So, the tournament finished... 8 groups, 4 players each. 2 from each group go on to 2nd round..
I reached to the 2nd rounds. Top 16.. Now the new list is generated randomly.. And I get the only zangief player in the whole group..
Viper has a major weakness against gief, she can NOT cross up with him coz he'll spam lariet. So my tactic was to spam seismos on him and keep going away. Me, being in the tournament.. I was kind of nervous, my seismos were not being executed perfectly and I find myself jumping towards gief just to get my face lariet'd.. I ended up losing eventually.. And it was game over for me..
It was pretty sad. As the people who've earned the 1st, 2nd and 3rd are on my same level.. I had a high chance. Another thing is that, I've been practicing viper for a pretty long time and I wanted to show the UAE that viper has good stuff.. But against gief viper is pretty limited.. I could read what's going with the viewers minds.. "Why is he playing Viper? He sucks at her.." Which kinda sucks but anyways.
Don't expect much from my video that would be uploaded to youtube.. It was disastrous. But check the other videos, they were diff. Better than mine..
Tournament... Fail.
LoL
See ya at next journey.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
TOURNAMENT TODAY
Yes, today is Feb 26th.. I am getting goosebumps xD
I can't say I've really been practicing hard for this tourny. As I had many other stuff to do like projects in college.. But I did spend some more time in SFIV during the last couple of months.
As I heard you can only choose 1 character during the whole tournament which kinda sucks. But its ok. Since today is the tourney I dont see why should I keep the character I will choose a secret. I will be playing Viper. Yes, CRIMSON VIPER. though, she's not high in the Tier list, but she's one tricky character. with very hard techniques and moves, but if you master her, it would be will worth it.
As might know that my Main character used to be Balrog. And I did win last tournament with Balrog. But nah, I wanna try viper out. If i win, thats great. If i Don't. Then gratz to whomever won me :P
I will post again after the tourney.. *putting his game face on*
I can't say I've really been practicing hard for this tourny. As I had many other stuff to do like projects in college.. But I did spend some more time in SFIV during the last couple of months.
As I heard you can only choose 1 character during the whole tournament which kinda sucks. But its ok. Since today is the tourney I dont see why should I keep the character I will choose a secret. I will be playing Viper. Yes, CRIMSON VIPER. though, she's not high in the Tier list, but she's one tricky character. with very hard techniques and moves, but if you master her, it would be will worth it.
As might know that my Main character used to be Balrog. And I did win last tournament with Balrog. But nah, I wanna try viper out. If i win, thats great. If i Don't. Then gratz to whomever won me :P
I will post again after the tourney.. *putting his game face on*
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Japanese writing system.
All I have been talking about in the past posts were about games.. Well, about Street Fighter IV to be exact.. But I think it is time to start a little about the Japanese language.
I thought I would start with their writing system. In Japanese there are 3 different writing systems. Though you might ask which one they use?, They use them all in their daily life reading/writing. These three systems are "Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji".
Now for some history, Japanese did not have a written language of their own, books imported from China was written in Chinese, so the Japanese decided to use their characters in their writings, those characters are now known as the kanji (漢字) which means "Han Characters". These characters are all drawings of things. Around 5,000 characters were imported. The Japanese later decided that these characters are too hard, specially for the children when they first started learning them so what they did is that they created alphabets.
The Hiragana and Katakana are the alphabets of Japanese. Just like the "A, B, C, ..." in English. The same pronunciation of characters in Hiragana are in Katakana but they look different. Hiragana have smoother lines while Katakana have more sharper edges.
Hiragana is used for words that are originally Japanese. They are also used for particles and connectors. While on the other hand, Katakana is used for words that are not originally Japanese, for example an American name will be written in Katakana instead of Hiragana.
There are no real consonants in Japanese. There are 5 Vowels though which are in order "A, I, U, E, O", while for their consonants, their first letter is "K". Now there is no "K" alone in Japanese, there are 5 letters that got K in them. "Ka, Ki, Ku, Ke and Ko" (Which are the combination with the 5 vowels) The same goes for the rest of the consonants.
For their pronunciations:
A as in "cAt"
I as in "Eel"
U as in "whO"
E as in "nEt"
O as in "hOt"
Here are a list of the Japanese Hiragana and Katakana
Hiragana:
Katakana:
The consonants in order are K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, W, N as you can see in the list above. You might wonder if those are the only letters. No they are not the only letters, if you add 2 dashes above a letter it changes to another letter, while in 1 letter case if u add a circle above it it also changes to a new letter
If you add the 2 dashes to the following letters they change as follow:
K -> G
か(ka) -> が(ga)
S -> Z
T -> D
H -> B
while if you add the circle the letter changes as follow:
H -> P
は(ha)-> ぱ(pa)
You also will notice an N alone in the list. That is the only letter that can be stopped at in the end of the word.
