Ultra Street Fighter IV

[Lyrical Donut]

One thousand and eighty one hours spent playing a children's video game is not something to be proud of.

And I have this on PS3 as well, don't forget. I'm too scared to check

[joeplus]

I've watched the whole of The West Wing twice. It's all relative.

[IgTerminals]

At work, but off the top of my head:

Hours played - 425 (doesn't include training mode, only match time, I'm pretty sure)

Online win rate - 30.89%

95% of this is with my main, Guile.

...

I hate you all.

[joffocakes]

The playtime does indeed count your time idling in menus; I used to leave the game on the main menu while playing music through the xbox guide, so my "true" play time is probably a fair bit less than it says. Still a disgusting number of hours, though. I remember back in the day thinking that there's no way I'd ever play another game for so long when I saw the Pokemon Red clock tick over 100 hours.

I'll have to do my stat dump later when I get home. Is it AE character stats only? I need to check how many characters I have left to get to B rank in ye olde Super. I've been on Seth for almost six months because everyone plays AE.

Oh, and over the past couple of days every time someone went on about the new My Bloody Valentine album I, for whatever reason, thought they were all getting excited about a new My Chemical Romance album. I was consistently surprised at all these people I know coming out as big My Chemical Romance fans.

I only listen to the same Tom Waits album over and over.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Donut, don't forget the hours spent playing vanilla!

[joffocakes]

And the 3DS version!

[Lyrical Donut]

Oh god. Yes.

I'm hoping it would be considerably less, as I gave up on IV not long after it came out and went back to HDR for a bit.

Most of yesterday was spent absorbing the new MBV album. Oh my. I did see quite a few people on the internet getting a bit upset because it wasn't Loveless. Surely that's the point, right?

[Plopboy]

and Third Stike and SFII

[imp]

I actually think my total playtime figure is greater than the one saved, since I very often load up the game, mess around in training mode for anywhere between 15 and 45 minutes, and turn the game off without quitting to a menu or doing something that would prompt an autosave. Still, I am too scared to check the xbox right now, and unable to check the PS3 version.

In a very clever, well thought out move last night, Choo pointed out that Strekken was on sale for £10 on steam, and the character pack was on sale for £3.75.

To my shame I bought it.

To my chagrin the 2013 patch isn't out yet.

Sigh.

[Lyrical Donut]

Yep, time spent in arcades from '91 onwards, the sessions with friends on the console versions. Eep. Didn't really start playing 3S until about 2002/3, but ST would quite easily smash any playtime record I have for AE. The only other games that would come even remotely close to that are probably Quake 2/3 and the Mario Karts.

[Nate Dogg III]

Ha, really? I've had it sat in my cart overnight, in two minds about it.

[imp]

Well, at least I can now play strekken in 1080p with a RIDICULOUS amount of anti-aliasing applied.

[ah]

Haha, I'm so tempted by that as well but haven't bought it yet, despite the fact that I like the game so much that I still haven't even bothered to get the Xbox copy from the shelf on the other side of the room and put it in my Xbox to see what it's like post-patch.

[imp]

.....Me neither. But hey, team chimp must live on, now that Choo's 360 is recently departed. (It was a slim too! I guess it died from malnourishment.)

Maybe I'll abuse Cody in ranked in the mean time.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Oh, hey, it looks like the Trocadero HMV is probably going to be closed. Does this mean that gamerbase is going to go as well, and that winner stays on might have to go somewhere else?

worstgief ever and the WSO twitter both seem to think so. Oh dear.

Shit, and the manchester one too.

There goes the uk competitive scene.

[Plopboy]

Can't they all just go round to Imstilldadaddy's mansion?

[Lyrical Donut]

That or he could flog said mansion and save gamerbase.

Hmm... Casino? Urgh.

[ah]

Ha, really? I've had it sat in my cart overnight, in two minds about it.

I played the Xbox version for half an hour this afternoon and I think I've decided not to bother. I think.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Strekken is stupid, but has wild combos.

