thank you. Exactly. With that I’m out.
Is there a local SF4 scene in New Jersey? I’m tired of playing online? I have the weird obsession with having a lot of PP, but I keep losing 1 out of 5 or 6 matches, to someone who I guess I’m supposed to beat, and is rapes your PP, basically undoing the previous 5 matches I just won…lol
It almost feels like gambling, I tell myself, ok, I’m gonna stop at 10BP and 4000pp, then I’m done, then I get there, lose it, and go back n forth trying to attain it again, or go even higher. Online is still about ranking/points feeling good about NUMBERS. And I’ll admit, I was addicted, I play a lot of super to get 15000BP and 5000PP, and it felt good, and then there was nothing…lol I still had bad matchups, I still lost to Viper, I still sucked (from my perspective anyway)
So where do good players play in Jersey? Oh, and is pad inferior to stick when playings shotos?
I can tell you this much. I’ve been playing on pad for years. Just recently made a switch to stick. Since then:
I’ve hit one frame links consistently offline and 90% online
All of my motions are clean. I can SRK on reaction. (On pad if I saw a jump and tried the motion I’d get all types of shit that wasn’t a SRK.)
Playing footsies is easier
I’m still not 100% on stick yet, but since I’ve been on it it’s been a whole lot smoother for me
Each person is different, I’ve heard people tell me that they went back to pad after trying stick since they didnt want to spend the time on adjusting all over again, to each their own really, but that would suck having bought a stick and then not using it.
Story of my life
I played pad, got a stick, played on it for a few, said I didn’t want to spend time on it, sold the stick, went back to pad, noticed I couldn’t do shit when I wanted to do it, got another stick, stuck with it, and here I am.
why would anyone even start with a pad? is this what happens when people grow up after the arcades already died? children born in the late 90’s?
I didn’t know any better honestly. didn’t get into fighting games till SF II came to Genesis. From there I played any fighting game I could get my hands on pad. Didn’t know about the arcade scene till the Daigo parry vid. By then I was content on beating up friends and friends of friends. didn’t know I needed to get better until I started getting bodied online in SF4
^ what he said. Older consoles like genesis/super nintendo(for me too) that only had pads…or casuals who refuse to take it srsly enough to drop a bill on a stick.
That is very interesting how you went back to stick after not wanting it enough to sell it. I guess you adjusted after all.
i mean, i played on the genesis sometimes too, but still, in the day there was a street fighter 2 cab in every grocery store, comic shop, 7-11, and pizza place, so playing on pad was just something you did when you were messing around at home, there was always plenty of opportunity to play on a cab. i hated using a pad
I was like 10 and 11 when SF2 was popular in the arcades, I learned at home on SNES, and when I did go out to movies etc…I got whooped on the arcade sticks when I knew I could beat them on pad. So, now I’m really comfortable with it, and fortunately, I picked a character that doesn’t have too many 1 frame links that are vital to his game, so I fare pretty well with Ken, online and off.
I’m actually trying to get into Ryu though, and his links are a bit tighter. c.mp c.mp c.mk. tatsu, c.mp c.mp tatsu, solarplex c.hp srk etc…all feel a little tight on pad and I’m wondering do they come out more fluent once you play on stick. Air just seems like he’s playing with a different character, my Ryu is so stiff compared to his. One thing I know is easier on stick though is OS, everything else (even kara) I’ve adjust pretty well on a DS3.
hmm…maybe I should pick up a charge character like Guile, he’s probably easier on pad since his moves aren’t complex.
Children born in the late 90s? I was born in ‘90 and arcades were already long dead by the time I was old enough to go to them. My first fighting games were played on the SNES and PS1 pads at friends’ houses. I never had a chance to play fighters on an arcade stick until Madcatz started mass-producing them for SF4.
Pretty much the same here, except the fact I was born a decade earlier. Let’s face it arcades were never that numerous in the US. Didn’t help that any arcade sticks made for the older consoles were not really advertised either I didn’t know half of them existed till recently.
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i was born in 90 too but the area in which i grew up in had a huge ass arcade / bar / place to watch wrestling/sports events. so i dont know where all these pad people come from 
its too bad that about probably 5 or 6 years ago that arcade got torn down (the whole plaza did actually) and is being replaced by an ikea…which now might not even go there because theres problems with their lease or something.
I was born in 80… :rock:. You could still buy sticks on SNES for SF2. I had one, and used to stick it to the table with the suction cups on the bottom.
I was equally as good on pad as stick, but stick was the weapon of choice. I did have a local Arcade with SF2 Turbo and championship though. I couldn’t use pad on SF4 , I have no idea how anyone could make their thumb dash on a pad…I guess if you used the cross hairs analog.
- Ryu’s links are all easy except sps>c.hp
- Air is miles better than you (and me) and that’s why his ryu looks completely different, not just because of some (easy) links
- If you’re serious about this game (and your name isn’t wolfkrone or alioune) buy yourself an arcade stick
Alioune plays pad? man, that makes his work even more impressive.
If I’m not mistaken (and I don’t think I am), he still plays pad most of the times. Definitely impressive considering he’s one of the best players in the world.
Playing chargers on pad is way worse than motion controlled chars. I literally couldn’t do that at all when I started out. How the heck does one even input Guiles super on Pad reliably?
For Ryu:
Does EX Tatsu into metsu still work? I can’t seem to pull it off anymore…