@Shyam39 my bro’s about to invite you! Another Blanka main!

These are good games Shy, reminiscent of fond old times.

I really enjoy using him, the strange angles at which he moves around always surprise me.

Did anyone catch the Final Round Grand Finals. Thoroughly enjoyed watching it. So much do that I loaded the game up the next day and played some. Wouldn’t mind getting back into it. Gonna check out Akuma. Turns out I have enough FM for him. And almost enough for another.

Free hugs from you?! You beast!

I was watching one of the earlier FR matches last night. Nuckledu’s Guile up against an Abigail. First time watching Abigail. Guy does some serious damage as expected once he gets in and lands a combo. You tried him?

Dubs wrote:

I also had Thaiger Uppercut top 8 on in the background last weekend.  It wasn't as stacked as FR but the commentary made up for it.  Grand finals may interest you.

Just watched it, best commentary! “AK47, Gou-Hadoken, Keep firing!”

“He is focused. Like an astronaut”

GGs with Curtis. Sagat is awesome. 

Lag ruins things though. Even a little really frustrates me. I’m gonna see if i can sort a wired connection and if my NAT settings are ok. Non-laggy matches would make this game great.

If you are getting connected to the netplay servers, then your NAT is fine.

NAT-2 is what the vast majority of the world will be on. Which means that you can connect, but are on a router with a private IP range, rather than connecting directly using your public IP, which is NAT 1. You do not want to set up your router to be using NAT 1.

You can check if there are any extra ports that SFV might use, and open them.

For Street Fighter.

Ryan Hart is a two time Evo champion for Tekken.

Just curious that with the release of the collection how people rank all the different street fighter games? I've been amazed at how playable SF2 Hyper and Alpha 2 are. SF4 Ultras roster is possibly my favourite although while its not on the collection, the PSP roster for Alpha 3 Max was very good as well.

I'm same as haak. We were playing most Fridays before or after fnf, and it's my go to in Japan

Speedhaak wrote:

SSF IV:AE will be a hard one to beat for me. An absolute gem of a game and at the time, the community surrounding it both here and online was amazing. I miss it dearly.

Same. I have such find memories of SF4 in all iterations (other than Ultra) and AE was the pinnacle.

Such a brilliant community game.

Ah lads AE was a bit shite.

AE 2012, that was the sweet spot.

Roujin wrote:

My heart belongs to Hakan, but the 3S parry, man. DAT PARRY. Low key one of the best mechanics in any game ever. Making you press forward into the attack to parry was such a good risk/reward system. I'm going to say 3S on the grounds of P A R R Y B O I S and Q and Kuroda (rip) and a side order of Urien. But USF4 is a gnats chuff away from it. Capcom pls, fix your shit before attempting 6! No rusherino cappuccino.

3s for me also, it was the first sf I got into after stopping playing at A2. Been playing it a lot recently thanks to the anni ed, and I'll agree with Rouj there re. parry. It may seem like a 'omg parry!' but it really is a great mechanic. I heard something recently where the dev team's philosophy was, if you know what's coming, you shouldn't have to take damage from it. I find the lack of parry in IV and V, after going back from 3s, to be very noticeable. Like you're there in block strings and you know what's coming, but can't do owt other than wait for it to end. Also wakeups, having parry in there adds so much, likewise to jump ins.

3s the daddy, then whichever version of IV floats your boat, then the Alphas, then II, then V.

Best Bipson!