There are some different combination's that can be done with these letters but I might cover it in another post.
Now to move to the last writing system, which is the Kanji. There are around 5,000 use in Japan. But the good news is that you only need to learn 2,000 to be able to read almost anything in Japan. Isn't that great! only 2,000.... The government had a rule that Japanese newspapers are not allowed to use any character other than those 2,000 characters, But if they had to. They have to put the "Furigana" reading on top of the new Kanji. "Furigana" is basically Hiragana written on top of the Kanji so you would know how it is pronounced.
Now since these characters were imported from China, they were not originally Japanese, not to mention Japanese and Chinese spoken language is far from close. This created some problems upon importing the characters. First the Japanese tried to use Kanji that their Chinese sounded close to a Japanese word. after couple of hundred of years they found this to be impractical so they decided to give the meaning of the kanji to the Japanese word. Though they still kept its Chinese pronunciation. But they also gave it the pronunciation of its Japanese meaning.
Now almost every Kanji has 2 different pronunciation. A Chinese one that's called (On'yomi) and the Japanese pronunciation (Kun'yomi). Al though the Chinese reading was rendered to sound more of a Japanese word. I will give you an Example.
The word "Tokyo" has the 2 Kanji 東京 which means "Eastern capital". It is written Tokyo in English, but it is actually written "Tou Kyou" in Japanese. Tou means East, but Tou is the Chinese reading (On'yomi), The Japanese word for East is "Higashi" 東 As you can see they both have the same Kanji, but are pronounced differently.
Now you might say, when do I read it On'yomi and when I read it Kun'yomi? Basically, when the Kanji is combined with another Kanji to form a new word, you would read the On'yomi for both Kanji, but if the Kanji alone and is not combined, You would read the Kun'yomi instead. though there are situations when this does not work. As for example, Japanese Names usually combine 2~3 Kanji in a name. But they use the "Kun'yomi" for all of the Kanji.
So now, instead of just needing to memorize 2000 Kanji, you need to memorize their On and Kun readings as well.. Isn't that fun?
I thought I would start with their writing system. In Japanese there are 3 different writing systems. Though you might ask which one they use?, They use them all in their daily life reading/writing. These three systems are "Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji".
Now for some history, Japanese did not have a written language of their own, books imported from China was written in Chinese, so the Japanese decided to use their characters in their writings, those characters are now known as the kanji (漢字) which means "Han Characters". These characters are all drawings of things. Around 5,000 characters were imported. The Japanese later decided that these characters are too hard, specially for the children when they first started learning them so what they did is that they created alphabets.
The Hiragana and Katakana are the alphabets of Japanese. Just like the "A, B, C, ..." in English. The same pronunciation of characters in Hiragana are in Katakana but they look different. Hiragana have smoother lines while Katakana have more sharper edges.
Hiragana is used for words that are originally Japanese. They are also used for particles and connectors. While on the other hand, Katakana is used for words that are not originally Japanese, for example an American name will be written in Katakana instead of Hiragana.
There are no real consonants in Japanese. There are 5 Vowels though which are in order "A, I, U, E, O", while for their consonants, their first letter is "K". Now there is no "K" alone in Japanese, there are 5 letters that got K in them. "Ka, Ki, Ku, Ke and Ko" (Which are the combination with the 5 vowels) The same goes for the rest of the consonants.
For their pronunciations:
A as in "cAt"
I as in "Eel"
U as in "whO"
E as in "nEt"
O as in "hOt"
Here are a list of the Japanese Hiragana and Katakana
Hiragana:
Katakana:
The consonants in order are K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, W, N as you can see in the list above. You might wonder if those are the only letters. No they are not the only letters, if you add 2 dashes above a letter it changes to another letter, while in 1 letter case if u add a circle above it it also changes to a new letter
If you add the 2 dashes to the following letters they change as follow:
K -> G
か(ka) -> が(ga)
S -> Z
T -> D
H -> B
while if you add the circle the letter changes as follow:
H -> P
は(ha)-> ぱ(pa)
You also will notice an N alone in the list. That is the only letter that can be stopped at in the end of the word.
