^^This man speaks the truth. I never really use the haymakers in this game anyway. Feels like you don’t really need them. Buuuuut, I think I found an effective way to land haymakers. I was hatton going against pac. He kept doing his jabs and straights, using his reach to his advantage. I did the weave technique the fireball motion with the left stick when I was sort of at a distance. I weaved all of his straights, and came in with a counter haymaker uppercut. I doubt it will be this easy in the real game though. GAH!! This game needs to be here now!!
I hear ya man, I can’t wait to play ppl like you Hiko. The 1UP webcast was embarrasing, horrifying stuff. All the guy did was give inaccurate boxing information such as Joe Tessitore being an HBO commentator, that “Lennox Lewis fought like a woman”, “Tommy Morrison was a pretty good fighter until he lost to George Foreman” (WTF?) complaining about photo gameface and not caring about boxing in general, encouraging the use of fouls and not playing the game properly. Noone has from any of publications, and it’s sad non boxing fans got such a horrendous display of what’s a great game and probably one that hardcore boxing fans that unlike Round 3 will really embrace, I have the feeling this will attain similar status to the VB series, which I think didn’t go down well with arcade boxing game fans.
^^CJ81 I’m going to add you to my ps3 friends list as soon as this game comes out. I’ve seen exactly what you were talking about and it seriously hurt my soul. I’m no where near as educated in boxing as you are but I have a huge appreciation for the sweet science. When I see this new vids of FNR4 I just want to yell in frustration. All these people do is get in and slug it out, with characters that aren’t meant for infighting!! Prob the best fight vid I seen of this game was Thomas Hearns vs Shane Mosely. Atleast the hearns user kept mosely at bay with his jabs and straights.
CJ81 they need people like us to use for videos for this game. People who will actually…box in a boxing game. Not just throw a bazillion punches with no strategy what so ever. I actually can’t wait to fight those people online. I’ll show them a thing or 2 about defense and gas them out. I’ve been lurking on gamefaqs and the ea forums and people are complaining about buttons not being in the game. That just shows you most of those people just threw punches in bunches and wanted a quick way of doing it instead of picking their shots like they should. Atleast when my friend used the button config in round 3 he actually picked his shots and boxed, we had great matches.
Anyways I can’t wait for this game to be realeased. I know its going to be a hit with us boxing fans. The whiners and complainers that I’ve witnessed in the fnr4 and gamefaq forums can stick to their arcadey round 3.
amen brother. You know it’s crazy that ppl complain about the sticks and how they can’t use them. You know, because of cerebral palsy, I play with one hand, and ever since FN 2004 I developed an unusual technique as I have for every game I play to be successful, so if you got two hands and full dexterity, you shouldn’t complain. I guess since we can play below or above 2 weight classes, we will have to do matches that never happened like Whitaker vs. Hearns, and JC Chavez Sr vs. Hearns.
^^Seriously, I can’t believe how many people are complaining about the sticks. I’ve been using total punch control since the first fight night and its not hard at all. Especially if you know how to pick your punches like you’re supposed to do in boxing. I love the way they did the total punch control this time. You can actually move and throw hooks and uppers to the body at the same time since you dont need the lean modifier to do it. And you can now lean in any direction and throw hooks to the head to make for some awsome counters. The people who want buttons in this game can’t appreciate the things you can do now since you don’t need to let go of the lean modifier to throw head shots. Proof that they just wan’t to mash their way to victory and don’t know much about the sport.
It’s funny because they say that I must of lost to a lot of button users. That is false. I’ve always boxed on the outside and used great defense to beat the mashers real easy. And CJ I’m down for those matches and any other match you want to do with any weight classes.
While it’s not hard, sometimes you miss your moves and it’s quite frustrating.
It’ll take quite some time to get used to.
It’s a good idea, and i think it’s the best way to handle the moves but still it’s hard to do exactly what you want.
On an IGN interview/blog thing I read today they said they are considering “Face Button controls for punching” via DLC. Not sure if that is just to win over some people on the fence or if they are legit going to try it, but if they had no intention of doing it I doubt he would have said it.
Heres the quote;
I played a little bit of this w/ CJ81 and I have to say, this game is looking good! This might sound weird, but this looks like a game that both boxing fans and fighting game fans might appreciate.
I’ll definitely get the game for sure. I just yup that the online doesn’t turn out like UFC 2009 Undisputeds, man that was terrible!
Anyone else get their copy early? The game isn’t due out until Friday and I somehow got my copy this morning. Even weirder is that I went with the free Standard (slow) shipping and they sent it 2-Day UPS. Thanks EAstore! It’s Tyson Time!
Holy shit some people are getting really angry at the lack of face button punching. I mean look at this:
Damn they cranked up the difficulty. The CPU actually gets you on the ropes now. I just went through like 7 fights and didn’t win by KO once :sad:
Fuck, I don’t think I’ve ever made it to decision on the last three games.
Gonna cop this after work today. Most likely the 360 version. It will be a game time decision lol.
I went to the store to reserve it, and it was there. I’ll be online playing.
the game is so good… it kicks UFC’s ass all over the board…
LOL EA.
I picked up my copy yesterday thanks to the GameStop promo. My custom character looks weird, I think I will try it again with a picture instead of using the vision cam… Also I’m glad that you can’t use the buttons now, nothing used to piss me off more than a select number of my friends who would always pick Roy Jones Jr. and string together impossible jab combos bu mashing buttons, it’s just bullshit and unrealistic.
The game is awesome. Going to create a fighter later this week. So far I am just having fun picking Tyson against everyone.
I started up a Legacy and got a few fights in. It’s pretty fun. Just for the hell of it, I did a CPU vs CPU match with my newly created boxer against Tyson. Got knocked down twice in 2 minutes and lost via KO. Tyson murdered him.
Too good.
i’ve been playing it since yesterday… doing legacy… its good… game is pretty technical but not to hard to remember all the moves, unlike crapfest that is UFC.
FN4 8/10
UFC 4/10
I’ve been playing it also. The button layout doesn’t bother me really. Graphics are great.