****The Official Street Fighter IV Thread****
 

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Release Dates:


Japan: February 12th
North America: February 17th
Europe: February 20th
PC Version: June 30th

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Reviews:

Official Xbox Magazine: 9.5 out of 10

Official Playstation Magazine: 5/5

Famitsu: 9,8,8,9

IGN US: 9.3

IGN UK: 9.5

xbox360 achievement list: http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/.../950133p1.html

Some beautiful wallpaper 1920x1200:

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Getting it on the 360 after all, but i wont be able to play until about 5pm pst as i have to wait for my bud to bring his over here. I will be gaming though.

Get ready for a ****ing beating when we play online.
I'm not holding anything back.


No Zangief

If someone buys the official SF4 joystick, please do a mini review for us.

I have a Hori EX2 fight stick that i bought for SSF2 HD remix. its ok, but the stick isn't nearly mushy enough. the stick and the buttons are very clickity-clackity.

You can replace the parts on it pretty easily.
There is a great thread on neogaf on arcade sticks. I've linked it more than once.

im playing it right now for 360. The game is ok, the good thing is all the original street fighter II characters are back. Even Bison/balrog/vega.

They have this weird thing with teh medium punch and kick. When holding both down, itll do a force hit against your opponent, kinda like a Rage, or from SF EX. It'll knock the opponent woozy for a few seconds. kinda lame since my button config does use medium, I have to adjust. It doesnt look like it's blockable, not very street fighterish. They also do stop motion animation, freezing the game for a comic'esque feel, right before a super move, they got too cute with it.

The gameplay is good, but I still think SF3 has the better pure game play. It looks like theres no parrying as well. The fighters kinda seem to take their time to get up, its kinda annoying.

Nothing really new added to the game except for a few characters, and of course the graphics. The last leader Seth, is a bitch to beat. I still havent figured out how to unlock Akuma. Havent played with friends yet since I just got it last night, maybe itll get better against human players.

ya i've seen that article. the joystick and buttons that i would buy to replace the current ones (+ shipping) costs just as much as a higher quality arcade stick setup. And i would need to buy a dremel and soldering iron. So i'm looking for opinions on the other sticks.

copied from gamefaqs:

Thinking about picking this guy up - I just hope the D-Pad isn't a "floaty" one like the 360 is.

http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/802975b.jpg

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/Prod...spx?sku=802975

I'll be picking up a Ken pad for the 360.
Madcatz just gives me worries though...

They can make an excellent product one day and turn around and make a shit product the next. I'll just return the damned thing if I don't like it - the only thing that worries me is the D-Pad.

I gotta wait until about 4-5 my time. argh I kind of want to get the madcatz controller, i dont know if i want to pick up a 80 dollar arcade stick. Thats lot lol


**** it, goign to get it for the PS3 first. Going to go pick it up right now. I will get it on the 360 in a few months when its a bit cheaper along with a stick. lol I cant afford a stick atm, and the ps3 controller is better to play with it on.

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Have to have it pre ordered. Walmart is getting it in tomorrow. Oh well, tomorrow it is.

This game is freaking awesome. I love the art direction and the animation. So nice. Anyone that has it on the PS3. hit me up.

Good controller. D-Pad is quality.

This game is ****ing awesome!

Wish they'd stock some of the fightpads in my area.

Bummer that the 360 pads are wired.

I'm shocked at how well the online play is.
I'm 3-0 so far in ranked ;)

Who wants some?

PS3 controller is so much easier to use when playing this game.

Honestly, I'm having no problems with the standard 360 controller on this game. Seems much more forgiving than ST2HD.

I need 6 face buttons though.

Yeah, i want a joystick bad. To much though for an arcade stick. Think when i get my 360 back, going to trade in Fallout 3 and buy SF4 used for the 360. Just pay the difference. lol

eh, the only ones that make me a little pissy are Abel, becuase of his same ass throw and Seth, if he wants to win he will, rest are pretty easy to beat.

Seth ****ing pisses me off, even on easy.