There are some different combination's that can be done with these letters but I might cover it in another post.
Now to move to the last writing system, which is the Kanji. There are around 5,000 use in Japan. But the good news is that you only need to learn 2,000 to be able to read almost anything in Japan. Isn't that great! only 2,000.... The government had a rule that Japanese newspapers are not allowed to use any character other than those 2,000 characters, But if they had to. They have to put the "Furigana" reading on top of the new Kanji. "Furigana" is basically Hiragana written on top of the Kanji so you would know how it is pronounced.
Now since these characters were imported from China, they were not originally Japanese, not to mention Japanese and Chinese spoken language is far from close. This created some problems upon importing the characters. First the Japanese tried to use Kanji that their Chinese sounded close to a Japanese word. after couple of hundred of years they found this to be impractical so they decided to give the meaning of the kanji to the Japanese word. Though they still kept its Chinese pronunciation. But they also gave it the pronunciation of its Japanese meaning.
Now almost every Kanji has 2 different pronunciation. A Chinese one that's called (On'yomi) and the Japanese pronunciation (Kun'yomi). Al though the Chinese reading was rendered to sound more of a Japanese word. I will give you an Example.
The word "Tokyo" has the 2 Kanji 東京 which means "Eastern capital". It is written Tokyo in English, but it is actually written "Tou Kyou" in Japanese. Tou means East, but Tou is the Chinese reading (On'yomi), The Japanese word for East is "Higashi" 東 As you can see they both have the same Kanji, but are pronounced differently.
Now you might say, when do I read it On'yomi and when I read it Kun'yomi? Basically, when the Kanji is combined with another Kanji to form a new word, you would read the On'yomi for both Kanji, but if the Kanji alone and is not combined, You would read the Kun'yomi instead. though there are situations when this does not work. As for example, Japanese Names usually combine 2~3 Kanji in a name. But they use the "Kun'yomi" for all of the Kanji.
So now, instead of just needing to memorize 2000 Kanji, you need to memorize their On and Kun readings as well.. Isn't that fun?
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
UAE SF4 Tournment
I have not written here for a while now, I've been busy with the new semester at college. Hopefully I'll have more time for my blog soon.
Couple of days ago a friend of mine told me about this upcoming SF4 tournament in the UAE. 32 participants of good players from the UAE, I managed to get in it.
From the rules I heard so far, there are going to be 8 groups, 4 in each, each group member going to play with the rest of the members and only 1 qualifies. In the end 8 remain and fight their way to the top.
The organizers want to try and record all the matches to upload them to youtube, so our UAE play can be recognized internationally. This is going to be a good opportunity for us I think.
Well, until then, I have to go practice more :p
Couple of days ago a friend of mine told me about this upcoming SF4 tournament in the UAE. 32 participants of good players from the UAE, I managed to get in it.
From the rules I heard so far, there are going to be 8 groups, 4 in each, each group member going to play with the rest of the members and only 1 qualifies. In the end 8 remain and fight their way to the top.
The organizers want to try and record all the matches to upload them to youtube, so our UAE play can be recognized internationally. This is going to be a good opportunity for us I think.
Well, until then, I have to go practice more :p
Monday, February 8, 2010
Arcade scores...
You go to the arcades, pick your favorite character.. win almost perfect all your rounds. Fight the additional secret boss, Gouki/Gouken. Then you realize you're not even in the top 50!
You wait a while to check the arcade high scores.. and there it pop up, ken, ken, ken, ken, gouki, gouki, gouki, gouki, gouki...
You start thinking.. why those?
I will tell you why.. ULTRAS!
Ken's Ultra deals 17 hit combo while Gouki's deal 27 hit combo..
And apparently the machine give them a combo bonus based on that number.
Now, I am not sure, but I think the programmers should've done a better job coding this. People did not do all of these combo in the Ultra, they just started it.
In other words. A person won a perfect round and got a 10,000 bonus points for doing so, and another person could not win perfect and took damage to build the ultra, then used his ultra for 27 hits combo and got (33400) points..
Really? Is this fair?
I hope they fix this in the next SSF4, I think it would be better if they calculate the bonus for each normal and special as being 1 hit each.. though it would be ok if they display the total number of hits.
You wait a while to check the arcade high scores.. and there it pop up, ken, ken, ken, ken, gouki, gouki, gouki, gouki, gouki...
You start thinking.. why those?
I will tell you why.. ULTRAS!
