Thank god i'm not the only one that considers these trials hard. I always thought i was trash at this game. (I mean, i AM, but still)

This game was not noob friendly. But thats what made it so fun and hype to watch

“Guys we nailed chun!” Don’t we all wish we could make that claim

Omfg, you don't know the level of joy I felt seeing this video. I absolutely miss seeing SF4 videos cause the combos are just so hype for me. Also, this was also the game that got me into competitions, though I wasn't the greatest lol. I played Ken and Ibuki.

I remember when this came out and I went straight to Ken's trials and stopped as soon as it told me to HP DP + FADC + HP DP + FADC + HP DP....I was like, NOPE!

I gave up on the platinum trophy because of the these trials

I tried these when I was younger, they were really hard Now, after getting some experience in FGs, they are still hard as hell

16:05 When it comes to any fighting game, I see those useless combos as less a combo to learn, and more a test of execution. But, like he said, they can also teach you about the games mechanics or your character to open your mind up to new ideas. It's not as dumb as some people think it is.

This game was my shhiiiiitttt on the Xbox 360. Never had Xbox live gold(at least not most of the time), but I still played the hell out of this game. :)

I'll never forget being a casual player when this game released and being so annoyed at what these trials expected me to do lol. so funny watching it now

This was the game that got me into fighting games. It was the daigo/JWong moment that got me into this game though. I still play it on occasion. Community is still pretty strong too.

I loved this, man. USFIV's trials have some of the most insane links I've seen 😭

I don't play a lot of fighting games, but I remember going through these combos and that first FADC Ultra combo you come across as Ryu took me days to complete. I felt like a total failure. SF4 link combos were so insanely difficult for me I thought I would never improve at fighting games ever.

The execution in this game was no joke. Some of the character masters like nemo or misse routinely did some insanely hard to execute stuff. hayati cancels, the nemo combo. Very hard to do.

This is my favorite video you’ve made! I would love to see more combo trials in any game really. Keep up the good work!

Wow... it's been 10 freaking years.. anyone know where the time went?

Man, 4 was so much better. I was so sad to see it go away.

The music & announer always hype me up to come back to this game. RIP SFV.

I only and very nearly mastered all of Sakuras links. Still the link combos in sf4 was difficult for me to apply consistently.

The ultra trigger sound effect is soooooo satisfying

Metsu Shoryuken was actually in Alpha 3 but it had the same animation as Shin Shoryuken so it was basically the same move.

I just did the Juri's trials, cause I've loved her gameplay since when she was released

I love this game, everything feels so snappy and responsive. Comparatively, SFV feels like your character is moving through mud all the time.

I was only able to complete Guy's trial. It's a shame that the trial combos in SF4 had more depth than the entire combo potential of street fighter 5

Really want to see more this kind of videos to explain how to do these combos. It's my plan to finish all trials in SF4/SSF4. Thanks!

Finally!!! OMG Jmcrofts, you don't know how much I'd miss seeing Street Fighter on your channel!! 😭😂

Brilliant video, but watching this reminds me why I love SFV so much, even over usf4. I just don't have the time anymore to seriously commit to a game, to spend time in training perfecting such precise execution. I can play SFV to a decent level and it's based around outplaying my opponent and reacting to their playstyle. Having said that, I only think it's been a good game since Season 3.

Damn dude. These Ryu trials really brought me back. Stayed a Ryu main throughout that game’s lifespan, eventually dual mained Poison as well. It’s fun to watch somebody that knows what they’re doing revisit this.

This video recently appeared in my yt notification for some reason and my god... Thank you yt algorythm! For me, the guy who spent 140 hrs in ultra sf4 (I still suck) and always considered trials as a pro-gamers ultimate test, watching you destroying them is a blast. Your commentary is on point and Im glad I found your channel.

"We nailed Chun." Going straight into the out of context pile.

On Ryu's last trial the reason the crouch MK won't reach when you were first trying it is that combo only works after jump in. Deep jump ins allow you to get inside (insert jokes here) your opponents collision box and start your combo before it starts pushing you back out. This effectively negates the pushback of your first crouch jab in that combo.

You young cats can look up PepeDay if you want to see ridiculous El Fuerte play.

You’re a super patient streaming/teacher. I appreciate your work!

On USFIV I was in a pretty weard spot because my execution sucked but my main was Dudley so I had a surprisingly good boxer that couldn't hit most of the stuff that you would expect from a Dudley. God I miss this game...

A lot of people say that SF4 got them into fighting games, it was kinda the opposite for me. I tried to play it a couple times, and I remember getting super pissed off because in my attempts to understand the game's mechanics, I kept hearing "you gotta FADC," but as a beginner I had no idea what that meant, or how to do it. Everything I looked at on youtube or whatever just assumed you already knew, while the game was useless at teaching you anything. I ended up dropping the game and never coming back. 2 of my friends also had a similar experience, and it made all of us reluctant to get into fighting games. Fortunately, I eventually did get into fighting games, and now I can't stop playing them.

Wow, i don't feel so bad about not being able to do many of these now. The foreknowledge required since there is no demo is a bit ridiculous.

man, this brought back memories. good stuff :D

More USFIV content PLEASE!

Our stories are very similar and it's nice to know that I wasn't the only one who had so much trouble with sf4 trials.

Really impressive that you nailed the Fuerte trial so quickly

Dude i was so happy when you took fuerte at the end (he was my main)

So I decided to revisit the trials myself after completing all of them some time ago. What surprised me the most is being able to do stuff like Viper’s FFF and HJC shenanigans, and Fuerte’s RSF on the first try.

Cool commentary (voice over). Nice training, cool video upload.

HOLY HELL, I SO MISS THIS GAME DUDE ❤️ Also, I knew u could do 4 or 5 times into his "Quesadilla Bomb" move (the chest tackle). Pongko used to do this with his el fuerte.

These damn trials (along with getting everyone to C rank) are the only thing keeping me from getting the SSF4 platinum. I have tried countless times on doing these moves, and I never knew anything about the term "plinking" or "piano" since I never had friends who were big into the franchise, let alone the FGC. What's even worse is that I start to lose my patience and get stressed out super quick to the point where I start developing headaches. This is why I always avoid playing these types of fighting games The only exceptions are games like Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Naruto, and Dragon Ball FighterZ, and that's because they don't have none of this "1-frame links" bullshit.

Sf4 had one of the most difficult combo system in fighting game history. They're were pro players that would fk up bnb combos for basic characters like ryu.

Man I miss this game, I picked it up again recently because I missed it. Completing all the trials was definately a gauntlet of a task but it is definately one of my proudest accomplishments in gaming

This game had a lot of issues like long blockstrings, loads of OS, terrible matchups, hard knock down into set play, but man hitting combos with evil Ryu was hella fun 😈

God I love this game. You should make a series out of this

this was my introduction into competitive fighting games. Loved ChunLin and Bison in this game. had so many hours invested into the vanilla sf4 with ChunLi. Dont know if vanilla or super but I was top 3 ChunLi in EU ranked back than. good times :) never played arcade edition though. changed to bbcs2 at that point

I got SF IV Ultra but I could never get good. I still enjoyed mucking around in practice mode more than anything anyway. I don't have a fight stick, but thanks for the advice. I might go back and try this game again.

I just finished every ultra challenge like 2 months ago. The most difficult challenge for me was the C.Viper one. Greetings from Chile.

I managed to do every trial in this game, except two of Viper's one of which was FFF that I couldn't do if my life depended on it 😭

the best fighting game I have ever played. I loved this game so much so maybe I'm biased. SF4 you will always be in my heart

One of the most difficult platinum trophies I’ve ever worked towards.

