So, there's been a lot of SFIV talk on Giant Bomb since its release, and it sounds like we've got  lot of talented players. It's good to see most of you understand the first rule of Street Fighter:

If it's in the game, it ain't cheap.

But not everyone gets it. I'm pretty much a beginner myself, but I've spent a lot of time practicing blocking and countering moves, and it really isn't that hard. See, I play as Ryu mostly, and find that his jumping high kicks, fireballs, dragon punches and hurricane kicks can be pretty effective. However, in one afternoon, I've received 3 different angry messages, which I find hilarious. I also like to save them, and let my friends listen to them later. Why not share them here? Post you're stories below!

This one comes in from Guru Of Chaos, all it said was "learn a new move noob." Nothing intresting, but they got progressively funnier.

The next was was a voice message, sent by angry-black-man fallenghostm100, who says: "Yo man, learn how to fuckin' play and stop doing the same old moves, all ya'll mother-fuckers up in here do the same shit over and over, if you're gonna get the game, learn how to play it, read the fucking instruction booklet!" Dude, we laughed so hard when we heard this, oh man.

And the last one today is from DIRTY GLOVE 2020, who simply says "fuc u learn how 2 play an not spam the moves fag."

I responded to these with a simple text message saying "It's time you learn the golden rule of Street Fighter: If it's in the game, it ain't cheap. (psst... back on the d-pad will block fireballs.)"

God I love X-box Live...

Sounds like you suck at playing STREET FIGHTER but you don't suck at playing Ryu or Ken.

People on PSN never send after game messages (At least I never get any). But I do get the occasional quitter who will quit after I mop him the first round. I even found one Akuma who set the game to one 30 second round who quit after I got first hit on him.

"if you're gonna get the game, learn how to play it, read the fucking instruction booklet!""

You know why I'm not a pussy? I pick Ryu, not the inferior Ken.



(Edit) The problem I have with SFIV is that dumb-down form the superior SFIII. It's bad enough that Capcom did that, but what's even more bad is they strip-down Ryu from SFIII; where is the fuck is Ryu's High-Blade leg kick?

I've only received one after game message, from a guy who was giving me advice to improve my game.

I was playng some player matches against some guy and I kept winning and he disconnected mid match.  I usually send a message saying good game to people I play with and he replied saying 'thanks, i couldnt watch you own my 8 year old son anymore' 

I have yet to have any angry messages sent to me while playing, although there's a couple of times I was expecting it.  All I gotta say is I can feel the frustration through the controller when I've blocked 'em in the corner with some electrical charge cheapness from Blanka.  Due to those cheap tactics, I quit playing Blanka and started focusing on Abel and Cammy.

I got one message from someone I pummeled with Cammy and I got a message after. All I could think was "Here it comes...", but to my surprise it was pretty upbeat.

"Cammy made Sagat cry :( (Good game)"

Was playing a ranked match over live last night. I was using Fei against Zangief.  

"You know, usually when you're in a match and you find out you're a lot better than someone else, you take it easy on them and maybe offer to teach them how to play better...you asshole."

(During a ranked match)

""You know, usually when you're in a match and you find out you're a lot better than someone else, you take it easy on them and maybe offer to teach them how to play better...you asshole."

(During a ranked match)"

I've only had positive messages, and if the opponent was a good match (or even if I pummelled them 5 matches in a row).  As such, I think I should actually relay a POSITIVE experience I had.
I wish I could recall the player, but we were in a player match and the first match they played as C. Viper, and I chose Vega.  I beat 'em in two straight rounds and went back to the lobby to find they weren't readying up.  I figgered "Agh, they're gonna tell me how cheap my Vega tactics are", but instead, I got a message that said this.  "Good match.  I love Vega but his moves seem so hard to do with the 360 controller :(", to which I replied, "Yeh, his Crystal Flash is tough to do consistently.  Nice C. Viper, btw".  We played one more match where they completely demolished me as Cammy whilst I was Ryu, and a message came through that said, "Nice match.  Well I gotta go eat lunch.  Hope to see you around, and go wreck some havoc with that Vega ;)"  Naturally I told them to take it easy and go kick some ass respectively.
I just thought the whole thing was cool.  You don't see enough players like that.

I usually send people a nice comment if we play a tough match. And when I get totally owned I'll let the guy know how awesome they are.

Makes me glad I don't play SF4 on XBL. Never gotten a message before. But I usually avoid using Ryu, Ken, or Akuma anyways.

I've only played a few Player Matches on XBL, but they all seemed relatively good. Ended up friending most of them. Maybe the jackasses gravitate towards the ranked matches?

Since I'm in Europe, I bet I only get matched against european people, that's probably why I have been missing out on this. I myself have only sent stuff like "Thanks for a great match". And I haven't recived any negative feedback on Xbox live either. So I guess I play fair? Or the people I play against are sensible people. :)

my family has the rule of don't do the same move more than 3 times in a row (it was to stop me wiping the flor with frost/ sub-zero in mk). but that only applies to sitting in the same room fighting. online anything applies.

