So I was thinking, impovershed nation, finally my chance to get to play some KOF pros and some Streetfighter on my flight over to Manila.
I find a bunch of arcades in pretty much every mall, SM Fairview, Megamall, Farmer’s Market, etc. But the ones that DO have KOF or SF, nobody plays the fucking things. Why? Cus if Filipinos are playing a 2-D fighting game, 99% of the time they’re playing SNK vs fucking CAPCOM as if that shit is a real game, much less a good one.
Filipinos, explain yourselves, as you nearly ruined my trip with your shitty taste in fighting games.
Probably, but I fucking hate California. There was decent comp with the Mexicans in Chicago but I could never get over to the west side cus I didn’t have a car when I lived there.
Being a Filipino I can say all I care about that in that game is doing Akuma’s reflip infinite heh… I do it once or twice in training mode then turn it off…
pssst, he means Angeles City, Philippines you genius. What a dork having his trip nearly “ruined” becuase people in a different country doesn’t play the same games he plays.
What a dork for thinking my trip to an amazing country where I had tons of sex actually got ruined by you people’s shitty choice in fighting games. Nerd.
My GF is Filipina, I am actually studying for the SATs right now so I can hopefully enter Ateneo de Manila next year.
The malls there kick ASS compared to American ones, lots of cool shit and I like the atmospheres better. Only thing that sucks about them are 1) tons of Filipino guys are emo fags, and b) Filipinos OPENLY stare at me, and if I am with my girlfriend they openly stare and then talk trash about us in Tagalog (I can understand enough to get the gyst of some of it.)
Megamall is cool but I prefer SM Fairview and Farmer’s Market cus Megamall is tiring to walk around being so big…but they do have some ok fighting games there.
I’m not actually IN the PI anymore, I got back on Monday, but hopefully I can go back in december, but I am having financial problems right now because I need to buy a car and move out in the same month because my mom kicked me out (again). If only I had Fatherbrain’s lack of shame and e-whored myself out for paypal donations. :sad:
Without a doubt, sir, you have the coolest looking av I have ever seen on SRK. Did you make it?
Yeah, Megamall is huge. I didn’t get luck with Guilty Gear over there either (or any mall for that matter). When GGXX was out they were still playing GGX. They are beasts with GGX though, you better believe it.
And keeping with the tradition of SRK: PICS OF YOUR GF PLZ hahahaha. J/k mang.
Oh, and I seem to remember that there’s a Philippines thread here somewhere… you might wanna post there when you get back, because I’m positive some people play Capcom and KOF fighting games.
I think I saw GGXX at Megamall but I am not 100%. It was a GG but I don’t play it so I couldn’t tell from a glance which vers.
Pics of her to be PMed shortly.
I didn’t go into the arcade at Farmer’s cus I feel bad spending time in the arcade when I have limited time with my girl…and also, she got really upset and was making tampo with me when I BEASTED on her in KOF 2001 at Megamall.(she hit me ONCE between her four characters inbetween my combo exhibition).
Also she almost got me into a fight because apparently some girl was staring at me while I was playing and my GF shouted “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT BITCH’S PROBLEM STARING AT YOU?!?” about 12 inches from the girl she was talking about.
There are 3 or 4 main malls in Angeles City, I took that pic in Nepo Mall, the comp was pretty tight there for KOF and TTT/T5. I was looking for some 3S comp myself but there were no machines to be found.
I miss balut and shrimp gambas myself. :sad:
So you’re going back in December? I noticed you mentioned a potential money problem, you know December is the most expensive month to go right? If you wait til after January 1 the prices drop, sometimes by 50%. One year I only paid $550.00 round trip. I’ll be heading back in February myself, low prices, escape the cold, and no rain that time of the year over there. :tup:
Ack. I’ve no clue either. It’s almost as popular as Tekkens at the nearby mall. :x I watch it mostly. I never know it was huge in Metro Manila as well.
It also might be because they love the Max mode and GCFS bullshit, but bloody hell. KOF 2k2 does the former better, and NGBC improved on GCFS and some of SvC’s engine.
I’d say it’s because MVS bootlegs are really cheap and easy to obtain here, but the better malls/arcades have the Atomiswave SNK games already. Oh, God.
In its defense, Metro Manila has really good Marvel/KOF/GGXX/3s people. Davao City as well, and maybe Cebu.
And yes, we’ve great kiddies here. I’ve fought some of the little beasts at Marvel and Project Justice.
