[Multiplatform] Street Fighter 4 - For some reason they're still putting in characters other than Ken

Am I the only one seeing the dash of irony at complaining about wrestlers in fighting games when one of the existing characters in Street Fighter is Zangief, a professional wrestler?

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I'm with Mo0, I'm hoping that the double blind selection option makes it into SFIV. I also hope that they manage to make the online component as smooth as SSF2THDR is currently appearing to be.

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360 controller viability for a Street Fighter game is approximately none. Unless you enjoy being high frustrated by controllers and wish to feel like smashing yours on a regular basis. For example, a comment I made elsewhere on my attempts to use the 360 pad for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix:

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Trying to pull off moves with the d-pad is an exercise is frustration on a massive scale as the number of times the controller misreads the input is astounding. At one point I was holding the d-pad as far left as it could possibly go and it was still registering it as a diagonal up and left (causing Ryu to jump up and down like some excitable retard). Fuck that for a game of soldiers. So I moved onto trying with the analogue stick, and whilst less of a mess it was still pretty damn sketchy. Oh and trying to use the analogue stick for any of the game’s charging characters (such as Guile) was equally impossible.

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Originally Posted by Dark Nation

Duly noted. How much are those going to go for then?

The cheapest option is the Mad Catz Street Fighter IV gamepad ($40), which comes in a variety of designs. Then there's the mid-range option, the cheaper Mad Catz SFIV FightStick ($80). Finally there's the all-out Mad Catz SFIV FightStick Tournament Edition (I believe it's supposed to be about $150).

So, depends what level you wish to spend at.

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Originally Posted by Tokubetsu

Pads with SSFIIHD plates coming?

Edit: Oh, same pads but with SSFIITHDR patterns, I see what you were getting at now, my bad.

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3. Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind: ... BluRay disc in the PS3 box! The Xbox version is a 360 game disc

This fact alone makes me think I might have to switch my collector's edition pre-order to the PS3 and keep my cheap 360 pre-order of game only.

Decisions, decisions indeed.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Every time I see this game I get more and more excited about it. Looks damn awesome.

I was going to ask which version of the game people were planning to get (360 or PS3), but it doesn't matter massively as I'm getting both as it turns out; I managed to snag an early pre-order of the regular 360 version for dirt cheap, and have added a pre-order for the PS3 collector's edition to that. XD

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Originally Posted by Rotorblade

She'd be pretty tough to pick up now. She's nerfed to the point of having to work ten times as hard for damage that other characters get for less effort. Unless you feel like being completely different from everyone else, you might want to reconsider before leaping into some hefty frustration. One thing I've noticed about Viper matches is that all it takes is finding a good one and then watching the consecutive set of matches afterward to see how easy it is to figure out and snuff out her game plan.

Is there not a chance that there'll be some degree of rebalancing work done as part of the port to the home consoles? Therefore any characters which don't full work right now, or have nerfed moves, might work out alright in the end.

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Originally Posted by Dizzy

New trailer showing all the rooster (taken from SRK). A few new ultras I haven't seen.

God damn this game just keeps looking more and more impressive.

I really wish I could find a way of ordering the SFIV TE Stick in the UK. Anyone know of place that'll send hardware from the US?

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Originally Posted by Hantei

EDIT: Ok, now this is really cool unlockable.

That would be pretty awesome, especially if there's an annoying sounding VA for one of the language tracks. After all, got to keep Cammy's awesome British voice if nothing else.

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Slightly annoying news about having to unlock various characters. Siegfried at SRK posted with some details:

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* Beat the game with anyone to unlock selectable voices per character (JP or EN voices available from start)
* Beat the game with X to unlock Y:
Ryu -> Sakura
Sakura -> Dan
Chun-Li -> Gen
C.Viper -> Cammy
Abel -> Fei Long
Bison -> Rose
* Beat first Time Trial and Survivor with any character to unlock colors 3 and 4

Apparently Siegfried knows his stuff, but having to complete with a character to unlock the alternate VA is something new (I thought I'd heard it was available from the start) and slightly annoying if true.

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Videos are awesome, and just make me want to get hands on with this game even more. Why isn't it Feb 20th yet...

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Originally Posted by Shin

I have to say actually, the more I see of this game, the more interested I am in getting it. Is there any sort of decent joystick option that won't cost me £150?

