oO who is this ultima guy tryin to run things in street fighter in Trinidad? Boy doh even talk bout cvs1 cvs2 3s hyper st Ce any of em games If is real challenge u want ... gotta play me
Ultima vs. G.A.T.T.I played against a bunch of folks from the Gamers Association of Trinidad and Tobago today. FOR NINE HOURS. These youngsters are trying to kill me or something. I'm way too old to be playing for long sessions like that. But despite the fact that it left me drained, it was all good.I initially met up with Ryan "New Era Outlaw" Rodriguez around 12:40 pm. He wanted to play me in Marvel vs. Capcom 2. When we first showed up, it was a ghost town, with only us and maybe one or two other guys playing on PCs. by The time 4:00 PM rolled around, though, a squad of fellas showed up, several of whom wanted to play me at various games. Apparently they were sent by Imperial X, who showed up himself later on. So I got a good variety of games against a good bunch of people. Everyone wanted a piece of me. :pMarvel vs. Capcom 2: This was the game I spent the most time on. New Era Outlaw and I played this for about three hours straight, and we covered some 60+ matches. I think I won about 65% of those matches. N.E.O. (LOL!) is actually a lot better than I was expecting, and is dangerous with all sorts of random characters like M.Bison and Wolverine, many of whom I had barely seen played in the game. However, he would be much much more dangerous if he played with and stuck to better characters. His favouring Megaman characters didn't help his win ratio. He beat me about 3 times in a row to start off with while my Mags/Sentinel warmed up, but after a while, some shades of my old "fucking annoying Magneto" started to surface, and I began to win more and more. I mostly played a team of Mags/Sentinel/other (other rotating between Psylocke, Tronne, Captain Commando and B.B.Hood; B.B.Hood had a pretty good day, actually), with some occasional Doom/Blackheart/Sentinel and some random shit teams like Psylocke/Captain America/Tronne and Cammy/Psylocke/Tronne. He played a much greater variety of characters, alternating low and mid tiers with top tiers like Doom, Blackheart and Sentinel, showing his greater knowlegde of the game in general. Had he stuck to better characters, his win ratio would probably have been higher, cause he's definitely got the skills. He needs a little more experience on when to call and when to not call assists though. I messed him up a good number of times because he kept calling at the wrong time, and I would punish both his main character and the assist simultaneously.N.E.O. hates the timer. Can't say I blame him, but unfortunately, that's what MvC2 is about. Not much of note really happened, though there was one time when Blackheart mysteriously vanished from the fight. I mean, we were just fighting normally, time was running out, and BH had been part of his team, and I was expecting to have to deal with him at the end, only to find that he wa gone! I must have killed him at some point while was an assist, but neither of us remember that happening. Very strange.This was my first time with the PS2 version of MvC2. It held up pretty well. I did notice some slightly longer load times, and some slowdown at times, though thankfully they seemed to be confined to after the matches themselves were done. There were also a few weird sound glitches, where the sound would get louder for no apparent reason. N.E.O. said those only occurred in the burned versions of MvC2, but it seemed to affect the original copy as well. Even so, it seemed like a very competant translation, and I'm kinda sorry I didn't pick up a copy when I had the chance.Man, I had forgotten how exhausting MvC2 is. The matches with New Era Outlaw left me drained physically and mentally. There were no easy matches. Every match required a tremendous amount of mental concentration as well as physical exertion. My fingers haven't had to fly that fast in a long time. As I said, had he played with better characters more often (More Blackheart, less Roll), it would have been a lot closer.Later on, when I couldn't take it any more, I went to get some food from Kamwah. I can't go for 8 hours playing games without eating any more. While I was gone, N.E.O. played one of the other guys who had shown up (RB) in MvC2. RbB has potential, what with playing very dangerous teams like Magento/Storm/Psylocke and Mags/Sentinel/Psylocke, and I saw him trying for Mags' infinite and Storm triangle jumping, but N.E.O. beat him down pretty solidly. RB needs more practice. Once he gets that infinite down, he'll be very, very dangerous.Third Strike: Some of the guys that showed up wanted to play me in 3S. At least two of them (Chris/Akuma and Sheppard) are fellas I have fought and beaten before. In fact, Akuma was a guy who challenged me last year in