Ultra Street Fighter IV

[mayor_mike_haggar]

We did really well organising a meet up for SVB didn't we.

Although somehow I still think I'm free that weekend.

[Camel]

Is that the one in Telford?

[mayor_mike_haggar]

No. It's the one in central london, which will almost certainly be an organisational nightmare.

[Camel]

Sounds amazing.

EDIT: oh it's the sweaty one where Daigo turned up.

[joffocakes]

Is SvB the same time as the london final of the 25th anniversary tournament? Or just really close to the point of being almost completely overshadowed?

They've teased another big announcement for the end of that anniversary tournament, haven't they? I bet it's a 3s:OE style re-do of whichever game we want the least.

I shook Daigo's hand at SvB and had him sign a pad covered in cat stickers. I also lost at Street Fighter against men.

[Camel]

Street Fighter: The Movie then.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

They'll announce more patch notes for SFxT

[joffocakes]

I would be up for that*. I've never even played it. Weren't the console and arcade versions pretty distinct? Both awful though, I'm sure. I remember one of the developers gave a long and pretty honest insight into its development on some forum or other a while back.

I almost bought Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition for £12 the other day. I probably still will.

*Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game.

[Camel]

I haven't played it either. Is it worse than Pit Fighter, I wonder? Is anything worse than Pit Fighter?

[joffocakes]

Ballz? The MS DOS version of Street Fighter 2? Shaq Fu?

I had a mate who only had two SNES games; Pit Fighter and Home Alone. Imagine him.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Was he Murray?

Also pit fighter was excellent. I miss wild digitized sprites made from poor quality photographs of burly 90's fitness models.

[joffocakes]

I can quite distinctly remember not being able to comprehend how graphics could ever look any better than a digitised sprite. Because it's real. I also once had a mate bring over his fancy new Playstation so I could show my step dad the FMV intro to FIFA '96. "Look! It's just like TV!".

You'll notice I said "step dad" there. A telling little insight into my potentially broken childhood.

[Qazimod]

Shaq Fu?

For some reason I thought that was the game with the fighting tiger thing, and then I realised I was thinking of Tai-Fu. And then I wondered how the hell I had remembered Tai-Fu.

What was that game that got a 1 from Edge? Kabuki Warriors? Is that worse than Pit Fighter?

[mayor_mike_haggar]

i bet it was a terraced house as well, wasn't it.

And that your sofa was a particularly dreary greeny-brown

[joffocakes]

Terraced house sounds posh. Think dank council flat, concrete and piss, badly done Artex ceilings and a black and white TV with a fake wood panel finish, dials to tune in, which you had to turn on about 20 minutes in advance so it could "heat up".

[mayor_mike_haggar]

And the soft furnishings all made from asbestos.

With gazza lurking outside handing out fivers to all and sundry.

[joffocakes]

Did I already tell you a man claimed to be Gazza and gave me a tenner once? Or is that just coincidence? Ha, I don't really know much about Gazza other than getting one tenner once.

[Camel]

Did I already tell you a man claimed to be Gazza and gave me a tenner once?

Did you have to let him teach you about ball control first?

[Yasawas]

My wee cousin got Shaq Fu for Christmas one year. It's amazing that game exists, even when I was 14 it sounded ludicrous and I can't comprehend how grown men with money somewhere thought that was a worthy and likely profitable idea. Also, it was made by Delphine somehow which means they went from the decent and interesting Another World, to the wonderful Flashback which built on some of what AW tried and was critically lauded and universally loved, to Shaq Fu. Game development is a strange business.

On topic I think I might buy a 3DS tomorrow and I'm pretty excited about playing three DS Castlevanias and probably some Mario and Karting games. I am 32.

[Plopboy]

What was that game that got a 1 from Edge? Kabuki Warriors? Is that worse than Pit Fighter?

No it is awesome* as you can do taunts to win extra money from the crowd

*No it is really bad and I have actually played it, though the taunting bit is true

Perhaps they are going to reprise Rise of the Robots?

Don't feel bad Yas, I'm 38 and own a Hello Kitty Chun Li which my daughters have had the privilege to look at, but not touch.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

The DS castlevanias are all excellent, but are wildly ill-suited to commuting due to the distance between save points. I think,

[Nate Dogg III]

Vryu Makoto tings that make me want to learn Makoto until I realise that I am never going to have time to play this game ever again:

[joffocakes]

I loved Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow. I didn't play the other two DS games though. I probably should. I loved Circle of the Moon on GBA as well; I did a stupid thing where I accidentally sequence-broke; babystepping through a sewer-y bit full of streaming green, poisonous liquid that would sap your health as you stood in it. Struggled on, levelling up and healing for eterninty, beat the boss, then found the next area ending in me cleansing all the water, making that entire section much easier. I felt stupid for a minute, then like an absolute baddass thereafter.

Another slightly smug brag: that Metroid Fusion on GBA; everyone goes on about it being difficult, but I got it from a mate and played through it in a single 3 1/2 hour sitting with absolutely no memorable issues. He sat playing Phantasy Star on the Gamecube all the while but he really wasn't enjoying himself.

Also; I have not actually played Symphony of the Night. I do have it though. I should totally play it.

I want to play Street Fighter. When I imagine playing it I imagine playing it as Ryu. I feel a bit guilty about that.

[joeplus]

Yeah, despite making noise about it I'm not sure I'll be able to make SVB now. Combination of money woes and other things cropping up. Also for the first time this year, actually using my precious gaming time to play other things. Madness.

[Qazimod]

Also; I have not actually played Symphony of the Night. I do have it though. I should totally play it.

Symphony of the Night is the only "Metroidvania" I've stuck with long enough to get to the end (not 200%, but I did get the "good" ending) - normally I just don't have the patience for all that back-and-forth shizzle, and every time I come back to the game after a break I forget which bits of the map are unreachable (for the moment) and waste time revisiting them. Memory Fighter

[Camel]

I played Metroid Fusion right up to somewhere near the end then moved onto something else. I do this a lot.

I've been playing other games too! Mostly shmups (Akai Katana, Eschatos, Under Defeat) but also Rock Band Blitz (which is 58 times better than I was expecting given all the negativity around its release) and Super Hang-On on that weird Sega Vintage Collection pack.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Fusion was excellent, I really liked it. But not that hard. Only 1 slightly difficult boss, really.

Also I have SoTN sat wildly half-completed on my xbox somewhere. I love that game. It's just so deliciously monotonous and repetitive, in absolutely the best way possible.

[joffocakes]

I have not played many shooters, and I've definitely not played one up to the point where I felt competent. "1cc" is a sort of joke thing I didn't think actual humans achieved. I couldn't even beat the last boss in Ikaruga with infinite lives.

[Plopboy]

How about a 2 player Ikaruga Solo

[Qazimod]

I 1CC'd Deathsmiles for 360 and, uh, Espgaluda II on iOS. I had to make things as easy as possible without tweaking the difficulty though, which meant choosing Rank 1 stages throughout Deathsmiles and making the barrier automatic in Espgaluda II.

I'd like to think I'd be good at KoF Sky Stage, but I still haven't got that