Street Fighter IV tips?

Best thing is to try the challenges (as far as you can with whichever characters you want to get familiar with) and then practice in arcade (on medium or higher difficulty).

Whenever I play arcade I always keep the Fight Req on so I can play against comp and online both. I love that system ... can't believe no one else thought of that before.

I suck, repeat suck, at this game. It's my first Street Fighter game and I'm getting my ass wiped around in the online and I don't fare much better in the arcade

I can't figure out any of these special attacks for the life of me, can anyone help me out? I use the training mode but the thing isn't very helpful. One thing I never understood about fighters is how they don't tell me the buttons to hit, just some random circle and a medium kick or whatever but I can't remember that :?

Anyone got a guideToriko42

play challenge mode with the characters its shows you how to figure out how to do the combos and whatnot it gets rather easy in time

[QUOTE="Toriko42"]I suck, repeat suck, at this game. It's my first Street Fighter game and I'm getting my ass wiped around in the online and I don't fare much better in the arcade

I can't figure out any of these special attacks for the life of me, can anyone help me out? I use the training mode but the thing isn't very helpful. One thing I never understood about fighters is how they don't tell me the buttons to hit, just some random circle and a medium kick or whatever but I can't remember that :?

Anyone got a guideMarty_Mo

play challenge mode with the characters its shows you how to figure out how to do the combos and whatnot it gets rather easy in time

I'm with you dude. I just keep practicing and I'm slowly getting better. The controller doesn't help much (I have the PS3 version), but even that is getting easier to use bit by bit. The challenge mode is a good way to learn moves, and even arcade mode is good practice as it keep you on your toes at least. This is a game that's going to take time for me, but at least it's worth it in my opinion.

Here's a cool site I use for quick access to moves and it gives some useful tips and such: http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2008/jul/08/street-fighter-4-strategy-guide-hints-and-tips/

don't pick ryu, ken or akuma just because someone said they are 'easy' characters. Its so boring, pick a character that appeals to you (if they do, then by all means pick them) and stick it out and learn the basics and then advanced move set of said character. There are plenty of characters that you can master without having to pick those same boring three.

Your best bet is to take learning slowly so you can fully absorb what you are learning at hand. First I would learn how to do all of my special moves and how to do them consistently, this way you can eliminate the process of losing fights because you couldnt get a move to come out. This will also allow you to focus on the strategy over just worrying about "oh man I hope I can get my shoryuken off". Also, don't worry about losing too much. Losing is actually the only way you will learn and become a better player overall.

I notice a lot of players will actually get angry when they lose and go crazy (I've been playing SF for a long time) just keep your cool, remember the mistakes you made and try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.

There are advanced gameplay elements in SFIV, like the Focus attacks, EX Focus canceling and Focus dash canceling, teching, and reversals. I wouldn't worry about learning this until you get the basics down first. FOCUS on the basics. It may require spending alot of time in training mode or losing alot of fights but once you get over the initial hurdle of starting out you're only going to get better and better aslong as you keep playing and learning.

My best piece of advice though is to look for patterns in your opponent as the match is playing out, generally the best counter to anything a person can possibly do to you is being able to predict what they are going to do next. ALSO if you're trying to get in on your opponent and he keeps denying your strategy, STOP what you are doing, you're probably being predictable.

There is so much to Street Fighter that you can play it for years and still keep learning new things about it. It is a very competitive game first and foremost, so be ready to play alot if you want to step things up a bit :). Good luck, play hard and always play your best!

god its hard on the 360 pad, i was a whizz with sf2 on the snes 15 years ago but now im struggling on easy:oops:

what do people use, the dpad or analogue stick?

do you have to "break-in" the dpad? it feels a bit stiff and unresponsive. does it get looser with time?

god its hard on the 360 pad, i was a whizz with sf2 on the snes 15 years ago but now im struggling on easy:oops:

what do people use, the dpad or analogue stick?

do you have to "break-in" the dpad? it feels a bit stiff and unresponsive. does it get looser with time?

Macutchi

don't pick ryu, ken or akuma just because someone said they are 'easy' characters. Its so boring, pick a character that appeals to you (if they do, then by all means pick them) and stick it out and learn the basics and then advanced move set of said character. There are plenty of characters that you can master without having to pick those same boring three.

sbedeus

Totally agree the new characters are quite fluid and are rather fun to use try them out

I like Abeel and C. Viper

god its hard on the 360 pad, i was a whizz with sf2 on the snes 15 years ago but now im struggling on easy:oops:

what do people use, the dpad or analogue stick?

do you have to "break-in" the dpad? it feels a bit stiff and unresponsive. does it get looser with time?

Macutchi

[QUOTE="Macutchi"]

god its hard on the 360 pad, i was a whizz with sf2 on the snes 15 years ago but now im struggling on easy:oops:

what do people use, the dpad or analogue stick?

do you have to "break-in" the dpad? it feels a bit stiff and unresponsive. does it get looser with time?

CardiacKid07

yeah im finding the analogue stick a bit more responsive, but using the dpad reminds me of the snes so i keep instinctively going back to that. wish it was a bit softer seems hard to pull off a fireball consistantly

the analog stick and d-pad are pretty close to eachother so I use both in probably one match I switch off really quick between them bothMarty_Mo

show off ;)

1) Use the analog stick. It takes a bit to get used to it but once you do you can pull off specials easialy.

2) Choose one character and go to the training mode. Experiment combining air and groung attacks as well as specials to string them together to make a combo.

It took me a couple of hours to get used to one character and now the arcade mode on medium or higher is not too tough.

Your best bet is to take learning slowly so you can fully absorb what you are learning at hand. First I would learn how to do all of my special moves and how to do them consistently, this way you can eliminate the process of losing fights because you couldnt get a move to come out. This will also allow you to focus on the strategy over just worrying about "oh man I hope I can get my shoryuken off". Also, don't worry about losing too much. Losing is actually the only way you will learn and become a better player overall.

I notice a lot of players will actually get angry when they lose and go crazy (I've been playing SF for a long time) just keep your cool, remember the mistakes you made and try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.

There are advanced gameplay elements in SFIV, like the Focus attacks, EX Focus canceling and Focus dash canceling, teching, and reversals. I wouldn't worry about learning this until you get the basics down first. FOCUS on the basics. It may require spending alot of time in training mode or losing alot of fights but once you get over the initial hurdle of starting out you're only going to get better and better aslong as you keep playing and learning.

My best piece of advice though is to look for patterns in your opponent as the match is playing out, generally the best counter to anything a person can possibly do to you is being able to predict what they are going to do next. ALSO if you're trying to get in on your opponent and he keeps denying your strategy, STOP what you are doing, you're probably being predictable.

There is so much to Street Fighter that you can play it for years and still keep learning new things about it. It is a very competitive game first and foremost, so be ready to play alot if you want to step things up a bit :). Good luck, play hard and always play your best!

Blicen

[QUOTE="Macutchi"]

god its hard on the 360 pad, i was a whizz with sf2 on the snes 15 years ago but now im struggling on easy:oops:

what do people use, the dpad or analogue stick?

do you have to "break-in" the dpad? it feels a bit stiff and unresponsive. does it get looser with time?

CardiacKid07

Ya the D-Pad is horrendous but the analog stick isn't so bad.