Town Centre Mall, where he put up a good fight but he wasn't quite ready for me then back then. He was certainly ready now, though, since he's obviously been playing the game steadily, while I have not, and I think he beat me something like 8-3 overall. We didn't play that much for some reason. Nasty Dudley and Ken. He also surprised me by getting out of my Slash Elbow -> Stun gun Headbutt with Hugo, who I could have sworn could not get out of that. He got out of it with both Shootdown Backbreaker (must use the LK version apparently) and Megaton Press (ditto). However, if I change the version of the SGH, apparently I can still snag him, it seems. So it's back to being a mind game instead of something guaranteed. Anyway, I'm glad for him. I don't think he's satisfied yet, though. He probably needs to beat me another 15 or so times before he thinks we're even. :pI also played RB and N.E.O. in 3S. New Era Outlaw is a bit new to the game, but still fought pretty well. RB had a dangerous Deijin Ryu and Makoto. I think I won most of my matches, sticking to my usual assortment of Hugo, Oro, Alex, Q, Yang, and my embarrassingly bad Urien, but at this point I can't remember. I really didn't play that much 3S today, and I can't say that I'm disappointed. I don't particularly like that game.Capcom vs. SNK 2: I don't know if I should count this, as it wasn't that serious. One of the guys who I used to play in Town Centre Mall (sorry, don't know this kid's name) begged me to play him in this. He had a rough time at first since the controller he a using wasn't that good, but he did a little better later on when he got a replacement. However, he wasn't that good then, and he's still not that good now. He had some okay ideas with running Guile backhand, but we played under some messed up conditions which were almost entirely in his favour: 3 on 3 instead of ratio mode, and on max speed. He also played a lot of EX2 groove, which had, among other things, C-Groove's super meter, running, chain combos and super cancelling on. Yeah. I lost a couple times, but I don't particularly care.I also Sheppard, one of the guys I played in Town Centre Mall who apparently is now a boss at Third Strike. Pretty good N-Ryu. He seemed a bit rusty though. I also got the impression he didn't care for the game much. Neither do I, as a matter of fact. Next time, I'll play him (and probably get stomped) in 3S.During CvS2, both my arms started to cramp up severely, leaving in in intense pain. Wow. I can't remember I had such awful cramps. And in both arms no less! I don't think that's ever happened before. I really am getting too old for this shit.Guilty Gear XX: I actually ended up playing quite a lot of this. At first I played RB, who didn't do so well, but that's because he plays #R, not plain vanilla XX. So those wins don't really count. Maybe we'll learn GGXX Slash together, though his schedule is pretty incongruous to mine (only free on Tuesdays and Sundays, blah). I also played Sheppard a bit. I think he's still new to the game and is still learning it. It might not make sense to learn XX at this stage, since XX Slash is out now.Later on, after I got finished with CvS2, Imperial X got tired of beating up people on Tekken 5, and he came over to play me. I would end up playing him for nearly two hours. I did a bit better this time compared to last time. I actually played the game this time and was setting up tactics and counters and hitting my combos, as opposed to just hammering on buttons like last time. I still got whomped on by Sol, but at least I frustrated the hell out of him with Potemkin this time. My Sol and Dizzy didn't do too bad either (I'm still not so good at Sol vs. Sol, but I did better this time), but it was Potemkin who did the most damage. He still got beat on pretty badly, especially by Sol, but he also got some good streaks, especially if he wasn't facing Sol. And even then, I forced Imperial to change his attack patterns a couple times and forced him to think a lot more. I still had to work about three times as hard for my wins though. Sol being able to do random running Hard Slash Volcanic Viper to Dust loop from mid screen for 50%+ damage is total bullshit.Anyway, by the time all was said and done, it was 9:40 pm, I was exhausted, hungry and thirsty like hell. But oh man, it was worth it. I haven't had a good playing session like this in a LOOOOG time. Last time with Imperial was marred by the fact that my mom and my fiancee were panicking when they couldn't get a hold of me (cell phone got swithed off by accident), and I ended up in the dog house briefly because of it. There was nothing like that this time, since I made sure to call mom about halfway through and told her that everything was alright and that I'd be coming in late. So it was all good. I dunno when next I'll be back though.
