I'd Rather Hunt Monsters Than Demons
I can even remember the first time I played the original Diablo, and I can remember the years I spend playing Diablo 2 and its expansion. Even long after that infatuation had ended, I kept my Diablo 2 CDs on hand and would occasionally install it so that I...
Just finished a new article.
Let me know what you think. Also let me know if you've ever worked on frame data, because that's what my next article is about.
There has been a lot of controversy lately about AAA game releases, the new consoles, and frame rates. Will it be 30fps or 60fps? Will...
Only the best beat 'em up of all time and one of the greatest arcade games ever.
Also, Tower of Doom is being ported as well, but it's only quite good, not GOAT level.
More info here.
Also, obvious whoring, but I decided to write a bit about the game on that old blog I still have.
ARCADE...
I decided to test a few things with the idea of making some sort of "Pyrrha Must Die" video, only starring Nightmare instead of Maxi.
Spent a little bit in training mode to test out my initial theories and found that things aren't as dire as they seem.
First up, 11aa. Everyone hates it...
A year ago, during the last TGS, Ninja Gaiden 3 was announced. All we got was a promo pic showing Ryu's face and hand, covered in blood, so there wasn't much to talk about.
Well, now we know more. As I predicted (somewhere else, obviously), Yosuke Hayashi, who directed the 2 Ninja Gaiden...
Holy top tiers, Batman! Witness these 2 titans of the Soulcalibur universe go at it for over an hour. Tier whoring has never been this deep, this drastic, or this compelling!
And for casuals, as well! These players clearly have no shame at all.
Hilde what? You've never seen ring out whoring...
All these blacks get to talk about their rap music, and all these angry kids get to talk about their metal and punk.
What about those of us who just want some soothing noise to mope to on a rainy day.
These are not my top 5, because I'm too lazy to try and quantify things that I like, and so...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assert that Mina is affected by stage selection more than any other character, even more than Hilde and Nightmare, and in different ways.
There are two main reasons for this: space and walls.
The subject of walls is simpler, so I'll go through that...
You must have hit one.
Last week I was at Wallace's place doing some casuals and I landed 9a+b on his Nightmare right at the start of a round. Caught him in in a NSS -> GS transition if I recall correctly.
The best part is that I still lost the round.
This topic is for 9a+b, not 9a+bb...
Hopefully this will become a regular feature with OOF's initiative to get more FT5s going on. They're actually very nice to play since you've got more incentive than a casual and the length gives each player time to get a better feel for their opponent and adapt.
I recorded 3 sets of FT5s at...
This will be more awkward than it usually is. We ran the tourney on 3-4 machines, each of which had its own recorder. As a result I've only got about 1/3 of the videos and I'll be waiting for the others to be uploaded.
Eli took the tripod and with the better setup he got the grand finals. I've...
Yeah, I know these are late as hell. Short story short, I'd uploaded all the videos but forgot to make them public. DINO messaged me on like Saturday asking about them and I realized what I'd done and checked them again. A couple needed small edits, so I re-uploaded them and made them all...
A simple preamble: I've been having some computer problems, which is the only reason it's taken me a week to get these things up. I've come up with a working solution, at least for now, so hopefully this is the last time I have to take so long.
And now for the vids...
http://www.quakelive.com/
They fixed the fucking mouse bug that prevented me from playing. So now I am.
Sign up. Do your skill test. Post your results so I can make fun of you. Then play with me.
Quakelive runs a modified version of Quake 3. I haven't played much since I got kicked out...
TEAMS
Team Lag Tactics -- OOFMATIC (Vader), Stryder (Yun), Ember (X)
Team Scrubcalibur -- Kyper (Raph), franman (Shura), Eli (Ivy)
Team OP -- Neorussel (Yoshi), STD (Amy), page (Mina)
Team STC -- DINO (Voldo), Jeff (X), China (Siegfried)
VIDS
Team Lag Tactics vs Team OP
Team Scrubcalibur...
Toronto's "The Fights about to Begin" Videos
I'm uploading these as they're ready, and in the order of their recording, which -- baring any freak time anomalies -- should be the order in which they were played.
Notes: Batteries died during OOF vs BigRiches in the team fight, but I'll upload...
Here are my half of the vids, Kyper got all the others, including all the finals. Hopefully he can upload them without too much trouble.
I guess I'll make the obvious excuses for the quality: this was the worst TV there, so dark and blurry that we actually had to repick stages a few times just...
Finally got them all done.
This was a 2v2 round robin tournament (First to 3), so everyone played everyone. I got vids of everything, and there were some very nice matches. Jeff and Stryder (in his first SC4 tourney appearance) had good showings, and OOFMATIC was whoring the Star Wars...
Cooking stuff -- with pics PIZZA ON PAGE 3!
I've been disheartened by the lack of cooking going on around here. Flashchat seems to populated almost exclusively with people who don't know what they're doing in the kitchen, and that's just wrong.
I'm making this thread to show that cooking is...
Toronto Regionals + TO vs Buffalo vids ALL DONE!
Why is this taking so long? Surprise family visit. That's all I've got to say.
First, I just want to say sorry, OOF. I really thought I'd gotten your early matches, but I'd been recording Wallace because I wanted to prove that NM isn't a...