Ibuki AND Makoto. i am gonna die.

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I take back my earlier statement. It's in, it's powerful, it's awesome.

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So uh, Hakan being "obsessed with oil" wasn't quite what I thought it was.

Just when I think Capcom can't get weirder they do, I was thinking the same as you Pang until now that is.

Honestly, he's still not as bizarre as Rufus.

Is the game even out yet for you guys? Because there seems to be a shit ton of ingame footage already from people trying combos and the game endings etc.

I think it comes out Tuesday here but I'm sure there are some people who have it early already. At $39.99 though, the price ain't bad for those who didn't buy the first SFIV. :)

I know there a bunch of places, particularly in New York where you can get it already. Mom and Pop stores typically don't give a shit about release dates. I wasn't gonna get it but kinda fell into the hype.

I'm picking up my copy today and we'll probably be playing at the school today. Does Rotor still play online? I haven't been on Live in like two weeks but I'm knocking out some time for that tonight.

Rotor still plays. I'll be on later as well.

I tried out Guy for an hour and went to a small tourney to get my ass handed to me. No surprise there. Apparently everyone there had the game for around a week or more, not sure how but I have a few guesses.
Anyways, if anyone wants to fuck around with the new characters on the PS3 version then hit me up.

Oh Ibuki, <33333

I ended up playing for a couple hours, only to get myself destroyed. I think I shall try the trials and figure out what can be a combo and what cannot.

Shenlon, whats your PSN? I'll add you later if you're up for some matches?

My PSN is AniZeke.
Since we can have a lobby of eight people this time around an endless battle sounds like fun if we could arrange it with a few other psn players. I have yet to play online so it would be good for casual matches.

I was on for a little while hoping someone on my friends list would get on and then my brother-in-law and I just started wailing through the game. 4 hours later, I just want to get sleep because my eyes actually hurt. Does anyone want to play tomorrow or Friday sometime?

Pretty sure he does indeed have it and plays it online. I'll tell him people were interested in getting their asses beat.

Couple of friends of mine have pirated this which annoys me they always seem several steps ahead of me on street fighter x.x and my 360 copy should be arriving tomorrow, but I'm going nowhere near random people online matches until I have some idea of the new characters quirks.

BTW how many people on GFF use joystick to play this? I made a custom joystick but to be honest the main thing using that seems to have achieved is improve my fightpad inputs.

I'm down to scrap. Hopefully you suck and can boost my confidence. <3

I do. :(

Im learning how to use the joystick! It's a very very painful process.

After raging with multiple failed attempts to do a High Jump, Kunai with Ibuki on the stick, I tried it with the controller (Analog) and got it in one go.

I must perservere...joystick has good benefits in the long run...

Add me if you can you guys, dobbbss is my PSN tag (Shenlon, I'll add you when I get home from work!)

Don't worry dobby, I am learning stick as well so we'll be on equal grounds. The hardest challenge for me is pulling off an uppercut/launcher and canceling into ultra from the left side of the screen.

I'll be picking this up for PS3 later today. PSN name is xMcFisticuffsx if anyone is down. I'm okay at fighters, but advanced shit like reading frame data and hitboxes is completely lost on me.

If your learning a stick, honestly one of the best things you can do is just practice dp and fireball motions in training mode as much as possible. At first it wont seem like it helps when in actual fights but it will pay off. You kinda want to ingrain it into muscle memory so it comes naturally.

I got my copy for the 360 the other day so I should start appearing on this weekend if anyone is going to be around for playing. Been a while so I imagine I'll be very rusty to start off with. Looking forward to getting back into it though and trying out the new characters.

Okay, so either I really fucking suck at fighting games, or the CPU in this game can learn your playing style and counter everything you do instantly. It makes no sense. I beat it on medium with probably five characters with no problems, even mowing down Seth with ease. Now I can't get more than a few fights in.

It seems like anything I do is immediately countered or blocked. Meanwhile, I can't block anything at all. And anytime I actually connect with something, the CPU somehow hits me at the same time with something I can't even see and we both get knocked back, but I've taken more damage. What the hell.

I'm also having lots of problems getting through the trials. Once you get past the special moves and it has you practicing combos, for some reason I just can't pull them off. For example, one of them is two crouching punches and a standing kick or something like that. I guess my timing is off or something, because I can never get that second punch to count. Playing on a DualShock makes it a bit difficult, too, since the buttons all spread out and it's hard to do anything without randomly doing a qcf or something you weren't trying to do and it makes you do a special move and leaves you open. Especially when I try to play as Makoto, she'll start thrusting her fist in the air in the middle of my attack and then I get a Shoryuken to the face. I really want an arcade stick, but they're just so expensive.

Links are a bitch and even when you do them you'll hate it. You can't use them consistently online either because of lag.