Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition 2012 Update Now Up!

[iconoclast]

Just crossed the 100 hours played mark. Best game ever

Only about 150 more wins to go before I get the achievement for getting everyone to C-rank. Some characters have been incredibly frustrating to rank up. I'm glad I'm almost finished.

PS. Ibuki is awesome. I might pick her up as a secondary, but she really bleeds when she gets hit. Low stamina characters

[bork]

PS3 Bores, add "lyteedge2" to your lists.  I've been playing SSF4 under that account.

What happened to the original "lyteedge" ?

That's still my main account and I use it for everything else, but since it's a Japanese account, SSF4 changes my default region to Japan.  It's a bitch finding good connections that way.  Obviously doesn't make a difference when playing with people on my friends list though.  I typically check to see if anyone is on my main account before using my second one, but if you've got plenty of room on your friends list, shoot a request to my alt. account!

Capcom games are the only ones with this issue.  I have the same problem with Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom UAS on Wii.  My Wii is Japanese and hacked so I can play U.S. games, but TvC still thinks my region is Asia and matches me up with other Asian players.  I almost never get North American match-ups and the connection suffers for it.    

[Akala]

Ah. It's not terrible, but it is really light. It's giving me more problems than my hrap on ps3. I don't want to buy another stick though, so I'll fight through it.

[The Fake Shemp]

I'm thinking about buying a cheap stick, but I don't know which one to get. The MadCatz one or that wireless Hori (which comes with Tekken, but I heard Tekken sucks).

[bork]

I'm thinking about buying a cheap stick, but I don't know which one to get. The MadCatz one or that wireless Hori (which comes with Tekken, but I heard Tekken sucks).

Mad Catz.

I may do the same soon.  I have been holding out until I get me a jobby-job or just a bunch of extra cash so I can buy two TE sticks, but I may just go ahead and get a Mad Catz SE stick in the meantime.  Hell, if I'd held off on the four games I bought this past week, it would have been no problem. 

[The Fake Shemp]

If I get a MadCatz stick, I'm getting the cheapie one.

[Smooth Groove]

I'm thinking about buying a cheap stick, but I don't know which one to get. The MadCatz one or that wireless Hori (which comes with Tekken, but I heard Tekken sucks).

Get the Tekken stick. 

cheapie Hori > cheapie Madcatz

I'm thinking about buying a cheap stick, but I don't know which one to get. The MadCatz one or that wireless Hori (which comes with Tekken, but I heard Tekken sucks).

Mad Catz.

I may do the same soon.  I have been holding out until I get me a jobby-job or just a bunch of extra cash so I can buy two TE sticks, but I may just go ahead and get a Mad Catz SE stick in the meantime.  Hell, if I'd held off on the four games I bought this past week, it would have been no problem. 

Just wait for a good deal on the TE.  Fry's has been selling them for $90 to $100. 

[Akala]

if you don't have tekken, I'd definitely reccomend the tekken bundle over the madcatz cheapie, especially if you can get it at a reasonable price.

tekken 6 is good!

[The Fake Shemp]

I heard Tekken is garbage and that's from folks that know!

[The Fake Shemp]

Just wait for a good deal on the TE.  Fry's has been selling them for $90 to $100. 

Yeah, um, I'm not paying over $50 for a stick. Not a chance. The only reason why I want to grab one is because while the gamepads are pretty good, I'd like to try some other characters - and I simply cannot do charge characters with the pad.

[iconoclast]

As a pure fighting game, Tekken 6 is great. It's very balanced and has plenty of depth. The story/single player stuff is pretty average but who cares about that. As far as 3D fighters go, the only series that's better is Virtua Fighter.

[originalz]

Yeah, Tekken 6 is awesome.  I consider it better than VF, but it's really comparing apples to oranges since they play so differently.  I dunno why Tekken gets so much hate around here, it's an awesome game series and T6 is a fantastic game with tons of content.

[bork]

Who cares; SSF4 is out.

[bork]

Think I may be done with T. Hawk.  I think he's just not for me.  Same might be true for Juri too.  I am leaning towards trying Honda now but I find I am liking the alts I tried in SF4, Rose and Cammy, quite a bit more than before.  Also Ibuki too but I need some sausage in my character rotation.  I still dunno.   

