Of all places to look for the best of social commentary, YouTube is not the place. I can't stop watching the QuakeCon 2009 trailer of Rage tho. The characters shown in it look vibrant, the setting is colorful, and the dune buggies? Fucking awesome. I for one am creaming my jeans over Rage. Especially since it comes from id Software, a studio that has been quiet on the game front since 2004 with the release of Doom 3. (I'm not counting Quake Live. It's Quake 3. Yay.) id Software are the people that got me into gaming! My dad brought home Doom and I was hooked. Am I hyped? I'm hyped.

Like I said, I've been watching that trailer on YouTube, and some unseen force draws me down the page. Maybe it's the fact that I love to antagonize trolls and idiots. It's so easy to just laugh at them. However, blatant ignorance is something I cannot handle. If you immediately write something off due to similarities, you are a fucking tool.

You know where I'm going with this.

Rage, as you should know, is a post-apocalyptic game. Between the post-apocalyptic genre, you'll find several similarities that can be seen throughout the many facets that make up post-apoc fiction. Nuclear war, mutants, shanty towns. It's all been seen before. But for some odd reason, people think Fallout 3 invented this shit. Rage is immediately being called out as a Fallout 3 knock off, or a blatant rip because mutants are mentioned or it takes place after some great disaster.

HELLO! This may shock you, but Fallout 3 did not invent the post-apocalyptic setting! You know what did? A novel from 1826 called The Last Man. Or did that copy Fallout 3 too? Or maybe people are ignoring the fact that it's called Fallout 3 and that two amazing post-apoc games came before it. And even the rabid, over zealous fans of Fallout 1 and 2 are willing to admit something like that.

Because I feel like drawing this out further, I'm going to take a few comments that just ripped my soul in half because of such blind, stupid, retarded ignorance. I was floored by how dumb people are.

Wow, how original. Never seen anything like this before. No sir, a wasteland with mutants and thugs and the encla... sorry I meant "the authority" on the radio? This is blindingly original. I wonder if Apophis left any... dare I say it... Fallout? - Oh you ignorant fuckstick.

f3 with better graphic :P cant w8 to play it thou - I will rip that tongue right out of your God damn mouth.

This might have been a cool idea if only Bethesda hadn't already set the bar for this type of game setting with Fallout 3...nevermind, even if this had come out first, Fallout 3 would have still surpassed it, period.. - Another absolutely uniformed fucknut who thinks a rock and an orange are the same because they are both round.

Okay so this game does look good. However it is just a major ripoff of Fallout and other games. Another reason why EA is stupid and i dont buy their games. I personally cant wait for Fallout: New Vegas. - I can't wait for New Vegas either. I also can't wait for you to get hit by a bus. Oh wait, New Vegas is using Gamebryo...NEVERMIND!

yeah pretty much fallout did so well "idea" men figured why hurt their brains with actually coming up with something original...........sigh. - Because Bethesda didn't rip off the previous two Fallout games. See my point about not knowing that it's called Fallout 3.


I'm done here. I think I've done well enough a job in saying that the masses are dumber than a box of rocks.

Also, in before a pun about how much I rage.

This is a short blog saying that, despite the possibility that this week's SRK Saturday could be awesome with the release of MvC2, I am fucking tired as shit and just can't do any hosting tonight. I went to bed way later than I wanted and woke up way later than I wanted and I am a bit fucked up right now. Someone else host.

I'm also only going to post videos. Remember, all times are EST.


The weekly "Get Pumped" tune.

8pm - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix



9pm - Marvel vs. Capcom 2



10pm - Street Fighter IV



11pm - King of Fighters XII



12am - BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

I love fighting games. I don't think any other genre can be as competitive as fighting games. It's a true spectacle to see two people who are really good at Street Fighter III go at it. It's awe inspiring to watch the pro's of Guilty Gear kick the crap out of each other. It's hilarious to watch me and the FNF crew slap each other around in BlazBlue. To get to the level that the higher players are at, it takes a great amount of disipline and ability. It takes hours in practice mode and getting to know what your character can do. It takes time to memorize combos that you need in X situation against Y character. And this is the wall I hit when it comes to fighting games: combos.

Like I said, I love fighting games, but getting to the point where I know combos and can execute them on the fly, under pressure, is near impossible for me. I can get to know a character and how their normal moves work and use them to their full advantage, but looking at a list of combos from SRK, Dustloop, or any other informative fighting game website is...intimidating. I can hardly memorize test material for my college classes. How am I suppose to keep up with this stuff?


Yeah...no.

And you can't escape combos. They come in every fighting game. Sometimes they are actually really simple, like STHD doesn't have anything too complicated. Or they can be completely off the wall piss fuck insane, like Guilty Gear. The thing is, I have problems no matter what the game. My brain just doesn't work like that, and it holds me back in every fighting game I play.

