Rice-Eater said:
Even for someone who has been playing SF for years or even over a decade, it takes a little while to adjust to SF4. My first 500 or so fights I had a win rate around 37 percent, now it's around 53. This is a one on one game, you don't have teammates to protect you like you would in a FPS. So you're going to take a beating for a while. But give it time and things will start clicking. I'd say chances are you'll win at least 1 of your next 22 games, maybe.
Thanks for the kind words. I expected to lose a lot when I finally started playing this game, but I never expected to have so much trouble winning even one round. I think my main problems at this point are:
1) I'm addicted to special moves. I've decided to try maining Sakura and I find myself constantly just blocking and trying to do specials. I need to get it into my head that not only are there 6 attack buttons, but that they can chain together in good ways. I have no idea how to do this.
2) I can't do a throw for the life of me. I know the command for it I just can't judge the distance / don't know when a throw will actually connect.
3) I don't know how to punish anything, or even basic tactics to fight common moves. I must have fought 8 flowchart kens yesterday, and just couldn't react fast enough to do anything.
After my epic loss string I spent an hour in Challenge mode yesterday getting move links down trying to get some of them ingrained in muscle memory, but even with that I can't remember once in those loses where I actually got a (jump-in)heavy punch on an opponent (the opening to most of Sakura's combos).
I'm going to go watch a ton more videos I guess.