Ken's Ultra deals 17 hit combo while Gouki's deal 27 hit combo..
And apparently the machine give them a combo bonus based on that number.
Now, I am not sure, but I think the programmers should've done a better job coding this. People did not do all of these combo in the Ultra, they just started it.
In other words. A person won a perfect round and got a 10,000 bonus points for doing so, and another person could not win perfect and took damage to build the ultra, then used his ultra for 27 hits combo and got (33400) points..
Really? Is this fair?
I hope they fix this in the next SSF4, I think it would be better if they calculate the bonus for each normal and special as being 1 hit each.. though it would be ok if they display the total number of hits.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
SFIV - The Upward Jump
Just like the title says it. Jumping upward. Just jumping up from your same position and landing where you were originally.
Newcomers might think it is a silly move. Why jump in your place? Why not jump forward and attack your opponent!! Well, actually jumping upwards has plenty of benifits. What I have observed is that many players start the round by jumping upwards. One of the main advantages is that in most cases you would be able to cleanly hit an opponent jumping towards you. Second of all jumping upwards would save you from opponents anti-air moves. As when people notice you jumping, they react to an anti-air move but you caught them by jumping upwards instead and have them wide open for an attack in your landing.
Jumping upwards is also not only for far ranges. Even if you both are just next to each other, jumping upwards might be a very good idea. First of all you might escape a throw and land while they are still recovering "if your character has low jump such as Gen". Another thing is most players defend crouching, so a hit while jumping will catch them ungaurded unless they react fast and stand to gaurd.
Some poeple use fireballs to zone. They might trick you to jumping towards them to counter you with something, so don't do that, instead jump upwards. But be careful as well, Ryu can cancel his hadouken into his super while you are still in the air. Though if you can jump towards the opponent as soon as they use a fireball, you can punish them.
One thing to note, against people that grab in the air, specially Guile. Jumping as a whole might be a bad idea. Pick your cards right and play them thoughtfully.
Newcomers might think it is a silly move. Why jump in your place? Why not jump forward and attack your opponent!! Well, actually jumping upwards has plenty of benifits. What I have observed is that many players start the round by jumping upwards. One of the main advantages is that in most cases you would be able to cleanly hit an opponent jumping towards you. Second of all jumping upwards would save you from opponents anti-air moves. As when people notice you jumping, they react to an anti-air move but you caught them by jumping upwards instead and have them wide open for an attack in your landing.
Jumping upwards is also not only for far ranges. Even if you both are just next to each other, jumping upwards might be a very good idea. First of all you might escape a throw and land while they are still recovering "if your character has low jump such as Gen". Another thing is most players defend crouching, so a hit while jumping will catch them ungaurded unless they react fast and stand to gaurd.
Some poeple use fireballs to zone. They might trick you to jumping towards them to counter you with something, so don't do that, instead jump upwards. But be careful as well, Ryu can cancel his hadouken into his super while you are still in the air. Though if you can jump towards the opponent as soon as they use a fireball, you can punish them.
One thing to note, against people that grab in the air, specially Guile. Jumping as a whole might be a bad idea. Pick your cards right and play them thoughtfully.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Haters!
Since the dawn of humanity, haters have been always around. There are always a number of people who would dedicate their life just to ... I don't really know.
Just yesterday someone added me on psn. His psn was "SedoSanNoop". And sends me a message saying "let's sf4". My simple reply was. Log on from your real account then we might play. And I just deleted him..
Why? Why would someone bother to create an account with my nick and add some rubbish with it.. Do you hate me that much? What have I done to you?
People, stuff like this is so childish. And has no reason to be done whatsoever.
He did add me again but I just added him to block list. There is absolutly no reason to bother myself with such people. If you bother with everyone of these people, you won't live in peace. They will just come from every corner. Just ignore them.
Let them burn in their hate by simply ignoring them. And continue your life playing with your real friends happily :)
Just yesterday someone added me on psn. His psn was "SedoSanNoop". And sends me a message saying "let's sf4". My simple reply was. Log on from your real account then we might play. And I just deleted him..
Why? Why would someone bother to create an account with my nick and add some rubbish with it.. Do you hate me that much? What have I done to you?
People, stuff like this is so childish. And has no reason to be done whatsoever.
He did add me again but I just added him to block list. There is absolutly no reason to bother myself with such people. If you bother with everyone of these people, you won't live in peace. They will just come from every corner. Just ignore them.
Let them burn in their hate by simply ignoring them. And continue your life playing with your real friends happily :)
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