Street Fighter 4!

The reason Im getting a stick or Mad Katz pad is that I can't do Abels combos on the 360 pad, its just too hard. The c.HP followed by Change of Direction sounds easy, but on the 360 pad its damn near impossible.

Might get a Hori stick if the Mad Katz pad are'nt in stock until April
 
I'd recommend it. My Mad Catz is balls. My worst opponent is never the guy I'm fighting, it's this stick.



I'm gonna have to be using a 360 pad again on Saturday though.
 
Just got SF4, man this game is really hard. I mean just doing some basic moves with the xbox 360 controller feels impossible. In Soul Calibur 4 I never had any problems with combos. In SF4 I can't even beat the easy opponents. Maybe I should try the game with a stick.
 
MuToiD_MaN said:
Warbie, that's priceless.
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I can't take credit, it's not my creation. It does share my sentiments though!

I have to agree about Dan being the ****ing man btw :) Nothing quite beats bringing out the pink warrior to teach the Ryu/Ken/Akuma spammers a lesson in Shotokan.

(and if they win - I was Dan ffs!)
 
does anyone use the madcatz fightPAD? i personally prefer the d-pad and since the 360 one is crap, i'm thinkin about picking one up
they're crazy hard to find where i live though. and they're going for between 80-250(akuma) on ebay atm
either way, ive heard nothing but positive things about them so i think it's my best bet

PS. if anyone would like to go a few rounds sometime, add me on xbox live: C0RR4D0
just ID yourself as a HL2.net member!
 
im a massive streetfighter fan and was really expecting to hate this game because the videos and especially the screenshots make it look absolutely terrible, but tbh its the best streetfighter ever (or at least pretty damn close)

its easily the most balanced ever anyway. my only gripe is some of the priorities are way off. my main is sagat and tiger knee dominates pretty much everything. out of about 150 online matches only about 10 of them had unacceptable lag so the netcode is really solid too (certainly as good as the awesome HD remix)

and the theme song is absolutely rockin' ?_+
 
How the heck do you beat seth in easy with a character that doesn't have long range deny? I tried seth for like 2h with abel. Usually I got to the point where I had gotten a few combos trough, he had like 3/4 health left, then he just starts teleporting, does the super, whops K.O. With Ryu this was piss easy.
 
You have to make sure your ultras and supers connect against Seth when playing as Abel - he's rubbish at blocking these. Spamming light/punch kick when he starts spamming teleport near you works pretty well as does rolling through sonic booms.
 
Bakurei said:
How the heck do you beat seth in easy with a character that doesn't have long range deny? I tried seth for like 2h with abel. Usually I got to the point where I had gotten a few combos trough, he had like 3/4 health left, then he just starts teleporting, does the super, whops K.O. With Ryu this was piss easy.
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if youre playing it just to unlock akuma/gouken/seth just set the rounds to 1, the skill to easiest and the time to 30 seconds. that ultra combo he has takes like 10 seconds to complete and usually by then its timed out and you've won, as long as youve given him a decent amount of damage at the start (which if he has the revenge bar unlocked you probably have)

if youre doing it for skill (or the complete on hardest difficulty achievement) i'd say just get better at abel.
 
Easiest setting? 1 round!?!

Grow some balls soldier! I literally air punched after beating Seth with Abel for the first time.
 
Warbie said:
Easiest setting? 1 round!?!

Grow some balls soldier! I literally air punched after beating Seth with Abel for the first time.
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thats what i did to unlock the other chars, couldnt be ****ing bothered playing it through like 24 times just to unlock, so i did it in the fastest time possible.

its the easiest single player streetfighter by far, i got the 'complete on hardest' achievement without even trying.
 
I'm finding it a load harder than the various versions of SF2 and Alpha in single player. Maybe i'm just getting old :/
 
Funniest pic I've seen in a while

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Playing with abel against seth I did a lot of stringed moves. Going through the trial challenges with each character helps. Goes through basic moves and also stringing moves together so they are not blocked. Also, just did a serach and found this. Might help.

