Comments on: Street Fighter x Tekken: craziest panel at SDCC

By: Links for the weekend « Welcome to Spinksville!

Links for the weekend « Welcome to Spinksville! — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:54:44 +0000

[...] mentioned the crazy Street Fighter x Tekken SDCC panel this week. Here’s a more thoughtful look at another fighting game from a fan – Scott Juster [...]

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:53:57 +0000

Ideally, you’ll want to grab the Arcade Edition, which is the most recent variation.

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:46:49 +0000

I may be destined to be a Z list player if I get really lucky. I think I am convinced now to give it a go, will write in a couple of weeks about how I get on.

By: Steve "Slurms" Lichtsinn

Steve "Slurms" Lichtsinn — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:44:30 +0000

I love fighting games. While I’m more of a fan of SNK fighters, they honestly haven’t made a good one for about 10 years now. That said, Super Street Fighter IV is a fantastic game. I was playing it quite regularly and need to get back to it and get my B rank with Cody (speaking of Final Fight characters). It can be hellishly competative, but they have a wonderful matchmaking system in place.

If you’re like me and no matter how much you play, you’re not destined to be an A ranked player, then all is still well. You may even lose more than you win (again, like me), but it’s great about matching you with people who you’ll have a fair chance at (once you’ve played enough to be matched against them that is).

I recommend trying it, and the game isn’t too expensive…..until you start buying fight sticks that is. =D

By: Tramell

Tramell — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:18:51 +0000

Don’t forget those abs rival Daniel Ericsson’s!

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:58:08 +0000

Looking it up, ‘Tucks it away’ is the exact term that Capcom uses as well.

By: Tramell

Tramell — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:12:14 +0000

Simon nailed it on Poison. In Japan I believe you she’s still a dude who ‘tucks’ it away in those jean hot pants and in America she’s a post op. One of the reasons she is a known figure besides the lack of clothes lol.

I totally wish you took pictures though, those moments are something to remember

By: Grimley

Grimley — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:20:45 +0000

I’f you’d like a trustworthy human opponent to play M:tG with, then let me know:)

By: dwism

dwism — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:30:14 +0000

If you thought I wanted to go to Comic-con before…

Imagine Daniel Ericsson and Chriz Metzen dukking it out like that! -Maybe thats just me

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:46:45 +0000

That last sentence is an interesting thought. I’ve been playing the M:tG computer game recently and they pretty much explicitly aim to use the AI opponent to teach you how to play the game well enough to go join in with a tabletop game with human opponents, at least at a newbie level. (They throw in a voucher for a free starter deck also.)

It makes me think that one of the challenges of any established gaming genre is how the single player game can prepare a new player for being thrown into a competitive mode with other players. And I wonder which multiplayer games do this the best. And whether solo mode will come to always be seen as a tutorial for multiplayer rather than a game style in its own right.