Got another hate message from a below-average Seth player.  I say "below-average" because he wasn't taking advantage of a lot of Seth's strengths and was basically just hopping around/teleporting a lot.  Little use of the 'Sim arms and sonic booms when far away -why I have no idea- and barely any combos so he was a cakewalk for me using Chun-Li.

His message was "u play like a scrub."  Standard "lol u mad" from me, followed by "not rly most chuns play the same way.  no technique, full turtle."  So I decided to give him a nice, honest response- "you play a textbook, predictable seth and tell me that?  and send hatemail when you lose?  yeah, i think we know who the 'scrub' is here.  if all chuns are the same you'd have no problem winning-- stop being a whiny little butch, accept your loss and learn to play.  scrub."

And that was over one match in an endless match-up.  One.  Match.  No points were lost anyway.  I just don't get these kinds of players.   

[Beezy]

I've been losing all day, mostly with Makoto, but I finally play someone using an average Dudley, win the first round, and then my fucking parents come in the room at the same exact time running their mouths and asking me to do shit RIGHT NOW. Concentration gone to shit because I'm trying to respond to whatever bullshit they're talking about while playing the game, so I lost the next 2 rounds. I haven't been this pissed in a while. I have a headache now because I need to vent, but I can't because they're my parents.

I'm playing this game with my door locked from now on.

[bork]

So you're really sticking with Makoto, huh?

[Robo]

I dunno if you noticed, but I jumped into that last Endless Battle with you.    I was the guy playing Guile/Dictator and some other characters I really suck at.  That dude playing Dudley is actually one of my good friends in RL.  He's got a pretty nasty Sakura.

[Beezy]

I keep saying I'm gonna drop her, but I can't for some reason. If her hayate broke armor and if she had some way to get past projectiles like Abel, she'd be a serious problem. I don't remember who jim robobo is here, but I won one round against his Guile with the Mak. Still lost the other two because I can't get past his sonic booms. She's a turtle's nightmare though.

Edit: I figured it was you when I saw the beastly Bison.

[bork]

I got called a "n00b" because I kicked I guy out after an incredibly laggy match.  LOL PSN.

[originalz]

I finally got my first hate mail!  Some guy sent me a voicemail complaining about my usage of Ibuki's kunai.  My profile and location are in Japanese, which does a pretty good job of discouraging these types of complaints but I guess that this guy really wanted to let me know what he thought of my playstyle.  Oh well, I told him that he sucked in Japanese, and then followed up with something like "IT WAS ENJOY BATTLE!  THANK YOU VERY MUCH!"  Haha, must have been pissed when he saw that, too bad that kind of message doesn't really lend itself to another reply.

[Jansen]

amazon has the ps3 ver. for $29.99 + $10 in credit towards another game.

[bork]

Man, what a shitty afternoon for ranked...got my ass kicked all over.  Lost like 500PP.   :'(  What was worse was that one of the last matches was against a Vega player who had it set to one round.  I didn't even notice.      But I went out on a win against a shitty Rog.  So I guess that's uplifting?  Okay, not really.

The new costume pack for the SF4 female characters is also out.  The verdict- Rose, Cammy, and Sakura = Awesome, Viper = Meh, Chun = Mixed.  Her 10th color is an alternate without all the fringe, and looks MUCH better that way.

[iconoclast]

I've been seeing lots of ranked matches at one round. Half the time I join one, I don't notice until the match is half finished. It's really annoying, and it's stupid how Capcom still allows players to mess with the time limit and rounds in a ranked match. HDR had it perfect, especially after the patch: opponent's name is hidden pre-game, blind select, best of 5, 99 sec.

I've also finished ranking everyone up to C, besides Dudley. I've been saving him for last so I can finish off with a character that I actually like.

[bork]

GGs to Enk; we had some fun battles, finished off by an earth-shattering, epic battle as ONLY HAKAN VERSUS HAKAN CAN BRING. 

I've been seeing lots of ranked matches at one round. Half the time I join one, I don't notice until the match is half finished. It's really annoying, and it's stupid how Capcom still allows players to mess with the time limit and rounds in a ranked match. HDR had it perfect, especially after the patch: opponent's name is hidden pre-game, blind select, best of 5, 99 sec.

I've also finished ranking everyone up to C, besides Dudley. I've been saving him for last so I can finish off with a character that I actually like.

