Street Fighter IV
Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Jul 18, 2008
After nearly a decade in hiatus, Capcom's signature mainline fighting game series resurfaces with its fourth main installment, combining the traditional 2D gameplay with modern fully-3D graphics.
My Descent into Street Fighter IV
Awesome post. That's how it went for me too. I never understood what it took to succeed in fighting games, and I didn't like memorizing combos like in Tekken, but SF4 looked very nice in 3D, and still very fast paced. I felt like I was missing out, so I finally bought it the other day (it was sold out at EB games and futureshop, but managed to find it at walmart). After spending a half hour in training, my brother joined in to fight me. In the very first round after I explained the controls, he beats me. He beats me in the next round, and the next round after that... very discouraging. After several losses, something clicked and I have never lost against him since. Of course he hasn't had any time to figure out the special moves and whatnot, but still it was improvement. I still haven't played online yet, even though I've put in plenty of hours and have all the characters now. I think I'll try online right now in unranked games, I just know I'm going to lose every game though.
Damn, online is fun, battles last much longer (at least these did). I did a player match with this guy and he beat me over and over for 3 games, then I beat him for 3 games, and on the last one he beat me. I was using Akuma, but I just felt kinda cheap trying to spam those fireballs at him so I kept going up close where I'd get my butt kicked. Then I started winning when I switched to Fei Long, who was my favourite before Akuma, and now I think he's my favourite again.
Thanks!
Thats awesome! Really looking forward to the tournament patch/update/dlc thats going to come out. I think that it's going to add a whole new layer of depth.
I'm the same way - I started with Abel then went to Blanka. Having spent the time Abel before, I now feel as if I can go back to him and use him better then maybe some other secondary characters. I can't seem to do squat with Zangief who also gives me the most problems online.
What's the tournament update about? Is that like in-game tournament support or something? Sounds cool.
By the way, after playing a whole lot more online, I finally got my first real lesson banged into my skull. Block. I'd keep getting owned by someone who wasn't using any fancy combos or doing anything that I wasn't doing, and I couldn't figure out why. I learned it's simply because he was blocking my attacks, and then punishing me for exposing myself. On the last match we played, it was 3 out of 5, he won the first two rounds already, and on the third round I finally got my act together and began blocking properly. I won that round, and then I won the next one too. On the fifth and final round, it was very close, but I managed to beat him by properly blocking. I guess when the pros play they do the same thing, but a lot of it is just baiting eachother into making a mistake, and then punishing with a massive impossible combo.
Dude that was a good post. Good to hear that you are doing really well at the game now. I am an Ok player, enough that I dont totally embarrass myself online. I just got a new fighting stick and I am looking forward to seeing if that can take my game anywhere because I wasnt digging the controller.
"I'm at the point now where I can't stop playing Street Fighter IV. I tell myself I want to play other games however always end up back at Street Fighter. I find my chain of thought being "just one more fight" to "I'll fight until I lose" to "I can't go to bed on a losing note" until I look at the clock to see it's 4AM."
Exactly the same for me as well. Great post.
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