happy late b-day chaz.
i have a 58 undead warlock on scilla
i am usually on my main server just to raid.
currently i am at aq40 and about to start Naxx soon.
Krush, if your warrior has decent gear (all blues or tier 0 set) most guild would recruit you.
sup fellas… thinking of going to Trey’s today to whoop some ass :p… j/k any gaming going on at all today? wanted to throw down before i leave again to the field… well let me know peace…
Martin
hey Trey i’m leaving now…be there by 7pm prolly… bringing the CvS 2 pain son!! lol j/k peace
Martin
Ok, it’s Chaz, new name, don’t ask.
Good shit to Martin and Trey for the 3S/GG beatdowns, and congrats to Tommy for getting hitched. Hope everyone else had a good time at the wedding/reception.
I’m considering a nickname change too… I get weird looks at out-of-town get-togethers with this one for some reason…
GG’s to u too Andrew 
awsome 3s matches haha HUGO RULES!!! lol good times man… well hopefully when i come back in Dec. we can have another gathering… hopefully more ppl show up for some more comp… well take care dude peace
Martin
Hey all. Recently got into this anime Naruto, turns out there’s some fighting games based on it, and I got the latest japanese ps2 and gc versions (they’re completely different games). Anyway, I kinda like em and was curious if anyone would be interested in checking em out. The ps2 game is 2d and the gc is 3d. They each have pretty distinctive gameplay. The gc one is Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 4 or ngnt 4. The ps2 one is Narutimate Hero 3, or nh3.
Unfortunately, the best time for me to do anything is weeknights after 9pm when I get off work. Weekends aren’t impossible, but not preferred. For some gameplay samples (how I got interested):
ngnt4 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=VhJu-zrGDFM (check user for a lot more vids)
nh3 - [media=youtube]wH6jwmlODMM"[/media] (same)
nh3 matches take a long time, but they’re single fall. Both games are have a lot of meter management, since it’s used for offense such as specials/supers and defense, which is the escape/teleport you see a lot. Anyhow, if anyone wants to check em out, let me know.
I wouldn’t mind trying Naruto out. One more game (maybe two more) I get to suck at…
Oh yeah… I bought a caddy, so driving to gaming getogethers shouldn’t be an issue for the time being.
And one more thing (damn I keep forgetting shit)- Tre, I don’t know if I asked you about this before, but I was wondering if you were adept at tightening up sticks. True Karate was bitching about how loose it was (it almost cost him a tourney match), and the Iowa 3S players suggested that I open up my MAS and tighten that shit up, since it was doing stupid shit to me too.
I don’t know how your Hori handles, but I do know you were bitching about doing stuff you didn’t intend to do at the last gamenight, so I wonder if the looseness of the stick had anything to do with it…
Sounds good man. You got any good availability? I live just off 99th and Holmes, and like I said weeknights a little after 9 are good. Cell is 816 769 3713. If Trey gets interested maybe we can play on some nice shit, otherwise have to make do.
On the plus side both of these games are played with controllers pretty much, so don’t have to worry about having a good stick or it working right or whatever.
My best bets for gaming personally are Sunday, every other Monday, and Tuesdays after midnight (that’s if anybody else is available)
I’m available Friday and Saturday nights too, but it’s not preferred unless I hear from Tre, Adrian, or Martin.
Tomorrow after midnight is fine by me. Mondays are good also. If you’re game, let me know here or call.
To my house: 435 to holmes, go north, left on 99th, make a right at locust which is just a couple blocks, and after the right immediately pull into the parking lot on the right. Closest building, #3, bottom floor.
Hmm, now admitedly I only watched the first 3 minutes of that link, but the game engine/moves look similar to Bloody Roar. Or am I barking up the wrong tree on this one?
GG last night Krush, you were doing pretty well with Gaara in ngnt, and then you come out and roll me with Orochimaru in the last game lol. I was thinking “I’ll pick Kimimaro, I’ve been raping all night with him” and then you just hand me my ass. You were definitely picking shit up fast, I had to improve my own meager skills as the night wore on. Gotta do it again soon, hopefully get some more bodies. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, if you wanna learn more about the game, the forums at willvolution.com is the place, pretty good info on all characters, although it’s actually kinda hard to find basic gameplay stuff.
RE: Bloody Roar - Never noticed before, but there is definitely a similarity in that they both include a lot of canned strings. I have no idea how bloody roar is played at high levels, assuming such a thing exists, so I can’t say how much deeper the resemblance goes.
There’s 2 big gameplay elements in ngnt4 from what I can tell. The basic fighting element, positioning, pressure strings, combos, and then tied to that is the chakra (meter) management.
75% meter is enough for an escape at almost any time, so when pressuring or especially doing combos, you try and predict when the opponent will use the escape and try to counter attack you, and then do something to stop the counter.
Since the meter is also used for cancels (for better combos) and for supers, it’s a tight balancing act between offense and defense. A lot of time I find myself foolishly taking a combo I can escape from so I can save meter for offense. Typically that’s a bad idea since meter often comes back quickly enough that saving it can be wasteful, especially if that damage causes you to die eventually.
Varies a lot from character to character too, with some charas needing chakra for good combos, or others having really good supers. Some can get by with almost no offensive chakra use.
Why the hell did I just type all that lol.
Good games indeed. I saw some more GNT4 (the acronym is short for the Japanese translation of “the good Naruto game 4” I think) vids, and I was thankful that you didn’t bust out Temari’s cheap ass. Apparently projekt84 couldn’t handle losing to Gaara, so he just spammed Temari’s dive move over and over again.
Also, why aren’t the powered up versions of characters banned from tournaments? I figured that guys like One Tail Kyuubi Naruto would be considered boss characters and would affect the balancing.
I’m up for more next Monday and Tuesday night, as it gives me the only opportunity to get some practice in (unless somebody who knows how to mod Gamecubes magically appears)… If you’re up for anything outside the Naruto universe, let me know, as I’ll play anything, within reason…
One-Tailed Kyubi Naruto (OTKN for short) is THE top tier, but Temari and her fan bullshit (which is just jumping B real low to the ground!) isn’t that far behind. The other ‘improved’ versions, CS2 Sasuke and Awakened Hinata, are both high tier but not that bad in the scheme of things, Itachi is a lot stronger imo. There has been talk of bans, but I guess consensus is to leave things as is.
Regarding gc mods, there’s a boot disk now that’s only a little more than 20 bucks called freeloader, link. It’s even easier than the ps2 one since gc is already a flip-top. Play-asia’s price for ngnt4 and freeloader together is 80 without shipping, which is pretty good, link.
I’ll probably be up for monday, and almost definitely tuesday.
Both games are developed by Raizing.
Well, that makes perfect sense. Good eye, Chaz.
Definitely be up for Monday. Afro (my roommate) has been practicing Gaara, so he’ll be up in. If work wasn’t grinding me into fucking toothpaste I’d practice some. Bah. I’ll just watch match vids while I sleep and learn through osmosis.
What time you good for on Monday, Krush?
Ben-Ra, do you guys play any stuff besides Naruto? Your place doesn’t seem TOO far from mine (I live at about 91st and Metcalf), and I’d be willing to come get some games in too assuming I’m invited, I’m just not that big of a Naruto fan (and yeah I’ve played it).
Probably won’t be playing anything besides ngnt and nh3, but anyone’s invited. I should be home around 1030p tomorrow. Yeah, you’re not very far from here.