^–x3 That GameWorks info should be its own stickied thread so long as SvC is in town.
Three of us were talking about going, but I had a really late soccer game (finished at 11PM and then I had to pick up my girlfriend from her friends), so I think I accidentally talked two people out of going. I should be there for the rest of November, I just won’t be able there before 10:30 or so (goddamn late soccer games).
Sorry again for the no show.
Fucking work. Urg.
I doubt I’ll be ale to come at all any more. I don’t know really. I’m working a full-time and a part time job.
So, we’ll see what happens. If anything, I have Saturdays off.
Damn, hardly anyone showed. I did better this time though. I came close to winning about 3 matches. I’ll be back in like a month ish
Which of you marvel-lites will be attending tonight? I wasn’t there last week. Did they finally fix the 2P jab?
nolander and superat will be there. i know licio and preppy better be trying to show up…
nice time and damage settings. awful.
Like I said to Josh, the damage setting gave the illusion that I was doing better. Since 4 AHVBs combined to deal 50%, it made it look like I was giving people a run for their money. When, in fact, they’ve already killed me 5 times over.
Are you talking about Marvel? Seemed like it was on 1/4 damage.
Have any of you guys seen or heard from LTB? I need to talk to him but he’s disappeared, lol.
People should show on Friday.
Yeah…
We’re mostly going to Zach’s…
yo
does anyone go to gameworks on fridays ??
http://www.gameworks.com/survey.php
So… I filled out the survey and posted a huge comment. Here it is. Yeah, I know that it won’t change anything, but I"m at work and boredboredbored.
"Anything we can do to make your experience better? "
–If you did ANYthing you’d be bettering my experiance. Seriously.
First off, EVERYTHING is overpriced. I’m an avid fan of fighting games (I’ll have more on that in a moment) and while being out of date-low-budget-cabinets they are STILL, at the least, 80cents to play (based on your point system. 10 points = 1 dollar, 8 points for Street Fighter 3 makes for an 80cent game). That is ridiculous.
Everything else is the same.
Now on to sleection…
Do you have no love for Seattle Gameworks? Is it this bad at ALL of them? You should have the place audited to understand which games are getting the most play.
For starters:
DDR/Bemani/Music: SuperNova and Extreme are fine, expensive but fine. USA mix, MTV Drumscape, Guitar Mania USA are ALL TRASH. There are plenty more games in the Bemani/Konami realm that you could be using. Also, to have better, updated Bemani games would justify the high pricve you’re ALREADY asking. Beatmania IIDX, Guitar Freaks, Drum Mania, and Para Para PAradise would ALL be feasible , amazing, welcomed additions. Also, if you replaced DDR USA with an In The Groove 2 machine you would have the Bemani players hearts forever!
Racing: The ONLY games WORTH playing nowadays are Midnight Club and Initial D. If you were to Jettison some out of date racing games you’d be able to support more players for Maximum Tune, which supports up to 6, I think! All other games are worthless and technically a waste of space. They get play but not the constant repeat play that Max Tune and Initial D are getting.
Shooting games: So far this is the only area that’s not lacking.
Two House of the Dead 4’s is excessive though as Time Crisis 4 and Virtua Cop 3 are out and Gameworks Seattle doesn’t have any.
Action: You hardly have ANYthing regarding this. Please look into more Shooters and SNK/NeoGeo games, the games are older but affordable. You should be able to stock up and save money!
Fighting games: I’m biased on this but still. Your fighters alley is.an.eyesore! Out-of-date, yet very well maintainanced thatnks to your good crew. MvC2 and Street Fighter III are the best games you have Everything else is in dire need of an upgrade. Please look at the numbers too. Tekken five is wonderful but the sequel, Dark Ressurection has been out for many many months and has yet to come to Gameworks Seattle. This is TERRIBLE becuase having Dark Ressurection in your arcade would generate more players. Right now no Tekken players care to go to gameworks becuase thier game is out-of-date. The only places to play Dark Resurrection are BOWLING ALLEYS. What kinda mess is that!? As far as your other fighters the local scene would come out and play more if there was Guilty Gear XX Slash, Capcom Vs Snk 2 , King of Fighters XI, and maybe even Sreet Figther Alpha 3. We’d love for a Street Fighter II cab, that should be cheap and I promise it’d get play. Also, aren’t you supposedly a Sega arcade? If so they why does GAmeworks Seatle STILL have Virtua Fighter THREE. That’s disgusting. VF FIVE is out now… where is it? Us fighting game players are rather disheartened in YOUR lack of support. Just check the numbers again. PLEASE
I recently spoke to someone in your corporate division and they mentioned that Gameworks is focusing on the newest hunting game. UGH. Seriously. The Game at Our gamewaorks gets play but the money you guys put into it and making the tournament could be used for better games.
There’s no problem with the Staff, they’re all alright. They ALL pull thier weight and are friendly and helpful.
In closing, I’m doubting that you have anyone that actually reads these, and I’m even more skeptical that anyone at your company even cares.
To put is simply; the only reason that GameWorks Seattle actually makes any moeny at all is becuase we, out here, really DON’T have a choice. It’s the ONLY arecade downtown and it kinda sucks. Your Staff is great (I got hired there but quit before I started, got a better job offer) and the place is clean and well maintained but it seems like it’s practically the SAME exacte Gameworks that I remember from back when it opened in the 90’s.
…and that’s not a good thing. –
and yeah, I don’t see any of it is feasible… but I was venting and bored… Gah.
I wish my place was big enough to house you guys for some kinda “Fight Nights”.
It’s lonely being #1 in VF(in the NW) and I want to play some 2d fighters that people will beast me on.
:sad:
Whoa really? You should totally school some of us on some VF. I’d love to learn how to play but I jus’ can’t get it right.
No comp is part of it ;[
Gameworks sucks
hoping for a earthquake in the general area of gameworks.
I absolutely agree. Great suggestion box entry. Maybe you’re a moderator at Truth.com?? Hahah.
What’s the url for the suggestions box?? I think I might’ve missed it on a previous page due to me being nasty.
I think its important to remember that GameWorks has always kinda been more about catering to non-gamers, casual gamers and random tourist type people. A lot of the customers that come through that place wouldn’t know a good video game if it bit them in the ass.
GameWorks also makes a fairly large percentage of its money selling time based cards. After you pay at the door it doesn’t matter what you play, or if you even play at all. They already have your money at that point. There just isn’t really that much incentive for them to make their venue the kind of place that most of us wish it was.
I do have to say though, as awful as GameWorks is it’s actually a lot nicer now than it was before. IIRC when Sega Japan came in to check things out back when I was still working there they were pretty upset with the selection of games too. It seems like there is more new stuff now, and the games might be maintained a little better.
It would be great if GameWorks became a place where fighting game fans could come to play the latest games on new nice cabinets for reasonable prices, but I really don’t see it happening. It’s just not what GameWorks is about.
Who knows though… anything could happen I guess. probably not though.