A Street Fighter Rant

28 Jul
2010

I love the Street Fighter series, I love every aspect of it. Except the following the gimmick and lamer players.

I don’t know if these are words used in the SF scene, frankly I don’t give a shit. I’ll anyway explain what I mean by gimmick and lamer.

 
Gimmick

Gimmick players are the ones you realize straight away that they’ve practiced the hell out of one or two combos for their main character. You notice it by their turtling and the way the always hang back, waiting for you to whiff a move so that they can punish you in their most stylish way: only using special moves, and their combos practiced to hell and back.

Now, I’m not saying these guys are good, nor do they beat me very often, I just find it so fucking boring to play them. They stand there, moving back and forth within an inch, and they crouch and stand back up rapidly, just to try and catch you jumping in on them or whiffing a move. Meh, it’s as boring as playing turtles.

Do not mistake this as a player knowing his footsies. Footsies is a good thing. This is different.

 
Lamer

The lamers, now they’re something entirely different. They are the ones that are good, but have extremely poor sportsmanship. Only hunting for the Player Points, Battle Points, rank and achievements/trophies. You’ll start noticing the lamers when you fight them in ranked matches. They’ll beat you silly, and are constantly coming back to fight you over and over, because they know they can beat you and rack up some easy points.

Excessive use of taunts after realizing you are little to no match for them is also common for the lamers. I myself also do taunt. I don’t do it often, and I only do it after whiffed Ultras and Ex-Specials. I’d rather want a good match than taunt excessively and be fucking stupid towards other players.

 
These factors have now made me only play a ranked match once per player, per day. This applies in my case both as a challenger and being challenged. Win or lose; it’s one match only, then on to the next challenger.

Oh, my fucking sweet… i dunno what. But, DAMN!

Every Street Fighter fan has seen these tweets from Yoshinori Ono, eh?
Been teasing that awesomeness is coming during Comic-Con 2010, like the little Japanese tease he is.

Well, read on, because here it is! The stuff he’s been causing anxiety and wet dreams over.

I just got to see this, the new trailer for the upcoming game Street…

The Useless Man

17 Jul
2010

My Mrs. just wrote a little entry on her own blog.
Yes, it’s about me, and how useless I am. How did you guess?

Well, the entry goes something like this, roughly translated from Norwegian:
Nag-nag, nag, nag-nag, nag.
Nag-nag.

NAG-NAG-NAG! NAGGITY NAG!

Nag?
NAG!
It continues… something about IKEA is also included.

I read that, and the look on my face was something similar to this: o_O
And my thoughts…

Beyond Black Mesa

10 Jul
2010

It’s obviously the time for fan made films.
I’ve already written about the excellent shorts Street Fighter: Beginnings End and Street Fighter: Legacy, and my jaw dropped over Kevin Tancharoen’s epic Mortal Kombat Rebirth.

Now there’s more surfacing that looks to be of pure awesomeness.

I never did love the Half-Life series that much (Yeah… well, so shoot me!), but I own them and I’ve played them through, so I know…

Yup, that’s right.

Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of Metro 2033 and Metro 2034, has found his man to write the Britannia branch novel for the Metro 2033 franchise. The novel will be set in the UK and underground London areas. This is the only thing known so far.

The Metro 2033 franchise now stands at two novels, Metro 2033 and Metro 2034, the game…

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