I had a 360 and it red ringed. It got fixed and then lost in the mail and I don't think Microsoft believes us.

The PS3, on the other hand, still plays perfectly fine.

Despite my gaff earlier Makoto is an offensive character. She doesn't seem like your speed by the sound of you. You need a safer dude... like Sagat.

Doesn't matter, I wasn't seriously ripping on PS3. Your purchase is your purchase.

Well yeah, she's a rushdown character and I gathered that. When every fucker I fought started spamming projectiles or having their attacks magically eat mine alive, though, I cannot fucking rush down. And if I can't play the character at all without learning every single iota of priority in the entire goddamn game as it relates to Makoto (because seriously, no fucking move I could do would go through on some of these characters--Sakura and Abel both could just plow right over me) I'm going to end up very god damn frustrated, which I did.

Also, they hit Sagat's HP pretty hard with the nerf bat. I could go back to playing fucking Guile I guess since I can actually control that way, I'm just pretty god damn tired of not getting to use the character I want because WHOOPS SORRY VEGA SUCKS. LOOKS LIKE MAKOTO REQUIRES YOU TO FUCKING MASTER PRIORITY AND TIMING TO THE SECOND BEFORE YOU CAN USE HER, SORRY

Makoto can't even finish with a Super Combo because her Super's a buff instead of an attack. What in the fuck. There are certain trophies and bonuses and shit that Makoto = Nope, sorry.

At least they fixed Vega's fucking Ultra to be able to actually god damn hit now. Jesus.

Makoto's EX flash-punch thing should be able to go through fireballs, right? And then there's jumping over them. Fireball spammers are easy to rape, especially with a mean bitch like Makoto. I think you're problem is with a general thing and not Makoto not working for you. Make avoiding fireballs a meta-game. don't even worry about winning, just find ways around fireballs and build your game from there. You'll be surprised how easily people fold after you shut down there tactics.

Vega is awesome. He's in my stable, though ranked fourth in effectiveness under my Cammy, Sakura, and Ken. But Vega is great, and I love his new Ultra. He does not suck.

Makoto's ascension move adds to her rush down, increasing the rape. But I understand if it's not as appealing as an attack.

I can get around the fireballs pretty easily, they're just fucking annoying because everybody starts every god damn fight that way. The magical OMNOMNOM right through every single attack in my repetoire with what looks like pretty basic shit (EX dash punch? MEET MY PERFECTLY NORMAL MEDIUM KICK. Already technically hitting me? TIME FOR GRABS ASSHOLE).

Vega's better but he was pretty shit tier in SFIV, though I'm used to playing Alpha 3 Vega.

What specifically is your biggest issue right now?

Being gay

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LOL Roxer's got my number

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I'd say makoto is not begginer friendly character. You really need to actually learn her. She was pure rush down in 3rd strike and she still maintains that playstyle in ssf4 (she's not as nasty as she was in 3rd strike.) I dont think her dash punch goes through projectiles prolly on startup but not in her active frames. don know about ex tho.

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Definitely gonna try and learn Guy, besides the fact that I loved him in Alpha, really liked what Daigo was doing with him in that match a couple pages back. May give Makoto a shot too, but I think she's out of my league.

Been playing a lot of 4 online the last few days trying to shake some rust, and I was reminded how much I detest the people playing player matches with a dialed in character. Why not play ranked with your mastered Rufus, instead of player so you can "lol pwn n00bs!"

Dunno, been playing this a little bit in the last couple of months and have made some definite improvements and even got better with a few of my non-regulars, but I will definitely need that couple of months of prep time to get back to fighting shape.

Update, having quite a bit more luck with Dudley. Started playing Guile again, but damn it Daigo now everybody's playing Guile online and Guile vs Guile is boring as hell.

Also bought a new controller.

Fuck. Hope this doesn't get sold out before I'm done work tomorrow.

Might need to pick up a new controller as well. Are there any decent third party 360 controls out there? Specifically one with a nice d-pad?

No.

Just the actual SF4 fightpads.

Even those are kinda iffy, Khuntry tried them. Gamestop has a controller with SNES like pad which helps, but the rest of the controller is fail.

I need a fight stick, but I'm too lazy to go get a quality one or look for one online. Help a brother out?

Also, Played 13 rounds with Fig... and I need more practice, although my Zangief and El Fuerte are progressing nicely. Was kinda off tonight tho. Had a bunch of opportunities to finish him off, but either I'd react slow or botch the input and get killed.

Needless to say it was a 10 - 3 slaughter.

I would like to be home playing right now. But I'm also getting a new computer today and playing board games tonight, so I don't know when I'm going to find to play. Sad.

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Thought funky would squish me last night, as I havn't played since last summer, but I did a lot better than I thought I would.

Still, I've lost a lot of my edge, and was playing sloppy quite a few times. Very dissapointed with how my Abel and Honda have deteriorated. At least my Ryu is still in top form.

I am so excited to play again. I put my hands on the game for a little bit, and it still felt so fresh. I was having a lot of fun playing a number of new characters (not Adon basically). I could see myself playing Hakan and Cody more. Cody surprised me...he looked so boring in video but he plays so well.

I marked out when I did Hakan's 2nd Ultra on a friend. That is the best Ultra I have ever seen. So stupid and hilarious and awesome. Don't even compare it to Ryu's 2nd. Its not even in the same league!

Also, wtf. Why do I always have so much trouble connecting with blitz?

My Tekken 6 stick came, was a bit worried that I'd made a mistake getting a square-gate stick because I couldn't fucking dragon punch everytime I wanted in MvC2 on XBLA.

Luckily, after throwing in SF4, I was as good as perfect with my input. PHEW.

5 times now the game has frozen onme during a loading screen. Also, it won't show the opening cinematic. It gets to the close up of Ken's face and then to the title screen.

And did amazon change their deal? I thought I was getting the alternate costume pack also.

if you wanna play dress up, i'll take you your mama's bra and panties she left here.

Not gonna get this til monday, but I might end up getting it for 360 after all.

My SD4 was doing that for a while, presumed the disc was fucked. Installing it stopped it from happening.

RoXer, you lucky fuck!

Want to play this so bad. Gonna be the longest week ever.

I CANNOT PLAY BECAUSE KHUNTRY HAS THE GAME AND WE WERE ON THE SAME TV

This game's awesome, BTW.

I have to wait 2 more days for it to be released here. At least I get a Ken t-shirt, I guess.

Gonna put some time into Juri, Dudley, Guy, and possibly Ibuki and Cody. Cammy seems very improved for whatever reason, and gonna continue my progress with Gouken. Really like the damage reduction, though sometimes it felt like I was doing MORE damage.

Was initially not feeling the new online, but endless battle feels like being in the arcade again which is pretty cool.

Highlight of my session tonight: playing Roxer Cammy Vs. Cammy. Close battle. Roxer's across the screen, taunts me with Cammy saying "Come on". My Cammy immediately answers "ok" and EX Hooligans across the screen to throw Roxer. I think that might have ended the round.

Revenge for when Roxer ended a battle with his Guile suplexing my Gouken right out of a Denjin Hadouken.