yes we were raped by rolento, rufus, and all the bs characters. we didnt spend that many time playing match, although i spend some time offline against my brother.
my impression is the game is pretty good offline but online its a bit laggy and the sound glitch does bother some people, so online is pretty bad at the moment. gameplay wise, this game is played more a lot aggressive than super turtle 4, jumpins have much lower risk than sf4 and some characters (especially on the tekken side) have very little answer for it, hence this is why rolento and rufus are so powerful.
fireballs are about as useful as they were in alpha and cvs2, you can kind throw in around but some characters can get around it without jumping easily, its more of the mid range poking tool than a true fireball trap. this also requires some decision making of when to tag, the red life regens very fast.
i think this is better than sf4, but i am not enjoying it much so far. all the characters i want to play have major problems beyond hard combos. they all have crap normals, crap range or speed and non-existent anti air options. i dont really want to play other characters but i am really to struggling to find my foot in the game, people seems to be able to jumpy jump and scrub out wins against me.
i am not having fun with it, but i am going to grind some hours in training mode to find some bs and long combos for my characters to counter the bs that is sf characters and jump. maybe beating up some scrubs will make me feel better after i put some serious work in.
yes so its mvc3> sfxt> sf4 for me too