First time that has happened to me.  Maybe I've been lucky?

I went back on and did much better this time around, gaining back a couple hundred PP that I lost before.  That new Cammy outfit has me using her a lot again...I think I may just go back to my original Chun/Cammy combo from here on out.  But using magenta-colored T. Hawk is still loads of fun.     I think my biggest problem is that I want the SF4 grapplers to play like BlazBlue's Iron Tager, and that's just not going to happen.   

[Enl]

Great games Lyte! I would probably enjoy Hakan a bit more if his controls weren't so loose. It seems to be a 50/50 for me as to whether a slide will come out and not a throw. The Adon vs T-Hawk match was terrifying! All of Adon's moves can be countered with grabs so I didn't quite know how to approach the big bastard other than trying to quickly jump in for a quick hit and run the fuck away.

[bork]

Great games Lyte! I would probably enjoy Hakan a bit more if his controls weren't so loose. It seems to be a 50/50 for me as to whether a slide will come out and not a throw. The Adon vs T-Hawk match was terrifying! All of Adon's moves can be countered with grabs so I didn't quite know how to approach the big bastard other than trying to quickly jump in for a quick hit and run the fuck away.

LOL, really?  I didn't quite know how to approach you, either!   

[originalz]

I love playing 1 round matches!  In almost all of the battles I fought, the opponents were mad n00b.  It really is such a scrub setting.

[bork]

Nothing better than beating a Dhalsim player spamming HPs with CQC from across the screen. 

[bork]

RoboJ, BRACE YOURSELF. 

I'm going to make the tourney brackets random, but in your case, your opponent will be pre-selected. 

You will face...

The amazing...

ASTOUNDING...

BEST PLAYER EVER...

NOT IMPRESSED BY DAIGO AND POONGKO...

...WAIT FOR IT...




LEGUNA.

DO YOU FEAR HIM?!?

[Robo]

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

...gotta go Dictator for this one.

[bork]

Please do.  And don't take any pity on him.  And please record the match and upload it to Youtube if you have the means to do so.   

[Robo]

If he's not impressed by Daigo or Poongko, I think my strategy will be to bore him to death with unbearable mediocrity.

[iconoclast]

 

After 126 hours, I've finally 1000'd this! C to Shining C took fucking ages, but it is done, and I'm finally going to start playing my main in ranked. I ended it with 2200 PP; not too bad all things considered. It's probably my toughest and most satisfying completion behind Ninja Gaiden 2.



Group photo!

[Akala]

congrats!

[The Fake Shemp]

[Robo]

I always search for More Skilled for better matches, but not a whole hell of a lot pop up when you've got over 3,000pp.  x infinity

[originalz]

Start the tourney up soon!  I'm moving in a few months so if shit doesn't start going I'll probably have to forfeit midway like the last one.

[bork]

Start the tourney up soon!  I'm moving in a few months so if shit doesn't start going I'll probably have to forfeit midway like the last one.

Imma be more strict this time on the match windows.  I don't care how small this tourney is, if people don't get their shit done within a few days to a week's time, they will be booted out. 

[Raban]

Lyte, you got me in there, right?

[bork]

Lyte, you got me in there, right?

I haven't started anything yet.  I will make a separate thread for the tourney.  Probably this weekend or next week. 

Last time, it was RoboJ at 1 and me at 2.  This time around, I predict RoboJ and Iconoclast at 1 and 2.

[Raban]

I assume this tourney will take place on 360s? too bad, I would destroy you all if it was on the PS3.

[Bacchus7]

Lyte, you got me in there, right?

I haven't started anything yet.  I will make a separate thread for the tourney.  Probably this weekend or next week. 

Last time, it was RoboJ at 1 and me at 2.  This time around, I predict RoboJ and Iconoclast at 1 and 2.

Don't count buffed Claw out! hahaaa

[Robo]

low tier heroes

[bork]

I SHALL REVEAL MY DEADLY NEW ALT CHARACTER

(who was my alt in the last tourney, I think.  LOL)

What do you guys say to FUCK IT with the normal rules, and we go with not two, but three characters per entrant, best out of FIVE matches, 3-out-5 rounds?

[Robo]

More SSF4 is always better than less SSF4.

