Pushing for a Better Official Guide

[IvyFanboy]

SC 5 may or may not happen. I personally believe it will, it's just a matter of when. But one of the biggest issues I have is with the game Official Guide. If you bought SC IVs then you know it's probably one of the most useless guides ever written. The writeup on game play and strategy is terrible. There's almost nothing to really pull from it. Now this was made by Bradygames...and I even sent them a letter of it's worthlessness...naturally no response. I later picked up Prima's guide for SF4 and found it very useful. The Guide had a lot to offer a new player and even had frame data for all arcade characters.

So why bring this all up? Well when SC5 or another title gets announced, we should probably email like crazy to the publishers to include a better guide. While most of us are far beyond the need for a strategy write up we could all be very thankful if frame data was just handed to us rather than spend months figuring it out. Hell a guaranteed punish guide would be amazing to have.

Not much to do now, but if anyone could figure out if the publisher will remain bradygames we could email namco and bradygames NOW, and request it before it even starts publication.

Things to Ask for:
Frame Data
Punish List
Soul Gauge Damage
etc...

 

[ShenYu]

Something you need to consider is when the guide was written. Which was in fact before the game was released. At the time of release the guide actually contained a lot of very useful ideas and strategies.

 

[IvyFanboy]

True. It didnt get an arcade release for things to develop. Still that thing was 90% movelist which is already in the game.

 

[docvizzo]

Common doing the Frame Data is quite interesting,. You learn a LOT during that, its nice to search for broken moves, people are so happy when you release the Data etc etc...it would be to easy to just buy a book and have all the FD.

Its the most exciting days when a new SC comes out, the first few days till people start releasing the Data for the chars...:)

 

[lobo]

also IFB keep in mind that our very own DrDogg here in AZ actually wrote the Prima sf4 guide... http://www.primagames.com/blog/tag/street-fighter-4/ ...and has been a competative player for years as opposed to most of the authors who just copy the movelist and put what people tell them.