First fighter I've tried to get into, just frustrating. The learning curve is fucking brutal. Maybe I'm just getting old.
This is a genre that has been around a long time my man and you are playing one of the oldest within that genre, you should give it some more time! Do you enjoy anything at all about the game? How does survival mode feel? Have you tried local multi with a friend or a significant other? There is WAY more to street fighter than the stupid LP system.
I know that the fight games community makes it seem like internet cred and FGC cred are everything with these types of games but it simply isn't true. Fighting games have a spirit to them that brings out that competitor in you like no other genre can, the fact that you are struggling to the point of frustration just proves this point. There might be a longer road ahead for you but if you in any way shape or form enjoyed what you have played, even if you lost then I urge you to push forward.
The mechanics WILL click for you.. I remember how it was for me in the early days with the SNES through Dreamcast - I thought I really knew fighting games but had only ever played friends and family. It wasn't until I started playing street fighter 2 turbo HD remix or w/e it was called that I started to chip away at the different systems and "understand" the right way and wrong way to play. I know that I just said that I understood the "right and wrong" but I want you to take that with a grain of salt, I think there is allot of pressure on a new player especially within the community - a sort of information overload that can happen. You are constantly going to come into threads like this one and see a ton of weird lingo and terminology that might as well be gibberish and that can add to that "lost at sea" feeling.
For the first long while you just have to play for fun, do what feels right to you and play at your own pace. Once you get comfortable with the idea of special moves and blocking and the general controls you move onto liking specific kinds of characters and before you know it you will start to notice "systems" or "patterns" in the gameplay. One of the earliest things I can recall learning on my own was that "jumping in" with a kick or a punch was something that was causing me to get crushed by quite a few opponents. Fast forward to now and I know that many people have always considered this something a new player does and that it does INDEED result in easy punishment. Learning something like that however just made me change the way I was playing, it made me look less at offense and more at defense, taking my time and being patient with my opponent.
I am sorry for the bit of rambling I have done here I just hate to see someone give up something that they could potentially enjoy, it is such a huge genre after all and there was at least one reason you picked it up in the first place. Good luck to you.
. I know this is a weak accomplishment for some but it feels huge to me lmao.
