From: mjb@srl02.cacs.usl.edu (Matthew Brumley)
Subject: Playing more than one character...
Organization: University of SW Louisiana
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:51:44 GMT


Something that I've been meaning to ask for quite a while is...

Do most of you stick to one character and beat everyone with him/her, do you
play MAINLY one character and have a 'back-up' character, or do you just play
everyone?

I'm a Ryu player.  I've been playing for about a year now (gosh) and have
dabbled in the use of the others, but I consider my "best" character to be
Ryu.  He's the one I enjoy playing the most and after all, he has the cool
hair-blowing-in-the-wind victory stance...  Still, I don't JUST play him.  I'm
a ken player (and there IS a difference!), a Vega player, and even (gasp!) a
Guile player.  Honda?  I like the character, but I just don't like to play him.
Chun Li?  She's cute, but I got tired of her a while ago.  Blanka?  He's too 
weird.  >:)  Zangief?  Same reason as Honda.  Dhalsim?  He irritated me too
much in Classic!  (hehehe)  Balrog?  Yes!  He's neat!  Sagat?  He's ok.  Bison?
Well, I don't hate him as much as most people do (yes, I have played against an
excellent Bison, and he thrashed me 4/5 times :-P ), but I've only played him
a coupla times (against the computer).  Actually, I'm startin' to get bored of
Vega, too.  He was fun to play at first, but he's kinda... I don't know... 
annoying at times.   

Anyway, I was just curious...

btw:  Most of my friends play Ryu, tho' one likes Ken more (guess why).  
      However, *I* am the one who played him FIRST!  >:)  (I never played SFI,
      but Ryu was my first character from Classic)

btw II: Has anyone gotten the 'triple fierce combo' (as it's called down here)
        with Ryu?  (jumping fierce, standing or crouching fierce, then fierce
        uppercut (tho' a jab or strong will do))  With ken, it's trivial, but 
        with Ryu we're having some difficulty.  I can get it reliably (90%) 
        on the tall opponents (Zangief, Balrog, Sagat, Dhalsim(!)), and I even
        got in on Guile four times and Chun Li (!) twice...  What's the deal?!
        I've tried varying the pause between the first fierce (jumping) and the
        second fierce (i.e. fierce.... fierce fierce!, or ...fierce fierce 
        fierce!) and the pause before the first fierce.  If I can get this
        down, I figger I'll show those ken weenies a thing or two... >:)

btw III:  A little tidbit for Balrog- Jumping Fierce, short or jab, charging 
          punch!  It doesn't put 'em in stars, knock 'em down, or kill 'em 
          instantly,  but it has the same fluid motion that Guile's combos 
          have (like two hits then a sonic boom) and it's executed the same
          way.  Anyway, is there anything neat that you've come up with?  
          Actually, this little pseudo-weenie-combo only works against the
          braindead (sigh), 'cause if they duck, the charging punch doesn't hit
          'em.  And, unlike ken/Ryu, he can't 'cut off' his normal punches with
          a special move (the charge).  And the Haymaker seems too slow for a
          combo (am I mistaken?)...

          
Until they make a SFIII: The Xmen Edition w/ Nightcrawler...
Ryules!
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