If you see me online hit me up. Very rusty, and I've barely touched the 4 new characters, but I'm down.

Though it depends entirely what I'm doing at the time in skyrim. Slowly catching the addiction that Funky has for bethesda games.

Okay. I have a 'beacon' up.

Your beacon can suck my dick, I just started getting back into umvc3 so if we're playing anything it's that.

Back and forth, back and forth. Make up your damn mind.

Yeah, son. I've learned to play Skyrim one-handed so I can jerk off while I play.

aaaaaand my disk is fucked. Dunno how it even happened. Likely dumbass roomates. Oh well. Still got it on ps3.

That's nice for you and your friends on PS3.

Fuck. Also, I lent my copy out after laying the smackdown at a buddy's gaming night last week. Been resorting to MK for my fight game jones.

Had a session with Drakul. Still has a beastly Gief. First match was played with default controls, pretty much embarrassed myself. Later on, he perfected my Vega pretty bad.

I've still got a little rust to shake off with Zangief. Playing as anyone else, I'm very rusty as you could probably tell. I couldn't even remember how to do Seths Ultra or how to oil up as Hakan.

Kinda hoping MS might discount the price for AE like PS3 did this week, but I'm not keeping my hopes up. After watching 2012 matches for the past few days, I can definitely tell its worth my purchase. The balance seems much better, and I like some of the character changes a lot.

Voice Actors Playing Their Characters:

Sakura and Ibuki's VAs

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Sakura's VA is HOT. Ibuki's VA is cute, kinda bizarre her voice is pretty much Ibuki all the time.

Cody and Guy's VA

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Nice touch by Cody's VA with the shirt.

Oh yeah, Capcom confirmed at PAX that there will be another update for SF4. PRETTY SENSUAL.

AE 2013. Good for the people still on it.

SFxT pretty much replaced SSF4 in every which way for me.

Depending on the content of 2013, I may go back to 4. Especially if there's actual new stuff, rather than a balance patch, though I doubt that.

Is it a "Now this move does 1% more damage" update or a "Now you can play as Birdie" update?

I'm guessing it's the first one.

Balance update only. Square with that now and at best you get a nice surprise of some new characters coming in. And even then accept here and now they will be the SFxT Capcom characters.

R. Mika & Sodom, please :(

Hugo? Poison? In a one-on-one SF game? Great!
New character? Great...providing it's not shoto #33762 A.K.A "I know it looks like another Ryu clone but this guy has a axe kick!"

Actually...maybe King Cobra will finally show up?

General info in video form:

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So, the 6 new stages are from Street Fighter X Tekken. I'm a little disappointed at that. I'm hoping the new character is actually a new character and not just someone from something else. No Bad Box Art Megaman or Haggar, please. Someone totally new.

Kobra would be awesome.

He would be if he's not another Ryu. That's my only concern. I don't care if the new character is similar to T.Hawk, Makoto or Vega and I never use him/her. I just don't want another Ryu to clutter up the game.

Elena. So down.

Hope the new character is The Scorpion from Saturday Night Slammasters.

alex please

It wont be Alex because they said it was someone who has never been in a Street Fighter game before. They also confirm it's not Bad Box Art Megaman or Asura.

What I'm hearing just might bring me back to this game, at least for a little while.

People are thinking it'll be Haggar because the rest of the FF cast are in minus Sodom.

I'd actually rather it wasn't. I really really want a 100% new character, as long as it's not another Ryu. You know the spiel.

I'd think you'd want another grappler.

Drak I just wanna say you have a really stringent spoiler policy.

Ultra Street Fighter 4

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Request: Change thread title to "Ultra Street Fighter 4". Thanks.

SF4 finals hype so far.

I'd be happy to see another grappler but, he's a little too close to Zangief. After all my talk about Ryu being in the game in multiple flavours, it would be a bit hypocritical of me to say "Yeah, another Zangief. Awesome!". I now have Zangief, Hugo and Hakan. All grapplers but pretty different.

You know what would be cool? A female grappler. Maybe a big beermaid from Germany called Hilda or even an American Gladiator style woman.

