once I’m able to start driving around september I will be out to xanadu as much as I can. I always wanna hit butans, but germantown sucks.
fack
do i really got to play again?
magman hasnt really shined or showed to a real tourney since i left that guy and stopped playing
Rip magman
I still do. Recently even more so than Yun. But Yun is just more fun to me and that’s the primary reason I still use him. That and fighting akuma and fei.
that korean guy has inspired me to bring out my Seth.
Long post, just some first-day post-Evo thoughts. Read if you wish.
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[]Never gonna let myself get pushed onto stream again, not for my first match. Played like shit all weekend. I beat that same guy 5-0 for a $20 money match the next day.
[]Marvel 3 is dumb. Every industry name that was not Niitsuma practically said so.
[]Street Fighter IV is dumb. Every industry name that not Capcom practically said so.
[]Harada and Michael Murray are two of the coolest people ever. They spent an hour sitting and talking to me about Tekken and game design and Japanese gamers even after I told them that, while I liked Tekken, I didn’t play it seriously. Really inspiring.
[]Street Fighter X Tekken looks just as bad in person as it does on YouTube. The gameplay system has potential but it’s really unpolished at the moment. Abel can combo into step kick. It’s pretty grody. Also, Poongko is already pulling off 75% damage combos off a low short.
[]I only played UMvC3 once, and that was against Marn, so I didn’t get much time to experiment. Magneto’s done though. They increased the flight startup time and slowed his airdash.
[]I saw Mike Z (Skullgirls guy) criticize Niitsuma and Marvel 3 to Niitsuma’s face after he and his buddies attended Mike’s panel. Priceless. One of the things he said: “I’m a Marvel fan, so I don’t play Marvel 3.”
[]Speaking of SG, that game really seems legit. You can map commands to your assists, whether they’re special moves or normals. One character has a teleport; you can call her in with that to force the camera to zoom out while you’re doing mixups, shit’s crazy. Also, the game has RCing (to an extent) and is generally designed with the old-school fighter in mind. Gonna try talking to Mike about making the presentation a little more flashy to grab attention. Also, the game will have males.
[]Filipino Champ crying on stage. Super Priceless.
[]I don’t think Combofiend will be playing Marvel for awhile. I dunno if you could see it on stream, but nigga was suuuuuuuuuuuuper salty.
[]Why is everyone acting like Fuudo came out of nowhere? Even I’ve known about him for awhile.
[]Kindevu trying to get crowd-surfed after Latif was hilarious. Also, that dude was tossing cookies out in the crowd after the finals.
[]Kayo Police hugged and kissed Killer Kai(I think that’s who it was).
[]Americans in general aren’t ready to handle Kayo Police. Kinda wonder what’s going to happen when Kara gets out to more people.
[]I missed it, but apparently Sanford Kelly threw a stick after losing a Marvel money match?
[]Seth Mussey’s in our area, yes? I need to get with him and talk design and aesthetics. His Evo stuff was nice.
[]Harada putting Kayane on blast for playing SoulCalibur but not Tekken.
[]Harada calling some of the new SC characters “gay”.
[*]Last but not least, CvS2 Online Edition is technically possible, Ono and Yamamoto (KoFXIII guy) joked about it Saturday night, but there’s a slight possibility for it after SFxT. I was told not to really get my hopes up right now, but people are well aware that it’s the last of the ‘Big Three’ games that needs to be reintroduced to the community.
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An they wonder why sanford won’t get any sponsorships… guy needs to tone it down. just my own opinion
and empire (triforce) did not look so good immediately putting up a donation post on his facebook an other accounts the moment the last empire was done…
lastly… seth… your gdlk sir.
Kayo Police is the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen.
Sanford was salty pretty much all weekend really. You had to see him when he was playing Poongko Thursday afternoon on the cross counter stream. Every time Poongko uppercutted, Sanford either shook his head, or looked over at Poongko. In which Poongko just had that “I don’t care” face.
