"YOU FOUGHT THE REST, NOW FIGHT THE BEST!"

I love that every fighter throws in a big fat dude now.  Rufus is the worst but the guy in Tekken 6 was pretty lame as well.

""YOU FOUGHT THE REST, NOW FIGHT THE MOST ANNOYING!" "

Yup, along with el Fuerte, worst additions to this game.  Street Fighter has always been known for balanced fighting, but balanced characters, thats another story.  With these two retards in the game, it makes me feel like they failed to capture the badassness of the SF2, and now the game seems decidedly japanese.
Fuck you el Fuerte, fuck you.

Rufus is awesome.

Ha, I think that guys funny, not this Bob shit from Tekken.

It's meant to be a joke character. It's the ultimate redition of an annoying, fat, over confident American.

"It's meant to be a joke character. It's the ultimate redition of an annoying, fat, over confident American. "

I don't like any of the 4 "new" SFIV characters. I think I hate El Fuerte more than Rufus though.

Rufus my be a little annoying, but he is fucking god with his EX Messiah Kick.

" It's meant to be a joke character. It's the ultimate redition of an annoying, fat, over confident American. "

" @Symphony: What about E. Honda? "

dive kick spam sucks, so effective if you don't have a dp.

He's the reason I just stopped playing in the middle of arcade mode, an hour after renting the game, whipped the disk out the window, walked outside, loved how blu-rays can't break, brought it over to blockbuster and bitched till they let me rent something else.

Rufus resembles most Yun and Yang's play style from 3rd strike. He's actually been dominating the current tournament scene. Do not take Rufus lightly. He's probably the best Non-fireball character in the game. I have no opinion on his general character personality or whatever. Street Fighter 4 is a competitive fighting game from JAPAN so it's going to be as Japanese as possible.

I don't really see the complaint? Rufus playing footsies is all I can really gather from your description of what he was doing. This combined with random dive kicks make for pretty normal Rufus play. Rufus is top tier character IMO, if you think he's a joke character then the joke is on you, he will run over you.

well.....you can always try blocking......the worst thing that can happen to you is getting thrown. I'd much get the chance to tech a throw than give rufus a free combo because I couldn't stop hitting buttons

Teching throws on Rufus is a death sentence, since whenever you think he's throwing here comes another instant dive kick. A lot of people habitually block high when they see dive kicks coming, but you can block them low. This is my advice to you.

Street Fighter has always had dumb characters, most of them make it look like a stereotype deathmatch. They have a character outline first when they make new ones, and build the moves from there. 
The more you fight the ridiculous looking ones the more you zone out the jiggle physics and focus on the barrage of attacks Rufus can get out at a moments notice.

" Teching throws on Rufus is a death sentence, since whenever you think he's throwing here comes another instant dive kick. A lot of people habitually block high when they see dive kicks coming, but you can block them low. This is my advice to you. "

 
Yeah but, any idea about the dude's bizarre play style? Come across that before? "

 
Yeah but, any idea about the dude's bizarre play style? Come across that before? "

 
Yeah but, any idea about the dude's bizarre play style? Come across that before? "

   

"  HEY LOOK AT ME I'M AN ANNOYING ASSHOLE. "

" Well this thread worked out great. "

Here's what you need to do: Pick Rufus. Start the fight. Mash "down" repeatedly. You won't stop laughing.

So wait, he's just dancing back and forth and crouching repeatedly, and you hit the boiler over this? You're pretty sensitive, I usually wait until I get my ass whooped to complain about how the game is busted.

In essence, Street Fighter is ridiculous regardless.

" Street Fighter has always had dumb characters, most of them make it look like a stereotype deathmatch. They have a character outline first when they make new ones, and build the moves from there. The more you fight the ridiculous looking ones the more you zone out the jiggle physics and focus on the barrage of attacks Rufus can get out at a moments notice. "

" I'm cool with all the 'Rufus sucks' talk, but does nobody have an idea about this dude's shakin' all over play style? "