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Dudes, I'm almost 30 and haven't regularly played video games in like - at least 10 years, but as it turns out... I'm borderline obsessed with playing Street Fighter 4 on xbox. wts? I know! makes no sense. this is a pretty embarrassing thing to admit and I'm still coming to terms with it... but in the mean time: anyone play on here? Maybe we can mix it up online or some shit. I main Chun-Li even though I feel like she sorta sucks in this incarnation.
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Let's fukkin' battle. I do have drink/puff pauses in between rounds, tho...
And I turn 31 this year.
LOL @ the drink & puff breaks. I've found out the hard way that I gotta be totally straight to keep up online. Even then I tend to get stomped.
He's pretty deadly now. Not Japanese teenager deadly but still.
I was pretty confident when I started playing as I was a demon on SFII Turbo on the SNES back in the day and I saw no reason why 15 years should have dulled my skills. Played through with some of the characters until I felt I had a reasonable handle on how to do fireballs on an analogue stick and wasn't totally baffled by the Super Moves. Went online, got my arse whooped about 5 times in a row, took the disc out, put it back in the case, never played it again.
Dedicated yourself to multiple hours of practice a day.
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Swoon like a school girl at the sight of this man
You're still little dude & stand no chance in the serious business of SF online.
Daigo Umehara started becoming famous internationally from the YouTube video clips[42][43][44] of his match in the Losers bracket final[45] in Evolution Championship Series 2004's Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike competition where he made a dramatic comeback against Justin Wong's Chun-Li. In the final round of match 1, Umehara's Ken was down to his last pixel of vitality.[46] At this point, any special attack would knock Umehara's character out if connected, since special attacks deal chip damage even when blocked. In an attempt to win the round, Wong attempted to hit Umehara's Ken with Chun-Li's multihit Super Art move Houyoku-sen (?????????, "phoenix-wing fan").[47] However, instead of avoiding it, Umehara chose to "Parry," a technique whereby an incoming attack is blocked without the player losing any health, but by doing so requires moving toward opponent's direction in the same time a hit lands,[48] within four of thirty frames[citation needed] per second of the impact animation. After the move was launched, not only were all 15 hits Parried, but Umehara also managed to get into a good position to make a powerful attacking combo[49] that knocked Chun-Li out instead. This moment, and the ecstatic cheering of the spectators that followed, was recorded and later spread on the Internet, gaining immense popularity.
Missile Command owing me cities.
Being in awe of the mysterious "MAC" down the Corner Pocket pool hall with his Defender high-scores (I never saw dude, he was there in the evenings with the ne-er-do-wells, just left his initials and some distance from my best efforts as his legacy)
"10 sheet" flags on Galaxian
I was pretty good on Xevious (hidding-towers-R) and could be all day on Track & Field & Hyper Sports (shoot ghost in left square to get Turkey-R)
Then discovery of beer and women and music and serious study thereof.
Consoles got a lot better though. At Uni, used to geek on on the reg to Worms, Toe Jam & Earl, then Gran Turismo and Super Mario Kart on the SNES. Kids have since had my PS2 (believe it or not, I really liked chilling to "Surf's Up" on that, 2 player mode V #1 Son) and XBOX now. I sense the XBOX is only geared up to complex games, WOW and dem. I have personally heard of a few adult relationships going west as a result of madnesses of this nature.
I left uni and actually worked programming at a games place. I was deffo the odd one out. Their geekery was next level. It pretty much put me of playing any videogames in my precious spare time. I tell you at 44 life is very short, and impressive as that SF match above is, I would regret putting this much time in [youth is wasted on the young-R]. Man should be practising his his Wangmanship innit (or playing music). I can live with #1 (and probably #2) son(s) pwning me on such.
One of the best games evar.
Plus there's something less humiliating about being beaten by sm0k3d4skuNK187 before he has to take the bins out when he doesn't know he's playing a mid thirties greying guy who's still wearing his work suit.
However at heart I'm a frustrated geek who refuses to actually grow up and act my age so maybe I'm not the best benchmark.
Whoever stops?
I was a bit good on Street Fighter '1' (arcade only, very difficult to pull off special moves, but you could accidently kill an opponent perfect from the off if you landed a dragon punch correct), and into SF2, SF2 turbo, and even that chipped version:
"....rousing strut SF tournament?....sayin'..."
I never saw Street Fighter I in the flesh -- it was almost mythical-rare status; at this late date, I've only seen it once, at the pool hall in the movie Juice.
I would like to try to this game, but can agree with some of the sentiment in this thread. With my limited amount of free time to devote to gaming, it's a bit disheartening sometimes when I, say, try to play NBA 2K12 and end up getting blown out before halftime.
Here's the short version
IIRC, you could only be Ryu. Sagat I think was the last bad guy, and the other bad guys were different from SF2.
Skip to 4:50 and he kills a guy with one 'uppercut'. All of the special moves were fusking difficult, but this was the first arcade game that had 6 buttons, and was obviously a massive leap forward in gaming evolution.
Ah, here it is:
This tangent got me googling the OG street fighter and I found a link to a fan-made remake with supposedly better controls and more playable characters.
http://thevalkyrieproject.blogspot.com/p/game-projects.html
I have an online setup now. Can we scrounge up 6 more people on here to hold a proper tourney??
Anyone picked up SF X Tekken? I'm waiting to get a used copy... I'm not in a huge rush to get it but it looks cool.