Calling all T6 experts in the house! I’m getting the Tekken itch again after watching so many SFxT stuff. So I need some help here. Is Lili a good character? Is she hard to learn/play?
Lili is very easy to pick up and play. She’s…probably mid-high/high at the end of it? She has a great SS/dmg and decent mixup options, but suffers somewhat against SS herself.
http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=110780
What’s the deal with lines in Beijing? Today I went to an arcade in Chongwenmen and there were some people playing Tekken 6. When they lost they kept playing. I asked one of the guys watching and he said the rules were that people just kept playing until they wanted off the machine. Is it like that all over Beijing?
About to try to go find an arcade here in Qingdao that’s worth its weight.
Last night, I was just walking around, minding my own, some guy dragged me into a KTV/Brothel. I thought it was just a bar until we got upstairs to see all these individual rooms and scantily clad women walking between rooms.
Kthxbai.
The general “rule” here is that once someone loses, he is off. But you have to speak up because if you don’t then they pop in another token. Sometimes you might get a person asking for another shot, usually politely. When I first started playing in the arcades here, this one had 3 SFIV setups so people got 2 goes instead of one. You get the occasional stick-hog of course and then there are also those who give you the stink-eye every time you have them get off. This one time I had a guy whom with we were interchanging and EVERY SINGLE TIME he would ask me for another go but I wanted to get as many matches as I could that day so I had to keep refusing him.
@Missing Person: Qingdao is starting to sound more and more weird to me every time you post. 
I may not know much about Beijing’s “sketchier” side, though. Every few days we do get a “massage” card on our door.
@Raas: Yo, thanks brother! I’ll hit that link after work tonight.
It’s a weird place. And at least Chengyang district, from what I can gauge from my excursion last night, has no arcade with anyone playing any fighter. All I see is KOF, and no one even touches the cabs. Everyone’s on those table top button masher games with like 5,000 tokens in front of them.
And every one of these arcades have a card system to get tokens, don’t even know how to get one, which is irrelevant, since no one is playing anything remotely close to a fighter.
I really do not get the appeal of those “gambling” masher games. You win more tokens, big woop! Can’t get any real money from them since gambling is illegal. Guess it’s the only way for them to get their fix. I was actually pinning my hopes on my fiance playing that while I was playing fighters. That way she could win more tokens and feed my addiction. hehe
You could probably check back every now and then, especially during the weekends to see if there are any people playing KOF or whatever. If you do find any, try making some friendships and see if you can get your own little group going.
Well, actually you CAN get real money from it. I know gambling is illegal but you can still get money from it. It is done by a slight money laundering type thing. There is an arcade I used to go to. My friend would play the gambling game and win coins. He could redeem the coins for cards. Then I would take the cards outside to this small shop. I would give this shop the cards and they would give me cash. I did it for my friend because I don’t gamble and I can’t speak Chinese so I don’t know the specifics, but I know it is possible to get money for tokens.
Oh that’s the same setup in Japan on Pachinko machines too. Play, cash in your balls (God, that sounds wrong), get those small gold coins or bars, then go outside to a little alleyway window, hand them off, and get bank.
Crazy thing is, I may have found “competition” in the weirdest way.
Several people from my English department came over tonight for my birthday, and the administrator from my department (Who’s a Korean woman) saw my Chun figurine in front of my TV, and goes, “OH! IS THAT FROM STREET FIGHTER 3?!”
Then she goes, “I used to play that all the time in high school! I was always at the arcade after school playing, and I was the only girl there!”
Uhhhh…wow.
So, looks like I need 3SO and another stick. Make it a Fanta.
Oh really? I had no idea. My fiance told me at the most you might probably can get some prizes or something like that. But I doubt she knows much about that underground stuff. The more you know…
@Missing Person: Okay, first off I have a Chun figurine in front of my TV too. It was given to me when I bought my pre-ordered copy of Vanilla SFIV when I was studying in England. Not the best figurine in the world but I love it! Good thing you found someone. 3SO is a pretty good purchase. We’re having some crazy fun with that game here.
We probably have the same one then, because my friend gave it to me from a Gamestop employee who got it as a promo for Vanilla.
I’ve lived in the Beijing area off and on for a year. I hardly ever leave Fangshan. If you don’t know Fangshan it’s because it is about an hour to the south west of the center of Beijing. I’ve been to Beijing like 3 times in the past 5 months. But I think I am going to try and go more often. Maybe play some games. … Where are you all playing?
More often than not around wudaokou (五道口) or zhichunlu (知春路) these days.
Happy birthday missing person!
Also, I have a sinus infection again. 
Thanks. Again? Sounds like me.
When you get to feeling better, the OP’s SF vocabulary in Chinese is borked. Bunch of question marks where the chinese characters and pinyin was. Any chance you could fix that? I’m completely clueless on saying anything about the game to Chinese people if I even were to find action in Qingdao.
Oh, shit. I totally forgot to fix that. It got all fucked up after the moved to the new server software.
fixed and stuff
Happy b-day Missing!
Caught you early this time Starcade. 
Get on them drugs. I guess you won’t be up for hosting this Saturday, right? I don’t mind doing but I’ll have to kick people out quite early as I’m taking Kim, her mom and her cousin out for a Greek dinner.
@Jizzz_Frame: Anytime you are in town just drop either Starcade or myself a PM with your cell number and we’ll let u in on where and when we’ll be getting some games on.
Thanks Starcade, much appreciated.
This might help me. I’m finding videos on Youku when I plug in 街头霸王4青岛 [FONT=arial]to search. Can’t find a timestamp to see how current it is, but there is at least a scene here in Qingdao.[/FONT]
Could you tell me what they’re calling AE here so I can try to search that, see if Qingdao has videos up of it?
Geez Starcade I thought this was over with, I wonder if its due to the dust and such. It used to be a joke, but just to be sure - DIBS ON THE PS3
I’m betting dust. After years of chronic sinus infections, a doctor in Korea finally told me “You need to have an allergy skin test done.” Mine was to dust, and I’ve noticed, from transitioning from Seoul to Qingdao, my sinuses have backed up immensely, and I’m doing nasal irrigation to get back to normal.
Need to find where I packed my allergy medicine from Korea.
Also, the greatest thing that could happen to me happened when I plugged in Street Fighter 4 Qingdao in Chinese in Baidu. Found a store in Qingdao that sells common ground Xbox 360 PCBs fabricated with joysticks in mind for 180元. These things actually look better than the Madcatz TE boards for dual modding.
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=8043032414
Lots and lots of ground points! When I get paid, going to go buy one, considering they have their address, phone number, and QQ posted, shouldn’t be that hard to go get a board and be back on my Saulabi!
@Raas Dibs on his screen and new PC! Called it! Vultures we are. Jokes aside, hope he finds relief a bit sooner this time.
@Missing Person If you can start finding your way around Taobao you will not ever have to worry about finding places to buy stuff from. I buy all my gaming stuff from there and haven’t had a problem. If you aren’t feeling too good about it, sellers who have diamonds and other shinny symbols next to their names are highly rated and have been around for awhile so they are quite trustworthy. I did actually buy my SSFIV disc from a no-name, though, and he delivered a lot faster than the the double crown store in Shanghai from which I got MvC3.