Ultra Street Fighter IV

[MacMantis]

I also love this one, where our greasy-mullet sporting hero faces off against a gang of ruffians including former 'Living Colour' bassist Muzz Skillings and Tupac.

[Plopboy]

Poor old Guile

[MacMantis]

Is that wee Jimmie Krankie as Chun-Li?

Why is she flying away from everyone with Blanka?

Is this after their illicit interactions on the US/UK cover for SNES Street Fighter 2?

What the hell is going on here?

[moosegrinder]

[ThePixelbarks]

[Qazimod]

Okay it's a spin off, but.. the faces!

[Qazimod]

I lold.

[Tofu]

I thought it was pretty damm funny, even the promo was great.

Its awesome to see them back, it was never about their skills but the broship.

[Tofu]

Oh yeah, can someone explain to me how you buffer Akuma's raging demon?.

I can do it , punch, punch etc but you can easily tell when its coming so how difficult is this to do?

[imp]

Well, the usual way to do it is to hide it behind some other command. One of the easiest is standing HK. If you're a pro and want to punish jump ins you need to use cr.MK to lower your hitbox and cancel that into a demon. Need to be pretty fast on the command to do this though - almost certainly you'll need to do the shortcut which is to tap LP twice and then press the direction, LK and HP all at once.

For supers as an instant grab punish, buffer by hammering on LP while you're in block stun and then pres forward, LK and HP all at once to make the move come out as soon as you're able to.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

DEEEEEEESSSSSSk

whoever possed my wildly inaccurate adon analysis show yourself at once

[Lyrical Donut]

Desk is a wonderful human being.

This might not be safe for anything ever, let alone work.

[Qazimod]

+1'd for the awesome combo with the avatar.

EDIT: is it bad that I'm thinking of making a pledge to the Dive Kick Kickstarter?

EDIT: wait a sec, will they even accept my Great British Pounds?

[Camel]

Ha that Gootecks video is excellent. Is he back now then? Are they doing more Excellent Adventures?

[Yasawas]

Kickstarter will take your money no bother Qazi, sir.

TIL that Ryu's EX tatsu done on wakeup to a Hakan who makes the seemingly insane decision to bust out ultra 2 as he rises will lose and look foolish. And this after a first round where I'd used airborne EX tatsu to avoid it and look awesome.

[Lyrical Donut]

GGs Heggar. Hegg seemed to be sandbagging for a bit there; before going on a monstrous 12 win streak (although one of those wins was down my stick refusing to go left, honest). I almost got the Gootecks shimmy off on Haggar in a Roggle mirror too. But I got so excited that I completely forgot to input the super. Oh well.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

You got the sodding cammy counter hit setup into ultra, despite me knowing cammy was miles away and I wasn't to tech. Just a pity you missed the link haha. I was dropping hit confirms all over the place, but finally learned to stop letting you focus bloody everything. I hate focus attacks so much.

[Plopboy]

Some stuff Capcom are flogging the San Diego Comic-Con

Come say "hi" to the Capcom Store team at San Diego Comic-Con.

We have a cool lineup of goodies you're not going to want to miss.

Get to our booth early. Daily allotments are sure to sell out quickly.

Here is a partial list of some of the best stuff:

Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Chess Set – $400 each, 10 units at 2 per day. Individually numbered all below #15. 1 per person first come first served. Capcom Store Exclusive. These are the first off the line and they will be making their debut at SDCC.

Welcome To Raccoon City sign – $25 each, 100 units at 20 per day. One per person. Capcom Store Exclusive.

Famous Capcom Store Grab Bag – $30 each, 296 units at about 60 per day first come first served. Capcom Store Exclusive.

Monster Hunter blind box poogies Japanese import– $10 each, 89 units. 2 per person first come first served.

Premium SDCC Street Fighter 25^thAnniversary tee – $20 each no restrictions. Capcom Store Exclusive.

Dante’s Ebony & Ivory Piano Repair tee – $20 each no restrictions. Capcom Store Exclusive.

Hello Kitty Chun Li Plush – $40 each, 150 units at 30 per day. Shared exclusive.

Pink Variant Chun Li Bobble Budd – $11 each, 1000 units at 200 per day. Capcom Store Exclusive.

SSFIV Play Arts Kai Action Figures – $55 each, 36 units of each. Ryu limited black version, Chun Li limited black version, Akuma limited white version and Cammy limited white version. One of each character per customer first come first served.

If you've ever seen the Capcom Store at SDCC you know that this is just small part of what we offer. Come say "hi" and take home a piece of Capcom.

I like the Hello Kitty, but it is a bit pricey, then again the chess set at $400

[Camel]

That chess set is lush. Have they changed the rules so the Guile piece can only go down and back?

[Matt G]

That chess set is lush. Have they changed the rules so the Guile piece can only go down and back?

Well he seems to be in the bishop position so at least he'll only ever be using the diagonals.

[hegg]

GGs Heggar. Hegg seemed to be sandbagging for a bit there; before going on a monstrous 12 win streak (although one of those wins was down my stick refusing to go left, honest). I almost got the Gootecks shimmy off on Haggar in a Roggle mirror too. But I got so excited that I completely forgot to input the super. Oh well.

