Ultra Street Fighter IV

[mayor_mike_haggar]

GGs imp, apologies for the random departure, my router decided to crash for reasons unknown, and it's only just come back to life now. wildness.

My shit fat balrog was both fat and shit, hooray.

[imp]

Nah, those matches were closer than the scores came out, just work on a few solid punishes, and you'll be golden.

[joffocakes]

This is a good game. I had to wait a couple of hours after work for the lady to finish on tuesday, so I went to that One Level Up in glasgow to play for a cheeky hour because it's difficult to waste time in town now there aren't loads of identical GAME stores to shuffle through.

Intended to pay the £3 for the hour to get a stick and play on live, but the guy, Kenny, behind the counter asked if I wanted someone to play, so I had a good hour session against him. He's got an excellent thunder knuckle cancellin' Viper and a fair few other characters under his belt, so it was a good time. 99% of my Street Fightin' being online, it's weird not having to deal with mad lag spikes. It's all so smooth and lovely. Plus less dropped links. He showed off with some FFF x EX Seismo > Burning Kick > Ultra combo action, and I got to do my 2nd favourite Dan combo of j.hp, hp x hp.gadouken FADC cl.mp, cr.mp x mp.gadouken FADC cl.mp x lk.dankick > Ultra 2.

Plus loads of my first favourite Dan combo of KRK FADC crouching taunt. It's much more fun when you can see their face.

STREET FIGHTER!

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Yes, I still need to work out how best to get chip wins with balrog. Also dash ultra. The balrog forums on srk are excellent, for a change, there seems to be some kind of wild OCD man who has organised EVERYTHING and written lots of really good stuff. Hooray.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

I was going to start playing earlier, but I accidentally started watching deliverance, and boy you're gon' do some prayin' for me.

[joffocakes]

Can't you just do jab jab short EX Upper until you run out of meter? It's easier than the fancy medium punch link way of doing it, so better for chippy chip.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Not if they bloody well insist on crouching.

[joffocakes]

I hope something gets confirmed for Hegg-fighter soon, I'm now pretty excited about it after playing a real live human there. I'll be grinning with the pure glee of a child in my heart when Nate takes his revenge on me.

[Nate Dogg III]

We should try and get some games of Street Fighter in, too.

[joffocakes]

[Camel]

Meanwhile ...

[imp]

Good effort, but TWO HANDS?!

Who are we waiting on for Hegg-fest confirmation? Hegg, Carlumbo and... Hyper Peer?

[JLM]

If anyone can't make it I'm willing to attend twice to pick up the slack.

[joffocakes]

I'd say Hegg confirmation is pretty important. Hyper Pea-Yah also, just so we can do impressions of Hegg at him all day. And remark favourably on his polite little voice. And maybe curse his Makoto. And make jokes about connection errors a lot.

Didn't Carlumbo say he'd make sure to appear? I never did find out for definite if he was taller than Donut. They're both too high up to read what it says on the tape measure.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

He's clearly doing Dan's Ultra 2. HONESTLY. Are you even a student of Saikyo?

If Hegg disconfirms we can all just sit sweatily in my living room and play mortal kombat.

[JLM]

We can speculate on that new Netherealm game that's NOTHING LIKE MORTAL KOMBAT but is actually Mortal Kombat with Batman and Solomon Grundy. So better.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

I think that hyper-pea is preparing to body everyone at VF5, despite the fact that 3D fighters are banned from Heggfest. I'm going to have to put some time into karnov's revenge beforehand I think.

[Camel]

Ha I've just bought that for the Saturn.

[hegg]

Hello.

What date did you guys settle on?

And who wants to play street fights with me this afternoon?

[JLM]

It's so good. Breakers Revenge, Karnov's Revenge and World Heroes Perfect are my top 3 poverty fighters of the moment as they're all legitimately great fun to play as well as having that poverty appeal. This list changes frequently though. I don't know if Rage of the Dragons or Power Instinct Matrimelee count as poverty games either, but they're also two of my favourite fighting games poverty or otherwise. Oh, and Kabuki Clash, Ninja Masters and Martial Masters. Also Kizuna Encounter and, to a lesser extent, the woeful Aggressors of Dark Kombat.

Oh, and whenver possible Art of Fighting 3, partly for the jumbo sprites and abonimbable music, but mostly for Karman Cole, the world's most bad ass estate agent:

He has an OTG move where he picks you up by the lapels and delivers the most satisfying punch to the face in any video game. What a man.

[JLM]

Heggmond, it was the weekend of the 7th/8th of September.

[hegg]

I'm pretty sure that's fine, just fine. I'll confirm next week for sure.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Jellum, while you're here, do you have any idea why oni can't FADC his uppercut? I was discussing this with someone on another part of the internet and we couldn't work it out.

[Camel]

Kizuna Encounter, Savage Reign and Bloody Roar 3 are my big screen poverty fighters of choice at the moment and I've been playing as much Breakers on my PSP as I possibly can.

[joffocakes]

Jellum, while you're here, do you have any idea why oni can't FADC his uppercut? I was discussing this with someone on another part of the internet and we couldn't work it out.

To encourage chip finishes.

Also, Heggarty; I'll be on this afternoon from about half past three, if that's still valid for fights?

[JLM]

I don't know really. I don't think he'd be especially overpowered with a cancellable uppercut. He has great rushdown and mix ups, but nothing in his offense is as powerful as Akuma's vortex, for example. I assume it was just another way of setting him apart from other shotos because there are quite a lot of them in SF4 now. I actually quite like it about him, because when you see a player like Combofiend who is all about reading the opponent, it's cool that he has to do good old fashioned honest uppercuts. His uppercut is pretty godlike and has good recovery on landing to compensate though, and at least he can still cancel it on hit for FADC ultras too. The EX one does SO. MUCH. CHIP.

[hegg]

To encourage chip finishes.

Also, Heggarty; I'll be on this afternoon from about half past three, if that's still valid for fights?

Eggcellent, send me an invite when you're ready, I might play something else for a bit.

[imp]

I'm going to force everyone to play Persona 4 Arena at Heggfest, because it looks a bit like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Also it's out on the 31st of August, so no one can get good at it.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Persona 4 look pretty impenetrable. Count me in.

[imp]

I wouldn't worry about that, you can do combos just by mashing the "A" button over and over.

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