With thanks to Pika, I rediscovered the joys of playing Virtua Fighter 5. Now that's a proper fighting game right there. Once pike gets his stick sorted out we're gonna have some epic clashes that'll crack the skies and part the seas. Or make me throw my controller away in rage, whatever comes first. Played against 2 Japanese players after him though and got thoroughly spanked by them. But they complimented me afterwards. That's the cool thing about VF's multiplayer, you really do get pitted against players across the world if you wanted to. Sure the connections are bad, but I dunno, I think it's pretty cool. And I've never come across another rude VF player before. They always send 'gg' messages afterwards or reply to anything I send them, the competition seems quite sporting.