Vega can to cl.hp, link into cr.mp x cl.hp ex RCF, link into cr.mp and you can then loop it as many times as you have meters for, before finally comboing into launcher and a nice long juggle from a tekken man. It goes on for days!

[Lyrical Donut]

I remember my Nina x Poison combos going on for days, but that was mostly thanks to Poison's rekkas being so slooooow.

[jiroczech]

I wish someone would index all the science bombs in this thread. Have we had a Sagat one before? Y'know, big bald guy with an eyepatch and a cataract.

[imp]

Best way to end a round with Sagat? Knock your opponent down in the corner. On their wake up, do a cr.LK, then use his f.HP overhead. Bam! No one sees the overhead coming. Except when they do.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

The best way to play against donut with sagat is to spend one round just wildly throwing tiger shots the whole time, and then the next round using nothing but hard kick to stop him when he jumps over the tiger shots you are no longer throwing, becuase he kept jumping over them earlier.

Should it go to a third round just mash on uppercut/knee depending on which button you flail on first.

[Lyrical Donut]

Yeah, that pretty much is the fail safe method for beating me with Sagat.

[imp]

Nobody has played more Street Fighter today than Alistarr. I am proud/envious. I wasted precious lunchbreak time playing some Strekken trials. God I love trials.

[jiroczech]

Hang on, let me write this down...

Also: What's with the cataract(s)? Is it a sign of being evil? Does it mean my Grandad had Psycho Power?

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Also you must always pick the costume where he's wearing the horrible wig.

And always start a round with kara knee.

And spend HOURS trying to do kara tiger shot, and repeatedly doing kara knee/uppercut instead. Seriously. How do you do those. I've accidentally done it like once.

[wretcherd]

Yeah, that pretty much is the fail safe method for beating me with Sagat.

"Flail safe".

[ah]

Nobody has played more Street Fighter today than Alistarr. I am proud/envious. I wasted precious lunchbreak time playing some Strekken trials. God I love trials.

I have played a reasonable amount of Street Fighter today, it's true! Fortunately there is still some time left in the day to play some more.

This was probably the highlight:

[joffocakes]

This is for joffo and because I can't sleep: JAGUAR STATS. All figures are rounded to the nearest % for neatness. Comparisons welcome, just follow the rules.

GENERAL STATS

Playtime: 198 hours

Online win rate: 31%

Highest PP: 1174

Best win streak: 7

CHARACTER STATS*

1. M. Bison - 41%**

2. Rose - 37%***

3. Ryu - 34%

4. Chun Li - 34%

5. Cammy - 32%

5. Zangief - 32%†

7. Ken - 31%

8. Rufus - 28

9. Dee Jay - 24%††

10. Cody - 13%†††

*Only characters over 1000BP permitted

**What's going on here? It didn't feel like that many wins

**Not great for a main, but it does include all the times I started an endless lobby while pissed off my tits

†Win rate for Cammy and Gief is the same to two decimal places, which surprises me because I had so much more fun with Gief

††This is disappointing. I thought I was getting used to him

††† Ha ha! This is what happens when you get back into Street Fighter because of Mike Ross

GENERAL STATS

Playtime: 1081 hours (it must be counting your time spent idling in menus and waiting for matches in Endless too, right? RIGHT?!)

Online Win rate (ranked): 58%

Highest PP: 2908

CHARACTER STATS

1. Makoto - 60% (win streak - 18)

2. Balrog - 58% (win streak - 15)

3. DeeJay - 56% (win streak - 8 )

4. Yun - 53% (win streak - 15)

5. Seth - 49% (win streak - 6)

Oh, and time over wins with Makoto - 1. That must've been the dryest match ever.

Staaaaats!

Play time - 1718:59 hours.

Online Win Rate (ranked) - 62.69%

Most Player Points - 3088 PP

Longest Win Streak - 22 wins.

Character stats:

Can't be bothered typing all those out, but the only characters I haven't got to B rank in ye olde SSFIV are Juri, Dhalsim, El Fuerte, Abel (surprised at that, thought I'd done him), Seth, Gouken and Adon. I reckon there's still time to do it!