[Raban]

I SHALL REVEAL MY DEADLY NEW ALT CHARACTER

(who was my alt in the last tourney, I think.  LOL)

What do you guys say to FUCK IT with the normal rules, and we go with not two, but three characters per entrant, best out of FIVE matches, 3-out-5 rounds?

Sounds epic as fuck, I'm down

[bork]

Another thing I'd like to do is have a separate tourney that is random-select ONLY.   

Jinfash, there's just not enough PS3 SSF4 players here to do a tourney.  How many PS3 players do we have on the Bore?  Three?

[Robo]

Iconoclast would easily dominate a random select tournament without some significant luck involved.  Does anyone else here have the "C to Shining C" achievement?

[bork]

Also, Dan-only and Hakan-only tourneys.   

[Akala]

I SHALL REVEAL MY DEADLY NEW ALT CHARACTER

(who was my alt in the last tourney, I think.  LOL)

What do you guys say to FUCK IT with the normal rules, and we go with not two, but three characters per entrant, best out of FIVE matches, 3-out-5 rounds?

down.

Also, Dan-only and Hakan-only tourneys.  

SAIKYO TOURNAMENT

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OYAJIIIII

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[Akala]

Right after that, as I was searching for fights in Ranking I found him again and figured he wants a rematch to settle the score. I joined the fight, he instantly selected "Ready", then I quit and sent "lololololol"

dirty

[bork]

Jinfash finally "getting it."    And after all those messages to me about such behavior, too.     My new favorite thing to do against distinguished mentally-challenged fellows/scrub players (in other words, flowchart Kens) is to just TROLL, TROLL, TROLL-- Nothing complex whatsoever.  Just endless throws and taunts like crazy. 

I just beat a scrub Blanka player who had a ranked match set to one round.  He sucked so bad that he couldn't even do Blanka's specials consistently.  I ended up doing nothing but Hooligan throws with Cammy to him.      Then I beat a 1999BP Abel player also doing almost nothing but Hooligans.  The guy would just keep standing up or jumping right into them on wake-up every time.  It's been harder for me to do this in Super, but in vanilla SF4, I found that I could "trap" a number of Abel players in a Hooligan loop like this.

Finally, I beat a 7000BP Gen clean, finishing the second round off with with CQC as he did Gen's rising kick on wake-up.  Felt good man.  The guy sent me a message saying "cheap ultra- GG" afterwards.   

[bork]

Dude, you've even sent me messages about this stuff on PSN in the past!   

[bork]

I never did :|

The only thing I remember sending you was that lame "nigerian prince" message lol.

Not in Street Fighter, in other games like Tekken.

[bork]

Real-life rage quit at the Super Norcal Regionals!

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7312828

Skip to 2:08, and watch as El Fuerte master Buktooth tries out Ibuki and loses, only to bring out Elf and DESTROY his opponent, who after going for a counter-pick with Rufus, gets so salty he walks out with a quarter of his life left. 

[bork]

Sign up duders!

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=34345.0

[iconoclast]

shout outs to commentators not giving "shout outs" every 10 seconds. Keystone

I can kinda sympathize with the ragequit since Fuerte is just a guessing game on wakeup and he's never fun to play against, but you should still never ragequit... especially in a tourney. The Lamerboi vs JWong match was pretty awesome. I love seeing the underdog put up a serious fight.


Also, just made it to 3000 PP

[bork]

Those commentators were ripping on a lot of players though.   It was embarrassing listening to them at times.  Pretty awful shit.

I went from nothing to 2000PP on PSN in a couple of days, using strictly Chun-Li with some Cammy.  On 360 I'll use whoever and I'm back down to like 1400 now.    :'(

EDIT: I am playing like such shit against RoboJ and his pal.  I need to rage quit and walk away from the TV when I have a quarter life left.

[bork]

Playing random select now and finally used Seth and Adon (the latter for the first time)...Adon is kinda cool!    

It's weird playing a match and trying to figure out what the ultras are...I feel like a complete noob, haha.

[iconoclast]

yeah, there's what, 74 ultras in the game now? I can't even remember all of them. Half the time I have my instruction book open so I can double-check the inputs for new ultras. They really should have done it SF3 style and had the inputs right next to the name of the ultra.

I don't like Adon, but Seth is a ton of fun to play as. His combos are insane and so is his mixup/reset game. Too bad he dies in like 2 hits.