STREET FIGHTER IV

I will say the abel player did really well to hold it down; especially after the first two matches were pretty much an relentless whitewash

YEAHHHHHHH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsHzvkCJUhM

wow Abel can cancel Breathless after starting it, that IS some bullshit

$14k pot at a french sfiv tourney o_O
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/jun/04/huge-fighting-game-tournaments-summer/

marn trying to do some reparations in the comments there; kinda feel a bit sorry for him now

god's garden stream; just tokido beasting on xbl ranked
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/godsgarden

tokido is ridiculous

anyway like an idiot I re-picked this up today for cheap; it just has some very fundamental problems which stop it being a fun fighting game. it is random and dull at low levels and dry and dull at intermediate levels.. tho it is pretty entertaining to watch at extremely high levels

is your opponent close? don't worry! no need for skill! just mash jab!

opponent doing combos? who cares! why bother train! just mash ultra!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55PBPfHMvhM

"smart play" fuck off; seth is lame as all hell

Things I learned from going back to SFIV PC this weekend: 1) the competition seems to have thinned out to hardcore fanatics, for the most part - I was losing pretty awfully 2) more than many multiplayer games, it feels really hard to get back in the groove with this game - needed to play for a long time (too long, damn these manos of fate) to get back to my normal skill level 3) I'm still constantly amazed and baffled how people can pull off actual combos online

floejisan boy has a nice guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYbTPbl96H0

as does tsukiyama

guy always seemed like a ken without a fireball to me. but i suck at these games so don't listen to me.

I think I'm final starting to get into Super, played some online games last night and had a pretty good time & also good, green bar connections & not so much trouble finding games thru quick match (it probably worked right 50% of the time!).

Via replay channel is there any way to see your friend's match replays - as frankly, watching random strangers replays isn't very entertaining, but it would be cool to browse thru friend's last 15 games or something like that.

One weird thing is since I'm playing on a Japanese 360 - it shows my region flag as Japan & I swear that's giving me an advantage online as people get intimidated when they see that Japanese flag - or at least it seems like that to me - or maybe just the randoms I played last night weren't very good.

Anyhow, definitely feeling & thinking I'm going to start playing this more now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzHLP2lC70s

lol

The online set-up for this game has really improved with Super - I seem to be getting into games fifty percent of the times I try instead of ten percent. There also seems to be more green bar matches - kind of surprised actually, since I know it sold less. It does seem like there are less completes crubs around, but also less really skilled players - of the games I've played lately I'd say it seems like I'm mostly finding people around my own average skill (and I've won 53% of my games so far, so that feeling makes sense).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU1k8DCxN8g

nhex (you're most likely to know I reckon), is it possible to get a convertor to allow use of PS2 sticks on 360 and/or PS3

yep - check out this thread
http://shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=181187

for PS2/360 they all require that you have a wired standard controller to bypass the lockout, and there are plenty of converters for PS2/PS3. Luckily it doesn't seem to cost a ton for these - i know some of the 360/PS3 converters are like $80, almost defeating the pt of getting one

what stick are you using? i'm tempted to go your route in some nebulous future for the easiest crossplatform solution

haha pwned
http://i46.tinypic.com/33jofv9.gif

http://iplaywinner.com/storage/oneuse/ibukigaga.jpg

http://i921.photobucket.com/albums/ad54/jlevel13/ilx/sf4_7_2.jpg

Good games nhex - like I said, I'm way rusty right now, but will definitely be trying to play more and get back into the flow. Shame about the lag. I swear I've played cozen 5,000 miles away with less lag! I don't know why we can't seem to get a decent connection going @ half that :(

GGs to you too! I'm grateful you're even willing to step down to Vanilla at this point. I could tell you were rusty, but there were a lot of obvious moments when you should've been able to properly combo or hit Ultra, if not for the lag.

I'll admit, the lag problems are very possibly on my computer's end - some combination of the fact that it's an iMac, running a two-generations-old video card on wireless internet. For every other online game there's no problem, but SF is incredibly finicky about this stuff.

xps uh what IS that animated .gif?

hmmm? http://twitter.com/Yoshi_OnoChin/status/17640942374

There's something kind of pure about going back to vanilla SFIV. Super is almost like too much... I still have so much to learn (still learning SFII tbh)

Man, that sure as hell better not be a tease for Super SF IV Turbo or something...

it's darkstalkers

the gif is marn taking the piss out of juicebox abel who normally mimes out the ultras like a fandan

http://www.steadybloggin.com/d-double-e-street-fighter-riddim-radio-rip/

Worth starting an Evo 2K10 thread this year? Streaming live now

http://evo2k.com/live/

After watching streams of various regional tourneys throughout the year, I totally forgot how the level of play at Evo is just levels beyond - seen a lot of amazing matches yesterday and today

woah - just flipped on to see the match that dropped Wong into losers!

to a pad zangief! (vangief)

yeah, that was nuts!

eliminated by an adon! (gamerbee)

holy shit WONG IS OUT!

haha

crazy matches - so glad I tuned in.

ugh stream crash at the end of the final set was really awful

yeah - disappointing stream drops - especially that last one :( but honestly, the earlier matches were more exciting - the last batch just seemed like padding out the show until the inevitable Daigo victory.

Kinda true - last year's Grand Finals were more exciting with Justin winning his first set out of Loser's and coming closer to winning. But as crazy good as all the competitors were, still seems like Daigo's a step above everybody else - or maybe it's just his disturbing calm

definitely sad when Vangief got eliminated, as well both the awesome Hondas by Henry Cen and Mike Ross. a little relieved that Ricky didn't get put out by Infiltration - there'd be inevitable, infinite crying all year about the finals being Japan vs. Korea

I'm not sure what happened here

http://i921.photobucket.com/albums/ad54/jlevel13/ilx/rage_7_13.jpg

^lol

dhalsim!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBPx9Eq4x0M

a new tier list
http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2008/oct/17/street-fighter-4-tiers-character-rankings/

1. Chun-Li / Honda (tie)
3. M. Bison
4. Guile

blimey

glad I dropped this game when I did: the new top 8 are arguably the most obnoxious chars in the game (barring seth)

http://i29.tinypic.com/2zi6irc.jpg

yup, a bit lame... should be 6 more chars!

comic-con announcements:
more costumes
new sf4 characters reveal coming in september at tokyo game show
Street Fighter 3 Online Edition coming sometime
Street Fighter vs. Tekken

also Tekken X Street Fighter (a different game than SF vs. Tekken) developed by Namco