good shit everybody, fun trip even if the tourny was a little small. grandfinals were hype this time tho so that was good to see.
Jeff- fuck racheal lol, youāll figure that fight out and maybe even some ways to combo herā¦meow. i have school work and shit tommorow but i will still try to come out. we gettin dat mongolian next time 
Kiet- good look on the vehicle and ride out there. good to see you back in the scene and travelling like old times. you did pretty well for only playing a little, same with blazblue.
Jay/Nick- good shit, i thought you had your first cash nick. Jay first set was amazing, second setā¦not so much
that was a fun trip. You fools are good roadies!
@Rex - yeah dude. Iām going to use Marioās training method against her ass tonight!
@Raeli - LOL!!!
@NKI - I forgot to give you your cash dude. Holla and Iāll get it to you.
having the thought of you RAWRING on the chair was distracting me in the second setā¦ because I wanna see itā¦
ggās to jeff, kth, and the tager dude in bb. finally played some humansā¦lol I guess I will join bb next time. too bad team jjjj didnāt happen in either gameā¦:sad: andā¦ team ādic in the boxāā¦LOL
So I think Iām bringing SF4 PC to Aerial Rave. If only because PC takes all controllers as long as itās USB. Should be the standard imo - fuck consoles.
is just angry at all the great SNK games coming out on 360 and not being able to play them worth a shit
eh, all the netcode on them sucks, only thing youāll be missing out on kof12, which doesnāt seem that great. chounard can probably hook you up with the saturn pad to 360 hack, anyway when he get some time.
Good shit coming out STL. You guys are soldiers.
Rex, great job on SF4, as always. Midwest rep at Evo? Boxer of the Midwest? Go get emā, man. :china:
Kurasa, that Tao was inspirational. Iāll work on getting mine up to that level. Sorry no one in KC plays Tatsunoko, I know you want cheddar in that game.
NKI, taking out Kong was impressive, your Bison leveled up since the last tournament. Good shit.
KC is going to be reaaal serious about BlazBlue from here on out. This is the game weāve been waiting for. Weāll try to keep up on SF4 though. See you guys next time. And Iāll try to find a way to sweeten the deal to get more heads to travel to us, this turnout was pretty unfortunate.
KOF98 and Garou are two of my favorite games of all time; At this point in my life, Iām pretty much ditching all my consoles except the 360 because itās turning into my legit all-in-one that can switch games at the press of a couple of buttonsā¦but the controller is kinda putting a thorn in that plan. And before anyone says anything, I am just not a stick man; itās a fun novelty for me to use, but I canāt see myself playing in the living room with a big bulky stick on my lap all the time. Pad is just a lot more practical/comfortable for me. </blasphemy>
And I am extremely excited for KOF12 - Iāve been waiting for this for years and so far I have not been disappointed at all with what Iāve seenā¦except Athena.
smm- you can use usb saturn pads on PS3, for what itās worth, and they run about $15 on ebay, just keep an eye out for fakes.
cough12 is getting ignored due to it not being in SBO supposedly, so the vids out arenāt very hype with a few exceptions, guess weāll just have to play it for ourselves and develop an opinion. we do remember how to do that, right? 
KoF sucks.
Thatās my opinion.
KoF. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkssssssssssssssssssssssss
And thatās fact.
Iām basically indifferent about KOF12. I want it to be great. I want it to be playable. I want it to be hype. I want it to have great online so that I can actually get into this game.
But SNKP doesnāt give me much hope.
Japan hasnāt touched this game. Now, I know Japan isnāt a measuring rod of how great a game is, since TVC and MVC2 isnāt hardly touched there. But if they arenāt playing a SNK game, that really concerns me.
But honestly, if SNK wanted to really hype this game, and wanted fighting games fan to really want this title, they wouldāve done at least something to promote it.
They couldāve put out a LE for pre-order. They couldāve brought it to Evo this year, which Wizard wouldāve jumped at. They failed to do either.
But letās just say that they think a hype game can sell itself instead of LE content, and letās just ignore that they ignored the big FG tournament. That is a possibility, right?
Maybe, but look at their Arcade titles. Garou: MOTW, one of their best titles, and they botched it up by dropping shoddy online in it and Engrish achievements. I havenāt touched KOF98UM on Live, but Iāve heard similar reports. Moreover, Fatal Fury Special was KOād by the same shoddy netcode and the ability to MODIFY DIPSWITCHES IN ONLINE MODE!
Now they couldāve done a month delay with KOF12, and taken that time to patch it with good netcode, something that is difficult (or maybe impossible? I donāt know) to do once the game is released to the public. Nope. Thatās not SNKās MO.
Seriously, I think itās boiling down to the point where SNK doesnāt care less about the consumer. Neither should the consumer care about SNK. The more people buy their product, when they do it half-assed (Not saying KOF12 is trashāI mean, graphically, it looks amazing, but I donāt know about overall gameplay), the louder the message is that says, āSNK: I love your half-assed products, keep doing stuff like this! I will gladly pay for your laziness, incompetence and inconsideration for your fans! I mean hey, youāre SNK!ā
Thatās just what I think. I think Iāve reiterated this numerous times on here, but I wanted to beat the dead horse some more. SNK sucks now. Send your money to companies who try to make sure they deserve your money.
missing person - you never know until you try it out. again the game isnāt in SBO so the fighting scene needs time to catch up with the game. theyāve done enough to promote it with that tourney in hollywood and such. the game has been delayed a little while too, so maybe the netcode will be better. Another thing is that the game was originally sold as a deluxe cabinet package and not just the board, so Iām thinkin arcade operators arenāt too happy about that. EVO is still clearly a Capcom tournament and Capcom players tend to writeoff SNK without a second thought. I mean look at Kaal 
I agree that '98UM and Garou on XBLA arenāt worth anyoneās money (I bought BF1943 instead lol) but thereās a different set of circumstances surrounding KOF12. If it sucks we can just head back to the UM games anyway (a contingency SNK has accounted for by putting out 2k2UM in arcade), buahaha.
lol. Iām not a fan of the series. I do believe in giving it a chance thoughā¦butā¦its on the bottom on my list for fighters this year.
i like the graphics, and if people play it, iāll play it.
smmm- hrm thats a tough situation, being a pad player who can only use a saturn pad >_<
i say just try and adapt, i can use everything from a snes pad to a x360 pad at about the same level, just takes a day or two to get used to.
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I do know how Evo is a Capcom tournament. However, that certainly didnāt stop Namco from bringing in some console setups of Tekken 6 this year. SNK couldāve easily done the same, and Iām sure Mr. Wizard wouldāve jumped at the chance.
Like I said before, they have had plenty of time to promote this game if they wanted it to succeed. They had Evo. They had SBO. They had the chance to make a LE of this game. They couldāve put some DLC themes/avatars on XBL. Or even some preview videos. They did none of this. Itās like theyāre preparing for this game to fail by cutting their losses.
And Iād be willing to give this game a fair shake, but that would require some kind of decent netcode since hardly anyone around here plays fighters seriously save SC4. Considering SNKās track record in this department, thatās why I refused to pre-order this one. And itās also why I refuse to go purchase this game in-store until I hear more about the netcode.
I mean, I said SNK sucks. Thatās at present time, but itās hard to discredit that at a time in the past that SNK didnāt suck. If that was the case, I wouldāve never bought Garou. But SNKās track record lately has been less than stellar (Re: Trash when it comes to home console ports), and if they give KOFXII the aforementioned horrible home console treatment, then itās going to kill them.
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move 2 hours up the road MP, you know you wanna get in on this east side sceneā¦ of like 5 players haha