He doesn’t care. He shoulda thrown his jacket on Sanford’s face.
I saw KillerKai had hugged Kayo…but he got kissed too? Oh man he wont live that off probably ever. LOL.
I won’t be surprised if a few people take a break from MVC3 with Ultimate coming out soon any way. You can only get laser line trapped on the welcome by Dark Phoenix so many times I guess. Not surprised to hear industry names talking crap about each other’s games also. Obvious they’re going to be biased about anything that isn’t their own shit any way. 3rd Strike OE basically means new games outside of Ultimate don’t matter to me anymore so I’m glad I don’t have to worry about the dumb random shit they put in any other new games. Got what I want.
Sanford has his own salt mine he’s been oxidizing for so long. Filipino crying on stage is best Evo news for me.
Was there a CvS2 tourney?
Got back at 2am last night from Vegas. Evo was definitely a really cool experience. It was my first time in Vegas so I did a lot of other non-Evo related stuff as well. But being at the Top 8 showings for MVC3 and SSF4:AE was pretty damn hype. When PR Rog came back in MVC3 that place was erupting, it was awesome. Then when Poongko just bodied the shit ouf Daigo, that place was insane as well. So hype! I had to leave the AE top 8 early though because my wife and I had a show to see at 9:30 and they were about 90 minutes behind schedule, so I missed the last few matches.
It also sucked ass because my joystick malfunctioned during button check of my first fucking match. I had tested my joystick on PS3 on Wednesday before I left for Vegas, and I tested it out on PC literally 20 minutes before my match. However PC uses Xbox360 mode. Then when I played it on PS3 mode, whenever I would presse a direction, I’d also get a fierce punch. I saw the one loose wire but I couldn’t find a soldering iron in time, so I had to use someone elses joystick. It really sucked because mine is pretty custom as far as the button layout and I have extra springs in the stick as well. I was happy that I could at least still use an octo gate. But it sucked that I still don’t think I did as well as I could. I won my first 3 matches then lost to Air pretty convincingly, then I lose in my losers semi to this chun who was really solid and knew the matchup well.
But flying all the way to Vegas to find out your joystick doesn’t work and you can’t use it in Evo was a major blower.
Only person I saw from around the way was Ski and chatted with him a bit when he was playing his pool which he took 5-0.
Going to Evo definitely wants to make me play more with local competition so I’m definitely going to try and make it out to more actual stuff going on. During the week is not good for me in general but the weekend things I’m going to definitely come out to more often. Definitely going to the tourney on August 13th, and I’ll be sure my fucking joystick works…
Just a reminder: Xanadu Monthly and COOK-OUT happening the next weekend. August 13. Please come out guys. All this talk about building the scene… people need to come out.
Sanford was salty about phoenix even BEFORE our match. Saying she was a scrubby character and w/e.
Even though he didn’t lose the one match b/c of phoenix at all.
Just sayin.
Dont know if u saw my post earlier but definitely big ups on the placing man!! You an Moose. glad ultradavid knew who u were everyone else was like rene-who.
As far as sanford i dont care how he lost… his attitude always kill his potential to advance in anything… that being what empire an him are aiming for (Sponsorship)… just speaking on it business wise cause I called it before he even stepped up for a match.
I just saw the Aris X Kayo video. Best pair since Gootecks and Mike Ross.
It’s Sanford Kelly. We expect these things by now.
Yes true… but its gotten WORSE over the years. Thats my point. I saw how he tried to change his image via appearance (didnt work too well in my eyes) and when the extra smedium ‘jersey’ thing didnt help… but we can work past that an get someone to get that together. Yet the attitude has just went through the roof… even to the point of interaction he has become a “really?” type of guy.
I guess the sad thing is, since I’m relatively new to the scene, I just assumed no one has ever taken him seriously in the first place.
if we had that rec center in silver spring, the gas thing shouldn’t be much of an issue.