I once had the notion to go to Evo about two years ago and backed out. I wanted to play Guilty Gear and Street Fighter III. I backed out because of the realization that I can't fucking do combos. I also used to play in a lot of tournaments locally, and stopped because I was getting handed by the people who had the ability. It was pretty hard on me, not just because my confidence can be shattered at a moments notice. Now a days I only play with people from Dtoid, because all we do is kick the shit and have fun. That's awesome and all, but I can't help but think that I somehow want to get better and be a competitor, not just someone who plays casually and "stinks up the scene" (as the assholes on SRK would put it).

Possibly the worst part is seeing the people who I play with advance past me. I know AoBRA is getting good real quick with Ragna. JackofNoTrades' Tager is fucking tough. Back in college when I played Guilty Gear obsessively, a handful of my friends started playing a bit more serious and I got left behind. I like to try to stay on par but not knowing combos, or even the basic memorization of combos, just keeps me at the bottom.


Fuck that shit.

That is why I suck at games. I suck at the purest fundamental of all fighting games: combos.

Get pumped to this.

Hello and welcome! If you missed us last week, and I wouldn't be suprised if you did, I am the offical host of the PS3 side of Destructoid's Saturday fighting game marathon Shoryuken Saturday. The deal is simple: six hours of non-stop hitting each other in the face over various fighting games on PSN. Last week was a bit of a slow start, along with some annoying connection problems, but it worked out. A lot of people wern't around for it, be it they were away for the weekend or just didn't show however. I expect more people to be around this weekend. So what is the lineup for this weekend?

All times are US EST.



8pm-10pm - Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Kicking it off old school/new school here. We had a lot of problems last week with trying to get a game going, but we can always try again. I still need my fix, and I told Yojimbo I'd fight him.



9pm-10pm - Street Fighter IV
Grab a partner from STHD, because next is Street Fighter 4. Hopefully we won't end up just rotating between three people like last week. Maybe we can even run a tournament room if enough people join. The time is overlapping with STHD too because more people can fit in a room so I'd think the gameing would want to last longer.




10pm-11pm - King of Fighters XII
Checking the forums, enough people have picked this up I'll be playing with more then nilcam this week. Yojimbo, Solgrim, Magnalon, nilcam, decoy...come on, get on this shit!! Bad netcode or not, we have enough for a good room. Also, it's not a beta you punks. >=(




11pm-??? - BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Wrapping it up is the best, and most popular, on the menu. I don't think I need to describe what will happen when BlazBlue starts up. Tager's will start smashing hopes and dreams, AoBRA will laugh manically, I'll guard break someone with my Arakune, and Yojimbo will beat everyone with his Hakumen. Good fucking times regardless.


Let's get a crowd this weekend. As for a quick preview of next week...

So browsing the King of Fighters SRK section, someone produced these images, taken from the Neo-Arcadia forums King of Fighters XII thread. Now, I can't read Japanese, and no one in the thread can, so what magazine this comes from and what is talked about on the page is a mystery. Me saying that this is King of Fighters XIII is complete speculation by everyone.



A lot off people have older stances. The sprites, if they are that, all look a lot cleaner then what KoF XII has. Ralf and Clark have yet to start using steroids. Leona has her old outfit (I like the current one *frown*). Athena doesn't have Chun Li legs anymore. Elizabeth has a new outfit akin to Lichi from BlazBlue. No Mature either.

And we have three new characters at the bottom there? A lot of people think they are from an older KoF game, but others are rebuking that idea.


Close up of Team Ikari.


Close up of Ryo, Rob, and Athena.


Close of Iori and Elizabeth.

You can see some other images here: http://www.neo-arcadia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=367285&sid=a744c0c3994924782cd34214fe1ecbd1#p367285


Now, I'm real happy with KoF XII. Despite my gripes, I fucking love the game. To possibly see XIII so soon? Uh...I don't like that idea. It also gives me the impression that SNK launched XII with the intention of immediately telling it to fuck off, or even started on this while working on XII.

Well, the most I or anyone else can say until someone translates the pages is "Huh."

Hello and welcome to the first edition of Dtoids fighting game marathon known as Shoryuken Saturday!! I'm your PS3 host for all games, TewDee. So what are we doing today? Kicking the absolute crap out of each other for 5 or so hours in several of the best fighting games at our disposal.


Music to get pumped on.

All times are EST.


8pm - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix


What is arguably the best fighting game of all time and one I haven't seen anyone on my Xbox OR PS3 friends list touch in months, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, is going to be the first game we hit up tonight. Which is why we're playing it first, because it's a crime not to.


9pm - Street Fighter IV


Next up, grab a partner to bring Street Fighter into the new age with Street Fighter IV, another game that people should be playing more often.


10pm - King of Fighters XII


The newest release of fighters this year has come with a bit of fanfare. Some of us have it tho, and I've only gotten to play it online with three Dtoiders. The rooms fit 8 people. Let's fill it up!


11pm - BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger


Finally we'll close out the night, or more then likely stay up all night, with the Dtoid favorite BlazBlue. We really don't need an intro here. The game is fucking awesome and if you don't have it, get it. If you do have it, play it.