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Old-school gamer. I started gaming with the Atari 2600. I became an addict with the arcade release of Street Fighter II at my college. The SNES release pushed me into buying that system and a lame arcade stick. I haven't looked back since then. I still consider the 16-bit to be the Golden Age of gaming. The current generation is keeping me pretty happy, especially with the fighting game renaissance that's happening lately. And, yes, I'm old.

Proud owner of: Kiwi Gameboy Color, GBA SP, GBA Micro, PSP 3000, White DS Lite, Silver NeoGeo Pocket, purple SwanCrystal, SNES, Genesis, N64, purple Gamecube, slim PS2, Dreamcast, Wii and PS3.

Favorite Games: Last Blade 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Mark of the Wolves, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Zelda: Minish Cap, Dark Stalkers, King of Fighters, Mega Man ZX, Ikaruga, Macross: Do You Remember Love, Raiden Trad, Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Valkyria Chronicles, Professor Layton, Killer7

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Super Street Fighter II HD Remix (PS3)
King of Fighters XII (PS3)
King of Fighters XIII
King of Fighters 2k2: UM (PS2)
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (PS3)

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King of Dtoiders - Day 4 update
nilcam \| 8:02 AM on 09.18.2009	17 comments

Last night was damned good. I put in some practice with both Kirbilot and Zoel; both players are really good. I played official matches with casualweaponry and bullettrain. Casualweaponry gets better every time I play him. Soon, he'll be kicking my ass like he did in SF HD Remix. He really pushed me to win the matches and he never gives up. Bullettrain tried his damnedest to OCV me. He scored 1 win and 4 great fights.

For a game that most people were hating on, I'm impressed with the level of skill and soul I see in these matches.

Update
There are 5 players wo haven't played their week one games yet. Several have stated that they'll be online tonight. I plan to get on a bit early, probably 6:30 CST and I'll stay on a bit late if I can. As usual, I'm open for practice games if you see me online but contest entries get preferential treatment.

I hope everyone playing is having as much fun as I am. I'm seriously thinking about doing monthly tournaments as part of a Destructoid ranbat system. There would be no prizes, other than the ability to state factually that you're better than someone. And that's worth a lot.

I'll post week one standings either tonight or tomorrow along with some really good games I've captured video of.

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16 comments | showing # 1 to 16

Gen Eric Gui

I'll be online finally tonight. We'll see if my training mode bullshit can stand up to everyone's actual talent, haha.

nilcam

@Gen Eric Gui: I'm looking forward to it. The best practice is done online in a locked room against the AI.

casualweaponry

Actually, I was a little disappointed with the way I played last night :(

BUT, I did have a ton of fun! This contest is ( and Stella Wong & Cataract owning me in HD Remix) showing me that I have to practice a bit more.

BulletTrain

Hah OCV? I'm pretty terrible at Kof12. The timing is very funny, but I'm getting used to it. Its all the damn uppercuts. They have waaaaaaaaay too much priority.

Senisan

@Casual: "...This contest is (and Senisan & Senisan owning me in HD Remix) showing..." FIXED

Chris Carter

Sorry I haven't had time to get on yet: I'll try before this week is over. Disclaimer: I suck!

nilcam

@BulletTrain: I agree that uppercuts have way to much priority, specifically Andy's. Kyo's is fast but has less priority and fewer invincible frames.

@Senisan and casualweaponry: I loved your rivalry. Part of me wants to watch you two battle.

@Magnalon: I hope to see you tonight. I don't have plans to be on tomorrow since I'll be on the road for a large part of the day.

casualweaponry

@Senile-San
there you go with the crazy talk again. You ocassionally get lucky, but now you're just reaching :P

@Nilcam
Yeah, I don't even know how our rivalry started. But as soon as as Senisan surrenders and admits I'm the better gamer in every way, I'll end the war :D

Senisan

@CasualTomFoolery: I don't have anything to say, I just wanted to use your new name lalz...RIVAL!

BulletTrain

Heh shen is the only guy I can halfway use.

Its kim's little kick uppercut that kills me. Seems to be unstoppable and ridiculously safe on block. The rolling in this one seems super unsafe too. Even Goro's command roll is waaaaaay less safe than in other years.

nilcam

@BulletTrain: Are you referring to Kim's flash kick? It's good but not nearly that high priority. It's good for combos and anti-air and that's about it.

BulletTrain

hah I dunno about that. It ate up nearly everything I threw at it.

Gen Eric Gui

BulletTrain: I want you to rest assured that no matter how much you think you suck, you are twice as good as I am.

I beat Nilcam's Kyo ONCE and got OCV'd all 4 other matches. Just goes to show you that you can practice all you want, can learn all the moves and strategies and know all the approaches and defenses, but absolutely nothing can replace just playing the damn game. I was wholly unprepared for the way online games play out, and I'm not sure any amount of practice is going to let me overcome this other than just playing online more, which isn't going to really happen.

But, now I know what I need to train for, so we'll see how next week plays out.

Gen Eric Gui

Oh, also: the online opponents are using the standard game's Normal AI setting. For some bizarre reason, the normal AI is a lot more aggressive then the Hard AI, it just attacks slightly less often. Hard mode AI's will jump backwards into the far corner and whiff heavies because apparently it expects you to jump into them or something. Normal AI's will actually jump at you and apply pressure. It's weird, but it appears that's how it works.

nilcam

@Gen Eric Gui: Is the connection you're using wired? FIOS is damned fast but it won't matter if you're running wirelessly. Also, make sure the ports are forwarded or the system is in the DMZ. My connection is flawless when I play Kirbilot in Florida, TheCleaningGuy in the pacific northwest and a friend in Boston. I'm in Oklahoma City, which is, literally, in the center of the US. I should have good connections to pretty much anyone. Most of the problems I run into are people on wireless.

Gen Eric Gui

I'll have to look into it. I know the connection was reading 2 bars, and after we were done I went and played a random game at 3 bars where it ran a little bit smoother until the connection hiccuped and started lagging like crazy. I'll try to play a few randoms during the week if I can so we can hammer out whatever issues there might be. I really want to show off my best.

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