Street Fighter 4!

PS3.

Also Zangief's EX banishing flat, from what I've seen, is monstrous.
 
I finally got on it last night around 2.00am, and my impressions were less than favourable, I loaded it up for another go this afternoon and lost myself into it, fantastic fighting game and every bit as good as the old SF2 games I used to be so fond of.
 
Elrasho said:
parrying
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Very true, but instances like that in 3S where you need to parry a full super like that are extremely rare. In a standard match you're going to parry perhaps one or two hits and then punish.

I play P Groove in CvS2 as well, it's the only groove I use, and even there the opportunities for parry are limited. Parry's main use is against projectiles, projectile supers you can't block or avoid, or to create an opening. I could parry the entirety of mega psycho crusher, but I'm not going to, y'know. Parry one hit, retaliate.

Plus the thing with parry was, casuals just didn't get it. It was off-putting to them.
 
I see where your coming from Darkside55

Gonna practice some more tonight, I wanna learn Ken, Guile, El Fuerto and Abil inside out
 
Yeah seen that video, he must be using the Arcade Stick coz its harder to do those combos using the 360 pad although I havent tried any complex combos yet. Im trying to perfect the Super and Ultra moves so I can do them as though I was pressing a single button :-)

Abel is my fave out of the new charachters, but I cant wait to unlock Akuma, hes one baaad mofo!

Has anyone watched the accompanying anime movie yet? If so whats the story behined SF4?
 
It's up on Youtube, but I don't want to watch it until I get the disc in my hands.

I've been spoiling myself on the prologues and endings, and that's already too much.
 
Had a Street Fighter 4 Weekend, was awesome! Cant say how much I love this game. Eurogamer gave it a 10 too :-)

Thing Ive noticed is that the little quips the charachters say at the end of a fight are unique to whichever fighter they beat. For example, when Blanka beats E.Honda he says something like "fighting has no room for fatsos", which I think is a nice touch. Didnt know there was a TrialMode where you are challenged to perform certain combos (The Trial challenges teach you moves and combos of scaling difficulty for each of the game's 25 characters, a useful feature for expanding your competence - Eurogamer)

Ive unlcoked all charachters except for Seth, Akuma and Gouken. Should have that done tonight then Im gonna go through the Trial mode. Well done Capcom, you really have done the Street Fighter series justice with SF4.
 
elrasho said:
Had a Street Fighter 4 Weekend, was awesome! Cant say how much I love this game. Eurogamer gave it a 10 too :-)

Thing Ive noticed is that the little quips the charachters say at the end of a fight are unique to whichever fighter they beat. For example, when Blanka beats E.Honda he says something like "fighting has no room for fatsos", which I think is a nice touch. Didnt know there was a TrialMode where you are challenged to perform certain combos (The Trial challenges teach you moves and combos of scaling difficulty for each of the game's 25 characters, a useful feature for expanding your competence - Eurogamer)

Ive unlcoked all charachters except for Seth, Akuma and Gouken. Should have that done tonight then Im gonna go through the Trial mode. Well done Capcom, you really have done the Street Fighter series justice with SF4.
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very encouraging mini-review :)
can't wait to grab my copy tomorrow!!
 
i've always been a tekken guy and i've never actually dabbled in street fighter before. how do you think i would enjoy this? looks to cool to pass up.
 
Hey bam23, it is different to Tekken in that its faster and you need to use combos to beat the top players. I find in Tekken you can block block block block then do a couple of hard hits and go back to blocking again. SF4 relies more on being offensive (especially because of the the Focus Attacks).

I think you just rent at least and see how you like it. I unlocked Akuma last night :-) Gonna unlock the rest of the charachters and then move onto the challenges and trials. By the time Ove done that hopefully the Live Servers will be on and I can get to kicking all ur asses ;-)

Oh and I noticed when you fighter your rival (the charachter you fight just before Seth), the two fighters swap banter throughout the rounds. For example, Abilnd Guile are rivals and after Abil throws Guiles he says "Were you really in the military?", small yet cool touch.

Anyone getting the Mad Katz pads? I find it near impossible to do Vega and Guiles Ultra moves. You got do: Down diaganol back > Down diagonal forward the Up diagonal back followed by LK+MK+HK. Managed to do it once :-(

Ithink its too easy to ger you Ultra bar full. I find my Ultra bar gets filled up quicker compared to my Super. Ultra bar gets full from taken damage and Super Combo slots fill up from combos and blocks you do. My combo bar doesnt get full until halfway through the second round, probably becasue EX moves use a combo slot. Still it balances out the fights perfectly and its something you realise after your 50th fight.

