Droogy

Sadly the closest large tournament scene to me is in Tenn. and the closest sustained small one is about a hour away. I live in one of those small towns where everyone knows everyone so yea. That said I will be living in japan for almost 6 months starting in august so....who knows I may learn the game while I'm there!

Thank you for your response, Follow up question. OK so lets say i've started learning P4A and I've gotten the basics (I just found the Ultrachen episode from when it was released about mechanics for example) is there enough of a online scene either online or on this forum so I can at least sort of learn the game before ultramix?

ok gonna level with everybody here I am a complete scrub when it comes to anime fighters. I dunno if thats even the correct terminology cause I've heard it almost as a derogatory term for fighters like GG and P4A. I do not know anything about the scene and unless you count skullgirls (which going by the forum it seems not) I've never even tried seriously to learn a "anime style" fighter. I've played GG years ago and had BlazBlue continuum shift extend for a time but never got into it enough to wanna learn it. But I played the original P4 last summer (and loved it almost more than any game I have ever played) and I'm playing Persona 3 now and I own P4A so...I think its about time. I'm a casual to above average played in a few games my best (according to online leaderboards because I don't live close enough to any tournaments) are Injustice and Virtua Fighter 5. That said I'm a decent Street Fighter player when I put my mind to learning the game. So safe to say I'm relatively diverse when it comes to my fighting game knowledge but I am just absolutely ignorant of this side of things so I humbly ask a few questions as they pertain to me wanting to learn 1: What games should I pick up as a beginning game and what would you suggest as a way to learn these games? 2 :Should I just wait for P4 ultramix before I start trying to learn it seriously given that the online is probably dead on 360? 3: I am a stick player so would you suggest grabbing a PS3 fighstick so I can play it when it comes out or is the ps3 pad decent for fighters in your opinion?