Street Fighter IV

[hudson]

I feel that way sometimes. For example, on day one I used my Hori FS3, no real probs. I got through all Normal trials and started failing on Hard, but nothing to do with the stick. Then I got the new FightPad. This is excellent. I used this on day two. Got really used to it. Didn't progress in the trials, mind.

Today I got my TE FightStick. I started losing my Battle Points online! Was it the stick? I dunno, maybe better players, but then I went on the trials and cleared 3 Hards I was stuck on! I've got too many controllers, so it's easy for me to place blame on something instead of my lacking skill lol. That's the morale of my little story.

The TE stick feels very responsive. The buttons only need a slight touch. The build is ace. It looks like a tank. I love the bevel on it.

Try running through the trials and challenges etc with your stick. Spend some time with it so you get used to it again.

[reektan]

I've just been trying the cheaper of the sticks. The stick feels ' crunchy ' compared to my Hori PS3 one.. just doesnt feel very silky. I see Mad Catz are offering to fix dodgy ones ..sigh :|

[DryRice]

PS3 owners if you looking for a decent cheap stick then there's the Mayflash which works perfect for SFIV since its an 8 button layout and is alright to mod if you wanna change the stick/buttons to sanwa or seimitsu parts. I've seen some floating around online for about £25 but then again theres the Hori 3 for £30 in Amazon

http://www.mayflash.com/pc/pc042/pc042.htm

[ItsThere]

Ha ha ha. Got in from work at 11:30. Ate - got my ten ranked wins in a row from schooling noobs. Can now sleep.

Love this.

[hudson]

Just switched the PS3 version on to find a little 9754KB update. Must be for DLC costumes or sumink.

EDIT: Actually, on rebooting thr game I find the following message on the main menu:

'You earned a new Home Reward (Dan's "Saikyo" T-shirt)!'

[dataDave]

My left wrist is actually really sore from so much joystick action, and I have a water blister on my top middle-finger knuckle. My left wrist does actually get exercise in the form of guitar and powerball incase you were wondering.

FFS, never had this before.

[hudson]

Call it a night mate. My right wrist is hurting. The damn Challenge mode is addictive, man.

[dataDave]

I actually came to let you all know how much of a c**t Gouken is to unlock.

Here's the proven way from teh Fall0ws himself:

1) Unlock Cammy (complete with C.Viper), Fei Long (complete with Abel), Gen (complete with Chun Li), Rose (complete with M.Bison), Sakura (complete with Ryu) and Dan (complete with Sakura).

2) Unlock Akuma. To do this complete the game without losing a round. Incorporate one perfect victory and just two Ultra Combo finishers. NO MORE THAN TWO! If you win three matches with ultra combos you will face Gouken after Seth, and you can't unlock him before Akuma, as I found out about 12 times - You will face Gouken and after beating him you will get your ending and credits, nothing else. Once you beat Akuma he's yours.

3) Complete the game with Akuma.

4) Unlock Gouken. To do this complete the game without losing a round. Incorporate one perfect victory and three Ultra Combo finishers.

Steps 3 + 4 CANNOT BE LINKED INTO ONE!! I completed the game with Akuma 1st time selecting him with one perfect and three ultras without losing a round and guess what I got? HIS ENDING THEN THE CREDITS!! You must first register his ending on the movie screen before you can go for the no-loss, 1 perfect, 3 ultra streak.

Trust me, I just spent four hours of 1p tedium this afternoon working this **** out. I thought it was going to take 15mins max to unlock my final two characters.

[Mayhem]

Ha ha ha. Got in from work at 11:30. Ate - got my ten ranked wins in a row from schooling noobs. Can now sleep.

Not so much luck for me on that front, I build up a little run and then find someone who's just a bit too good to put me back to zero so far!

Oh, and I played against Saur tonight, his Zangief is just sick, sick, sick...

(though he didn't quite have it all his own way)

My Amazon TE stick has been shipped apparently. So I will very shortly have three of the buggers here! Marketplace ahoy!

[BaronSqwelch]

broke my hori stick playing this all evening....right trigger button snapped clean across the circuit board. bit of glue and solder got it going but it just died again so i had a childish hissy fit and lobbed it

the xbox pad is not as terrible as i expected but looks like its an early start and off to the local game shops in search of a stick or fight pad.

otherwise all is good, hate seth with a passion but find him easier to beat than abel and zangief...i suck against grapplers.

online i wish i got faced with infi-kens...been all claw/vega and el feurte kicking my bum. not won many at all sadly but i expected that.

invincible is stuck in my brain too.