Yeah. You can grab a current Hori EX2 for the 360 for about £40 (I nabbed one for £35 in the end from Play). Or you could grab the Mad Catz SFIV fight pad, which is done in the style of the old Saturn pads, for about £25.

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Originally Posted by Manny Biggz

Free cross up attempts on wakeup are a nightmare to deal with.

I imagine that could be dealt with by the vertical hurricane kick. Since that goes directly up you can probably use that as a recovery move on wake-up.

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So GT has a new trailer up which demonstrates all the English voice artists for SFIV. All I'm going to say is that I'll be switching pretty much most of them back to the Japanese VA once I unlock it (except maybe some of the English speakers and a couple of others, like Zangief).

Cammy's English voice is still <3 though.

Trailer linky: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44551.html

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Akuma's voice was the most WTF out of the lot. Because seriously, WTF?

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$190 Canadian dollars, that's what you're bitching about? Get the fuck out. That's like £105 which is almost 50% cheaper than we're getting it over here.

Also, whilst the music in the first half of the intro ain't great, it's easily ignored just by get lost in the awesome visuals (yes yes, it's stuff from the trailers, but it's still top notch).

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Originally Posted by OutRunner

Outside of the fact that the TE can be worth the investment simply because you don't have to tinker, you can get it out of the box on day one with no bullshit, and you don't have to worry about shipping multiple things and all that shit, it's fantastic. But for Canadians who won't get it on day one, which is a huge stickler for me, it begs the question of "why bother".

Sure, I get that for you Canadians. However, for me the price difference, cost of additional parts, effort and hassle - albeit minor - of fitting them (not to mention the fact that you void your warranty by opening the sticks up), I'm happy to go with the TE stick option.

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Watching a new (?) interview with Seth Killian about the SF community he mentioned something that I hadn't heard before that I thought was quite interesting: when you set up a game online it'll work like an arcade, in that you'll play against the computer until someone steps in to fight you, so no waiting around in lobbies. Sounds neat.

Good lord I wish they'd hurry up and release this game already.

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Originally Posted by RYU

is there for PS3?

You do know the PS3 doesn't have an interchangable fascia, right?

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Do you guys not get a price guarantee on any pre-orders? Over here if the price goes up then you get the lower price you pre-ordered at. However, if the price goes down, they drop the price of your pre-order.

I was speaking idiomatically.

So a bunch of people are starting to circulate the achievements for SFIV, and unsurprisingly they match exactly to the trophy list I'd seen for the PS3 version. I'm not convinced about the numbers though because I did a quick check and found that the numbers they had listed only added up to 990 (probably a typo I guess).

For anyone interested (including trophy type and currently rumoured achievement points):