Capcom have done a great job of making sure all the charachters stregths and weaknesses are visible e.g. Dhalsim is really sh1t in the air, hes got more hang time the Michael Jordan and slow as a snail. But on the ground his reach makes up for it. Also his teleportaion can be done in mid air, so you teleport to another location are you are still in the jump phase so you can initiate an arial attack.
 
This is an heads up for those who are gonna get the game. DONT insallt any patches!! I got a message saying theres an update for SF4 so I downloaded it thinking it was for the save replay and what not.... well after I beat the game with Akuma to unlock Gouken I was expecting it to say "GOUKEN has been unlocked" like it does for all the other charachers but no it didnt.

After reading around on the net Capcom have released a patch which only allows charachters to be unlocked if you play the game on MEDIUM or above! Bast@rds they could have warned us!! :hmph:

I was doing just fine completeing the game with every character on EASIEST and now I just have to unlock Seth and Gouken and its gonna take ages GRRR
 
Anyone got the Mad Katz Pads or Sticks? Im thinking of getting a pad but they are all on pre order in the UK
 
I want to get one of the standard sticks but I can only find the TE ones (for pre-order anyway) at the places I normally shop. And they're 400 ****ing dollars. D: (The Hori sticks go for around $130 here)
 
Well had to give SF4 a go and ordered it. I just hope my controllers won't break down... Just finished Soul Calibur 4's tower of lost souls.
 
elrasho said:
This is an heads up for those who are gonna get the game. DONT insallt any patches!! I got a message saying theres an update for SF4 so I downloaded it thinking it was for the save replay and what not.... well after I beat the game with Akuma to unlock Gouken I was expecting it to say "GOUKEN has been unlocked" like it does for all the other charachers but no it didnt.

After reading around on the net Capcom have released a patch which only allows charachters to be unlocked if you play the game on MEDIUM or above! Bast@rds they could have warned us!! :hmph:

I was doing just fine completeing the game with every character on EASIEST and now I just have to unlock Seth and Gouken and its gonna take ages GRRR
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hey thanks for the headsup
although i wouldn't mind the challenge tbh
 
So how are you guys enjoying Ryu and Ken IV? Boy it sure is fun having a fighting game with two whole characters in it. People around the globe for the past several days have been enjoying playing two characters over and over and over again. Isn't it great that you can log onto a network battle at any time of day and get to fight Ryu OR Ken? It's great to see that no matter where you're from--North America, Europe, Asia, or just about anywhere!--you get to fight Ryu. And Ken. And Ryu. And Ken. And Ryu. And Ken.

For several hours.

It's also nice to see that everyone around the world plays them exactly the same. Hey, your tatsumaki into shoryuken might not work, EVER, but you can take comfort in knowing that among the hundred(s) of thousand people who purchased SFIV, 99% of you are all doing the exact same thing. Repeatedly.

For several hours.

Boy what a great community. HADOUKEN, am I right guys? XD




elrasho said:
Anyone got the Mad Katz Pads or Sticks? Im thinking of getting a pad but they are all on pre order in the UK
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Bad^Hat said:
I want to get one of the standard sticks
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First couple of hours:

"This stick is great."

About seven hours later:

"DUCK YOU PIECE OF SHIT, NOT JUMP! NO! STOP...STOP FIGHTING ME YOU STUPID THING! Oh great now it isn't even working anymore...goddamn it..."

I could have just ended up with a bad stick, I don't know. But it tries to fight against me at every opportunity. Sometimes it does what you want and sometimes it's like, "Fuck you, I'm going to get stuck in the down position or the forward/back position, and even manually placing me in the default position won't do anything for you. Sorry I'm making your battles against me rather than against the opponent."

Don't be fooled by what Capcom has told you. Mad Catz controllers are still shit. It should not come as any surprise. MAD CATZ.
 
ha ha Darkside ur sarcasm is on the dot. I think its becasue alot of gamers whio played df2 in the 90s are only getting back into Street Fighter games now that SF4 is out. They must have not played all the incrnations of SF2 or Third Strike and so are learning Ken/Ryu inside out again from fresh. Granted they can do this in challenge mode/training mode but they arent as fun as fighting a real apponant.

Have u unlocked Goucken yet? I cant do it no matter how many perfects and ultra combos finishers I do, its really pissing me off
 
Haven't unlocked Gouken yet. Friends and I have been playing since Tuesday--last night was actually the first sleep I'd gotten since then :laugh:--and we were more interested in fighting and training for this tournament Saturday than unlocking people. I did see two Goukens online though; neither of them knew how to play him yet.

