeming literally impossible he claimed to have done it with Zangief once. Furthermore, he claimed Zangief was the ONLY character you could realistically do it with because of the 360 pile driver grab, which you could abuse against the CPU. I kinda suspected he was full of shit but he *was* really fucking good with Zangief so it didn't seem completely implausible.
The rumor about Sheng Long in Street Fighter II was persistent in the pre-internet era because despite EGM openly acknowledging it was a prank the whole time most kids heard about it from other kids who were convinced it was real. The rumor spread faster than the truth did, and there were multiple versions, which just added to the confusion.
The kid who told me about it insisted that not only could you not lose a match before M. Bison, you had to get a perfect in every round. And despite this seeming literally impossible he claimed to have done it with Zangief once. Furthermore, he claimed Zangief was the ONLY character you could realistically do it with because of the 360 pile driver grab, which you could abuse against the CPU. I kinda suspected he was full of shit but he *was* really fucking good with Zangief so it didn't seem completely implausible.
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