i wrote a book about how to play street fighter

Pat the Great · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

go read it, it's free, just like you are

http://shoryuken.com/2014/07/07/learn-how-to-play-fighting-games-with-our-free-beginners-guide-ebook/
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mauve · Joined: 07 Dec 2006

this is a good book

recommended

misadventurous · Joined: 29 Nov 2012 Location: witch city

this is great, thank you.

the ending paragraphs are so heartwarming :)

Brooks · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Location: peak caucasity

Bless you for this, Pat

There's no better scribe in fightmandom

BotageL · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 3:24 pm

I liked the original article, so I'm glad to see you got to expand it out some more.

Kinda wanna play some SF2 soon.
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CONSUME_PRODUCTS · Joined: 29 Jan 2012

only play st
no stream fighter bore

BotageL · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:47 pm

I kinda wish I'd gotten more into Alpha 2 back when it was the only GGPO test game, actually. It seemed pretty cool.
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CONSUME_PRODUCTS · Joined: 29 Jan 2012

it is!

(currently wishing there was some kind of ggpo for ex2 & that i could get the mac ggpo working without the crazy flicker on wine ggpofba.exe)

jodeaux · Joined: 13 May 2014 Location: ATL...

oh man, I've been wanting something like this for a while. I was at Gamestop today holding a copy of king of fighters XIII and wishing i knew how to approach fighting games. Maybe after I read your book I'll feel more confident.

BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

I'm reading through it (before YouTube distracted me after watching the short Ryu vs. Ryu video), and I've found a typo:

Jujyfruits · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Location: b.a.

I'm reading this and it's great. I got to the last chapter before realizing it was you who wrote it. Amazing book. I was just looking for some guide to get better at fighthing games after getting all hyped up watching EVO2014 and then I found your book.
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Pat the Great · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

aw thanks, i'm glad you like it! i basically wrote it for that exact reason -- to give people who get hype after watching evo every year a way to get into the games.
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Notymenow · Joined: 19 Sep 2010 Location: Near Starkvegas, MS

thanks, I may still suck at Fighters... but now I suck knowledgeably!
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Jujyfruits · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Location: b.a.

I finished the book today. Now I hope I can become a great fightman.
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Brooks · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Location: peak caucasity

I beat a local Ken in Shinjuku last night 3 rounds to zip, twice, with Oro's raw normals while drunk and listening to an audiobook of The Neverending Story (which is actually pretty great), all I could really remember being parts of Pat's manual so it definitely works

Vikram Ray · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

started playing SSF2THD last night after reading the beginning. my thumb hurts. :(

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Jujyfruits · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Location: b.a.

get a stick. you can get good with a pad (i even know a guy who can beat everyone i know with a fucking keyboard) but the learning curve is completely different. landing a shoryuken with a pad is ten times more difficult than with a stick. and it doesn't hurt your thumbs.
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Vikram Ray · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

Yeah, I want to. Shoryuken with a pad is maddeningly difficult.

kirby.png · Joined: 09 Jan 2014 Location: Orange Ocean

just push forward then do a fireball
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BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

I find it difficult to do the necessary movements with a D-pad, so I use an analog stick.

*everyone backs away slowly*

I tried playing Ikaruga recently using an actual stick. It was a disaster. I can't use a stick.

*everyone runs away, screaming*
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Felix · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:30 pm

yeah, arcade stuff is neat but I'm no great shakes either. I object more to playing a six-button fighting game on a controller without six face buttons than I object to a d-pad.

I think I probably played Gradius V and Ikargua with an analog stick but definitely not any fightmans

and I definitely practice most with a keyboard at any rate, though that's not to say that isn't a handicap. when my friends and I were playing towerfall recently, I had keyboard, and we had several really close sets, then we traded off so I had a controller and I swept the round, to my surprise.