BROS STREET FIGHTER 4

I CHANNELED BLOBERT AND GOT THIS FOR 5 BUCKS FOR MY FAGBOX.

IT'S PRETTY SWEET BROS, BUT I SUCK AT IT. I CAN'T CANCEL ATTACKS INTO SPECIAL MOVES IF MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT, WHICH IT FREQUENTLY DOES. HAS ANYONE HERE PLAYED IT? ANY ADVICE ON HOW TO BE LESS OF A FAG AT IT? I SWEAR, BROS, I SUCK SO HARD AT THIS I COULD SUCK A GOLF BALL THROUGH A GARDEN HOSE.

 

faget

 

Waiting for arcade edition on PC, and will uninstall after a few matches as usual, somehow fighting games never click with me.

 

http://youtu.be/j8lufnVx0XU

Son, I am disappoint

 

Your options:

1. Keep practicing. Trials can help, just make sure to avoid the ones with Focus Attack dash canceling: they break beginners' hands.
2. Get BlazBlue instead and enjoy chain combos and much more generous timing on special and super canceling.

 

BRO BLAZBLUE, SF3 AND KOF ARE MUCH BETTER THAN SF4

Anyway, here's an easy starter cancel combo for you: Pick Ryu, use forward Heavy Punch and do the Shoryuken input while the punch is connection. Generally the shoto (Ryu, Ken, Akuma) characters have easy basic attack-special combos (mostly Hadouken or Shoryuken based). Sagat also has plenty of easy ones.

Another thing you can try is Abel and his command throw, which is extremely powerful and easy for newcomers to do.





Okay, SF4 has a much better roster than SF3. Soundtrack kinda sucks in both though.

EDIT: You know, aside from Cammy theme and a few others.

 

If you are on xbox the stock controller has a horrendous d-pad and buttons. You can practice all day on shit and it will still be randofucks. The playstation d-pad is better but you need to be a big fat person to be able to thumb multiple buttons down while you still have your index fingers on the triggers. There's a Mad Catz pad with 6 big face buttons that looks good, like you can put your right hand on it piano style without too much absurdity, but I haven't actually used one. Don't know what you are using if on PC.

Then there are arcade sticks if you wanna go all out. The quality of commercial, non-custom sticks has gone up tremendously in the past few years.

 

I'd say try punch+hadoken alot. If you get that, you get the rest. Very few moves border on your physical speed limit, they are about timing.

In sports there is this theory of flow. Summarized it says that you can do all the tricks a pro can do but you lack the flow, you do them choppy. Its exactly like that. Practice, practice, practice.

 

BROS I MANAGED A FORWARD JUMP INTO CANNON STRIKE INTO LIGHT KICK INTO LIGHT PUNCH INTO LIGHT KICK INTO CANNON SPIKE FOLLOWED BY ULTRA AS MY ENEMY JUMPED BACK ON HIS FEET WITH CAMMY. FELT GOOD MANG.


LOLOLOLOLOL BROS. I USED THE THUMBSTICK INSTEAD OF THE D-PAD. WILL TRY TO SWITCH AND SEE IF IT HELPS MY TIMING.

 

Yah analog sticks are worse than even the xbox d-pad.

The way an arcade stick works is that there are four switches inside at the cardinal directions that you can activate (in pairs to get the diagonals) and they are digital and either completely on or completely off, so a d-pad is the closest thing on a pad to that.

It's so much faster to get agile on good controls... you are unconsciously having to learn all kinds of weird non-intuitive movements on a stock d-pad just to be able to move around, like swapping hand positions on the fly to hit different buttons, much less do precision combos and that kinda stuff.

 

Keyboards are surprisingly good for inputting special attacks, although I still prefer to play with a good basin dpad.

 

milspec keyboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGU1d-cmtuQ