If they wanted another grappler and it had to be a guy, for some reason, I'd like a Scottish wrestler.

His "thing" can be he has to grab someone and physically grapple them. Then he has multiple choices from that grapple. He can sweep them down, throw them overhead, etc. If they can make sumo, a sport about pushing, into a Street Fighter character, they can do it with Scottish wrestling.

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This video gives you a rough idea. Multiple types of slams. Imagine the move at 1:49 with a Street Fighter twist to it. The video has a woman screaming in it so you might want to turn the volume down.


It's the internet so theres always the chance someone wont have wanted to know whatever info I just posted and I know how annoying it can be when someone just says something that might ruin something for you.
A new TV station over here called Ginx (read as jinx) is really bad for that. It's a 24 hour gaming channel and, I swear, they can't talk about anything without telling you the twists and ending. That's if you're lucky. Sometimes they'll actually show you the ending and tell you it's the ending. Even in reviews.

Get Tekken Tag 2 and pick King.

I tried King in SFxT. Couldn't really grasp him.

Ha! Grasp! get it!?

Well I did say Tekken Tag 2.

And I wouldn't call him a grappler in xTekken anymore than Abel is. They're close-range strikers who just so happen to have a few special throws.

I think I only have Tekken 1.

I've heard that the new character will be shown at Whatever the next event his. Comicon or some PAX thing. Anyone know if that's true/false?

I haven't heard anything.

Oh god, rolento can suck a fat cock. Especially Khuntrys Rolento.

Well get a condom because we may very well return to SF4.

And I've been dropping Khuntry's Rolento lately.

I've read Kotaku say it'll be the end of the year, so that's probably more likely.

Hi res images of the preorder costumes artwork:

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I'm liking all the costumes. I can't find it to preorder in any UK shop right now.

The 6 new stages are all from SFxT. They are:
Half Pipe
Cosmic Elevator
Mad Gear Hideout
Jurassic Era Research Facility
Blast Furnace
Pitstop 109

This really does seem like it's turning out to be pure copy/paste.

I'm excited for this update, don't get me wrong. But it'd be nice if they could do something other than just port over SFXT elements.

Yeah. I really hope the 5th character is a totally new character.

I get the feeling the new modes might be from SFxT too. Colour editor? Gems? Pandora?

Don't be ridiculous.

The characters coming from xTekken will play differently to fit in SF4's specific core engine. There will not be Gems or Pandora - Pandora the power-up dependent on a team set-up. And no, I doubt tag will make it in.

Just... don't be that kind of guy that jumps the gun with wild speculation.

I didn't really think Pandora would be in. Colour editor, though. I could see it. With the disc including all the outfits, they may as well let us change colours. It would be an improvement if we had a colour wheel rather than preset colours, No Mercy style.

Then again, everyone will either dress everyone in black anyway or make all the girls nude.

I just remembered I should be mad that Karin is yet again snuffed.

Where have I wildly speculated anything. Obviously they will play to IVs engine. But they're still importing assets over. Art/animation, what have you. Not to mention the stages.

You didn't think I was talking to Drak then? I'll use quotes from now on.

And in any case this isn't the first time Capcom reused or slightly altered assets between games. The Alpha series sprites were used everywhere. This is not a bad thing.

Been thinking about dusting off the ol' Street Fighter and re-gearing my game for whenever the next big TPWW tourney comes around...guess i'll do it now.

Was happy with my progress in the last tourney considering it was the first time i've ever really delved into competitive fighting and actually learning mechanics and move sets.

Oh yeah, we're going o have to get another one in motion for when Ultra has been out for a month or so.t

I'm not getting gold for my 360 until GTA V comes out so any SF activity before then would have to be minus me.

Well USF4 will be out well after GTAV so that shouldn't be an issue. We didn't have an Arcade Edition tourny as many of us moved on, so it would be cool to have one for this game.

I'm thinking a February/March release for USFIV.

That's actually the good thing about skipping AE. When I buy Ultra, I'll be getting the update from both Ultra and AE at the same time, so I'll have 9 new characters instead of Ultras 5. I'll also be getting all the DLC outfits and whatever else I skipped on AE and whatever is added to Ultra. So it's a bargain, for me.

