HOW IS THIS FAIR!? Akuma Super Street Fighter II Turbo Arcade Max Difficulty!

[@VesperArcade]

I usually post all my retro stuff on my other channel but I had to make an exception on this run lol. It was just too funny. If you guys are interested in more retro games including fighting games you can check out my other channel here kzbin.infovideos

[@orlanzo2621]

I see you're unfamiliar with how busted and broken the A.I is in the American version of ST Vesper, lmao. It's so bad that i don't even play the game by myself anymore, i only play against other people, lol.

[@amg4150]

Does all the repetitive button mashing damage the PS4? 😅

[@doom3926]

“How is this fair?” Akuma: It’s not. Now gimme your fucking quarters.

[@ETRHeydrich]

😂😂 he straight up mugs you.

[@Sho_Ryu_Ken]

LMAO

[@johntoye6602]

That version of the game is so rough, it is beyond words. Well played.

[@88pe]

5:32 For the manliest scream you've ever heard.

[@ed-vardh5820]

jajaja

[@gizmoduck5919]

😂

[@rustymixer2886]

😆

[@nyfinest017]

When Akuma was created, designers gave him a theme due to the fear and overwhelming power he had. The Shungoku-satsu was added because he allowed it.

[@rustymixer2886]

Music is so 80s evil karate movie guy 😆

[@AegisKHAOS]

Memories of playing this in the arcades. You bet it scared the crap out of me the first time when I saw both the damage and the combos the AI did.

[@TONBOX777]

I feel like the AI can read and react to player's commands in millisecond.

[@KionKamon]

It really feels that way. One of the roughest versions of AI in this game is in Hyper SF2. The difficulty settings in that meant nothing. You could have it set to easiest, and the game would laugh and still wreck you super fast. The way I played that was on PS2 through the 15th Anniversary Collection.

[@Mitjitsu]

Akuma was specifically given an input reading ability.

[@priestskorge]

​@@Mitjitsu Bro all ai reads inputs in fighting games.

[@doom5895]

@@priestskorge unless your playing online shits fucked probably why I don't play fighting games too often

[@myselfthethird3393]

its because it does

[@Longlostpuss]

On any version of SF2 you simply couldn't fight Zangief normally and expect to win nine times out of ten. The go to tactic was just neutral jumping and hitting him with either a heavy kick or a heavy punch in rhythm with his approach repeatedly, but it was character hurt box dependant. The alternative was using the back throw tactic, but your timing and spacing had to be precise. Try to fight him normally? Forget it, you either got SPD repeatedly grabbing your neutral whiff from about two miles across the screen, or you got the face pump of death like seen in this video. Every character in that series had a specific tactic to beat him, because the game was actually exploited as being deliberately broken. Like really, the computer literally cheats by warping and changing hit box and frame properties mid match, someone did a video on it a good while back.

[@HanzoHimemiya]

Non projectile characters: spam poking or rushdown specials projectile characters: spam his projectile crossup fake anti air pattern and Jumping and Crouching Roundhouse is general one

[@Longlostpuss]

@@HanzoHimemiya Yep

[@user-gc4xg9fp2f]

Yeah man you were plus 50.but no mr zangief says that you are -50 , they dont care about frame rules .

[@jumpsteady1777]

I tried so many chars and appraoches on max difficulty until I just played stupid. I remembered thinking zangief was the easiest as a kid then remembered all I did was heavy jump kick with Chun li lol. That absolutely is the tactic.

[@user-gc4xg9fp2f]

But the japanese version was fair tho

[@blackdarkness6798]

He had no portrait cuz he was a hidden boss basically

[@dlightfultech]

The high pitched squeal tho.

[@fissilewhistle]

It’s my favorite part about Vesper. His pain is so funny.

[@rustymixer2886]

11:00 crying happy

[@Longlostpuss]

1:38 had me cracking up. Just the way you were talking about the game and then suddenly breaks out into laugher because you just got educated on the ridiculousness of Super Turbo Zangief.

[@cardsharpHS]

Yeah I’ve played this to death on level 8 and I think Zangief and DeeJay are the real last bosses in this version lol

[@cardsharpHS]

Why is his crouching heavy kick so fast?! Because the rules of frame data basically didn’t exist in SFII’s day lol Case in point: Ryu’s stand LP on hit gives 4 frames of advantage. His crouch HK starts up in 4F, so will combo. !!!!

[@ed-vardh5820]

9:28 The origin of Mexican DP.

[@randolphthomasii7040]

Vesper and Max have legit the best reactions playing old cheesy shit lol. It's so hilarious

[@rustymixer2886]

10:55 the feeling of victory

[@JohnBham79]

I beat this on SNES on the highest difficulty without losing a round. It gave you a secret ending with some cool artwork!

[@cardsharpHS]

I did that too! People at my school didn’t believe it was possible! When Super SFII came out I managed to do it with all 16 characters!

[@PikangsFutaba]

Yup, in SF2T SNES, they give you the Champion Edition or Turbo Hyper Fighting poster from the Arcade (depending the edition mode you pick of either Hyper Fighting or Normal... also known as Champion Edition).

[@DessawHD]

I played SF2 on the anniversary collection for the first time a couple weeks ago Jesus Christ people played this competitively?? Grabs do more damage than supers shit insane

[@lilogdeeze1]

That heavy uppercut did 75 🤣🤣🤣

[@-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-]

in the Hyper/Turbo versions, counterattacking Blanka's ball attack did more damage to him.

[@cardsharpHS]

@@-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- the counter-hit weaknesses during specific moves were in World Warrior only

[@splinter1psi99]

Did he really not know this is where the theme came from? Or how OP/ broken Akuma was in SSF2T as the hidden final boss?!! It's only been 27years. Did you just start playing SF with SF4?

[@cardsharpHS]

Yes, the AI is really hard and cheats like the dickens overall (in the US/Eu version, the Japanese original is far too easy), but compared to some of the other secret ‘super bosses’ we’ve had over the years Akuma in ST isn’t that big a deal at all

[@HanzoHimemiya]

Japanese Arcade Version can eat any Player Special Spam Pattern easily

[@cardsharpHS]

@@HanzoHimemiya - How do you mean? The Japanese version of Super Turbo is only about as difficult as Super was. US ST is completely different and one of the hardest CPUs Capcom ever did.

[@HanzoHimemiya]

@@cardsharpHS I said, Spam Special or normal pokes to beat the CPU

[@user-gc4xg9fp2f]

It makes sense since japan wanted to fucking rob other countries and make the game playable only for them. I mean in the us version the cpu will 100% predict what you do cuz it knows your inputs and that was the biggest abuse of capcom .

[@blackjaguar324]

Next: Sheng Long on max difficulty.

[@aidanklobuchar1798]

I went through this a couple years ago. Always cathartic to see others suffer.

[@ABEQSTUDIOS]

HAHAHAHAHA...your screams are the computer's nectar. I almost had a nervous breakdown trying to finished street fighter 2 SNES on level 8. Took me 4 hours to beat Vega. Best video I have seen in a while. You game me some good laughs.

[@thepuppetmaster9284]

Yes that’s the reason why Akuma got banned for tournaments because he’s broken af.

[@jumpsteady1777]

8:45 is that the glitch where Blanka takes extra damage when getting hit by specials while performing a Blanka ball? I know Akuma does insane damage but that's alot. I remember seeing a video where a guile took half a Blankas life bar almost flashkicking a Blanka ball. Forget the version though

[@gonagai1359]

Vanilla SFII (World Warrior). Blanka took tons of damage if hit during Beast Ball. They fixed that on all future versions.

[@ReeceHoward06]

I don't believe you can normally rematch Akuma. And you can't lose in order to face him in the first place.

[@OmegaFujin]

You’re mistaken on the first part. But you do have to make it there without losing a single round or some shit.

[@PikangsFutaba]

@@OmegaFujin In SF2T you can actually lose a round or two, as long as you're fast to reach Bison and do other conditions (the most obvious one is that you cannot lose matches), in Hyper the round lost condition was changed to never lose a round (you need to complete at least 2 conditions... which aside of the rounds and reach Bison fast I can't remember the rest... I think one of those is get at least 2 perfects and 2 Super Combo finishers... thes Super Combo finishers condition only is enabled if you use a normal SSF2T version of the character you pick... as long as it's not Akuma himself), and also if you're playing SSF2T you can rematch as much as you want (asuming the game doesn't have enabled the option of getting instant Game Over if you lose a single match), Hyper and Ultra SF2 aren't that gentle with the player if they fail to beat Akuma. (meaning that you have to re-do the Arcade run all over again).

[@kylebennett789]

2:15 2:18 Never knew Zangief could reach super Sonic punching speeds

[@PikangsFutaba]

About rematching Akuma as a secret boss... ONLY in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo is possible, if you try to do it on Hyper or Ultra, you get stuck against Bison (meaning that you have to do the entire Arcade run all over again), and to be honest, Akuma isn't very difficult as his AI is almost the same on all "difficulties" (yeah, I said difficulty on quotes because there is little to no difference between difficulties in the Arcade version of SSF2T as long as you DON'T play the JPN version), I usually don't struggle that much against Akuma in SSF2T/Hyper and Ultra SF2, but in SFA/Zero series is another story for me.

[@lyle7836]

lol capcom even added salt in there AI that akuma threw like 10 fireballs in a row after getting anti aired

[@RagingStormX]

LMFAO @ 8:30 😂😂😭😭

[@xxnike0629xx]

This makes me wish Capcom released Ultra Street Fighter II on the PS4.

[@digitalkid5623]

Vesper always asking for blood playing these games. I like it.

[@KurohigeDTeach-yy3yk]

Why the hell is Gief's cr.hk so powerful? LMFAO

[@thegentlexylophone]

It literally has no recovery frames lol

[@maxmax9615]

Dude. You could really market your screams. They are comic gold! 😂😂😂

[@gonagai1359]

I found him annoying AF tbh

[@Renoistic]

The arcade difficulty was pure bullshit haha

[@sar-236]

Yes, until you learn how easily it is to exploit the AI on every character.

[@HanzoHimemiya]

@@sar-236 Some characters AI an be defeated easily with some crossup or special spam patterns. Non projectile characters AI's eat Poking Normals commonly

[@koolk2115]

One of my favorite versions of Street Fighter. The speed seems a tad too fast from what I remember. There is a sub menu setting to turn it down. 1 notch I think would do the trick. KOF 94 and Samurai Shodown 1-2 munched many of my quarters in 1994 as well. Good times indeed.

[@Royameadow]

In Super Turbo, Super Turbo Revival, Hyper, and HD Remix (cannot vouch for Ultra yet, as I haven't gotten to do a run where I take on him), the version of Akuma that you fight at the end (if you got up to Master Bison without Continues and get a High Score or reach him in less than 025 Minutes) is Shin Akuma, which explains why he has certain extra frames to work with for Damage Output and why he can do a Dual Aerial Hadouken while regular Akuma can't; it's fortunate that you can play as Shin Akuma in Super Turbo Revival, Hyper++ (specialized Arcade Mod of Hyper), and Ultra, especially if you want to have an easy breeze through the game on Difficulty 08, a lot of what you can do as him is definitely nasty and it's welcoming that the Japanese version of Super Turbo and all scripts for Revival even give him a proper backstory so that viewers and players can understand why the "Shadow of Akuma" is pretty much out for the blood of his normal form. (:

[@Raging_Asura]

And people still say SFV is unbalanced lmao

[@AllFlashNoDash]

Yeah once you go back and look at the old street fighter games, you'll realize how balanced V is.

[@tarekcrash9512]

Try snk bosses

[@aspreedacore]

Damn, I would never disrespect you again vesperarcade, until I beat you anyway amazing vid and besting akuma

[@jwcwyoutube]

I enjoyed the commentary more than gameplay. A total of 29 Battles 🎮🕹 😂

[@HanzoHimemiya]

SSF2X is about Player Pattern Spam to win, not memorize CPU ones

[@Stankem]

Bro you're unbelievably loud without mixing, unlistenable without headphones it peaks every 4 seconds

[@gonagai1359]

Yep. Annoying AF. Can't believe this clown has so many subs

[@wentworthmiller1890]

So the whole vid is low volume, then all of a sudden he screams! Then keeps on screaming!

[@microblast3700]

Super turbo input reading is insane

[@SegaDisneyUniverse]

Ah, back in the days when the characters were young and only using 1% of their power.🤣

[@pacershark452]

I just got Akuma on The King Of Fighters Allstars and he might as well be THIS version. He is ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE in that game..........It's SCARY.😱

[@RuhabDabeer]

3:20 😂😂😂😂

[@roastefied3309]

Zangief is actually the easiest character to beat. Just neutral jump in the corner and high kick when he gets close.

[@DerekOumu]

I still can't get to blue belt but that's the last trophy I need for this game. I had a run where all I did was jump and medium kick with Chun Li and won like 30 times in a row online. Lol

[@ShokudaikiriMitsutada]

2:19 Best part. LMAO

[@jreschke5]

This was such an enjoyable watch.

[@MuJoNeSs]

Patience = Mental Fortitude!

[@sylvestersalie3194]

I know Akuma is the fist master but the damage on that man shoryuken is just unfair and cannot be justified😂 but you still gotta love him he's the goat

[@tausenti]

This was fun to see

[@vg4917]

How many f fireballs did he throw full screen last round when near ko, like 20 in a row and air too no joke...

[@vg4917]

and heavy dp half health gone. yeah shin akuma in sfv challenges is similar...

[@ZetaGM]

Ai was straight up cheating in this game.

[@sparkydeltorro]

Just beat this version of ST for the achievement in the 30th anniversary collection and had to come here and watch someone else suffer. Absolutely ridiculous. Zangief's sweep ffs

[@johnodaz1273]

Hehe cool vid Va :-D.

[@svenkamog2232]

It's unplayable I've returned to it time and time again only to be destroyed by T. Hawk everytime and end up giving up lol...

[@damin9913]

9:08 Goddamn😱

[@belikewatersf1051]

Now this is a treat 😎🤣

[@TheBlueprintsOrlando]

Great job

[@robertmatthews9650]

What is worse? This Akuma or Gill hardest difficulty from Third Strike?

[@gonagai1359]

Gill for sure.

[@drummondjwall9509]

I think I like hyper fighting the most, this one is cool though

[@HSGDizzy]

Ono too strong bruh. Walk up spd against guile gave me high score girl vibes

[@b7ray32]

Winners don't use drugs

[@yagamiyasaki4091]

Usa difficult?? You didnt even see oceania did you???

[@Adrian-yf1zg]

The Euro arcade version is hardest cheapest

[@alexandernelson647]

Super Street Fighter 2 was programmed where the computer player automatically counters every specific attack and move the human player does. It cheats like crazy. It is faster and does more damage than the human can do using a controller or arcade stick. The game was designed to eat quarters. When ported over, the coding was never removed. I've seen many people lose. The game programmers also favored certain characters too. In the 90s, Capcom programmed their games to cheat at all costs. Street Fighter 2 and its sequels were renowned for it. They didn't make in-depth, comprehensive games. They were all about visuals, simple characters and making the game cheat to extend the playing time for the player. Because otherwise, the games would last 14 minutes long. This is why AI is bad. Imagine AI designing software, devices, robots, cars and beings where it can counter anything a human tries to do to control it. Every command, every instruction, everything. This was what The Terminator was about.

[@cosmicnous7772]

Nothing is harder than fighters history

[@TheDamienDX]

lol i feel that pain zangief so broken in that game it reason i hate that character to this day oh boy lol and cmd that he slams you to the ground i will admit that move is sick but i can see why not coming back it busted .

[@TheOne0816]

While we have normal attack buttons the AI has the same for specials. It can execute special moves without the need of inputting motions. You know the AI is sus when it can fire charged projectiles at a faster rate than you can QCF fireballs.

[@krunkcleanup2949]

Even SFA2's Shin Akuma fight isn't this insane.

[@NeoGeo822]

Wanna beat this game just get a Sega Saturn controller it's honestly easier to keep up with the Ai

[@insanebarz]

It look like it took you eight hours just to get past Zangief Bro

[@bariltrailette]

Up the difficulty only cpu can use the same move infinitely lol

[@MrLams_]

Played with a different character against everyone lol

[@d.howlett395]

10:57 playing Vega too much

[@akalyx]

watch muted @ 1.25% speed

[@systemchris]

CPU zangief Vs CPU shin akuma

[@AnAdorableWombat]

Akuma needs no portrait or intro.

[@AdaWongLover5]

This is why I can't play Street Fighter 2.

[@JohnDoe-kl8cd]

LOL EVERYTHING AKUMA DOES IS A REVERSAL

[@rperez416iw]

Playing this on my switch,this b cammy has won like 30 straight fights came here to vent

[@bogevs]

ST is king

[@mattstroble3092]

jab anti air

[@nastydaddydaddy4510]

Damn bro...stop yelling pls...so not fun like that

[@AllFlashNoDash]

The Turbo Series is THE REASON I stopped playing Street Fighter until Street Fighter IV. I went back for Alpha 3...Awesome game. The input reading on the A.I. is stupid. Not even fun. Mortal Kombat had the same problem. Cheap A.I.