The lore on plinking it actually used to be called p-linking named by a Hawaiian player that discovered it when the console version came out. It ALSO gave the opportunity for kara-ex moves giving Ken a discusting corner escape with Kara ex Tatsu in the older versions of SF4. Also should be stated that piano-ing gives you 6 opportunities not 3 BECAUSE of negative edge :3

yeah, revisited this game tonight. Goddamn what I miss a lot of combos and easy links...

Seeing someone else struggle with ryu’s level 7 trial makes me feel less bad about it

Felt good clearing all of the trials with my mains. I miss this game. I still watch random matches to this day.

One of the things that i love about this game is the amount of fun you can have learning every single character's combos, much like marvel 3 it's a game that you can spend so much time into learning it's system. And I guess why that's why people don't like things like 1 framers, (even though plinking is a thing) because they feel like they it's too much of waste time when you can learn other things. But to me it's like learning to play an instrument or any type of sport, where you gotta practice in order to be good. But once muscle memory starts kicking in things like run stop fierce will become second nature and then you can go like hmm how many in a row can i do, how can make my combos even more swaggy etc, etc.

Can we get some street fighter 5 vids going ?

I go back and do this all the time. I remember going for the trophy on ps3 for the super trials and it legit took me a year. i was new to learning fighting games as well and i took it as means to learn the tricks on how combos can work in this game. a year of going at these trials for an hour or 4 nearly every day and it felt so good when i got that trophy. i can't repeat these combos any easier then when i first did them but at least i know, i can do that hard ass shit. Mokoto's trials still haunt me sometimes. i should go do those again.

I love watching high-level tournament play or highly technical SFIV matches. I just hate playing it. This is exactly why. EDIT: To be clear, I hate playing the game because of all those tough-ass links. When I started getting into fighting games, SFIV was well in its prime, so going online was quite traumatizing. I always knew I'd never get good at the game, but I had no other choice but to play it. I had barely learned how to basic combos (button into DP), and to play the game properly I had to go 7 steps further. To this day I struggle with pulling off consistent FADCs in training mode, and I can't imagine myself ever doing them in an actual match. You know, the basic technique of this game. And all the people praising the hard execution only made things worse. Made me feel like I should just give up right there and then because I'm playing the game wrong. Still, the game is really cool to look at, and I am always at awe of what you can do in it. I will never deny it being deep as heck. That being said, I'd take SFV over it any day of the week.

I really liked watching SF4 gameplay, but I hated playing the game. Stuff like plinking and having to deal with 1 frame combos on a regular basis was awkward for me. This got a like from me

good stuff. good way to get motivated to play today

I only completed about half those trials. AHH! I could never get that last Abel trial, sooo friggin hard!!!

good video keep up with the good work

My main was makoto, I remember the hardest things for me were hayate(dash punch) cancel combos. Man SF4 was fun

10:00 This sentence sums up exactly why I find SF5 boring to watch and play. God I miss the good old SF4 days

This was fun. I only ever completed Dudley's trials.

One of the bad/good parts of the game was that some characters had insane barriers of entry due to links and or execution difficulty like C.Viper and Vega. Even some simple must do stuff like Abel step kick links and Deejay machinegun upper link into maraca ultra.

Old version of sf4 allowed you to cross up easier in the corner, they fixed that in ultra.

For clarification, double tapping was actually not a technique used for one frame links. Double-tapping is a technique that takes 3 frames at it's fastest. Regardless of how fast you tap the same button twice in a row, pressing the button initially happens on frame 1, the button comes back up to neutral on frame 2, the second finger hits it a second time on frame 3. Plinking makes it so that the game registers two of the same inputs in 2 consecutive frames so that if you are early by one frame, the first input will be a dead input, and the second input will register on the very next frame (the correct frame) for your combo. If you are spot on, the first input will register for the combo and the second hit on the next frame will just be a dead input. If you are late by one frame, you missed it. Plinking only covers for you if you are one frame early. If you're two frames early, you get two dead inputs that don't come out. The only way double-tapping would work on a one frame link is if you happened to hit the first input 2 frames early, the second frame is the button being let back up to a neutral position, then the third frame is the button being pressed on the frame needed for the combo. It's a little too inconsistent for this use case

As someone who started learning SF with V and playing Chun when I decided to give IV a shot, I found out pretty quickly that even though Chun is my favourite character in the series I wouldn't be a Chun player in this game.