Thoughts on changing the title of this thread to "Street Fighter MINUS Tekken"?

ha

Was considering asking Roxer if he wanted to throw down, even though he consistently kicks my ass...but we tend to piss each other off playing this game.

Me playing against Roxer in Street Fighter is like Roxer playing NBA2K against me.

I imagine ass-kickings ensue.

Now, this has got me thinking. Someone who is "very much" conected with SF yet has never been in a fighting game. Anyone from the SF manga, animes pr spinoffs that may be possble?

Oh, I got it! Go Hibiki!

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Chun Li's father
Gouken and Akuma's master
Ono himself.

I thought he stated that the 5th was never in a "Street Fighter" game

Could be a swerve. Final Fight and Slam masters are considered to be in the same universe as street fighter.

They were never in a fighting game so that rules out Haggar. Other FF guys are possible.

Says specifically a big part of street fighter tho, so I think my previous guesses are more likely, along with Go Hibiki.

If I had to bet money on one, I'd say Goutetsu.

Evil Ken.

He was in one of the capcom vs snk games I believe. Can't be him.

I honestly will be happy as long as it's not another type of shoto. Diabetic Akuma and Hammer Toes Ken are characters we can do without.

Japanese trailer. I'll switch it for an English one, if one is put up.
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Ultra on PC is ditching GFWL and going with Steamworks. Should also come out at the same time as consoles and if there's any patches, they'll be free and not have to be certified, so should finally get them in a timely manner too.

I suppose I might as well fnnnn buy this again then

I am always upset about how bad I have been at Street Fighter. A lack of human opponents over the years probably accounts for that. If I collect myself, get this new edition and apply myself methodically like I did to improve in CoD and saw dramatic results, I can do it.

Play as Ryu or Ken, it works for everybody else ;).

I got pretty comfortable with Chun Li, but I would lose my head too easily and not have a good enough strategy if they started pushing back.

I'd think playing Ryu or Ken would actually be a good starting point if you wanted to get into the rhythm of the basics of it. From there, you can branch of into whoever you feel suits you.

I'm by no means "pro" so I could be completely wrong.

I got Street Fighter II for the SNES in 1993 so I don't have an excuse. It is my mind game that is completely non existent. I have realised that you need to find the game within the game.

I used to be like that with SFIV. I'd play someone online and, if things weren't going my way, I'd panic and just screw myself over.

I was glad that Poison is coming over. I am at the point where I have been thinking about getting better at fighting games and I have wanted to most of my life but never had the killer instinct. I got better at FPSes with the right mentality and I know I can do the same now. I would rather be a SF champion than a rockstar in my fantasies.

I'm glad Poison is going to be playable as well. Curious what music she'll have.
She's one of the very few non-grapplers I play as.

I don't get the craze for modern FPS games. Played CoD local multiplayer once with my sister when she brought it over and it was the most generic guff I have seen in a very very long time.

Halo 4 and Battlefield 3 is great.

Call of Duty is a very good modern interpretation of Quake for me. Very finely tuned.

That's actually a very good comparison.

Played SSFIV for the first time since before AE released. True, it was just arcade mode but it was set to Hardest and I plowed through it like I had never stopped. I thought I'd be a lot rustier.

I have noticed I was jabbing more and forgot about focus attacks. Probably because of SFxT.

Wish they'd show the USFIV character already. I hate it when a company announces a game and then has this big period of silence. Telling us "We're experimenting with this guys hitboxes" doesn't count.

Could be coincidence or it could be a "clue" as to the fifth character. Each first letter of the new characters spells HYPER. We just need a Y.

H=Hugo
Y = ?
P=Poison
E=Elena
R=Rolento.

Someone important to the history of street fighter who's never been playable before.

Yoshinori Ono

Yakisoba. The fuel that powered the dev team.

Street Fighter documentery by Capcom:

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Eh.

Rumours. First one said comes from multiple "reliable sources". The others are based off something from NeoGaf.

Interesting.

Prolly gonna jump back into this soon.

Mechanics.

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Cute.