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The World Warrior - Unlock all characters - Bronze - 20
Color Guard - Unlock all Colors - Bronze - 10
No Sweat - Unlock all Personal Actions - Bronze - 10
Title Master - Collect all Titles - Silver - 50
Icon Master - Collect all Icons - Silver - 50
Special Move Master - Perform 100 Special Moves - Bronze - 10
EX - cellent Master - Perform 100 EX Special Moves - Bronze - 20
Super Combo Master - Perform 100 Super Combos - Bronze - 10
Ultra Combo Master - Perform 100 Ultra Combos - Bronze - 10
Focus Master - Perform 100 successful Focus Attacks - Bronze - 10
Crowd Pleasing Master - Perform 10 Personal Actions - Bronze - 10
Super Combo Champion - Perform 50 Super Combo finishes - Bronze - 10
Ultra Combo Champion - Perform 50 Ultra Combo finishes - Bronze - 10
Sunny Daze - Perform 365 flashy background finishes - Silver - 40
Simply Perfect - Achieve 10 Perfect victories - Bronze - 10
Arcade Rat - Clear Arcade Mode with 1 character on Medium or higher difficulty - Bronze - 20
Storied Reputation - Clear Arcade Mode with all characters on Medium or higher difficulty - Silver - 30
Save Your Quarters - Clear Arcade Mode without using a single continue on Medium or higher difficulty - Silver - 30
World Champion - Clear Arcade Mode on Hardest difficulty - Silver - 20
Legendary Champion - Defeat Gouken and clear Arcade Mode in Hardest difficulty - Silver - 50
Challenger - Clear a Challenge in Challenge Mode - Bronze - 10
Challenge Expert - Clear all Challenges in Challenge Mode - Bronze - 30
The Gold Standard - Earn gold medals in all challenges - Gold - 50
Rapid Fighter - Clear NORMAL Time Attack in Challenge Mode - Bronze - 10
Speed King - Cleared HARD Time Attack in Challenge Mode - Bronze - 20
Tough Cookie - Clear NORMAL Survival in Challenge Mode - Bronze - 10
Last Man Standing - Cleared HARD Survival in Challenge Mode - Bronze - 20
Technical Fighter - Clear NORMAL Trial in Challenge Mode - Bronze - 10
No Challenge Too Hard - Cleared HARD Trial in Challenge Mode - Bronze - 20
All Dolled Up - Set your Title and Icon - Bronze - 10
Medals Get! - Collect all Medal types - Bronze - 30
Medal Collector - Collect 100 Medals - Bronze - 10
Medal Hunter - Collect 500 Medals - Bronze - 10
Medal Master - Collect 1,000 Medals - Bronze - 30
Lobbyist - Create 10 multiplayer lobbies - Bronze - 10
Taking On All Comers - Fight 10 opponents via fight requests - Bronze - 10
The Road to Battle - Play 100 online battles. (ranked match or player match) - Bronze - 10
Hard Fought Battles - Play 200 online battles. (ranked match or player match) - Bronze - 20
Proof of Battle - Play 500 online battles. (ranked match or player match) - Bronze - 20
Way of the Fist - Win 5 online battles. (ranked match or player match) - Bronze - 10
The Journey Begins - Win 10 online battles. (ranked match or player match) - Bronze - 20
10 Years Too Early - Win 50 online battles. (ranked match or player match) - Silver - 20
10 Years Too Late - Win 100 online battles. (ranked match or player match) - Gold - 50
First Victory - Win 1 ranked match - Bronze - 20
The Line Starts Here - Win 3 ranked matches in a row - Bronze - 20
I Got Next! - Win 5 ranked matches in a row - Silver - 30
Playing To Win! - Win 10 ranked matches in a row - Silver - 50

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Seems we're not alone in our excitement building frenzy waiting for Street Fighter IV, it seems some guy has gone to the trouble of building his own PS3 fightstick, and it looks fairly impressive (certainly an impressive effort):

Homebrew Street Fighter IV PS3 controller stands up on its own two legs - Engadget

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Information about the costume packs for anyone interested:

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Capcom plans to release extra costume packs for Street Fighter IV in Japan, starting on launch day (Friday 12th February) and continuing every subsequent Friday for the next four weeks.

That's according to the latest issue of Famitsu (spotted by 1UP), which says each bundle will cost 320 Microsoft Points (GBP 2.70 / EUR 3.85) on Xbox 360, or JPY 400 (GBP 3 / EUR 3.50) on PlayStation 3.

The first pack to arrive will be Muscle Arms containing alternate threads for big and beefy characters Zangief, E. Honda, Rufus, Abel and El Fuerte.

The Beauty bundle will follow, adding attire for pretty punchers Chun Li, C. Viper, Sakura, Rose and Cammy.

Then we'll see the Shoryuken pack, which has new outfits for fireball-wielders Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Gouken and Dan.

Baddies come next, as the Shodaloo pack gives Vega, Sagat, Balrog, Bison and Seth something to change into.

And, last but not least, there's the Classic collection: called so presumably because Capcom ran out of themes. This features extra wear for Guile, Blanka, Dhalsim, Gen and Fei Long.

At the end of April, both sets of owners will be able to download all the extra costumes for a lump sum of 1000 MSP (GBP 8.50 / EUR 12.00) / JPY 1200 (GBP 9.30 / EUR 10.50).

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Originally Posted by kensuke

Well, the game has been leaked if anyone is interested!

Please kindly get out.

On the topic of the commentator, has anyone heard any news about whether or not it'll be possible to turn him off? I thought I remembered someone saying it isn't, but I can see that voice being potentially annoying after a while.

Also, for anyone in the US, Sony are doing a launch party: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/...ter-iv-launch/

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