So you wanna be a Street Fighter? Step 1: Fundamentals
The information in the spoiler will help you get started!
Step 2: Getting more serious.
More information than you thought existed, and arcade stick info.
Step 2a: Getting a fight stick.
The Joystick Rant
Just buy a god damn TE. Don't ask in the thread, don't second guess it, don't read reviews online, don't poll your friends. Do you know what everyone is going to tell you?
GO BUY A GOD DAMN TE. You know what people will say if you ask if you should get an SE? Save yourself the trouble and buy a TE. And then you'll be like "Why is the TE so much better than the SE?" and we'll all say "The buttons suck and you'll have to replace them and it just saves a lot of time and probably money just to get the TE." And then you'll ask us "But what about a Hori stick? I heard those are good." And then everyone will say "Yeah those are okay but they're not as good as the TE or even the SE because it's harder to mod" and then some silly goose will say "Hey, I like Hori's" just to confuse you but then someone else will be like "Yeah Hori's are fine but is it better then the TE?" and the original silly goose will be like "Oh no nothing is better than the TE"
because nothing is better than the TE. And then you'll ask us why the TE is so good and the answers will invariably involve the modability, out of the box professional quality parts and the overall sexiness and build quality. But then of course because you have to make this difficult you'll say "I can't use Japanese parts because I need an octo gate, I can't use a square gate, also I need a bat top and some sort of adapter to make it work and blah blah blah" and invariably someone will come in and
link you all the things you just mentioned above and tell you where to buy it from.
So I just saved the whole thread like three pages of people trying to be the first to recommend the TE and the ridiculous questions that come with it.
JUST. BUY. THE. T. E.
Now that we have that out of the way, here are some stick related links:
The SRK Tech Talk Forums: Everything you need to know to mod or build your own stick.
Switching from a pad to a stick.Arcade Stick Guide - Complete with reviews, faq and glossary!
Slagcoin's Ridiculously In Depth Joystick Guide
[vidurl="
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Step 3: Watching the pros, learning the matches
The PA Fighting Game Community!
The PA SSFIV AE Friends List of Friendly Friends! Add yourself to the form
here, view the list
here
If you're on the 360, you can add the metafriend: A PA SSF4
We also made a super cool IRC room! #PAFighting at irc.slashnet.org:6667
You can use this web client if you're SUPER UNCOOL. So people know, we are naming ourselves LFG_YourName in irc if you're looking for a lobby, and LFM_YourName if you're looking for more people! Simply use /nick to change your name in chat. You should use a non web client because sometimes the web client breaks while the server is still up for some unknown reason.
Know anything I'm missing? Let me know and I'll add it.
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PSN: Bizazedo
CFN: Bizazedo (I don't think I suck, add me).
I came up with a new on the fly: you kept teching the light ball into throw, so I started throwing out medium balls from the same distance. Got a few cheap hits that way.
Yes, SSF4AE is getting a stand alone release a little later on all platforms. PC only gets the standalone version, due to no Super.
Also, I changed my mind and will stick to both Sagat and Bison. Will probably throw in Akuma just to piss off Makoto players.
That's 3 people so far then? Uno mas por favors!
Anyways if my Dhalsim can't handle the dive kick festival I might switch to Seth, he looks rad in AE.
actually all the characters I like made it out ok, so meh
might try learning dan since his normals are buffed with shorter recovery times, so he has some new combos apparently
Cody get some hardly noticeable buffs, Guy received a few small buffs as well, Abel got some hefty nerfs, and Chunners got a few small nerfs as well.
Abel is the only one where I'd say your going to notice a big difference.
EDIT: Unless you played Chun-Li a whole lot. Her changes will be noticeable to those that main her exclusively and/or at high levels of play, not so much otherwise.
Can't wait for AE. So stoked.
Me, over here
XBL Gametag: mailarde
Screen Digest LOL3RZZ
ggs Biz!
Thanks for the heads up. Been awhile since I've watched a stream!
I'll be on later today if anyone wants to get some fights in.
Hm
I'm pretty sure you can.
Yeah, I air throw it all the time.
Steam Switch FC: 2799-7909-4852
I kinda wanted to go to this since I'm living in Orlando now, but I haven't played in a while and it costs money to spectate. Boo and boo.
That isn't run on 360s.
The majority of people in the florida fighting game scene is on 360. Just learn to play on stick and borrow someone's.
Chadwalk: come to CEO. I'm going to go 0-2 but I'm going to have a blast hanging out in orlando anyway.
i hope i can learn to play arcana heart decently in time to enter
BLOGGU~
For you sir, for you.
It is just part of the legend of Biz.
I've seen very few AE vids of Akumas beating Makotos. It's possible it was because the Akumas sucked and the Makotos were godly, but I like to think that it's just Makoto is better.
Who's maining Evil Ryu on Tuesday? Gotta get used to the gigantic fucking flood of those online.
The Raid
Maybe i won't suck so bad now. Probably will, but maybe.
Probably end up playing balrog again grumble grumble
GT: Tanky the Tank
Black: 1377 6749 7425
Of course its just so tempting to pick balrog/bison/honda and you know, win and stuff. I should have taken advantage of the reign of charge characters in Super and gone to more tournaments
I plan to pick up yang because i imagine he will once again be criminally underplayed. Air slashes every day!
I've yet to use her in a bonafide tournament, though.
Though it's important to note that when playing Hakan I only had a single goal: Land his U2. If I achieved that, then I considered the match a victory, even if it was the only hit I got on my opponent in the entire match.
Just want to reiterate that I am up for the four-pack
Hey Jaunty, you played much Super Meat Boy lately? Do you hate me on the leaderboards?
PC version on steam has a 4 pack where it's cheaper per unit than to buy it individually. So people are pooling money to save money.
Good games Blank - I like how we picked Barlog at the same time. Some fun fights - your Bison and Seth are great! You shoulda taunted more as Dan though!