Cross-ups, meaty attacks and two in ones, oh my!
I spent a lot of time in the arcades as a kid. There were these Sunday sessions where you’d pay a whopping $12 and got about 4 hours of free play on all the machines in the building. It was an institution for myself, my brother and friends. I toyed with the fancy light gun games of the time but I spent a large majority of my time on the most crowded machine. Street Fighter 2.
Fifteen or so years later and I’ve got Street Fighter IV to chew on. I went into it saying to myself “hey, you know SF, you’re not bad at it at all. Those hours in the arcades and the weekends of hiring Super Nintendos just to play it have given you a pretty damn good idea of what you’re doing”. Turns out I was so so wrong.
After watching this video, I discovered there’s a whole other level to SF that I’ve missed completely. Apparently most of this stuff is somewhat applicable to SFIV as well. Cross ups, meaty attacks, two in ones, reversals; all in the list of this secretive underlying level of play that I was oblivious to. I understand now what defines a “good” player more so than I did before.
So diving back into SFIV, demoralised and downtrodden over my discovery of this new higher level of ability, I expected to get my rear end handed to me on many occassions and I did. Even though I play Ryu a lot and you spend 90% of your time holding the opponent at bay, but I can’t tell you how much time I’ve spent with my neck bent at an odd angle, spread eagle with a large Russian wrestler’s sweaty mits wrapped around my midsection.
Seems practice might be the only way I’m going to get there, but for the moment online play is just a wash for this aged warrior. Any tips?
Chun-Li was the best! But I think I was just a fan of the hair. Her hair was awesome.
Punch,Block,Back Up,Move In,Kick High,Then Low,Block,Back Up,CRAZY CHICKEN.
hahaha dat game is easy to me i got all chacters
The trick to Street Fighter is mashing random buttons until something happens.
lots of techniques/tricks have to do with timing things like the safe jumps and stuff so i would guess practice timing.
wow nice
One of the simplest techniques for Ryu is the hadoken into the hadoken special. Which may sound hard but is actually quite easy. Do the normal motion for a fireball and before that fireball animation is complete do another fireball and it will lead to the super. Basically your using your initial d, df, f p for both the hadoken and the special the following d, df, f p input is registered to the super. It also works with pretty much anyone that can shoot a fireball. Also when someone jumps at you as ryu you can do a LP dragon punch and while they are in mid air you can catch them with the ultra.
Really looking for tips, or is that just rhetorical?
thanx for the info