Category Archives: Game

Naivety

Game, Life

I remember back in junior high and high school.
I used to listen to Rage. I heard the message.
Flashforward 6-8 years or so…
I now understand it.
Before the music resonated with me. “The Machine” was the whole grown-up world. Teenage angst if you will.
The reality is much worse than that. Now the music makes my whole body vibrate and shake. With anger.
Recently I’ve been putting off a major decision in my life. Follow my dreams, or fight for them. Should I go along my way of becoming a video game designer, toys for the privaleged? Or should I fight to bring the joy that I get from games to everyone. Sigh… it is Men & Women who can “throw away” their individual dreams, and take up the dreams of billions of people lying in wait for their time to finally, finally, finally come.

Who were you, Mark Garrison, to bump RATM?

yes i know my enemy
they’re the teachers who told me to fight me

compromise
conformitiy
assimilation
submission
ignorance
hypocrasy
brutality
the elite

all of which are american dreams

What are you doing about it? Its not just “good music”… its a message. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

Street Fighter Alpha 3 for GBA

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A couple of weeks ago I picked up this game at Sam’s Club. Only set me back $13.95… hence the impulse buy. Normally, I wouldn’t have touched the thing, because as I have experienced through Street Fighter II Turbo Revival (fucking Capcom… and their names), playing a six button game with 4 buttons is pretty crappy indeed (not to mention the literal game-BREAKING glitches). To my amazement though, SFA3 is a solid cart.

I gotta give props to Crawfish, who are responsible for this GBA port. All of the original Alpha 3 fighters are in here, complete with DJ, Fei Long and the others from the console ports. New to the scene are Yun, Maki & Eagle, taken from CvS2, bringing the total fighters to 36 (and Shin Akuma/Bison). With all of their moves left intact, the gameplay is pretty much identical to the home versions…

On the subject of the newest characters, Yun’s palmstrike and Eagles “batter-up” move don’t negate/reflect projectiles (but Yun’s move is now hella fast, even comboable). His shoulder move and lv.3 super launchers can be flipped out of (mk one can still be jumpcancelled), making them pretty stupid, and x-ism worthless. On the plus side, they all also have hella priority on their moves.

There are a few other differences between this version and the home ports. For one, there’s no world tour mode. Ism+’s are earned through the Final Battle mode instead. There are only like 3 or 4 stages and songs, and a lot of the voices are gone (most missed is the announcer’s voice No more FACE IT STRAIGHT to signify the beginning of a match. Hell there’s not even a round 1 or 2, FIGHT, making it easy to get your ass kicked if you don’t pay attention). Some of the AI has been improved though (fucking Jun/Juli are sooooo fucking cheap since they can block now) Also, though this version professes to be an Upper port, it clearly isn’t (ie. DJ still kicks everyone’s top tier ass).

Like I said before though, this is a pretty amazing port. I highly suggest it if you had any interest in SFA3 at all, or want a solid pocket fighter. It won’t replace your console/arcade version, but it does its does its job of being playable & fun. Though the controls aren’t great, they’re way better than in Revival (you don’t need to press L+A at the EXACT same time) and as a bonus, you won’t render your cart useless if you beat the game like some other capcom gba fighter.

Always Coca-Cola

Game, Life

SongNow: Telepopmusik – Noir Desir

Always Coca-Cola…yeah if you get that then hahahaha… ANYway… so its been is a usual weekend… I’ve just been chillin’ with the roomies (inc. Adry n Ashley), doin’ the thing we do. Friday we went to Outback Steakhouse and ate hella (I had a full thing of ribs and ate it ALL), then we came back, did stuff, then ate again.

But on to more important business. Ever since I started playing Zelda: Wind Waker with Adry, she’s been hooked. Here’s a short lil’ tidbit that should explain the severity of the situation.

The Legend of Adry: The Soul Stealer

Setting: Terry n Ed are goin to OVT, Adry’s playin WW.

Terry: Hey me n Ed are goin to OVT to get some food, you want some?
Adry: Naw… [goes back to game]
Terry: [!]

A lil’ bit later…

Justin: Ey… you guys gonna hit it?
Terry: Yeah, lemme get Adry real quick.
Adry: [playing game]
Terry: Ey, we’re gonna hit it, come join!
Adry: [while playing] No, its cool thanks.
Terry: You sure?
Adry: yeah… [plays]

Later STILL

Terry: [kissing] C’mon! Let’s do stuff!
Adry: [playing] Naw… I’m cool…
Terry: cmon…
Adry: nope!

Later on, she finally stops, and we go to sleep.

Terry: ZzzZ
Adry: OH! OK I know what to do now! [turns on cube]
Terry: aww cmon! ZzzZ

That was Saturday. Sunday’s more or less the same.

And I thought I liked games! hahaha…

So yeah, in the middle of typing this I went over to Kaia’s with Ed; she’s having a nice lil’ get together. That was cool, and I woulda stayed, but Justin’s coming back with stuff, and Ed was gettin’ bored (sb ppl are a unique sort haha)… so here I am now. I got kicked off Zelda and am listening to Portishead – Only You.

That’s my days, how was yours?