The Need To Go Pro: Ultra Street Fighter 4

Well guys, apparently fighting games are the purest form of competitive joy where each move is calculated and every error whether in strategy or execution results in heavy punishes. Street Fighter in particular is an interesting game because it's been designed to be competitive right from the beginning.This is why I propose we pick up Ultra Street Fighter 4 to learn the game and spend nights and free days pushing ourselves to the limits. However, the depth of the game requires preparation and an open mind to learn from failure. Being a fighting game also requires a special peripheral: a fightstick. We can get a premade one or a DIY solution, though since we are still noobs we can probably get by with a cheap (but decent) one and move on to higher systems once we get our game on.

EDIT:  The Street Fighter series has produced one of competitive gaming's greatest moments - Daigo's Ryu at a sliver of health doing a full parry against Chun Li and immediately countering to win the match. I believe the time frame to execute a parry is within a fraction of a second so one can only imagine the amount of skill and control needed to pull off what Daigo.did.

To learn more about fighting games in general and as an introduction as to how one would approach the technicalities of the games, there is a free 115 page ebook courtesy of shoryuken.com. The post along with the download of the ebook is here.

As for fighting gear, we can invest in this, a cheap fightstick that should serve our purposes after some key remaps. We can look for better and obviously more expensive sticks in due time.

The game itself isn't out yet, but it is on preorder on steam. If we use the code here then we can get the full game for 22.50 USD on GMG to be redeemed on steam, and includes the preorder bonuses (the game launches on 8th Aug so decide fast).

Anyway, let me know your thoughts, but I'm definitely g if everyone else can go on board but not alone as I am already saving up for 3 3DS games dropping this November.