[dataDave]

Challange wap

I've just about had it with challenge mode, it's going to be totally pointless trying to utilise most of that stuff online as the windows of opportunity are just way too fine and it's going to require EXTREMELY CLOSE TO ZERO LAG in order to get them out. I don't think I've ever seen extremely close to zero lag, even after H4xXing a WoW .ini file with a plug-in (that was sweet ping, around 12-30ms response constantly - you could still feel it though).

Unfortunately I'm never likely to play a local game of Street Fighter with anyone for the rest of my life, so trawling through all these commands in order to A) pull them off once, and B) rinse them until I can do them everytime is a big waste of life.

[dataDave]

My Zangief is so tired lariating through and leaping over hadokens. It's weakening him. Everytime he goes on a warrior's journey across Live or PSN, he only sees Ken heads. It's like Being John Malkovich, but Being Ken Masters

I'm sick of this vs. any fireball dickhead...

I'm Zanger Burger and I have them down to -10% hp, they just turtle the rest of the match and count on me not being able to jump the fireballs because of the lag spikes.

Dickheads, this is why CAPCOM NEED TO INCORPORATE REGION SPECIFICATION TO THE SEARCH BOX! NOT F**KING LANGUAGE!! WHEN I SAY I WANT TO PLAY SOMEONE ENGLISH THAT DOESN'T MEAN I WANT TO PLAY AN AMERICAN 4,000 MILES AWAY!!

I actually have less lag vs. Japanese/Korean.

Their 'stability' criteria is a load of bollocks too. I ask for a good connection and it takes 30secs for it to come back with f**kall, or someone with 2 bars that I can't connect to anyway.

[dataDave]

I now have a sore right hand too after trying to get my fingers to go from MP+MK > LK+MK+HK > MP+MK at a totally unrealistic speed for an unhealthy period of time.

4:00 on this is just bollocks, I can't think of anytime you'd want to pull that off taking into account the damage it does all for the cost of three slots on the super bar. Plus, the hard time it gives your fingers.



Maybe it's warming you up for the one after it which does look more advantageous with a slightly more time-strict opener? and maybe I'm trying this stuff at the wrong time of day?

Those two out the way and the rest are pissock, crossover body-splash into 5x jabs? Are they taking the piss?

What makes me laugh and point at myself as I brush my teeth in the bathroom, as well as knowing that trying to sleep is pointless because I'm frightened of being a failure at this game, is that I'll come back into the front room and fire everything up again buffed with the optimistic hope that someone elses 'Hard' challenge mode might actually be easy... So here I am again, sat here trying to do 3:55 of this...



IT'S INSANE!! ARGH!! THIS IS THE HARDEST **** EVER AND EVEN WHEN I BAG IT I'M NEVER GOING TO PULL IT OFF AGAIN! ESPECIALLY ONLINE!

Even the dude who recorded these vids (Chuck Norris) has a hard time doing these couple of things.

[chojin]

dont think you're on your own there fella.. bet many of us haven't had much sleep.. I woke up at 2.41am to come straight downstairs and fire SFIV up... not since I got my import copy of SFII back in the day have I been as excited as this about a game!!..

What makes me laugh and point at myself as I brush my teeth in the bathroom, as well as knowing that trying to sleep is pointless because I'm frightened of being a failure at this game, is that I'll come back into the front room and fire everything up again buffed with the optimistic hope that someone elses 'Hard' challenge mode might actually be easy... So here I am again, sat here trying to do 3:55 of this...

IT'S INSANE!! ARGH!! THIS IS THE HARDEST **** EVER AND EVEN WHEN I BAG IT I'M NEVER GOING TO PULL IT OFF AGAIN! ESPECIALLY ONLINE!

Even the dude who recorded these vids (Chuck Norris) has a hard time doing these couple of things.

[Number45]

http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2009/jan/25/unlockable-characters-trophies-achievements-ps3-xbox-360-street-fighter-4/

On the off chance you're not all bored unlocking stuff already, that has the requirements for all the colour and taunt unlocks now as well as the characters.