Earlier today I caught up with various 1v1 fighting game news and found a little bit of info regarding the latest bugs and glitches to be found in the broken mess that is Street Fighter X Tekken (amusingly, the first draft of this article mentioned “1v2” fighting games in the first sentence, but such a typo would be acceptable in SFxT.) Now, I’m not a big fan of the game even when it’s working correctly – Pair Play is still all sorts of amazing fun, but I still get a bit miffed at not being able to block certain things that I think I should be able to block. However, there have been lots of weird glitches that freeze up the game in the middle of a match, and whilst a few of them might happen under very specific circumstances that expert players have discovered, others might be more likely to happen by accident in any sort of match irrespective of player skill level. My understanding of one of the more recent glitches is that if Rolento’s knife hits another projectile, the game will lock up, or freeze, or whatever terminology you want to use. As I said, a lot of these glitches occur under specific conditions and are hard to recreate by accident, but one projectile colliding into another is hardly a rare occurrence in Capcom fighting games; projectiles are used by both players quite a lot in order to keep up the pressure, or dissuade jump-ins, or create some distance and breathing room. Another reason to use a projectile is to stop an opponent’s projectile in it’s tracks; it’s quite a common tactic and would be used in matches between Ryu and Rolento, so you can see why people might think that this is a more severe bug. Obviously I’m a pretty average player (of SFxT and of fighting games in general) so I’m generally staying away from the more in-depth discussion, but with this bug and others being discovered it doesn’t make the game look good.

So why would I be interested in continuing to invest in the game, buying MSPoints cards to spend on costumes, gems and eventually characters? Well, I haven’t had that many bugs happen to me whilst I’m playing, so I guess I’ve been unaware of this kind of stuff, but even when you ignore the bugs and glitches, there are still various aspects of the game that I find disappointing compared to the way something like Super SF4 AE plays. Most of my issues with the game are personal and I imagine most people don’t have the same qualms, but part of me thinks that once the rest of the game is unlocked – once the rest of the DLC is released – there might be new opportunities open for me to improve a little more, which is why I’m kind of interested in the future content. There’s still plenty of content available on XBL and SEN completely unrelated to fighting games that I’m kind of interested in as well; I was thinking of getting the PSP game Corpse Party, I was looking at Games on Demand on Xbox Live since I might have enough points to stretch to something like Resident Evil 4 or Mass Effect (even though I’d only be buying the former because my previous experiences were with the PC and PS2 versions, and I’d only be buying the latter because of peer pressure from friends online and offline) and of course there’s stuff on XBLA as well. Anyway, hopefully I’ll get around to buying something soon… as opposed to continually talking about buying stuff. Until next time, thanks for reading.