Ultra Street Fighter IV

[imp]

GGs Donut, FT10 Adon vs Yun was fun, for me at least.

GG Hagrrr.

Almost G Jellum.

[Lyrical Donut]

I think I at least managed to find some buttons towards the end of Adon vs Yun. Yun really needs longer legs for that matchup though.

[imp]

I quite like it as Yun can still get in, and there's no strong anti dive kick normal for Adon. There is however, cr.HP for poking which is fucking amazing. It goes so far!

[JLM]

Almost G indeed.

I'm used to this connection being laggy when other people are using it, but the random disconnecting is a new and unsettling problem.

[imp]

I think Almost G Jellum should go on the list of potential XBLA names.

[JLM]

Ha, I like that. I'll let the AK spray but I'll feel just awful about it afterwards

Also I just played this fighting game for several hours with no incidents. It looks like the new housemate makes SF-ing even more difficult than the one who moved out. I don't know what people have done to this network but I can only get perfectly smooth games with no interruptions when everyone has gone to bed.

Ended up playing a whole lotta games of random select against a guy called BrokenChun, who has a decent Chun as you'd expect, and was also willing to play random select and appears to dabble in the whole cast ike myself. Ended up taking it about 15-11 or something. Was good fun.

Then I played Anxious Brute for fifteen games of Akuma vs Ryu. I won them all, but he messaged me to say he's just learning the game and wants to improve and to add him as a friend and such. So I booted a man off my friends list and did that. Also I pointed him in the direction of this place because I think it's a great place to ask questions and improve your game without dealing with the SRK dickhead contingent.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Gg last night chaps. Cammy's vortex on ryu works so deliciously well, though imp you gave me too much credit by always blocking cross up.

My early start turned out to be my mum ringing at 3am to inform me dad has had a heart attack, so I'm now on a train to Coventry instead of at my work meeting. He's OK I think, so that's a relief.

[Qazimod]

Doh, I missed more Gs? I've had the whole week off and I don't think I've got any streetfightin' done aside from my noodling in the lab.

Hope everything turns out okay Haggar.

[imp]

Ooof, that's quite the start to the day. All the best Hags.

[joffocakes]

Jings, that's no good. I'm hope everything's alright, Haggs.

Also, I like that Jellum has a lovely Adventure Call sig.

[Lyrical Donut]

Dang, I too am hoping that everything is OK.

[Camel]

Best wishes to your dad, Haggar.

[joeplus]

Aye, hope all is well Haggar.

I like Jellum's sig but this time I know what it means, so it's not an amazing google surprise like "how can man raw tag four times".

[Qazimod]

also I think fei is one of the few characters who isn't repped by anyone on the forum.

To the spreadsheet!

Um. Either it's hideously out-of-date or only one person plays Fei...

[Yasawas]

Aye that's a pretty horrible phone call to get, hope he is OK.

That spreadsheet is so out of date I have an XBox on it I like how JLM solely plays Zan-Fucking-Gief though.

[JLM]

Terrible news about Mr. Haggar senior, I hope he is indeed OK and makes a speedy recovery.

[Camel]

So apparently Nintendo tried to get Jonathan Ross to promote the Wii-U. But he declined, saying he's more of a Ken player.

I'm here all week. Good job it's Friday.

[JLM]

Good lord that is awful. I have never clicked the upvote button so angrily.

I bought Sonic the Fighters for 400 points. I've always been curious about it since playing as Bean and Bark in Fighters Megamix on the Saturn. I assumed it would be like Virtua Fighter with most of the good stuff removed but with more Sonic and friends. That's about right as it goes. It's god awful, but I love terrible fighting games almost as much as great ones so it's OK.

[joffocakes]

I'm going to try and spend the entire day not buying a Wii U.

[Camel]

Sonic the Fighters it TERRIBLE. I played it with a friend not long ago on some Sonic compilation.

I'm sending my joke to the BBC. I reckon I'll have a writer's job within the week.

[JLM]

It really is shit isn't it? It has a slightly eerie quality to it because none of the fighters have voice samples, so they're just expressionless angular floaty beings headbutting each other while the camera angles get bizarrely creative and disorienting. Also some of the throws do 50% damage. I would like to run it as a tournament at a Heggfest anyway, it has all the requisite qualities.

My favourite thing so far is how half arsed the achievments are. "Complete Stage 1" "Complete Stage 2" etc. and then one slightly obscure one for playing as the secret character, but the achievment has the command for accessing said character in the description.

It's still in the top two Sonic games I've bought this month, but is unfortunately in second place.

[Lyrical Donut]

I'm going to try and spend the entire day not buying a Wii U.

I was all ready to shoplift one from Sainsbury's earlier. Alas, they did not have any

[JLM]

Everyone buy a Wii U so I can feel some launch day buzz. I don't feel like a new console has come out because I am not being my usually foolhardy early adopting self. Be foolhardy early adopters guys!

[joffocakes]

I simply should not buy it. There's not even any wild must haves on it. I mostly want it for Miiverse, haha.

Also, I attempted to better my Nerve Wrack score last night, but I messed up a wee bit on the second stage. Finished the third as well anyway, for the practice, and got within 50 coins of my record. Oh man. I then re-did it, didn't mess up, but played it too safe at the end, failing to land on the top of the flagpole. Huff.

[JLM]

The Luigi's Mansion game in Nintendoland sounds amazing. I want to play that but I don't want to spend all the money I don't have.

[joffocakes]

It does. Nintendoland all sounds completely amazing. I really don't understand the wild negativity, but then I guess the internet has more than enough wild negativity to give. I want to buy it and take it all down to my mum's for post-christmas excellent fun times.

[Lyrical Donut]

Ideally I'd want a US one, because 99% of my Wii games are Americans.

I should probably just get round to playing those games.

[joffocakes]

90% of my Wii games are technically evil. I did buy Skyward Sword and not play it though. And Wheel of Fortune. I only actually play Boom Street though, now that I've bought Monopoly on 360 (though the Wii version is better).

[Qazimod]

Unless some unmissable exclusive is announced for the console (Street Fighter V?) I'm going to wait a while; maybe see if any info emerges about Sony and MS's next boxes... Plus I already spent a load of money this year on a Vita and a new desktop. Wallet Fighter.

[Plopboy]

Sorry to hear about your dad Haggar, I hope he is on the mend.