It's hard because the version switches to the base game which makes things a lot different on some characters. And the you go over to KoF 13 and really suffer with the trial combos xD

Been playing these games from day two ( had access to arcade street fighter 1 after sf2 came out) and I love them, but suck at them. I dont have the dexterity to do a lot of these, but the games are just so fun to me and I think that's what games are all about. I'll be getting V since you mentioned the links are less punishing.

this was my first proper fighting game but never played it much since I'm trash at it the only fighting game im semi good at is fighterz lol

i remember the chun li legs loop combo has a glorious rhythm to it , Good times

I much prefer the variable system in V to the ultras in IV. However, I still love IV for its focus attack system - such a simple and fun mechanic!

Man this takes me back to when I did all of these trials. Did them all on a basic xbox 360 controller, which I don't recommend at all!

I finally had decided to do all trails like a couple months ago and ended up doing it. Trails were pretty hard lol

INDESTRUCTIBLE

Every time I hear that "Ready Go!" sounds like Pharaoh Atem from Yu-Gi-Oh

This was the first fighting game I played seriously and holy shit did it chew me up and spit me out. I remember specifically maining grapplers like gief and hugo because I was so deterred by hard links.

To this day, I have yet to complete C.Vipers trials. Hey feint cancelling and super jump cancelling were always a pain

Gotta try this out for myself asap

I actually have mastered this on 6 different accounts, all across the board. It's awesome feeling when you know you're a beast at something that FGC considers trails to be one of the hardest. In fact I finished that again last year, I think. C.Viper/El Feurte is still the hardest one for me tbh. Glad to know it's the same game that pulled you into competitive gaming because it was the same for me. *trick in some trails, you can add in some more combos of your own to make the trails easier. Such as CR.MP twice into CR.HK, just fadc after first CR.MP. :P.

I would say they're exactly the same now as they were then, on my old x360 I was quite close to being finished, 91% or so, a few trials left for a few characters here and there. My 360 went tits up ages ago though and that was that, shoulda been using the cloud.

I'm new to fighting games, and I was so happy to get past level 9 with Ryu. I think I'm stuck on like 14 now lol

the number of hours i spent on trials man they're so fun. There are probably only 3-4 characters that have 1 or 2 trials that take my a while to redo nowadays. If im bored ill boot up usf4 just to redo them all again

Lol, just picked up sf4 again and tried some trials and wondered if it's just me or if they really are somewhat difficult. And then I just found your video, probably the first real one about this topic in years and it's only 11h old. What are the odds?

21 was my favorite to STYLE with just to show I gets bizzy

Yo im blueicysheep from twitch, i didnt know u had a youtube channel(Im an USFIV, and also the guy who said u arent going to use the trial combos)

Damn I miss this game so much

Remember playing this game when I was sixteen with friends. Where the hell did the time go?

This was my re-intro to SF. I got SSIV cause my cousin had it and I fell in love with Juri and she became my fav character in the franchise. However, the input feel of the game is an ass pain to deal with, one of the main reasons I stopped playing it years ago outside of getting V and VI . The later games made it so that the inputs were more loose and easier to get and there weren't as many 1 link frame combos to master; I never liked 1 links because they're too time constrictive. Watching this and replaying it on my PS3 reminded me of the grind it takes to get good at the game. I like it cause of the immersion and nostalgia but I don't miss the chore of dealing with the difficulty

I have the 3ds version of this game and the chun li trials took me all day to complete

I found out when I went to try M.bison and man was it hard to get them done

I think I will try this too

There are definately 1 frame links in sfv tho but they exist outside the normal realm of doing links, cancels and buffers like certain dash up combos.