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How I feel when fighting against button mashers on BlazBlue


The person people relate my "evil laugh" to...



The Real Me... Somewhat

Name: Rick
Age: Born in October of 78... you do the math!
Location: Federal Way, WA
Occupation: Telecommunications Technician
Why Destructoid? To do stuffs and write things.

Ah, gaming... isn't it wonderful? All these console wars, handhelds being almost as good as last get systems, and PCs running games near lifelike with dual video cards and quad cord processors and whatnot. Thus is why we're here, right? A gaming community gathering to share news of games, gamers, and other things revolving around words starting with "G" and ending with "ames". I kinda see myself as a gaming neutral. I love all 3 current gen consoles for different reasons. But... I guess if I did have to choose a side, yes... I would lean toward Sony's shoulder.

My forte of games rolls around in the area of fighting games and RPGs. I can hold my own in puzzles and racers around the fun level of Mario Kart. My fav fighting game? Just in case you haven't heard me preach it enough times, that would be NeoGeo fighting games... namely the King of Fighter Series. That series has multiple RPG-level storylines and does a near flawless job of combining many characters, both main and minor, into one universe without losing any of their personality. Seeing a fighting game do that just makes my brainmeats happy. Now, I'm not knocking down the great Street Fighter, Guilty Gear, or Soul Caliber (for they are all great games as well), but KoF has elements that I think hardly any other fighting game has while still staying a fighting game. You HAVE to give props to that. Of course, like almost everything Nintendo, Smash Bros is pretty much in a league of its own, and I've given many days of my life playing the hell outta that game with my brothers (unfortunately, I still suck at it).

RPG... I'd have to say that Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean 2 (both PS1) are the top of my list... Final Fantasy III, VII, & XII sharing that spot light. Final Fantasy is a given so I'll spare you the boring descriptions... but both VP and SO2 are RPGs that I have fond memories of... and for the generation of console that those are for I can still go back and play those almost anyday and still have as much fun. Not many RPGs have that replay value.

Anyway, I'll end this off with that. There you go... you know a lot more about me... now go back to staring at my avatar.

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the king of fighters xii ps3 + hori fighting stick 3 ps3... for $116. Should I get it? (Very short blog) Altair78 | 11:20 PM on 07.26.2009 16 comments

Hey peeps. Been a while. Anyway, I was hit with slightly sad news today. I lent my best friend some money and he was planning on paying me back with interest. I told him to use the interest to buy me KoF XII when it came out. On the day it comes out, he had a little emergency and had to spend the "interest". No big deal on my part... he's my best friend after all. That "pointless to be told to you" story past, I decided to look around on eBay for a deal of some sort. Then I came across this. I know Hori sticks are the craze, or so I heard, so before I jumped on this I wanted to get input from other stick users for I never used one for consoles before... just in the arcades (I miss those times... *snif snif*). Is this a good deal? Should I jump on this? I've had good luck on eBay, so I'm not really worried about the source of where I'm getting it, just if the price for what is being offered is a deal or not. Thanks, -Rick (The hell I end it like that for...?) Attached photos: