Super Street Fighter IV's final boss being made even tougher to beat

You're thinking of Activision. I'm sick of Capcom, too, tho.

the boss is so cheap lol

iam mean literaly its like pre played

i bee hiting him and it cut and i appear in his arm torwing me around like wtf?

Seth in SFIV is actually not all that hard. The first time I played him, he was tough, but once you realize that he's just a program, all it takes is figuring out how your character can take advantage of his programming flaws.

For example, I use C.Viper and on the hardest difficulty, all you need to do is wait in the crouching block position until he does that spin kick at you. Once he does that, just spam LP thunder knuckle and you'll constantly get him no matter what he tries to do.

Now, as a counter example, I also use El Fuerte and on a human player, you can easily win with a good mix up of slides, front slams, back slams, and throws, but vs Seth as a program, he will ALWAYS know what you're going to do... the best way to down Seth as El Fuerte is to wait until he jumps in at you (which he will do constantly) and counter it.

Pretty soon the internet kiddies won't have anymore companies to boycott by next year at this rate. Idiots.

I as well had a hard time with Seth on my maiden fight with him, but weeks later I no longer spent 2 hours trying to beat him.

I don't remember where I read this, but the best way to beat him is to invoke Sweepfest '09!! You have to be close enough to sweep but not so close that he can easily grab you.
That's the surefire way to defeat him with characters you may not be so good with, but when it comes to your go-to fighter, you have no excuse.

That & I place matches to 1 round & 30 seconds!

Oh, he's hard, alright. But as stated above, he gets a bit easier once you figure out the AI flaws. The easiest thing to do is play a spacing game and bait him into the crouching Dhalsim-stretch punch. Wide open for jump kick / foot sweep. It's still tough to execute, and you have to have a good knowledge of evasive tactics should you break this pattern, but it should enable pretty much any character to win.

I'm not sure I like the idea of this guy being even cheaper, though. There are clearly times where even in his current incarnation, you get CPU-assisted compensation. Or at least pro-level ability to pull moves. That spinning piledriver makes you want to scream sometimes.

If the only way to beat a character is to exploit AI flaws, that character is poorly constructed. And Seth is a pretty generic and forgettable final boss design anyway, whose only memorable quality is the degree that his cheapness makes you hate the developers.

I'm glad to see that he's getting some attention from the development team. The optimist in me hopes this will result in a better rounded version of the character. As it is, he's by far the least compelling character, and the only character I'd advocate removing for SSFIV.

There's a way to beat seth easy without being hurt. Every fighting game has a way to beat the last boss because they are program to do the same bullshit moves over and over again. All you need to do is knock him down once and get close to him before he gets up and then when he's about to get up like 1 sec after you jump over he will automatly do a uppercut punch or his special and you just low kick knock him out or grab his ass and just loop it over and over again lol. If you have trouble just look at youtube how is done XD

Seth was cheap when the game just came out... But now that I've been playing for a while and actually using SFIV tactics. . . SETH is a CUPCAKE. . . I play arcade mode on hard all the time...

But if anyone is "STILL" having problems with Seth the CPU then you prolly won't have any chance what so ever against an actual SETH player

Agreed. The thought of playing through all the characters only to get to a cheap end boss. Well, needless to say I don't have half of the characters unlocked. Even on easy it is ridiculous.

It isn't that it's hard, but it's boring. I don't want to play arcade mode with characters I don't have fun with just to get all the characters in the game. I don't buy fighting games to go through arcade mode over and over again; I buy it to play against other players.

This is a problem I had with Guitar Hero and Rock Band; you had to go through the story mode to get every song, which can be time consuming and boring if you just want to pick up the game and pop it in to play with friends. And thankfully, the developers fixed that by making all songs at the start.

He sure is a fighter...

on the street.

*spacebar*

You play the Street Fighter series for the CPU boss fights?

I do.

Agreed. And his name is Seth. The boss' name... is Seth. It makes it very easy to hate him without even fighting him when you see a picture of him and know his name is Seth.

Gill would punk Seth all day long.

Lets just pray they don't decide to go into DOA boss syndrome. Having some sort of end boss fight where they can morph into various shapes, take 2/3rds of you life with a 3 hit combo, and has a series of unblockable attacks, and having kick your ass with G sized breasts.

Yeah the Boss at the end of DOA3 was damn near impossible

So it's just me that's irritated by Capcom, then? lol. I seem to remember a lot of angry commenters after they announced Resident Evil 5 versus mode, hmm? oh, well. down-vote all you like.

yes. he'll also kick your kittens/puppies and beat your gf/wife.

yeah, but it was ok back in 19fucking94 because they didn't have DLC on the damn SNES. Capcom has repeatedly shown an insistence on clinging to outdated gaming conventions, and I, for one, am getting kinda tired of it. oh, I'm sorry that was supposed to be typed IN ALL CAPS!!!11!!1 OUTRAGE!!1!

When you write in all caps, a kitten goes deaf.

and a bat goes blind. not that YOU care...

Meh, bats can't see that well in the first place.

@Sly

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that was the joke, retard. that's why i said "not that you care"

Yep. And I used to think M. Bison was cheap back in the SF2, until I learned to block instead of just trying to rush him.

You're right. Edited.