If seth attacked with his long arms then I usually did:
(Jump) Medium Kick > (Crouch) Heavy Punch > special throw moves
or
(Jump) Medium Kick > (Crouch) Heavy Punch > change of direction > cancel into super/ultra

If he did the long range attack then I rolled in. If you are not quick you may be right next to him when he is ready for another attack and he might grab ya.
His ultra move can also go through fireballs/sonic boom etc.
 
I didn't plan on getting this but I got it for nothing as part of an exchange when my 160GB PS3 broke just yesterday (so I haven't even been here till now).

Cos the 160GB was a limited edition that isn't made anymore in the UK they gave me the value of it on instore credit for an 80GB and extra games. So I got an 80GB PS3, killzone 2, SF4 and about another 60 quid on instore credit.

Still playing KZ2 though the now so I haven't tried this but I was always **** at SF :(
 
Edit: NVM found that easy wasn't the easiest setting. FAIL :D

Edit2: Tried the game online for the first time. I actually thought that image was really a joke... but it's actually true :D

This is how you play ryu online:

JUMP KICK

HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HaDOUKEN, JUMP, HaDOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN :D

And I thought I was bad :d
 
although Ryu is certainly one of my favourite chars, i really am getting sick of only fighting him and Ken online
even in alot of player matches, where there's nothing at stake, the majority of people use Ken, Ryu, Sagat, Akuma
i try to mix it up with a little Abel and Sakura action
 
About 30 matches played. Only ken/ryu/sagat. Only voices I hear are TIGER PUMP and Hadouken... Back to Soul Calibur, even it wasn't this bad spam :D
 
Bakurei said:
About 30 matches played. Only ken/ryu/sagat. Only voices I hear are TIGER PUMP and Hadouken... Back to Soul Calibur, even it wasn't this bad spam :D
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That's why you play with friends.

SF4 poos all over SC4 from a great height.
 
got this coming in with gamefly, bought a month membership there only cause blockbuster didnt have it anywhere :|. looking forward to getting my ass kicked online.
 
God arcade sticks are impossible to get. Been trying to get the Mad catz or the Hori stick for my Xbox 360 and every store just says No ETA, out of stock.
 
I got this like a week or two ago, add my gamertag and show me how to play! I'm still a noob!

Gamertag: Rico21745
 
Hmm I ended up winning 103 straight matches online with Zangief. Took it back to blockbuster yesterday. It was fun while it lasted.
 
BUMPED. This game became awesome as soon as I found this guy:

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So legitmate with this guy. I think he might by my soulmate.
 
B_MAN said:
although Ryu is certainly one of my favourite chars, i really am getting sick of only fighting him and Ken online
even in alot of player matches, where there's nothing at stake, the majority of people use Ken, Ryu, Sagat, Akuma
i try to mix it up with a little Abel and Sakura action
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Better to play competitively with someone you know rather than someone you don't.

OmegaX said:
Hmm I ended up winning 103 straight matches online with Zangief. Took it back to blockbuster yesterday. It was fun while it lasted.
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HAHAHA
 
**** playing with the 360 pad is so frustrating, but i refuse to spend $80+ for a fightpad!
thankfully though, i'm still able to beat like 80% of the people i fight.. at least in player matches :P

great game though; i'm really starting to enjoy using Gouken, now that i can sorta use him properly... his counter attacks are always satisfyingly awesome :thumbs:
 
I have no idea why, but even though i love fighting as Ryu, Ken, Akuma and even Dan, i'm just so much better fighting with someone like Abel and Cammy even though i dont like fighting with them anywhere near as much.
 
Dan's the man. Everyone else wishes they were as awesome, attractive, talented, and MANLY as Dan.
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Sparta said:
I have no idea why, but even though i love fighting as Ryu, Ken, Akuma and even Dan, i'm just so much better fighting with someone like Abel and Cammy even though i dont like fighting with them anywhere near as much.
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Stop playing shotos. Embrace Abel. EMBRACE THE TORNADO THROW
 
Oh btw anyone whos thinking about ordering those Mad Catz sticks, don't buy them from the friggin vultures that sell them for 200€ extra. New sticks are shipping as we speak, should be in stores at the end of this month. And a third shipment will probably come after that, so they aren't some rare collectors dream.

