Fighting Data

Street Fighter IV
First Contest		SHW	LGO
	Ken	0	2	Sagat
	Akuma	0	2	Sakura
Second Contest		KIL	LGO
	Zangief	2	0	Ryu
	Rufus	2	1	Sagat
Third Contest		SHW	KIL
	Dhalsim	0	2	Zangief
	Ryu	1	2	Abel
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
First Contest		KIL	LGO
	Ken	0	2	Sagat
	Blanka	2	0	Ryu
	Guile	0	2	Chun-Li
Second Contest		SHW	LGO
	Ken	0	2	Chun-Li
	Ryu	0	2	Sagat
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
First Contest		KIL	SHW
	Dragnuov	0	3	Hwoarang
	Armor King	1	3	Lei
Second Contest		LGO	SHW
	Baek	1	3	Hwoarang
	Eddy	3	0	Lei
	Law	1	3	Mokujin

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
			LGO		SHW		KIL
First Free-for-All		+1	Ike	-2	Sonic	+1	Snake
Second Free-for-All		+3	Lucas	-2	Captain Falcon	-1	King Dedede
Third Free-for-All		+2	Pikachu	-1	Ice Climbers	-1	Zelda
Final One-on-One		+1	Donkey Kong			-1	Meta Knight

Soul Calibur IV
First Contest		SHW	LGO
	Kilik	3	2	Astaroth
	Maxi	1	3	Kilik
	Mitsurugi	3	0	Siegfried
Second Contest		SHW	KIL
	Mitsurugi	3	0	Cassandra
	Maxi	3	2	Cervantes
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
First Contest		SHW	LGO
	Jin	2	0	Taokaka
	Litchi	1	2	Jin
	Ragna	2	0	Bang
Second Contest		SHW	KIL
	Jin	2	0	Ragna
	Ragna	0	2	Noel
	Bang	0	2	Rachel
Third Contest		LGO	KIL
	Jin	1	2	Ragna
	Taokaka	1	2	Tager
Street Fighter Alpha 3
First Contest		LGO	SHW
	Chun-Li V	2	0	Ken V
	Sagat A	1	2	Ryu A
	Ryu A	2	0	Akuma A
Second Contest		KIL	LGO
	Charlie A	0	2	Chun-Li A
	Akuma A	0	2	Ryu A

World's Strongest [Fighting Game Tournament Recap]

Lego takes another one.

Left my official scorecard at home, but I'll run through the highlights with y'all here. Our second Jcasa Fighting Game Competetion has concluded, with Legoman again winning the tiebreak in Street Fighter Alpha 3. What a guy.

Some changes this time around: the inclusion of Shwa as the third participant. Our fourth fell through, though he's expected to participate in the upcoming Tekken 6 release competition. Obviously a round-robin had to be adopted for this, and I changed the event lineup significantly. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (one of Lego's worst), Street Figher III: Third Strike, and Guilty Gear XX ^Core were all removed. BlazBlue was added, lowering the total count to six events, with a seventh event tiebreaker. Also, we imposed a forced character change rule; players had to select a different character for each match in a contest.

Lego took Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Smash Brawl. I, as expected, dominated Street Fighter IV and BlazBlue. Shwa evened everything with strong showings in Tekken 5: DR, and Soul Calibur IV. (SCIV would've given the tourney to Lego had Shwa not come away with the W). Lego then handily defeated us both in SFA3. Fucker.

I thought I had the competition highlight reel on lock during my second SFIV match with Lego. We played the ye olde Sagat(LGO)-Rufus(KIL) match (after a two and out beat by my Gief over his Ryu). I managed to steal the final round with the EX Messiah -> High -> FADC -> Ultra. I have never connected that setup in a competitive match, and somehow I saw the opening and brought the pain, and even correctly Focus Attack Back Dash cancelled since he was in the corner. Pretty sweet.

Thought that was hot shit till Lego and Shwa's match in BlazBlue. Both are pretty unfamiliar, and wisely checked Command Lists to gain as much knowledge as possible. Shwa apparently is a quick study, as he won his final match with a huge comeback catching Lego in Ragna's Devoured by Darkness Distortion Drive (only available while in Blood Kain Distortion!!) which delivers a 70+ hit autocombo (with 1:1 Soul Eater health steal).


"Distortion Finish? Is that bad? Did I break it?"

Summer Vacay Vs. the Backlog

So, how's the battle panning out? Don't know if y'all ever check any of the links over there on the right but that Killa's Backloggery is a record of all the games I need to finish, in addition to providing a reference to what games I have beaten, if anyone ever needs to pick my brain about MGS3, for instance. I've updated it with what I have and have yet to accomplish.

Well, Prototype is done. Wham, bam, thank you Radical Entertainment.

Don't really know if I'm going to try to get back into GTAIV this week, but it's unlikely.

Didn't add Vanguard Princess to the list, but I have checked it out a bit more since the initial download. Really cool for a free game, but I've gotten a lot on my fighting plate as it is, though it would be a good excuse to try and use one of my sticks with the desktop.

Got back into Crysis. In case anyone sees my Gchat status change to "Killin' Koreans", this is the reason, though I think I'm about to hit the meat of the game, and may have to start killing more proportionate numbers of aliens and Koreans. (Never have gotten the graphics tweaked as well I thought they ought to be, in case anyone was still wondering.)

Some nice SFIV play earlier in the week. I'm up over 8500 GP now, though Legoman is still giving me a hard time. (Haven't really Blaz'd Blue at all this week...)

And, y'know, I didn't publicly update this either, but I played Digital Devil Saga for a couple hours the other night.

Ai'ight. Back to Crysis.

Prototizzle [Prototype Final Impressions]

Finished the PS3 exclusive action game Protoype earlier today. In some ways, it is a very ambitious game, in some ways not so much. The storyline is pretty run-of-the-mill. It's just your usual amnesiac scientist badass who becomes the living embodiment of a flesh-eating virus then battles conspirators, an evil biotech giant, a paramilitary organization, and zombies threatening Manhattan using morphological powers.

A fun romp, I'd say. The player's satisfaction derives totally from their ability to enjoy the chaotic, city-smashing, helicopter-hijacking action that makes up the core gameplay. The stealth features and the snippets of storyline break up the pace a bit, and usually lead to more exploring of the environment, and then sooner or later into more violent encounters with soldiers/mutants/tentacles.

But the acrobatic skyscraper-bounding (in NYC, no less) is extremely reminiscent of Spider-man's mode of travel. That combined with the abilities to change shape, the protagonist reminds a hell of a lot of Marvel's Carnage.

In a lot of ways, it really makes me want a Carnage game. That would be fucking awesome.


Y'know, aside from the wannabe Red Venom in MvC1, Carnage never made it into any of the crossover games. What a waste.

Comprehensively Bustable

Poking around on the SRK SFIV Forums as usual. Just as UltraDavid is the sage of the Gief forum, Bustabust is the wiseman of the Abel forum, which I've been poking around in as I dabble with the mix up master.

Anyways, Bustabust has a really great Blogspot focused just on Abel! Check it out.

Oh That Kaqn

Kaqn is the blonde/white Ragna. He is the de riguer Ragna to watch.

Pay special attention to the first round of the second match, versus Noel. The comeback is sickness.

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