Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 tricks:




Ok I am not gonna discuss if the game is worth the money or not, a quick summary should be enough for that.

If u don't have the original version, then yes of course no doubt

If u are a expert user, a hardcore player, yes of course.

If u didn't like the first version, no, its the same game but with more characters and so far nothing except the core gameplay(but Capcom will add a new mode in the near future, but still core gameplay so no), Ok the balance is better and some more really good design characters like Doctor Strange so go for it if you solely didn't like the original based on issue like balance and lack of characters.



First of right away, I want to really emphasize how strong Doctor Strange, I been testing each and every character assist with most of the old cast. And together, and clearly to the Eye of agamato assist, a Danger Zone mechanic, is far superior to most other assist.
hes ultra 1, the ultra back traveling projectile vertical beam, is increadiblhy good too, it can be comboed into form basically any position and attack, and its almost impossible to avoid it if Doctor Strange is X-Factored as a great chip attack
But thats obvious lets talk about the assist.

An great and pretty simply usages with this danger zone, is really that any character can utilize the help from Doctor strange making him fit in any team, as most character can do really good combos from using, but more precisely it will last for a long time be in the.
But especially 2 characters I have found that can really use this assist is Ghost rider and funny enough Dormammu.

Using Ghost riders grab hook quarter back light, you can pull the enemy into the eye. And then combo this of as normal combo with ghost rider for example using Its also possible for example to stand middle screen from they and pull someone into it, from here u cant use a ultra attack but u can very easily launch the opponent.

But an even better synergy is the Dormammu flame carpet plus eye of agamto. Then we get 2 danger zones which u can place Dormamu in. But the best part is that, when an opponent get caught in the eye, it deals a lot of small damage. Leaving u to get not 1 but 2 charges with Dormammu. I have managed to just keep spamming 3 full attack constantly with using the combination of flame carpet and eye.

Some other pointers in new characters:


Vergil, assist Rapid slash(attack dash) is a really good assist for control characters as it pushes away the other character for a whole max distance, even if they block.
The character itself is very similar to Wesker, and Zero. Some kind of combo of those 2. Fun character to play.

Nemesis, I feel is just a to much standard character, he got a good wall bounce assist, but I generally haven't played it to much to say anything.

Frank West, I really dislike, he might look unique but he feels a like really boring fast/weak character.

Iron Fist, I feel poorly is bad, While his own gameplay can be good, he works to much as an energy character and have no good assist. They are all shit,

Firebrand, is hard nut to say if hes good or bad, but at least hes very unique, he flies constantly so hes great counter pick against character that have problem with that. Especially down direct attack, e.g Sentinel.

Strider Hiryu, I dont know feels just like a copy from MVC2

Nova I haven't played enough yet, but hes not overpowered as people have said.

Rocket Raccoon, is pretty standard control character, but with his low height he can be really good, The log, assist as probably most people now is really good and annoying.

Ghost Rider as mentioned is very good, probably to good
Hes a strong control and really hit hards, can launch from almost anywhere, have a great assist(chain of rebulant), easy ultra etc.

Then we have hawkeye Which is amazingly fun to play. But he is very similarity to Cable(mvc2) but I liked Cable so why not, I would say hes one of the hardest character to play, but very good, especially hes ultra arrow, whcih can punish basically anything.

At last Doctor Strange
Clearly is very unique hes projectile are delayed and then homing, got his reflect ultra, and those awesome traingels to shoot people with etc, great designed character My clear favorite.
He, Hawkeye,Firebrand and Ghost Ride for me feel I spend my money well(al thought I got the game discounted so I did only spend like 15 Dollars but anyway)

Oh yeah phoenix wright, is a joke character. I cant see him being played at top level, hes to weak. Have to pick up his items, he will lose to much health
But worst of all is that hes a randomize mechanic this is never ok, in a fighting game so no one will play him tourney wise. Poorly for the beginner user as his item can change places etc meaning different input he will be a hard character to play to.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Game are tools for satan?

Spoiler warning: This post have many game "story twist".

- Am I the only, one always found it funny how standard it is to make especially christianity, look evil in games? Here's a small list I am working on.

Premise: If their is one thing games have thought us is that religion equals evil. If any religion have some central point in the story it will be evil. Especially Christianity is shown in bad coolers by games.

Games makers have made it their calling to teach us that don't judge a book by its cover and fear every religious leader.


7.Final fantasy X
The game focus on Buddhism/Christianity as it central religion everyone worships Yevon.

Yevon = sin, the monster that kills countless people every time is actually Yevon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y0B-3GsWGw&feature=related

The Yevon church also imposes anything else that tries to improve the world against teaching. Like the Al bhed people who try and improve the world with technology.

6.Disgaea
Whole game is about how the angels are more evil then the devils.
We play as the Devil overlord to be, and we soon learn that he is not so evil. While its the angels and using humans as tools try to invade netherworld(hell) is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGzPhtT79Y4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCd0YaBDqiQ


5.Final fantasy tactics.
The games church is basically loaded with evil people.The main character and his friends are branded as heretic when they know the truth, and is hunted by Templar knights and inquisitor.
demons every where,
True form of the cardinal that helps us at earlier in the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUzSiK_CBdk


4.Grandia 2.
The popes true form according to Grandia 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugu-qjRtvTU

In this game god has been dead since the start of time, and the devil is the actual good we are worshiping. The higher up in the church now this and wants to restore the devils powers. The whole religion of “Christianity” has since from the start been for the devil.


3.Xenogears:

Having the most confusing story ever for a game. Of course some kind of religion had to be in it.
The Christianity is a religion created by a floating city in the sky to get worshipers, they also made the part about hell and the devil. Because their is another cloud city that impose them.
Angels are Mechs.
They kidnap people from the ground and experiment on them, this have created zombie/vampires that they claim is from hell. So they created a whole Vampire hunter for priest. Bu this is only so that the people they have mutated wouldn't have a chance to reveal what happened to them. And to train humans to fight for them against the other cloud city.

Then later is reveled the main character is god, and/or Adam, and his love is Eve. God is a machine from the real earth. The main character have lived several lives, have a daughter that is 4000 years old. This game is ridicules complex.

IT also features a “bunny” that can fight mechas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzRq1MNvKjMt



2.Breat of fire 2.3
In BOF 2, the whole thing about church not worshiping god is take to the extreme, where its found out that under the “vatican”


http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bof/bof2.htm

Their is a machine that sends people worship of god to him. But God has never exited and its really the devil getting powered. The god in the religion name is Eva(Eve). The pagan god people are not allowed to worship any more, the dragon god is the actual good guys who sealed away the Evil god in the past.

BOF3:
Have the god of the game be named Myria(Maria), this time she actually is god, like we know Christianity god. Lives in heaven, guard over all the people, slaughter all the dragons.
This game is pretty interesting on the part that god Maria don't actually see to be so evil the only part she done is killed the dragon kin. And that she don't believe that humans should have free will.



1.Bayonetta:

If there is one game that have thought us that killing angels is something good, its this game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVYiogrL8QU

The game is about a witch trying to save the world from the evil angels that wants to return god to the world so she can destroy it.
Angels are show as ugly and pure evil. the game also features bonus of defeating angels with torture devices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P2XFNOXiFw

If you play this game you will not be going to heaven.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Resonance of Fate.


So I went at bought a couple of old school J-rpgs to ps3.

First of is Resonance of Fate.



Fast review:
Story:
This game pretty good, but what it lacks like many other review have said is story. One of the reason I like(and remember a lot of rpgs) its because of story or great characters. I have only so far played the game for 40+ so it could happen some bad ass twist or something.
Core game play:
The game is extremely focused on battling. In the game their is a couple of side/extra missions per chapter which all involve ether talk to a person on another level(the game is spread out in levels), the game having random encounters(with pretty high frequency) so battles. Or defeat rebels/machines/dungeon boss/collect items that drops from enemies(in one mission you have to get 5 set of 4 items from mannequin)
Luckily the battles are pretty interesting, environment can be used(most be used) but this post will mostly be about the game mechanic in the battles so more on that soon.

Presentation: I like Steam punk. But this game is 100% steam punk all the time, so its get a little boring when you discover new towns or new dungeons and they all are steam punk theme.
Still its pretty good, the playable characters have a lot of "cool-factor" when they run around doing hand flips while throwing grenades. And many of the enemies have a nice creepy feeling. I for once low the fat mobsters who in a creepy voice screams for money; tip use Japanese sound settings. And I was afraid of the mannequin chapters, man they look creepy, But that probably because I hate mannequins since I watched Crimson Climax as a kid
The user can also change the characters cloths. Their actually is a very big variety and "hard" to unlock all cloths. So this both increase the games expression and discovery factor.

All together for me it lands around a 5-6 actually the game gets extremely tedious and its ridicules hard in some part, the bad kind of hard where I blame the game and not my self. The only real thing saving it is that the user can pay money to retry battles. Otherwise I am sure most people would never come far in this game, personally I of course hate using any kind of "easy mode" so I always replay from the last save point. Or I would like to say that, but this game got so much on my nerves that at some boss battles I have used retry(2 times so far) Because I freaking refused to go through that dungeon again.

User spread review lands on
Users being experience in J-rpgs.
Beginners 1-2(you should not buy this game)
Intermediate 5(very tedious, you better love to tinker and farm staff.)
Expert 7-8(Love old school jrpgs then for some reason you will like this, for me the first 10 times I died, which was at early places I loved it)



Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Meta gaming

Ok I probably should write like 10000000x words on this subject as its the most important skills in most games. For example I was the world best player in Soul arena and Naruto arena(probably still am but don't have time for ladder) and this was all thx to good meta gaming. The actual skills in the game was not that important as knowing how other people pick there teams and how they play them. Same for example Starcraft 2 not the actual number(90%) but the basic strategy of tex going DTS on a close air map(like Scrap/Desert) etc is especially good because the most tactic is either 4 gate or void rays meaning terran or zerg will defend against air if u don't do any 4 gate push leading them into very weak against a DT warp rush. I hope that was better to understand as SC2 is played a lot at least.

The reason I was thinking on this was because today we where starting out a project to implement a game that already exist as a bord game. And I won dreadfully easy. But the problem I feel for my groups is that they are all determine to only fix the essential problems and not make the game better and most of all they only see the negotiation phase as the hard thing, where the game is mostly meta that is important when there is 6 players who can you trust and so on. For me the game is a lot like risk. So of course now the problem is how to make non gamers understand the essential reason for playing games not just 1 game...gamers is important and how to make them really understand that the hardest part to implement is the meta gaming because that is really being removed on the INTERNET, I cant no longer trash talk or try to interfere with other people negotiation etc which is on short time so interfering when they have such a limited time is much effective. Just some small comments in the open will mess them up this clearly needs to be addressed. My current idea is to let the other players but out suggestions boxes how they think the others should split the value to disturb them but also to fool them. For example giving out the best solution for everyone they will think its bad and don't go for it.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Blazblue 2?




OK so right now I am playing the new Blazblue game this blog is turning into a pure fighting games interest it seems but I will write some thoughts about Star Craft 2 which was released on the same day.

Another thing is that both the games have something in common they are both sequels but also very little have happened since the last game I would say. But they are both good games.
As most people know SC2 have some new units some ne

hmm manage to get to Rank 1 Diamond league so I am not a noob when it comes to SC2-_-(if you think I just rant on, with no knowledge)