Seeing Giant Bomb has a unique guide system which enables any user to edit guides, I thought it would be interesting to start a guide to which all users can contribute. The guide is for beginners to SFIV which I'm hoping will be the first collaboration to create a guide by GB users. The game is obviously very popular, yet some people find the learning curve overwhelming. By writing a guide for beginners, we will them people overcome this high learning curve in order for them to enjoy the game more. It will also be better than repeating tips and advice to people who post threads about some problem they are having with the game. We can just refer them to the guide. Now, I know there are already some guides on other sites, but still that doesn't mean our favorite gaming site shouldn't have its own guide.
You don't have to be a SFIV expert to contribute. If know a some strategy that works with a certain character and can make the game easier for beginners go ahead and add it to the guide. You can also add some tips on how to perform moves, combos or how to clear a certain challenge in challenge mode.
Whether this idea will see success or not depends entirely on the community's contribution, but I'm hoping some of you will take the time to help us.
Here's a link to the guide:
http://www.giantbomb.com/guides/beginners-guide-to-moves-combos-and-fighting-strategies/902/
To edit something press the edit button on the top of the table of contents on the right. After you've added something come here and tell us about it in this thread.

This is a great idea.  I added in a sentence about chip damage and I'm going to pin this thread to the SFIV forum.  Hopefully it will get a little more exposure that way.

"This is a great idea.  I added in a sentence about chip damage and I'm going to pin this thread to the SFIV forum.  Hopefully it will get a little more exposure that way."

great start guys! lets keep the ball rolling on this one !! 

The move canceling section really made me understand what I was doing wrong when trying to do combos.  I totally had no idea you could execute other moves while still doing the motion for another move!  Like the crouch punch to hadoken by holding the punch button...never thought that would actually work :)

Great idea.. I added a little to it right away. :)

"Great idea.. I added a little to it right away. :) "

I just added a section on stun.  Stun is pretty self explanatory, but I figgered I'd just throw my two cents in there too.

"great start guys! lets keep the ball rolling on this one !! 

i'd personally love to see some vids embedded in there :)

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"I just added a section on stun.  Stun is pretty self explanatory, but I figgered I'd just throw my two cents in there too."

legend man this was a great idea 

"Vision said:

"Great idea.. I added a little to it right away. :) "

I noticed that what you added is taken from Eventhubs' guide: http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2008/jul/08/crimson-viper-street-fighter-4-character-guide/. I appreciate your help, but I think it's better if we write the guide ourselves rather than copy/paste from other sites. Thanks anyway."

Some really good info for noobs like me, and the videos were great help. I came out of watching them with some things i'm anxious to try. Please, keep adding to it. I need this type of thing.

"Some really good info for noobs like me, and the videos were great help. I came out of watching them with some things i'm anxious to try. Please, keep adding to it. I need this type of thing."

Thank you for this - I'm gonna go ahead and finally buy the game now, without fear of ripping the disc apart after an hour.

Good job getting the ball rolling on this! While I play a decent Rose (which almost no one seems to play lol) I'm kind of reluctant to contribute because of my newbiness. Maybe one day.

Great job so far! I like what I'm seeing.

this will be good, i love big guides (like that fallout 3 megaguide, thankyousomuch)
i'll contribute a little too

After a few more days of maining him, I think I'll be able to add something on Vega.  I've got his attacks almost down to a science now, but I just want to check to make sure.

We have some info about quick get-ups now thanks to Darklyte510. I added the names of the users who contributed to the guide in the comments on each section. The guide still lacks character specific fighting strategies.

ImperiousRix said:

"After a few more days of maining him, I think I'll be able to add something on Vega.  I've got his attacks almost down to a science now, but I just want to check to make sure."

I'll look into typing up some Sagat strategies.

For some reason the guide's table of contents isn't loading up for me and it's not letting me edit at the moment.
Just thought I'd see if this problem is exclusive to me or if others were having the same problem, since I can view all other guides just fine.