This.

Anyone unlock all the characters yet?

anyone playing the challenge trials? its good for learning manual combos but some of those are ridiculously hard. so far I have Sagat and Ryu beat (normal & hard trials)

I have 3 more characters to unlocked. I unlocked most lastnight. Seth is a bitch though. Sometimes no matter what you do, he will win. hah Getting the last few guys may take a while, but getting to Seth isnt the problem for me, its beating him on the first try thats going to be tough. lol

I just unlocked every character except Seth, even Gouken. I had to put it on easiest, on 1 round though, or it wouldve taken forever. Kinda killed my SF dignity that way, but I had to get Akuma and Gouken. Now that he's unlocked, Gouken was all hype. No shrryouken, only in his ultra. I thought he'd be the master of the shryouken. He looks different from what I thought he'd be.

Seth is a punk, beating him on easy is no problem. But it's impossible beating him on hardest. His moves become unblockable and he's unbelievably cheap. You only have to beat him 1 round though, cuz he kinda gives you the 1st.

http://www.hori.jp/us/products/ps3/f...ick/index.html

Went ahead and ordered that. I need a stick.

whoooo...I just beat Seth on hardest. Finally. I gave the game a few days break and me and a friend started playing. I got hyped and whooped Seth's ass. I just had to get this out there. I even watched the credits in its entirety, and unlocked arcade rat, whatever that is. My life is complete.

Anyone know the name of the song on the commercial.

I dont know what the name of the song is in the video, but it has the gayest menu song in the history of video games. I had to turn the music for this game all the way down. Song is completely horrible and gay.

So sick of playing Ken, Ryu, Akuma and Sagat.

I roll with Dhalism. He's fun to play. I lose more theni win, but i am starting to get alot better and starting to win more and get close to winning alot. I just gotta stop from making stupid moves at times.

Gouki is a ****ing beast. Almost broken.

Feel free to add me on LIVE and I'll throw down, travnasty7. I'm awful. I'm having a hell of a time pulling off the charges and cancels. I did cheese and unlock all the characters. Anyone hear anything more about the second batch of TE sticks?

Starting to win alot more with Sim now. I love playing with this character. Learning new combos now and i can put together some winning streaks now. nothing major, but alot better then winning 1 in 10. Today so far, i am about 50 percent.

Finally found a fightpad for the 360 at the local gamestop.
Well worth $40. Loving it.

I bought an arcade stick, but i am going to mod it out with Sanwa parts soon. I just need to buy a dremmel tool, been wanting one anyways. lol

Anyone play this online regularly? i have about 1750 BP's and i use only Dhalsim, shit is fun.

I played the shit out of it until my save got erased... don't turn off your console until you are at the main screen....
Lost all my costumes, characters, and rankings.. ****ing bullshit.

Characters and BP are easy to get back. No idea on the customes. I didnt order the CE version.

Anyways, i just hover around 1600 and 1900 BP usuing strictly Dhalsim. I started yesterday out at 900 lol.

Things that piss me off about online play -

1. bundle of stickss that wait until I choose my character to choose theirs
2. The distillery level is laggy, which benefits some characters over others
3. Every bundle of sticks plays Sagat, Ryu, Ken or Akuma.

Characters are a ****ing chore dude.
I hate having to beat the game with 8 different people (AGAIN) to unlock characters that should already be available.

I hate how buffed Guile is. I face a shit ton of him when playing online.

I actually play him now. The timing is just off enough where I have a tough time playing him. I've got 4 or 5 friends who play this game religiously now too so we get together every weekend and I usually play alot of Guile now.

I think every character is balanced, but some characters are better vs others - like I get dominated against Fei Long when I use Guile.

just set it to easy and you can do it in about an hour to 2 hours.

i always go straight to Dhalsim. I dont care who a player uses, but it does get old playing the same 4 characters.

The guy i have real problems with is an attacking Balrog. THat shit gives me nightmares.

The thing i laugh at the most is i pick Dhalsim, people ago around using the timer, then in the end go straight to ken,ryu or akuma.

