{"id":10131,"date":"2023-05-24T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T09:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/pushing-buttons-street-fighter-6-is-a-perfect-ko-for-both-newbies-and-longtime-fans\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T09:37:19","slug":"pushing-buttons-street-fighter-6-is-a-perfect-ko-for-both-newbies-and-longtime-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/pushing-buttons-street-fighter-6-is-a-perfect-ko-for-both-newbies-and-longtime-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Street Fighter 6 is a perfect KO for both newbies and longtime fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: I suck at fighters, but the delightfully camp latest in the franchise is deliberately designed to be easy on new players \u2013 for once<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I got my first job on a games magazine, there were a few games on constant rotation at my grubby office, and at after-pub gatherings in the even grubbier flats my colleagues and I lived in: Pro Evo, Bomberman, and Street Fighter. Unfortunately, I sucked at all of them. Street Fighter was especially embarrassing for me, as an eager-to-prove-myself 16-year-old, because I could just never get my hands around the movesets and controls for all the different characters. I was a perennial button-masher, and I was humiliated so regularly that it put me off fighting games for life.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I have always greatly admired<em> <\/em>Street Fighter, and its players. It is a stunningly energetic game full of stylish caricatures whose movement and swagger are fascinating to look at, especially in the hands of skilled competitors. I have watched fighting game tournaments in awe, and seen winners demolish opponents with deft combinations of reaction speed, on-the-fly strategising and seemingly unnatural powers of foresight. It is the perfect esport: matches are easy to follow, over in just a few minutes, and thrilling to behold. The stylistic flourishes that Capcom is so good at \u2013 flamboyant animation, moving backdrops, <em>the outfits \u2013 <\/em>only add to the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/may\/24\/pushing-buttons-street-fighter-6-preview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4b1b0b176bcda058bbf70fbd4d693928f35e35b6\/61_0_1799_1080\/master\/1799.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2228b0908749aa74479d59cbdb16e720\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: Street Fighter 6 is a perfect KO for both newbies and longtime fans\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: I suck at fighters, but the delightfully camp latest in the franchise is deliberately designed to be easy on new players \u2013 for once<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWhen I got my first job on a games magazine, there were a few games on constant rotation at my grubby office, and at after-pub gatherings in the even grubbier flats my colleagues and I lived in: Pro Evo, Bomberman, and Street Fighter. Unfortunately, I sucked at all of them. Street Fighter was especially embarrassing for me, as an eager-to-prove-myself 16-year-old, because I could just never get my hands around the movesets and controls for all the different characters. I was a perennial button-masher, and I was humiliated so regularly that it put me off fighting games for life.<br \/>\nThat said, I have always greatly admired Street Fighter, and its players. It is a stunningly energetic game full of stylish caricatures whose movement and swagger are fascinating to look at, especially in the hands of skilled competitors. I have watched fighting game tournaments in awe, and seen winners demolish opponents with deft combinations of reaction speed, on-the-fly strategising and seemingly unnatural powers of foresight. It is the perfect esport: matches are easy to follow, over in just a few minutes, and thrilling to behold. The stylistic flourishes that Capcom is so good at \u2013 flamboyant animation, moving backdrops, the outfits \u2013 only add to the spectacle. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: I suck at fighters, but the delightfully camp latest in the franchise is deliberately designed to be easy on new players \u2013 for once Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here When I got my first job on a games magazine, there were a few games on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/pushing-buttons-street-fighter-6-is-a-perfect-ko-for-both-newbies-and-longtime-fans\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: Street Fighter 6 is a perfect KO for both newbies and longtime fans<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}