And yeah, I assume one of the reasons there's so many of them is because people consider them the "main characters" of the game and are reusing them, but I just want people to realize there are other characters in the game. There are 20 other characters! But nobody ever pays attention to them. I can only hope that each time I destroy a Ryu or Ken online with Abel they will say, "Wow, who was that guy? Who are all these other guys? How do I play them?"

There are other characters in the game. Play them. Don't let this end up like Street Fighter 3:

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Ha ha ha that comic says it all

How online play? Is it laggy? Ive played a cople and both times there was no bar next to the connection status so I could only assume the connection was really crap, but I still had a good game was like playing against someone sat next to me. Should have my Mad Katz pad next week will let yo guys know if its any good
 
I've had extremely few laggy matches. Like two out of hundreds. It's weird; sometimes when you're searching matches there will be no bars visible, sometimes there are, but usually when you get into the lobby there are bars. Sometimes there aren't. :/

But despite that there's been almost no lag. During the wee hours of the morning I've been playing people from Japan and Korea (I believe it's Korea) and it's been fine even if there are only two bars.

Also dang I kind of wasted a reply because you're banned. But at least everyone else will read how the online is.
 
Abel is my new man. He's a ****ing brute!
 
I still love that comic and I don't even play SF. :D

Oh well, thanks for the standard stick "review," I'll probably just steer clear. Maybe it's time I finally modded my 360 d-pad...
 
Some news about the stick, apparently there have been a batch of bad SE ones, but some work great. It's the luck of the draw, but if you DO get a bad stick, you can take an allen wrench to the thing and pop in a sanwa or seimitsu stick. The inside of the SEs are plug-and-play modifiable like the TE.

So if you get a bad one, $25 fix. Not bad considering the rising price of arcade sticks post SFIV; e-sellers and ebay have sticks (ALL arcade sticks, notably the HRAP series and the Mad Catz sticks) from $150-300.
 
HEY HL2.NET

OH MY, WHAT IS THIS HEADBAND?
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LOOKS LIKE THERE'S SOMETHING WRITTEN ON IT...
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Darkside55 said:
Haven't unlocked Gouken yet. Friends and I have been playing since Tuesday--last night was actually the first sleep I'd gotten since then :laugh:--and we were more interested in fighting and training for this tournament Saturday than unlocking people. I did see two Goukens online though; neither of them knew how to play him yet.

And yeah, I assume one of the reasons there's so many of them is because people consider them the "main characters" of the game and are reusing them, but I just want people to realize there are other characters in the game. There are 20 other characters! But nobody ever pays attention to them. I can only hope that each time I destroy a Ryu or Ken online with Abel they will say, "Wow, who was that guy? Who are all these other guys? How do I play them?"

There are other characters in the game. Play them. Don't let this end up like Street Fighter 3:
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This, sir, is funny.
 
I've just started getting into the arcade mode, and it's obvious that I haven't played any SF games in a looong time. Abel kicks my ass :/. Can't figure out if i like the d-pad or analog yet.
 
Abel was how I won that tournament.

Majority picked Ken. There was a Sagat, a Blanka, I believe there was a C.Viper, and there was one Ryu, possibly two. I didn't bother to even look at other peoples' matchups though; I walked around listening to pokemon music on my Soundwave.

Anyway, there were just so many Kens. Everyone was Ken. Ken Fighter IV. And here comes this guy picking Abel, and they're like, "Oh snap, look who that asian guy picked." Yeah, I got nicknamed "Asian Guy."

Here's a breakdown of how it went:

FALLING SKY FALLING SKY FALLING SKY FALLING SKY cr.MP CHANGE OF DIRECTION WHEEL KICK FALLING SKY FALLING SKY FALLING SKY FALLING SKY MARSEILLES ROLL EX TORNADO THROW

And that's the way it was. Next tournament is on Saturday. I wonder if there will be as many Kens...
 
I'm trying to learn C. Viper. Also, I notice often that when I attempt to throw, the cpu seems to get the throw off before mine lands. Is there a counter-throw or something, or am I just being AI cheesed?
 
If you're talking about Abel's throw, because it's a command throw you can't counter it, and it has priority over your regular LP+LK throw. If you do a regular throw at the same time your opponent does a regular throw, you'll cancel each other out.

C. Viper's actually a very good character to learn. She's very SNK, in my eyes. Her lightning fist is so versatile, and her flame kick is nice. Try jumping in with a LK, then while you're still in the air use her flame kick.
 
Darkside you are hotter than I could have imagined.
 
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