I am getting very damn good with teleporting with Sim, so when people throw alot of fireballs, i just punish them.

So i bought a hori fighting stick and well, its dying already. Shocking i know. So i said **** it. I ordered me some arcade parts and i am going to attempt to make my own damn arcade stick. Just going to use the insides of the hori stick i have now.

This is going to be a fun project for me. Been doing some research and it doesnt look to hard to do. Anyways, when i get the parts i will head over to the lumberyard to get the wood for the box. This is going to be interesting thats for damned sure. lol

I played a Zangief awhile back. He jumped right in and started do some damage but I did pretty well against him w/ Guile.

Then I noticed the timer was down to 8 seconds. Threw a couple EX sonic booms and beat him (barely) after a time out. It was set to 1 round only.

The dude set matches for the minimum amount of time, and 1 round only, and hopes people wouldn't notice - his BP was nearly 4,000.

I quit playing online after that.

I was thinking about doing the same with my Hori ex2. Keep us updated on how it turns out.

Are you on the 360?

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I'm looking for a fight... had a terrible week.

Who wants some?

The new Championship mode for online play makes people play others their skill level. You will obviously play good people as they level up, but the way they do online now is so much better. I am almost G3A. I probably wont hit that until i make my arcade stick as my buttons are crapping out, but there is tons of really really good players out there.

heh. I will, i finally just said, if i am going to do it, do it right. I am just waiting for my happs parts. I went American parts. lol

PS3.

I'll be playing Marvel vs Capcom 2 when I get home anyways. ;)

Well Shipping is how they screw you. lol They didnt tell me this until my shit was shipped. Awesome.

Order Lines:
Line Item # Description Qty BO Price Ext Price
1 58-9610-L COMPETITION PB RED LONG BEZ 8 0 2.20 17.60
CONVEX W/.187 SILVER MS & NUT
2 50-7608-100 ULTIMATE JOYSTICK 8 WAY WITH 1 0 10.95 10.95
SWITCHES RED KNOB
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Sub-total: 28.55

Sales Tax: 3.73
Freight: 14.02
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Total: 46.30

I still need to pick this game up..

Welp, i think its time for me to take about 3-6 days off this freaking game. The last week when my good ole insomnia kicks in, i played the living shit out of SF4 and well my left forearm feeels like its on fire and it hurts. lol

The same crap happened to me about 2 years ago when i first got Guitar Hero, didnt thin SF would do that. I think its becuase of the arcade joystick thing.

A few pictures of the work i been doing. I have had a little help though, so its not all me, but here it is.

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So after 4 years are you done yet??

The parts took forever to get. I just got them yesterday. Started working on it next year. I already took apart the other controller and what not. Wood is almost all cut. My dad is doing the side of the wood right now. I took apart the old fighting stick. ITs here in pieces. I will take a picture of it right now. lol

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There is the inside of the old controller

What are you going to do with the old shell? Also, what do you use to get rid of the old solder?

nothing really. To get rid of the old solder you just heat it back up and it just melts off and you pull apart. It was really really easy to do. The box is almost done, i am just6 having issues with locating a router. Thats my biggest issue right now. I am trying to locate one, but no one seems to have one.

If i cant find one, its going to be ugly, but it will still work. lol

Zach,....... your ass is mine!!!!

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Got my shit done, its not pretty, but it works like one that is. lol

Actually, that looks pretty slick. What did you do with the shoulder, start, and select/back buttons?

I dont have the start button. I left it off, but i have the PS home button and the start. Its on the front of the box. It was pretty damned easy to make. In all honesty, i would just use cheaper wood. I just went all out and well, you know how that goes. If i do another one, i am going to use cheap wood lol. I already dropped the damned thing on my foot. It hurt bad. lol I used plexi glass on the bottom as well.

Was a fun project.

Bumping as Capcom is updating this game again. Adding 5 new characters and 6 stages along with balance updates. One of my favorite all time games. I put many many many hours into this game. lol