Now to the game. Is anyone else having this what I call position retardation. I mean when I'm at the left side, I can pull combos pretty easilly. But if I get thrown to the right side I can't even pull simple ultra's or supers. Might be that I really haven't had to learn any hard combos before. I played SC4 with pretty much basic tactics (and mash every button when drunk). :D
 
Bakurei, you've probably got a "favored side." Everybody has them initially. Always seems like you can do one thing (or a few things) easier facing one direction than another. You get over it with practice...eventually it all becomes muscle memory.

Sparta said:
I dont know what shotos means?
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"Shoto" - short for "shotokan," as in shotokan karate, which everyone mistakenly thinks Ryu, Ken, Akuma, and Gouken practiced. In reality it's ansatsuken, a fictional style, but the term "shoto" stuck. It's also applied to characters like Sakura and Dan, even though Sakura's untrained and Dan uses saikyo.

The term has negative connotations; "shotoscrub," "shotofag," etc. In part because the characters are easy mode, and also because everyone picks them (even before Ken Fighter IV, everyone picked the shotos). These characters have a stigma on them.

Anyway, Cammy's cool. She's no Abel, though. ;)
 
Darkside55 said:
Stop playing shotos. Embrace Abel. EMBRACE THE TORNADO THROW
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ya Abel is awesome. especially since alot of people have a hard time playing AGAINST him
do you have any tips/good combos to recommend?
 
The most important things to know about Abel are that his ultra and ex wheel kick go through fireballs - making him the shoto (especially Ryu) killer - and that forwards medium kick is fast, has crazy reach, and helps you dictate the fight. As B-Man mentioned, duck fierce punch launches ppl into the air allowing you to air grab or wheel kick them. After you focus hit someone dash in quickly and tornado throw or just perform a quick ultra. Rolling followed by tornado is obviously good :)

Abel has been my favourite charatcer since day one, he's a ****ing beast!
 
ya i use the jump in-medium kick to rising elbow launch+air grab alot
still trying to master the focus-dash-tornado throw though... kinda hard with the 360 dpad :P
i actually have a big grin on my face every time someone chooses ryu or ken whenever i'm using Abel cause they never expect the roll through fireballs/wheel kick :)
 
B_MAN said:
i actually have a big grin on my face every time someone chooses ryu or ken
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"Good sir, I see after you have moved the cursor around the select screen in a random fashion for ten seconds, pretending as if you will pick someone to counter my Abel, you have inevitably landed on Ryu/Ken/Sagat. If you are a novice, which I assume you are, you are likely to try the same hurricane/tiger knee-into-uppercut combination, lots of jumping backwards to avoid me, and perhaps a few mistimed ultra attacks. If you are a moderate-to-experienced player, you will likely try to zone me out with fireballs, use your normals to poke at me, and try to get some crossover combos of opportunity or try to bait me into using an unsafe move, and then punish me.

To you I say: give up. There is nothing you can do against me. You have already lost this fight.

P.S., if you have chosen Akuma and you think you can use his keep-away game on me, you're already dead."

Abel is the beastliest character in the game. If you use Abel as a rushdown character, using his f.MK --> dash, as Warbie said you can dictate the fight. You can scare the hell out of people with that, comboing with fierce punch or conditioning them to think you're going to throw out that fierce, and dash right up to their face and tornado throw. J.MK crossovers into c.FP, cancel that first elbow hit into change of direction...and just go wild.

And if you want you can just sit back and turtle for awhile against certain characters.

Shotos spamming fireballs at you? Focus cancel and build meter, and then once you have ultra hit 'em with it from full screen. I love when they don't realize his ultra can hit them from the entire screen away when they're in the fireball animation (before the fireball actually leaves their hands).

Abel is the greatest.
 
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