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This one comes in from Guru Of Chaos, all it said was "learn a new move noob." Nothing intresting, but they got progressively funnier.

The next was was a voice message, sent by angry-black-man fallenghostm100, who says: "Yo man, learn how to fuckin' play and stop doing the same old moves, all ya'll mother-fuckers up in here do the same shit over and over, if you're gonna get the game, learn how to play it, read the fucking instruction booklet!" Dude, we laughed so hard when we heard this, oh man.

And the last one today is from DIRTY GLOVE 2020, who simply says "fuc u learn how 2 play an not spam the moves fag."

I responded to these with a simple text message saying "It's time you learn the golden rule of Street Fighter: If it's in the game, it ain't cheap. (psst... back on the d-pad will block fireballs.)"

God I love X-box Live...

"

"TooWalrus said:
If everyone's telling you to stop doing the same move, then shit: Stop doing the same move. You know it's annoying people, so stop playing like a dick. Whether it's cheap or not, it's definately not fun to face a guy who just keeps fireballing.

If somone is going to do something as predictable as the same moves over and over again, I don't see the reason to get angry at them. If anything its probably 'you' who needs to show the guy that spamming won't work on everyone. Will they stop doing that move? Probably not, but at least it [might] force them to change their playing habits and not look like such an amateur.

This game does seem like it's tipped towards the favour of certain characters, thus I personally think playing as ie. Ken [for some people] is like plyaing SF IV with training wheels on. In fact I'm training myself on different characters because of the ease of play when using Ken or Akuma. On the flip side, it's perfectly plausible to use Ken and attain victory without Shoryuken, Tatsu maki sennpukayku or Hadoken; it's harder... but plausible.

I've only played online via friend invites so I cant say that I've had first hand ranked experience, but I want to start earning battle points so I hope to see some you out there; go easy on me will ya!? =]

-hiro

i get it all the time when i play as balrog . They think i do the same move over again but most of balrogs moves look the same .

"i get it all the time when i play as balrog . They think i do the same move over again but most of balrogs moves look the same . "

I hear this all the time with m.bisons head stomp and i don't care if i do it over and over, if your dumb enough not to block and/or find out how to stop it (pssst walk backwards when his in the air) thats your problem but the thing is I KNOW HOW TO PLAY people just need to stop bitching and get better, i remember playing SF3TS on xbox i fought this guy maybe 20x he waxed me almost every time then he quit and sent me a message saying "why did you keep fighting me?", i said "the only way i will get better is to fight people better than me".

The only message I ever got was a good one and it made me feel proud in some kind of wierd way.  It said something to the effect of....

"You have inspired me to play Dan!"

I felt pretty good after I got that message as Dan is my first character choice and I usually end up destroying people with him. Glad to see im inspiring others rather than just pissing everybody off

Haven't gotten an overabundance of shit talking.  But have had a fair amount of friend requests and people asking for tips on how to do various things.

From all this it sounds like playing SFIV online isnt even worth the time. 

"From all this it sounds like playing SFIV online isnt even worth the time. "

"RIP_Icewood said:

"From all this it sounds like playing SFIV online isnt even worth the time. "

You will get 50 times the amount of trash talking messages from games like Halo 3,  COD, or Gears of War.  Most SF4 players online that take the time to actually communicate are very respectful and encouraging."

"RIP_Icewood said:

"From all this it sounds like playing SFIV online isnt even worth the time. "

You will get 50 times the amount of trash talking messages from games like Halo 3,  COD, or Gears of War.  Most SF4 players online that take the time to actually communicate are very respectful and encouraging."

"From all this it sounds like playing SFIV online isnt even worth the time. "

Only one I had was

Someon on xbox live said:

"lmfao pussy backing off and doing one move lmfao your shit"

I would laugh my ass off at someone if they literally lost to nothing but fireballs. How much do you have to suck for that to beat you?

LOL. Wow you are right that is hilarious.

I beat some guy's akuma with my dan and he wrote : "you fuckin fag.pick some one els besides homo dan."  (Exact pronunciation of his)
I picked dan again ,but this time he beat me ,so he writes : "fat chance. you fuckin nerd . just go back to picturin dans dick in ur mouth and shut up." (Exact pronouciation,again)
I picked dan again and he picked M.bison, I came awfully close to beating him again ,so then he wrote : " i used shitty characters when u used him and won...and you babyd out .so just keep thinkin dat" ( 'dats' how he spelled it)

His ID is :JuGgALO 7 , If you ever meet him online, say hi to him from me.

This makes me glad I play SFIV on PSN. I haven't yet played a ranked match, and I don't even want to know my win/loss ratio in player matches.

