I'm maining Cammy, and it sucks. You basically have to be psychic and never mess up.

Speaking of frame advantage, look at Sakura. All the crap she can do that is perfectly safe is crazy. When did she get this good?

[quote="Spankminister"]I'm maining Cammy, and it sucks. You basically have to be psychic and never mess up.

Speaking of frame advantage, look at Sakura. All the crap she can do that is perfectly safe is crazy. When did she get this good?

I'm more surprised at how much I'm enjoying playing as Zangeif. I enjoyed playing as Sakura in her Vs incarnations, but Zangeif is a total beast in this game. He can take so much damage and his EX spinning piledrivers are brutal. He's also got awesome priority too with his grab attacks. His range even seems better now that you've got a blob like Rufus in there. This game is so much fun.

On a different note, does anyone else get a Bollywood vibe from the opening song?

Sakura's best stuff has it's disadvantages. The EX tornado kick into dragon punch has proven my undoing on many occasions. That final kick is so easy to focus guard.

Awesome. My projection tv's lamp blew out today. So no Street Fighter for over a week!

[quote="Feddy"]DO I have to have an X-Box gold account to play this multi-player over Xbox live? I can only assume yes, but figured I would ask.

yes, you need a gold account

This website is a great way to watch videos on certain matchups against characters that you are having trouble with. It has helped raise my super dynamic cooking abilities (read: idiotic playing) quite a bit, hopefully it can be of worth to someone here as well!

[quote="The Joel"]Hot stuff.

Rufus winning that tournament made me very sad. I was screaming for honda that whole time.

Anyone still playing this? I know I played with Joel the other night....
but the experience was either made better or ruined by me attempting to talk to a girl on the phone at the same time. With Joel yelling into my ear every time that I said something wrong.....

Probably my favorite quote of the night....

Girl: What is more important, video games or me?
Me: Of course you are more important........ but I still want to play video games...
Joel: No you idiot, that's the wrong thing to say, you never say that!

good times.

Didn't know Joel was such a cock blocker.

[quote="exagenous"]Whenever I play against you malachi I can't hear a freakin thing you say, I have to turn my tv volume way the hell up to hear your voice messages even. Is there some setting I'm missing to turn up just voice chat volume?

voice chat has never come out of my television very loudly.... so i usually use a headset. I have never really thought about it though..

I love the new tourney mode.

This game does need lobbies pretty bad.

Also, it took me a second to wrap my head around how tourney mode works. It's basically a bracketless tournament: you enter based on your skill ranking, as you win, you progress to the next round. The tournament mode will match people in the 1st, 2nd, semi-final, finals accordingly; you can only play someone at the same round of the tournament as you. If you lose in an early round, you get knocked out, and start over at 1st round. If you lose in the semi-finals/finals you place 1st-3rd, get points for it, and start over. Once you advance in rank by winning enough tournaments, it puts you in the next harder class of tournaments.

Again, a lot of internet griping "OMG this is so ghey," but it's actually a pretty ingenious idea: a tournament mode where no one is forced to wait around for their match, and you can refuse a match with someone with a bad connection.

Ok, so the game is on sale on Best Buy, it is going for 39.99

Why would you do that?

If you have the ability to play this game on anything that is not a computer, you should not play it on a computer.

My fingers, they hurt

I suck, I need practice. If anyone wants to add to to their friends in a PS3 I am chronocross_xp

[quote="Creaty"]I'll send you an invite when I log on chrono Im in need of practice as well my psn is: Creaty
I added you yesterday

I watched some Abel vids that expanded my horizons. I really need to learn to EX cancel Change Direction reliably. It's the gateway to everything Abel has and without it I'm not really that much of a threat.

Have you seen the vids of Saqs playing as Rose? Good stuff.

You can edit your status by hitting the right bumper, I think. If you see me sign into live I'm going to be playing in about 30 seconds.

I still need to work on my Blanka and Ryu.

My mike is broken, and I haven't had a reason to get a replacement yet. That's why I don't say anything on live.

man, that difficulty bug is the biggest piece of bullshit ever.
EDIT: I've also found it to be virtually impossible for me to Fei Long's diagonal half-circle forward special on a controller.

It's the shortcuts. Double tap down forward + punch does shoryuken. Which is great until it comes out by accident. Also, if I end up hitting two down forward/down back while doing Bison's Ultra, the teleport takes precedence, and teleport comes out instead of Ultra. Joel has probably noticed some inexplicable teleports on my part. But I've seen matches in tournaments lost that way at the highest levels, too.

The problem is my timing, I'm either doing it to soon and doing a forward kick or doing to late and ending up with a jump kick. Since I've chosen Fei Long, most of my failed quarter circle forwards just end up being incomplete punch combos although I can pretty much throw out shoryukens on command. I feel like I need to Focus Attack Dash Canceling down.

[quote="BrokenMagnum"]The problem is my timing, I'm either doing it to soon and doing a forward kick or doing to late and ending up with a jump kick. Since I've chosen Fei Long, most of my failed quarter circle forwards just end up being incomplete punch combos although I can pretty much throw out shoryukens on command. I feel like I need to Focus Attack Dash Canceling down.

Yea, it's tricky, the consistency and timing with quarter circle are what kept me from learning to play Yang in SF3. Fei Long is pretty solid as long as you can get those shoryukens in response and also that weird hoppy jump kick to lock them down. Also dash->command throw seems pretty good if you can get it on an unsuspecting opponent trying to turtle.