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Well i finally hit G1! Which means no more Championship mode for me 
So i decided to do a little comparison, which will likely interest no-one but myself.
21/11/09
12/12/09
So i played for 53 hours in 21 days, for an average of 150 minutes a day
I fought 814 matches during that time, with matches lasting an average of just under 4 minutes.
I won 581 of those fights, giving a win rate of 71%
Time for a long SF4 break.
So i decided to do a little comparison, which will likely interest no-one but myself.
21/11/09
12/12/09
So i played for 53 hours in 21 days, for an average of 150 minutes a day
I fought 814 matches during that time, with matches lasting an average of just under 4 minutes.
I won 581 of those fights, giving a win rate of 71%
Time for a long SF4 break.
You're telling me, that between the xbox 360 version that you've probably had for about 10 months, and the PC version that you've had for 5 months, you've only clocked in 100 hours???
I find that really hard to believe even if you exclude your dojo time!!
I find that really hard to believe even if you exclude your dojo time!!
Just goes to show you can't brute force skill
My play time has been exclusively online, and as we all know, online sucks, with scrubs mashing out dps to interrupt your block strings during lag. And you cant even punish them if you block, cos they'll still be mashing dp after they miss, and they end up hiting you with the second dp. I can't even do BnB combos with links since lag means i often end up getting a hit blocked and doing minimal damage from any opening. Online, what a joke! My growth has been stunted by playing online. My true world warrior potential hasn't been witnessed due to online crappiness.
In all honesty mate I actually spend very little time gaming, spend FAR more time talking about them on forums
Even at the dojo I spend about 45 minutes actually playing at the most, just ask Marge. Since SFIV died at the dojo I have only played online with you lot, and you know I normally only play 2 games, get bored and leave I have no reason to lie about my gaming time.
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I wasn't suggesting that you were deliberately lying, but that you might have forgotten to include play time on a different console, or that your player record stats got reset and you didn't include that lost time, etc etc.
While i don't remember how many hours it took until i reached my current level of play (i think i improved drastically in my first month, but i've only advanced by a miniscule amount over the last 2 or 3 months), you seem to have improved a lot, in very little (gaming) time. Sure, reading about matchups/strategies helps a lot, but you'd need match experience to get used to putting all that into practice.
I think i read somewhere that you play(ed) other fighting games (3S, HDR), and pretty much all pro SF4 players have a background in other fighting games too, so that helps i guess.
While i don't remember how many hours it took until i reached my current level of play (i think i improved drastically in my first month, but i've only advanced by a miniscule amount over the last 2 or 3 months), you seem to have improved a lot, in very little (gaming) time. Sure, reading about matchups/strategies helps a lot, but you'd need match experience to get used to putting all that into practice.
I think i read somewhere that you play(ed) other fighting games (3S, HDR), and pretty much all pro SF4 players have a background in other fighting games too, so that helps i guess.
Its a place where Street Fighter nuts get together who claim they rarely play the game
Arth - At G1 are there different grade levels? I.e. A, B, C, D etc?
INternet/gaming/cyber cafe in Birmingham: http://www.globalgaming.co.uk/
Edit: actually the electronicdojo is the name of the group of people who play: http://electronicdojo.co.uk/, but I assume they mainly play at the above place.
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No need to be so bitter gents.
I do play a fair bit of hdr, although sfiv was my very first fighting game, and it a very different game to sfiv.
I highly recommend hdr actually, it's much more aggressive which is why I always seem to be overly offensive in sfiv when I should be sat in the corner turtling.
I do play a fair bit of hdr, although sfiv was my very first fighting game, and it a very different game to sfiv.
I highly recommend hdr actually, it's much more aggressive which is why I always seem to be overly offensive in sfiv when I should be sat in the corner turtling.
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Yup, although wish me luck with getting to G1-D - it's impossible to find a G1 fight.
Need a little help with the challenges (combos)
Seems to be the start of trial 3 where I am guessing, cancelling comes into play.
Trying them with Ryu and Chun Li, stuck at very silmilar combos.
I think ryu is a medium punch into a hadoken
with Chun Li it is Standing Hard Kick, Cancel into Lightning Legs.
Cannot seem to pull these of at all, anyone give me some tips and advice, how to go about these?
Seems to be the start of trial 3 where I am guessing, cancelling comes into play.
Trying them with Ryu and Chun Li, stuck at very silmilar combos.
I think ryu is a medium punch into a hadoken
with Chun Li it is Standing Hard Kick, Cancel into Lightning Legs.
Cannot seem to pull these of at all, anyone give me some tips and advice, how to go about these?
Blimey!
Hows the level of fighting at G1?
Im now on G2-E simply because I had to reformat and put Windows 7 and SFIV would not accept my previous save
Heyho.What is your GP at G1?
Hahaha mad ultra glitches at the dojo last night. Guile doing his ultra with his opponent on the otherside of him was hilarious.
Still playing that aggressive Bison. Not sure how but I was playing Balrog at a decent level too even did his ex loops a few times. :/ Never seem to miss his jab timing now either...weird how time away can improve your game. ;s
Edit: Didn't know Dan can catch people with his ultra on the way down if you hit them with a focus attack as they jump in, was quite funny to see.
Still playing that aggressive Bison. Not sure how but I was playing Balrog at a decent level too even did his ex loops a few times. :/ Never seem to miss his jab timing now either...weird how time away can improve your game. ;s
Edit: Didn't know Dan can catch people with his ultra on the way down if you hit them with a focus attack as they jump in, was quite funny to see.
Well I managed to complete trial 3 for Chun Li, my biggest problem was having HK and HP binded to LB and LT on the 360 controller, this made it impossible for me to hit the buttons quick enough.
Infact through trial 3, I found myself rebinding certain keys to Y and B to make completing the challenge easier and then changing it back once completed. I guess that is the frustration with the default controller
So now the trial 4 (1st challenge)
Oh and I still cannot do the Ryu Punch into hadoken, complete fail at that.
Infact through trial 3, I found myself rebinding certain keys to Y and B to make completing the challenge easier and then changing it back once completed. I guess that is the frustration with the default controller
So now the trial 4 (1st challenge)
Oh and I still cannot do the Ryu Punch into hadoken, complete fail at that.
Good luck doing ANY trials with the 360 pad, it is awful for SF4.
I highly recommend getting a stick if you enjoy playing the game and intend to get into Super SF4 which will be out soon. A 360 pad will seriously hold you back and frustrate the hell out of you.
For Ryu medium punch into fireball you just want to hit:
MP, down, fwd, MP.
All one after the other in one motion with no pause in between. When you do it once, just try it again, and again and again, and it will eventually click. Like I said though, you want a stick. It makes all the trials much easier.
I highly recommend getting a stick if you enjoy playing the game and intend to get into Super SF4 which will be out soon. A 360 pad will seriously hold you back and frustrate the hell out of you.
For Ryu medium punch into fireball you just want to hit:
MP, down, fwd, MP.
All one after the other in one motion with no pause in between. When you do it once, just try it again, and again and again, and it will eventually click. Like I said though, you want a stick. It makes all the trials much easier.
Really looking forward to the SSFIV launch, first few weeks will be great if more people get into it, plus finding new stuff out will be good fun.
Plus I'll have my stick dual modded by the end of this week so I won't have to worry about what system people are playing on. Even though you can usually borrow someone elses it's still nice to have the option for both.
Plus I'll have my stick dual modded by the end of this week so I won't have to worry about what system people are playing on. Even though you can usually borrow someone elses it's still nice to have the option for both.