I play as Zangief and  get the expected  "Omg dude grabs are so cheap!" crap all the time.

alright i was playing as ryu my main and this guy was playing ken he beat me in a very close game so he sends me a massege taht says "u suck" then i reply  "dont start this bs" next game i totaly mop the floor with him, then i send a message "who sucks again?" he replies "dude im old school" so then i beat him again and he disconnects at the victory screen.

another one is more recent like i said ryus my main so i kept picking him and i beat the crap out of this one guy and u sends "pick someone else ya homo" i reply "dude im gonna use someone im good with get over it" then the next game i beat him and he sends "you always pick ryu and jerk off to him" then i send him "dude i play to win if u cant beat me get over it its a fucken game do something better with ur time if ur gonna bitch about" then he replies "ur still a fag" and i reply "ur still a little bitch"

only thing i dont like about the online is ppl can be total douchebags but lot of ppl are pretty cool after u congrats them a good game like this extremly good akuma player that i played it was close but he beat me and i added him, and he taught me some moves with ryu and akuma.

you can always uses Russel Brand's comeback to hatemail it being
 "dear (put name here) reading between the lines I have found this to be a homosexual come on, which I accept!"
or don't have their argument have your own demand your jacket back from them

how is this the same ??? my thread is talking about hatemail people have recivied . *facepalm*

That's exactally what this was SUPPOSED to be, but it never turned out right. Read my 2nd posts, three awesome hate-filled messages.

why didnt you delete and repost with a different topic then ?

"TooWalrus said:
If everyone's telling you to stop doing the same move, then shit: Stop doing the same move. You know it's annoying people, so stop playing like a dick. Whether it's cheap or not, it's definately not fun to face a guy who just keeps fireballing.

Just had this happen, was in a player match ( I was Blanka he was Akuma) he raped me the 1st round ( as most Akumas do I have a hard time fighting them) and won the 2nd round after a very close fight. So we both ready up and fight again, 1 st  round early on and I  realize the guy is just waiting for me to jump in and then he sweeps me and combos etc, so I jump in block, sweep rinse and repeat and I win easily ( even had to jump over a close range unltra) 2nd round was basically mor of the same but right when it was about to say K.O. he ragequitted ,  even tho it was a player match it still botherd me so i msged him calling  him a ragequitting scrub .

Shits getting old

I don't usually talk shit to other players. I mean... it's way rare. But I can't stand quitters, so they sometimes catch hell from me.

So yeah, I played a ranked match against some Zangief player and ripped him to shreds. We wound up in another match together, and this time he chose Ken. More of the same, except this time he quit when I dizzied him and he didn't have any damage on me.

When I saw his name on the lobby list after that, I deliberately chose a match with him, just to see what he'd do. He dropped out of the lobby. So I sent him a message: "You better run..."

He responds back: "Suck my dick bitch."
Me: "Haha... you wasted your money on a game that's too hard for you. Go play Viva Pinata or something."
Him: "Stop [sending me love letters]." I forget the message, exactly.
Me: "Awww... but my mouth just can't stay away from pussies. Have fun sucking dick at SFIV!"

It didn't end there. I found him in the lobby yet again, and joined. This time he stuck around and chose Guile. Before the match started, he got a message from me that just said, "Hi!!" Anyway, the match commenced, I beat him, but he this had been his best showing. Feeling like a bit of a shithead, I messaged him one more time with, "gg." His response was priceless.

"Man you're a fucking dick. Add me. You're my goal."

He's on my friends list now. I won't be mean to him anymore.

I just want to add that I'm seriously not a poor sport OR an elitist prick, but quitters are my weakness. They bring out the worst in me, heh.

I've only been playing SFIV for a couple days, but I just got my first message.  I'm a Balrog player (but to the complainers above me, I try not to spam moves -- maybe I use the crouch-HK a lot, but who doesn't?), and was facing a Sakura.  I beat him, and he simply sent message back saying:  "untalented faggot."

I was a bit surprised.  I considered responding but figured, why bother?  A lot of people don't expect much from ol' Balrog...

I too get mad sometimes when people spam moves.  Especially from Ken/Ryu/Akuma/Gouken.  Still, I agree it's all fair, I just don't think it's particularly fun. 

sucks when you're trying to learn a new character and some asshole is beaking you and you don't have your headset on to swear at him.   Only happened to me once, but it hurt my balls.

Just beat a Ken with the gamertag Xiepher, who somehow had 1000bp, and Instantly received a voice message.
Ass said:

"inst3d uv krowching N l0w kikk1n N sh1t, why dun't you l34rn 2 plai tha geyme, d1kk l1kk?"

"Just beat a Ken with the gamertag Xiepher, who somehow had 1000bp, and Instantly received a voice message.
Ass said:

"inst3d uv krowching N l0w kikk1n N sh1t, why dun't you l34rn 2 plai tha geyme, d1kk l1kk?"

At first listen, it thought he might spell things with letters, but after futher examination it was clear this man uses numbers in his sentences."

seriously, if its in the game, its not cheap, until Capcom releases a patch to change something, then anything goes.  Also, spamming with moves, that should work to your advantage, since they become predictable and spamming, if the guy can't get out of the corner, then he shouldnt be fucking playing.  Learn to get out of the corner!