Ultra Street Fighter IV

[JLM]

I am livid. My piss poor Q. Bee skills will surely suffer.

I would like to play KOFXIII badly with humans. Is the netcode any use to anyone?

I think before SFIV I'd probably spent more time on SNK fighters than Capcom ones and I'm still abysmal at all of them, mostly because I used to play them all like they were Streetfighter 2.

[Lyrical Donut]

KOF was fine, both me and my mate are on fibre optic 30mb+ connections, DSL might be a different story.

[Qazimod]

I always get disappointed with SNK fighters as soon as I do a Street Fighter motion and some weak excuse for a projectile burrows along the ground. Maybe I was playing the wrong mans. Have any characters learned to throw things through the air?

[joffocakes]

I don't think I tried XIII online at all, I just got stuck into the trials. I didn't manage a single character fully. Some of those Drive Cancels were mental to me; cancelling a special move the instant if connects into another special move. A lot of them had to be done inhumanly fast.

It's a brilliant game though and I'd love to have some basic competence but it'll probably be overshadowed by Darkstalkers for a while once I get back on the xbox.

And yes, there are loads of typical Street Fighter projectiles as well; but there are move ways around them too, with all the jumps and stuff.

[Lyrical Donut]

I just tried the Darkstalkers trial out because its on the PlayStation internet shop in America.

In terms of options for training mode and graphical filters its pretty much Third Strike. I can't really justify buying it right now though.

[Qazimod]

There was an excellent walkthrough of KoFXIII with Mike Ross and Combofiend that actually made it sound like good fun, but I don't know if it's on the main channel, or Machinima, or Complexity. From what they were saying it sounds like it has more emphasis on offensive play (that is, attacking a lot, not cursing down the mic) which is always a good thing, and the comments they make about the balanced roster are very interesting...

EDIT: here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szurBZLbsHY

[JLM]

Well I just played Streetfighter for a bit. Playing against complete strangers in endless battle, including a Gen player who was reliant on the worst gimmicks. He'd do all of Gen's unsafe but not always easy to punish stuff and then mash uppercut behind it. He won one game, then I beat him a few times, then I got bored because he refused to do anything else. Oh, and I played some guy called o00bigdog00o who was mashing all of the things all of the time. Mashing non EX legs with Chun is suicidal but he wouldn't stop doing it. Not the best session all told.

Also here's the Hawk poifick I mentioned earlier:

First knockdown he woke up with cr. lk and got tick grabbed. Second time he stayed put to try and block the cross up body splash, but I went for the MMS Native and did the elbow instead for the whiff into grab. This was catching everybody at Winter Brawl and it makes perfect sense why it does. Everyone expects the body splash, you set it up in the same way, delaying the jump like you're looking for perfect splash timing and spacing, and in the heat of the moment it sort of looks like the body splash too, and by the time you realise it isn't you've been grabbed.

Third time I tried to make it look like I was going to whiff and grab again, then did a delayed body splash instead for the dizzy. Look how deep that cross up is. Good old Tomas. Meterless Bison is fun.

I should mention that in a previous match I had condor dived a couple of back teleports, which is presumably why he didn't go for it. I would also like to point out that his Bison is generally pretty good and was slapping my Dudley about for a while before I got a handle on what he was doing.

Sith, I'll try and get on tomorrow or Thursday.

[sith]

Lovely Hawk mauling!

I'm off to Germany until Sunday now mate.

[joffocakes]

Oh, hello!

They also had a Birdie figure, wildly. Didn't get it though, even though I quite like Birdie.

[Caz-chan]

Preacher is good people, I had my first online fightmans experience with him (and Caz-Chan, and one-time thread bete noire MW Jimmy) playing DOA Ultimate on the old Xbox there. Salad days.

Hell yeah, I remember all the nonsense in DOA Ultimate! Good times, man!

I miss playing on a console must rectify this soon.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Hey, how dare you call the empty elbow the MMS Native. I've been doing that to donut as my sole T Hawk mixup for pretty much the last year.

[geldra]

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Darkstalkers-Resurrection/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025841122f

[jiroczech]

for me I think...

I've only mucked about with Darkstalkers before. What's the deal with including 2 and 3? Clearly the bigger the number the better the game (:massive wink:) so why bother including a dodgy old version with the later more refined one?

[geldra]

I have no idea who I'm gonna use. It'll take me several years to work out the differences between what light medium and hard punches/kicks look like.

I quite like the look of the robot dude.

[Camel]

I usually play with Anakaris. His grabby moves INFURIATE my other half haha.

[geldra]

You could say that your other half doesn't pharaoh very well against you?

[Camel]

Absolutely. It drives her embalmy.

[geldra]

I bet it does, I sphinx she needs to pick a different character.

[Camel]

She'd probably be better with a female character, but she insists on using a Giza.

Tut.

[joeplus]

Sounds like she's in denile.

[Qazimod]

I miss playing on a console must rectify this soon.

You must, but I send enough subtle hints over Twitter anyway... maybe I should wait for the next time SFIV's in a Steam sale

Excellent action figure there Joffo

[joffocakes]

I'll probably end up getting this fighting mans game as well, even though it's probably going to be kinda rubbish. I love the over the top Doomsday Super where he pummels you through the earth, and back.

[JLM]

Yeah, I reckon it'll be crap but I want it too so I can be Solomon Grundy.

[Camel]

I bought Tekken Tag 2 recently. I played it last night and found even the customisation menus confusing. I've got DOA5 too now thanks to PS+. Someone tell me how to play these games in one paragraph that will make me the best player in the world England Twickenham my street my house.

[joffocakes]

Go Bryan and Bob and mash wildly.

[joffocakes]

Also Christie and Eddy.

[Camel]

Thanks. So is that like choosing Ryu in SF2 and beating everybody with j.HK, c.HK?

[joffocakes]

It's probably more like choosing Adon and being a dick. Or Elena.

I don't really know how to play TTT2. Or Tekken at all. I have it though. I got most of the achievements through some pointless grinding. The wee tutorial mode was fun and had Street Fighter references.

[JLM]

Get the Boskonovitch DLC and slide about the place until you win.

[joffocakes]

Is Mortal Kombat the best selling fighting game this gen or did Persona 4 beat it?

EDIT: Oh, other than Smash Bros Brawl.