I have this strange feeling that SFxT will be at my place tomorrow before the tournament, thanks to a friend of mine. I guess I wont know for sure until 6 pm tmw…
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I understand that you have good intentions with the feedback that you want from better players but I don’t see why you can’t figure it out for yourself. Take some initiative! Reading character forums or asking questions on SRK is just as good as Paul giving you advice. No offense but the fact the you felt the need to mention the bold parts, it makes it seem like you think it is the duty of better players to help the weaker ones.
When I was just starting to learn Boxer in ST, I was complete ass with him. No one played ST in Edmonton by the time SF4 came out, so my only choice was online and playing the CPU. The CPU worked wonders for helping me to increase my speed and play really fast. I practiced, I read matchups, I watched videos, I got better.
Back before Youtube I could understand the need for top players giving advice to the scrubs, but now, people have access to pretty much every tool imaginable to help them get good. I’m not saying for you to not ask Paul for advice, just don’t rely too much on other people to tell you things.
Asking for help after the fact isn’t as effective because memories deceive us. Post video of you playing online and maybe ask people for help in the Character forums. We might all know what we’re doing is unsafe but that’s not going to help you if you don’t know what to punish that with. The only advice i’ve been able to give to you is don’t do that it’s unsafe, but that doesn’t tell you what you can do. Gotta take responsibility for you own progression. Someone can only tell you to learn your bnb they can’t make you do it.
-_- don’t mean to be ungrateful but anytime sooner ok?
Well don’t get me wrong, asking others is not the only avenue available. And it sure isn’t the duty of them to help, but I never would understand the mentality of destroying someone and then seeming sour about playing them afterwards despite wrecking them. That’s what I’m getting at.
And srk is definitely not always helpful, you gotta admit that. Using sf4 as an example, not every forum is active nor has easy to access information like a list of safejumps. Taking the honda forum for example, it has a matchup list that hasn’t been updated since super, and while that isn’t too terrible in and of itself, some matchups were never filled in from vanilla and to find information you have to rifle though a massive junk thread that got derailed a few times. Its not that the info isn’t there, its that accessibility can be an issue. The benefit of a live tip is instant feedback for those who don’t have the ability to upload to youtube for a critique.
Definitely if someone intends to get better, they should be applying all avenues. Youtube, srk, feedback from matches, watching replays of their losses and analyzing it, just to name a few. After all, the guy your playing against might not have advice or not know the answer to a question. I wouldn’t hold it against them. But if asked, a simple observation like “I think all my jump ins were free, might wanna look at some better AAs” would be cool. Sometimes the obvious helps even if your too salty to see it.
Reading the mindless dribble on this site or watching video’s will make you better than asking a real life player? Playing the CPU will make you awesome at the game? I agree that you need to do some legwork BUT the point of the community is to be well… a community… if you have to fix your car do you look to youtube first or would you ask your friend whos a mechanic and offer him a beer/doobie? youtube needs to be the LAST place you look for something IF you have the option to talk to someone who can answer questions… youtube is still the internet and there is alot of BAD info on it.
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I would like to think asking someone as good as this Paul guy would be a “little” better than watching this video.
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Anyone going to BP’s Tonight near Nait?
Yes, I am.
i was just trolling
but on a serious note. i stop playing sf4 because theres nobody to whoop my ass anymore.
Deadsider I know exactly what your saying. I’m a Casual player in the Calgary scene due to lifes responsibilities(plus some people have it and some don’t). However when I do make it too tubby dogs, Ric is one of my Fav players to play in Calgary. Hes got mass knowledge of allot of Character. He will often Play me 3-5 sets then he will tell me what Im doing wrong. Often He will say when I do this you gotta do this. Explain to me why and how it works then he will go into practice mode with me and teach me what he just explained and let me practice it on him. Also Rember playing Angry mike at HQ once and that was fun. He didnt per say tell me what I was doing wrong, however when ever I did figure out something or stop falling for frame traps and such ,he would complement me. I know you gotta take your ass whoppings to get anywhere but its also nice to get help. There is nothing worse then falling for a fame trap or an OS and not being able to figure out how to counter it. Specially when some one just keeps steam rolling you with the same thing over and over. You just sit there and feel like you have learned nothing out of the experience.
Does anyone know of a video explaining how sfxt’s mechanics work?
What did you think of guy on a buffalo?
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX37499 Sale ends at 9 tonight… 130$ for a round 2 TE stick xbox
hmm already got two 360 sticks, maybe ill pick up a ps3 one
Who looks like the two most easy mode characters in sfxt? I’m gonna use those two guys.
There’s three episodes so far I think. Helped me a get a general idea of what’s going to be going down
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Thanks mang.
ryu and ken
You’re doing it wrong. The whole game is easy mode anyways so you should follow this man’s advice.
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