I've been such a salty bastard lately when playing this, apologies to you, Haggar and Joffo who have been on the receiving end. I don't know what it is, think I'm having one of those periods where it's best I leave it alone and stick to other games for a bit, but can't help picking it up for an hour occasionally. And then I get super salty at stupid stuff. You know, like Seth, and throws.

One thing I've noticed, I seem to get really mad when people...what do you call it, a quick LK or whatever followed by a throw (different to tick throws, or is this a tick throw?). Not sure what it is about it that riles me so, will think on it and come back with some bollocks to justify my position I'm sure. Anyway, turns me into a salty mess, as seen last night when Donut did one or two against me and I then tried to kill him with only throws that round.

I mean christ, something is seriously up with me and this game, I keep selecting Ryu. Spend most of my time trying to anti-air with standing HK, which is really satisfying.

Right, so anyway, fun stuff. Our little get together in September, some talking points:

• Seth is banned
  
• Tick throws are banned
  
• Shall we start thinking about what kind of little competitions we should get on the go, if any? Last years attempt was cobbled together very last minute, and I rigged it to win. So we should get some ideas going to avoid a similar fate.
  

p.s. can we openly talk about Evo finals in the thread yet?

[JLM]

I think an AE tournament, SFXT doubles and Mystery Game would all be tremendous.

If you ban tick throws I'm not going, even though it would spare me some Donut trolling, I just love them too much. Also I need a first to 10 against your Bison before the event so I don't get embarrassed come September.

[Lyrical Donut]

If we're going to ban Seth we may as well ban other vortexy types too.

Pretty much any throw performed after block stun is a tick throw. We can't ban those because that's my main go to for fucking with Jellum's mind.

[Lyrical Donut]

Can we ban Bipson's st.HK?

[mayor_mike_haggar]

If we ban tick throws then we essentially ban my entire game plan with about 95% of characters. This is doubly bad since I still haven't bothered spending any time working on counterhits, combos, pokes, anti-airs or option selects. Actually, I did do an option select in the a match against donut's rose! It was the cr jab, cr.jab/sweep option select. The sweep whiffed because of rose's amazing backdash. It was the best moment of my street fightin' life.

Also how many times, hegg, did I come close to beating your sodding ryu only to fluff it. Once, maybe, is how many times. Also your bipson is quite wild and pyschotic, which I think suits him nicely. The 'rog matchup can be lame, but somehow it wasn't.

Anyway here's my suggested list of banned characters: seth, rufus, cammy, rufus, yun, yang, rufus, joffo, guile, sub zero, Dural, rufus, tick throws, imp playing any shoto, dhalsim, dark phoenix, birdie, rufus, karnov.

Actually can we also ban mixups, special moves and 'tricks'.

[JLM]

If you promise not to use jumping roundhouse with Seth I don't care how many times I get SPD'd. Guessing wrong in that 50/50 oddly doesn't bother me nearly as much as losing air to airs when I do jump back fierce, particularly when I'm only doing jump back fierce because all of my other anti-airs lose to it. Same thing with Viper and Fuerte for me. I can live with them having supremely powerful mix ups after a knockdown, but it's the way they can derp their way in and don't have to play an honest approach game that makes them anti-Streetfighter characters for me. Ibuki and Akuma can both play a really good game of footsies and usually have to play a bit of mid range before they can start their nonsense, whereas those other three often don't need to bother.

I find your Seth fun to fight against anyway though, and you don't boil the game down to the tedious Online Tony approach, so please ignore any verbal abuse I may hurl your way during the matches and keep going for that swag set up into super because it's awesome.

Also I wouldn't ban Karnov, he may be your best chance of toppling my godlike Jean. I stand by my offer to money match anybody with Jean by the way. 10p maximum, but money matches nonetheless.

[Lyrical Donut]

Bangief too.

I don't mind not using Seth - I'll probably get the bracket-o-death again anyway.

[MacMantis]

I suggest banning all fight sticks/pads. Everyone has to use a stock 360 pad. And like it.

[JLM]

If we do that then Joffo wins the tournament for free. His is Daigo-endorsed.

[hegg]

We can ban anything! I propose banning use of all characters except the following - Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Blanka, Zangief, Dhalsim, Guile, Honda, Bison, Sagat, Vega, Balrog.

Do you see?

Comment on Evo - as much as I can't play the game, I thought the Marvel finals were ace. I especially enjoyed the commentary, whoever that was did a great job, thoroughly enjoyable. I'm bringing this up because I thought the AE commentary stank. I don't think Chen is very good, at all. And as much as I like Seth K, those two combined...I dunno man, it was hardly inspiring stuff. I mean, just as the final match is starting Seth is talking about his own situation...dude, now isn't the time. I didn't dig it.

What I did dig, hard, was Xien's (have I got that right?) commentary of the CEO final the other week, that was wicked. Granted he goes off on some weird tangents sometimes, but that guys knows his stuff! I really like him talking over matches. More please.