"For some reason the guide's table of contents isn't loading up for me and it's not letting me edit at the moment.Just thought I'd see if this problem is exclusive to me or if others were having the same problem, since I can view all other guides just fine."

Nice job

I just wrote a whole section on Vega's Specials, Super Combo, and Ultra Combo including information on the characteristics of the attacks and some situations where they should be used.
Thanks go to Legend for posting it up for me alongside a video that helps clarify what each move should look like.

In the section about stuns, it says "Being knocked to the ground several times in succession will result in being stunned."  Is this correct?  I didn't think a stun required being knocked down at all.

MB has a point, I've been stunned without being knocked down before.

I really appreciate something like this. I'm at a point in which is kind of hard to have fun with the game. I'm way too terrible at it.

"In the section about stuns, it says "Being knocked to the ground several times in succession will result in being stunned."  Is this correct?  I didn't think a stun required being knocked down at all."

Cool, this is just what I need.  Thanks.

one of the best street fighter guides on the internet -- great job getting this going Legend!

Man major thanks to all who helped put this together so far, and to Legend for spearheading it. This guide has helped bridge some gaps for me in terms of combos, cancelling and supers. Great stuff and I am really looking forward to this becoming more fleshed out by the awesome community here.

Step one for beginners, learn Ken, go online and play only ken. ken ken ken!!!!

"Step one for beginners, learn Ken, go online and play only ken. ken ken ken!!!!"

I actually learned more about focus attacks and canceling. This is a great idea. Thanks!

I was wondering, does anyone have any tips about Sakura to give to me? I main her, but I still take a beating most of the time.

But the guide sure was helpful. I didn't even know about canceling moves... I finally finished the Trial Mode thanks to you guys.

All I know about Sakura is that she takes a lot of damage while also not dishing out very much damage of her own.  Anyone I've ever faced off against playing as Sakura has taken a severe and violent beating at the hands of my Gouken.

"I was wondering, does anyone have any tips about Sakura to give to me? I main her, but I still take a beating most of the time.But the guide sure was helpful. I didn't even know about canceling moves... I finally finished the Trial Mode thanks to you guys."

Thanks for the guide, this is just what we needed.

Added some Guile information.

O.k, this sounds like a cool guide, but for some reason my browser fails when I try to load it, and dont know why. I am new to this site and to street fighter and I am really interested learning some basic stuff. Could someone please copy and paste all the text into somthing like a notepad file and then upload it to media fire or somthing? Thanks in advance to anyone that could do that or help me solve my problem.

"O.k, this sounds like a cool guide, but for some reason my browser fails when I try to load it, and dont know why. I am new to this site and to street fighter and I am really interested learning some basic stuff. Could someone please copy and paste all the text into somthing like a notepad file and then upload it to media fire or somthing? Thanks in advance to anyone that could do that or help me solve my problem."

literally the only one. Essentially, I click on the page, it loads and then after about a second an error pops up and says it failed to load the page, operation aborted, it then goes to a "failed to load the page" screen.  This happens on IE and Firefox.

Never Mind, got it to work, great guide!

Hah, i just found out yesterday after about 12 hrs in SF4 that 'very easy' isn't the easiest mode.  Now hopefully with some of these strats i can finally unlock Gouken and Seth.

I've got a great tip for you guys: Don't quit playing for a month. If you do, expect your BP to plunge into the toilet next time you play.

Hey guys, thank you for this. It was a great idea. I especially appreciate the videos on canceling and such from FredMchale. They really helped =)

So... dunno how this all works?

Starting making a Ken guide, and threw up what I had a few days ago. I worked on it more today, then looked at the guide and what I had already put up was not there, not sure if I edited it wrong, or didn't save the edits, or if someone got rid of it. >_>

"So... dunno how this all works?Starting making a Ken guide, and threw up what I had a few days ago. I worked on it more today, then looked at the guide and what I had already put up was not there, not sure if I edited it wrong, or didn't save the edits, or if someone got rid of it. >_>"

Thanks guys! This is really gonna help me out. i'm terrible at this game.